Polls
What is your favorite release for week of May 14?
- CHIP TAYLOR, Block Out the Sirens of This Lonely World
- THE HANDSOME FAMILY, Wilderness
- JASON BOLAND & STRAGGLERS, Dark & Dirty Mile
- VAMPIRE WEEKEND, Modern Vampires Of The City
- MATT KEATING, Wrong Way Home
- POPA CHUBBY, Universal Breakdown Blues
- SAM AMIDON, Bright Sunny South
What is your favorite release for week of May 7?
- PATTY GRIFFIN, American Kid
- JAMES COTTON, Cotton Mouth Man
- PISTOL ANNIES, Annie Up
- NATALIE MAINES, Mother
- DEERHUNTER, Monomania
- AUSTIN LOUNGE LIZARDS, Home and Deranged
- LADY ANTEBELLUM, Golden
- ROD STEWART, Time
- SHE & HIM, Volume 3
- FITZ & THE TANTRUMS, More Than Just A Dream
- RUTH MOODY, These Wilder Things
What is your favorite release for week of April 30?
- RANDY ROGERS BAND, Trouble
- IGGY & THE STOOGES, Ready to Die
- DENISON WITMER, Denison Witmer
- GINA SICILIA, It Wasn’t Real
- AMY DUNCAN, Cycles of Life
- AKRON/FAMILY, Sub Verses
- KENNY CHESNEY, Life On A Rock
What is your favorite release for week of April 23?
- FRANK TURNER, Tape Deck Heart
- LORI MCKENNA, Massachusetts
- CHARLIE PARR, Barnswallow
- STEVE MARTIN AND EDIE BRICKELL, Love Has Come For You
- PHOENIX, Bankrupt
- LUKE WINSLOW-KING, Coming Tide
What is your favorite release for week of April 16?
- STEVE EARLE, The Low Highway
- JJ GREY & MOFRO, This River
- IRON & WINE, Ghost on Ghost
- THE FLAMING LIPS, The Terror
- WILLIE NELSON, Let’s Face The Music and Dance
What is your favorite release for week of April 9?
- DEADSTRING BROTHERS, Cannery Row
- JOHN MURRY, Graceless Age
- RONNIE EARL & BROADCASTERS, Just for Today
- JAKE BUGG, Jake Bugg
- PARAMORE, Paramore
- BRAD PAISLEY, Wheelhouse
- LAHHA KHAN, At Home
What is your favorite release for week of April 2?
- THE BLACK ANGELS, Indigo Meadow
- HEM, Departure & Farewell
- HACKENSAW BOYS, For the Love of a Friend
- TELEKINESIS, Dormarion
- BETH HART, Bang Bang Boom Boom
- THE BAND PERRY, Pioneer
What is your favorite release for week of March 26?
- THE WATERBOYS, Appointment With Mr Yeats
- THE MILK CARTON KIDS, The Ash & Clay
- BLACK LILLIES, Runaway Freeway Blues
- THE STROKES, Comedown Machine
- CRYSTAL BOWERSOX, All That for This
- THOM CHACON, Thom Chacon
What is your favorite release for week of March 19?
- BILLY BRAGG, Tooth & Nail
- JASON ELMORE & HOODOO WITCH, Tell You What
- KACEY MUSGRAVES, Same Trailer Different Park
- JOSH ROUSE, Happiness Waltz
- SIMONE DINNERSTEIN & TIFT MERRIT, Night
- SUEDE, Bloodsports
- ANAIS MITCHELL & JEFFERSON HAMER, Child Ballads
- BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE GANG, Specter at the Feast
What is your favorite release for week of March 12?
- SHOOTER JENNINGS, The Other Life
- ERIC CLAPTON, Old Sock
- DAVID BOWIE, The Next Day
What is your favorite release for week of March 5?
- SON VOLT, Honky Tonk
- JOSH RITTER, Beast in Its Tracks
- BOZ SCAGGS, Memphis
- ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Love From London
- LONESOME WYATT AND THE HOLY SPOOKS, Ghost Ballads
- THE CAVE SINGERS, Naomi
- CAITLIN ROSE, The Stand-In
What is your favorite release for week of February 26?
- EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL, Old Yellow Moon
- THE MAVERICKS, In Time
- MOUNT MORIAH, Miracle Temple
- WAYNE HANCOCK, Ride
- DAVE ADKINS & REPUBLIK STEELE, That’s Just The Way I Roll
What is your favorite release for week of February 19?
- NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS, Push the Sky Away
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Respect Your Roots Worldwide
What is your favorite release for week of February 12?
- KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON, Cheater’s Game
- ANDERS OSBORNE, Three Free Amigos
- DEVON ALLMAN, Turquoise
- FRONTIER RUCKUS, Eternity of Dimming
- NATALY DAWN, How I Knew Her
- ROGER KNOX & THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS, Stranger in My Land
- MATT COSTA, Matt Costa
What is your favorite release for week of February 5?
- RICHARD THOMPSON, Electric
- JIM JAMES, Regions of Light and Sound of God
- EELS, Wonderful, Glorious
- MATT POND, The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand
- HOLLY WILLIAMS, Highway
- STEELDRIVERS, Hammer Down
- TRUCKSTOP HONEYMOON, Homemade Haircut
- CHRIS STAMEY, Lovesick Blues
- REED TURNER, Ghosts in the Attic
- THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN, We The Common
- RON SEXSMITH, Forever Endeavour
- KINGSLEY FLOOD, Battles
- HAYDEN, Us Alone
What is your favorite release for week of January 29?
- KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, Feeling Mortal
- FICTION FAMILY, Fiction Family Reunion
- LENA HUGHES, Queen Of The Flat Top Guitar
- BEN HARPER AND CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE, Get Up!
What is your favorite release for week of January 22?
- CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, Give Me All You Got
- CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, La Costa Perdida
- ADAM ANT, Adam Ant is The BlueBlack Hussar Marrying The Gunner’s Daughter
- BAD RELIGION, True North
- GUIDED BY VOICES, Down By the Racetrack
- MAX GOMEZ, Rule the World
- THE LONE BELLOW, Self-titled
- GARY ALLAN, Set You Free
What is your favorite release for week of January 15?
- YO LA TENGO, Fade
- ERIN MCKEOWN, Manifestra
- KATIE ARMIGER, Fall Into Me
- PARQUET COURTS, Light Up Gold
What is your favorite release for week of January 8?
- DROPKICK MURPHYS, SIGNED and SEALED in BLOOD
- DOGHOUSE SAM & HIS MAGNATONES, Buddha Blue
- BRANDON JENKINS, Through the Fire
What is your favorite album of 2012?
- I SEE HAWKS IN L.A., New Kind of Lonely
- LUCERO, Woman & Work
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Wrecking Ball
- DWIGHT, YOAKAM, 3 Pears
- SONS OF BILL, Sirens
- THE AVETT BROTHERS, The Carpenter
- JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, Nothing’s Going to Change The Way You Feel About Me Now
- LANGHORNE SLIM, The Way We Move and
- TODD SNIDER, Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
- ALABAMA SHAKES, Boys & Girls
- TIFT MERRITT, Traveling Alone
- KATHLEEN EDWARDS, Voyageur
- DR. JOHN, Locked Down
- JOE PUG, The Great Despiser
- ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO, Big Station
- CHRIS KNIGHT, Little Victories
- BRANDI CARLILE, Bear Creek
- NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE, Psychedelic Pill
- SHOVELS AND ROPE, O' Be Joyful
- THE LUMINEERS, The Lumineers
- MUMFORD & SONS, Babel
- STRAY BIRDS, The Stray Birds
- OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, Carry Me Back
- BUDDY MILLER AND JIM LAUDERDALE, Buddy and Jim
- CHUCK PROPHET, Temple Beautiful
- RY COODER, Election Special
- KASEY CHAMBERS AND SHANE NICHOLSON, Wreck and Ruin
- JOHN HIATT, Mystic Pinball
- RYAN BINGHAM, Tomorrowland
- DR. DOG, Be The Void
- THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, Handwritten
- CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS, Leaving Eden
- JERRY DOUGLAS, Traveler
- MINDY SMITH, Self-titled
- THE MASTERSONS, Birds Fly South
- CITIZEN COPE, One Lovely Day
- RUTHIE FOSTER, Let It Burn
- RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS, The Wolf You Feed
- GLEN HANSARD, Rhythm And Repose
- ROBERT FRANCIS, Strangers In The First Place
- BETTY LAVETTE, Thankful N Thoughtful
- GRACE POTTER AND THE NOCTURNALS, The Lion The Beast The Beat
- SARA WATKINS, Sun Midnight Sun
What is your favorite holiday album of 2012?
