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YOU TELL US YOUR CHOICES: THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2009 & BEST ALBUMS OF THE DECADE

ALAN O'LEARY Copperplate Consultants
BARRY EVERITT - House of Mercy Radio Record of the year 2009
BOB PATERSON - BPA-live
DAVID KIDMAN - freelance music writer
DEL DAY - Ark PR and Songs from the Ark Radio Show
GABY GREEN - of Green Gab PR
GAIL COMFORT - The Comfort Zone, CMR Nashville
JOHN GRAVELING - JEG Artist Management - 2009 top 10 plus best of the decade
KAREN MILLER - The Miller Tells Her Tale - Americana weekly download show
MICHAEL TROTMAN - Empty Room Promotions
MIKE DAVIES - Brumbeat and freelance music and film writer
NEIL PEARSON - Fish Records
PETER HOLMSTEDT - Hemifrån: an independent promotion company, based in Sweden
SAM INGLIS - Features Editor, Sound on Sound magazine and singer-songwriter (The Morning People)
STEVE MORRIS - Roots & Branches on 101.8 WCR FM / www.wcrfm.com
TOM ROSE - Navigator & Reveal Records
TREVOR HARDS - Music lover - 2009 top 10 plus best of the decade
JOHN DAVY - off the National Grid and windmill-powered, Scoraig, Scotland - Best of the Decade
BOB PATERSON - BPA-live - Best of the Decade
NAVIGATOR + REVEAL RECORDS ARTISTS - Best of the Decade
including (so far) Heidi Talbot, Alyth, Chris Wood, Jon Boden, Inge Thomson, Dave Derby,
Dean Owens, Rachael McShane, Joan As Policewoman, Dave Dellare
plus label owner TOM ROSE's top 100 of the decade


ALAN O'LEARY Copperplate Consultants

Top 10 of 2009

  • 1. Willie Clancy: The Gold Ring
  • 2. Levon Helm: Electric Dirt
  • 3. Bert Jansch: LA Turnaround
  • 4. Kieran O’Kane: Somewhere Beyond the Roses
  • 5. Gerry Rafferty: Life Goes On.
  • 7. Loudon Wainwright: High Wide & Handsome
  • 8. Christy Moore: Listen
  • 9. Paul Burch: Still Your Man
  • 10. Billy McComiskey: Outside The Box

    Friends for Life.

  • Three Score & Ten: The Topic Box Set
  • The Beatles Remastered


    DEL DAY OF ARK PR & Songs from the Ark Radio Show

    SONGS FROM THE ARK - DEL DAY'S BEST OF 2010

    My 'Best of 2010' 1. Nathaniel Rateliff - In Memory Of Loss
    Out of Denver, Colorado, Rateliff is a major talent. A songwriter of immense depth and clarity, his soulful yet direct approach to these songs leaves them resonating around your head for days. Strangely records this good usually signal a summit has been reached but in Rateliff's case I am sure we are barely over the foothills.

    2. Old Man Luedecke - My Hands Are On Fire
    If ever there was an artist who should be played loud from every window in every house in every land, OML is that man. Imagine John Prine with a banjo (copywrite Shaun @ Gilded Palace!) and you have a good handle on what this Nova Scotian is all about. An album that makes me smile every time I hear it.

    3. Glossary - Feral Fire
    For my money the best band in the States right now this Murfreesboro outfit have somehow managed to merge the hustle-bustle power of Thin Lizzy with that 70'c country sensitivity of The Burritos. Come the stroke of New Year I will be blasting 'Save Your Money For The Weekend', at dangerous volume. Neighbours, you have been warned.

    4. Hayward Williams - Cotton Bell
    Subtle, reflective, haunting, and emotive, Williams has crafted a gem of an album that has been a constant companion this year. The endless space and tranquility of the Midwest is an unmistaken inspiration for Williams, whose 'less-is-more' approach leaves a warm glow on the senses.

    5. Tom Feldman & The Get Rites - Tribute
    As a vehicle for spreading the gospel, Feldman and his band have been releasing county gospel records since 2005. Tribute marks a milestone in that we are given a peek into the music that has inspired him all these years. An incredible feast of cliché-free slide guitar driven gems for the songbook's of the blues greats. A truly honest album from a truly honest artist.

    6. American Aquarium - Small Town Hymns
    Headed by BJ Barham, a songwriter whose whiskey drenched southern drawl turns heads and hearts, this brash young country band are pushing all the right buttons here at Ark PR towers. Small Town Hymns beats to the rhythm of broken hearts and broken dreams, of wanton hope and refilled glasses. Love it!!

    7. Willie Nelson - Country Music
    Ole' Willie takes time out from endless touring and Crazy arena sing-along to return to the country mothership and record a 'true' country record once again. And it sounds like he has enjoyed himself too. Wonderful renditions of 'Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down' and 'Man With The Blues' on an album that sounds like it was made in a barn in 1964.

    8. Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues
    A grower of an album that on first listen disappointed has since become resident in the CD player. I'm still unconvinced on Earle the honky tonker but as an articulated, focused purveyor of songs there is no disguising the fact that he has certainly inherited his father's aptitude and talent not to mention his need for an occasional walk on the darkside. Menacing but mesmerizing.

    9. Butcher Holler - Butcher Holler
    Eilen Jewell has quietly been building herself a little niche and fanbase both here and in the US and in-between albums have put out this storming Loretta Lynn covers album. None of the caustic wit or 'ball breaking' attitude of the great lady has been swept aside and is served up hot and spicy by one of the finest touring bands around.

    10. Zoe Muth & The Lost Hi Rollers - Self-titled
    Old-school sounding classic country from this Seattle based songwriter who is impossible not to like. An album swathed in pedal steel and twang Muth writes songs that will appeal to all just given the chance, even those who still think 'country' is a dirty word. Get on board now and you will look cool when she explodes next year.

    Del Day, Ark PR - & Songs From The Ark - every Friday at 6PM on www.radioreverb.com

    www.radioreverb.com

    SONGS FROM THE ARK - DEL DAY'S BEST OF 2009

    1. Somebody Loves You - Austin Lucas
    Lucas is a man-mountain in both size and stature with a heart that pounds a rhythm of heartache, hope and honest humanity. Desert Island Disc potential....

