Después del exhaustivo recuento del montante de mensajes recibidos en cuanto al mundo discográfico internacional de este veinte veinte, hay una serie de puntos que nos gustaría remarcar. Primero, y como dijimos cuando compartimos nuestras opiniones personales, gracias a todas las personas que nos enviaron sus selecciones de favoritos. Desde a la A a la Z. Desde la primera al último hacemos extensivo el agradecimiento, porque esta idea que nació como un divertido pasatiempo se ha convertido en un participativo intercambio de pareceres, visto el volumen de respuestas que año a año se ve incrementado. Eso es algo que se ve reflejado en un ranking que hasta hoy no había rozado la cantidad de 50 posiciones, y esa cifra nos lleva al segundo punto, que no es sino la cantidad de artistas y títulos que de alguna manera sostienen un entramado endeble y castigado este final de decenio que ni tan siquiera habríamos soñado en nuestras peores pesadillas, pero… El tercer punto tiene nombre. El tercer punto es el rock, una de las pocas alegrías que estos últimos meses nos ha brindado. El rock nos ha ayudado a sobrellevar las impuestas horas de retiro doméstico, nos ha armado de coraje en momentos de fragilidad, protegido en otros de evasión y aunque no hayamos podido disfrutar en los frecuentados espacios techados o a cielo abierto, el rock sigue ejerciendo su reconstituyente función. Bien es cierto que un buen número de proyectos se habrán visto eclipsados por la fatídica situación y otros se han podido poner en circulación, como podremos comprobar alcanzado el punto cuarto. La pugna, ya que podemos garantizar la dura competencia por alzarse con algún puesto en este ranking de la familia GravelRoad76. Las coincidencias entre el personal son ostensibles, si bien hay resquicios por los que se cuela algún sorprendente nombre o un consejo interesante, algo que por supuesto es también de agradecer. Quinto punto: si hay un importante número de remitentes, la cuantía de preferencias ha de ser, cuanto menos, similar, y podríamos calificar esta relación como colosal. Sin duda habrá ausencias y hasta reclamaciones pueden surgir, pero son los nombres que nos han llegado (y otros incluidos por nuestra cuenta, sí), siendo un fiel reflejo del sentir general de la gente. De la gente amiga de este rincón.
TOP 50 FOR GRAVELROAD76 FOLLOWERS
Chris Stapleton “Starting Over”
Drive-By Truckers “The Unraveling”
Cordovas “Destiny Hotel”
Bob Dylan “Rough And Rowdy Ways”
Neil Young “Homegrown”
Nathaniel Rateliff “And It’s Still Alright”
Chuck Prophet “The Land That Time Forgot”
Will Hoge “Tiny Little Movies”
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit “Reunions”
Marcus King “El Dorado”
Lucinda Williams “Good Souls Better Angels”
The Steepwater Band “Turn Of The Wheel”
Brent Cobb “Keep ‘Em On They Toes”
Robert Jon & The Wreck “Last Light On The Highway”
Jonathan Wilson “Dixie Blur”
Randall Bramblett “Pine Needle Fire”
The Dirty Knobs “Wreckless Abandon”
Willie Nile “New York At Night”
The Allman Betts Band “Bless Your Heart”
Bette Smith “The Bad, The Good And The Bette”
Blitzen Trapper “Holy Smokes Future Jokes”
Bruce Springsteen “Letter To You”
Jerry Joseph “The Beautiful Madness”
Josh Teskey & Ash Grunwald “Push The Blues Away”
Bonny Light Horseman “Bonny Light Horseman”
Drive-By Truckers “The New OK”
Rose City Band “Summerlong”
The Teskey Brothers “Live At The Forum””
