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Saturday January 6, 2024 - Best of 2023 - Part Two: Continuing last week's theme, here are some more of my favourite albums of 2023 - a remarkable year for folk and roots music, with plenty of Canadians in the mix!
| # | Artist | Song Title | Album (label) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | * Patrick Street | Music For A Found Harmonium | Irish Times | |
| 2 | * Debashish Bhattacharya | Ever the Flame Burns | The Sound of the Soul | |
| 3 | * Béla Fleck & Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain & Rakesh Chaurasia | Tradewinds Bengali | As We Speak | |
| 4 | * Balimaya Project | Anka Tulon | Songlines #191 Top Of The World | |
| 5 | * Kimi Djabate | Dindin | Dindin | |
| 6 | * Witch | Nshingilile | Songlines #190 Top Of The World | |
| 7 | * KAIFO | Monte Espeso | Rural | |
| 8 | * Riccardo Tesi | Tindari | La Giusta Distanza | |
| 9 | * Danûk | ?ewqo | Songlines #189 Top Of The World | |
| 10 | * Orkestra Shkodra | Shegë E Ambël | Songlines #185 Top Of The World | |
| 11 | * Frigg | Masurkkapari Perhonjokilaaksosta | Perintö | |
| 12 | * Vesselil | Din Schottish | Til Kirsten | |
| 13 | * Louis Michot | Acadiana Culture Backstep | Rêve du Troubadour | |
| 14 | * Jourdan Thibodeaux et les Rôdailleurs | Blues De Bon Rien | La Prière | |
| 15 | * Taj Mahal | Caldonia | Savoy | |
| 16 | * Brandon Isaak | Do What Ya Did Last Night | One Step Closer | |
| 17 | * Eric Bibb | Call Me By My Name | Ridin' | |
| 18 | * Natalie Merchant | Eye of the Storm | Keep Your Courage | |
| 19 | * Allison Russell | Shadowlands | The Returner | |
| 20 | * Morgan Toney | Resilience | Resilience EP | |
| 21 | * Kate Rusby | We Will Sing @30 (feat. Ladysmith Black Mambazo) | 30: Happy Returns | |
| 22 | * Robert Sarazin Blake w/ CR Avery | Don't Use Our Death & Pain | Single | |
| 23 | * Bruce Cockburn w/ Susan Aglukark | To Keep the World We Know | O Sun O Moon | |
| 24 | * Jane Mortifee | Get Together | Just Here Just Now Just Enough | |
| 25 | * Half Moon Run | Everyone's Moving Out East | Salt | |
| 26 | * Alison Brown | Regalito | On Banjo | |
| 27 | * Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Strawberry Woman | Weathervanes | |
| 28 | * Eilen Jewell | Lethal Love | Get Behind the Wheel | |
| 29 | * Matt Andersen | Aurora | The Big Bottle of Joy | |
| 30 | * The Fugitives | It Might Just Rain Like This For Days | No Help Coming | |
| 31 | * Raye Zaragoza | When This Shit Is Over (Lockdown Demo) | Hold That Spirit | |
| 32 | * Gunning & Cormier | Desperation | Leather & Dust | |
| 33 | * Eliza Gilkyson | World Keeps on Singing | Home | |
| 34 | * Special Consensus | Alberta Bound | Great Blue North | |
| 35 | * Tim O'Brien | Thinkin' Like a Fish | Cup of Sugar | |
| 36 | * The Bombadils | Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming | Dear Friend | |
| 37 | * Good Lovelies | Slow Down | We Will Never Be The Same | |
| 38 | * The Young'uns | Richard Moore | Tiny Notes | |
| 39 | * Jaimee Harris | The Fair and Dark Haired Lad | Single | |
| 40 | * Martin Simpson & Thomm Jutz | The Wagoner's Lad | Nothing But Green Willow | |
| 41 | * The Breath | Little One | Land of My Other | |
| 42 | * David Francey | The Breath Between | The Breath Between | |
| 43 | * Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble | Longford Tinker | Peggy's Dream | |
| 44 | * Rachel Hair & Ron Jappy | The Transatlantic Proposal / The Maiden’s | Élan | |
| 45 | * Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy | Woman of the House | Canvas | |
| 46 | * Archetype Trad | Recommence: Farewell to Whalley Range / Red Zone / The Road To Recovery | Explorer | |
| 47 | * La Bottine Souriante | Vous jeunes gens | Domino! | |
| 48 | * North Atlantic Drift & Toronto Brass Quintet | Aces & Deuces | The Pipes | |
| 49 | * Jason Wilson | The Shoemaker | Ashara | |
| 50 | * Catrin Finch and Aoife Ní Bhriain | Waves: Cornphíopa Cuain na Gaillimhe / Cwyn Mam yng Nghyfraith | Double You | |
| 51 | * Daimh | Chaidh Mis'a Dh'eubhal Imprig | Sula | |
| 52 | * Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening | High Way to Hermitage | Cloud Horizons | |
| 53 | * Cassie and Maggie | Arthur McBride | A Very Very Cassie and Maggie Christmas | |
| 54 | * Michael Burnyeat | Snow Reels: Snow Shoes / Snowflake Breakdown / Snowplough Reel | Fiddlin' Around The Christmas Tree | |
| 55 | * Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys | The Wishing Tree | The Wishing Tree | |
| 56 | * Project Smok | Salthill: Polka de Anxo / Dan Murphy's Polka / Salthill | The Outset | |