Favorite artists (alphabetical order)
The Asteroid No. 4
Avenged Sevenfold
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Bullet For My Valentine
Danny Brown
The Doors
The Explorer’s Club
Gram Parsons
Grant Green
Grateful Dead
Kanye West
Keith Jarrett
Kendrick Lamar
Lou the Human
Metallica
Miles Davis
Mr. Carmack
Nine Inch Nails
Phish
Próxima Parada
Quintron
Spiritualized
Streetlight Manifesto
String Cheese Incident
Tim Buckley
TOOL
Van Morrison
The Verve
Widespread Panic
Favorite albums (alphabetical order)
A Northern Soul – The Verve
A Picture of Nectar – Phish
Abbey Road – The Beatles
All Things Must Pass – George Harrison
American Beauty – Grateful Dead
Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
Blonde On Blonde – Bob Dylan
Blood On the Tracks – Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home – Bob Dylan
City of Evil – Avenged Sevenfold
Earth Opera – Earth Opera
Enter the Mirage – The Sonic Dawn
Europe ’72 (Live) – Grateful Dead
Facing You – Keith Jarrett
Full Circle – The Doors
Grace – Jeff Buckley
Grateful Dead (1967) – Grateful Dead
Hesitation Marks – Nine Inch Nails
Humaniac – Lou the Human
Idle Moments – Grant Green
John Wesley Harding – Bob Dylan
Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
Lawn Boy – Phish
Lorca – Tim Buckley
Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles
Mania – The Lucy Show
Morrison Hotel – The Doors
Painkiller Paradise – Lou the Human
Paper Mâché Dream Balloon – King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Peak Impressions – The Freeborne
Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys
Plastic Ono Band – John Lennon
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
Sometime Anywhere – The Church
St. John Green – St. John Green
Starfish – The Church
Stormcock – Roy Harper
Strange Days – The Doors
Strung Out In Heaven – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Thank God for Mental Illness – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
To Pimp a Butterfly – Kendrick Lamar
Together – The Explorer’s Club
Workingman’s Dead – Grateful Dead
XXX – Danny Brown
Zonkey – Umphreys McGee
Albums I’ve listened to but didn’t write about in 2021
9.30 Fly – 9.30 Fly (Remastered & Expanded) (1972)
The Aerovons – A Little More (2021)
Ah Holly Fam’ly – Reservoir (2009)
Allah-Las = Worship the Sun (2014)
The Altered Hours – Convertible (2021)
Ancient Grease – Women and Children First (1970)
Andrew Cronshaw – The Great Dark Water (1982)
Arbouretum – Let It All In (2020)
Argent – Argent (1969)
Astral Son – Silver Moon (2015)
Bad Liquor Pond – Radiant Transmission (2008)
Banchee – Banchee (1969)
Bang – Bang (1972)
Baptizm – Beyond the Castle Walls – EP (2021)
Bill MacKay – Fountain Fire (2019)
Birds of Maya – Valdez (2021)
Black Market Karma – Upside Out Inside Down (2014)
The Black Ryder – Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride (2009)
Blonde On Blonde – Contrasts (Bonus Track Edition) (1969)
Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children (1998)
Bobak, Jons, Malone – Motherlight (1970)
Bobby Frank Brown – The Enlightening Beam of Axonda (Gods Proof) (1972)
