Best Albums of 2024

That time of the year again, so while I clear my shelf, a timely look back over the best of the year’s new purchases. Replaying some of the earlier albums of the year, there certainly doesn’t seem to have been any “clunkers”, in fact, most seem to have raised their game. For me, the best of 2024 are in Blue, but one album, gets Red as it came in like a wrecking ball in a bowling lane. Spanning 2 discs, it could have been a "tribute" album, it could have been a "collaborations" album, or it could have just been a "new" album, but to cover all three, it could have easily have gone as wrong as it went right.

The Cinelli Brothers – Almost Exactly…
Troy Redfern – Invocation
Krissy Matthews - & Friends
Kris Barras – Halo Effect
Jack J Hutchinson – Battles
Philip Sayce – The Wolves Are Coming
Bernard Butler – Good Grief
Dan Patlansky – Movin’ On
Richard Hawley – In This City They Call You Love
The Bad Day – The Irish Goodbye
Elles Bailey – Beneath the Neon Glow
The Lightning Threads – Off That Lonely Road
Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Dirt on My Diamonds Vol 2
Joanne Shaw Taylor - Heavy Soul
Austin Gold – Ain’t No Saint

Old Legends on the Tonic Wine: -
Hawkwind – Stories from Time and Space
Deep Purple - = 1
The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
Rick Wakeman - Yessonata

Live Albums: -
Elles Bailey – Live at The Fire Station
Cardinal Black – Live at The Memo
Steve Hogarth (+ RanestRane + Flowing Chords) – S.P.Q.R. (Live in Rome)
Dom Martin – Buried Alive    

E.P.s
Oli Brown & The Dead Collective - Epilogue