Blog anniversary week continues with some 2024 songs and albums that I love. Melissa Carper has been one of my biggest songwriter favorites during the last few years. The previous two albums landed on my top ten for the year and I fully expect the same to happen with her latest called Borned In Ya. Full of golden country sounds with a mixture of jazz, blues, soul, gospel and well all kinds of vintage greatness.
Abe Partridge’s album Love in the Dark was one of my favorite albums of 2023. This year he has released a great single with Jack Barksdale and this gorgeous adventure No Teacher Blues where he tries to discover the secrets of songwriting by visiting some legendary places.
And more of my songwriter heroes of recent years. This is starting to look like an extremely early excerpt of that AOTY list, because I’m sure you will find Adeem the Artist’s latest album Anniversary on that as well. Wonderful americana/country songwriter who can deliver a perfect love song, but doesn’t shy away from heavy and political subjects either.
And wrapping this little blog post with even more great songwriters and 2024 albums. Caleb Caudle is a long time favorite who just released his awesome new album Sweet Critters couple of weeks ago. Here’s a live in studio take on album track called The Brim.