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2023 Music

Folk Alley: Best Albums of 2023

13 December 2023

Valley Of Heart's Delight - Margo Cilker

Folk Alley: Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2020]

  1. Valley Of Heart's Delight
    Margo Cilker
  2. Stand in the Joy
    William Prince
  3. City of Gold
    Molly Tuttle
  4. Mighty Poplar
    Mighty Poplar
  5. Keep Your Courage
    Natalie Merchant
  6. Imaginary People
    Viv & Riley
  7. Proof of Life
    Joy Oladokun
  8. Thank God We Left The Garden
    Jeffrey Martin
  9. The Fungi Sessions Vol​..1
    Hannah Read
  10. Workin' on a World
    Iris DeMent
  11. The Fatalist
    Buffalo Nichols
  12. Lay Your Darkness Down
    Mark Erelli
  13. Home
    Eliza Gilkyson
  14. As We Speak
    Béla Fleck / Zakir Hussain / Edgar Meyer
  15. Sisters of White Chapel
    Annie Bartholomew
  16. Sun to Sun
    Alice Gerrard
  17. You're the One
    Rhiannon Giddens
  18. Ridin'
    Eric Bibb
  19. 1988
    Lori McKenna
  20. Try to Make It Fly
    The Lonesome Ace Stringband

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