Before sailing into a new year of new releases, here are a few footnotes and parting words for 2021:

• For In Review Online, I wrote about the second album from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, which I think is just as good (and occasionally just as sleepy) as the first one.
• I also wrote about Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days, which is her sharpest and strongest album yet. (It just barely missed making my top 10 of the year.)
• Speaking of the year’s best albums, I contributed a couple of blurbs to FLOOD Magazine‘s year-end list: One about Yola and one about The Weather Station.

Back soon, y’all!