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May 1, 2022
Scott Foley, purveyor of dust
Writing this week from Southern Virginia, where Spring has placed a stranglehold on everything in sight (as opposed to Colorado where last I checked Spring was little more than a suggestion). As we sneak out of April, and maybe give May a chance, we select just ten standout songs from the past thirty days.
WHAT's SO GREAT ABOUT APRiL?!!
1. Deau Eyes, "Another One Comes Around" Legacies (Tone Tree, Jun 10)
2. Caroline Spence, "Scale These Walls" True North (Rounder, Apr 29)
3. SG Goodman, "All My Love is Coming Back To Me" Teeth Marks (Verve, Jun 3)
4. Thomas Dollbaum, "All is Well" Wellswood (Big Legal Mess, May 20)
5. Laney Jones, "One Fine Morning" Stories Up High (Tone Tree, May 20)
6. Wilco, "Falling Apart (Right Now)" Cruel Country (dBpm, May 27)
7. Angel Olsen, "Big Time" Big Time (Jagjaguwar, Jun 3)
8. Hackensaw Boys, "Mary Shelley" Hackensaw Boys (Suns Work, Jun 24)
9. Aaron Raitiere, "Single Wide Dreamer" Single Wide Dreamer (Dinner Time, May 6)
10. Kevin Morby, "A Random Act of Kindness" This is a Photograph (Dead Oceans, May 13)
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- Glenn Jones, "Ruthie's Farewell" Vade Mecum (Thrill Jockey, Jun 24)
^ Caroline Spence, "Mary Oliver" True North (Rounder, 22)
- Thomas Dollbaum, "Work Hard" Wellswood (Big Legal Mess, May 20)
- Kevin Morby, "A Random Act of Kindness" This is a Photograph (Dead Oceans, May 13)
- Angel Olsen, "Big Time" Big Time (Jagjaguwar, Jun 3)
- Cass McCombs, "Belong to Heaven" single (Anti, 22) D
- Wilco, "Falling Apart (Right Now)" Cruel Country (dBpm, May 27) D
- Los Colognes, "Ballad of a Straw Man" New World (Colognes, May 3) D
- Mavis Staples & Levon Helm, "I Wish I Know How It Would Feel To Be Free" Carry Me Home (Anti, May 20)
- Jonny Burke, "I Cut Off My Ankle Monitor to Be Here" Behind the Pine Curtain (Burke, 22) D
- Black Keys, "It Ain't Over" Dropout Boogie (Nonesuch, May 13)
- MJ Lenderman, "Under Control" Boat Songs (Dear Life, 22)
- Michaela Anne, "Does It Ever Break Your Heart" Oh To Be That Free (Yep Roc, Jun 10)
- Damien Jurado, "Taped In Front of a Live Studio Audience" Reggae Film Star (Maraqopa, Jun 24) D
- Patty Griffin, "Get Lucky" Tape (PGM, Jun 10) D
- Sadies, "Cut Up High and Dry" Colder Streams (Yep Roc, Jul 22) D
- Joshua Hedley, "River in the Rain" Neon Blue (New West, 22)
- Damn Quails, "Monsters" Clouding Up Your City (Honky Tonk Lab, Jun 17) D
- Margo Price, "Goin' to the Country" That's How Rumors Get Started (Deluxe Edition) (Loma Vista, 22)
- Corb Lund, "Big American Headliner" Songs My Friends Wrote (New West, 22)
- 49 Winchester, "All I Need" Fortune Favors the Bold (New West, May 13)
- Miranda Lambert, "Music City Queen (feat. B-52s)" Palomina (Vanner, 22)
- Drew Kennedy, "Marathon" Marathon (Atlas Aurora, Jun 17) D
- Izaak Opatz, "East of Barstow" Extra Medium (Mama Bird, 22)
- JD McPherson, "Manta Ray" single (New West, 22) D
- Eli Paperboy Reed, "I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can" Down Every Road (Yep Roc, 22)
- Seth Walker, "Remember Me" I Hope I Know (Royal Potato Family, May 20)
- Nicki Bluhm, "Friends (How to Do It)" Avondale Drive (Compass, Jun 3)
- Whiskey Myers, "Whole World Gone Crazy" Tornillo (Wiggy Thump, Jun 29)
- John Calvin Abney, "Sleepwalkers" Tourist (Black Mesa, Aug 5)
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