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The Philby Hot 100 Songs of 2022!!!

Posted on December 19, 2023 by PhilMaq

Well, this year, I don’t have a story where things crashed and delayed my posting of the Philby Hot 100 Songs of 2022. Nosiree. I just didn’t have the time to finish this list until this very moment. I wanted … Continue reading →

Posted in Philby, Philbys | Tagged A List of Names, About Enough, Afterthought, Agile, Alex Little and The Suspicious Minds, All That's Real, Allison Edberg Nyquist, Amy Dixon-Kolar, and The Fight, and The Monkey Time: Redux 2020, Angela Perley and The Howlin' Moons, Annie and Rod Capps, Annie Fitzgerald, Asilomar, At King Electric, Avian World, Bark and Roof Tales, Barker and Broski, Big Man on the TV, Bill Edwards, Bill Grogan's Goat, Billy Redfield, Bit of a Jesus Girl, Blink, Bob Hausler, Bobby Pennock, Boomerang, brilliant musical achievement, Bringing in the Light, Buckle Up Buttercup, Buffalo Motel, Burn it Down, Cafe Kona, Carl Caballero, Carolyn Striho, Chaos in the USA, Chihuahua, Christian Parker, Clifford/Wright, Cut Loose, Dancing Through the Storm, Danette Christine, Dark Eyed Gal, Dave Boutette, Daydream Hawker, Deane Nesbitt Jr, Detroit Strong with Tosha Owens and Bob Mervak, Diana Chittester, Don't You Know I Know, Down By Love, Duel, Earn Every Scar, Echoes: Remembering the Music of Tom Petty, Eleanor Rigby, Emily Mure, Erin Zindle, Eternal Sun, Ethereal, Every Passing Mile, Everybody Knows It, Everything That I See You See Better, Eyelids, Failure Brings Smiles, Fathom Lane, Feel So Much, Feels Like Summer, Flavor of the Month: The Remixed March to Home Singles, For All the Money in the World, For the Ride Home, Forever Young Forever, Free Yourself Up, Friction Farm, Gary Browe, Gathering Sparks, George Stephen Kelly, Ghost Town, Go Fever, God Doesn't, Good Life, Gotta Get to the Jersey Shore, Grace, Grievous Angel, Hammered, Happy Curmudgeons, Happy Medium, Harbour Nights, Hate Less, Heather Layne, Heavy Days, Helene Cronin, Hey, Hit the Road, Homespun, Hot 100 songs of 2022, Hung Up and Overdue, I Wish You Love, I Would Give Anything, I'm in Trouble Once Again, Ice Jam, In the Middle, In Time, Incognito, It's Only Love, J.C. and The Disciples, J.D. Dominowski, Jay Elle, Jazz for All Occasions, Jeff Scott, Jehova Waitresses, Jigsaw Puzzle, Jill Jack, Jimmy Carpenter, Joe Peters, Judy Banker, Julianne Ankley, Just to Get Me By, Karyn Oliver, Kate Hinote Trio, Katie Pederson, Katy Guillen and The Girls, Kid, King Ropes, Kitty Hawk, Kristi Lynn Davis, Lady Luck, Lake Street Dive, Lannie Flowers, Lee Anna Atwell, Life in the City, Light From the Underground, Linda Hicks, Linden Thoburn, Lindsay Beaver, Listen to the Music, Live at the Delphi Opera House, Living in the Right Place, Lofi Roulette, Lost and Found, Love in the Ruins, Love More, Love Won't Stay Close, Matthew French, Maybe Someday, Me and You, Memory in the Rain, Metro, Michael McArthur, Michael on Fire, Michael Snyder-Barker and David Roof, Mick Clarke, Mike Rocket, Mike Ward: Psychosongs, Mine Mine Mine, Mise en Scene, Miss Mess, Miss Sophie Lee and The Parish Suites, MKII, Mollywop, My Forever, Myths and Mortals, Never Been So Blind, New Chums, Nicer, No Control, No Drop of Love (Is Ever Wasted), No Memory, NOLA to New York, Oh Yeah, Old Ghosts and Lost Causes, On a Canvas Painted Blue, One of These Days, One Summer Night, Ordinary Things, Organisms, Our Turn to Shine, Paradox, Paris 1919, Phil Maq, Philby, Philby Awards, Philby Music Awards, Phlibys, Pkew Pkew Pkew, Ray Bonneville, Rebecca Loebe, Red Light Kisses, Red Sky Remembers, Refugee, Ride the Wave, Robert Thibodeau and The Detroit Jewels, Rochelle Clark, Roger Ponder, Roll on Over, Ron St. Germain, Route 5, Ruth and Max Bloomquist, Sad Songs and Waltzes, Sand and Silence, Sarah Morris, Scarecrow, Scenes From the Fragile, Second Chances, Secondus, Selfie, Seven Stars Around the Moon, Shake, Shawn Adam Williams, Shine, Shruggin' Off the Feelings, Sing This Song With Me, Sixteen Blows, Skinny Lister, Sky So Blue, So Many Stars, Soul Doctor, Soundtracks in the Sand, Space Between the Notes, Stand Up!, Stars, Step Inside the Circle, Straight From the Heart, Strange Vibes, Struck By Lightning, Summer Blue, Sundae + Mr. Goessl, Superstatic, Sweet Love, Terri Binion, The Alonzo Spirit Band, The Armoires, The Ballad of Billy Bob and Other Generic Folklore, The Breathing Room, The Burning of Cork, The Chats, The Darkness and The Light, The Day After the Night Before, The Devil, The Dirk Kroll Band, The Doug MacDonald Quartet, The Family Tree, The Glory, The Heart, The Jins, The Joedai Warriors with Phil Maq, The Landing, The Last Thing I Need, The New Zeitgeist, The Power, The Regulators, The Rosebuds, The Satin Cowboy and The Seven Deadly Sins, The Stan Laurels, The Steve Taylor Three, The Tapestry, The Vestiges of Art, The Wag, The Wreckage, There Is No Light Without the Darkness, There's Still Time, These Days, Third Eye, This is the Moment, Tightrope, Tom Alter, Tore Down a la Rimbaud, Tough As Love, Traverse This Universe, Travis Bowlin, Treacherous and Beautiful, Turf Wars, Turkuaz, Under the Moon, Upstairs Party, Valerie JanLois, Vandenberg's Moonkings, Vol.2, Waiting on the Good Life, Waiting on the Night, Warriors, Way Out West, We Carry On, Weekends, Wendy Webb, When They Fall, When You're Gone, Where Dreamers Only Go Soundtrack, Whole Cloth, With Love From Lake Huron, Would It Be the Same (If I Still Loved You?), You and Me and the Sun, You Don't Know What You Don't Know, You Make Home, You're From Michigan, Your Always, Your Gracious Host, Zoe Says Go, Zombies | Leave a comment