- CEELO GREEN, CeeLo's Magic Moment
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, A Very Special Christmas: Bringing Peace On Earth
- JOHN TRAVOLTA & OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, This Christmas
- AUGUST BURNS RED, Sleddin' Hill, A Holiday Album
- LADY ANTEBELLUM, On This Winter's Night
- ROD STEWART, Merry Christmas, Baby
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Holidays Rule
- CHRISTINA PERRI, a very merry perri christmas
- COLBIE CAILLAT, Christmas In The Sand
- SCOTTY MCCREERY, Christmas With Scotty McCreery
- BLAKE SHELTON, Cheers, It's Christmas
- FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI, Christmas
- JEREMY CAMP, Christmas: God With Us
- LINCOLN BREWSTER, Joy To The World
What is your favorite release for week of November 19?
- JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT, Live From Alabama
- MARRY WATERSON & OLIVER KNIGHT, Hidden
- ELVIS COSTELLO, In Motion Pictures
- PHILLIP PHILLIPS, World From the Side of the Moon
- UNCLE KRACKER, Midnight Special
- PORCUPINE TREE, Octane Twisted
- KID ROCK, Rebel Soul
What is your favorite release for week of November 13?
- BUDDY MILLER AND JIM LAUDERDALE, Buddy and Jim
- THE ROLLING STONES, GRRR!
- GUIDED BY VOICES, Bears For Lunch
- LOREN CONNORS & SUZANNE LANGILLE, I Wish I Didn’t Dream
- CARRIE NEWCOMER, Kindred Spirits: A Collection
- BOBBY BARE, Darker Than Light
What is your favorite release for week of November 6?
- PAUL KELLY, Spring & Fall
- JOSHUA JAMES, From the Top of the Willamette Mountain
- AEROSMITH, Music From Another Dimension
- MIKE DOUGHTY, The Flip Is Another Honey
- ERIC BIBB AND HABIB KOITE, Brothers in Bamako
What is your favorite release for week of October 30?
- NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE, Psychedelic Pill
- DANIELIA COTTON, Gun in Your Hand
- ANDREW BIRD, Hands of Glory
- SHELBY LYNNE, Revelation Road
- THE BACON BROTHERS, New Year’s Day
- DENNIS GRUENLING, Rockin All Day
- BELLOWHEAD, Broadside by Bellowhead
- RUSTED ROOT, Movement
- TOBY KEITH, Hope On The Rocks
What is your favorite release for week of October 23?
- KASEY CHAMBERS AND SHANE NICHOLSON, Wreck and Ruin
- ANDY ROBERTS, Urban Cowboy
What is your favorite release for week of October 16?
- GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS, Walking in the Green Corn
- JASON ALDEAN, Night Train
- BEN HARPER, By My Side
- MARTHA WAINWRIGHT, Come Home To Mama
- WIDESPREAD PANIC, Wood
- CLAUDE HAY, I Love Hate You
- CLAIRE LYNCH & FRONT PORCH STRING, Hills of Alabama
What is your favorite release for week of October 9?
- WANDA JACKSON, Unfinished Business
- THE WALLFLOWERS, Glad All Over
- A.C. NEWMAN, Shut Down the Streets
- OTIS RUSH, West Chicago Blues
- RONNIE FAUSS, I Am the Man You Know I’m Not
What is your favorite release for week of October 2?
- TIFT MERRITT, Traveling Alone
- IRIS DEMENT, Sing The Delta
- FRANK TURNER, Last Minutes & Lost Evenings
- BETH ORTON, Sugaring Season
- THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, Transcendental Youth
- JOSEPH ARTHUR, Junkyard Hearts
- MATT & KIM, Lightning
- CHARLIE PEACOCK, No Man’s Land
- MICHAEL JOHNSON, Moonlit Déja Vu
- TRISTAN PRETTYMAN, Cedar + Gold
What is your favorite release for week of September 25?
- JOHN HIATT, Mystic Pinball
- MUMFORD & SONS, Babel
- LUCY KAPLANSKY, Reunion
- ABRAMS BROTHERS, Northern Redemption
- BEN SOLLEE, Half Made Man
What is your favorite release for week of September 18?
- RYAN BINGHAM, Tomorrowland
- DWIGHT YOAKAM, 3 Pears
- BAND OF HORSES, Mirage Rock
- DINOSAUR JR., I Bet On Sky
- AIMEE MANN, Charmer
- GRIZZLY BEAR, Shields
- BEN FOLDS FIVE, The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind
- SMOKIN’ JOE KUBEK AND BNOIS KING, Close To The Bone – Unplugged
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Quiet About It: Tribute to Jesse Winchester
- DRIVIN N CRYIN, Songs About Cars – Space & The Ramones
- THE WHIGS, Enjoy the Company
- ROBERT POLLARD, Jack Sells the Cow
- JON SPENCER, Meat & Bone
- RICKIE LEE JONES, The Devil You Know
What is your favorite release for week of September 11?
- THE AVETT BROTHERS, The Carpenter
- BOB DYLAN, Tempest
- CHRIS KNIGHT, Little Victories
- CALEXICO, Algiers
- PATTERSON HOOD, Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance
- STEVE FORBERT, Over With You
- JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR, Almost Always Never
- DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, Away From The World
- CHRIS ROBINSON, The Magic Door
- MARK KNOPFLER, Privateering
- ZZ TOP, La Futura
- RAVEONETTES, Observator
- LITTLE BIG TOWN, Tornado
- DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT, Love This Giant
What is your favorite release for week of September 4?
- BOB MOULD, Silver Age
- CAT POWER, Sun
- MELISSA ETHERIDGE, 4th Street Feeling
What is your favorite release for week of August 28?
- THE DUNWELLS, Blind Sighted Faith
- AMY COOK, Summer Skin
- SEAN ROWE, The Salesman and the Shark
- MAIA SHARP, Change the Ending
- KATATONIA, Dead End Kings
- MINUS THE BEAR, Infinity Overhead
- ALANIS MORISSETTE, Havoc and Bright Lights
What is your favorite release for week of August 21?
- RY COODER, Election Special
- LYNYRD SKYNYRD, Last of a Dyin’ Breed
- KELLY JOE PHELPS, Brother Sinner & The Whale
- THE DARKNESS, Hot Cakes
What is your favorite release for week of August 14?
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Joey’s Song 2
- ROBIN AND LINDA WILLIAMS, These Old Dark Hills
- LOVERBOY, Rock N Roll Revival
- BEN TAYLOR, Listening
What is your favorite release for week of August 7?
- THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, Between the Ditches
- FOLK SOUL REVIVAL, Prompting the Dapperness
- SIXPENCE NONE THE RICHER, Lost in Translation
What is your favorite release for week of July 31?
- Shovels and Rope, O' Be Joyful1
- JOSHUA RADIN, Underwater
- Will Gray & Reva Williams, The Renegade 1
- GLORIANA, A Thousand Miles Left Behind
What is your favorite release for week of July 24?
- THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, Handwritten
What is your favorite release for week of July 17?
- OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, Carry Me Back
- CITIZEN COPE, One Lovely Day
- JON DEE GRAHAM, Garage Sale
- MATT POND PA, Nature of Maps
- SUSANNA HOFFS, Someday
- SOUL ASYLUM, Delayed Reaction
- ALBERTA CROSS, Songs of Patience
- MISSY HIGGINS, The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle
What is your favorite release for week of July 10?
- CHATHAM COUNTY LINE, Sight & Sound
What is your favorite release for week of July 3?
- JAMES LUTHER DICKINSON & NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL-STARS, I’m Just Dead I’m Not Gone
What is your favorite release for week of June 26?
- MINDY SMITH, Mindy Smith
- CASEY ABRAMS, Casey Abrams
- JOE JACKSON, The Duke
- THE FLAMING LIPS, The Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends
- EVERCLEAR, Invisible Stars
What is your favorite release for week of June 19?
- GLEN HANSARD, Rhythm And Repose
- CHRIS SMITHER, Hundred Dollar Valentine
- SMASHING PUMPKINS, Oceania
- FIONA APPLE, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser…
- DELTA RAE, Carry the Fire
What is your favorite release for week of June 12?
- THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH, There’s No Leaving Now
- DRIVIN N CRYIN, Songs From the Laundromat
- GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS, The Lion The Beast The Beat
- BODEANS, American Made
- GUIDED BY VOICES, Class Clown Spots a UFO
What is your favorite release for week of June 5?
- ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO, Big Station
- LANGHORNE SLIM & THE LAW, Way We Move
- BRANDI CARLILE, Bear Creek
- NEIL YOUNG, Americana
- CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD, Big Moon Ritual
- JOE WALSH, Analog Man
- THE BEACH BOYS, That’s Why God Made the Radio
- PATTI SMITH, BANGA
- SHAWN COLVIN, All Fall Down
- RHETT MILLER, The Dreamer
- THE HIVES, Lex Hives
- MELVINS, Freak Puke
- THE MYNABIRDS, Generals
- XAVIER RUDD, Spirit Bird
- DON MCLEAN, Addicted to Black
What is your favorite album so far this year?
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Wrecking Ball
- JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, Nothing’s Going to Change The Way You Feel About Me Now
- LUCERO, Woman & Work
- ALABAMA SHAKES, Boys & Girls
- John Fullbright - From the Ground Up1
- Archie Powell & the Exports, Great Ideas in Action1
- ray wylie hubbard, grifter's hymnal1
- Damien Jurardo/Maraqopa1
- JD McPherson, Signs and Signifiers1
- Ryan Bonner, Think of England1
- Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden1
- Turnpike Troubadours - Goodbye to Normal Street1
- SCREEN DOOR PORCH, The Fate & The Fruit1
What is your favorite release for week of May 22?
- RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS, The Wolf You Feed
- JOHN MAYER, Born and Raised
- THE CULT, Choice of Weapon
What is your favorite release for week of May 15?
- WILLIE NELSON, Heroes
- SANTANA, Shape Shifter
- MEIKO, The Bright Side
What is your favorite release for week of April 17?
- LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, Older Than My Old Man Now
- JD MCPHERSON, Signs & Signifiers
- PETER KARP & SUE FOLEY, Beyond the Crossroads
- HANK WILLIAMS III, Long Gone Daddy
- DAR WILLIAMS, In the Time of Gods
- ERIC HUTCHINSON, Moving Up Living Down
What is your favorite release for week of April 10?
- ALABAMA SHAKES, Boys & Girls
- THE MASTERSONS, Birds Fly South
- BONNIE RAITT, Slipstream
- JOHN DOE & EXENE CERVENKA, Singing & Playing
- M. WARD, A Wasteland Companion
- COUNTING CROWS, Underwater Sunshine
- HOOTS & HELLMOUTH, Salt
What is your favorite release for week of April 3?
- DR. JOHN, Locked Down
- THE LUMINEERS, The Lumineers
- ROCKY VOTOLATO, Television Of Saints
- ELVIS COSTELLO, The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook
- GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS, New Wild Everywhere
- TOM GOSS, Lost Songs and Underdogs
- BEN HOWARD, Every Kingdom
What is your favorite release for week of March 26?
- JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, Nothing’s Going to Change The Way You Feel About Me Now
- SONS OF BILL, Sirens
- RAY WYLIE HUBBARD, Grifter’s Hymnal
- COWBOY JUNKIES, Wilderness
- THE PIERCES, You & I
- LIONEL RICHIE, Tuskegee
What is your favorite release for week of March 20?
- THE SHINS, Port of Morrow
- FRANK BLACK & THE CATHOLICS, Live at Melkweg
- MARGOT & THE NUCLEAR SO & SO’S, Rot Gut Domestic
- ROBERT POLLARD, Mouseman Cloud
What is your favorite release for week of March 13?
- LUCERO, Woman & Work
- DELTA SPIRIT, Delta Spirit
- SHOOTER JENNINGS, Family Man
- THE DECEMBERISTS, We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (Live)
What is your favorite release for week of March 6?
- TODD SNIDER, Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Wrecking Ball
What is your favorite release for week of February 28?
- CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS, Leaving Eden
- LYLE LOVETT, Release Me
- HONEYDOGS, What Comes After
- CHIP TAYLOR, Fuck All the Perfect People
- AMY RAY, Lung of Love
- THE CRANBERRIES, Roses
- ANAIS MITCHELL, Young Man In America
What is your favorite release for week of February 21?
- JOSH RITTER, Bringing in the Darlings (EP)
- KEVN KINNEY & GOLDEN PALOMINOS, A Good Country Mile
- DAMIEN JURADO, Maraqopa
- LAMCHOP, Mr. M
- TOMMY WOMACK, Now What!
- SINEAD O’CONNOR, How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?
What is your favorite release for week of February 14?
- HEARTLESS BASTARDS, Arrow
- ANGELA EASTERLING, Mon secret
- PUNCH BROTHERS, Who’s Feeling Young Now?
- AMOS LEE, As The Crow Flies
- THE EXPLORERS CLUB, Grand Hotel
- ROSIE THOMAS, With Love
- EISLEY, Deep Space
What is your favorite release for week of February 7?
- CHUCK PROPHET, Temple Beautiful
- DR. DOG, Be The Void
- VAN HALEN, A Different Kind of Truth
- BEN KWELLER, Go Fly A Kite
- PAUL MCCARTNEY, Kisses on the Bottom
What is your favorite release for week of January 31?
- RUTHIE FOSTER, Let It Burn
- JOHN HIATT, Crossing Muddy Waters
- DARRELL SCOTT, Long Ride Home
- bap kennedy,the sailor's revenge1
- RINGO STARR, Ringo 2012
- DEL MCCOURY, Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe
What is your favorite release for week of January 24?
- CRAIG FINN, Clear Heart Full Eyes
- MICAH SCHNABEL, I'm Dead, Serious1
- NADA SURF, The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy
- MARTIN SEXTON, Fall Like Rain (EP)
- WEAKERTHANS, Provincial
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, New Multitudes
What is your favorite release for week of January 17?
- CHRIS CASTLE, Last Bird Home1
- KATHLEEN EDWARDS, Voyageur
- GUIDED BY VOICES, Let’s Go Eat the Factory
- ANI DIFRANCO, Which Side Are You On
- DEVON SPROULE, I Love You Go Easy
What is your favorite release for week of January 10?
- THE LITTLE WILLIES, For the Good Times
- SNOW PATROL, Fallen Empires
What is your favorite release for week of January 3?
- FRED ANDREWS & HONEYBROWNE, This Side of Crazy
What is your favorite album of 2011?
- JASON ISBELL AND 400 UNIT, Here We Rest
- MATTHEW RYAN, I Recall Standing as Though Nothing Could Fall
- THE DECEMBERISTS, The King Is Dead
- RYAN ADAMS, Ashes & Fire
- GILLIAN WELCH, The Harrow & The Harvest
- TOM WAITS, Bad As Me
- WILCO, The Whole Love
- DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Go-Go Boots
- DAVE ALVIN, Eleven Eleven
- HAYES CARLL, KMAG YOYO (& other American stories)
- LUCINDA WILLIAMS, Blessed
- JOHN HIATT, Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns
- STEVE EARLE, I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
- JAYHAWKS, Mockingbird Time
- MY MORNING JACKET, Circuital
- THE WAILIN’ JENNYS, Bright Morning Stars
- R.E.M., Collapse Into Now
- THE BOTTLE ROCKETS, Not So Loud: An Acoustic Evening
- NEIL YOUNG INTERNATIONAL HARVESTERS, A Treasure
- BODEANS, Indigo Dreams
- THE DECEMBERISTS, Long Live the King (EP)
What is your favorite holiday album of 2011?
- Shurman & Family Christmas Vol. 11
- SHE & HIM, A Very She & Him Christmas
What is your favorite release for week of November 22?
- RHETT MILLER, The Interpreter: Live At Largo
- WILLIE NELSON, Remember Me Vol. 1
- SARAH HARMER, oh little fire1
What is your favorite release for week of November 15?
- R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982 – 2011
- SEAN COSTELLO, At His Best: Live
What is your favorite release for week of November 8?
- STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, Soul to Soul
- NOEL GALLAGHER, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
- LAURA VEIRS, Tumble Bee
What is your favorite release for week of November 1?
- THE DECEMBERISTS, Long Live the King
- Miranda Lambert - Four the Record1
- Florence and the Machine1
- parker roads,youngbood1
What is your favorite release for week of October 24?
- TOM WAITS, Bad As Me
- DEER TICK, Divine Providence
- PAUL KELLY, Songs From the South
- WILLIE NILE, The Innocent Ones
- POPA CHUBBY, Back to New York City
- SAM LLANAS, 4 Am
What is your favorite release for week of October 18?
- SHELBY LYNNE, Revelation Road
- CHRIS ISAAK, Beyond the Sun
What is your favorite release for week of October 11?
