Unless someone comes out with an excellent Christmas album in the next couple weeks, here’s my top ten of 2014:
St. Paul and the Broken Bones Half the City
The Budos Band Burnt Offering
Lee Fields and the Expressions Emma Jean
Benjamin Booker Violent Shiver
Prince Art Official Age
Jack White Lazaretto
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings Retreat
Spoon They Want My Soul
Kate Tempest Everybody Down
Ever So Android Ever So Android
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6oWTQWriy8
– Musician, Recordist, Producer and Songwriter Graig Markel is the hippest man alive. He and his band, the 88th Street Band, released an amazing album in October of this year.