    2. New York Town - Israel Nash Gripka
    An unbridled gem from start to finish Gripka embodies classic era Creedence with the craft and guile of a renegade Ryan Adams

    3. Time Stand Still - Chris Smither
    There is something about Smither that makes him the ideal fireside companion on a journey through the trials and tribulations of everyday life.

    4. Yonkers NY - Chip Taylor
    Wonderful memories of growing up in Yonkers with his two brothers as their hopes and dreams are realised (and quashed) that is both a social insight and a loving collection of anecdotes

    5. Don't Hurry For Heaven - Devon Sproule
    There is an honesty to Sproule’s songs that is charming and hugely attractive. A loving paean to life’s simplistic joy.

    6. Instead The Forest Rose To Sing - Danny Schmidt
    Like reading a copy of 'Leaves Of Grass' accompanied by some exquisite guitar playing. A wordy, insightful masterpiece.

    7. Josephine - Magnolia Electric C0.
    Finally! I get it now. Molina is that lyrical genius and heart-stirring American realist everyone keeps telling me about. Got it.

    8. Tall - Josh Small
    A lo-fi gem that wears a spectral shroud and takes the meaning of understated to a new level.

    9. At The End Of The Bar - Leo Rondeau
    The sort of record that should be blaring out of every jukebox in the land. Honky tonkin heaven.

    10. Somewhere Beyond The Roses - Kieran Kane
    Banjo, baritone sax, and gritty country. Yes, it works. It does. I promise.

    Gig of the year:-
    Has to be Austin Lucas in Southsea. About 40 people there with jaw's dragging along the floor as before them Lucas, singing on the bar room floor unaccompanied, nailed gem after gem. This guy is very special folks, very special indeed.

    And a special mention to Gilded Palace Of Sin, Brighton's finest ever promoters who called it quits after nine years in the business last month. Guys, you will be deeply missed and I am chuffed to have been able to work with you this last year or so.

    Songs From The Ark streaming 'live' at 6pm Fridays with repeats 10-noon Saturdays and 4-6 am Sundays
    www.radioreverb.com
    www.myspace.com/songsfromtheark


    Steve Morris - Roots & Branches on 101.8 WCR FM / www.wcrfm.com

    I'm never quite sure why I'm invited to contribute lists like this or indeed why I'm so interested in similar offerings from other writers. Is it because we like to have our tastes rubber stamped by respected peers; are we looking for pointers to great music we've missed or maybe, and most worryingly, looking to trickle scorn on the poor taste of others.

    So, whatever brings you to my list, here it is. There's no real order to it and no claim that these were the best of 2009; I didn't hear everything released for one thing (PR companies are in general totally snotty to community radio even if our audiences exceed the specialist press they fawn over), they're simply the records I returned to most often during the year.

    JONES Hopeland (MeMe)
    That'll be Trevor from Miracle Mile gone solo then. Not quite his other half, Marcus, contributes too but the raw, artisan feel comes straight from Jones mediterranean musings. It's literate, deeply soulful and brave in its successful melding of spoken word and song. Listen to the whole piece in one sitting and tears are a guarantee.

    TOM RUSSELL Blood And Candlesmoke (Proper)
    There may be the scent of looking back hanging over this records - Russell hit 60 recently - but it's the quality of the writing that lingers longest and drafting in the Calexico guys to add the scuffed, dusty soundscapes gives the great songs the home they deserve.

    DAN WHITEHOUSE The Balloon / The Bubble / The Box (all Tiger Dan)
    OK, so I'm cheating; this collection is actually three EPs though there are plans to collate them into a double CD as soon as possible. Wolverhampton based Dan may well be one of our best kept secrets; a great songwriter musician, bandleader and producer he's a free spirit dressing his songs in the style that befits rather than being tied to any mode du jour. With songs like Where Is The Love?, Somebody Loves You, I Wanted To Say Something and Needles, Pins And All Sharp Things Dan has essayed my life this past year.

    THE UNTHANKS Here's The Tender Coming (Rabble Rouser)
    The uniqueness of the sisters harmonies and the fine material were always attractive but the adoption of a broader musical palette to enhance the name change was (pardon the pun) a masterstroke and, amazingly, the live band have eclipsed the promise delivered here.

    RED SHOES Ring Around The Land (Cedarwood)
    The twenty five year wait; being plucked from the internet by Fairport's Dave Pegg - all good copy but meaningless without the 13 fine songs (with only Swarb's White Dress a cover) performed with such elan it would have remained that. Let me just refer you to Mike Davies' eloquent review in these pages for all the proof you need that this debut is more than worthy of its place at the top table.

    THE BEATLES Box Sets - Mono & Stereo (Apple)
    Damned if I can find anything new or meaningful to say here. Not only do they sound amazing sonically but the music is again a revelation.

    LEVON HELM Electric Dirt (Vanguard)
    Simply a great, latter day Band album. That it's Levon solo, well go figure. If it was Robbie had the smarts then Levon had the heart and wouldn't his song Growin' Trade have fitted in just fine on those early Band records?

    JUDY DYBLE Talking With Strangers (Fixit)
    I came to this late but simply can't stop playing it. It really is quite gorgeous. Very english in delivery and a devil may care mix of folk, jazz and rock clours. Pastoral Prog? There's a line in 'Harpsong' - "I closed my ears for thirty years" that in seven simple words makes dreadfully clear what we listeners have lost in that time. Rejoice that Judy has opened both ears and mouth.

    PREFAB SPROUT Let's Change The world With Music (Kitchenware)
    A complete anomaly in this list really being a synthetic creation but Paddy McAloon's wit, wisdom, vocals and melodies wash away all such cares.

    JIMMY BUFFETT Buffet Hotel (Mailboat)
    Largely inspired by a trip to the Festival In The Desert and with the Coral Reef Band bolstered by the playing and writing of Will Kimbrough this is a fine Buffett album that gets better at each visit tho' Buffett's own Beautiful Swimmers - gorgeous melody and fine lyrics evoking Renoir and steel guitars - and the co-written with Bill Flanagan and Mac MacAnally title track that tells the tale of the desert trip stand out, the latter built on a New Orleans first line rhythm with the duelling of Sonny Landreth's Mississippi electric slide and Toumani Diabate's Saharan kora curling around Buffett's vocal.

