While it was a tough year, there were still some good things… here’s the annual listing.
Recorded music I enjoyed most in 2020:
- Waxahatchee – St Cloud
- Haim – Women in Music Pt. III
- Stephen Malkmus – Traditional Techniques
- Laura Marling – Songs for our Daughter
- Deftones – Ohms
- Jeff Parker – Suite for Max Brown
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions
- Erik Hall – Music for 18 Musicians
- Andy Shauf – The Neon Skyline
- Coriky – S/T
And a few older ones!
- Gene Clark – No Other (1974)
- Moondog – The Viking of Sixth Avenue
Live music pretty much ended in March, last show I made it to was Jeff Parker. The Front Porch Jazz concerts on SE 32nd Ave were much appreciated!
Books I enjoyed most, in order read:
- Arbitrary Stupid Goal – Tamara Shopsin
- I Will Be Complete – Glen David Gold
- Marooned – Joseph Kelly
- Spillover – David Quammen
- Entangled Life – Merlin Sheldrake
- Never A Lovely So Real – Colin Asher
- If Then – Jill Lepore
- The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp – Elena Filipovic
- The Winds of War – Herman Wouk
- Matterhorn – Karl Marlantes
