Here are my 12 favourite albums of 2012 (so far). You can check out some older covers from nine of those acts below. Click on the images above to make them larger and click on an artist’s name below to go to their website. The final dozen (in no particular order):
Cat Power – Sun
Rumer – Boys Don’t Cry
Diana Krall – Glad Rag Doll
Aimee Mann – Charmer
Alabama Shakes – Girls & Boys
Heartless Bastards – Arrow
Dexys – One Day I’m Going to Soar
The Lumineers – The Lumineers
Bob Dylan – Tempest
Richard Hawley – Standing at the Sky’s Edge
Bill Fay – Life is People
The Avett Brothers – The Carpenter
Reason to Believe (Bruce Springsteen cover) – Aimee Mann & Michael Penn
Glory Days (Bruce Springsteen cover) – The Avett Brothers
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Bob Dylan cover) – The Heartless Bastards
He Was a Friend of Mine (Bob Dylan cover) – Cat Power
Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie cover) – Bob Dylan
The Heart of Saturday Night (Tom Waits cover) – Diana Krall
I’m Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail (Davis & Taylor cover) – Richard Hawley