    Roots & Branches on 101.8 WCR FM / www.wcrfm.com every Thursday 10-midnight, repeated Sunday midnight - 2am Monday
    www.wcrfm.com
    Roots & Branches / The (Brum) Beat
    www.roots-and-branches.com


    Mike Trotman - Empty Room Promotions

    I have been struggling to pick my favourites for 2009, from a really excellent number of issues, and I am still not sure if I have got it right. So in no particular order, my top 12 (I could not confine it to just 10) are:

    Gurf Morlix - Last Exit To Happyland
    Diana Jones - Better Times Will Come
    Sam Baker - Cotton
    Eilen Jewell - Sea Of Tears
    Chuck Prophet - Let Freedom Ring
    Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream
    Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
    Kendal Carson - Alright Dynamite
    Tom Russell - Blood & Candlesmoke
    Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
    The Barker Band - Sorry For The Kissing
    Willie Nile - Land Of A 1000 Guitars

    And still on the reserves bench are Buddy & Julie Miller, Romi Mayes, Deadstring Brothers, Justin Townes Earle, Gretchen Peters, Gretchen again with Tom Russell, The Flatlanders, Roseanne Cash and Guy Clark. Phew, an excellent year of first class releases.

    Mike Trotman, Empty Room Promotions
    www.empty-rooms.com


    MIKE DAVIES - Brumbeat and freelance music and film writer

    If last year was hard to nail a best of list down to just 10, it’s been even more difficult with the level of excellence that’s honoured by CD player over the past twelve months. So, having set myself a precedent by moving the goalposts for 2008, I’m going to do it again now. Here then is my Top 10 in artist alphabetical order and a closeasthis list of honourable mentions that you really shouldn’t allow yourself to live without.

    1. Carrie Hayden - Yuka (own label)
    A young singer-songwriter from Bewdley and graduate of LiPA, Hayden marries a tremulous vocal huskiness to honest and deeply personal songs about long distance love and the pangs of growing up. A declaration of her passion for music, Cookery Books is a classic awaiting discovery and I’m dumbfounded that she remains unsigned.

    2.Christy & Emily - Superstition (Big Print)
    The New York avant folk duo’s second album (released on a small British indie) sounds like the McGarrigles fronting Galaxie 500 with Erik Satie and Calexico as special guests. A heady masala of chamber folk, shimmering psychedelia and Morricone desert moods delivered with reverb and siren harmonies.

    3. Erin McKeown - Hundreds Of Lions (Righteous Babe)
    Her eighth and most musically playful album reveals new delights with every play as she skitters through jazz, folk, vaudeville and pop mining both darkness and light in her lyrics and scoring something of a personal best with the disturbing (Put The Fun Back In) The Funeral

    4. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound (Side One Dummy)
    Echoing fellow New Jersey boy Springsteen, the quartet bring a swelling emotional majesty to their midnight confessions of American blue collar lives and dreams and chorus driven songs about young lives snuffed out in a car crash, washing away your sins and heaven in the backseat of your car. They shared a stage with the Boss at Glastonbury. Consider it a passing of the mantle.

    5. Lightning Dust - Infinite Light (Jagjaguwar)
    Pinioned by Amber Webber’s quivering warble, the Vancouver duo could be Canada’s answer to Lee and Nancy, but also draw on the influences of 70s New Wave, Mazzy Star narcotics, rockabilly, mountain folk and even Tyrannosaurus Rex to produce an album of reverb kissed beauty.

    6. My Darling Clementine - My Darling Clementine (no label)
    OK, this is a cheat. The album’s not been released, has no label or distributor and the mixes aren’t finalised, but this spent several months on my player and still hovers close by for repeated spins. A joint project by Michael Weston King and wife Lou Dalgleish, its self penned songs pay faultless homage to the hurtin’ n cheatin’ duet albums of George and Tammy, Dolly and Porter. It’s overflowing with classics from the Patsy Cline-like The Other Half and the honky tonking Nothing Left To Say to the twangy Mavericks style 100,000 Words and Dalgleish showcase Put Your Hair Back. Easily one of the best old school country albums of this or any year, what on earth is Nashville waiting for!

    7. Red Shoes - Ring Around The Land (Cedarwood)
    Quite simply the folk rock album of the year. 25 years in coming, Mark and Carolyn Evans join forces with Dave Pegg and friends for a collection of breathtaking songs of love, loss and emotional yearning hung upon his jangling guitar and her spine shivering Dennyesque vocal. A cover of White Dress is the equal of the original while the celebratory title track’s rousing hymn to renewal is the first folk anthem of the 21st century.

    8. Smoke Fairies - Frozen Heart (own label)
    Yes, it’s an EP, okay. Live with it. I declared former Chichester school choir girls Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire the most exciting arrivals on the folk roots world this century and I’m not about to revise that opinion. English goblin folk, plainsong and deep ellum blues mingle together in an intoxicating brew from which I’m anxious to drink deeper when the debut album arrives.

    9. Thea Gilmore - Strange Communion (Fullfill)
    She was on the list last year with Liejacker and makes it two in a row with this seasonally themed diamond of such self-penned cocktails of cynicism and sentiment as Old December and Drunken Angels plus a brace of covers that included a magical version of Yoko’s Listen the Snow Is Falling. This year also saw her live Recorded Delivery album, and that was pretty special too.

    10. Yonder - Yonder (Rootsy.nu)
    Stockholm’s answer to Iron & Wine or Fleet Foxes weave together blues, soul, church and mountain music in gospel-soaked songs of love and faith rich in wistful melancholy and sung in a voice as fragile as icicles and as pure as pine woods

    Reserve Team: Amy Speace - The Killer In Me (Wildflower), Bap Kennedy - Howl On (Lonely Street Discs), Boo Hewardine - God Bless The Pretty Things (Navigator), Buddy & Julie Miller- Written In Chalk (New West); Israel Nash Gripka - New York Town (Continental Song City), Jones - Hopeland (MeMe), Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (Island), Pierce Pettis - That Kind of Love (Compass), Robin James - Saint Jude (Pocket Size), Sam Carter - Keepsakes (Captain).