Phil’s Faves: Songs, July 9, 2023

Posted on July 13, 2023 by PhilMaq

This is a weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best songs that I listened to the previous week. Most songs will be current, but there are no boundaries. I’ve already stated on this web site … Continue reading →

Posted in Phil's Faves: Songs | Tagged Average American, Bang at the Door, Bark and Roof Tales, Beautiful World, Boom Boom Boom, Can't Wait to See My Baby, Come Alive, Dave and Kristi, David Roof, Don Arbor, Donna Herula, Everyone Comes from Somewhere, Going On, Jeremy Facknitz, Julianne Ankley, Michael Snyder-Barker, No Drop of Love (Is Ever Wasted), Paint a Beautiful Life, Ponder This, Roger Ponder, Running Barefoot, Seven Stars Around the Moon, Smilin' at the Future, Sparkle*Jets U.K., Sunshine, Timelessness, Tony Nardiello, Underwater Sunshine, Valerie JanLois, We All Shine On: Celebrating the Music of 1970, With Love From Lake Huron | Leave a comment

The Philby Hot 100 Songs of 2021!!!

Posted on November 27, 2022 by PhilMaq

So, let me tell ya a little story. Somewhere around the middle of August, everything for the Philby Hot 100 Songs of 2021 was in a position to wrap up and post. Everything was prepped and just needed some finishing … Continue reading →

Posted in Philby, Philbys | Tagged 4:30, All We Ever Have Is Now, Almost Ready for the Future, Always in Between, American Beauty, Amy Petty, Analise, and Other Joedai Pilgrims, Angela Perley, Angels Fly, Arnold Mitchem, Bad Babe, Be a Good Girl, Beautiful, Becki Digregorio, Before Me, Ben Levin with Bob Corritore, Berlin, Better Than Gold, Bill Edwards, Bill Grogan's Goat, Billy Brandt and the Sugaree's, Biltmore, Black Patch, Bobby Pennock, Born Again, Boss Hog, Boz Scaggs, Bright Lights, Buffalo Motel, Built to Break, Call the Shots, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Cindy Ruenes, CJ Ramone, Collaboration, Consolation Prize, Control, Cool King Chris, Cowboys and Aliens, Daddy's Wheels, Dangerous Love, Dave Karchner, Diamonds in the Rust The Whole Half, Dichotomy of Disbelief, Did It All, Don't Think, Don't Worry, Driving Friend, Eggtones for Fun, Elsewhere, Eric Gnezda, Erica Blinn, Erin Zindel, Escape Route, Every Day, Fight Another Day, Fire and Flame, First Words, Foolish Heart, For the Dirt, Gary Browe, Give It Away Again, Go To Girl, Gogol Bordello, Got Me Glued, Graveyard Train, HannaH's Field, Hard Times, Harry's Place, Heathcote Hill, Here, Here Comes Love, High Times in the Dark, Hope, Hour of the Wolf, House of the Rising Sun, How Will You Go?, I Can't Be Who You Want Me to Be, I Feel Like My Old Self, I Gotta Dance to Keep From Crying, I Will Make My Nest High Up, If I, If You Only Knew, In Your Own Sweet Time, Inland Isle, Into a Future Bright and Beautiful, Invicta, It's Happening Here, It's Not Contagious, J.C. and The Disciples, Jackpot!, Jeff Scott with Smoke Jones, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos with Jennifer Westwood, Jesus on the Dash, Jillian Rae, Joanna and The Jaywalkers, Johnny Irion, Johnny Mastro and Mama's Boys, Jordi, Jubilant Bridge, Judy Banker, Karen Nash, Karolina Rose, Karyn Oliver A List of