Bogwife – A Passage Divine (2021)
Bolder Damn – Mourning (1972)
Bow Street Runners – Bow Street Runners (1970)
Brigid Dawson and The Mothers Network – Ballet of Apes (2020)
Brothertiger – Fundamentals, Vol. III (2021)
Brothertiger – Heaven – EP (2021)
Bulbous Creation – You Won’t Remember Dying (1994)
Butterglory – Crumble (1994)
Christine Harwood – Nice to Meet Miss Christine (1970)
Circa Zero – Circus Hero (2014)
Clinic- Fantasy Island (2021)
Clouds Taste Satanic – Second Sight (2019)
Compost – Compost (1971)
Cornell Dupree – Teasin’ (1974)
Cory Hanson – Pale Horse Rider (2021)
Cossa Nostra – Cosa Nostra (1971)
Coven – Witchcraft (1969)
Damaged Bug – Cold Hot Plumbs (2015)
Dantalian’s Chariot – Chariot Rising (1996)
Darondo – Let My People Go (2005)
Dead Vibrations – Dead Vibrations (2018)
Deathchant – Deathchant (2019)
Devin Townsend – Ziltoid the Omniscient (2007)
Donald Fagen – Kamakiriad (1993)
Dragonfly – Dragonfly (1968)
The End – Introspection (1969)
Ernan Roch – La Onda Pesada (1970)
Ersen – Bu Da Bizlerden (1979)
Euclid – Heavy Equipment (1970/2016)
The Exkursions – The Exkursions – Legends Remastered, Vol. 3 (1971)
Floating Bridge – Floating Bridge (1969)
Frankie Teardrop Dead – Plane Eclipse (2019)
The Free Design – Kites Are Fun (1967)
Freedoms Children – Astra (1970)
Frijid Pink – Earth Omen (1972)
The Grifters – Ain’t My Lookout (1996)
Group 1850 – Paradise Now (2019 Remaster) (1969)
Grupo Ciruela – Regreso al Origen (1973)
Guardian – First Watch (1989)
Harpers Bizarre – Feelin’ Groovy (1967)
The Head Shop – The Head Shop (1969)
The Heads – Relaxing With… (1995)
Heaters – Matterhorn (2017)
Helvetia – Essential Aliens (2021)
The High Hawks – The High Hawks (2021)
Hum – Downward Is Heavenward (1990)
Icecross – Icecross (1973)
Jake Holmes – The Above Ground Sound of Jake Holmes (1967)
Jake Xerxes Fussell – Out of Sight (2019)
James Gang – Rides Again (1970)
Jawbox – For Your Own Special Sweetheart (1994)
Jesus On Heroine – Ardhanarishvara (2017)
Joan Shelley – Like the River Loves the Sea (2019)
Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies – The American Metaphysical Circus (1969/2008)
Joe Krown – New Orleans Piano Rolls (2003)
Josefus – Dead Man (1970)
Juleah – Shimmering Road (2013)
Juleah – Stoked On Planet Summer (2021)
Kacy & Clayton – Carrying On (2019)
Kal-El – Witches of Mars (2019)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000 (2021)
Kjartan Bue – MUSSE (2020)
Klaatu – 3:47 EST (1976)
The Koolaid Electric Company – Random Noises and Organised Sounds (2011)
Knocker Jungle – Knocker Jungle (1970)
The Kundalini Genie – Half In, Half Out (2021)
The Kundalini Genie – You Are the Resurrection (2018)
L’Épée – Diabolique (2019)
Las Cobras – Selva (2020)
Leaf Hound – Growers of Mushroom (Remastered) (1971)
Lord Vapour – Semuta (2018)
Los Gatos – Los Gatos (1967)
Magic Carpet – Magic Carpet (1971)
Margo Guryan – Take a Picture (Mono) (1968)
Markley – A Group (Remastered) (1969)
Maston – Souvenir (with L’Eclair) (2021)
Meatbodies – 333 (2021)
Michael Farneti – Good Morning Kisses (1976/2011)
Mikal Cronin – Mikal Cronin (2011)
Moby Grape – Moby Grape 69′ (1967)
