American Songwriter’s Top 50 Songs Of 2014

1. Hurray for the Riff Raff: “The Body Electric”
2. Sturgill Simpson: “Turtles All the Way Down”
3. Hiss Golden Messenger: “Mahogany Dread”
4. Strand of Oaks: “Goshen ‘97″
5. Jenny Lewis: “One of the Guys”
6. Sharon Van Etten: “Your Love Is Killing Me”
7. Perfume Genius: “Queen”
8. Old 97s: “Longer Than You’ve Been Alive”
9. Old Crow Medicine Show: “Sweet Amarillo”
10. Sun Kil Moon: “Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes”
11. The War on Drugs: “Red Eyes”
12. Amy LaVere: “Rabbit”
13. Marianne Faithfull: “Late Victorian Holocaust”
14. Future Islands: “Seasons (Waiting on You)”
15. New Pornographers: “War on the East Coast”
16. Shovels & Rope: “Evil”
17. Drive-By Truckers: “Grand Canyon”
18. St. Vincent: Birth in Reverse
19. Adia Victoria: “Stuck in the South”
20. Angel Olsen: “Forgiven/Forgotten”
21. Doug Paisley: “Radio Girl”
22. Benjamin Booker: “Have You Seen My Son?”
23. Lydia Loveless: “Head”
24. Beck: “Heart Is a Drum”
25. John Fullbright: “The One That Lives Too Far”
26. Spoon: “Do You”
27. Real Estate: “Talking Backwards”
28. Trampled by Turtles: “Wild Animals”
29. Rosanne Cash: “A Feather’s Not a Bird”
30. Leonard Cohen: “Almost Like the Blues”
31. Justin Townes Earle: “White Gardenias”
32. First Aid Kit: “Stay Gold”
33. Jack White: “Would You Fight for My Love?”
34. Miranda Lambert: “Smokin’ and Drinkin’”
35. Ex Hex: “Radio On”
36. Ryan Adams: “Kim”
37. Lucinda Williams: “Burning Bridges”
38. Tweedy: “Summer Noon”
39. Hamilton Leithauser: “Alexandra”
40. Apache Relay: “Good As Gold”
41. Christopher Denny: “God’s Height”
42. Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton: “You Can’t Make Old Friends”
43. Willie Nelson: “The Wall”
44. tUnE-yArDs: “Water Fountain”
45. Allo Darlin’: “Angela”
46. Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens: “I Earned Mine”
47. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight: “I’m Worried”
48. Luther Dickinson: “Bar Band”
49. Robert Ellis: “Chemical Plant”
50. Angaleena Presley” “Ain’t No Man”

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