Names, Keep Diggin', Kelsey Waldon, Kevin Lockhart and Bill Bosler, Kingfish, Latvian Radio, Learn, Life Out of Control, Light Magic, Lightspeed, Linden Thoburn, Lindsay Beaver, Lindsay Lou Southland, Little Miss Night and Day, Lonesome City, Lonesome Town, Long Drives, Long Way Back, Losing Touch, Lost on the Range, Love and Justice, Love's Middle Name, Lovely, Lucky Rocks, Lucrecia Lopez Sanz, M Matthew French, M.J. Bishop, Make Up Your Mind, Makoto, Mark Jewett, Marvin Etzioni, Maybe I Will See You at the End of the World, Mental Health Day, Michael Snyder-Barker, Mike Galbraith, Mike Ward, Moon on Havana, My Mother Gave the World to Me, Never Let You Go, Never Trust the Living, Nina and the Buffalo Riders, No Drop of Love (Is Ever Wasted), No Way to Live, Nora Jane Struthers, North Country, November Rain, Nuthin' to Me, Object Permanence, On and On, One Month in the Hole, Only Humans, Open My Eyes, Out of the Blues, Outside of This Town, Paradigm Shift, Peculiar, Pirates, Please Don't Tell Me How to Dance, Popular Creeps, Power Thru, Quarantine Dream, Radar Contact, Radiant, Real Love, Red Sky Remembers, Revolutionary Soldiers, Revolutions and Romantics Long Gone, Rick Mummey with Warriors, River of Tears, Riverside, Robert Stark, Robin Tucker, Sam Corbin, Sarah Borges and The Broken Singles, Save All My Cryin' for Sunday Afternoon, Scarecrow, Scenes From the Fragile Agile Avian World, Scott Greeson with Warriors, Scott Martin, Secondus, Seekers and Finders, Seth Bernard, Seven Worthies...of the Bamboo Grove, Shoelace Ring, Show Them It's True, ShwizZ ShwizZ II, Snake Wine, Solo, Some Better Days, Sounds Like Love, Southland, Spirit of the Island, Split Decision, Starcrossed Losers, Steve Leaf and The Ex-Pats, Steve Sterner and Sundown, Storyline, Strawberry Heritage, Stuck in a Rhyme, Stuck in Orbit, Sublunar Minds, Sugar Snow, Summer in a Bottle, Suzi Moon, Sweet Love, Sweet Marie, Sydney Sprague, Tales of Whoa, Talk to Me, Terri Binion, Territorial Chant, Territorial chant 6, The Claudettes, The Cordial Sins, The Darkness and The Light, The Darkness of Birds, The Day After the Night Before, The Dreams That Are Waiting for Us, The Fratellis, The Hewry Highwayman, The Lucky One, The Open Sea Before Me, The Original Swing, The Power of Love, The Sea Versus the Mountain, The Simon Kennedy Band, The Slackers, The Stone Souls, The Things That Matter, The Transparent Tones, The Warning, The Way Out, The Whiskey Charmers, Then There Was You, Third Eye, This Morning, Time Flies By, Time Goes By, Time Has Changed Us, Tin Sparrow, Tom Curless and The 46%, Tom Faia and Kate Miller, Too Cold to Cry, Tosha Owens, Tough As Love, TR3 featuring Tim Reynolds, Tracy Kash Fierce, Train to Nowhere, Transit Method, Travis Bowlin, Trio of Awesuhm, Trust Somebody, Turn My Heat On, Turn Up Your TV, Ultra Sound, Upstairs Party, Valerie JanLois, Vegas Strip Kings, Vicky Emerson, Wake Me Up When the Wind Dies Down, Waterbound, We Won't Get Out of Here Alive, Wendy Webb, When She Smiles, White Lines/White Noise, Wild Ponies, Wolf B. Reuter, Woodface Reimagined, Wrong Side of Right, Xposed 4Heads, You Could Be Anywhere, Zombies | Leave a comment