Mojohand – Songbook (2021)
Morgan Delt – Morgan Delt (2014)
Nancy Priddy – You’ve Come This Way Before (1968)
No Knife – Fire In the City of Automatons (1999)
Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals (1996)
Orangutan – Orang-Utan (1971/2007)
ORB – Naturality (2017)
Painted Shrines – Heaven and Holy (2021)
Peace and Love – Peace and Love (1971)
Picadilly Line – The Huge World of Emily Small (1967)
Pipe-eye – Dream Themes (2021)
Pretty Lightning – Jangle Bowls (2020)
The Pretty Things – Get the Picture? (1965)
Primevil – Smokin’ Bats At Campton’s (1974)
Ramatam – Ramatam (1972)
Rancho Relaxo – New Kind of Orchide (2010)
Red Spektor – Red Spektor (2016)
Robert Lester Folsom – Music and Dreams (1976)
Ryley Walker & Kikagaku Moyo – Deep Fried Grandeur (2021)
Samsara Blues Experiment – End of Forever (2021)
Sebodah – Bubble and Scrape (1993)
Second Hand – Death May Be Your Santa Claus (1971)
Shinki Chen – Shinki Chen (1971)
Sic Alps – Pleasures and Treasures (2006)
Sir Lord Baltimore – Kingdom Come (1970)
SRC – SRC (1968)
Stuff – Stuff (1976)
Suck – Time to Suck (1970/2009)
Sugar Candy Mountain – Mystic Hits (2014)
Sunbeam Sound Machine – Wonderer (2014)
Sunnata – Climbing the Colossus (2014)
Sunny Day Real Estate – How It Feels to Be Something On (1998)
Susan Christie – Paint a Lady (2006)
Synanthesia – Synanthesia (1969)
Tape Five – Tonight Josephine! (2010)
Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe – Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe (2018)
These Trails – These Trails (1973)
Thunder and Roses – King Of The Black Sunrise (1969)
TK & The Holy Know-Nothings – The Incredible Heat Machine (2021)
Toncho Pilatos – Toncho Pilatos (1971/2018)
Trades – Banner Year – EP (2020)
Traffic Sound – Virgin (1970)
Traffik Island – A Shrug of the Shoulders (2021)
Ulrika Spacek – Modern English Decoration (2017)
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Blood Lust (2012)
The Vacant Lots – Departure (2014)
Vince Staples – Vince Staples (2021)
Walter Becker – 11 Tracks of Whack (1994)
Weedpecker – IV: The Stream of Forgotten Thoughts (2021)
Weird Owl – Wet Telepathy (2019)
Wendy & Bonnie – Genesis (1969)
William Tyler – Goes West (2019)
Witch (1972-1984) – Lukombo Vibes (1976/2012)
Witch (2005-present) – Witch (2006)
Witchthroat Serpent – Sang-Dragon (2016)
Yesterday’s Folks – Us69 (1969)
Favorite artists first listened to in 2021
1968
9.30 Fly
A.L. Lloyd
Acoustic Syndicate
The Aerovons
Ah Holly Fam’ly
Akron/Family
Alasdair Roberts
Allah-Las
The Altered Hours
Ambrosia
Ancient Grease
Andrew Cronshaw
Andwellas Dream
Anne Briggs
Apache Dropout
Arborea
Arbouretum
Argent
Arzachel
Aske Skat and his Psychedelic Country Band
The Association
Astral Son
The Babies
Bad Liquor Pond
Bananagun
Banchee
Bang
Baptizm
Batmobile
Beans
The Beat Of The Earth
Bill MacKay
Birds of Maya
Black Market Karma
The Black Ryder
Blonde On Blonde
The Blue Angel Lounge
Boards of Canada
Bob Gibson
Bobak, Jons, Malone
Bobby Frank Brown
Bobby Jameson
Boduf Songs
Bogwife
Bolder Damn
Bonnie Dobson
Bow Street Runners
Brigid Dawson and The Mothers Network
Bulbous Creation
Butterglory
C.O.B.