John Moreland “LP5”
Israel Nash “Topaz”
The Warner E. Hodges Band “Just Feels Right”
Dirty Streets “Rough And Tumle”
AC/DC “Power Up”
Steve Earle & The Dukes “Ghosts Of West Virginia”
Tom Petty “Wild Flowers & All The Rest”
My Morning Jacket “Waterfall II”
Scott H. Biram “Fever Dreams”
Robert Connely Farr “Country Supper”
Tennessee Champagne “Tennessee Champagne”
Daniel Donato “A Young Man’s Country”
Pokey LaFarge “Rock Bottom Rhapsody”
The Cadillac Three “Country Fuzz”
Leif de Leeuw Band “Where I’m Heading”
Brant Bjork “Brant Bjork”
Ray LaMontagne “Monovision”
Watermelon Slim “Traveling Man”
Dewolf “Tascam Tapes”
GospelbeacH “Once Upon A Time In London”
Black Rainbows “Cosmic Ritual Supertrip”
Larkin Poe “Self Made Man”
Hemos creado una playlist con una canción de cada una de estas bandas y solistas, y seguidamente, la relación completa de propuestas recibidas
LISTA INTERNACIONAL 2020 (por orden alfabético)
1000Mods “Youth Of Dissent”
AC/DC “Power Up” | Alastair Greene “The New World Blues” | All Them Witches “Nothing As The Ideal” | The Allman Betts Band “Bless Your Heart” | Arbouretum “Let It All In” | Artur Menezes “Fading Away” | Austin Lucas “Alive In The Hot Zone” | The Avett Brothers “The Third Gleam”
Bad Touch “Kiss The Sky” | Bette Smith “The Bad, The Good And The Bette” | Bettye Lavette “Blackbirds” | Black Lips “Sing In A World That’s Falling Apart” | Black Rainbows “Cosmic Ritual Supertrip” | Blackberry Smoke “Live From Capricorn Sound Studios” | Black Stone Cherry “The Human Condition” | Blackwater Conspiracy “Two Tails & The Dirty Truth Of Love & Revolution” | Blue Öyster Cult “The Symbol Remains” | Blues Pills “Holy Moly!” | Bob Dylan “Rough And Rowdy Ways” | Bobby Rush “Rawer The Raw” | Bonny Light Horseman “Bonny Light Horseman” | Brad Marino “Subterranean Jungle” | Brant Bjork “Brant Bjork” | Brent Cobb “Keep ‘Em On They Toes” | Bright Eyes “Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was” | Brimstone Coven “The Woes Of A Mortal Earth” | Brothers Osborne “Skeletons” | Bruce Springsteen “Letter To You” | Buffalo Summer “Desolation Blue” | Built To Spill “Plays The Songs Of Daniel Johnston” | Bush “The Kingdom” | The BuzzDealers “Blooming”
The Cadillac Three “Country Fuzz” | The Cadillac Three “Tabasco & Sweet Tea” | Casey Hensley “Good As Gone” | Causa Sui “Szabodelico” | Charley Crockett “Welcome to Hard Times” | The Chefs “Heated & Treated” | Chris Stapleton “Starting Over” | Chuck Prophet “The Land That Time Forgot” | Circles Around The Sun “Circles Around The Sun” | Corb Lund “Agricultural Tragic” | Cordovas “Destiny Hotel” | Corey Taylor “CMFT” | Crippled Black Phoenix “Ellengæst” | Cut Worms “Nobody Lives Here Anymore”
Daily Thompson “Oumuamua” | Damien Jurado “What’s New, Tomboy?” | Daniel Donato “A Young Man’s Country” | Datura4 “West Coast Highway Cosmic” | Dave Alvin “From An Old Guitar” | Dave Fields “Force Of Will” | David Bromberg “Big Road” | Dawes “Good Luck With Whatever” | Dead Lord “Surrender” | Deep Purple “Wooosh!” | Deftones “Ohms” | Delta Spirit “What Is There” | Derek Sherinian “The Phoenix” | Dewolf “Tascam Tapes” | Dion “Blues With Friends” | The Dirty Knobs “Wreckless Abandon” | Dirty Streets “Rough And Tumle” | Don Bryant “You Make Me Feel” | Doves “The Universal Want” | The Dream Syndicate “The Universe Inside” | Dune Rats Hurry “Up And Wait” | Drive-By Truckers “The New OK” | Drive-By Truckers “The Unraveling”