    Gaby Green of Green Gab PR

    Jon Allen- Dead Man’s Suit
    Diana Jones- Better Times Will Come
    Harry Manx- Bread and Buddha
    Alela Diane- To Be Still
    Davy Knowles- Coming Up For Air
    Bap Kennedy- Howl On
    Ruby Turner- I’m Travelling On
    Dave Rawlings- A Friend of a Friend
    Will Hoge- The Wreckage
    Thomas Dybdahl- Thomas Dybdahl


    Karen Miller - The Miller Tells Her Tale - Americana weekly download show

    Here’s my 2009 Top 10. The first 4 were head and shoulders above the others, but Buddy and Julie were definitely the outright winners.

    Buddy and Julie - Written in Chalk
    Eric Brace and Peter Cooper - You Don't Have To Like Them Both
    Sam Baker - Cotton
    Madison Violet - No Fool For Trying
    Richard Shindell - Not Far Now
    Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will Be Left Behind
    Rosanne Cash - The List
    Grant Peeples - Pawnshop
    Chuck Prophet - Let Freedom Ring
    Greg Trooper - The Williamsburg Affair

    www.themillertellshertale.co.uk


    Tom Rose of Navigator + Reveal Records

    Tom Rose of Reveal Records - 15 of the Best from 2009

    DUOTONE - Work Harder & One Day You'll Find Her
    ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS - The Crying Light
    HELIOS - Unleft
    EDDI READER - Love Is The Way
    THE UNTHANKS - Here's The Tender Coming
    SPIRO - Lightbox
    MARK EITZEL - KLAMATH
    THE DUKE & THE KING - Nothing Gold Can Stay
    MADNESS - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
    FELICE BROTHERS - Yonder Is The Clock
    WILCO - (wilco) the album
    AA BONDY - When The Devil's Loose
    ALASDAIR ROBERTS - Spoils
    BILL CALLAHAN - Sometimes I wish I were an Eagle
    PREFAB SPROUT - Let's Change The World With Music

    in 2009 Reveal / Navigator Labels released..

    A Camp - Colonia
    Lau - Arc Light
    Jon Boden - Songs From The Floodplain
    John McCusker's - Under One Sky
    Chris Wood -Albion / Anthology
    Boo Hewerdine - God Bless The Pretty Things
    Rachael McShane - No Mans Fool
    Mawkin:Causley - The Awkward Recruit
    Martin Green Machine - First Sighting
    Mascott - Art Project
    Alyth - People Like Me
    Aidan O'Rourke - An Tobar

    Available from

    www.reveal-records.com
    www.navigator-store.com


    Neil Pearson of Fish Records

    Jeffrey Foucault - Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes
    Jon Boden - Songs from the Floodplain
    Catherine MacLellan - Water in the Ground (2CD)
    Jackie Oates - Hyperboreans
    Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
    Richard Shindell - Not Far Now
    Gretchen Peters & Tom Russell - One to the Heart, One to the..
    Caroline Herring - Golden Apples of the Sun
    Amelia Curran - War Brides
    Show of Hands - Arrogance Ignorance & Greed

    www.fishrecords.co.uk


    Bob Paterson of booking agency BPA-Live

    10. Katy Lied - Echo Games
    9. Po'Girl - Deer In The Night
    8. Gretchen Peters with Tom Russell - One To The Heart, One To The Head
    7. Brian Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
    6. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
    5. The Penny Black Remedy - No One's Fault But Your Own
    4. Alex Highton - The Woodditton Wives Club
    3. Booker T - Potato Hole
    2. Tom Russell - Blood and Candle Smoke
    1. Thea Gilmore - Strange Communion

    Musically it was a great year, but there again thankfully I have never known a year that hasn't been good musically and a year where great music has been made. In fact this year there were so many other contenders to the Top 10 that do deserve a mention; new albums by DADDY (Will Kimbrough and Tommy Womack), U2, Alana Levandoski, Show of Hands, Kirsty McGee, Madison Violet, Kendel Carson, Greg Trooper and Deadstring Brothers to mention but a few.

    www.bpa-live.com


    Barry Everitt - House of Mercy Radio Record of the year 2009

    The full top 60 will be published next week on www.houseofmercy.net
    We had over 3,000 listeners give us their top records and this is the top ten

    No 1) Last Exit To Happyland - Gurf Morlix
    No 2) Blood & Candle Smoke - Tom Russell
    No 3) Cotton - Sam Baker
    No 4) Written In Chalk - Buddy & Julie Miller
    No 5) Red River Flower - Brigitte DeMeyer
    No 6) Electric Dirt - Levon Helm
    No 7) Dusty Road To Beluah Land - Drew Nelson
    No 8) Hillbilly Goddess - Alicia Nugent
    No 9) A Friend Of A Friend - Dave Rawlings Machine
    No 10) Bread & Buddha - Harry Manx

    HOUSE of MERCY RADIO - Radio Without Borders
    every day of the week, for the schedule go to

    www.houseofmercy.net
    www.totalrock.com London
    www.taintradio.org North Carolina USA


    David Kidman - freelance music writer

    impossible to rank, so not listed in any pecking-order as such, just alphabetically!

    Jon Boden - Songs From The Floodplain (Navigator)
    Tim Eriksen - Northern Roots Live In Na-me(šT( (Indies Scope)
    Rebsie Fairholm - Seven Star Green (Sonic Spongecake)
    Sara Grey - Sandy Boys (Fellside)
    Ray Hearne - The Wrong Sunshine (No Masters Co-operative)
    Caroline Herring - Golden Apples Of The Sun (Signature Sounds)
    Jackie Oates - Hyperboreans (One Little Indian)
    The Unthanks - Here’s The Tender Coming (EMI)
    Chris Wood - Handmade Life (RUF)
    Various Artists - Three Score And Ten (Topic)

    Plus these Honourable mentions (runners-up, I guess you might call them):

    Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts - Shadows And Half-Light (Own Label)
    Thea Gilmore - Strange Communion (Fullfill)
    GU4 - Lean On One Another (Own Label)
    Liz Law & Terry Conway - Of Riots And Rabbits (Stonehouse)
    George Papavgeris - Looking Both Ways (WildGoose)
    Alasdair Roberts - Spoils (Drag City)
    Show Of Hands - Arrogance, Ignorance And Greed (Hands On Music)

    And, aside from the Topic set, there have been some other inspirational reissues/compilations too:

    Dr. Strangely Strange - Kip Of The Serenes (Hux)
    Incredible String Band - Tricks Of The Senses (Hux)
    Robb Johnson - Margaret Thatcher: My Part In Her Downfall (Irregular)
    - and of course the Original Transatlantic Sessions (DVD and 3 CDs).


