Rez Abbasi, Sound Remains. Abbasi’s luminous tone and rhythmic daring animate a genre-blurring set that bridges jazz, folk, and South Asian traditions.
Jacob Collier, The Light for Days. Multi-instrumental maestro strips down to his voice and signature five-string Taylor guitar, with mesmerizing results.
Madison Cunningham, Ace. This feels like Cunningham’s Court and Spark: brilliant songs rooted on guitar and piano, colored with woodwinds, horns, and strings.
Buck Curran, Far Driven Sun. Curran’s fingerstyle meditations shimmer with light and longing, merging pastoral folk with quiet mysticism.
Lucy Dacus, Forever Is a Feeling. Dacus trades irony for openness in an album of quietly defiant folk-pop confessionals.
Madi Diaz, Fatal Optimist. Pairing luminous melodies with emotional candor, Diaz finds strength in vulnerability.
Raphaël Feuillâtre, Spanish Serenades. A virtuoso guitarist interprets Spanish masterworks on original 19th-century instruments. Triumphant, delicate, soulful.
Franz Halász, Villa-Lobos: The Complete Solo Works. Halász brings luminous clarity and expressive warmth to Villa-Lobos’s entire solo-guitar cycle.
Joel Harrison, Guitar Talk Vol. 2: A Double Album of Jazz and Classical Duos. A wide-ranging conversation between genres, where improvisation meets composed elegance.
Sierra Hull, A Tip Toe High Wire. A big step forward for the prodigiously talented singer, songwriter, and mando/guitar picker.
I’m With Her, Wild and Clear and Blue. Sublime vocal and instrumental blends from the folk supergroup of Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins, and Aoife O’Donovan.
Jason Isbell, Foxes in the Snow. The Americana star’s first solo album showcases his meticulous craft, bracing honesty, and deft picking.
Cameron Knowler, CRK. A beautifully restrained acoustic set that balances improvisation and melody, full of tonal nuance and poise.
Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’, Room on the Porch. Two legends trade songs and stories in a warm, organic set of acoustic blues and roots music.
Heather Maloney, Exploding Star. A gorgeously orchestrated and deeply moving meditation on familial love and loss.
Robert Plant, Saving Grace. Evocative interpretations of folk, gospel, and blues themes with sharp guitar work by Tony Kelsey and Matt Worley.
Ken Pomeroy, Cruel Joke. The young Oklahoman is a quietly commanding new voice on the singer-songwriter scene.
Margo Price, Hard Headed Woman. Price channels raw conviction into an album that’s both tough and tender, country-rooted but unbound.
Gwenifer Raymond, Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark. Raymond pushes primeval blues and primitive folk into haunting new planes—ancient and galactic at once.
Nathan Salsburg, Ipsa Corpora. A 40-minute unaccompanied guitar suite moving with meditative grace—melodic, modal, deeply personal.
Joan Shelley, Real Warmth. Shelley’s intimate songs glow with empathy and grace, her voice wrapped in subtly detailed acoustic arrangements.
Laura Snowden, This Changing Sky. On a brilliant debut, Snowden’s originals and interpretations reveal rare lyrical depth—rooted in classical guitar, reaching beyond it.
Jeff Tweedy, Twilight Override. Epic triple album from the Wilco frontman—heavy on acoustics and packed with surprises.
Various Artists, Imaginational Anthem Vol. XIV: Ireland. A vivid survey of modern Irish guitar voices, intertwining tradition and experimentation.
Jesse Welles, Pilgrim. Potent, poetic folk rock from a wildly prolific troubadour.