- RYAN ADAMS, Ashes & Fire
- SCOTT H BIRAM, Bad Ingredients
- JAMES MORRISON, Awakening
- JOHN WESLEY HARDING, The Sound of His Own Voice
- PETER GABRIEL, New Blood
What is your favorite release for week of October 4?
- BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Wolfroy Goes to Town
- MIKE VIOLA, Electro De Perfecto
- INDIGO GIRLS, Beauty Queen Sister
What is your favorite release for week of September 27?
- WILCO, The Whole Love
- MATTHEW SWEET, Modern Art
- MEKONS, Ancient & Modern
- DARYL HALL, Laughing Down Crying
- JOSH ROUSE & THE LONG VACATIONS, Josh Rouse & The Long Vacations
- SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS, Zombified
What is your favorite release for week of September 20?
- JAYHAWKS, Mockingbird Time
- RICHMOND FONTAINE, The High Country
- WILL DAILEY, Will Dailey & The Rivals
- LISA HANNIGAN, Passenger
- GAVIN DEGRAW, Sweeter
What is your favorite release for week of September 13?
- LYDIA LOVELESS, Indestructible Machine
- GOURDS, Old Mad Joy
- RECKLESS KELLY, Good Luck & True Love
- MASON JENNINGS, Minnesota
- WYNTON MARSALIS & ERIC CLAPTON, Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play The Blues
What is your favorite release for week of September 6?
- SLAID CLEAVES, Sorrow & Smoke: Live at the Horseshoe Lounge
- TOM RUSSELL, Mesabi
- LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM, Seeds We Sow
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Listen To Me: Buddy Holly
- JOSH ROUSE & THE LONG VACATIONS, Josh Rouse & The Long Vacations
What is your favorite release for week of August 30?
- JOHN DOE, Keeper
- ERIC LINDELL, West County Drifter
- ROBERT EARL KEEN, Ready for Confetti
- BUTCH WALKER AND THE BLACK WIDOWS, The Spade
- TOM MORELLO AND NIGHTWATCHMAN, World Wide Rebel Songs
- TOMMY STINSON, One Man Mutiny
- TOMMY KEENE, Behind the Parade
- MIKE DOUGHTY, Yes & Also Yes
What is your favorite release for week of August 23?
- MATTHEW RYAN, I Recall Standing as Though Nothing Could Fall1
- STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS, Mirror Traffic
- ANA EGGE, Bad Blood
What is your favorite release for week of August 16?
- THE BOTTLE ROCKETS, Not So Loud: An Acoustic Evening
- JEFF BRIDGES, Jeff Bridges
- GUY CLARK, Songs & Stories
- ELI YOUNG BAND, Life at Best
- HOTEL LIGHTS, Girl Graffiti
- KRIS DELMHORST, Cars
What is your favorite release for week of August 9?
What is your favorite release for week of August 2?
- JOHN HIATT, Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns
- KEB MO, The Reflection
- FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE, Sky Full of Holes
- JESSE SYKES & THE SWEET HEREAFTER, Marble Son
- THE WOOD BROTHERS, Smoke Ring Halo
- RICHARD BUCKNER, Our Blood
- MAT KEARNEY, Young Love
- O.A.R., King
What is your favorite release for week of July 26?
- BODEANS, Indigo Dreams
- JIMMIE VAUGHAN, Plays More Blues, Ballads & Favorites
- RAY WYLIE HUBBARD, Ray Wylie Hubbard & the Cowboy Twinkies
- AMERICA, Back Pages
- CHRIS ISAAK, San Francisco Days
What is your favorite release for week of July 19?
- AMY LAVERE, Stranger Me
- TOM MORELLO AND NIGHTWATCHMAN, Union Town
- ANGELA EASTERLING, Beguiler
- 3 DOORS DOWN, Time of My Life
What is your favorite release for week of July 12?
- GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS, 2120 South Michigan Ave
- YES, Fly From Here
What is your favorite release for week of July 5?
- OLD 97′S, Grand Theatre Vol. 2
- TIM EASTON, Since 1966, Vol. 1
What is your favorite release for week of June 28?
- GILLIAN WELCH, The Harrow & The Harvest
- EILEN JEWELL, Queen of the Minor Key
- JOLIE HOLLAND, Pint of Blood
What is your favorite release for week of June 21?
- DAVE ALVIN, Eleven Eleven
- BON IVER, Bon Iver
- JIM LAUDERDALE, Reason & Rhyme
- JAMES MADDOCK, Wake Up & Dream
- LAURA CANTRELL, Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music
- MATT NATHANSON, Modern Love
- RUTHIE FOSTER, Ruthie Foster Live At Antones
- MY MORNING JACKET, Celebracion De La Ciudad Natal
- LIAM FINN, FOMO
- GOMEZ, Whatevers on Your Mind
What is your favorite release for week of June 14?
- NEIL YOUNG INTERNATIONAL HARVESTERS, A Treasure
- MARC BROUSSARD, Marc Broussard
- MADELEINE PEYROUX, Standing on the Rooftop
- OWL CITY, All Things Bright And Beautiful
What is your favorite release for week of June 7?
- JOE ELY, Satisfied at Last
- TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, Revelator
- CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS, Heritage
- GRAYSON CAPPS, Lost Cause Minstrels
- BLACK LIPS, Arabia Mountain
- WATERMELON SLIM & SUPER CHIKAN, Okiesippi Blues
- BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH, Light The Horizon
What is your favorite release for week of May 31?
- MY MORNING JACKET, Circuital
- DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, Codes And Keys
- FLOGGING MOLLY, Speed Of Darkness
- EDDIE VEDDER, Ukulele Songs
- ROBERT POLLARD, Lord of the Birdcage
What is your favorite release for week of May 23?
- JOSEPH ARTHUR, Graduation Ceremony
- CHIP TAYLOR, Rock & Roll Joe
What is your favorite release for week of May 17?
- LEVON HELM, Ramble at the Ryman
- SARAH JAROSZ, Follow Me Down
- HANK WILLIAMS III, Hillbilly Joker
- BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES, Rocket Science
- BEN HARPER, Give Till It’s Gone
What is your favorite release for week of May 10?
- FELICE BROTHERS, Celebration Florida
- BEN SOLLEE, Inclusions
- OKKERVIL RIVER, I Am Very Far
- THE CARS, Move Like This
- PETER CASE, The Case Files
- JIMMIE DALE GILMORE, Heirloom Music
- CHRIS THILE AND MICHAEL DAVES, Sleep With One Eye Open
- URGE OVERKILL, Rock & Roll Submarine
- SAM ROBERTS BAND, Collider
- CHRISTOPHER CROSS, Doctor Faith
- SEA & CAKE, The Moonlight Butterfly
What is your favorite release for week of May 3?
- FLEET FOXES, Helplessness Blues
- BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, Take The High Road
- ELIZA GILKYSON, Roses at the End of Time
- JEFFREY FOUCAULT, Horse Latitudes
- R.E.M., The Lowdown
- STEVIE NICKS, In Your Dreams
What is your favorite release for week of April 26?
- STEVE EARLE, I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
- EMMYLOU HARRIS, Hard Bargain
- THE WAIFS, Temptation
- AUGUSTANA, Augustana
- OF MONTREAL, Thecontrollersphere
- THAO & MIRAH, Thao & Mirah
- OWEN TEMPLE, Mountain Home
What is your favorite release for week of April 19?
- ROGER CLYNE & THE PEACEMAKERS, Unida Cantina
- BOB SCHNEIDER, Perfect Day
- GRAVEYARD, Hisingen Blues
- RALPH STANLEY, A Mother’s Prayer
What is your favorite release for week of April 12?
- JASON ISBELL AND 400 UNIT, Here We Rest
- ALISON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION, Paper Airplane
- PAUL SIMON, So Beautiful or So What
- FOO FIGHTERS, Wasting Light
- BRETT DENNEN, Loverboy
- THE MEAT PUPPETS, Lollipop
- HOWE GELB AND BAND OF GYPSIES, Alegrias
- K.D. LANG, Sing It Loud
- DEL MCCOURY AND PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND, American Legacies
- JOHN OATES, Mississippi Mile
What is your favorite release for week of April 5?
- HA HA TONKA, Death of a Decade
- ROBBIE ROBERTSON, How To Become Clairvoyant
- HOT TUNA, Steady As She Goes
- 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS, Bull of the Woods
- THE SUBMARINES, Love Notes/Letter Bombs
- RAVEONETTES, Raven in the Grave
- SMITHEREENS, 2011
- RAY DAVIES, See My Friends
What is your favorite release for week of March 29?
