Here are a few random tracks selected from albums that caught my attention over the past year. It’s an odd assortment of classic and new artists, all of which somehow combine top present a fuller picture of the state of popular music in 2014.

Featured tracks include;

1) I Prefer Your Love – St. Vincent

2) Wait for Love – Tweedy

3) Pocketful of Golden – Robert Plant

4) Gimme Something Good – Ryan Adams

5) I Keep Rollin’ On – Bill Scorzari

6) Dreams – The Last Hombres

7) American Dream Plan B – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

8) Almost Like the Blues – Leonard Cohen

9) Three Women – Jack White