Cactus
The Cadillac Three
Carolyn Hester
Christine Harwood
Circa Zero
The Clean
Clinic
Clouds Taste Satanic
Cold Sun
Comets on Fire
Compost
Cool Ghouls
Cornell Dupree
Cory Hanson
Cosmic Eye
Cossa Nostra
Coven
The Cramps
Current 93
Curt Boettcher
Damaged Bug
Daniel Romano
Dantalian’s Chariot
Dark
Darondo
David Gilmour
Dead Vibrations
Death In June
Deathchant
The Deviants
Devin Townsend
Diane Cluck
Donald Fagen
Dragonfly
Dschinn
Embryo
The End
Eric Andersen
Ernan Roch
Ersen
Euclid
The Everywheres
The Exkursions
The Fallen Angels
Faun Fables
Felt (1971)
The Fernweh
Firefall
The First Edition
The Flight Of Sleipnir
Floating Bridge
The Flying Eyes
Food
Frankie and the Witch Fingers
Frankie Teardrop Dead
The Free Design
The Free Spirits
Freedom
Freedoms Children
Frijid Pink
Fuchsia
The Fugs
Fursaxa
Giant Dwarf
The Glass Family
Gorilla Pulp
Grapefruit
The Grifters
The Groundhogs
Group 1850
Grupo Ciruela
Guardian
The Guess Who
Hamilton Camp
Harpers Bizarre
The Head Shop
The Heads
Heaters
Helena Espvall
Herb Pedersen
The High Hawks
Holy Wave
H.P. Lovecraft
Hum
The Human Beast
The Human Expression
Hunger!
Ian & Sylvia
Icecross
Idris Muhammad
Jake Holmes
Jake Xerxes Fussell
Jawbox
Jesus On Heroine
Jo Jo Gunne
Joan Shelley
Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies
Joe Krown
Josefus
Josephine Foster
Josh Panda
Joy
Juleah
June Tabor
Kacy & Clayton
Kadavar
Kal-El
Kaleidoscope (UK)
Kevin Ayers
Khruangbin
Kitchen Witch
Kjartan Bue
Klaatu
The Koolaid Electric Company
Knocker Jungle
The Kundalini Genie
L’Épée
Las Cobras
Leaf Hound
The Lemon Pipers
Les Paul & Mary Ford
Lincoln Street Exit
Little Beaver
Lord Vapour
Los Gatos
Magic Carpet
Magic Castles
The Magic Mixture
Magic Shoppe
Magick Mountain
Man
Mapache
MarchFourth
Margo Guryan
Markley
Mary Lattimore
Maston
Mayo Thompson
MC5
Meatbodies
Meg Baird
Merrell Fankhauser & (His Trusty) H.M.S. Bounty!
Michael Farneti
Midwinter
The Millennium
Moby Grape
Molly Drake
Moon Coven
Morgan Delt
The Mourning Reign
Mt. Mountain
The Music Machine
My Solid Ground
Nancy Priddy
Naxatras
New Candys
New Mongrels
Nick Drake
No Knife
N.S.U.
