Top 10 Albums of 2018: Sound Salvation

Sound Salvation

As usual, there were way more good or great records released than anyone could hear in a year’s time. So admittedly, this is just a representative sample of the albums that received the most play. There are some better; there are a whole lot worse.  

Shemekia Copeland / ‘America’s Child’ / Alligator

Elvis Costello & the Imposters / ‘Look Now’ / Concord

Mary Gauthier / ‘Rifles & Rosary Beads’ / Proper

Billy F. Gibbons / ‘The Big Bad Blues’ / Concord

Angelique Kidjo / ‘Remain in Light’ / Kravenworks

Bettye LaVette / ‘Things Have Changed’ / Verve

Me’Shell Ndegeocello / ‘Ventriloquism’ / Naive

Pistol Annies / ‘Interstate Gospel’ / RCA

Punch Brothers / ‘All Ashore’ / Nonesuch

Kamasi Washington / ‘Heaven and Earth’ / Young Turks 

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