For whatever it’s worth, here’s basically everything I was listening to in January:
- “Born Again” by Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons
- “Canaan” by Black Dub
- “I Will” by Alison Krauss
- “Crazy” by Shawn Colvin
- “Mercy Seat” by Johnny Cash
- “Tonight!” by the Positions
- “Middleclass Kid” by Pelle Carlberg
- “Gotta Get Smart” by El Perro del Mar
- “Hang Me Up to Dry” by Cold War Kids
- “Giving Up on Love” by Slow Club
- “Evergreen” by the Fiery Furnaces
- “West Coast” by Coconut Records
- “Do What You Wanna Do” by Acid House Kings
- “If I Only Had a Brain” by Jeremy Little
- “Sixteen Shades of Black & Blue” by Fujiya & Miyagi
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- “Don’t Say Oh Well” by Grouplove
- “Truth” by Alex Ebert
- “Lahaha” by Shugo Tokumaru
- “Shake Me Down” by Cage the Elephant
- “We Are Stars” by the Pierces
- “Highway Down” by I See Hawks in L.A.
- “Wake Up, Sleepyhead” by Azure Ray
- “Time” by the Alan Parsons Project
- “Not a Through Street” by Anya Marina
- “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele
- “Christ Jesus” by Deer Tick
- “This Is Why We Fight” by the Decemberists
- “How You Like Me Now” by the Heavy
- “Walking Far from Home” by Iron & Wine
- “Shell Games” by Bright Eyes
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It’s months like this that make putting together a short year-end “best of” mix so very difficult. Still, I really like this mix. There’s some really great music here.