From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #3138 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, January 2 2022 Volume 16 : Number 3138 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Best of 2020 & 2021 [JoAnn Whetsell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 19:46:09 +0000 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: Best of 2020 & 2021 Since I never made a "best of" list last year, and the last 2 years have all blurred together anyway, I thought I'd make a big list. So here goes: Best of 2020 Veda Hille - Little Volcano Garmarna - Forbundet Ane Brun - After the Great Storm (Ane's other 2020 album How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow was good too.) Kate Rusby - Hand Me Down (covers) Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters (I didn't connect to this album until well into 2021, but wow!) Best of 2021 Tori Amos - Ocean to Ocean Shannon McNally - The Waylon Sessions (covers) Bandcamp Faves Shawn Colvin - Live from These Four Walls: My Favorite Movie Songs (covers except 1 original) Shawn Colvin - Lockdown: Live from Arlyn Studios Bat for Lashes - Livestream at Home. Los Angeles, 2021 Juana Molina - ANRMAL (live album) Yvonne Lyon - Growing Wild Cry Cry Cry - Live @ The Freight Dana Gavanski - Wind Songs Veda Hille - There's Gonna Be Some Trouble (covers) Disappointments Lorde - Solar Power (Love her first 2 albums, but find this one of little interest) St. Vincent - Daddy's Home (I find this almost entirely unlistenable. And the listenable songs are merely okay.) Need more listens Dar Williams - I'll Meet You Here Aimee Mann - Queens of the Summer Hotel Frida Hyvonen - Dream of Independence Lia Ices - Family Album Marissa Nadler - Instead of Dreaming (covers) Martha Tilston - Mouse Tales Suzanne Vega - An Evening of New York Songs and Stories Beta Radio - Year of Love Fallulah - All My Eyes Are Open Mammut - Ride the Fire Melody Gardot - Sunset in the Blue Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Dirt and the Stars The Lone Bellow - Half Moon Light Agnes Obel - Myopia Welcome to Olaf, and thanks to Seneca Spurling for the Ectoguide shout-out. The Guide is still getting updated. Happy New Year to everyone, and wishes for a safe and healthy 2022! JoAnn ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #3138 ****************************