Podwireless Best Of 2022

The 50 favourite CDs from more than 350 new releases that made it through selection for Podwireless play in 2022.

Scroll down for the Best Of 2022 Podcast Playlist and Playlink, a one hour selection from the very best of the year.

 

 

BEST ALBUM OF 2022

ANGELINE MORRISON

The Sorrow Songs (Topic)

 

2. Nick Hart : Sings Ten English Folk Songs (Roebuck)

3. Oumou Sangaré : Timbuktu (World Circuit)

4. Joan Shelley : The Spur (No Quarter)

5. Lady Maisery : Tender (Lady Maisery

6. Eliza Carthy & The Restitution : Queen Of The Whirl (Hem Hem)

7. Leyla McCalla : Breaking The Thermometer (Anti-)

8. Meïkhâneh : Chants Du Dedans, Chants Du Dehors (Buda)

9. Glenn Jones : Vade Mecum (Thrill Jockey)

10. Folkatomik : Polaris (Italysona)

 

BEST COMPILATION, RE-ISSUE or HISTORICAL ALBUMS

JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS

Joe Strummer 002 (Dark Horse)

2. Various Artists : Excavated Shellac (Dust To Digital)

3. Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard : Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways)

4. Son House : Forever On My Mind (Easy Eye Sound)

 

The Rest Of The Best (CDs, alphabetically)

 Will Allen : English Fiddle (Scribe)

Antonis Antoniou : Throisma (Ajabu)

Bird In The Belly : After The City (GF*M)

Janice Burns & Jon Doran : No More The Green Hills (JanAndJon)

Bush Gothic : Beyond The Pale (Fydle)

Ettore Castagna : Eremìa (Alfa Music)

 Antonio Castrignano & Taranta Sounds : Babilonia (Ponderosa)

Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto : Instant (MaCase)

Tamsin Elliott : Frey (Penny Fiddle)

Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita : Echo (Bendigedig)

Elsie Franklin : Miss Rhythm (Waxy)

 Lily Henley : Oras Dezaoradas (Lior Editions)

Horzines Stara : Bordes De Terre – Dubhe (Vlad Productions)

Michael Hurley : The Time Of The Foxgloves (No Quarter)

Simon Jones : How Things Work (Simon Jones)

Kinnaris Quintet : This Too (Kinnaris Quintet)

Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee : Bamanan (Real World)

Dafné Kritharas : Varka (Lior Editions)

Su-a Lee : Dialogues (Sky Child)

Mama's Broke : Narrow Line (Free Dirt)

Delbert McClinton : Outdated Emotion (Hotshot)

Ben McElroy : How I Learnt To Disengage From The Pack (Slow Music Movement)

Jackie Oates : Gracious Wings (Needle Pin)

Okra Playground : Itku (Nordic Notes)

Emily Portman & Rob Harbron : Time Was Away (Emily & Rob)

Pharis & Jason Romero : Tell 'Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)

Sophia Djebel Rose : Métempsycose (Oracle)

Peter Rowan : Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel)

Cory Seznec : Eyes On The Rise (Captain Pouch)

Rev Simpkins : Saltings (Antigen)

Spöket I Köket : Kurbits & Flames (Gammalthea)

Sproatly Smith : River Wye Suite (Weirdshire)

Sam Sweeney : Escape That (Hudson)

Topette!! : Bourdon (Topette!!)

Vieux Farka Touré : Les Racines (World Circuit)

The Wilderness Yet : What Holds The World Together (Scribe)

 

 

plus… 5 download or vinyl-only releases, mentioned in despatches

1. Various : Spirit Of Clive (Isolation Jams)

2. Various : Crossroads Kenya (Nowahala Sounds)

3. Noori & His Dorpa Band : Beja Power! (Ostinato)

4. Fred McDowell : Live In New York (Oblivion)

5. Marlais : Stream Of Forms (Kin-Ship)

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1. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros : Bhindi Bhagee from the 4CD set Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years (Dark Horse) Website

