{"id":4170,"date":"2020-12-30T07:10:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T07:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=144582"},"modified":"2020-12-30T07:10:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T07:10:30","slug":"sound-grammar-the-25-best-recordings-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/30\/sound-grammar-the-25-best-recordings-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Grammar: the 25 Best Recordings of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dean and Britta (with Luna) playing Portland in February, a few weeks before going into quarantine<\/a>. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Pedernal<\/a>
Susan Alcorn Quintet
(Relative Pitch)<\/p>\n

Fetch the Bolt Cutters<\/a>
Fiona Apple
(Epic)<\/p>\n

Pursuance: the Coltranes<\/a>
Lakecia Benjamin
(Bandcamp)<\/p>\n

Quarantine Tapes<\/a>
Dean & Britta
(Band Camp)<\/p>\n

The Unraveling<\/a>
Drive-By Truckers
(ATO)<\/p>\n

Ghosts of West Virginia<\/a>
Steve Earle & The Dukes
(New West) 
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The Lost Berlin Tapes <\/a>
Ella Fitzgerald
(Verve)<\/p>\n

America at War<\/a>
Joel Harrison
(Sunnyside)<\/p>\n

Budapest Concert<\/a>
Keith Jarrett
(ECM)<\/p>\n

Blacktop Run<\/a>
Sonny Landreth
(Provogue)<\/p>\n

Mabern Plays Mabern<\/a>
Harold Mabern
(Smoke Sessions)<\/p>\n

We\u2019re New Again: a Reimagining<\/a>
Makaya McCraven \/ Gil Scott-Heron
(XL)<\/p>\n

Exquisite<\/a>
Mekons
(Mekorpse)<\/p>\n

Palo Alto<\/a>
Thelonious Monk
(Impulse!)<\/p>\n

No Tears Suite (For the Little Rock Nine)<\/a>
Christopher Parker and Kelley Hurt
(Mahakala)<\/p>\n

All Rise<\/a>
Gregory Porter
(Blue Note)<\/p>\n

That\u2019s How Rumors Get Started<\/a>
Margo Price
(Loma Vista)<\/p>\n

Rawer Than Raw<\/a>
Bobby Rush
(Deep Rush Records)<\/p>\n

We Are Sent Here by Histor<\/a>y
Shabaka and the Ancestors
(Impulse!)<\/p>\n

Blonde on the Tracks<\/a>
Emma Swift
(Continental)<\/p>\n

It is What It is<\/a>
Thundercat
(Brainfeeder)<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed en Nueva York<\/a>
Manuel Valera & the New Cuban Express Big Band
(Greenleaf)<\/p>\n

Old Played New<\/a>
Christina Vane
(Blue Tip Records)<\/p>\n

Keepin\u2019 It Real<\/a>
Bobby Watson and the Horizon Band
(Smoke Sessions)<\/p>\n

Mind Hive<\/a>
Wire
(Pink Flag)<\/p>\n\n

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