Dead To The World’s Favorite Albums of 2024

20 Favorite Albums of 2024 (in alphabetical order)

• Adrienne Lenker – Bright Future (4AD)
• AJ Lee & Blue Summit – City of Glass (Signature Sounds)
• Billy Strings – Highway Prayers (Reprise)
• Billy Strings – Live Vol. 1 (Repirse)
• Browyn Keith-Hynes – I Built A World (Sugar Petunia)
• Cassandra Lewis – Lost In A Dream (Low Country Sound)
• Cris Jacobs – One Of These Days (Soundly)
• Fruition – How To Make Mistakes (Downtown DLJ)
• Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland (Acony)
• Jenny Scheinman – All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)
• John Craigie – Pagan Church (Zabriske Point)
• Johnny Blue Skies – Passage Du Desir (High Top Mountain)
• Khruangbi – A La Sala (Dead Oceans)
• Laurie Lewis – Trees (Spuce and Maple)
• Mary Halvorson – Cloudward (Nonesuch)
• Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice (Matador)
• Sierra Ferrell – Trail of Flowers (Rounder)
• Teja Gerken – Test of Time (tejagerken.com)
• The High Hawks – Mother Nature’s Show (LoHi)
• Waxahatchee – Tiger’s Blood (Anti-)

Compilations – EPs – Box Sets – Archival Releases – Reissues

• Africa Negra – Antologia Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
• Bear’s Sonic Journals: Sing Out! – Berkeley Community Theater 4/25/1981 (Owsley Stanley Foundation)
• Grateful Dead – Friends of the Devils: April 1978 (Rhino)
• Jerry Garcia & David Grisman – Bare Bones (Acoustic Disc)
• Joni Mitchell – Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) (Rhino)
• Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – Into The Wild (Nonesuch)
• Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77 Deluxe Edition (Rhino)
• Various Artists – Can’t Steal My Fire: A Tribute To David Olney (New West)
• Various Artists – My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy)
• Various Artists – The Mouse That Rocked: A Tribute To Stanley Mouse (Blue Rose)
• Various Artists – Tonight I’ll Go Down Swinging: A Trbute To Don Heffington (Nile Mile)