Dean's List: 2022

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1. Selo i Ludy Performance Band: Bunch One (self-released '19)
2. Beyoncé: Renaissance (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
3. Big Thief: Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (4AD)
4. Willie Nelson: A Beautiful Time (Legacy)
5. Plains: I Walked With You a Ways (Anti-)
6. Ashley McBryde: Lindeville (Warner Music Nashville)
7. Buck 65: King of Drums (Handsmade)
8. DJ Maphorisa X Kabza de Small: Scorpion Kings (BlaqBoy '19)
9. Stro Elliot & James Brown: Black & Loud: James Brown as Reimagined by Stro Elliot (Polydor)
10. Todd Snider: Live: Return of the Storyteller (Thirty Tigers/Aimless)
11. DJ Black Low: Uwami (Awesome Tapes From Africa '21)
12. Harry Styles: Harry's House (Columbia)
13. Montparnasse Musique: Archeology (RealWorld)
14. Tommy Womack: I Thought I Was Fine (Schoolkids)
15. Homeboy Sandman: I Can't Sell These (self-released)
16. The Paranoid Style: For Executive Meeting (Bar/None)
17. Miranda Lambert: Palomino (Vanner/RCA)
18. Amanda Shires: Take It Like a Man (ATO)
19. Slum of Legs: Slum of Legs (Splurge '20)
20. Gogol Bordello: Solidaritine (Cooking Vinyl/Casa Bordello)
21. Sowal Diabi: De Kaboul à Bamako (Accords Croisé)
22. Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Love for Sale (Columbia/Interscope '21)
23. PinkPantheress: To Hell With It (Parlophone '21)
24. Tom Zé: Lìngua Brasileira (Selo Sesc)
25. Amyl and the Sniffers: Comfort to Me (ATO '21)
26. Folk and Great Tunes From Siberia and Far East (CPL Music)
27. The Mountain Goats: Bleed Out (Merge)
28. My Idea: That's My Idea (Hardly Art '21)
29. Mama's Broke: Narrow Line (Free Dirt)
30. Drive-By Truckers: Welcome 2 Club XIII (ATO)
31. Terry Klein: Good Luck Take Care (Terry Klein Music)
32. Jeffrey Lewis: When That Really Old Cat Dies (Spotify/Amazon/Apple)
33. Emperor X: The Lakes of Zones B and C (Dreams of Field)
34. The Casual Dots: Sanguine Truth (Ixor Stix)
35. Danger Mouse & Black Thought: Cheat Codes (BMG)
36. Wet Leg: Wet Leg (Domino)
37. Homeboy Sandman: Don't Feed the Monster (Mello Music Group)
38. M.I.A.: Mata (Island)
39. Bonnie Raitt: Just Like That . . . (Redwing)
40. Craig Finn: A Legacy of Rentals (Positive Jams/Thirty Tigers)
41. Pony: TV Baby (Take This to Heart '21)
42. Phelimuncasi: Ama Gogela (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
43. Jon Batiste: We Are (Verve '21)
44. Little Simz: No Thank You (Forever Living Originals/AWAL)
45. Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee: Bamanan (RealWorld)
46. Fanfare Ciocarlia: It Wasn't Hard to Love You (Asphalt Tango '21)
47. The Beths: Expert in a Dying Field (Carpark)
48. Oumou Sangaré: Timbuktu (World Circuit)
49. Lizzo: Special (Nice Life)
50. Kady Diarra: Burkina Hakili (Lamastrock '21)
51. Santigold: Spirituals (Little Jerk)
52. Kendrick Lamar: Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (PGLand/Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath/Interscope)
53. My Idea: Cry MFer (Hardly Art)
54. Hata Unacheza: Sub-Saharan Acoustic Guitar & String Music, ca. 1960s (Canary '13)
55. Leyla McCalla: Breaking the Thermometer (Anti-)
56. Ray Wylie Hubbard: Co-Starring Too (Big Machine)
57. Derek Senn: The Big Five-0 (self-released)
58. Willi Carlisle: Peculiar, Missouri (Free Dirt)
59. Lady Aicha & Pisco Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa: N'djila Wa Mudjimo (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
60. Mach-Hommy: Dollar Menu 4 (Mach-Hommy)
61. Superchunk: Wild Loneliness (Merge)
62. Dan Ex Machina: All Is Ours, Nothing Is Theirs (self-released)
63. Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine Vol. 2 (Oh Boy)
64. Etran de l'Air: Agadez (Sahel Sounds)
65. Dr. John: Things Happen That Way (Rounder)
66. Sudan Archives: Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
67. Mammoth Penguins: There's No Fight We Can't Both Win (Fika '19)
68. Apollo Brown & Che Noir: . . . As God Intended (Mello Music)
69. Stella Donnelly: Flood (Secretly Canadian)
70. Yard Act: The Overload (Island)
71. Loudon Wainwright III: Lifetime Achievement (Storysound)
72. Pongo: Sakidila (Virgin)
73. A Gift to Pops: The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong All Stars (Verve '21)
74. Kassmasse: Bahil Weg (Meedo)
75. Wiki: Half God (Wikset Enterprises '21)
76. Regina Spektor: Home, Before and After (Sire)
77. Vince Staples: Ramona Park Broke My Heart (Motown)
78. Fox Green: Holy Souls (self-released)
79. Homeboy Sandman: There in Spirit (Mello Music Group)
80. Nas: King's Disease II (Mass Appeal '21)
81. Iamdoechii: Oh the Places You'll Go (Five 5 '20)
82. $ilkmoney: I Don't Give a Fuck About This Rap Shit, Imma Just Drop Until I Don't Feel Like It Anymore (DB$B)
83. Mary J. Blige: Good Morning Gorgeous (Mary Jane Productions/300 '21)
84. PinkPantheress: Take Me Home (Parlophone)
85. Fimber Bravo: Lunar Tredd (Moshi Moshi '21)
86. Iamdoechii: Bra-Less (Iamdoechii '21)

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