- BAND OF HEATHENS, Top Hat Crown & The Clapmaster’s Son
- LOS LONELY BOYS, Rockpango
- WILLIE NELSON, WYNTON MARSALIS, AND NORAH JONES, Here We Go Again
- MARCIA BALL, Roadside Attractions
- PETER BJORN AND JOHN, Gimme Some
What is your favorite release for week of March 22?
- SHANNON MCNALLY, Western Ballad
- THE STROKES, Angles
- SOLOMON BURKE AND DIJK, Hold On Tight
- RICHARD ASHCROFT, United Nations of Sound
- SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, Golden Greats No. 1 Deluxe
What is your favorite release for week of March 15?
- CAITLIN ROSE, Own Side Now
- THE DAMNWELLS, No One Listens to the Band Anymore
- NICK LOWE, Labour of Lust
- J MASCIS, Several Shades of Why
- BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS, Scandalous
- STEVE MARTIN & THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS, Rare Bird Alert
- NEW YORK DOLLS, Dancing Backward In High Heels
- BLACK FRANCIS, Abbabubba (b-sides. etc.)
- BLACK FRANCIS, The Golem
What is your favorite release for week of March 8?
- R.E.M., Collapse Into Now
- DR JOHN, Zu Zu Soiree
- BRUCE COCKBURN, Small Source of Comfor
- EXENE CERVENKA, Excitement of Maybe
- ALEXI MURDOCH, Towards the Sun
- SANTANA, On the Road to Woodstock
- MAE, (e)vening
What is your favorite release for week of March 1?
- LUCINDA WILLIAMS, Blessed
- BUDDY MILLER, MARC RIBOT, BILL FRISELL & GREG LEISZ, The Majestic Silver Strings
- RON SEXSMITH, Long Player Late Bloomer
- JOHN POPPER, John Popper & The Duskray Troubadours
- THE BASEBALL PROJECT, Vol 2: High & Inside
- EISLEY, The Valley
- BIG HEAD TODD & THE MONSTERS, 100 Years of Robert Johnson
What is your favorite release for week of February 22?
- LOW ANTHEM, Smart Flesh
- ADELE, 21
- THE CAVE SINGERS, No Witch
- G. LOVE, Fixin to Die
- JEFF BECK, Rock ‘N’ Roll Party
What is your favorite release for week of February 15?
- DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Go-Go Boots
- HAYES CARLL, KMAG YOYO (& other American stories)
- BRIGHT EYES, The People’s Key
- THE TWILIGHT SINGERS, Dynamite Steps
- BUFFALO TOM, Skins
- COWBOY JUNKIES, Demons
- SONIC YOUTH, Simon Werner a Disparu
- EDDIE SPAGHETTI, Sundowner
- TELEKINESIS, 12 Desperate Straight Lines
- PJ HARVEY, Let England Shake
What is your favorite release for week of February 8?
- THE WAILIN’ JENNYS, Bright Morning Stars
- OVER THE RHINE, Long Surrender
- TEDDY THOMPSON, Bella
- AKRON/FAMILY, S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT
- JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD, Tell Me
- NICOLE ATKINS, Mondo Amore
What is your favorite release for week of February 1?
- TODD SNIDER, Todd Snider Live: The Storyteller
- CARRIE RODRIGUEZ AND BEN KYLE, We Still Love Our Country
- NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS, Keys to the Kingdom
- DAVID LOWERY, The Palace Guards
- COWBOY MOUTH, Mardi Gras
- ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES, Go Down Under
What is your favorite release for week of January 25?
- AMOS LEE, Mission Bell
- WANDA JACKSON (WITH JACK WHITE), The Party Ain’t Over
- LORI MCKENNA, Lorraine
- IRON AND WINE, We Kiss Each Other Clean
- CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS, Carolina Chocolate Drops / Luminescent Orchestrii
- 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS, Easter Everywhere
What is your favorite release for week of January 18?
- THE DECEMBERISTS, The King Is Dead
- GREGG ALLMAN, Low Country Blues
- SOCIAL DISTORTION, Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes
- PONDEROSA, Moonlight Revival
- PEARL JAM, Live On Ten Legs
- DANIEL MARTIN MOORE, In the Cool of the Day
- ROBERT POLLARD, Space City Kicks
What is your favorite release for week of January 11?
- ABIGAIL WASHBURN, City of Refuge
- EDIE BRICKELL, Edie Brickell
- CAKE, Showroom of Compassion
- JIMMY EAT WORLD, The Lowdown
- BRITISH SEA POWER, Valhalla Dancehall
What is your favorite holiday album of 2010?
- SCOTT MILLER, Christmas Gift
- SHELBY LYNNE, Merry Christmas
- INDIGO GIRLS, Holly Happy Days
- DAN HICKS, Crazy For Christmas
What was your favorite album of 2010?
- PAUL THORN, Pimps and Preachers
- JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, Harlem River Blues
- JOE PUG, Messenger
- DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The Big To-Do
- RAY LAMONTAGNE, God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, The Promise
- ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO, Street Songs of Love
- PETER WOLF, Midnight Souvenirs
- JJ GREY, Georgia Warhorse
- JOHN HIATT, The Open Road
- OLD 97S, The Grand Theatre Volume One
- RECKLESS KELLY, Somewhere in Time
- MATTHEW RYAN, Dear Lover (The Acoustic Version)
- GASLIGHT ANTHEM, American Slang
- JOSH RITTER, So Runs The World Away
- JOHN PRINE, In Person & On Stage
- RAUL MALO, Sinners & Saints
- TWO COW GARAGE, Sweet Saint Me
- GRACE POTTER AND THE NOCTURNALS, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
- CRAZY HEART soundtrack (New West)
- PATTY GRIFFIN, Downtown Church
- GLOSSARY, Feral Fire
- BACKYARD TIRE FIRE, Good to Be
- CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, Love And Circumstance
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine
- KASEY ANDERSON, Nowhere Nights
- HOLD STEADY, Heaven Is Whenever
- SADIES, Darker Circles
- RICHARD THOMPSON, Dream Attic
- NEIL YOUNG, Le Noise
- WILLIE NELSON, Country Music
- JIMMIE VAUGHAN, Jimmie Vaughan-Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites
- FRONTIER RUCKUS, Deadmalls and Nightfalls
- MATT COSTA, Mobile Chateau
- ELVIS COSTELLO, National Ransom
- MASON JENNINGS, The Flood
- BEN SOLLEE & DANIEL MARTIN MOORE, Dear Companion
- THE CHIEFTAINS FEATURING RY COODER, San Patricio
- GRAHAM PARKER, Imaginary Television
- JIM LAUDERDALE, Patchwork River
- CROOKED STILL, Some Strange Country
- TIFT MERRITT, See You On The Moon
- MARK OLSON, Many Colored Kite
- LOS LOBOS, Tin Can Trust
- ELI “PAPERBOY” REED, Come And Get It
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band: Legacy
- THE RIGHT ONS, Look Inside, Now!
- JESSE MALIN & ST. MARKS SOCIAL, Love It to Life
- CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PEASANTS, Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants
- BIG HEAD TODD & THE MONSTERS, Rocksteady
What is your favorite release for week of November 23?
- MASON JENNINGS, The Flood
- SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS, Kudzu Ranch
What is your favorite release for week of November 16?
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, The Promise
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Coal Miner’s Daughter: A Tribute To Loretta Lynn
- NORAH JONES, …Featuring Norah Jones
What is your favorite release for week of November 9?
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, The Promise
- THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH, Sometimes the Blues Is Just a Passing Bird
- ALBERT KING/STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, In Session
- DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, Live In New York City
- DEPECHE MODE, Tour of the Universe
- AARON NEVILLE, I Know I’ve Been Changed
What is your favorite release for week of November 2?
- ELVIS COSTELLO, National Ransom
- KEITH RICHARDS, Vintage Vinos
- WEEZER, Death To False Metal
- HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS, Soulsville
What is your favorite release for week of October 26?
What is your favorite release for week of October 19?
- BOB DYLAN, The Bootleg Series: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964
- ELTON JOHN & LEON RUSSELL, The Union
- KINGS OF LEON, Come Around Sundown
What is your favorite release for week of October 12?
- OLD 97S, The Grand Theatre Volume One
- BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, Write About Love
- DAR WILLIAMS, Many Great Companions
- RAILROAD EARTH, Railroad Earth
- DARIUS RUCKER, Charleston, SC 1966
- SISTER HAZEL, Heartland Highway
- SHELBY LYNNE, Merry Christmas
- CHIP TAYLOR, The New Bye & ByE
- ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, Swanlights
- BADLY DRAWN BOY, Part 1–Photographing Snowflakes
- SUFJAN STEVENS, The Age Of Adz
- SUZANNE VEGA, Close-Up 2: People & Places
- BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA, Christmas Comes Alive!
