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And sure enough, like Busted Jukebox, Songs In The Dark, and Kaplansky and Shindell’s Pine Hill Project, four of the five picks in the single artists covers album category share the same conceit: though released under a single name, each, in their own way, depends on musical partnership for its success. All are highly recommended nonetheless, and contain great cuts worth pursuit look for their choicest tracks in our upcoming Year’s Best Coverfolk Singles mix.īut the big news this year was the collaborative album. Martha and Lucy Wainwright’s sister album Songs In The Dark, which we touted last month, was ultimately a little unfocused Shovels and Rope pushed past the boundaries of folk into alternative rock on Busted Jukebox Vol.1, and much of Tomorrow You’re Going, a kickstarter-funded collaborative effort from lifetime favorites Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky, was a little too honky-tonk for our tastes. Even the also-rans were strong, from Shawn Colvin’s unsurprisingly poppy but eminently listenable Uncovered to the twee, unrelentingly cheerful sounds of NYC-based 80’s cover band The Delorean Sisters on their self-titled debut. + Robert Earl Keen, The Bluegrass SessionsĬover albums comprise a highly competitive category this year. + Watkins Family Hour, The Watkins Family Hour + Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell, Sing Into My Mouth The Year’s Best Covers Album (single artist)
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Oh, and fair warning: there’s 59 songs on this year’s list you might want to download them all first, and read along as you listen. So join us as we count down the final hours of 2015 with our favorite coverfolk recordings of the year – with our annual omnibus album feature today, and our typically unranked, purely subjective celebration of the year’s best singles, deep cuts, and B-sides to follow sometime just before New Year’s Eve.
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To account for this, in response to both marketplace factors and an attempt to broaden our gaze in the name of recovery, our Best Of series doubled in size, with video coverage getting a pair of features of its own if you’ve not yet seen ’em, check out The Year’s Best Coverfolk Video Singles and The Year’s Best Coverfolk Video Sessions, Sets, and Series once you’ve finished here today.īut our annual two-fer still serves as the main course. Our eight-month musical hiatus makes looking back an especially apt mechanism for recovery this year. It’s good to be back, and to be singing again. Thanks, to all who donate and comment, who help spread the word, and who – in doing so – bring light to this kitchen table endeavor. But the outpouring of support during and after those dark months, in the end, proved its priority in a world still heavy with stress and the unknown, putting this blog at the top of our to-do list. We’re not usually at a loss for words here at Cover Lay Down. I won’t go into too much detail here, but suffice it to say: it’s hard to blog when you’re living in a camper on the lawn because the house is still recovering from fleas and flood, and harder, still, when the entire covers collection gets lost to a busted laptop and an archival hard drive failure.Ĭoming back, though, has been a revelation. But for a while there, it looked like we wouldn’t be here to celebrate it.Īs we’ve noted in previous posts, letting Cover Lay Down go dark from May to November was part of a larger withdrawal in face of a series of disasters that left us too drained to do more than just hang on. Which is to say: it was a pretty good year for coverfolk, in the end, and we’re glad. But our dependence on those other sources was especially deep this year. No other blog focuses exclusively on the intersection between folk and coverage, though the threads are strong on both of the intersecting lineages that define us, and though several blogs, like Cover Me, include roots and Americana among the coversongs they share. As our mandate reminds us, sharing and discovery are essential to the folkways just as we depend on artists and producers to make the music, we depend on elseblogs, radio outlets and virtual magazines from Kithfolk to Paste, from Folk Alley to WXPN, and from I Am Fuel, You Are Friends to Timber & Steel, to curate it for us. Most of the other online folk and indieblogs out there have already shared their Best Of 2015 features by now, and that’s the way we like it.