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Will Hermes - Best Music Of 2019

Album covers for music listed below on this post

Will Hermes is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, a contributor to NPR’s “All Things Considered” and to The New York Times. He is the author of “Love Goes to Buildings on Fire” and an upcoming biography of the late Lou Reed. He joined us to talk about the best music of 2019. 

Will's Spotify Playlist.

[List after the break.]

Joan Shelley – Album: “Like the River Loves the Sea” – Song played: “The Fading”
Aldous Harding – Album: “Designer” – Song played: “The Barrel”
Jenny Lewis – Album: “On the Line” – Song played: “Wasted Youth”
Lana Del Rey – Album: “Norman F*cking Rockwell!” – Song played: “The greatest”
The Better Oblivion Community Center – self-titled album – Song played: “Dylan Thomas”
Wilco – Album: “Ode to Joy” – Song played: “Love is Everywhere (Beware)”
Jamila Woods – Album: “Legacy! Legacy!” – Song played: “Betty”
The Comet is Coming – Album: “Trust in the Life Force of The Deep Mystery” – Song played: “Birth of Creation”
Vampire Weekend – Album: “Father of the Bride” – Song played: “Harmony Hall”
Mentioned: Tinariwen – Album “Amadjar”
Mdou Moctar – Album: “Ilana: The Creator” – Song played: “Tarhatazed”
Big Thief – Album: “Two Hands” – Song played: “Not”
Angel Olsen – Album: “All Mirrors” – Song played: “Lark”
Sharon Van Etten – Album: “Remind Me Tomorrow” – Song played: “Seventeen”
The Highwomen – self-titled album – Song played: “Highwomen”
Miranda Lambert – Album: “” – Song played: “”
Vagabon – self-titled album – Song played: “Every Woman”
Brittany Howard – Album: “Jaime” – Song played: “Stay High”
Leonard Cohen - Album: “Thanks for the Dance” – Song played: “Happens to the Heart”

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.
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