- INDIGO GIRLS, Holly Happy Days
- JOSHUA RADIN, Rock & The Tide
- SHAWN MULLINS, Light You Up
What is your favorite release for week of October 5?
- RAUL MALO, Sinners & Saints
- THE AVETT BROTHERS, Live, Volume 3
- GUSTER, Easy Wonderful
- DONAVON FRANKENREITER, Glow
- KT TUNSTALL, Tiger Suit
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Parenthood [Soundtrack]
What is your favorite release for week of September 28?
- NEIL YOUNG, Le Noise
- JOHN MELLENCAMP, No Better Than This
- PETE YORN, Pete Yorn
- THE POSIES, Blood/Candy
- DOOBIE BROTHERS, World Gone Crazy
- LIZZ WRIGHT, Fellowship
- ERIC CLAPTON, Clapton
- BEN FOLDS AND NICK HORNBY, Lonely Avenue
- GIN BLOSSOMS, No Chocolate Cake
What is your favorite release for week of September 21?
- MATT COSTA, Mobile Chateau
- MARGOT & THE NUCLEAR SO & SO'S, Buzzard
What is your favorite release for week of September 14?
- JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, Harlem River Blues
- ROBERT PLANT, Band of Joy
- MAVIS STAPLES, You Are Not Alone
- MICHELLE BRANCH, Everything Comes and Goes
- KIM RICHEY, Wreck Your Wheels
What is your favorite release for week of September 7?
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band: Legacy
- STEELDRIVERS, Reckless
- JERRY LEE LEWIS, Mean Old Man
What is your favorite release for week of August 31?
- RICHARD THOMPSON, Dream Attic
- BOBBY BARE, JR., A Storm A Tree My Mother’s Head
- THE WEEPIES, Be My Thrill
- HEART, Red Velvet Car
- BILL FRISELL, Beautiful Dreamers
What is your favorite release for week of August 24?
- JJ GREY, Georgia Warhorse
- MARTY STUART, Ghost Train (The Studio B Sessions)
- NILS LOFGREN, I Came to Dance
- EELS, Tomorrow Morning
What is your favorite release for week of August 17?
- RAY LAMONTAGNE, God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise
- JOHN MELLENCAMP, No Better Than This
- DAVID GRAY, Foundling
- MATTHEW DEAR, Black City
What is your favorite release for week of August 10?
- ELI “PAPERBOY” REED, Come And Get It
- NEIL JUKEBOX YOUNG, Neil Young’s Jukebox
- BUCKCHERRY, All Night Long
What is your favorite release for week of August 3?
- LOS LOBOS, Tin Can Trust
- ARCADE FIRE, The Suburbs
- BLACK CROWES, Croweology
- GOV’T MULE, Mulennium
What is your favorite release for week of July 27?
- MARK OLSON, Many Colored Kite
- BUTCHER HOLLER AND EILEN JEWELL, Butcher Holler
- TOM JONES, Praise & Blame
What is your favorite release for week of July 20?
- BIG HEAD TODD & THE MONSTERS, Rocksteady
- SHERYL CROW, 100 Miles From Memphis
- ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, It’s a Good Day
- SHAWN COLVIN, Wichita Skyline
- FRONTIER RUCKUS, Deadmalls and Nightfalls
- BOB DYLAN, Folksingers Choice
- CHARLIE LOUVIN, Hickory Wind: Live at the Gram Parsons Guitar Pull
- BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA, Don’t Mess With A Big Band: Live
What is your favorite release for week of July 13?
- CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PEASANTS, Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants
- CHATAM COUNTY LINE, Wildwood
- TOMMY KEENE, Tommy Keene You Hear Me: A Retrospective 83-2009
- CROWDED HOUSE, Intriguer
- ELIZA GILKYSON, JOHN GORKA, AND LUCY KAPLANSKY, Red Horse
- SUN KIL MOON, Admiral Fell Promises
- TIM O’BRIEN, Chicken & Egg
- DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKEHORSE, Dark Night of the Soul
- THE INNOCENCE MISSION, My Room in the Trees
What is your favorite release for week of July 6?
- JIMMIE VAUGHAN, Jimmie Vaughan-Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites
- STONEHONEY, The Cedar Creek Sessions
- ROBERT POLLARD, Moses on a Snail
What is your favorite release for week of June 29?
- ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO, Street Songs of Love
- JACKIE GREENE, Till The Light Comes
- INDIGO GIRLS, Staring Down the Brilliant Dream (Live)
- JOHN FOGERTY, Centerfield (25th Anniversary Edition)
- PETER CASE, Wig!
What is your favorite release for week of June 22?
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine
- PAUL THORN, Pimps and Preachers
- GRIFFIN HOUSE, The Learner
- DEREK TRUCKS BAND, Roadsongs
- ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND, We Walk This Road
- HERBIE HANCOCK, The Imagine Project
- CONSTELLATIONS, Southern Gothic
- CYNDI LAUPER, Memphis Blues
- SARAH HARMER, Oh Little Fire
- DANZIG, Deth Red Sabaoth
- STARS, Five Ghosts
- ROBERT POLLARD, Moses on a Snail
What is your favorite release for week of June 15?
- GASLIGHT ANTHEM, American Slang
- TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS, Mojo
- PERNICE BROTHERS, Goodbye Killer
- FRED EAGLESMITH, Cha Cha Cha
- COWBOY JUNKIES, Remnin Park
- PUNCH BROTHERS, Antifogmatic
- FOXY SHAZAM, Foxy Shazam
- CHRIS ISAAK, Live at the Fillmore
- STEVE MILLER BAND, Bingo!
- SUZANNE VEGA, Close-Up Vol. 1, Love Songs
- VIC CHESNUTT, About To Choke
What is your favorite release for week of June 8?
- GRACE POTTER AND THE NOCTURNALS, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
- DEER TICK, Black Dirt Sessions
- DELTA SPIRIT, History From Below
- AGAINST ME!, White Crosses
- BLITZEN TRAPPER, Destroyer of the Void
- KAISER CARTEL, Secret Transit
- TEENAGE FANCLUB, Shadows
- THE FAREWELL DRIFTERS, Yellow Tag Mondays
- CADILLAC SKY, Letters in the Deep
- KRISTIN HERSH, Cats & Mice
- JEWEL, Sweet and Wild
- NADA SURF, If I Had a Hi-Fi
- HANSON, Shout It Out
- HOT HOT HEAT, Future Breeds
What is your favorite release for week of June 1?
- TIFT MERRITT, See You On The Moon
- JACK JOHNSON, The Bride Screamed Murder
- WATERMELON SLIM, Ringers
- CHERRYHOLMES, Cherryholmes IV Common Threads
- BILL WITHERS, Justments
What is your favorite release for week of May 25?
- JOHN PRINE, In Person & On Stage
- HANK WILLIAMS III, Rebel Within
- DAMIEN JURADO, Saint Bartlett
- BETTYE LAVETTE, Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook
- WIDESPREAD PANIC, Dirty Side Down
- BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN, Back To Love
What is your favorite release for week of May 18?
- SADIES, Darker Circles
- BAND OF HORSES, Infinite Arms
- BLACK KEYS, Brothers
- MARY GAUTHIER, The Foundling
- CROOKED STILL, Some Strange Country
- ANDRE WILLIAMS, That’s All I Need
- BLACK FRANCIS, NonStopErotik
- JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, Controversial Negro
- SUSAN COWSILL, Lighthouse
What is your favorite release for week of May 11?
- JIM LAUDERDALE, Patchwork River
- THE NATIONAL, High Violet
- JACKSON BROWNE AND DAVID LINDLEY, Love Is Strange
- THE DEAD WEATHER, Sea of Cowards
- ELIZABETH COOK, Welder
- CRASH TEST DUMMIES, Oooh La La
- HARPER BLYNN, Loneliest Generation
- KEANE, Night Train
What is your favorite release for week of May 4?
- JOSH RITTER, So Runs The World Away
- HOLD STEADY, Heaven Is Whenever
- JUSTIN CURRIE, The Great War
- NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Together
- PAUL WELLER, Wake Up The Nation
- CAROLE KING & JAMES TAYLOR, Live At The Troubadour
- BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, Forgiveness Rock Record
- GREG LASWELL, Take A Bow
What is your favorite release for week of April 27?