Phil’s Faves: Songs, January 9, 2022

Posted on January 13, 2022 by PhilMaq

Posted in Phil's Faves: Songs | Tagged Amy Petty, Bill Edwards, Billy Brandt and the Sugaree's, Duane Allen Harlick, Fire and Flame, Foolish Heart, Hour of the Wolf, If You Only Knew, Jeff Scott, Lost on the Range, M French, Matthew French, Moon on Havana, No Drop of Love (Is Ever Wasted), Real Love, Riverside, Smoke Jones, Some Better Days, Sounds Like Love, Sweet Love, The Darkness of Birds, The Dreams That Are Waiting for Us, The Things That Matter, The Whiskey Charmers, Upstairs Party, Valerie JanLois, Wendy Webb, Wolf B. Reuter, You Make Home | Leave a comment

Philby 100 Best Albums of 2020

Posted on September 8, 2021 by PhilMaq

Better late than never? I’d like to think so. I always feel that everyone likes recognition for their work no matter when or how it occurs! I am happy to announce that the Philby 100 Best Albums of 2020 is ready … Continue reading →

Posted in Philby, Philbys | Tagged 12, 1932, A Fragile Peace, A Little Pain Never Hurt, Addicted, Alex Little and The Suspicious Minds, All Mine, All That's Real, Almost Extinct, Almost Ready for the Future, Altameda, Amy Dixon-Kolar, Amy Petty, Angela Perley and Erica Blinn, Ariane Lydon, Asilomar, Ask Yo' Mama, Barker and Broski, Becki Digregorio, Biltmore, Blink, Bloodshot Red, Boomerang, Boz Scaggs, Bright Lights Long Drives First Words, Buffalo Motel, Caleb Nettles, Can't Take My Soul, Copper Rooster and Other Tunes and Tales, Cut Loose Vol. 2, Dancing Through the Storm, Dave Karchner, Davy Knowles, Dick Siegel, Dirty Mind Detroit, Don Arbor, Don't Look Back, Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basketcase, Don't Worry It's Not Contagious, Downriver Dan, Earn Every Scar, Echoes: Remembering the Music of Tom Petty, Eddie Arjun, Eileen Jewell, Eliott Schneider, Ellie Zwart, Eric Gnezda, Erin Zindle, Everyone Comes from Somewhere, Fantastic Plastic, Fathom Lane, Fierce, Fight Another Day, Flamin' Groovies, Friction Farm, Fun and Fancy, Garden of Earthly Delights: An XTC Celebration, Gary Browe, Gathering Sparks, George Heritier, George S. Kelly, Gina Forsyth, Gladshot, Good Fortune, Greezy Wheels, Grievous Angel, Hannah Baiardi, Heathcote Hill, Heather Pierson, Here to This, High Times in the Dark, Hollowed Sigh, In My Element, In Time, Indian Summer/Greater Heights, Jeff Scott, Jehova Waitresses, Jeremy Porter, Jillian Rae, Joanna and The Jaywalkers, Joel Mabus, Johnny Mastro and Mama's Boys, Jon Shain and FJ Ventre, Judy Banker, Katie Pederson, Kelly's Lot, Kevin Lockhart and Bill Bosler, Kill or Be Kind, Light Magic, Linden Thoburn, Lines and Spaces, Listen to Crows, Live Split Vinyl: The Stereogum Sessions, Liz E. Brooks, Lonesome City, Lost on the Range, Lucky Jr., Makoto, Mary Ann Kirt, Mavis Staples, Merlot Embargo, Michael Kelsey, Michael on Fire, Michael Snyder-Barker, Mick Clarke, Mollywop, Moon