Ocean Colour Shoals
Orangutan
ORB
Oriental Sunshine
Orphan Egg
Outformation
Painted Shrines
Peace and Love
Pelt
Peter, Paul & Mary
Picadilly Line
Pink Cigs
Pipe-eye
Pretty Lightning
The Pretty Things
Primevil
Psychic Love Child
Pure Prairie League
Psychedelic Witchcraft
The Quakes
Radio Moscow
Raised on TV
Ramatan
Rancho Relaxo
The Re-Stoned
Red Spektor
Relatively Clean Rivers
Robbie Basho
Robert Lester Folsom
Robert Wyatt
Robots of the Ancient World
Roger McGuinn
Roger Waters
Ryley Walker & Kikagaku Moyo
Sagittarius
Salem Mass
Samsara Blues Experiment
Sebodah
Second Hand
SEXWITCH
Shannon & The Clams
Sharron Kraus
Shinki Chen
Sic Alps
Siena Root
Silly Wizard
Simon Finn
Sir Lord Baltimore
The Sixth Chamber
The Sonic Dawn
The Spyrals
SRC
Steven Coltrane’s Spacemen
The Stooges
The Striped Bananas
Stuff
Suck
Sugar Candy Mountain
Sunbeam Sound Machine
Sunnata
Sunny Day Real Estate
Susan Christie
Sweet Vine
Synanthesia
Tape Five
Tele Novella
The Telescopes
These Trails
Thunder and Roses
Tia Blake
TK & The Holy Know-Nothings
Tom Waits
Toncho Pilatos
Tony McPhee
Tracy Nelson
Trader Horne
Trades
Traffic Sound
Traffik Island
Trembling Bells
Truk
Tucky Buzzard
Ty Segall
Ulrika Spacek
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
The Vacant Lots
Velvett Fogg
Vvlva
Walter Becker
Wand
Warpig
The Weavers
Weedpecker
Weird Owl
Wells Fargo
Wendy & Bonnie
White Fence
The Wicked Whispers
William Tyler
Witch (1972-1984)
Witch (2005-present)
Witchthroat Serpent
Yesterday’s Folks
Zior
Favorite artists first listened to in 2020
Allen Toussaint
American Babies
The Apple Pie Motherhood Band
The Apples in Stereo
Arlo Guthrie
The Art of Lovin’
Autosalvage
Beachwood Sparks
Bedouine
Bert Jansch
Black Pumas
Blonde Redhead
The Blues Magoos
Bohemian Vendetta
Brant Bjork
C.A. Quintet
Caedmon
Canned Heat
Chamaeleon Church
Chris Duarte
The Coasters
Country Joe McDonald
Courtney Barnett
Crazy Horse
The Creation
Davey Graham
David Bromberg
Dead Kennedys
Dead Meadow
Dead Shaman
December’s Children
Delaney & Bonnie
Devendra Banhart
Dogwood Tales
The Dolly Rocker Movement
Doug Sahm
Dr. John
Earth Engine
Earth Opera
Elias Hulk
Emile
Espers
Faine Jade
Fairport Convention
Family
Faust
Federal Duck
Fields
The Five Americans
Fludd
Ford Theatre
Fred Neil
The Freeborne
Front Page Review
Galaxie 500
Garcia Peoples
The Golden Dawn
Gong
Gram Parsons
Grant Green
Grin
The Groupies
Hawkwind
Horace Andy
The Human Instinct
The Incredible String Band
The Insect Trust
J.K. & Co.
Jack Rose
Jackie Lomax
Jackie Mittoo
James Matthew VII
Jeff Buckley
The Jelly Bean Bandits
Joe Diorio
Joe Pass
John & Beverley Martyn
John Fahey
John Prine
The John Scofield Band
John Sebastian
Jonathan Edwards
Judee Sill
Judy Collins
Judy Henske
Judy Roderick
Keef Hartley Band
Keith Jarrett
Kenny Drew
Killer Boogie
LaBelle
Lee Gallagher & The Hallelujah
Lee Hazlewood
Leon Russell
Leon Thomas
Liam Gallagher
Linda Perhacs
Little Feat
Liverpool Five
Lowell George
The Lucy Show
Magnum
Martin Carthy
Mighty Baby
Minutemen
Mojohand
The Morning After Girls
Music Emporium
My Drug Hell
The Nice
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pederson
Nils Lofgren
Nina Simone
Noah Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
The Other Half
Orpheus
Paper Garden
Patrick Sky
Paul Siebel
Pearls Before Swine
Pentangle
Pesky Gee!
