Rocking Magpie Top 20 Albums 2018

RMHQ Top 20 Albums 2018.

This end of year Top 10 Albums malarkey is proving ever more difficult…….. so far at RMHQ we have posted 279 reviews covering Americana, Country, Alt. Country, Cow Punk, Soul, Blues, Rhythm & Blues, Rock, Blues Rock, singer-songwriters, Folk, Alt. Folk, Nu-Folk, Ska AND Reggae!
Each individual album is here on it’s very own merits and we wrote about them because we liked ’em and passionately believed they needed to be heard around the world (speaking of which…….. we had visitors from 371 different countries during 2018!!! 371???? I didn’t know that there was that many!)
At one stage the spreadsheet for my Top 10 featured over 50 titles; such has been the quality of releases in 2018; but after a lot of deliberation and heartache, here is my own personal Top 20 albums that were released this year and each ‘surprised or fascinated’ me when I first heard them……….. sorry if you aren’t included. 

Every album here was actually listened to, disected and the emotions they created written about.

1. Kim Richey – Edgeland
2. Malcolm Holcombe – Come Hell or High Water
3. Big Boy Bloater – Pills
4. Stephen Fearing – The Secret of Climbing
5. Curse of Lono – As I Feel
6. Gem Andrews – North
7. Ruby Boots – Don’t Talk About It
8. Bennett Wilson Poole – Bennett Wilson Poole
9. Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite – No Mercy
10. Prosecco Socialist – Songs From Behind Bars
11. Kid Ramos – Old School 
12. John Hiatt – Eclipse Sessions
13. Susie Vinnick – Shake The Love Around
14. Abe Partridge – Cotton Fields and Blood For Days
15. Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Downey to Lubbock
16. Rod Picott – Out Past the Wires
17. Capone & The Bullets – Fusion 
18. Ben Folke Thomas – Modern Man
19. LeBarons Band – Summer of Death 
20. Frankie Davies – Wherever I Go.

This Top 20 and all the albums first appeared on https://rockingmagpie.wordpress.com/