{"id":151459,"date":"2022-12-08T04:58:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T04:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/saving-country-musics-2022-song-of-the-year-nominees\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T04:58:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T04:58:41","slug":"saving-country-musics-2022-song-of-the-year-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/saving-country-musics-2022-song-of-the-year-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Country Music’s 2022 Song of the Year Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Infinite apologies if you came here looking for your next favorite boot scooter, because that’s not what Song of the Year is all about. There will be a Single of the Year category coming up too. But what we’re looking for here is the most unabashedly slow and sentimental sad bastard songs possible\u2014songs that make you feel miserable, but in the most transformational way to where you’re a changed person after listening, with greater insight into this life . <\/p>\n

Though these songs must fit into the greater roots music catalog, genre isn’t as important as emotional impact, and elaborate writing. A Song of the Year nominees doesn’t have to be slow and sparse, but it certainly helps. <\/p>\n

PLEASE NOTE:<\/strong> Just because a song isn’t listed here doesn’t mean it’s being snubbed or forgotten. Picking the best songs of a given year is always even more personal and subjective than with the best albums. We’re not looking to pit songs and songwriters against each other, we’re looking to combine our collective perspectives and opinions into a pool of musical knowledge for the benefit of everyone.<\/p>\n

By all means, if you have a song or a list of songs you think are the best of 2022 and want to share, please do so in the comments section below. Feedback will<\/em> factor into the final tabulations for the winner, but this is not an up and down vote. Try to convince us who you think should win, and why. <\/p>\n

Saving Country Music’s 2022 Album of the Year Nominees<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wade Bowen with Vince Gill \u2013 \u201cA Guitar, a Singer, and a Song\u201d<\/h3>\n

Songwriters: Wade Bowen, Lori McKenna<\/em><\/p>\n

Apropos to commencing a discussion about the impact of songs on all of our lives is this stunner of a well-written song, co-authored by Lori McKenna and featuring Vince Gill. Like McKenna and Gill, Wade Bowen is one of the good guys in country music who whenever he picks up his guitar, he hopes to leave the world a little bit better of a place when he puts it back down. Putting that philosophy in a song that all of us lay citizens cannot only understand, but find as enriching as any story set to song takes an entirely other set of meta songwriting superpowers. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole point of doing what we do is to not be forgotten, to try to leave a mark on the world with a guitar and with your songs and with your voice,\u201d <\/em>says Wade Bowen. \u201cWe don’t think about it until we get a couple decades into our career: ‘Have I done enough that people will remember me?’<\/em>\u201d <\/p>\n

This song from Bowen’s album Somewhere Between The Secret and the Truth<\/em> will be very hard to forget. <\/p>\n