For my own records more than anything. But certainly a vintage year – as indeed most years are now for me, I follow so many wonderful musicians.

I cannot separate my top 2 so am mot attempting to! I have also cheated a bit with Margo Price but the albums are conceived as a sequence. I am sure Jaime Wyatt would be on the list but I just haven’t got round to listening to it yet.

1= Jess Klein When We Rise

1= Lucinda Williams Stories From A RocknRoll Heart

3 Iris Dement Working On A World

4 Various Nanci Griffith Tribute More Than A Whisper

5 Margo Price Strays and Strays 2

6 Kirsten Adamson Landing Place

7 Jaimee Harris Boomerang Town

8  Diana Jones Better Times Will Come (revisited)

9 Bennett Wilson Poole I Saw A Star

10 Brigid O’Neill The Truth and Other Stories 

GIGS

This is much easier. I went to many great gigs in 2023 but by a distance, my favourite/s were the 3 times I saw the amazing Miko Marks – as I said after seeing her at The Long Road there is no one alive I would rather see. Really privileged to have seen her three times and every performance I was just yards away so her unbelievable energy radiated.