Best albums of 2020 made by Arizona artists, ranked Ed Masley, Arizona Republic
Arizona artists had a harder time connecting with their local fans in 2020. Music venues shut down in early March in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and remained shuttered, for the most part, through December.
Some artists did their best to stay connected via livestream, which was nice.
But just because you couldn t see your favorite Arizona artists in your favorite Arizona bars the way you did in pre-pandemic times, that doesn t mean you couldn t stay connected to their music through recordings.
And 2020 was a great year to experience new music made by Arizona artists. These were the best we had a chance to hear, from Maynard James Keenan s latest dispatch from Jerome to internationally recognized releases from Spirit Adrift and Phoenix native Courtney Marie Andrews.
Dec 22, 2020
Seasonal Shift is the new album from the band Calexico and it contains a few cover songs, including classics by John Lennon with Yoko Ono and Tom Petty as well as a few special guests and a whole lot of good will. It’s heartfelt but fun, and earnest but celebratory. It features Calexico in an assortment of guises, referencing Portuguese
fado and old Mexican folk songs, from the stripped back two-man skeleton to the full party of international collaborators, including artists like
Bombino,
Guitarist Joey Burns once heard somebody say there are two kinds of holiday albums: ones that cover all the classic Christmas standards and others that are a little more experimental and creative.
Seasonal Shift, the first holiday record by Burns band Calexico (drummer John Convertino is the other primary member of the band), combines the two varieties. The album, which came out on December 4 on ANTI- Records, features Southwest-flavored renditions of Christmas All Over Again by Tom Petty and John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band s Happy Xmas (War is Over). Burns said when he heard the lyrics of the former Beatle s anthem, they felt just as appropriate for 2020 as they did when the song came out nearly 50 years ago.
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