2. Sears Orchestra : Bela Aurora from the 4CD box Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History Of The World's Music (Dust To Digital) Website

3. Angeline Morrison : Black John from the CD The Sorrow Songs (Folk Songs Of Black British Experience) (Topic) Website

4. Nick Hart : Lemany from the CD Nick Hart Sings Ten English Folk Songs (Roebuck) Bandcamp

5. Oumou Sangaré : Kélé Magni from the CD Timbuktu (World Circuit) Website

6. Joan Shelley : Home from the CD The Spur (No Quarter) Bandcamp

7. Lady Maisery : Tender from the CD Tender (Lady Maisery) Bandcamp

8. Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard : Who's That Knocking? from the CD Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition (Smithsonian Folkways) Website

9. Son House : Forever On My Mind from the CD Forever On My Mind (Easy Eye Sound) Website

10. Eliza Carthy & The Restitution : Two Tears from the CD Queen Of The Whirl (HemHem) Website

11. Leyla McCalla : Vini Wé from the CD Breaking The Thermometer (Anti) Bandcamp

12. Meïkhâneh : Chaque Jour Nouveau from the CD Chants Du Dedans, Chants Du Dehors (Buda) Website

13. Glenn Jones : Kathy Maltese from the CD Vade Mecum (Thrill Jockey) Bandcamp

14. Folkatomik : Lu Trainu from the CD Polaris (ItalySona) Website

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Podwireless 244 December 2022

 

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1. (Sig) Ian A Anderson : Goblets & Elms from the CD Onwards (Ghosts From The Basement) Bandcamp

2. Hack-Poets Guild : Daring Highwayman from the CD Blackletter Garland (One Little Independent) Bandcamp

3. The Magpie Arc : The Cutty Wren from the CD Glamour In The Grey (Collective Perspective) Bandcamp

4. Fabrizio Piepoli : Stella D'Ori from the CD Maresia (Zero Nove Nove) Web Site

5. Nidi D'Arac : Ei from the CD Nanti Li ’90s (Emme) Web Site

6. Lady Maisery : Rest Now from the CD Tender (Lady Maisery) Bandcamp

7. Harp & A Monkey : Poor People We from the DL single (Harp & A Monkey) Web Site

8. Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard : They're At Rest Together (T.B. Blues) from the CD Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition (Smithsonian Folkways) Web Site

9. The Carrivick Sisters : Amsterdam from the CD Illustrated Short Stories (Carrivic Sisters) Bandcamp

10. Balaklava Blues : Beat Up from the CD Let Me Out (Unfit) Web Site

11. Altin Gun : Leylim Ley from the DL single (Glitterbeat) Bandcamp

12. Charles O'Hegarty : Marika's Lullaby from the CD The More I Travel (Lollipop Shop) Bandcamp

13. Nigel Parry feat. Helen Dorothy : No More from the CD Tales Of Common Folk, Salt & Sweet Kisses (Nigel Parry) Web Site

14. Loogaroo : Rikitikitavi from the CD Nautilus (Trad) Web Site

15. Siger : Barbaren from the CD Rodeland (Trad) Web Site

16. Lisa Knapp : The Rowan Tree from the DL single (Filmtrax) Web Site

17. Burd Ellen : The Lovers from the CD A Tarot Of The Green Wood (Mavis) Bandcamp

18. Sairie : The Breeze On The Meadow from the DL single (Fenny Compton) Bandcamp

19. Dawda Jobarteh : Winter Trees Standing Sleeping from the CD Do You Know A Place Called Flekkeroy? (Ajabu) Web Site

20. Ustad Noor Bakhsh : Maanj from the DL album Jingul (Honiunhoni) Bandcamp

21. Su-a Lee : Lundgren from the CD Dialogues (Sky Child) Bandcamp

22. Henriette Flach : Little Miss Ladybird from the CD Skyklokke (GO' Danish) Web Site

23. Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray : Fröken Agnes / Polska Efter Kusen from the CD Fiddle Tunes (Fiddlehead) Bandcamp

