Cody Lee’s Best of 2017
Jesca Hoop/Memories Are Now
The Heliocentrics/A World of Masks
Toussaint Morrison/Lesser Restoration
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard/Flying Microtonal Banana
Cat Clyde/Ivory Castanets
El Michels Affair/Return to the 37th Chamber
Izo Fitzroy/Skyline
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings/Soul of a Woman
The Deslondes/Hurry Home
Truckstop Honeymoon/Big Things and Little Things
JD McPherson/Undivided Heart & Soul
Lord Echo/Harmonies
Lisa LeBlanc/Why You Wanna Leave Runaway Queen?
North Mississippi Allstars/Prayer for Peace
Stanton Moore/With You in Mind
Willie Watson/Folksinger Vol.2
Jeb Loy Nichols/Country Hustle
Antibalas/Where the Gods are in Peace
La Misa Negra/La Misa Negra
Little Hurricane/Same Sun Same Moon
The Yawpers/Boy in a Well
Jake La Botz/Sunnyside
The Como Mamas/Move Upstairs
Thievery Corporation/The Temple of I and I
The Frightnrs/More to Say Versions
Sallie Ford/Soul Sick
Mavis Staples/If All I Was Was Black
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard/Murder of the Universe
Chicano Batman/Freedom is Free
The Get Ahead/Mind is a Mountain
Samantha Fish/Chills & Fever
Jade Jackson/Gilded
Alt-J/Relaxer
Ala.Ni/You and I
This is the Kit/Moonshine Freeze
Legendary Shack Shakers/After You’ve Gone
Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet/Ladilikan
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives/Way Out West
Hurray for the Riff Raff/The Navigator
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real/ Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
Shook Twins/2 EP
Chance the Rapper/Coloring Book
Bonzie/Zone on Nine
Kasey Chambers/Dragonfly
Razteria/Cruzando Corazones
Rhiannon Giddens/Freedom Highway
Jungle Fire/Jambu
Pickwick/Love Joys
Bonobo/Migrations
Cecile McLorin Salvant/Dreams and Daggers
Mr. Elevator & the Brain Hotel/When the Morning Greets You
Fink/Fink’s Sunday Night Blues Club Volume 1
David Rawlings/Poor David’s Almanack
Cactus Channel/Stay a While
Brigitte DeMeyer & Will Kimbrough/Mockingbird Soul
Chaz Bundick Meets the Mattson 2/Star Stuff
Kacy & Clayton/The Siren’s Song
Chico Mann & Captain Planet/Night Visions
The Buttertones/Gravedigging
Robert Plant/Carry Fire
Rain City Ramblers/Hateful Ways
Gabriel Garzon-Montano/Jardin
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers/Sidelong
Lila Downs/Salon, Lagrimas, Y Deseo
Bombadil/Fences
Steelism/Ism
Black Pistol Fire/Deadbeat Graffiti
Timber Timbre/Sincerely, Future Pollution
Willie Nelson/God’s Problem Child
Jeremy Pinnell/Ties of Blood and Affection
Forro in the Dark/Sandcastle
Spoon/Hot Thoughts
Nick Hakim/Green Twins
Samantha Fish/Belle of the West
Josh Ritter/Gathering
Mr. Lif & Brass Menazeri/Resilient
Black Lips/Satan’s Graffiti or God’s Art
Curtis Harding/Face Your Fear
Tinariwen/Elwan
Lee Ann Womack/The Lonely, The Lonesome & the Gone
Ancient Cat Society/Ancient Cat Society
Suitcase Junket/Pile Driver
St. Tropez/ St. Tropez
Shitkid/Fish
Tift Merritt/Stitch of the World
Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton/Wildflower Blues
Evolfo/Last of the Acid Cowboys
Peter Rowan/My Aloha!
Xanthe Alexis/Time of War
John Craigie/No Rain, No Rose
Mickey Hart/Ramu
Dave Childers/Run Skeleton Run
Bruce Cockburn/Bone on Bone
Otis Taylor/Fantasizing About Being Black
Imelda May/Life. Love. Flesh. Blood
Elouise/Deep Water
Crooked Colours/Vera
Hiromi & Edmar Castaneda/Live in Montreal
Emancipator/Baralku
Karriem Riggins/Headnod Suite