The Best Music Of 2015
We asked listeners to vote from three lists: AAA, Americana, and Wyoming/Regional. We received an abundance of votes this year! Thanks to everyone who voted and thank you for listening to Morning Music. Here are listeners picks for the best music of 2015:
Top 20 AAA
1. Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color
2. Brandi Carlile - The Firewatcher's Daughter
3. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
4. James Taylor - Before This World
5. James McMurtry - Complicated Game
6. Rhiannon Giddens - Tomorrow is My Turn
7. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think
8. Mumford and Sons - Wilder Mind
9. Steve Earle - Terraplane
10. Punch Brothers - Phosphorescent Blues
11. Lord Huron - Strange Trails
12. Warren Haynes - Ashes and Dust
13. Mark Knopfler - Tracker
14. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
15. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall
16. Josh Ritter - Sermon on the Rocks
17. Grace Potter - Midnight
18. Widespread Panic - Street Dogs
19. Adele - 25
20. Decemberists - What a Terrible/Beautiful World
Top 10 Americana
1. Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard - Django and Jimmie
2. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell - The Traveling Kind
3. Black Lillies - Hard to Please
4. Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material
5. Steep Canyon Rangers - Radio
6. Steve Martin and Edie Brickel - So Familiar
7. Tim O’Brien - Pompadour
8. Wood Brothers - Paradise
9. The Steeldrivers - Muscle Shoals Recordings
10. Iris DeMent - Trackless Woods
Top 5 Wyoming/Regional
NOTE TIES
1. Screen Door Porch - Modern Settler
1. Anne & Pete Sibley - Extraordinary Life
2. Bill McKay - New Reasons
3. One Ton Pig – Lastville
3. Lights Along the Shore - Misty Morning May
3. BlinddogSmokin' - High Steppin'
4. Peter Queal - Humility
5. Working Hands Band