    Gail Comfort - The Comfort Zone, CMR Nashville

    Here they are, my favourites for 2009. What a tough job this was. I'm sure I've missed some, but what can you do.
    Anyway, these are the ones that kept jumping on my cd player - in good times and in bad.

    In alphabetical order:

    GIRLS:
    Rosanne Cash - The List (Manhattan)
    Tish Hinojosa - Our Little Planet (Continental Song City)
    Alana Levandoski - Lions & Werewolves (Blue Lily)
    Patty Loveless - Mountain Soul II (Saguaro Road)
    Romi Mayes - Achin in Yer Bones (Me and My Records)
    Amanda Shires - West Cross Timbers (WeldingRod)

    BOYS:
    Sam Baker - Cotton (Music Road Records)
    Ridley Bent - Buckles & Boots (Open Road)
    Paul Burch - Still Your Man (Ramseur)
    Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies (Bloodshot)
    Boo Hewerdine - God Bless the Pretty Things (Navigator)
    Ray Wylie Hubbard - Snake Farm (Bordello)
    Kieran Kane - Somewhere Beyond the Roses (Dead Reckoning)
    Gurf Morlix - Last Exit to Happyland (Rootball)
    Danny Schmidt - Instead the Forest Rose to Sing (Red House)
    Rick Shea - Shelter Valley Blues (Tres Pescadores)
    Owen Temple - Dollars and Dimes (El Paisano)

    DUOS:
    Buddy and Julie Miller – Written in Chalk (New West)
    The Pines - Tremolo (Red House)

    BANDS:
    Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women - Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women (Yep Roc)
    The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You (Sony)
    The Barker Band - Sorry for the Kissing (BB Records)
    The Black Crows - Before the Frost (Red)
    Lee Harvey Osmond - A Quiet Evil (Latent)
    Son Volt - American Central Dust (Rounder/Decca)

    DEBUT:
    Patrick Brealey (without the Knives) - Mercury in Songbirds (Boompa)
    Sara Watkins (without Nickle Creek) - Sara Watkins (Nonesuch)

    COMPILATIONS:
    Greg Brown - Dream City, Essential Recordings 1997 - 2006 (Red House)
    Lynn Miles - Black Flowers, Vol. 1 & 2 (True North)
    Various Artists - Man of Somebody's Dreams, A Tribute to Chris Gaffney (Yep Roc)

    www.myspace.com/gailcomfort


    John Graveling - JEG Artist Management - 2009 top 10 plus best of the decade

    Here’s my Top 10 for 2009 for Net Rhythms.

    1. Chuck Prophet – Let Freedom Ring
    2. Son Volt – American Central Dust
    3. Patty Loveless – Mountain Soul II
    4. Buddy & Julie Miller – Written In Chalk
    5. Richmond Fontaine – We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River
    6. Madison Violet – No Fool For Trying
    7. Slaid Cleaves – Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
    8. Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels
    9. Todd Thibaud – Broken
    10. Levon Helm – Electric Dirt

    In no particular order here are the 53 albums that were very special to me during the last decade:

    One Endless Night - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
    Broke Down – Slaid Cleaves
    Transcendental Blues – Steve Earle
    Red Dirt Girl – Emmylou Harris
    Crossing Muddy Waters – John Hiatt
    The Houston Kid – Rodney Crowell
    Scuffletown – Eric Taylor
    Are You Ready For the Big Show – Radney Foster
    Mountain Soul – Patty Loveless
    Tiger Tom Dixon’s Blues – Rod Picott
    1,000 Kisses – Patty Griffin
    Lost & Found – Eliza Gilkyson
    Somewhere South of Wonder – Jeff Finlin
    Out In California – Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men
    Home – The Dixie Chicks
    Midnight & Lonesome – Buddy Miller
    Freedom’s Child – Billy Joe Shaver
    World Without Tears – Lucinda Williams
    Tombstone Boys, Graveyard Girls – Tom Ovans
    Eastmoutainsouth – Eastmountainsouth
    Washington D.C. – Tommy Womack Band
    My Baby Don’t Tolerate – Lyle Lovett
    Fate’s Right Hand – Rodney Crowell
    To A Friend – Tandy
    Post To Wire – Richmond Fontaine
    Between Here & Gone – Mary Chapin Carpenter
    Universal House of Prayer – Buddy Miller
    Dogwood Winter – A J Roach
    Bittertown – Lori McKenna
    Fair & Square – John Prine
    Blame The Vain – Dwight Yoakam
    Cold Roses – Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
    Childish Things – James McMurtry
    Walking Among The Living – Jon Randall
    Paradise Hotel – Eliza Gilkyson
    Souls Chapel – Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
    One More Time – Joy Lynn White
    At The Woman’s Club – Daddy
    Ghost Repeater – Jeffrey Foucault
    Americanitis – Will Kimbrough
    Firecracker – The Wailin’ Jennys
    These Days – Vince Gill
    Raising Sand – Alison Krauss/Robert Plant
    The Calling – Mary Chapin Carpenter
    Brighter Than Creations Dark – The Drive-By Truckers
    Just Us Kids – James McMurtry
    From The Reach – Sonny Landreth
    Man Descending – Justin Rutledge
    Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
    Rattlin’ Bones – Kasey Chambers/Shane Nicholson
    Let Freedom Ring – Chuck Prophet
    American Central Dust – Son Volt
    Mountain Soul II – Patty Loveless

    www.facebook.com/people/John-Graveling/669276824


    Peter Holmstedt - Hemifrån: an independent A&R, promotion and marketing company, based in the heart of Sweden

    Best of 2009....

