Tom's Top Albums of 2020

The usual caveats.  There's no way to listen to everything released this year, let alone everything I wanted to hear.  I'm still finding stuff that was released 40, 50, 60 years ago.  In other words, this is just a snapshot of my listening habits in 2020.  Considering my mind (and I'm sure yours as well), was focused on COVID-19, the Presidential election and many other things that happened which weren't music related, I still managed to carve out enough time for music.  

Also check out my Top Songs/Reissues of 2020

1.  Run The Jewels - RTJ4

2.  Ashley McBryde - Never Will

3.  Elizabeth Cook - Aftermath

4.  Lilly Hiatt - Walking Proof

5.  Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure

6.  Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started

7.  Brandy Clark - Your Life Is A Record

8.  Chicks - Gaslighter

9.  Jason Isbell - Reunions

10. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters

11. Secret Sisters - Saturn Return

12. Rina Sawayama - Sawayama

13. Taylor Swift - Folklore/Evermore

14. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways

15. Haim - Women In Music Pt. III

16. Ambrose Akinmusire - On The Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment

17. Lori McKenna - Balladeer

18. Chris Stapleton - Starting Over

19. Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass Vol. 1 & 2

20. J.S. Ondara - Folk 'N Roll Vol. 1: Tales of Isolation

21. Mickey Guyton - Bridges

22. Tame Impala - Slow Rush

24. Whitney Rose - We Still Go To Rodeos

25. Mavericks - En Espanol

26. Alicia Keys - Alicia

27. Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You

28. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately

29. Cam - Otherside

30. Fantastic Negrito - Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?

31. Sufjan Stevens - Ascension

32. Stephanie Lambring - Autonomy

33. Hailey Whitters - Dream 

34. Katie Pruitt - Expectations

35. Colter Wall - Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs

35. Charley Crockett - Welcome To Hard Times

36. Kathleen Edwards - Total Freedom

37. Moses Sumney - Grae

38. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia

39. Waylon Payne - Blue Eyes, Harlot, Queer, Pusher & Me

40. Aubrie Sellers - Far From Here

41. John Moreland - LP5

42. Lydia Loveless - Daughter

43. Laura Marling -Song For Our Daughter

44. Joe Ely - Love In The Midst of Mayhem

45. Maria McKee - La Vita Nuova

46. Drive-By Truckers - Unraveling/New OK

47. On the Road: Tribute to John Hartford - Various

48. Tenille Townes - Lemonade Stand

49. Sault - Untitled (Black Is)

50. Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts

51. Lucinda Williams - Good Souls, Better Angels

52. Arlo McKinley - Die Midwestern

53. Frances Quinlan - Likewise

54. Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline

55. Sam Hunt - Southside

56. Sarah Jarosz - World On The Ground

57. Mo Pitney - Ain't Lookin' Back

58. Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History

59. John Anderson - Years

60. Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers

61. Sunny Sweeney - Recorded Live at the Machine Shop

62. Ashley Ray - Pauline

63. Tyler Childers - Long Violent History

64. H.C. McEntire - Eno Axis

65. Della Mae - Headlight

66. Thundercat - It Is What It Is

67. Steve Arrington - Soul Sessions

68. Zephaniah Ohora - Listening to the Music

69. Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison

70. Gregory Porter - All Rise

71. Black Thought - Streams of Thought Vol. 3

72. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now

73. Caylee Hammack -If It Wasn't For You

74. Kem - Love Always Wins

75. Tessy Lou Williams - Highway Queens

76. Swamp Dogg - Sorry You Couldn't Make It

77. Lianne La Havas - s/t

78. War and Treaty - Hearts Town

79. Badly Drawn Boy - Banana Skin Shoes

80. Willie Nelson - First Rose Of Spring 

81. Kelsey Waldon - They'll Never Keep Us Down

82. Becky Warren - Sick Season

83. Corb Lund - Agricultural Tragic

84. Gillian Welch - Boots No. 2: Lost Songs

85. Megan The Stallion - Good News

86. Paul McCartney - McCartney III

87. Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds Where The World Once Was

88. Bobby Rush - Rawer Than Raw

89. Jeff Tweedy - Love Is The King

90. Emma Swift - Blonde On The Tracks

91. Avalanches - We Will Always Love You

92. Don Bryant - You Make Me Feel

93. Randy Rogers/Wade Bowen - Hold My Beer Vol. 2

94. Little Big Town - Nightfall

95. Luke James - to feel love/d

96. Steve Earle - Ghosts of West Virginia

97. Mike & the Moonpies - Touch of You: Lost Songs of Gary Stewart

98. Brent Cobb - Keep 'Em On They Toes

99. Will Kimbrough - Spring Break

100. Eddie Chacon - Pleasure, Joy and Happiness

101. Lady Gaga - Chromatica

102. Killers - Imploding the Mirage

103. Brothers Osborne - Skeletons

104. Old 97's - Twelfth

105. Mandy Barnett - Nashville Songbook

106. AC/DC - Power Up

107. Buddy & Julie Miller - Lockdown Songs

108. Low Cut Connie - Private Lives

109. James Hunter - Nick of Time

110. Chris Cornell - No One Sings Like You Anymore

111. Ward Davis - Black Cats and Crows