| Artist | Title | Album (* = New Release) |
|---|
| Darden Smith | Soul Searching | Everything* |
| Mystery Train | The Band w/Paul Butterfield | |
| Sallie Ford | Screw Up | Soul Sick* |
| Carolyn Wonderland feat. Guy Forsyth | Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat | Moon Goes Missing* |
| Joan Osborne | Tangled Up in Blue | Songs of Bob Dylan* |
| The National | Day I Die | Sleep Well Beast* |
| Old 97's | Good With God | Graveyard Whistling* |
| Carolyn Wonderland | Can't Nobody Hide from God | Moon Goes Missing* |
| Aimee Mann | Goose Snow Cone | Mental Illness* |
| Father John Misty | Ballad of the Dying Man | Pure Comedy* |
| Flo Morrissey & Matthew White | Sunday Morning | Gentlewoman, Ruby Man* |
| Noel Gallagher | Dead in the Water | Who Built the Moon* |
| Ryan Adams | Doomsday | Prisoner* |
| Waxahatchee | Never Been Wrong | Out in the Storm* |
| Bash & Pop | Anything Could Happen | Anything Could Happen* |
| Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit | Cumberland Gap | The Nashville Sound* |
| Son Little | Your Love Will Blow Me Away When My Heart Aches | Things I Forgot* |
| Spoon | Do I Have To Talk You Into It | Hot Thoughts* |
| Real Estate | Serve the Song | In Mind* |
| Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile | Over Everything | Lotta Sea Lice* |
| Carolyn Wonderland w/Ty Taylor | Hellfire Bitters | Moon Goes Missing* |
| Craig Finn | God in Chicago | We All Want the Same Things* |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage | Bad Luck Again | The Wild* |
| Rhiannon Giddens (feat. Bhi Bhiman) | Freedom Highway | Freedom Highway* |
| Jeff Tweedy | Via Chicago | Together At Last* |
| Mavis Staple | Little Bit | You Are Not Alone* |
You won't hear any sleigh bells on this Friday's Mystery Train, which instead favors lyrics such as "Why don't you open your eyes and shut your mouth" by featured artist Carolyn Wonderland, a blues singer-songwriter-killer guitarist whose album Moon Goes Missing is one of my favorites of 2017.
The rest of the show is packed with other Songs of the Year, as determined by an extremely fallible, unscientific, non-peer-reviewed, opinion poll conducted by me.*
* So far, I'm the only one who voted. Come on, guys: PAZZ & JOP ME!