Eels “Earth To Dora” | Electric Mob “Discharge” | Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite “100 Years Of Blues” | Elvis Costello “Hey Clockface”
Fantastic Negrito “Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?” | Fiona Apple “Fetch The Bolt Cutters” | The Flaming Lips “American Head” | Fleet Foxes “Shore” | Fleur “Fleur” | Fumarole “Valley Of Ten Thousand Smokes”
G Love & Special Sauce “The Juice” | Gabe Lee “Honky Tonk Hell” | Gasoline Lollipops “All The Misery Money Can Buy” | Gil-Scott Heron “We’re New Again” | Gillian Welch “The Lost Songs Vol. 3” | GospelbeacH “Once Upon A Time In London” | Grant-Lee Phillips “Lightning Show Us Your Stuff” | Grant Dermody “My Dony” | GravelRoad “Crooked Nation” | The Georgia Thunderbolts “The Georgia Thunderbolts”
The Hangfires “Curly Q” | Heavy Trip “Heavy Trip” | Horisont “Sudden Death”
Israel Nash “Topaz” | Izo Fitzroy “How The Mighty Fall”
Jack Garratt “Love, Death & Dancing” | Jack Hotel “A Town Called Esitation” | Jack J Hutchinson “Who Feeds The Lockdown?” | Jade Mary Patek “Dancing With The Devil” | Jaded Hearts Club “You’ve Always Been Here” | Jaime Wyatt “Neon Cross” | The James Hunter Six “Nick Of Time” | James Elkington “Ever-Roving Eye” | Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit “Reunions” | The Jayhawks “XOXO” | Jeff Tweedy “Love Is The King” | Jeremiah Johnson “Unemployed HighlyAnnoyed” | Jerry Joseph “The Beautiful Madness” | Joan Osborne “Trouble And Strife” | Joe Bonamassa “Royal Tea” | Joe Louis Walker “Blues Comin’ On” | John Frusciante “Maya” | John Legend “Bigger Love” | John Moreland “LP5” | John Németh “Stronger Than Strong” | John Primer & Bob Corritore “The Gypsy Woman Told Me” | Johnny Casino “Vibrations, Yours And Mine” | Jonathan Wilson “Dixie Blur” | Joni Mitchell “Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years 1963-1967” | Josh Ritter “See Here, I Have BuiltYou In A Mansion (Rare And Unreleased) | Josh Teskey & Ash Grunwald “Push The Blues Away” | Joshua Ray Walker “Gland You Make It”
Kamchatka “Hoodoo Lightning” | Kat Riggins “Cry Out” | Kenny Wayne Sheperd “Straight To You: Live” | The Killers “Imploding The Mirage” | King Buffalo “Dead Star” | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard “K.G.” | King King “Maverick” | King Salomon Hicks “Harlem” | Kvelertak “Splid”
Lamb Of God “Lamb Of God” | Larkin Poe “Self Made Man” | Lee Gallagher And The Hallelujah “L.A. Yesterday” | Leif de Leeuw Band “Where I’m Heading” | Less Than Jake “Borders & Boundaries” | Liam Gallagher “Unplugged MTV” | Linsey Alexander “Live At Rosa’s” | Little Dragon “New Me, Same Us” | Lori McKenna “The Balladeer” | Low Cut Connie “Private Lives” | Lucifer “Lucifer III” | Lucinda Williams “Good Souls Better Angels” | The Lucky Losers “Godless Land” | Lydia Loveless “Daughter” | Lynne Jackaman “One Shot”
Magnolia Bayou “Strange Place” | Marcus King “El Dorado” | Mark Lanegan “Straight Songs Of Sorrow” | The Mastersons “No Time For Love Songs” | Mastodon “Medium Rarities” | Matt Berninger “Serpentine Prison” | Me And That Man “New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol. 1” | Moe “This Is Not, We Are” | Motorpsycho “The All Is One” | Mount Hush “Mount Hush” | The Mountain Goats “Getting Into Knives” | Mungo’s Hi Fi x Marina P “Soul Radio” | My Morning Jacket “Waterfall II” | The Muggs “Slave To Sound, Vol.1”