    1. Citizen K : Meet Citizen K (Paraply Records)
    2. Harper Simon : Harper Simon (Tulsi Records)
    3. Jill Sobule : California Years (Pinko Records)
    4. Moonalice : Moonalice (A Minor Label)
    5. Dave Rawlings Machine : A Friend Of A Friend (Acony Records)
    6. Clarence Bucaro : New Orleans (Hyena Records)
    7. Amy Allison : Sheffield Streets (Urban Myth Recording Collective)
    8. Zachary Richard : Last Kiss (Artist Garage)
    9. Bob Cheevers : Tall Texas Tales (Inbred Records)
    10. Keith Miles : Beyond The Headlights (House Of Trout Records)
    11. Maplewood : Yeti Boombox (Tapete Records)
    12. Amy Speace : The Killer In Me (Wildflower Records)
    13. Dawes : North Hills (ATO Records)
    14. Sugarcane Jane : Sugarcane Jane (Admiral Bean)
    15. Monsters Of Folk : Monsters Of Folk (Rough Trade)

    HONORARY MENTION :

    "Amchitka - The 1970 Concert That Launched Greenpeace"

    Hemifrån
    Spadvägen 8
    SE-513 50 Sparsör
    Sweden
    peter.holmstedt@telia.com
    www.hemifran.com


    Sam Inglis - Features Editor Sound on Sound and singer-songwriter (The Morning People)

    Best of 2009? OK, here goes.

    If not a vintage year, 2009 was certainly a lot better than its predecessor. There was a new Luke Haines album, which is never a bad thing. There was a new Elvis Perkins album, which perhaps wasn't as amazing as the first one, but did contain the best Donovan misquote ever in 'Yellow is the colour of my true love's crossbow'. There were several great electronica albums, including Jon Hopkins' Insides, Dan Deacon's Bromst and Vowels' The Pattern Prism. And best of all, in my book, was Cass McCombs' magnificent Catacombs: an album that seemed impossibly slight on first listen but slowly revealed itself as one of the great singer-songwriter records. Oh, and look out for Field Music's brilliant new album Field Music (Measure), which is due out early in 2010.

    www.myspace.com/themorningpeople


    Trevor Hards - Music lover and Luton Town fan - 2009 top 10 plus best of the decade

    1. Not Far Now– Richard Shindell
    I thought it was impossible to surpass his 2000 album Somewhere Near Paterson but he came up trumps with this. Funded by advance donations from fans, it was as if he was trying to repay their trust by making the best album of his career and everything from the digipak package to the music is first class. A Juggler Out In Traffic is as moving as music gets, Gethsemani Goodbye, State Of The Union, One Man’s Arkansas and the Dave Carter cover The Mountain are all personal faves but theres not a weak track from start to finish.

    2. Treasury Library Canada- Woodpigeon
    One of my two great Canadian discoveries this year. Mark Hamiltons collective hail from Calgary and this is their second album of baroque folk pop. Vocally close to the hushed tones of Elliot Smith or Sufjan Stevens, Hamilton has an amazing ear for melody and harmony.

    3. One Fast Move Or I’m Gone- Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard
    Farrar can do wrong in my book and has excelled himself with two top notch records this year writing the music for most of this and using Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur prose to inform the lyrics. Bringing Death For Cutie singer/ songwriter Ben Gibbard into the fold was a master stroke in my view which brought some welcome colour to the vocals.

    4. Josephine- Magnolia Electric Co
    This is Jason Molina shedding his Neil Young skin and drawing on a few other influences. I loved it and thought it was up there with the classic first MEC album.

    5. American Central Dust- Son Volt
    Jay Farrar returns to his country rock roots after a couple of more ‘progressive’ albums. As The Search was my album of the year a couple of years back, I should be disappointed but Jay can do what he likes. When the history books are written, somebody will inform us that Jay Farrar in the noughties was the nearest thing we had to Neil Young in the 70s. God like genius anybody ?

    6. Winter Hours - The Deep Dark Woods
    My other great Canadian discovery, this time from Saskatoon. Liked the much missed Minneapolis band Bellwether, you can actually hear that they live in extreme cold for a large part of the year. Beautiful melancholy roots rock, their singer/writer Ryan Boldt has one of those totally believable sad voices that sucks you into the songs.

    7. Year In The Kingdom- J.Tillman
    You have to be in the right mood to listen to JT, but I find his slow- paced lyrically spiritual roots stuff strangely uplifting. Josh put out two albums this year, equally as good. I’m going for this one purely because it contains Though I Have Wronged You which was amazing live with his band.

    8. Veckatimest- Grizzly Bear
    Two Weeks is so damn catchy that initial impressions were that the other eleven songs lacked melody. Not true, it just just took a lot of plays over many months for the clever, intricate arrangements and subtle melodies to sink in. The Beach Boys circa Surfs Up meets Radiohead is a fair description.

    9. Around The Well- Iron & Wine
    This is like a best of compilation covering Iron & Wines whole career from the lo-fi acoustic swamp folk at the beginning to the more elaborate recent stuff and yet none of these songs has been on an official album. An amazing double compilation, there’s gold in these grooves.

    10. Lost Channels- Great Lake Swimmers
    The third Canadian outfit in my ten, I’ve liked Great Lake Swimmers from the outset but Tony Dekker added another dimension with the inclusion of the Byrdsian Palmistry and She Comes To Me In Dreams. His/ their most varied and interesting album yet.

