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.

2021:

• Songs (ongoing playlist)
• Lucero - When You Found Me
• Pony Bradshaw - Calico Jim
• Jeremy Parsons - Things to Come

2020:

• 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
• Mickey Guyton - Bridges
• Waylon Payne - Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me
• Juliet McConkey - Disappearing Girl
• Lydia Loveless - Daughter
• Brothers Osborne - Skeletons
• Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin’ Grass - Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions) & Vol. 2 (The Cowboy Arms Sessions)
• Rachel Brooke - The Loneliness in Me
• Ward Davis - Black Cats and Crows
• Zach Bryan - Quiet, Heavy Dreams
• The Best Songs Of 2020 + Playlist
• The Best Albums Of 2020 + Album Sampler

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)
• Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives - Way Out West (2017)
• Dave Cobb & Various Artists - Southern Family (2016)
• Al Scorch - Circle Round The Signs (2016)
• Robert Ellis - Robert Ellis (2016)
• Gretchen Peters - Blackbirds (2015)
• Eric Church - Mr. Misunderstood (2015)
• James McMurtry - Complicated Game (2015)
• Jason Eady - Daylight & Dark (2014)
• Tami Neilson - Dynamite! (2014)
• First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (2014) + Decade Rankings
• 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)
• Corb Lund - Cabin Fever (2012)
• The Bloody Jug Band - Coffin’ Up Blood (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 2006
• 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 1962
• The Best Hit Songs Of 1959