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Published December 25, 2019 at 10:00 a.m.
After a full year spent highlighting the works of local singer-songwriters, musicians, club promoters and producers, we thought it would be enlightening to learn what some of those same people picked as their favorite albums of 2019, local and otherwise. We also asked for their favorite tracks from each release, which should serve as good entry points for new listeners. Here's what they told us. Hopefully you'll discover some new favorites, too.
Noah Schneidman, Full Walrus
Local album: Cavities, Demotions
Favorite song from the album: "When You Go"
Non-local album: JPEGMAFIA, All My Heroes Are Cornballs
Favorite song from the album: "Free the Frail (featuring Helena Deland)"
Zach Schuster, Roost
LA: Full Walrus, Songs for Other People
FS: "Windowsill"
NA: Redrago, Redrago
FS: "Il Veliero"
Wren Kitz, singer-songwriter/sound artist
LA: Ruth Garbus, Kleinmeister
FS: "Squirrels"
NA: Tropical Trash, Southern Indiana Drone Footage
FS: "Glass Dog"
Liz Stafford, Paper Castles, the Pyros
LA: Trackstar, Heartbreak Hits
FS: "Space"
NA: Helado Negro, This Is How You Smile
FS: "Please Won't Please"
Kiel Alarcon, What Doth Life
LA: Dino Bravo, Blind by Midnight
FS: "You've Heard Enough"
NA: Alex Cameron, Miami Memory
FS: "PC With Me"
Amber deLaurentis, Birdcode
LA: Paul Asbell, Burmese Panther
FS: "Eeyore's Lament"
NA: Jenny Lewis, On the Line
FS: "Do Si Do"
Eric Maier, Future Fields
LA: Roost, Basic Phases
FS: "Developments"
NA: Phish, 11/30/95
FS: "Ha Ha Ha"
Katie Trautz, Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture
LA: Michael Roberts, Mixed Emotions
FS: "The Way I See You"
NA: Big Thief, Two Hands
FS: "Forgotten Eyes"
Taylor Kracher, lean tee
LA: Cavities, Demotions
FS: "Marsh Life"
NA: Peaer, A Healthy Earth
FS: "Joke"
Peg Tassey, producer
LA: Reunion Road: Carol Hausner and Eleanor Ellis, Short Time to Stay Here
FS: "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down"
NA: Brittany Howard, Jaime
FS: "Stay High"
Christine Malcolm, singer-songwriter
LA: Sabrina Comellas, Sabrina
FS: "What the World Looks Like"
NA: Tyler Childers, Country Squire
FS: "All Your'n"
Mark LeGrand, singer-songwriter
LA: Miriam Bernardo, Songs From the Well
FS: "Angle of the Sun"
NA: Sturgill Simpson, SOUND & FURY
FS: "Ronin"
Matt Saraca, Silver Bridget
LA: John Townsend, Seattle Songs
FS: "Left Too Late"
NA: Leonard Cohen, Thanks for the Dance
FS: "Puppets"
Miriam Bernardo, High Summer
LA: JUPTR, Echo
FS: "Echo"
NA: Brittany Howard, Jaime
FS: "Short and Sweet"
Ryan Miller, Guster
LA: Henry Jamison, Gloria Duplex
FS: "Gloria"
NA: Big Thief, Two Hands
FS: "Not"
John Townsend, Silver Bridget
LA: Chris Weisman, Valence With Tassels
FS: "For Molly"
NA: Bill Frisell, Harmony
FS: "Hard Times"
Princess Nostalgia, producer/singer-songwriter
LA: Juicebox, Juicebox
FS: "Bob Ross Bossa"
NA: James Blake, Assume Form
FS: "Tell Them (featuring Moses Sumney and Metro Boomin)"
Brian Nagle, DJ Disco Phantom, Waking Windows
LA: Matthew Mercury, Matthew Mercury
FS: "Lightning Ocean"
NA: Toro y Moi, Outer Peace
FS: "Ordinary Pleasure"
Troy Millette, singer-songwriter
LA: Nina's Brew, Mixtape
FS: "Walkin' With the Wolves"
NA: FLETCHER, you ruined new york city for me
FS: "All Love"
Isaac French, singer-songwriter
LA: Troy Millette, Living With a Ghost
FS: "Magnolias"
NA: Dean Lewis, A Place We Knew
FS: "A Place We Knew"
Ethan Tapper, the Bubs
LA: Greaseface, You Fucked Up My Car
FS: "Car"
NA: Gurr, She Says
FS: "Bye Bye"
Ray Padgett, County Tracks
LA: Hallowell, Hallowell
FS: "Another World"
NA: Rhiannon Giddens, there is no Other
FS: "Pizzica di san Vito (with Francesco Turrisi)"
Andrew Bouchard, Borderline Entertainment
LA: Erin Cassels-Brown, Dreamin' on Overdrive
FS: "Live Forever"
NA: JPEGMAFIA, All My Heroes Are Cornballs
FS: "Free the Frail (featuring Helena Deland)"
Carson Ehlert, Hope All Is Well, Signal Kitchen
LA: Nodrums, W81
FS: "23"
NA: (Sandy) Alex G, House of Sugar
FS: "Gretel"
Luke Awtry, concert photographer
LA: Tom Pearo, I Am a Mountain
FS: "I Am a Mountain"
NA: Pile, Green and Gray
FS: "Hiding Places"
The original print version of this article was headlined "Their Favorite Things | Local scenesters on the best music of 2019"
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Jordan Adams joined Seven Days as music editor in 2016. In 2021, he became an arts and culture staff writer. He's won awards from the Vermont Press Association and the New England Newspaper and Press Association. In 2022, he became a freelance contributor.
Jordan Adams joined Seven Days as music editor in 2016. In 2021, he became an arts and culture staff writer. He's won awards from the Vermont Press Association and the New England Newspaper and Press Association. In 2022, he became a freelance contributor.
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