Top 30ish

  1. Ola Belle Reed

  2. Shirley Collins

  3. Shirley Collins, Davy Graham

  4. Sandy Denny

    Standouts: Quiet joys of brotherhood, It’ll take a long time, listen listen

  5. Standouts: Introvert, Speed, Fear no man (also listen to the interludes)

  6. Jorja Smith

    Standouts: Don’t watch me cry, teenage fantasy, blue lights

  7. Standouts: If it’s monday morning, LA Lady, Won’t tell your dreams

  8. Vic Chesnutt

  9. Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Sergei Rachmaninoff

  10. Standouts: Twenty to one, Heart attack, Survivors guilt

  11. Jackson C. Frank

    Standouts: Milk and Honey, My name is carnival, I want to be alone

  12. Townes Van Zandt

  13. Lady Lamb

    Standouts;You are the apple, Mezzanine, crane your neck

  14. Khruangbin, Leon Bridges

  15. Léo Ferré

  16. Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté

  17. Rhiannon Giddens

  18. Adrianne Lenker

    Standouts: Two reverse, ingydar, anything

  19. Haley Heynderickx

    The bug collector

  20. Alela Diane

  21. Kaia Kater

  22. Standouts: black mascara, escapism, body dysmorphia

  23. Sons Of Kemet

  24. Yussef Kamaal

  25. Sarathy Korwar

  26. Alice Coltrane

Top 30ish is an album list curated by Dale.

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