A rough guide to some of my favorite music of the year. Also, the name is a reference to the Loveless Cafe in Nashville, Tennessee.

2020:

• Songs
• Little Big Town – Nightfall
• Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band – Just Like Moby Dick
• John Moreland – LP5
• Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line – Bright Lights, Long Drives, First Words
• The Secret Sisters – Saturn Return
• Gabe Lee – Honky Tonk Hell
• Kody West – Overgrown
• Ashley McBryde – Never Will
• John Anderson – Years
• Pam Tillis – Looking For A Feeling
• American Aquarium – Lamentations
• Hot Country Knights – The K is Silent
• Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen – Hold My Beer Vol. 2
• Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit – Reunions
• Tessy Lou Williams – Tessy Lou Williams
• Mike and the Moonpies – Touch Of You: The Lost Songs Of Gary Stewart
• Midyear Report
• Sierra Hull – 25 Trips
• Corb Lund – Agricultural Tragic
• Brett Eldredge – Sunday Drive
• Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers
• Lori McKenna – The Balladeer
• Daniel Donato – A Young Man’s Country
• Arlo McKinley – Die Midwestern
• Gretchen Peters – The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs Of Mickey Newbury
• Josh Turner – Country State Of Mind
• Karen Jonas – The Southwest Sky and Other Dreams
• Ruston Kelly – Shape & Destroy

2019:

• The Steel Woods – Old News
• Flatland Cavalry – Homeland Insecurity
• Alice Wallace – Into The Blue
• Charles Wesley Godwin – Seneca
• Yola – Walk Through Fire
• Vandoliers – Forever
• Austin Meade – Waves
• Lauren Jenkins – No Saint
• Reba McEntire – Stronger Than The Truth
• Rod Melancon – Pinkville
• Ben Jarrell – Troubled Times
• Taylor Alexander – Good Old Fashioned Pain
• Jack Ingram – Ridin’ High … again
• Caroline Spence – Mint Condition
• John Paul White – The Hurting Kind
• Ian Noe – Between The Country
• Midyear Report
• Aaron Watson – Red Bandana
• Shane Smith and the Saints – Hail Mary
• Jade Bird – Jade Bird
• Joseph Huber – Moondog
• Steel Blossoms – Steel Blossoms
• Mike and the Moonpies – Cheap Silver And Solid Country Gold
• The Royal Hounds – Low Class Songs For High Class People
• Old Salt Union – Where The Dogs Don’t Bite
• Jason Hawk Harris – Love & The Dark
• Dalton Domino – Songs From The Exile
• The Highwomen – The Highwomen
• Leslie Stevens – Sinner
• Billy Strings – HOME
• Dori Freeman – Every Single Star
• Michaela Anne – Desert Dove
• Kelsey Waldon – White Noise/White Lines
• Cody Jinks – After The Fire
• Allison Moorer – Blood
• Erin Enderlin – Faulkner County
• The Best Songs Of 2019
• The Best Albums Of 2019

2018:

• Cody Jinks – Lifers
• Ronnie Eaton – The Hand That Mocked Them And The Heart That Fed
• Kenny Chesney – Songs For The Saints
• Eric Church – Desperate Man
• The Pistol Annies – Interstate Gospel
• Jamie Lin Wilson – Jumping Over Rocks
• Karen Jonas – Butter
• Ryan Culwell – The Last American
• Ruston Kelly – Dying Star
• The Best Songs Of 2018 Parts One & Two
• Honorable Mentions For Albums In 2018
• The Musical Divide’s Top Albums Of 2018

Songs:

• https://open.spotify.com/playlist/54YLXh4W32crGDFEnVUC8K

Past Years:

• Caleb Caudle – Crushed Coins (2018)
• Sunny Sweeney – Trophy (2017)
• Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway (2017)
• Dave Cobb & Various Artists – Southern Family (2016)
• Al Scorch – Circle Round The Signs (2016)
• Gretchen Peters – Blackbirds (2015)
• Eric Church – Mr. Misunderstood (2015)
• James McMurtry – Complicated Game (2015)
• Jason Eady – Daylight & Dark (2014)
• Tami Neilson – Dynamite! (2014)
• Holly Williams – The Highway (2013)
• The Mavericks – In Time (2013)
• Jason Isbell – Southeastern (2013)
• Turnpike Troubadours – Goodbye Normal Street (2012)
• Zac Brown Band – Uncaged (2012)
• Slackeye Slim – El Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa (2011)
• Lydia Loveless – Indestructible Machine (2011)
• Alison Krauss & Union Station – Paper Airplane (2011)
• Jamey Johnson – The Guitar Song (2010)
• Dierks Bentley – Up On The Ridge (2010)
• The Best Singles Of The 2010s

Other:

• The Best Hit Songs Of 2013
• The Best Hit Songs Of 2011
• The Best Hit Songs Of 2010
• The Best Hit Songs Of 2007
• The Best Hit Songs Of 2005
• The Best Hit Songs Of 2003
• The Best Hit Songs Of 2002
• The Best Hit Songs Of 2000
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1997
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1996
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1994
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1993
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1992
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1990
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1989
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1987
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1985
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1982
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1981
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1980
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1979
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1975
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1973
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1972
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1971
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1968
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1965
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1959