    Gigs Of the year:
    Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express- Bedford
    Woodpigeon/ The Miserable Rich- ICA, London
    J. Tillman and band- Bush Hall London
    Iron & Wine- Marymoor Park, Seattle
    Peter Bruntnell band- Bedford

    and ALBUMS OF THE DECADE

    1. 1. Touched- Ken Stringfellow
    2. 2. Welcome Convalescence- South San Gabriel
    3. 3. The Rising- Bruce Springsteen
    4. 4. Jerusalem- Steve Earle
    5. 5. Illinois- Sufjan Stevens
    6. 6. Ghosts Of The Great Highway- Sun Kil Moon
    7. 7. The Search- Son Volt
    8. 8. Operation Motorcide- Centro-matic
    9. 9. Transatlanticism- Death Cab for Cutie
    10. 10. Yours Mine & Ours- Pernice Bros
    11. 11. Somewhere Near Patterson- Richard Shindell
    12. 12. Fort Recovery- Centro- matic
    13. 13. Dents & Shells- Richard Buckner
    14. 14. Songs In a Northern Key- Anders Parker
    15. 15. Post To Wire- Richmond Fontaine
    16. 16. Meadowlands- The Wrens
    17. 17. Seven Swans- Sufjan Stevens
    18. 18. Black Cadillac- Rosanne Cash
    19. 19. A Man Under The Influence- Alejandro Escovedo
    20. 20. Cold Roses- Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
    21. 21. Plans- Death Cab For Cutie
    22. 22. The Carlton Chronicles- South San Gabriel
    23. 23. Sunday Shoes- Nels Andrews
    24. 24. What Is Love For- Justin Currie
    25. 25. Josephine- Magnolia Electric Co
    26. 26. Love You Just The Same- Centro- matic
    27. 27. In The Reins- Iron & Wine / Calexico
    28. 28. Houston Kid- Rodney Crowell
    29. 29. Magnolia Electric Co- Songs Ohia
    30. 30. Land Of Milk & Honey- Eliza Gilkyson


    John Davy - off the National Grid and windmill-powered, Scoraig, Scotland - Best of the Decade

    Here's a best of the decade list; I'd like to have put both of Drew Nelson's albums in, partly because nobody seems to have picked up on him much and I reckon he's quite special. In no particular order. All of these I love everytime I hear them and some of them are definitely comfort music for me by now

    AJ Roach: Revelation
    Nels Andrews: Sunday Shoes
    Bruce Springsteen: Magic
    Drew Nelson: Dusty Road to Beulah Land
    Joe West: Human Cannonball
    Wilco: Wilco(the album)
    Thamusement: Silver Seed
    Paul Burch & the WPA Ballclub: Blue Notes
    Loomer: Songs of the Wild West Island
    Willard Grant Conspiracy: Let it Roll

    John's Biscuits & Gravy page for more music and reviews


    Bob Paterson of booking agency BPA-Live - Best of the Decade

    Surprisingly easier than expected. I guess you focus on those albums you immediately reach to when you need some cheering up or some inspiration. You know which those albums are, and in my case - in descending order:

    10. Chuck Prophet - No Other Love
    9. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
    8. Tom Russell - Hotwalker
    7. Thea Gilmore - Harpo's Ghost
    6. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
    5. Amy MacDonald - This Is The Life
    4. REM - Around The Sun
    3. Molly Thomas - Shoot The Sky
    2. Moby - Hotel
    1. Winter - Ten Songs


    NAVIGATOR + REVEAL RECORDS ARTISTS - Best of the Decade
    including label owner TOM ROSE's top 100 of the decade

    HEIDI TALBOT
    Camera Obscura - Lets Get out of this Country
    Sinead O' Connor - Sean-Nos Nua
    Sharon Shannon - The Diamond Mountain Sessions
    Gillian Welsh - Hell among the Yearlings
    Iarla O'Lionaird - Invisible Fields
    Stephen Fretwell - Magpie
    Abigail Washburn - Song of the Traveling Daughter
    Tim O'Brien - Chameleon
    Mary Black - Twenty Five Years Twenty Five Songs
    Eddi Reader - Peacetime

    www.myspace.com/heiditalbotmusic


    ALYTH
    down the road - van morrison
    as if to nothing - Craig Armstrong
    want one - Rufus Wainwright
    what is love for? - Justin Currie
    sirius - Aidan O'Rourke
    grit - martyn bennett
    may we never have to say goodbye - Shaun Davey
    may monday - Karen Tweed & Timo Alakotila
    begin to hope - Regina Spektor
    final straw - Snow Patrol

    www.myspace.com/alythspace


    CHRIS WOOD
    1 Tim Dalling - Blossom
    2 Tom Waits - Alice
    3 Tom Waits - Blood Money
    4 Louden Wainwright - Last Man on Earth
    5 Johnny Atkinson - O'Neil and I
    6 Thomas Feiner and Anywhen - The Opiates Revised
    7 Eliza Gylkison - Paradise Hotel
    8 Hem - Rabbit Songs
    9 Ceri Rhys Mathews - Yscolan
    10 Duotone - Work Harder and One Day You'll Find Her

    www.chriswoodmusic.co.uk

    [Ed: You can pre-order the Chris's latest album, Handmade Life, from this website (shipping on 7th Dec)
    or buy your copy from the Handmade Life concerts which begann on 20th November. Retail release scheduled for 1st March 2010.)


    CHRIS WILLIAMS (of Monkey With A Pen)
    1. JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN - REAL LIFE
    2. THE AVALANCHES - SINCE I LEFT YOU
    3. FLEET FOXES - FLEET FOXES
    4. PRIMAL SCREAM - EXTERMINATOR
    5. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - SOUND OF SILVER
    6. ARCADE FIRE - FUNERAL
    7.GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - LIFT YOUR 8.SKINNY FISTS
    9.THE STROKES - IS THIS IT?
    10. NICK CAVE - ABATTOIR BLUES/THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS


    JON BODEN (BELLOWHEAD / SPIERS & BODEN / SOLO ARTIST) Kate Bush - Aerial
    Tom Waits - Blood Money
    Ed Harcourt - The Beautiful Lie
    Jim Moray - Sweet England
    Mary Hampton - My Mothers Children
    Eliza Carthy - Anglicana
    Tom Waits - Orphans
    The Long Blondes - Someone to drive you home
    Eliza Carthy - Dreams of Breathing Underwater
    Martin Simpson - True Stories

    www.spiersandboden.com


    INGE THOMSON ( from Karine Polwart Band / Solo Artist)
    Hanne Hukkelberg- Little Things
    Laura Veirs- Carbon Glacier
    Tin Hat Trio- Rodeo Eroded
    Goldfrapp- Felt Mountain
    May Monday- Karen Tweed & Timo Alakotilla
    Amestoy Trio- Le Fil
    Regina Spektor- Begin to Hope
    Filippo Gambetta- Pria Goaea
    Lamb- Between Darkness & Wonder

