And Tanya Tucker, making a welcome return, demanded a celebration of her existence while she’s still alive and kickin’.And, of course, “Old Town Road” took one hell of a ride.Here are the 25 best country and Americana songs of 2019. "Time Is On My Side" was written by songwriter Jerry Ragovoy under the pseudonym Norman Meade. The sound here shows she’s plenty comfortable in between genres, too, irresistibly triangulating bedroom-pop gloss, shoegaze, and alt-rock shamble, as she does across her entire debut LP.

Check out this list of songs to hear from Rolling Stone, featuring 'Juice', 'bad guy', 'Old Town Road' and more. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Following his debut LP, Styles laid low, taking an extended trip to Japan and then holing up in L.A. studios like Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La with his close-knit group of collaborators. “I thought about this project and went, ‘What if Brandi sang it?’” Isbell Lizzo staked her claim on 2019 in the first days of January when she dropped the retro funk bomb “Juice” as a preview of her new album, Stella Donnelly’s acerbic wit and indie-pop charm can be heard all over her debut LP, (And had he been alive in 1991, the Panamanian surely would have finessed the band’s Spanish-language hit, “Al Final de Camino.”) On “Otro Trago” — or “Another Drink” — Sech plays a humble piano balladeer, but he comes out swinging upon co-star Darell’s roaring cue: “Everybody go to the discotheque!” Darell implies that the best way to get over an ex is to hit the club and show ’em what they’re missing on the dance floor.Róisín Murphy’s “Incapable” is the kind of disco opus that lodges in your head from the first kick-drum hit and then steadily makes its way through the rest of your body. Then Balvin drops in to calmly announce what he’s done to your girlfriend.

Tracks by Luke Combs, Maren Morris, and Miranda Lambert are among the 25 best country songs of 2019.

“I done been through what you been through, why you mopin’?” The beat matches Calboy’s mood — brooding and creeping, with a guitar line that brings to mind gloomy Eighties power ballads — as does fellow Chicago rapper Lil Durk: “I’m steady losin’ my mind, don’t know if it’s the demons or the pills.” This is the quietest moment on Calboy’s This one-off collaboration between Spanish flamenco fusionist Rosalía and Colombian reggaeton trailblazer J Balvin — the queen and king of cutting-edge Latin pop — initially seemed like a lightweight, opportunistic knockoff after both artists’ masterpiece solo LPs. It was all very Kate Bush, and “Sad Day” is pure If you tuned into a Latin radio station this summer, you may have noticed a theme: Summer 2019 was the summer of the “Hot” was simultaneously a re-awakening and a passing of the baton.

These are the tracks that defined 2019.

© Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Yola, Morgan Wallen, and Runaway June looked at (or, in Wallen’s case, refused to look at) the dissolution of relationships from different angles. On “Lights Up,” Styles gave his Seventies FM pop a twist with touches of psychedelia and soul, yielding a track that sounds both nostalgic and timeless.

2004-11-17 "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2010 Edition) with lists of additions and dropouts". After years of fan-led attempts to track it down, Hebden let “Human” loose to the world in 2019 without much fanfare, crediting it simply to KH.

From defiant anthems by Maren Morris and Miranda Lambert to the mariachi-punk of Vandoliers and “Old Town Road” Read our countdown of the 50 best songs of 2019, from Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" to Vampire Weekend's "Harmony Hall" and beyond. Songs That Influenced The Rolling Stones 10 Essential Blues Tracks. Rolling Stone. Music. “Money Machine” is designed to make first-time listeners ask what, exactly, they’re listening to. Fans were left hypothesizing how he would follow the folky glam of his debut, and he delivered with something dance-y and full of joy, confidence, and, of course, light. From “Old Town Road” to “Harmony Hall” and beyond, these are the tracks that defined the year “Just a filthy beggar guessing,” Cohen concludes — disgust and weary disappointment rippling across his skeletal baritone — “What happens to the heart.”If Harry Styles asks you to “step into the light,” you listen. But when paired with the precise rhythms of Afrobeat, this becomes impressionism you can dance to.With “Drunk II,” these Philly punk kids sum up every late-night call to your ex that you never should have made. The new direction may have something to do with her touring with Nick Cave, or with the changes of age and motherhood.