Having posted my favourite albums of the year I felt it was high time I listed my songs of the year. As you’d expect most are taken from my albums of the year which I hope you’ve had a chance to explore.

So these are the songs I’ve listened to most through the year on the show and at home. Just to note, although I’ve numbered them, this is purely for ease of reading and is in no way meant to indicate an order of preference. That’s an impossible task! Have fun investigating these songs.

Since originally posting have made it 41 songs of the year!

1. Bonny Light Horseman – The Roving
2. The Lone Bellow – Illegal immigrant
3. Emma Swift – The soft apocalypse
4. Salt House – All shall be still
5. Norma MacDonald – One man band
6. Arborist – A Northern View
7. Iris DeMent – Going down to sing in Texas
8. Serious Child – Long slow distance
9. Kirsty Merryn – The deep/the wild/the torrent
10. Sam Carter – Fly the flag
11. Charlie Dore – Collateral
12. Clem Snide – Roger Ebert
13. The Mammals – What it all is
14. Peter Oren – Loading page
15. Rose Cousins – The Lullaby (My oldest love)
16. Jerry Joseph – Dead confederate
17. Evangeline Gentle – The strongest people have tender hearts
18. Austin Lucas – Already dead
19. Robert Vincent – Conundrum
20. Mary Chapin Carpenter – Between the dirt and the stars
21. Slow Jane (Katherine Priddy, Jon Wilks, Lukas Drinkwater, Jon Nice) – Northern Sky
22. Ned Roberts – Slower than the sea
23. Kirsty Merryn – The wild/the deep/the torrent
24. Marin Patenaude – Sight Unseen, Part 2
25. Tom Houston – Child on a plane
26. Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards – Typhoon
27. Richard J. Birkin with the London Contemporary Orchestra – Boats
28. Hannah White & the Nordic Connections – Man without men
29. Our Man in the Field – I’ll be gone
30. Matt Hill – Stone and bone
31. The Rheingans Sisters – The Photograph
32. Kris Drever – Where the world is thin
33. Bill Callahan – Pigeons
34. Laura Veirs – End times
35. Katy Rose Bennett – Where does it hurt?
36. Steve Adams and the French Drops – My brother the racist
37. I’m Kingfisher – Children’s atom bomb
38. Damien Jurado – Birds tricked into trees
39. John Moreland – I’m learning how to tell myself
40. Dan Whitehouse – The state of the English
41. Emily Barker – Machine