Napalm Death “Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatis” | Nathaniel Rateliff “And It’s Still Alright” | Neil Young “Homegrown” | New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers “New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers Vol. 1” | Norah Jones “Pick Me Up Off The Floor”
Old 97’s “Twelfth” | Oumou Sangare “Acoustic” | Otis Gibbs “Hoosier National” | The Overtures “Once I Want World” | Ozzy Osbourne “Ordinary Man”
Paul Weller “On Sunset” | Pearl Jam “Gigaton” | Perfect Plan “Time For A Miracle” | Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons “We’re The Bastards” | Philip Sayce “Spirit Rising” | Pokey LaFarge “Rock Bottom Rhapsody” | Psychlona “Venus Skytrip” | Pretenders “Hate For Sale”
R De Rumba “Funk Experience” | Randall Bramblett “Pine Needle Fire” | Ray LaMontagne “Monovision” | The Reflectors “First Impression” | RRRags “High Protein” | Reno Bo “You Can See It All From Here” | Ritual King “Ritual King” | River Cult “Chilling Effect” | Robert Connely Farr “Country Supper” | Robert John & The Wreck “Last Light On The Highway” | Ron Gallo “Please Don’t Die” | Ron Sexsmith “Hermitage” | Rory Gallagher “Check Shit Wizard – Live In ’77” | Rose City Band “Summerlong” | Rufus Wainwright “Unfollow The Rules” | Ruthie Foster “Live At The Paramount”
Samantha Crain “A Small Death” | Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar “The Reckless One” | Sault “Untitled” | Scott H. Biram “Fever Dreams” | The Scratch “Couldn’t Be A Rats” | Seasick Steve “Love & Peace” | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In)” | Shawn James “The Guardian Collection” | Shemekia Copeland “Uncivil War” | Sienna Root “The Secret Of Our Time” | Simon McBride “Trouble” | Sonny Landreth “Blacktop Run” | Soccer Mommy “Color Theory” | The Steepwater Band “Turn Of The Wheel” | Steve Earle & The Dukes “Ghosts Of West Virginia” | Steve Howe “Love Is” | Stone Temple Pilots “Perdida” | The Strokes “The New Abnormal” | Sturgill Simpson “Cuttin’ Grass – Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)” | Swamp Dogg “Sorry You Couldn’t Make It”
Tami Neilson “Chicka Boom!” | Ted Russell Kamp “Down In The Den” | Tennessee Champagne “Tennessee Champagne” | Tennessee Jet “The Country” | Tenille Townes “Lemonade Stand” | The Teskey Brothers “Live At The Forum” | Tesla “Five Man London Jam” | The Third Mind “The Third Mind” | Thundercat “It Is What It Is” | Tim Evans “Empty Room” | Tim Heidecker “Fear Of Death” | Tom Petty “Wildflowers & All The Rest” | Tombstone Eyes “Land Un The Sky” | Too Slim And The Taildraggers “The Remedy” | Trevor Beld Jimenez “I Like It Here” | Trivium “What The Dead Men Say” | Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown “Pressure”
US Rails “Mile By Mile”
The Waterboys “Good Luck, Seeker” | Watermelon Slim “Traveling Man” | Walter Trout “Ordinary Madness” | The Warner E. Hodges Band “Just Feels Right” | The White Buffalo “On The Widow’s Walk” | Whitney Rose “We Still Go To Rodeos” | These Wicked Rivers “Eden” | Will Hoge “Tiny Little Movies” | William Tyler “Music From First Cow” | Willie Nelson “First Rose Of Spring” | Willie Nile “New York At Night” | Wishbone Ash “Coat Of Arms” | Witchcraft “Black Metal”
Yawning Man “Live At Giant Rock”
Zephaniah OHora “Listening To The Music”
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