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NetRhythms people have compiled their Top 5 albums of 2001.

SUE CAVENDISH

I'll nail my colours to the mast; these are the albums which have had the most rotation in my car. There the acoustics are fantastic and it's the best place to turn the volume up to 11 without bothering the neighbours!

Close runners up are Thea Gilmore's Rules For Jokers (Flying Sparks), Blues CDs from Michael Messer (King Guitar on Catfish Records), Kevin Brown (Mojave Dust on Doodah Records), R.L. Burnside's Burnside on Burnside (Fat Possum) and, from the Charts, The Charlatans' Wonderland!

My most enjoyable gig of the year would have to be Bap Kennedy @ The Kashmir Klub in June. His version of Hey Joe must be 'best encore of the year'! Bap's 1998 CD, Domestic Blues (E-Squared), continues to be one of my all-time 'perfect' albums. 'Venue of the year' prize goes to The Borderline for consistently great gigs!

BOB PATERSON

Webmaster of this website, Booking Agent (with east central one) and presenter on SpydaRadio. Regular gig go-er and occasional reviewer. Honourable also rans, albums by: Drugstore (best of their career), Echo and The Bunneymen (still knocking out great albums), Antonia, 'Brand New Boots and Panties', Tom Russell (the best of his career), Jim White and Dar Williams. Here's to 2002.

PAUL SHERRATT

Host of The Global Jukebox on SpydaRadio and Radio Caroline.

SARA QAZI

Sara Qazi, personal manager, Brundlefly http://www.brundlefly.net. Watch for Brundlefly's 2002 release, "By The Way" in Canada and the US!

JO TYLER

Contrary to the popular rumour that Jo Tyler was actually raised by gibbons in the Amazon basin, she has has in fact spent the last 6 years fashioning a career in radio that has had her touching the hallowed faders of Jo Whiley, Annie Nightingale and Gideon Coe among others. Never keen to get on mike, Jo was unwillingly tested in the on air market by performing as 'Sideshow Jo' (Gary Crowley, GLR) amd as a member of Simon Mayo's R1 Confessions team. Obviously no threat to presenters worldwide, presently she is behind the scenes at Network Y - the BBC's new digital station due to launch in 2002 - as a producer and occasionally scribes for a website or two.

NICK WEST

Nick West is one of the editors of Bucketfull Of Brains magazine (www.bucketfullofbrains.com) and contributor to various other obscure organs. Occasional DJ at Come Down And Meet The Folks at the Golden Lion, Camden. Co-conspirator in the Bucketfull Of Brains nights at the Verge, Kentish Town (next show - 14 Feb 2002 - features Florida - contender for Album Of The Year 2002). Habitue of the Borderline and 12-Bar Clubs, wanna-be habitue of the Continental Club, Austin, Texas.

OLIVER GRAY

Oliver Gray, rock and travel writer, is the author of VOLUME - A Cautionary Tale of Rock and Roll Obsession. His new book, out this month, is V.A.C.A.T.I.O.N. - Cautionary Tales of Travelling Without Style. Both books are heavily music-oreintated.

Oliver claims to be the UK Gig-Going Champion. Do you know better? Check out Oliver's gig list at http://www.olivergray.com.

Revilo / The Gray Family: PO Box 71, Winchester SO21 1ZE. Phone: 01962-714520

New REVILO website: http://www.revilolang.com.

MAX REINHARDT

LAURENCE ARNOLD

Best Re-issue - Soft Bouys - Underwater Moonlight. Compilation - A Wish On A Star (Dreamy records)

How evil can you be, make people choose 5 records!

Another long December... so I'm choosing my Top 5... oh, the hell. Apologies to those I missed out, Ken Stringfellow, Jim Yoshii Pile-Up, Buddy Revelles, Clem Snide, David Kitt oh, the list is endless. In case you're wondering who I am, well, I host a show on SpydaRadio called Caffeine Buzz and also write reviews for Comes With A Smile magazine. Other than that, I have a day job. I'll be glad to see the back of 2001, but the music was good, from gigs in Trafalgar Square (R.E.M. and Nelson Mandela in the same place), the Notting Hill Arts Club, most venues in London to Maxwells in Hoboken and the Hideout in Chicago. I said farewell to James and hello to a Pegoretti and saw too many people leave. I still haven't got a cat, but i was given a fluffy bat recently (it's called Hoffy), so things are looking up. Thanks to all those who gave me music, live or on CD, to all those that made me dance, I'm sorry! "Here's to the future"... well said Ken.