24. Ruwengo Bros Band : Arata Rekai Njuge from the CD Crossroads Kenya: East African Benga And Rumba, 1980-1985 (Nowahala Sounds) Bandcamp

25. Fresa Juvenil De Tarapoto : La Palmerita from the CD Perú Selvático (Analog Africa) Bandcamp

26. Rosie Brown : Black Dog from the CD Detail From A Dream (Stuck) Bandcamp

27. The Long Hill Ramblers : Love Farewell from the DL EP Wagon Yard (Longhill Ramblers) Bandcamp

28. Rachel Walker & Aaron Jones : Gormshùil Mhòr from the CD Despite The Wind And Rain (Ròs Dearg) Bandcamp

29. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin : Anáil na hOíche from the CD The Deepest Breath (Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin) Bandcamp

30. Black Ox Orkestar : Epigenetik from the CD Everything Returns (Constellation) Bandcamp

31. Agent Starling : Napoleon In Morocco from the CD Clandestine (DHM) Bandcamp

32. Scottish Fish : Stomping from the CD Upscale (Scottish Fish) Bandcamp

 

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Podwireless 243 November 2022

 

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1. (Sig) Ian A Anderson : Goblets & Elms from the CD Onwards (Ghosts From The Basement) Bandcamp

2. Eliza Carthy & The Restitution : Jacky Tar from the CD Queen Of The Whirl (HemHem) Website

3. Marlais : Bird In The Bush from the DL album Stream Of Forms (Kin-Ship) Bandcamp

4. Hedera : Waterwheel (unreleased) (Cuculi) YouTube

5. Spöket i Köket : Polska Till Wik from the CD Kurbits & Flames (Gammelthea) Website

6. Cory Seznec : Been All Around This World from the CD Eyes On The Rise (Captain Pouch) Bandcamp

7. John Townley : If You Haven't Any Hay from the CD The Old Sailor (The Lollipoppe Shoppe) Bandcamp

8. Duo Ruut : Liisa Pehmes Süles from the DL single (Duo Ruut) Website

9. Claudio Merico & Giulia Tripoti : Si Veriash A La Rana from the CD Aljama (Karkum Project) Bandcamp

10. Mauskovic Dance Band : Bukaroo Bank from the CD Bukaroo Bank (Bongo Joe) Bandcamp

11. Banda Blondeau : Folksteady from the CD Banda Blondeau (Felmay) Bandcamp

12. Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs : Zalvera from the DL album Doghouse (Asphalt Tango) Bandcamp

13. Christina Alden & Alex Patterson : Etta's Song from the DL single (Alden & Patterson) Website

14. Nic Zuppardi : Alpardi McPatterzup from the CD North Cape (North Cape) Bandcamp

15. Noel Dashwood feat. Emily Winng : Raratonga from the CD Noel Dashwood (Noel Dashwood) Bandcamp

16. Kumbia Boruka : Fiesta En Las Calles (2022) from the DL single (Boa Viagem) Website

17. Wesli : Makonay from the CD Tradisyon (Cumbancha) Website

18. Josephine Foster & Alasdair Roberts : A Leaf Must Fall from the DL album Spirit Of Clive : A Tribute To The Music Of Clive Palmer & COB (Isolation Jams) Bandcamp

19. Sharron Kraus : Eleven Willows from the DL album Spirit Of Clive : A Tribute To The Music Of Clive Palmer & COB (Isolation Jams) Bandcamp

20. Yoni Avi Battat feat. Laura Elkeslassy : Will Her Love Remember from the CD Fragments (Yoni Avi Battat) Bandcamp

21. Orkestra Shkodra : Ti Je Krejt Si Nj’ Ganxhe from the DL album Like Nightingales In The Spring (Oda 3) Website

22. Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek : Bal from the CD Dost 2 (Bongo Joe) Bandcamp