Pete Seeger
Peter Rowan
Phil Ochs
Pokey LaFarge
The Psychedelic Furs
Pussy
Quintron
Rae and the Ragdolls
The Railway Children
The Rationals
Rhinoceros
Richard Ashcroft
Richard Thompson
Ripe
Road
Rose City Band
Roy Harper
Saphire Thinkers
Scott Walker
Seatrain
The Setting Son
The Shadows of Knight
Shiva’s Headband
SixFoxWhiskey
Skip Spence
Sky Parade
St. John Green
Steeleye Span
Sturgill Simpson
The Superfine Dandelion
Swervedriver
Telegraph Avenue
Tess Parks
The Third Sound
Tim Buckley
Tom Paxton
Tom Rush
Trees
Twentieth Century Zoo
Ultra Vivid Scene
The United States of America
Valerie June
Van Dyke Parks
The Wanderer’s Rest
The Wizards From Kansas
Wizz Jones
XTC
Favorite Grateful Dead shows
5 – 19 – 1966 – (Check out “Come Back Baby”)
4 – 6 – 1969 – (Check out “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”)
1 – 23 – 1970 – (Check out “Workingman’s Blues)
3 – 8 – 1970 – (Check out “Me and My Uncle”)
4 – 27 – 1971 – (Check out “Riot In Cell Block #9” featuring The Beach Boys)
10 – 26 – 1971 – (Check out “One More Saturday Night”)
11 – 15 – 1971 – (Check out “Truckin'”)
4 – 11 – 1972 – (Check out “Greatest Story Ever Told”)
4 – 26 – 1972 – (Check out “He’s Gone”)
5 – 4 – 1972 – (Check out “Brown Eyed Women”)
5 – 23 – 1972 – (Check out “Tennessee Jed”)
5 – 25 – 1972 – (Check out “Good Lovin'”)
5 – 26 – 1972 – (Check out “Loser”)
9 – 10 – 1972 – (Check out “Beat It On Down The Line”)
9 – 23 – 1972 – (Check out “Brown Eyed Women”)
2 – 9 – 1973 – (Check out “Playing In The Band”)
6 – 10 – 1973 – (Check out “Playing In The Band”)
7 – 1 – 1973 – (Check out “Loose Lucy”)
12 – 1 – 1973 – (Check out “Blue Suede Shoes”)
12 – 12 – 1973 – (Check out “Promised Land”)
3 – 23 – 1974 – (Check out “Big River”)
6 – 23 – 1974 – (Check out “Let It Rock”)
7 – 14 -1976 – (Check out “Brown Eyed Women”)
10 – 9 – 1976 – (Check out “Samson and Delilah”)
4 – 25 – 1977 – (Check out “Estimated Prophet”)
5 – 8 – 1977 – (Check out “Deal”)
5 – 15 – 1977 – (Check out “Row Jimmy”)
5 – 22 – 1977 – (Check out “Wharf Rat -> Terrapin Station -> Morning Dew”)
5 – 28 – 1977 – (Check out “Sugaree”)
9 – 28 – 1977 – (Check out “Eyes Of The World”)
10 – 14 – 1977 – (Check out “Brokedown Palace -> Playing In The Band (reprise)”)
5 – 11 – 1978 – (Check out “Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain”)
2 – 17 – 1981 – (Check out “Dark Hollow”)
2 – 26 – 1981 – (Check out “Bird Song”)
10 – 16 – 1981 – (Check out “Gloria”)
4 – 5 – 1982 – (Check out “Promised Land”)
8 – 27 – 1983 – (Check out “Deep Elem Blues”)
10 – 17 – 1983 – (Check out “Sugaree -> Little Red Rooster”)
12 – 28 – 1983 (Check out “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”)
9 – 20 – 1987 – (Check out “West LA Fadeaway)”
7 – 2 – 1989 – (Check out “To Lay Me Down”)
3 – 29 – 1990 – (Check out “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” featuring Branford Marsalis)
4 – 28 – 1991 – (Check out “Jack Straw”)
9 – 25 – 1991 – (Check out “The Music Never Stopped”)
9 – 29 – 1994 – (Check out “Ramble On Rose”)
10 – 15 – 1994 – (Check out “Standing On The Moon”)