PATRICK CROWTHER

A vintage year for me, I've bought 3 new albums this year, beating my 2 last year! Hurrah!

Ahhhhhh, good to get that off my chest,

Patrick

Happy Xmas

GRAHAM RADLEY

JON HALL

BOB HARRIS

http://www.bobharris.org.

MIKE DAVIES

And honourable mentions to Dar Williams (The Green World), The Handsome Family (Twilight), Lucinda Williams (Essence), Leonard Cohen (Ten New Songs), Gillian Welch (Time), Trish Murphy (Captured), and Jolene (The Pretty Dive)

Ageing Birmingham based music and movies pundit and unreconstructed avid Crosby lookalike without the benefit of the drugs and a worrying disposition to be found playing the odd Steps record alongside White Stripes, Michael Nyman and June Tabor!

RICK CORNELL

Hillsborough, North Carolina's Rick Cornell has somehow tricked some reputable publications (NO DEPRESSION, AMPLIFIER, the Miles of Music MoMzine, central North Carolina's weekly INDEPENDENT -- even the OXFORD AMERICAN once) into printing his reviews and articles. He also hosts two Saturday evening radio shows for Duke University's WXDU in Durham, NC: the alt-country show Border Radio (6-7 p.m.) and the power pop show Starry Eyes (7-8 p.m.). Check it out on the Web at http://www.wxdu.duke.edu/.

TIM PERRY

Single of the year - Ash 'Candy'

"I like countrymetalhiphoppop"

RICHARD ENGLER

Top 5 albums - EASY !

Record company drone, one time XFM/Q DJ, teenage planespotter (dangerous sports)

MICHAEL MEE

I know it shows my slavish adherance to all things Bob (Harris and Windmill) but here goes in a sort of order but subject to change as the mood takes me.

I Know it’s 6 but I couldn’t leave Thea off.

MARK HAGEN

All of these fine records you would be able to see tucked away at the end of TOTP2 every Wednesday & Saturday on BBC2 if any of them had bothered to make videos (apart from Ryan & the truly terrible one that is Rodney's...)

DAVE BARROW

DB slots in some tunes and includes the young Richard Hawley from Pulp (is it only cos he's booked the band for a forest tour ) no............. it's a crackin album. Also, gob smacked Bob, Mr Dylan did not feature at all in your top 5. Therapy for you. Best etc David.

DAVID CRAGGS

And an extra in the Re-Released/Greatest Hits category I've just invented for you.

Bob Marley and the Wailers - One Love

I am a 44 year old father of two children (Michael 12 and Lucy 3) who works for an American Bank in the city. My hobbies include:- Watching Newcastle United - a true labour of love. Drink (those who know me will heartily agree with this one, although I don't think you can separate this from the above!!). Listening to and watching good music.

STEVE MORRIS

Steve Morris is editor of www.roots-and-branches.com, a magazine dedicated to that impossible category, er, roots and branches. A category that happily embraces the obvious - Americana / country, folk, world and blues music - whilst merrily grabbing at many other genres less easily pigeon-holed.

TOM NELLIGAN

From Tom Nelligan, of Waltham, MA, author of the Reel World column for Dirty Linen magazine www.dirtylinen.com.

Maybe we can all go back and start this millennium over again? So far the 21st century is leaving a lot to be desired. We really don't need to be so forcefully reminded that some humans are still capable of perpetuating evil as any of the previous centuries.