- JESSE MALIN & ST. MARKS SOCIAL, Love It to Life
- ANDERS OSBORNE, American Patchwork
- MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, The Age of Miracles
- MELISSA ETHERIDGE, Fearless Love
- HOLE, Nobody’s Daughter
- PETER FRAMPTION, Thank You Mr Churchill
What is your favorite release for week of April 20?
- WILLIE NELSON, Country Music
- SHELBY LYNNE, Tears, Lies, And Alibis
- APPLES IN STEREO, Travellers In Space And Time
- MERLE HAGGARD, I Am What I Am
- RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu
- INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, Things That Fly
- LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS, Agridustrial
- AQUALUNG, Magnetic North
- JONNY LANG, Live at the Ryman
- XAVIER RUDD, Koonyum Sun
- SWEET APPLE, Love And Desperation
- OZOMATLI, Fire Away
What is your favorite release for week of April 13?
- CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, Love And Circumstance
- MGMT, Congratulations
- NATALIE MERCHANT, Leave Your Sleep
- MATT POND PA, The Dark Leaves
- FOXY SHAZAM, Foxy Shazam
- STANTON MOORE, Groove Alchemy
- JEFF BECK, Emotion & Commotion
What is your favorite release for week of April 6?
- PETER WOLF, Midnight Souvenirs
- JAKOB DYLAN, Women and Country
- DR. DOG, Shame Shame
- SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS, I Learned the Hard Way
- PIETA BROWN, One & All
- BODEANS, Mr. Sad Clown
- MARTIN SEXTON, Sugarcoating
- JOHN BUTLER TRIO, April Uprising
- ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND VENUS 3, Propellor Time
- CARY BROTHERS, Under Control
What is your favorite release for week of March 30?
- GRAHAM PARKER, Imaginary Television
- JOAN ARMATRADING, This Charming Life
- BLACK FRANCIS, Nonstoperotik
What is your favorite release for week of March 23?
- ROADSIDE GRAVES, You Won’t Be Happy With Me (EP)
- THE RIGHT ONS, Look Inside, Now!
- SHE AND HIM, Volume Two
- WEAKERTHANS, Live at the Burton Cummings Theatre
- BRIGHT EYES & NEVA DINOVA, One Jug of Wine Two Vessels
- THE BIRD AND THE BEE, Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall & John Oates
- SONYA KITCHELL, Convict of Conviction (EP)
What is your favorite release for week of March 16?
- DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The Big To-Do
- THE WHITE STRIPES, Under Great White Northern Lights
- POPA CHUBBY, The Fight Is On
- PETER KARP & SUE FOLEY, He Said She Said
- THE WHIGS, In the Dark
What is your favorite release for week of March 9?
- THE CHIEFTAINS FEATURING RY COODER, San Patricio
- FRIGHTENED RABBIT, The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
- BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Beat the Devil’s Tattoo
- JASON COLLETT, Rat A Tat Tat
- THE MORNING BENDERS, Big Echo
- TED LEO, The Brutalist Bricks
- ALBERTA CROSS, Broken Side of Time
What is your favorite release for week of March 2?
- JOHN HIATT, The Open Road
- THE TEXAS TORNADOES, Esta Bueno
- HOLMES BROTHERS, Feed My Soul
- SHOOTER JENNINGS & HIEROPHANT, Black Ribbons
- THE WHIGS, In The Dark
- ROGUE WAVE, Permalight
- PETER GABRIEL, Scratch My Back
- JAMIE CULLUM, The Pursuit
What is your favorite release for week of February 23?
- JOHNNY CASH, American VI: Ain’t No Grave
- WILL KIMBROUGH, Wings
- DEADSTRING BROTHERS, Sao Paulo
- CLEM SNIDE, The Meat of Life
- BUTCH WALKER, I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart
- ROCKY VOTOLATO, True Devotion
- DAVID BROZA, Night Dawn: The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt
What is your favorite release for week of February 16?
- JOE PUG, Messenger
- KASEY ANDERSON, Nowhere Nights
- CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS, Genuine Negro Jig
- MATTHEW RYAN, Dear Lover
- IKE REILLY, Hard Luck Stories
- BACKYARD TIRE FIRE, Good to Be
- BEN SOLLEE & DANIEL MARTIN MOORE, Dear Companion
What is your favorite release for week of February 9?
- RECKLESS KELLY, Somewhere in Time
- TIM BARRY, 28th & Stonewall
- ALLISON MOORER, Crows
- WATSON TWINS, Talking To You, Talking To Me
- HOT CHIP, One Life Stand
- CHRIS CAGLE, Best of Chris Cagle
What is your favorite release for week of February 2?
- GLOSSARY, Feral Fire
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Dear John: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
What is your favorite release for week of January 26?
- PATTY GRIFFIN, Downtown Church
- BLUE RODEO, The Things We Left Behind
- TIM BARRY, 28th & Stonewall1
- LADY ANTEBELLUM, Need You Now
- SHURMAN, Still Waiting for the Sunset
What is your favorite release for week of January 19?
- CRAZY HEART soundtrack (New West)
- DANNY BARNES, Pizza Box (ATO)
- SPOON, Transference (Merge)
- EELS, End Times (Vagrant)
What is your favorite release for week of January 12?
- RAY WYLIE HUBBARD, A. Enlightenment, B. Endarkment (Hint: There Is No C)
- LAURA VEIRS, July Flame
- FREEDY JOHNSTON, Rain on the City
- SONNY LANDRETH, Mississippi Blues
- RINGO STARR, Y Not
- NICK CAVE AND WARREN ELLIS, The Road
- Kevin Anthony-North Star1
Most anticipated album for 2010?
- Drive-By Truckers - The Big to Do
- Chip Robinson - Mylow
- Patty Griffin - Downtown Church1
- Grace Potter & the Nocturnals - Medicine
- Joe Pug - Messenger
- Hayes Carll - untitled1
- Will Kimbrough - Wings1
- Ray Wylie Hubbard - A.)Enlightenment B) Endarkenment1
- Adam Carroll & Michael O’Conner - Hard Times
- Kirsty McGee - No.51
- Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore - Dear Companion1
- Joe Hendrick1
- Jackie Greene1
- Michael ONeill-Ain't Leavin Your Love1
What was your favorite new holiday album of 2009?
- Christmas In The Heart ~ Bob Dylan
- Christmas Album ~ Jerry Douglas
- Christmas Cheers ~ Straight No Chaser
- Cherry Cherry Christmas ~ Neil Diamond1
- Joy To The World: A Bluegrass Christmas ~ Daniels & Charlie
- Midwinter Graces ~ Tori Amos
- If On A Winter's Night ~ Sting
- This Christmas Aretha ~ Aretha Franklin
- LCAV71
- hYsiUi1
What was your favorite album of 2009?
- ROADSIDE GRAVES, My Son’s Home (Autumn Tone)
- SONS OF BILL, One Town Away
- GINA VILLALOBOS, Days On Their Side (Face West)
- LUCERO, 1372 Overton Park (Republic)
- Roger Johnson, Stag Contillion Vol 1 & 21
- IKE REILLY, Hard Luck Stories
- Justin Townes Earle, Midnight at the Movies (Bloodshot)1
- THE AVETT BROTHERS, I and Love and You (Columbia)
- Roger Johnson Stag cotillion Vol I& II1
- RYAN BINGHAM, Road House Sun (Lost Highway)
- FELICE BROTHERS, Yonder Is The Clock (Team Love)
- WILCO, Wilco (the Album) (Nonesuch)
- OLD CALIFORNIO'S "Westering Again"1
- JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT (Lightning Rod)
- STEVE EARLE, Townes (New West)
- SON VOLT, American Central Dust (Rounder Records)
- DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The Fine Print ( A Collection of Oddities and Rarities) (New West)
- PATTERSON HOOD, Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) (Ruth Street)
- GUY CLARK, Somedays The Songs Writes You
- AMERICAN GUN, Devil Showed Me His Hand (Jangly)1
- TODD SNIDER, The Excitement Plan (Yep Roc)
- LEVON HELM, Electric Dirt (Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records)
- DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Live from Austin Texas (New West)
- BOTTLE ROCKETS, Lean Forward (Bloodshot)
- DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE, A Friend of A Friend (Acony)
- THE DAMNWELLS, One Last Century1
- SAM BAKER, Cotton (Music Road)
- ISRAEL NASH GRIPKA, New York Town1
- MARK OLSON AND GARY LOURIS, Ready for the Flood (New West)
- LYLE LOVETT, Natural Forces (Universal Nashville)
- THE SWIMMERS, People Are Soft (Mad Dragon)
- WALKENHORST & PORTER, No Abandon 1
- MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO., Josephine (Secretly Canadian)
- Plain & Simple, Acousticueticals
- scott warren quick fix bandage1
- WILL HOGE, The Wreckage (Rykodisc)1
- Flatlanders Hills & Valleys1
- Mason Jennings, BLOOD OF MAN1
What is your favorite release for week of November 24?
