Tom's Top Albums of 2022
I alway says this but it's true, it's possible that my favorite album of the year is one I haven't heard yet. So many records, so little time. It's impossible to hear everything. I'm still catching up on records that were released decades ago. But this list is a good snapshot of what heard and liked in 2022.
1. Harry Styles - Harry
2. Miranda Lambert - Palomino
3. Amanda Shires - Take It Like A Man
4. Mike Marks - Feel Like Going Home
5. Lizzo - Special
6. Hailey Whitters - Raised
7. Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville - Various
8. Wet Leg - s/t
9. Charley Crockett - Man From Waco
10. Bonnie Raitt - Just Like That
11. Tedeschi Trucks Band - I Am The Moon Vol. 1-4
12. S.G. Goodman - Teeth Marks
13. Will Hoge - Wings On My Shoes
14. Lainey Wilson - Bell Bottom Country
15. Arlo McKinley - Mess We're In
16. Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl
17. Adeem the Artist - White Trash Revelry
18. Lyle Lovett - 12th Of June
19. Wilco - Cruel Country
20. Tami Neilson - Kingmaker
21. Willie Nelson - A Beautiful Time
22. Zach Bryan - American Heartbreak
23. Molly Tuttle - Crooked Tree
24. Beyonce - Renaissance
25. Calexico - El Mirador
26. Sunny Sweeney - Married Alone
27. Tyler Childers - Can I Take My Hounds To Heaven
28. Nikki Lane - Denim and Diamonds
29. Spoon - Lucifer On The Sofa
30. Ian Noe - River Fools & Mountain Saints
31. First Aid Kit - Palomino
32. Orville Peck - Bronco
33. Aaron Raitiere - Single Wide Dreamer
34. Willi Carlisle - Peculiar, Missouri
35. Whitmore Sisters - Ghost Stories
36. Joan Shelley - The Spur
37. Fantastic Negrito - White Jesus Black Problems
38. Angel Olsen - Big Time
39. Rosalia - Motomami
40. SZA - SOS
41. Makaya McCraven - In These Times
42. Anais Mitchell - s/t
43. Sharon Van Etten - We've Been Going Through This All Wrong
44. Melissa Carper - Ramblin' Soul
45. Taylor Swift - Midnights
46. Billy Strings - Me/And/Dad
47. Craig Finn - A Legacy of Rentals
48. Father John Misty - Chloe and the Next 20th Century
49. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
50. Elvis Movie Soundtrack - Various
51. Freedy Johnston - Back On The Road To You
52. Eli Paperboy Reed - Down Every Road
53. Maren Morris - Humble Quest
54. Charley Crockett - Jukebox Charley
55. Patty Griffin - Tape
56. Nicki Bluhm - Avondale Drive
57. Mary Gauthier - Dark Enough To See The Stars
58. Paranoid Style - For Executive Meeting
59. Kelsey Waldon - No Regular Dog
60. Erin Rae - Lighten Up
61. Aoife O'Donovan - Age Of Apathy
62. Brennen Leigh f/Asleep at the Wheel - Obsessed With The West
63. Pillbox Patti - Florida
64. Heavy Heavy - Life and Life Only
65. Linda Lindas - Growing Up
66. Chris Isaak - Everybody Knows It's Christmas
67. John Fullbright - The Liar
68. Alvvays - Blue Rev
69. Arctic Monkeys - The Car
70. Beths - Expert In A Dying Field
71. Broken Bells - Into The Blue
72. Seth Avett - Sings Greg Brown
73. CMAT - If My Wife New I'd Be Dead
74. Dr. John - Things Happen That Way
75. Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive
76. Sam Bush - Radio John: Songs of John Hartford
77. Delines - Sea Drift
78. Plains - I Walked With You A Ways
79. Priscilla Block - Welcome To The Block Party
80. Kimberly Kelly - I'll Tell You What's Going To Happen
81. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
82. Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
83. Madison Cunningham - Revealer
84. Joshua Hedley - Neon Blue
85. Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn
86. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Co-Starring Too
87. Charli XCX - Crash
88. Cecile McLorin Salvant - Ghost Song
89. Little Big Town - Mr. Sun
90. Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson - Various
91. Sudan Archives - Natural Born Prom Queen
92. Mavis Staples & Levon Helm - Carry Me Home
93. Kaitlin Butts - What Else Can She Do
94. John Moreland - Birds In The Ceiling
95. Leyla McCalla - Breaking The Thermometer
96. Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver - Various
97. Cactus Blossoms - Big Time
98. Regina Spektor - Home, Before and After
99. Black Keys - Dropout Boogie
100. Dailey & Vincent - Let's Sing Some Country
101. Angela Strehli - Ace Of Blues
posted by Tom Lane at 2:17 PM
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