A little bit of Texas in this list.
1. Roadside Attractions – Marcia Ball
2. You And I – Margaret Glaspy
3. Black Magick – Marie Minerva
4. Love is Teasin’ – Marianne Faithful and The Chieftains
5. This Is Us – Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris
6. Don’t Stop Believin’ – Marnie Stern
7. The Maker – Martha Wainwright
8. Playboy – The Marvelettes (Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson, Georgeanna Tillman, and Wanda Young)
9. If I Could Build My Whole World Around You – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
10. I Feel Lucky – Mary-Chapin Carpenter
Way back in my early days in Houston, I saw Marcia Ball at a now-defunct dive bar on Washington Avenue (way, way before it was reinvented as a nightclub and restaurant corridor, when there were lots of places to see live music) called Pat and Pete’s Bon Ton Room. I’ve been a fan of hers ever since. Many years later, I was somewhat unaccountably surprised to realize (via browsing Facebook) that I knew people in Austin who were actual real-life friends of hers. Sometimes you don’t realize how small the world is. I’ve probably listed Emmylou Harris before, but that’s not going to stop me from listing her again.