Over Havana, My Own Magic, Never Trust the Living, Nick Carter, No Control, No Drop of Love (Is Ever Wasted), NOLA to New York, Nora Jane Struthers, November Rain, Now-A-Daze, Out of the Blues, Peculiar, Phil Maq, Philby Awards, Philby Best Albums of 2020, Please Yourself, Popular Creeps, Prophetstown, Quarantine Dream, Rebecca Loebe, Red Sky Remembers, Revolutions and Romantics, Rochelle Clark, Route 5, Samantha Fish, Sarah Borges, Sarah Morris, Scarecrow, Scenes From the Fragile Agile Avian World, Scott Baker, Scott Martin, Seven Worthies...of the Bamboo Grove, Silver City, Simple Life, Singin', Sloan, So Many Stars, Songs of Hope in a Changing World, Spirit of the Island, Stand Up!, Steady Heart, Steve Sterner and Sundown, Strawberry Heritage, String Theory 2.0, Struggles and Love, Sundae and Mr. Goessl, Sundown Over Ghost Town, Tales of Whoa, Terri Binion, The 7 Melodies, The Ballad of Billy Bob and Other Generic American Folklore, The Claudettes, The Darkness of Birds, The Day After the Night Before, The Emmylous, The Forty Nineteens, The Groovalottos, The Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio, The Joedai Warriors, The Landing, The Open Sea Before Me, The Power The Glory and The Monkey Time: Redux 2020, The Quietest Place, The Silver Snails, The Slackers, The Steve Taylor 3, The Way It Rolls, The Whiskey Charmers, These Are Vitamins, Time and Truth, Time Hasn't Changed You, Tom Alter, Tom Curless and The 46%, Tomorrow Will Be Yesterday Soon, Toward Home, Tracy Kash, Transit Method, Transition, Transitions de Vie, Ultra Cloud, Valerie JanLois, Vicky Emerson, Wading in the Lesser Middle, Walrus, Wanderlust, Waterbound, Wattle and Daub, We Get By, We Won't Get Out of Here Alive, Wendy Webb, Will Ludford, Xposed 4Heads, Your Gracious Host | Leave a comment

Unofficial Pandemic Philby Best Albums of 2020 Countdown Update #1!!!

Posted on April 3, 2021 by PhilMaq

Here’s the latest unofficial update of the Pandemic Philby 100 Best Albums of 2020! The links direct you to the post when the album was announced! The unofficial Countdown so far is: 91.Blink—Rebecca Loebe 92.The Day After the Night Before—Terri … Continue reading →

Posted in 2020 Philbys | Tagged 1932, Ask Yo' Mama, Blink, Dave Karchner, Davy Knowles, George Heritier, In My Element, Lonesome City, Mary Ann Kirt, No Drop of Love (Is Ever Wasted), Rebecca Loebe, Struggles and Love, Terri Binion, The Day After the Night Before, The Groovalottos, Tom Alter, Transitions de Vie, Valerie JanLois, Wading in the Lesser Middle, Wattle and Daub | Leave a comment

Phil’s Faves: Albums, January 17, 2021

Posted on January 21, 2021 by PhilMaq

Over time, my listening habits have changed and at the moment I usually listen to albums completely through. I haven’t done that in years, but it’s actually very rewarding—particularly when the album is good. Every album that will be on … Continue reading →