The Music That Helped Us Orbit Above It All - The Best Of 2020

 

Picture based upon an illustration by Jean Yves Lemoigne

I must admit that Taylor Swift sure made a nifty album this year, but so many artists were given the time to work intensely on their craft, it is no surprise that almost every one of them was raising the bar to new levels of perfection and new styles of achievement. Here are my favourite and most memorable albums of 2020, amongst many others:

*Canadian Artists in Red

Nathan Smith            Let It Rest Let It Rise  Soul Motivators                Do The Damn Thing  Robert Lee feat. Mingjia                                 Ascension  Sarah Harmer   Are You Gone  100 Mile House                          Love And Leave You _______________________  Songs Of Tales   Life Is A Gong Show  Matty Stecks & Musical Tramps  Long Time Ago Rumble  Harrow Fair   Sins We Made  Clara Engel                  Hatching Under The Stars  Kari van der Kloot  The Architects ____________________________  Dion       Blues With Friends  Sherman Downey    New Beautiful  Sarah Jarosz         World Gone To Ground  Truths & Rights 1981               Time For Us To Unite  Julian Taylor     The Ridge __________________________  The Smoke Wagon Blues Band        The Ballad of Albert Johnson  Lynn Miles   We’ll Look For Stars  John Finley    Soul Singer  Emilyn Stam & John David Williams                               Honeywood  Mario Romano                   The Journey So Far ------------------------------------------  Manteca      The Twelfth Of Never  Rae Spoon       Mental Health  Paul Reddick     Live In Italia  Dione Taylor   Spirits In The Water  Al Qahwa       African Routes

Rick Fines               Solar Powered Too  The Barrel Boys    Mainline  Will Boness   Change of Plans  Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar           The Reckless One  Braden Gates  Kitchen Days     ________________  Braids       Shadow Offering  Colleen Brown                      Isolation Songs  Rose Cousins   Bravado  Pharis & Jason Romero                           Bet On Love Kelly Finnigan  A Joyful Sound  ____________________   Rebecca Hennessy       All The Little Things You Do  Shaye Zadravec                        Now And Then  Joe Nolan      Drifters  Crystal Shawanda                Church House Blues  Chelsea Stewart                    Forever Your Girl ________________________ Mike McKenna Jr.       At The Edge Of The World  Wheel It Studios Vol. 2              Parallel Intersections  Alex Bird & The Jazz        Mavericks  Whisky Kisses  Dan Pitt   Monochrome  Justin Saladino Band  LIVE ____________________  The Griffith Hiltz Trio  Arcade Terra Lightfoot Consider The Speed Tamar Ilana & Ventanas                               Mistral  Angela Turone & Chris Platt                Sounds Of Brazil  Lynn Harrison                   Something More