The Key’s Year-End Mania: Michaela Majoun’s Women’s Music Hour favorites of 2014

Year-End Mania is the Key’s survey of the things below the surface that made 2014 awesome. In this installment, XPN Morning Show Host Michaela Majoun shares songs that stood out on her Women’s Music Hour.

Terrific Australian songwriters with spot on delivery:

Allo Darlin’ (Elizabeth Morris) “Heartbeat”

Courtney Barnett “Avant Gardener”

Same great voice, some new guys backing it up:

Joan Osborne (Tigger Hippy)  “Rise Up Singing”

Lucinda Williams “Burning Bridges”

Duos featuring trancy production and dreamy singing about beverages:

Marian Hill (Samantha Gongol) “Whisky”

Sylvan Esso (Amelia Meath) “Coffee”

Smoldering:

Lana Del Ray “West Coast”

Beyonce “Drunk In Love”

Biological clock songs:

Jenny Lewis  “Just One of the Guys” and “She’s Not Me”