Here is my official list for my favorite songs of 2016! There’s more artists and more variety! Sometimes more doesn’t always mean “better.” But I think this is the best list yet for those reasons. The more music and artists I can recognize makes the world a better place! At least in my mind it does. So here they are. The songs are as diverse as my listeners and the artists that made them, each one unique in their beauty, and all deserving a “Philby!”
- White Doves—Angela Perley and The Howlin’ Moons
- A Long Way Home—The Turnback
- Superlungs, My Supergirl—Jillian Rae
- This Train—Joe Bonamassa
- Higher Mountains—Emmylou Harris [Hall of Fame] and Rodney Crowell
- Take Me Away—Downriver Dan
- Sweet Angel (Studio Version)/Sweet Angel (Video Version)—Magic Kramer
- Shine On—Building Birds
- Bags of Cool—Tommy Z (Best Instrumental)
- Divorcee—Jennifer Westwood and The Handsome Devils (Best Female Vocal)
- Shame—Gigi Scott and Trouble Town
- I Ain’t Holding Back—Nora Jane Struthers and The Party Line
- Swing That Thing—Luke Winslow—King
- Love You More—Oak City Roots
- Backwoods Royalty—Dylan McDonald and The Avians
- Chaperone—The Prime Ministers
- Here Comes Your Man—Space Heater
- Girl I’m Not Afraid—Ransom and The Subset
- Five Days a Week—The Turnback
- Let Me Fall—Nora Jane Struthers and The Party Line
- Slave—The BoDeans
- November—The Hangabouts
- Not the One—Raina Randolph
- Blowing in the Wind—Sultans of String with Anwar Khurshid
- Unsteady—Jubilee Riots with Heather Robb
- The Devil Does the Driving—Dismal Swamp Lords
- I’m the Boss – Rachel B
- Broken Lullaby—Dylan McDonald and The Avians
- You and I—Oak City Roots
- Crazy Love—Wendy Webb
- Happy Birthday, Major Tom—Nervous Germans
- Million Out of Me—Ransom and The Subset
- Go Ahead Baby—Jessica Lee Wilkes
- On My Honor—The Effort Award
- Heaven Sent—Best Coast
- Is It Wrong—The Relatives
- Easy Listening—The Rutles
- Sabre—Tooth and Bone—Surfer Blood
- Young Girls—PINS
- Red Letter Day—Courtney Yasmineh
- I Wanna Be Alone (With You)—La Luz
- Tugboats—The Brother Brothers
- Melancholy Mind—Jill Suttie
- One Step Up—Magic Kramer
- Temptation—Jeff Healey [Hall of Fame]
- Livin’ the Good Life—Jo Serrapere and The LaFawndas
- No One Hear But Us Bones—Jen Houston
- Talking About Me—The Secrets (DetroitSecrets)
- Blue Midnight—Oak City Roots
- A Better Day—Rita Hosking
- It Shook Me Up—J.D. McPherson
- Last Paycheck—Million Sellers
- She Makes Me Laugh—The Monkees
- You Bring the Summer—The Monkees
- Fall in California—Jill Suttie
- Southern Side of Me—Whistler’s Father
- Clear—Ryan Allen and His Extra Arms
- Save All Monsters—Xposed 4Heads
- Already Gone—Audra Kubat
- Smoke in the Rearview Mirror—The Grave Jinglers
- Don’t You Let Them Win—Roy Rogers (Blues Guitarist)
- Come and Find It—Jill Suttie
- Fake A Way—MiniBoone
- 21 Miles to Barstow—The Relatives
- All Your Favorite Bands—Dawes
- Awkward Stage—Bill Berry
- Green Eyes—Angela Perley and The Howlin’ Moons
- Unintended Consequence of Love—Bonnie Raitt
- Spots of Time—Warren Haynes and Railroad Earth
- Stone Tree Fairy—Dylan McDonald and The Avians
- Love’s Despair—G.S. Harper
- Hear You Me—Building Birds
- Jackdaws Rising—Sarah McQuaid
- Nobody But You—Don Arbor
- I See Storms—Rita Hosking
- Criminal Style—Lindsay Lou and The Flatbellys
- Baby It’s You—The Last Internationale
- Senioritis—Lasting Effect
- Simmer—Space Heater
- Trying Times—Jubilee Riots
- Nod—Five Fingertips
- Angels of the Ice—Deane Nesbitt, Jr.
- Looking For the Blues—Bob Malone
- I’ve Been Blue—Angela Perley and The Howlin’ Moons
- All I Got Is Now—Reverend Freakchild
- Love Like Crazy—Jessica Lee Wilkes
- Marble Falls—Cornell Kinderknecht and Martin McCall
- Workin’ For the Man—The Effort Award
- Flint Talkin’ Blues—Tino G
- Does You No Good to Be Good—Jill Jack
- Keep On Truckin’—Reverend Freakchild
- Why Did I Leave You Behind—Avid Dancer
- Natives—Young Statues
- Groove’s Too Shallow—Jessica Lee Wilkes
- You Can’t Say We Didn’t Try—Emmylou Harris [Hall of Fame] and Rodney Crowell
- Keep the Door Cracked Open—John McKinley
- The Cycle—Colorway
- I’m on Fire—The Hawk
- In My Neighborhood—Dylan Sires and Neighbors
- Make Me Divine—Joel Levise