2006 was the single worst year in recorded music history. You want to dance with me on that one? I’ll let you because there are only about ten albums, maybe fifteen, that you can actually use in a defense of the year 2006. Even so, those albums do not offer a strong enough case to trump any other year of recorded music, making it the single worst. Period.

And in 2006, I saw that trend hit home as I watched some of my perennial favorite artists make their worst albums yet. It was a sad time because of all the years for music, 2006 was really the year I needed them to stand up and produce some good stuff for me. But one by one, my favorites released albums. And one by one, those albums took one spin in my player and then got shelved. The letdown was a tough blow for me to swallow, but none was a tougher chew than that of Pat Green. Read the rest of this entry »