The 30 Songs I Digged Most In 2017
Well here it is, The 30 Songs I Digged Most In 2017 , a quasi-annual celebration of the best songs to catch my ear and appear in this blog. I found 2017 to be a wildly unsettling year in music. You get a sense that the landscape is shifting and that this "era" is coming to an end. What comes next is anybody's guess. Compiling these songs, I found that major genres - like jazz, blues, folk, reggae, rap, hip-hop, soul, and dub - are, on the surface of things, largely absent. However, you find them captured - in a morphed kind of way - in music that is labeled "alternative." I'm not sure that I know what alternative means anymore. It has become so expansive, not just in terms of its underpinning influences and vibe, but in its diversity of performers and instrumentation. Sometimes I wonder what it is an "alternative" to. Maybe its an alternative to white guys with guitars? In honesty, although I am a white guy with a guitar, I found thi