The Music’s Over – The Most Best Albums of 2014
themusicsover Happy Holidays! Please enjoy some NEW music for a change here on The Music’s Over. Presenting the most best as well as the greatest albums from 2014.
1. Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey / Going Back Home
2. Jimmer / The Would-Be Plans
3. The Strypes / Snapshot
4. Various Artists – Ronnie James Dio: This Is Your Life
5. Spanish Gold – South Of Nowhere
6. Bruce Springsteen / High Hopes
7. Sturgill Simpson / Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
8. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / Give The People What They Want
9. Mastodon – Once More Round The Sun
10. U2 / Songs of Innocence
11. Nikki Lane / All Or Nothin’
12. The Gaslight Anthem – Get Hurt
13. Bob Seger – Ride Out
14. The Reverend Horton Heat / Rev
15. Dwight Twilley / Always
16. Ex Hex / Rips
17. Future Islands / Singles
18. String Cheese Incident / Song In My Head
19. Imelda May / Tribal
20. Marianne Faithfull / Give My Love To London
21. Joe Louis Walker / Hornet’s Nest
22. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Hypnotic Eye
23. Drowners – Drowners
24. Cocktail Slippers – People Talk
25. Angaleena Presley – American Middle Class
26. Supersuckers – Get The Hell
27. Billy Joe Shaver – Long In The Tooth
28. The Whigs – Modern Creation
29. Jerry Lee Lewis – Rock & Roll Time
30. Benjamin Booker / Benjamin Booker
Pete Seeger is regarded by many as the single most important figure of the American folk music revival of the late ’50s/early ’60s. Just as important to many, he used his talent and popularity to shine a light on social injustice, poverty, environmental issues, anti-war movements, and more. Born into a highly academic and musical family in New York City, Seeger was exposed to music at a very young age. Educated primarily in boarding schools, he was very well-educated and somewhat withdrawn until he found his spotlight while entertaining classmates with a ukulele he picked up on his own. By the late ’30s, he switched over to the banjo, the instrument he would help popularize three decades later. As the years went on, Seeger went from small festival folky to cultural hero thanks in part to his songs that would become the soundtrack to the ’60s Civil Rights Movement and beyond. Tunes like “If I Had A Hammer” written with Weavers band mate, 
Tompall Glaser was one of the original so-called “outlaws” of country music. Alongside the likes of Willie Nelson, 
James Gray is perhaps best remembered as the one-time keyboardist for successful Canadian alt-country band, Blue Rodeo. Gray joined the group during the early ’90s, just in time to play on their hit album of 1993, Five Days In July. The video for the album’s “Hasn’t Hit Me Yet” quickly became a staple on MTV helping them gain a foothold in the US. Over the next decade, Gray toured and recorded with the band as they grew in popularity in both Canada and around the world. His last album with the group was 2005’s Are You Ready. Outside of Blue Rodeo, Gray played with such outfits as Hopping Penguins, Whitenoise, and Vital Signs. James Gray died unexpectedly from a heart attack on August 5, 2013. He was 52.