Holiiis! As you may or may not know, I am currently in Mexico on a Fulbright grant. This means that I have not been getting a ton of writing done over the last few months, though I have managed to take on a couple assignments here and there. (Brave, I know.)
One of these is this list of The Best Country Songs of 2022, which just ran in PAPER Magazine! I’m very proud of this list and even prouder to see it run in a publication that doesn’t often cover country music.
Check out the list above and if you disagree with any of my selections, don’t tell me!
Working Man Blues
Since Twitter is maybe dying, I wanted to use this space to memorialize some of my favorite things I’ve written this year:
‘Queer Country’ Rewrites the Narrative of a Complicated Genre (Pitchfork)
The Black Opry’s Road to Newport Folk Festival (No Depression)
Interview: Hailey Whitters Looks Back to Move Forward on ‘Raised’ (The Boot)
The Running Kind: Reconsidering Tradition Through Merle Haggard (Holler)
Interview: Michaela Anne Shifts Her Perspective with ‘Oh To Be That Free’ (The Boot)
That’s all for now. Hope everyone has a very country music-filled start to 2023!