The robust market created by music fans played a key part in encouraging this.

Their fans are hungry for new music as well.

Happily, a flood of albums arrived this year that are well worth a grownup’s time.

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Youll be asking yourself that as you listen to her loop-the-loop vocal workouts.

The albums title comes from the area where the original Woodstock festival took place.

In the title track and Livin for the Ones, she uses her pain to stoke appreciation.

A collage of music artists from Bonnie Raitt to Barbra Streisand

The album cover for Janis Ian’s The Light at the End of the Line

The album cover for Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Ghost Song

The album cover for Midlake’s For the Sake of Bethel Woods

The album cover for Bonnie Raitt’s Just Like That