    www.myspace.com/ingethomson

    Inge's new album "Shipwrecks & Static" is available on Navigator Records


    DAVE DERBY (GRAMERCY ARMS / SOLO ARTIST)
    1. the strokes - is this it
    2. arcade fire - funeral
    3. go betweens - friends of rachel worth
    4. wilco – ghost is born
    5. pernice brothers - the world won't end
    6. joan as police woman - real life
    7. ryan adams - heartbreaker
    8. lloyd cole - anti-depressant
    9. felice brothers - the felice brothers
    10.lcd soundsystem - sound of silver

    www.myspace.com/davederby


    DEAN OWENS (Solo artist / Felsons)
    Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    Calexico - Feast Of Wire
    Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway
    Josh Rouse - Nashville
    Grant Lee Phillips - Virginia Creeper
    Richmond Fontaine - Post To Wire
    Mark Olson - My Own Jo Ellen
    Bruce Springsteen - ...The Rising
    Ron Sexsmith - Cobblestone Runway
    Johnny Cash - American IV - The Man Comes Around

    www.myspace.com/deanowenspace


    RACHAEL McSHANE (Bellowhead / Solo Artist)
    Aidan O'Rourke - Sirius (2005)
    Alison Krauss & Union Station - Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
    Aqualung - Aqualung (2002)
    Catherine Feeney - Hurricane Glass (2006)
    Chris Thile - Not All Who Wander Are Lost (2001)
    Chris Wood - The Lark Descending (2005)
    Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur (2007)
    Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself (2005)
    Sigur Ros - Takk (2005)
    Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott - Real Time (2000)

    www.myspace.com/rachaelmcshane


    JOAN WASSER (JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN)
    outkast- stankonia
    cass mccombs- A
    midlake- the tales of van occupanther
    the knife- silent shout
    rufus wainwright -want one and two
    antony and the johnsons- i am a bird now
    mariah carey- the emancipation of mimi
    amy winehouse back to black
    hot chip- made in the dark
    dan auerbach- keep it hid

    www.myspace.com/joanaspolicewoman


    DAVE DELLARE (MAWKIN:CAUSLEY) Girls Aloud - Chemistry
    Lamb - What Sound
    Tom Waits - Alice
    Jeff Beck - Live at Ronnie Scotts
    Radiohead - Kid A
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
    Moldy Peaches - Moldy Peaches
    Faithless - No Roots
    Ali Farka Toure - Savane
    Prodigy - Invaders Must Die

    www.myspace.com/mawkincausley


    and finally TOM ROSE OF NAVIGATOR + REVEAL RECORDS 100 of the best albums of The Decade ..

    Posted Sober - Michael Marra
    Real Life - Joan As Police Woman
    Blue Notes - Paul Burch
    Want 1&2 - Rufus Wainwright
    Rabbit Themes - Hem
    Is That A Riot? - Youngblood Brass Band
    Listening To The River - Chris Wood
    Chavez Ravine - Ry Cooder
    Kid A - Radiohead
    Nixon - Lambchop
    Twilight As Played By - The Twilight Singers
    A Strangely Isolated Place - Ulrich Schnauss
    Aerial - Kate Bush
    Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
    Alice - Tom Waits
    Long Gone Before Daylight - The Cardigans
    Is This It - Strokes
    Trespasser - Chris Wood
    You Are The Quarry - Morrissey
    The Old Kitbag - Richard Thompson
    Christmas - Low
    Black Water - Kris Drever
    Deloused In The Comatorium - Mars Volta
    Tales of Van Occupanther - Midlake
    () - Sigur Ros
    Everyday - Cinematic Orchestra
    Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams
    Arc Light - Lau
    The Lark Descending - Chris Wood
    Rated R - Queens Of The Stone Age
    Smile - Brian Wilson
    Ease Down The Road - Bonnie Prince Billy
    Lightweights & Gentlemen - Lau
    Country Got Soul - Various Artists
    Get Lifted - John Legend
    May Be Some Time - Jon Redfern
    Original Pirate Material - The Streets
    Songs From The Floodplain - Jon Boden
    Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus - Nick Cave & Bad Seeds
    One Moment More - Mindy Smith
    American Recordings 3 - Johnny Cash
    Tasty - Kelis
    Hell Among The Yearlings - Gillian Welch
    Coles Corner - Richard Hawley
    Lift your skinny Fists - Godspeed You Black Emperor!
    Carbon Glacier - Laura Veirs
    Under Cold Blue Stars - Josh Rouse
    Where shall you take me - Damien Jurado
    Favourite Record - Asylum Street Spankers
    Kicking Television - Wilco

    Jim O’Rourke - Insignificance
    Beth Gibbons - Out Of Season
    Manitoba / Caribou- Up In Flames
    Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
    And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead - Source Tags & Codes
    Avalanches - Since I left You
    Lucinda Williams - Essence
    Bellowhead - Burlesque
    Nada Surf - Let Go
    Simone White - I Am The Man
    Devon Sproule - Upstate Songs
    Mum - Finally We Are No One
    Youssu N’Dour - Egypt
    Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Place
    Fountains Of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
    Ali Farka Toure - Savane
    Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
    James Hunter - People Gonna Talk
    Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing
    Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat
    Mark Lannegan - Bubblegum
    Joanna Newsom - Ys
    Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - The Bairns
    Malcolm Middleton - Into The Woods
    PJ Harvey - Stories From The City
    Richmond Fontaine - Post To Wire
    65Daysofstatic - The Fall Of Math
    A Silver Mount Zion - Born Into Trouble Sparks Fly Upwards
    Magnolia Electric Co. - Faiding Trails
    Camille - Le FIl
    Helios - Eingya
    Natalie Merchant - The House Carpenter’s Daughter
    Bjork - Vespertine
    Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    Karine Polwart - Fairest Fleur
    Beck - Sea Change
    Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
    Wilco - Ghost Is Born
    Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
    Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Girl
    Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
    Sparklehorse - It’s A Wonderful Life
    Neko Case - Blacklisted
    Bright Eyes - Im Wide Awake It’s Morning
    Calexico - Feast Of Wire
    Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
    Lambchop - Is A Woman
    Fugazi - The Argument
    Interpol - turn on the bright lights
    Fourtet - Pause
    Solomon Burke - Don’t Give Up On Me


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