The Year in Music, vol. 2

Earlier today I offered what I view not so much as the bad records from 2015, but as the disappointments. In part 2, I offer the good — my favorite records by genre.

Jazz: Kamasi Washington, The Epic
Country: Chris Stapleton, Traveller
Hip-Hop: Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
Rock: Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Soul: Leon Bridges, Coming Home
N.J. Band: Screaming Females, Rose Mountain
Duet: Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, The Traveling Kind
Soundtrack: Selma
Blues: Steve Earle, Terraplane Blues
Pop: Shamir, Ratchet
Still to come: My top ten, my favorite debuts, and my favorite compilations.
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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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