Top 4 Music Albums of 2019
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- Chart updated: 08/30/2026 16:45
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2019 – SELF RELEASED
No Production Credit
1. Livicate
2. Every Religion
3. I Love Reggae
4. Running From Jah
5. Is It Too Soon
6. Conscious
7. Rachel
8. You Keep Bringing Me Sunshine
9. You’re All I Am
10. I’m Not Smoking Weed No More
Not really much to go on here, and I’m not sure exactly how I got this one. But let’s go with what’s out there in the universe. Rah State is a reggae duo from Los Angeles consisting of Troy Horne and Cori “Fader” Jacobs. I Love Reggae appears to be their only album. It was released only on Bandcamp in 2019, where it’s available only as a digital release. At some point, it was also released on CD, because I have one. Their Bandcamp page mentions no record company, no management, no other place where their music can be found, and no artist site. This is all there is. Except for one brief paragraph, which says:
“It's Roots, it's modern, it's Reggae written for the believer in healing and for the ones who love to love. For the person who sees religion as a tool to get to the universe. For the person who sees God in every religion.”
Which brings us to the music on I Love Reggae. I wish I could say that these ten songs are a great find of top notch indie music. I just can’t. The music is electronic, meaning no guitars, no horns, none of the man-made groove that makes great reggae great. It’s all keyboards, and the rhythms sound computer generated. The vocals on the first two tracks are pretty good, but then they suddenly shift to using autotune as a main vocal effect on the title track. We’re not talking about a little bit…this is a complete drenching. Daft Punk would be thinking it’s too much. When the song is not as strong (“Rachel”, for example), the weaknesses are amplified. So what we have are ten songs that are mostly decently written, with a good enough message, but done without an actual band and with the feel of two guys in a dark room with a computer. There’s a place for that kind of music making. Reggae is simply not that place. [First added to this chart: 04/08/2025]
No Production Credit
1. Livicate
2. Every Religion
3. I Love Reggae
4. Running From Jah
5. Is It Too Soon
6. Conscious
7. Rachel
8. You Keep Bringing Me Sunshine
9. You’re All I Am
10. I’m Not Smoking Weed No More
Not really much to go on here, and I’m not sure exactly how I got this one. But let’s go with what’s out there in the universe. Rah State is a reggae duo from Los Angeles consisting of Troy Horne and Cori “Fader” Jacobs. I Love Reggae appears to be their only album. It was released only on Bandcamp in 2019, where it’s available only as a digital release. At some point, it was also released on CD, because I have one. Their Bandcamp page mentions no record company, no management, no other place where their music can be found, and no artist site. This is all there is. Except for one brief paragraph, which says:
“It's Roots, it's modern, it's Reggae written for the believer in healing and for the ones who love to love. For the person who sees religion as a tool to get to the universe. For the person who sees God in every religion.”
Which brings us to the music on I Love Reggae. I wish I could say that these ten songs are a great find of top notch indie music. I just can’t. The music is electronic, meaning no guitars, no horns, none of the man-made groove that makes great reggae great. It’s all keyboards, and the rhythms sound computer generated. The vocals on the first two tracks are pretty good, but then they suddenly shift to using autotune as a main vocal effect on the title track. We’re not talking about a little bit…this is a complete drenching. Daft Punk would be thinking it’s too much. When the song is not as strong (“Rachel”, for example), the weaknesses are amplified. So what we have are ten songs that are mostly decently written, with a good enough message, but done without an actual band and with the feel of two guys in a dark room with a computer. There’s a place for that kind of music making. Reggae is simply not that place. [First added to this chart: 04/08/2025]
2019 – DUALTONE
Produced By WARREN ZANES
1. Come On Up To The House – Joseph
2. Hold On – Aimee Mann
3. Georgia Lee – Phoebe Bridgers
4. Ol’ 55 – Shelby Lynne & Alison Moorer
5. Take It With Me – Angie McMahon
6. Jersey Girl – Corinne Bailey Rae
7. Ruby’s Arms – Patty Griffin
8. Time – Rosanne Cash
9. You Can Never Hold Back Spring – Kat Edmondson
10. House Where Nobody Lives – Iris DeMent
11. Downtown Train – Courtney Marie Andrews
12. Tom Traubert’s Blues – The Wild Reeds
The head of Dualtone Records, Scott Robinson, came up with the idea of an album of Tom Waits songs performed by female artists. He enlisted Warren Zanes, a noted producer, critic, and former guitarist for The Del Fuegos, to make it happen. Zanes let the artists choose the songs they wanted to record, and all of the performances were made specifically for this album. The results combine to make what a tribute album should be: carefully chosen versions of songs by the artist done with love and care. It helps that Waits is an out of this world songwriter, and it’s also big that these are mostly far from the style that he originally sang them in. These more straight ahead versions of songs that Waits did in his own quirky and sometimes frightening style shows just how great a writer he is, even when the songs are stripped down and put in much simpler terms.
