Produced by T Bone Burnett, it has an impressive list of contributors but this album is all Giddens. It is her first studio album and she pulled out all the stops. ‘Tomorrow Is My Turn’ by Rhiannon Giddens is a gem. Number 8: Rhiannon Giddens ‘Tomorrow Is My Turn’ (2015) All in all, a great way to start the century. ‘All the Lilacs in Ohio’ is a beautifully written portrait of how a momentary encounter lingers on, while ‘Farther Stars’ is a space jam reminiscent of the Dead. As with any Hiatt album, there are great lyrics that tell stories of the heart of America hopeful, longing and joyful. It’s also his second album with the Goners which gives more of a rock sound than some of his later work. It was released on 9/11, (yeah that one), and it captures Hiatt as he wound up his recording with Vanguard. It was hard to choose a John Hiatt album, but this list needs one. Number 9: John Hiatt ‘The Tiki Bar is Open’ (2001)
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I thought of you and where you’d gone, and the world spins madly on.” The Weepies provided the soundtrack for the first 20 years of the millennium, their songs being used on TV and in movies, and even one of Barrack Obama’s campaign videos in 2008. Tannen sings of a day lost in longing and regret in ‘The World Spins Madly On’, “The night is here and the day is gone, and the world spins madly on.
In ‘Gotta Have You’ Talen sings of how “No amount of coffee, No amount of crying, No amount of whiskey, No amount of wine, No, no, no, no, no, Nothing else will do, I’ve gotta have you”. While described as “subtly intoxicating folk-pop”, their songs of longing and love are no less heartfelt because of lack of grit. Their album ‘Say I Am You’ includes some of their best. In that time, they wrote and recorded some great music. The Weepies were Steve Tannen and Deb Talen and they were a duo for two decades, meeting in 2001 and breaking up shortly after their 2020 divorce. There are so many great duos in the americana universe Civil Wars, Mandolin Orange, The Kennedys, The Milk Carton Kids but the Weepies made it into this list. Number 10: The Weepies ‘Say I Am You’ (2005) If choosing just ten wasn’t hard enough, actually ranking them in order was nigh impossible, but those are the rules, so here are the ten albums that I keep going back to, at odd moments or just ordinary times made better by the music. For one thing I’ve probably only heard a fraction of them, so the best I can do is to pick ten albums that I have listened to, over and over, or that woke me up, or picked me up or maybe just never let me down. As previous AUK writers have observed, it’s very hard to pick the best 10 americana albums from the last 20 or so years.
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