2022 was a year of twists and turns, of testing the post quarantine landscape to embrace the new day. Music took us back into venues large and small, and the releases were so abundant that it was hard to keep up with them at times.
WMOT’s Top 100 was determined by airplay. We never know exactly what the numbers and trends will look like until we hit enter to start tabulating, but we are ever proud to represent. At the top this year is Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. with the follow up to their landmark record of 2007, Raising Sand. Raise The Roof was another exercise in their exuberant take on music. Women had a fine showing this year as the American Roots field pushes ever closer to parity in gender representation.
WMOT's Top 10 albums represent sonic diversity- from legends like Bonnie Raitt digging into the blues to Bluegrass breakout Molly Tuttle returning to her roots. One thing is for sure, all these entries were made with creativity, craft and care, and we sure do love being able to bring this mix to the air every day at WMOT.
Listen for the 89 and a half Top Spins of 2022 Countdown in two parts. The first starts with our number 1 album and ends with 45- that will be played on December 30 starting at 2pm and replaying at 7am on December 31. The first weekend in January, we will bring you #46 through 90 at those same times. It's good listening, and we wish you all good things for the New Year.
- Jessie Scott
Top 100 Albums Played on WMOT in 2022
1. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss | Raise The Roof |
2. Bonnie Raitt | Just Like That... |
3. Ray Wylie Hubbard | Co-Starring Too |
4. Keb' Mo' | Good To Be... |
5. S.G. Goodman | Teeth Marks |
6. Aoife O'Donovan | Age Of Apathy |
7. The Lumineers | Brightside |
8. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | The Future |
9. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway | Crooked Tree |
10. Marcus King | Young Blood |
11. Jamestown Revival | Young Man |
12. Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder | Get On Board: The Songs Of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee |
13. The Cactus Blossoms | One Day |
14. Old Crow Medicine Show | Paint This Town |
15. Gov't Mule | Heavy Load Blues |
16. Mary Gauthier | Dark Enough To See The Stars |
17. Andrew Bird | Inside Problems |
18. Ben Harper | Bloodline Maintenance |
19. Various Artists | Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute To John Anderson |
20. Lyle Lovett | 12th Of June |
21. Janiva Magness | Hard To Kill |
22. Amanda Shires | Take It Like A Man |
23. 49 Winchester | Fortune Favors The Bold |
24. Charley Crockett | The Man From Waco |
25. The Infamous Stringdusters | Toward The Fray |
26. Sunny Sweeney | Married Alone |
27. Kelsey Waldon | No Regular Dog |
28. Greensky Bluegrass | Stress Dreams |
29. Willie Nelson | A Beautiful Time |
30. Cristina Vane | Make Myself Me Again |
31. Brandi Carlile | In These Silent Days |
32. Brennen Leigh (Featuring Asleep At The Wheel) | Obsessed With The West |
33. Nicki Bluhm | Avondale Drive |
34. River Whyless | Monoflora |
35. The Whitmore Sisters | Ghost Stories |
36. The Dip | Sticking With It |
37. Mavis Staples & Levon Helm | Carry Me Home |
38. Taylor Rae | Mad Twenties |
39. Sarah Shook & The Disarmers | Nightroamer |
40. Buffalo Nichols | Buffalo Nichols |
41. North Mississippi Allstars | Set Sail |
42. Hayes Carll | You Get It All |
43. Erin Rae | Lighten Up |
44. Billy Strings | Renewal |
45. Various Artists | Broken Hearts And Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2 |
46. CAAMP | Lavender Days |
47. Early James | Strange Time To Be Alive |
48. Josh Rouse | Going Places |
49. Delbert McClinton | Outdated Emotion |
50. Vandoliers | The Vandoliers |
51. Steve Earle & The Dukes | Jerry Jeff |
52. Ian Noe | River Fools & Mountain Saints |
53. Courtney Marie Andrews | Loose Future |
54. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Georgia Blue |
55. The Steel Wheels | Everyone A Song Volume 2 |
56. Brent Cobb | And Now, Let's Turn To Page... |
57. Charley Crockett | Lil' G.L. Presents: Jukebox Charley |
58. Railroad Earth | All For The Song |
59. Kaitlin Butts | What Else Can She Do |
60. Allison Russell | Outside Child |
61. Billy Bragg | The Million Things That Never Happened |
62. The Record Company | Play Loud |
63. Jackson + Sellers | Breaking Point |
64. Joshua Hedley | Neon Blue |
65. The Wilder Blue | The Wilder Blue |
66. Sad Daddy | Way Up In The Hills |
67. Margo Cilker | Pohorylle |
68. American Aquarium | Chicamacomico |
69. Carolyn Wonderland | Tempting Fate |
70. Michaela Anne | Oh To Be That Free |
71. Miko Marks &The Resurrectors | Feel Like Going Home |
72. Edgar Winter | Brother Johnny |
73. Sarah Borges | Together Alone |
74. The Dead South | Easy Listening For Jerks - Parts 1 & 2 |
75. Shovels & Rope | Manticore |
76. John Moreland | Birds In The Ceiling |
77. Arlo McKinley | This Mess We're In |
78. Eliza Gilkyson | Songs Of The River Wind |
79. Various Artists | My Friend: A Tribute To Rusty Young |
80. Nikki Lane | Denim & Diamonds |
81. G. Love | Philadelphia Mississippi |
82. Tami Neilson | Kingmaker |
83. The Punch Brothers | Hell On Church Street |
84. Caroline Spence | True North |
85. Neal Francis | In Plain Sight |
86. Tedeschi Trucks Band | I Am The Moon: IV. Farewell |
87. Adam Hood | Bad Days Better |
88. Tyler Childers | Can I Take My Hounds To Heaven? |
89. Willi Carlisle | Peculiar, Missouri |
90. Houndmouth | Good For You |
91. Tedeschi Trucks Band | I Am The Moon: II. Ascension |
92. Cody Jinks | Mercy |
93. Eli Paperboy Reed | Down Every Road |
94. Wreckless Strangers | When A Sun And Blue Star Collide |
95. Will Hoge | Wings On My Shoes |
96. Amy Ray | If It All Goes South |
97. Aaron Raitiere | Single Wide Dreamer |
98. Charles Wesley Godwin | How The Mighty Fall |
99. Asleep At The Wheel | Half A Hundred Years |
100. Paul Cauthen | Country Coming Down |
