Best of 2020

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