MYLES KENNEDY

Year Of the Tiger NAPALM

Four decades after his Christian Scientist father refused medical treatment for appendicitis – and died from the illness – Myles Kennedy’s debut solo album was a scream of catharsis.

Stripping back the cranked-up bombast of his day job in Alter Bridge made these rootsy, acoustic-driven songs more powerful still, and if there was a more honest lyric this year than The Great Beyond – “That song paints a picture,” the singer told us, “of the night my father actually passed away” – then we didn’t hear it. HY Killer Track: The Great Beyond