23. Josienne Clarke : The Month Of January from the DL EP Now & Then (Corduroy Punk) Bandcamp

24. Wookalily : Ghost from the DL single (Wookalily) Website

25. Iftin Band feat. Axmed Sharif Killer & Siteey Qosol Wanaag : Deriskaagi Waa Kugu Jahowareeray from the CD Mogadishu's Finest : The Al-Aruba Sessions (Ostinato) Bandcamp

26. Electric Vocuhila : Kidola Dola from the CD Kiteky (Another/Capsule) Bandcamp

27. Julie Murphy : A Very Good Year from the DL EP Six Out Of Nine (Julie Murphy) Bandcamp

28. One Leg One Eye : Only The Diceys from the DL album …And Take The Black Worm With Me (Nyahh) Bandcamp

29. Luke Daniels & The Cobhers : Cucumber Jungle from the CD Luke Daniels & The Cobhers (Gael) Website

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Podwireless 242 October 2022

 

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1. (Sig) Ian A Anderson : Goblets & Elms from the CD Onwards (Ghosts From The Basement) Bandcamp

2. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros : X-Ray Style (Demo) from the CD box 002: The Mescaleros Years (Dark Horse) Website

3. Loudon Wainwright III : Hell from the CD Lifetime Achievement (Story Sound / Proper) Website

4. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin : Lobbo from the CD Ali (Dead Oceans) Website

5. Siskin Quartet : Firefinch from the CD Flight Paths (Eighth Nerve Audio) Bandcamp

6. Emily Portman & Rob Harbron : The Birds In The Spring from the CD Time Was Away (Rob Records) Website

7. Frankie Archer : Lucy Wan from the DL single (Frankie Archer) https://frankiearcher.bandcamp.com/

8. Janice Burns & Jon Doran : As I Roved Out from the CD No More The Green Hills (Jan & Jon) Bandcamp

9. Solju : Beaivvi Nieida from the CD Uvjamuohta (Bafe's Factory) Website

10. Oki Dub Ainu Band : Ankisma Kaa Ka from the 12" single East Of Kunashiri (Tuff Beats) Website

11. Enkel : Portti – The Gate from the CD Love Hurts (Nordic Notes) Website

12. Okra Playground : Hetkeen – Into The Moment from the CD Itku (Nordic Notes) Website

13. Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell : You, Golden from the CD You, Golden (Spafford & Campbell) Bandcamp

14. Sam Sweeney : Want To Fly Want To Flee from the CD Escape That (Hudson) Website

15. The Watersons : Earsdon Sword Dance Song from the LP Frost And Fire (Topic) Website

16. Los Alegres Diablos : La Magdalena from the LP The Afrosound Of Colombia Vol 3 (Vampisoul) Bandcamp

17. Okaidja Afroso : Wole Worhe from the DL album Jaku Mumor (Ancestral Spirit) (Okaidja) Website

18. Abel Selaocoe : Zawose (For Hukwe Zawose) from the CD Where Is Home (Hae Ke Kae) (Warner Classics) Website

19. Angeline Morrison : The Flames They Do Grow High from the CD The Sorrow Songs (Topic) Website

20. Polly Paulusma : Robin from the CD The Pivot On Which The World Turns (Wild Sound) Bandcamp

21. Sharron Kraus : The Trees Keep On Growing from the CD Kin (Nightshade) Bandcamp

22. Wu Man & Amjad Ali Khan : Rhythm Of Life from the CD Music For Hope (Zoho) Website

23. The Three Seas : Moner Moto Pagol Penam Na from the CD Afterlife (Earshift) Bandcamp

24. Elsie Franklin : Hoodoo Lady from the CD Miss Rhythm (Waxy) Website

25. Arthur Coates : Pills Of White Mercury from the CD Trapdoor To Hell (Arthur Coates) Website

26. Erlend Apneseth : Gravsong from the CD Nova (Hubro) Bandcamp

27. Lidija Dokuzovic Trio : Oj Livado Rosna Travo from the CD I've Heard / Cula Jesam (Gammalthea) Website

28. VRï feat. Beth Celyn : Y Cap O Las Fawr from the CD Islais A Genir (Bendigedig) Website

29. Alison O'Donnell : The Birds Of Belfast Lough from the CD Hark The Voice That Sings For All (Talking Elephant) Website

