Top 11
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1. Alexi Murdoch: Time Without Consequence
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2. Alejandro Escovedo: The Boxing Mirror
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3. Ray Davies: Other People’s Lives
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4. Bob Dylan: Modern Times
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5. James Hunter: People Gonna Talk
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6. The Long Winters: Putting the Days to Bed
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7. Johnny Cash: American V
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8. Luka Bloom: Innocence
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9. Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris: All the Road Running
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10.Bruce Cockburn: Life Short Call Now
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11.The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
Second Top 11:
Tres Chicas: Bloom, Red & The Ordinary Gir
lKris Kristofferson: This Old Road
The Who: Endless Wire
Jackie Greene: American Myth
Robyn Hitchcock: Ole! Tarantula
Jenny Lewis: Rabbit Fur Coat
Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint: The River in Reverse
Bruce Springsteen: The Seeger Sessions
Tom Petty: Highway CompanionNeil Young: Living With War
New York Dolls: One Day It Will Please Us…
Noteworthy:
Essex Green: Cannibal Sea
Willie Nile: Streets of New York
Richie Furay: Heartbeat of Love
Pure Prairie League: All in Good Time
Handsome Family: The Last Days of Wonder
Rhett Miller: The Believer
Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3: tick…tick…tick
Sarah Harmer: I’m a Mountain
Black Keys: Magic Potion
The Drams: Jubilee Drive
Gomez: How We Operate
John Stewart: The Day the River Sang
Golden Smog: Another Fine Day
Matthew Sweet and Susanah Hoffs: Under the Covers, Vol.1
Darden Smith: Field of Crows
Lewis Taylor: Stoned
Railroad Earth: Elko
Richard Butler: Richard Butler
Rosanne Cash: Black Cadillac
Gnarls Barkley: St. Elsewhere
Gob Iron: Death Songs for the Living
Edie Brickell: Stranger Things
Let Downs:
Paul Simon: Surprise
Beth Orton: Comfort of Strangers
Mindy Smith: Long Island Shores
2005 Carryover:
Winterpills
Favorite Reissue:
Byrds: There is a Season
Sad Farewells and a Tip o’ the Hat from music fans everywhere:
Arthur Lee,
James Brown,
Wilson Pickett,
Ali Farka Toure,
Ruth Brown,
Grant McLennan,
Syd Barrett,
Billy Preston,
Lou Rawls,
Freddy Fender,
Buck Owens,
Cindy Walker,
John Hicks,
Hilton Ruiz,
Betty Comden,
Anita O’Day,
Joseph Hill,
Desmond Dekker
and, of course, the great Ahmet Ertegun
Favorite Music Films:
Heart of Gold
I’m Your Man