Most of this year's best musical moments seem to have come prior to September 11th. Afterwards, the combination of canceled tours and a generally gloomy mood took its toll, and even as I write this in early December it's hard to watch the news without a palpable uneasiness. It seems worthwhile these days to remember how the Solstice season traditionally celebrated the return of light and the hope for an end to darkness. It's not a bad symbol to grasp at the end of this year. Stuff I Listened To A Lot in 2001

PS Richard & Mimi Farina 'Children of Darkness' from Reflections In A Crystal Wind, Vanguard Records, 1965. Written during the Vietnam War era, it seemed to still offer comfort amid the madness of 2001

TIM MARTIN

NEIL O'BRIEN

STEPHEN HENDERSON

Jim...the only gent I could find amongst these ladies. It's been a good year for the ladies!

ALAN O'LEARY

I have tried to break it down to my Top Five OF 2001, but as you can see I failed. So here's My Top 10 OF 2001

Others worthy of consideration
It's No Secret by Hammy Hamilton/ Seamus Creagh/ Con O'Drisceoil
In Good Company: Kevin Crawford and friends
Patrick Street Live
Tony MacMahon. MacMahon from Clare
Oh Susanna (unsure if it was released in the year)
Robert Cray: I Shoulda Been Home
Various Artists: There is no Eye

You can hear some of these and others in my next two Spyda Radio shows. The Guest List.

SHAUN BELCHER

Best records (5 most listened/liked albums of the moment 2001):

http://www.flyinshoes.fsnet.co.uk/worldofsdb

TREVOR HARDS

Here's my top albums for 2001 in no particular order. My album of the year is the timeless The World Won't End by the Pernice Bros but I've found it impossible to rank the rest. I can't guarantee you'll like any of them but they've sure given me immense amounts of pleasure during the past 12 months:

GERAINT EVANS

I bought 'Sweet Baby James' in '70 or '71 followed quickly by my first acoustic (Driftwood Special) and thus began a lifelong obsession with music (in general) and singer-songwriters (in particular). The lure of the music scene brought me from Wales to London in '79 where I tried my luck as a musician in before finally throwing in the towel in '89, having kids, setting up my own business and slowly learning to love music again. Somewhere along the line excursions to the The 12-Bar and The Borderline began to outnumber those to Hammy Odeon and Wembley Arena, and friends began to scratch their heads when scouring my CD collection. I now share the running of a small weekly folk club in Twickenham (Sunday night, Cabbage Patch pub, all welcome) where I still regularly dig out the guitar for a floor spot and pretend I'm James Taylor. It's great to be able to stand up and admit to liking 'country' and 'folk' (instead of calling it 'roots' and 'acoustic') and immensely reassuring to meet more and more like-minded souls at gigs and through the internet.

"Close but no cigar". Dolly Varden "The Dumbest Magnets", Dolly Parton "Little Sparrow", Robbie McIntosh "Wide Screen", Lucinda Williams "Essence", Jim Bryson "The Occasionals", Ron Sexsmith "Blue Boy", Chip Taylor "Black and Blue America", Oh Susanna "Sleepy Little Sailor", Toni Catlin "Heartache On The Run".

Others I think I'd like if/when I ever hear them include albums by Alejandro Escovedo, Alison Krauss, Hem, Jimmy LaFave, John Hiatt, Kevin Welch, Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Myracle Brah, Whiskeytown and Rod Picott.

Disappointments....."Buddy & Julie Miller", Lucy Kaplansky "Every Single Day".

STEVE TERRY

At the moment ("Love & Theft" and "Essence" are hopefully crossing the Atlantic as I type) my top 5 of 2001 are:

Contenders (though I don't actually own them yet):

Steve Terry, "Whisperer" and list maker http://www.picture-house.demon.co.uk/classicalbums.html.

KAREN MILLER

So many great 2001 releases to choose from, those are just the pick of the bunch.

I present "The Miller Tells Her Tale" on SpydaRadio and maintain the gig guide on the Bob Harris website.

"The Miller Tells Her Tale" on SpydaRadio

Listen now! http://www.spydaradio.co.uk.

View the playlists: http://www.TheMillerTellsHerTale.co.uk.

see also... http://www.bobharris.org
http://www.tapecircle.co.uk.

RAMCEY

The Cuban Hillbilly's Favorites of 2001

MALCOLM LEEDER

The following have made me laugh, smile, sing and cry this year:

HANNAH REESE

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