It also doesn’t hurt that the artists here are top notch. Just having the likes of Aimee Mann, Rosanne Cash, Corinne Bailey Rae, Patty Griffin and Iris DeMent on one disc is a pure win: pairing these artists with a songwriter like Tom Waits is as good as it gets. The beauty of tracks like “Georgia Lee” (by Phoebe Bridgers), “Downtown Train” (by Courtney Marie Andrews) and “Ol’ 55” (by Shelby Lynne & Alison Moorer) makes this little known set a true gem. Released just before Waits’ 70th birthday, Come On Up To The House didn’t get a lot of attention, which is too bad. This is really a beautiful album, one that you’ll want to come back to time and again. This is everything you could want in a tribute album, and if you’re a fan of Tom Waits, this is one you will truly appreciate. Twelve perfect tributes to one of the master songwriters of our time. [First added to this chart: 04/09/2025]
Produced By WARREN ZANES
1. Come On Up To The House – Joseph
2. Hold On – Aimee Mann
3. Georgia Lee – Phoebe Bridgers
4. Ol’ 55 – Shelby Lynne & Alison Moorer
5. Take It With Me – Angie McMahon
6. Jersey Girl – Corinne Bailey Rae
7. Ruby’s Arms – Patty Griffin
8. Time – Rosanne Cash
9. You Can Never Hold Back Spring – Kat Edmondson
10. House Where Nobody Lives – Iris DeMent
11. Downtown Train – Courtney Marie Andrews
12. Tom Traubert’s Blues – The Wild Reeds
The head of Dualtone Records, Scott Robinson, came up with the idea of an album of Tom Waits songs performed by female artists. He enlisted Warren Zanes, a noted producer, critic, and former guitarist for The Del Fuegos, to make it happen. Zanes let the artists choose the songs they wanted to record, and all of the performances were made specifically for this album. The results combine to make what a tribute album should be: carefully chosen versions of songs by the artist done with love and care. It helps that Waits is an out of this world songwriter, and it’s also big that these are mostly far from the style that he originally sang them in. These more straight ahead versions of songs that Waits did in his own quirky and sometimes frightening style shows just how great a writer he is, even when the songs are stripped down and put in much simpler terms.
It also doesn’t hurt that the artists here are top notch. Just having the likes of Aimee Mann, Rosanne Cash, Corinne Bailey Rae, Patty Griffin and Iris DeMent on one disc is a pure win: pairing these artists with a songwriter like Tom Waits is as good as it gets. The beauty of tracks like “Georgia Lee” (by Phoebe Bridgers), “Downtown Train” (by Courtney Marie Andrews) and “Ol’ 55” (by Shelby Lynne & Alison Moorer) makes this little known set a true gem. Released just before Waits’ 70th birthday, Come On Up To The House didn’t get a lot of attention, which is too bad. This is really a beautiful album, one that you’ll want to come back to time and again. This is everything you could want in a tribute album, and if you’re a fan of Tom Waits, this is one you will truly appreciate. Twelve perfect tributes to one of the master songwriters of our time. [First added to this chart: 04/09/2025]
[First added to this chart: 08/30/2026]
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[First added to this chart: 09/10/2025]
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2019
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Top 4 Music Albums of 2019 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Various Artists | 1 | 25% | |
| Tyler, The Creator | 1 | 25% | |
| Johnny Cash | 1 | 25% | |
| Rah State | 1 | 25% |
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