Best New Album By A Solo Female Artist
Kirsty Merryn Our Bright Night
Honourable Mentions
Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche I Can Still Hear You
Molly Tuttle …But I’d Rather Be With You
Sarah Jarosz World On The Ground
Kathleen Edwards Total Freedom
Courtney Marie Andrews Old Flowers
Lucinda Williams Good Souls Better Angels
Best New Album By A Solo Male Artist
Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways
Honourable Mentions
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Reunions
Clem Snide Forever Just Beyond
Loudon Wainwright III I’d Rather Lead A Band
Steve Earle Ghost Of West Virginia
Matt Berninger Serpentine Prison
Dave Alvin From An Old Guitar
Roddy Woomble Everyday Sun
Best New Album By A Group
Bonny Light Horsemen Bonny Light Horsemen
Honourable Mentions
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Sideways To New Italy
Garcia Peoples Nightmare At Wits End
Drive By Truckers The Unraveling
The War On Drugs Live Drugs
The Waterboys Good Luck, Seeker
Best Box Set
Looking Through A Glass Onion – The Beatles Psychedelic Songbook 1966-7
Honourable Mentions
Richard & Linda Thompson Hard Luck Stories
Crawling Up A Hill – A Journey Through The British Blues Boom 1966-1971
I’d Love To Turn You On ~ Classical And Avant-Garde Music That Inspired The Counter-Culture
Summer Is Icumen In – The Pagan Sound Of British And Irish Folk 1966 – 1975
A Slight Disturbance In My Mind ~ The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds Of 1966
Joni Mitchell Archives – Volume 1 The Early Years
Best Album From Previous Years
Spiritualized And Nothing Hurt
Honourable Mentions
The Imagined Village Imagined Village
The National I Am Easy To Find
John Stewart The Lonesome Picker Rides Again
The Beatles Decca Tapes
Talk Talk Spirit Of Eden
The Beatles Live At The Liverpool Empire 7th December 1963
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
The Moody Blues A Question Of Balance
The Moody Blues Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Kate Rusby Hourglass
Spiritualized Songs In A & E
St. Vincent Masseduction
The Waifs A Brief History
Neil Young Homegrown
Best Book about The Beatles
The Longest Cocktail Party by Richard DeLello
Honourable Mentions
Long And Winding Roads by Kenneth Womack
Solid State: The Story Of Abbey Road by Kenneth Womack
John Lennon 1980 by Kenneth Womack
Brian Epstein by Ray Coleman
Dreaming The Beatles by Rob Sheffield
The Beatles On The Roof by Tony Barrell
One Two Three Four by Craig Brown
The Beatles: 10 Years That Shook The World (MOJO)
Riding So High by Joe Goodden
Best Music Book Not About The Beatles
Adventures Of A Waterboy by Mike Scott
Honourable Mentions
Overpaid Oversexed And Over There by David Hepworth
Black Vinyl White Powder by Simon Napier-Bell
Just A Shot Away by Kris Needs
A New Day Yesterday by Mike Barnes
The Wichita Lineman by Dylan Jones
Reeling’ In The Years by Mark Radcliffe
Best Cricket Book
Oi Key by Rob Key
Honourable Mentions
One Long And Beautiful Summer by Duncan Hamilton
Golden Summers edited by Phil Walker
Feeling Is The Thing That Happens in 1000th Of A Second by Christian Ryan
Playfair Cricket Annual 2020
Wisden Cricket Almanack 2020
Best Fiction
Black Moon Over Malvern by Rob Kail-Dyke
Honourable Mentions
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
State Of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Redhead By The Side Of The Road by Anne Tyler
A Spool Of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
The Clock Winder by Anne Tyler
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe
The Rotters Club by Jonathan Coe
Lost In The Forest by Sue Miller
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Secret Lives by Diane Chamberlain
A Traveller At The Gates Of Wisdom by John Boyne
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Not Forgetting
David And Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
Talking To Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Podcast about The Beatles
Nothing Is Real – Discussion on The Beatles by two knowledgeable likeable guys
Nothing Is Real – A Beatles Podcast on acast
Honourable Mentions
I Am The Eggpod – In depth discussion about The Beatles
Producing The Beatles – The techniques of George Martin
Best Podcast by Tim Harford
Cautionary Tales – True stories about mistakes and what we should learn from them
Honourable Mentions
More Or Less – Exploring the truth behind the statistics in the news
How To Vaccinate The World – Essential positivity in the pandemic
50 Things That Made The Modern Economy – It’s economics but it’s understandable
Other Music Podcasts
Bob Dylan Album By Album – Ben Burrell talking in depth about Bob Dylan
Honourable Mentions
Soul Music – irregular series focussing on what one song means to many people
Word In Your Ear – Discussion on everything music related
Fascinating stories to accompany a dog walk
Revisionist History – Malcolm Gladwell discussing how we need to take a fresh look at past events
Honourable Mentions
The Full Fact Podcast – debunking false news
Against The Rules – Michael Lewis discussing how we need to look at the rules in everyday life
The Edge – the story of how the Houston Astros cheated their way to win The World Series
Best Television Programmes
Normal People
Honourable Mentions
The Crown
Sex Education
The Queen’s Gambit
The Last Dance
Away
Succession
Schitt’s Creek
Picard
The Trial Of The Chicago 4
Star Trek Discovery
Virgin River
O.J. Made In America
The Undoing
The Test
The Edge
The Stranger
Add Some Music To Your Day 
Brilliant, thanks. Plenty to get my teeth into over the next few months. And great to see Black Moon Over Malvern up there, in such estimable company! Congratulations on (almost) a year of eloquent, insightful and entertaining blogging.
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Great listicle Mick. (Look it up.)
You were one of my highlights of 2020. (Don’t get carried away – the bar’s low.)
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Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Some list!
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