30. Glenn Jones : Each Crystal Pane Of Glass from the CD Vade Mecum (Thrill Jockey) Bandcamp

 

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Podwireless 241 September 2022

 

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1. (Sig) Ian A Anderson : Goblets & Elms from the CD Onwards (Ghosts From The Basement) Bandcamp

2. Angeline Morrison : Mad Haired Moll O' Bedlam from the CD The Sorrow Songs (Topic) Website

3. Emily Portman : Rock 'n' Row Me Over from the CD Sea Songs Sessions (Topic) Website

4. Berikely & Zama : Mahavamba from the CD Ela Ela (Abrazik) Website

5. Folkatomik : Tirullallero from the CD Polaris (ItalySona) Website

6. Marianne Faithfull : Sunny Goodge St [alternate take] from the CD Songs Of Innocence And Experience (UMC) Website

7. Fritillaries : Waking from the CD Fritillaries (Fritillaries) Bandcamp

8. Ceitidh Mac : Goldfinches from the DL single (Ceitidh Mac) Bandcamp

9. Peiriant : Drôn from the CD EP River Songs (Peiriant) Bandcamp

10. Tarren : Hardwood from the CD Revel (Tarren) Bandcamp

11. Jackie Oates : La Llorona from the CD Gracious Wings (Needle Pin) Bandcamp

12. Chavela Vargas : La Llorona from the CD La Llorona (Milan)

13. Phil Tyler & Sarah Hill : Sweet Lemney from the CD What We Thought Was A Lake Was A Field Of Flax (Ferric Mordant) Bandcamp

14. Jim Copper : Lemany from the CD You Never Heard So Sweet (Topic) Website

15. Triki-Trixa De Zumarraga : Ez Dago Larrosarik from the CD box Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History Of The World's Music (Dust To Digital) Website

16. J. Joseph and Mary : Safarini from the CD box Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History Of The World's Music (Dust To Digital) Website

17. Tamarii-Tahiti : Haere Roa Roa from the CD box Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History Of The World's Music (Dust To Digital) Website

18. John C. Van Orman : He Is Waiting from the CD Flight To The Moon (Omnium) Website

19. Hannah Shira Naiman : The Wheels Won't Go from the DL single (Hannah Shira Naiman) Website

20. Jon Wilks : The Cruel Mother from the DL single (Jon Wilks) Bandcamp

21. Siobhan Miller : Cold Blows The Rainy Night from the CD Bloom (Siobhan Miller) Website

22. Mickey Jupp : I Threw Myself At You (And Missed) from the CD Up Snakes, Down Ladders (Conquest) Website

23. Leyla McCalla : You Don't Know Me from the CD Breaking The Thermometer (Anti) Bandcamp

24. Farvergade : Vals #57 / Forkert Polka #52 from the CD Spiller Dansemusik Fra Søren Christensen & Niels Aage Andersen's Nodebog (Go' Danish Folk Music) Website

25. Optur : Tømmerschottish from the CD Nordic Free Folk (Go' Danish Folk Music) Website

26. Sproatly Smith : The Merry Month Of May from the CD River Wye Suite (Sproatly Smith) Bandcamp

27. Jim Ghedi : What Will Become Of England from the DL single (Jim Gedhi) Website

28. Antonis Antoniou : Syntagi from the CD Throisma (Ajabu) Bandcamp

29. Al-Qasar feat. Hend Elrawy : Mal Wa Jamal from the CD Who Are We? (Glitterbeat) Bandcamp

30. Cerys Hafana : Cilgerran from the CD Edyf (Cerys Hafana) Bandcamp

31. Bragod : Gweddi'r Orsedd from the DL single (Bragod) Bandcamp

32. Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie & Steven Byrnes Haberlin : Gavotte Pourlet from the CD LAS (Great White)

 

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