The end of the year is upon us, and it's time to reflect on your favorite music of 2021! Here are Mike Pengra’s favorite albums of the year. Once you've whittled down your favorites, vote in The Current's Top 89 poll, and we'll count down your Top 89 songs of 2021 on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

My Favorite Albums of the Year

In no particular order:

Garrison Starr – Girl I Used to Be
Brigitte DeMeyer – Seeker
Oliver Wood – Always Smilin’
Eli West – Tapered Point of Stone
Tim O’Brien – He Walked On
Watchhouse – Watchhouse
Bela Fleck – My Bluegrass Heart
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raise the Roof
James McMurtry – The Horses and the Hounds
Andrea Van Kampen – That Spell
The Accidentals – Time out Session 1
Asleep at The Wheel – Half a Hundred Years
Paul Carrack – One On One
Noel McKay – Blue Blue Blue
Charlie Parr – Last of the Better Days Ahead
Hayes Carll – You Get It All
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – All the Good Times
Los Lobos – Native Sons
Allison Russell – Outside Child
Melissa Carper – Daddy’s Country Gold