Best Songs of 2013 – #4
The final female country singer on my countdown, Brandy Clark, put out one of the best albums of the year in any genre.
Her 12 Stories is an elegant, focused and resonant work that calls to mind Bonnie Raitt and Mary Chapin Carpenter but still feels wholly original.
2013 has been a great year for country women.
Already we’ve had a delightful second album by Pistol Annies, and stellar debuts by Ashley Monroe (one third of the Annies) and Kacey Musgraves (who has ridden her refreshing, gay-friendly millennial outlook to a CMA award for Best New Artist and enough crossover appeal to land a gig on Ellen).
Meet Me In Montauk 