I always wait to crack open a new calendar, to another January, before I review my year in music – in records, concerts and pivotal events – because the best of it can still happen in the December innings: Steve Miller playing the blues with fire and ardor; the blistering return, after a 30-year sabbatical, of the Dream Syndicate; and Warren Haynes' moving epitaph, via Pink Floyd, to a rock
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: David Fricke’s Year in Rock 2017