The best albums of 2022 include Amanda Shires, Mitski, Shinedown, Jack White, Sharon Van Etten, Luke Combs, Blackpink, Broken Bells, Lamb of God, Bad Omens, Noah Cyrus, Kevin Morby, Freedy Johnston and Zach Bryan. Welcome back! Or, if this is your first click into our list of the best…

Freedy Johnston, “Back on the Road to You.” Freedy Johnston has been sharing his tales of sad, troubled souls in his plaintive way since 1989. If he dwells less these days in chronicling the adventures of firebugs, victims of clergy abuse and morticians’ daughters and more on his own…