Before we move too far beyond 2013, we wanted to take a moment to congratulate CD Baby artists whose music was featured on some of those best-of lists that appear at the end of the year.
We’re not psychic — and we probably missed a bunch of lists which feature CD Baby bands — so if your music made it onto a year-end list, we’d love to hear about it. Please let us know in the comments section below.
So, without further ado, here are the artists whose music got praised as some of the best from 2013:
Well done, hurray, huzzah, and congrats to…
1. Shelby Earl — whose album Swift Arrows was featured in best-of lists from:
* BUZZNET
2. Mary Gauthier — whose album Live at Blue Rock was highlighted by:
* Buzz and Howl’s list of “Best Americana releases of 2013”
* Country Fried Rock’s Best of 2013
* Sloane Spencer’s Picks from 2013
3. Honduran — whose album Street Eagles was featured in:
4. David Brookings — whose album The Maze came in at #56 on:
* Absolute Powerpop’s Top 100 list
5. Mark Mulcahy — whose album Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You showed up on best-of lists from:
* Yahoo
6. Wild Ones — whose album Keep it Safe was highlighted by:
7. Julie Byrne — whose music was highlighted by:
8. Digital Noise Academy — whose album Synemy appeared on a year-end list from:
9. Bars of Gold — whose album Wheels was featured by:
10. Diarrhea Planet — was highlighted as one of the 20 best new bands of 2013 by:
11. Gregory Alan Isakov — whose The Weatherman was highlighted as one of the best singer-songwriter albums by:
* iTunes
12. Wyldlife — whose album The Time Has Come To Rock & Roll got #1 spot on a list of best albums from:
13. Escort — whose front woman Adeline was named one of the 10 most stylish women in music by:
* Styleite
14. The Black Lillies — whose album Runaway Freeway Blues was highlighted by:
* Blank
* American Songwriter Magazine
* KDHX DJs
15. Nicholas Payton — whose album Sketches of Spain was featured in a best album list from:
Was your music featured in a year-end list? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.