The 2019 end of the year music lists thread

The only predictable winner was in Latin Jazz: Miguel Zenon's Sonero, the alto saxophonist's fifth victory in this category. But Eric Dolphy's Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions upset a "new" John Coltrane album in Reissue/Discovery. Relative newcomer Jazzmeia Horn's Love and Liberation won in Vocal. The winner in Debut is annually a newcomer, of course, and in 2019 this was Joel Ross, for KingMaker. But the biggest surprises of all were in the voting for Album of the Year, with an unprecedented five women in the Top 10, all for the first time, and Kris Davis finishing on top, for her self-released Diatom Ribbons.

Kris Davis winning surprised me, and I voted in that poll. As I said on Twitter, it's a good album (I interviewed her about it in September), but it doesn't strike me as "critics' poll jazz."

https://www.nashvillescene.com/music/cover-story/article/21110119/20th-annual-country-music-critics-poll-the-results?fbclid=IwAR0oPWndhVjodGIHt-4tizD7OUO8szYPMsrdHw2FOItde-Wh61I45ltC5P4

Tanya Tucker is #1.
2. Highwomen
3. Miranda Lambert

A friend and I did a Skype on our favourite songs of the decade. The analysis--"I love this song...it sounds great!"--is first-rate.

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/sw_etc/2010_2019_dellio_woods_one.mp3

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/sw_etc/2010_2019_dellio_woods_two.mp3

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/sw_etc/2010_2019_dellio_woods_three.mp3

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/sw_etc/2010_2019_dellio_woods_four.mp3

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/sw_etc/2010_2019_dellio_woods_bonus_beats.mp3

http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2019.cfm

Blogger Daddy B Nice best of 2019 Southern soul broken down in various categories including ballads, etc

Critic Robert Christgau list:

Dean's List 2019
The 76 best albums of the last year (or so) Posted.

1Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (Darkroom/Interscope)
2Todd Snider: Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3 (Aimless)
3Chance the Rapper: The Big Day (self-released)
4Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains (Drag City)
5Carsie Blanton: Buck Up (Carsie Blanton)
6Kim Gordon: No Home Record (Matador)
7Danny Brown: uknowwhatimsayin? (Warp)
8Sonic Youth: Battery Park, NYC: July 4th 2008 (Matador)
9Kalie Shorr: Open Book (Kalie Shorr)
10
The Paranoid Style: A Goddamn ....

Oh, here’s a link for the Christgau list.

He’s got old-school singer Salif Keita at 12. I like that album too.

https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/deans-list-2019

Oh hey, Austim Music Poll still open 'til midnight tonight! Many more categories than expected. I know some artists in each, but lots more are prob mainly known to Austinians etc. Maybe I'll vote.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/vote-austin-music-awards/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=daily&utm_campaign=musicpoll&utm_source=DAILY+NEWS&utm_campaign=850afe03f2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_28_08_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ae90959245-850afe03f2-60022363&mc_cid=850afe03f2&mc_eid=d26b96d866

Jayce Clayton /DJ Rupture ‘S top 10 is in December 2019 Artforum magazine and behind a paywall online