- IKE REILLY, Hard Luck Stories
- TOM WAITS, Glitter and Doom (live) (Anti)
- TOWNES VAN ZANDT, In The Beginning (Fat Possum)
What is your favorite release for week of November 17?
- DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE, A Friend of A Friend (Acony)1
- NORAH JONES, The Fall (Blue Note)
- JOHN MAYER, Battle Studies (Sony)
- PAUL McCARTNEY, Good Evening New York City (Hear Music)
What is your favorite release for week of November 10?
- RICKIE LEE JONES, Balm in Gilead (Fantasy)
- BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Live (Vagrant)
- RAY DAVIES & THE CROUCH END FESTIVAL CHORUS, The Kinks Choral Collection (Decca)
- TORI AMOS, Midwinter Graces (Universal Republic)
- ROBYN HITCHCOCK, I Often Dream of Trains in New York (Yep Roc)
What is your favorite release for week of November 3?
- THE SWIMMERS, People Are Soft (Mad Dragon)
- WEEZER, Raditude (Geffen)
- MORRISSEY, Swords (Ume)
What is your favorite release for week of October 27?
- WRINKLE NECK MULES, Let The Lead Fly (Lower 40)
- CHUCK PROPHET, Let Freedom Ring (Yep Roc)
- GOV’T MULE, By A Thread (Evil Teen)
- THE SWELL SEASON, Strict Joy by (Anti)
- THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, Duets (Time Life)
- ROSIE FLORES, Girl of the Century (Bloodshot)
- SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS, Lost At Sea
- HEM, Twelfth Night (Nettwerk)
What is your favorite release for week of October 20?
- LYLE LOVETT, Natural Forces (Universal Nashville)
- JAY FARRAR, One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur (Atlantic)
- SAM BUSH, Circles Around Me (Sugarhill)
- ELVIS PERKINS, The Doomsday (Beggars Xl)
- SUFJAN STEVENS, The BQE (Asthmatic Kitty)
What is your favorite release for week of October 13?
- GRANT LEE PHILLIPS, Little Moon (Yep Roc)
- THE FLAMING LIPS, Embryonic (WEA/Reprise)
- BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA, Songs from Lonely Avenue (Surfdog)
- Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle - Let's Just Stay Here (Mint Records)1
- ERIN MCKEOWN, Hundreds of Lions (Righteous Babe)
- LINDA RONSTADT, Hand Sown… Home Grown/Silk Purse (Raven)
- THAO, Know Better Learn Faster (Kill Rock Stars)
What is your favorite release for week of October 6?
- LUCERO, 1372 Overton Park (Republic)
- BRANDI CARLILE, Give Up the Ghost (Sony)
- ROSANNE CASH, The List (Manhattan)
- MIKE DOUGHTY, Sad Man Happy Man (ATO)
- THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, The Life of the World to Come
- SUFJAN STEVENS, Run Rabbit Run (Asthmatic Kitty)
What is your favorite release for week of September 29?
- THE AVETT BROTHERS, I and Love and You (Columbia)
- KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, Closer To The Bone (New West)
- ROBERT EARL KEEN, The Rose Hotel (Lost Highway)
- WILL HOGE, Wreckage (Rykodisc)
- CORB LUND, Losin’ Lately Gambler (New West)
- RICHMOND FONTAINE, We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River (Arena Rock)
- LANGHORNE SLIM, Be Set Free (Kemado)
- BOB SCHNEIDER, Lovely Creatures (Kirtland)
- CHRIS SMITHER, Time Stands Still (Signature Sounds)
- DRIVIN N’ CRYIN, Great American Bubble Factory (Thirty Tigers)
- X47Pkf1
What is your favorite release for week of September 22?
- GUY CLARK, Somedays The Songs Writes You
- MONSTERS OF FOLK, Monsters of Folk
- JOSHUA JAMES, Build Me This (Intelligent Noise)
- NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS, White Lunar (Mute)
- VIC CHESNUTT, At The Cut (Constellation)
- DAVID GRAY, Draw the Line (Downtown)
- Adam Steffey - One More For The Road1
What is your favorite release for week of September 15?
- CHRIS KNIGHT, Trailer II (Drifters Church)
- TOM RUSSELL, Blood and Candle Smoke (Shout Factory)1
- MARK KNOPFLER, Get Lucky (Warner Bros.)
- THE BAND OF HEATHENS, One Foot in the Ether (Boh)
- BRUCE HORNSBY & THE NOISEMAKERS, Levitate (Verve Forecast)
- OR, THE WHALE, Or, The Whale (Seany)
- PETE YORN & SCARLETT JOHANSSON, Break Up (Rhino / Wea)
- MASON JENNINGS, Blood Of Man (Universal Republic)
- TOM WAITS, The Document (United States Of Dist./Ka)
What is your favorite release for week of September 8?
- STEPHEN KELLOGG AND THE SIXERS, The Bear (Vanguard)
- PHISH, Joy (Jemp)
- FRANK TURNER, Poetry of the Deed (Epitaph)
- YO LA TENGO, Popular Songs (Matador)
- PROCLAIMERS, Notes & Rhymes by (429)
- HOWIE DAY, Sound The Alarm (Sony)
What is your favorite release for week of September 1?
- DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The Fine Print ( A Collection of Oddities and Rarities) (New West)
- SAM BAKER, Cotton (Music Road)
- JOHN FOGERTY, The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again (Verve)
- A.A. BONDY, When The Devil’s Loose (Fat Possum)
- BLACK CROWES, Before the Frost…Until the Freeze (Red Distribution)
- REVEREND HORTON HEAT, Laughin’ And Cryin’ With The Reverend Horton Heat (Yep Roc)
- PORTERDAVIS, Porterdavis (self)
- APPLES IN STEREO, #1 Hits Explosion (Yep Roc)
- ALLEN TOUSSAINT, Saint of New Orleans (GREAT AMERICAN)
- YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND, The Show (Frog Pad)
- LIAM FINN AND ELIZA JANE, Champagne In Seashells (Yep Roc)
What is your favorite release for week of August 25?
- THE SUBDUDES, Flower Petals (429)
- WILLIE NELSON, American Classic (Blue Note)
- DOLORES O’RIORDAN, No Baggage (Rounder)
- Arctic Monkeys, Humbug1
What is your favorite release for week of August 18?
- BRENDAN BENSON, My Old, Familiar Friend (ATO)
- DELBERT MCCLINTON, Aquired Taste (New West)
- THE CAVE SINGERS, Welcome Joy (Matador)
- TWO TONS OF STEEL, Two Tons of Steel: Not That Lucky (SMITH ENTERTAINMENT)
- HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN, Wishful Thinking (Gold Strike)
- JONES STREET STATION, In Verses (Smith Street)
- JOE HENRY, Blood from Stars (Anti)
What is your favorite release for week of August 11?
- Plain & Simple,(Acousticueticals)1
- BOTTLE ROCKETS, Lean Forward (Bloodshot)
- MINDY SMITH, Stupid Love (Vanguard)
- WILLIE NELSON, Lost Highway (Lost Highway)
- SAM & RUBY, Here & The Now (Rykodisc)
What is your favorite release for week of August 4?
- YIM YAMES (Jim James alias), Tribute to George Harrison (ATO)
- MAC MACANALLY, Down By The River (Show Dog Nashville)
- MODEST MOUSE, No One’s First, and You’re Next (Sony)
- HANK WILLIAMS III AND ASSJACK, AssJack (Curb)
- MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD, Radiolarians III (Indirecto)
What is your favorite release for week of July 21?
- MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO., Josephine (Secretly Canadian)
- BETTYE LAVETTE, Change Is Gonna Come Sessions (Anti-)
- DELBERT MCCLINTON, Honky Tonkin’ All Night (GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC)
- MATTHEW SWEET AND SUSANNA HOFFS, Under The Covers Vol. 2 (Shout! Factory)
- IAN HUNTER, Man Overboard (New West)
What is your favorite release for week of July 14?
- GINA VILLALOBOS, Days On Their Side (Face West)
- THE DEAD WEATHER, Horehound (WEA/Reprise)
- BLEU, A Watched Pot (Artist Garage)
- DANDY WARHOLS, Dandy Warhols Are Sound (BTW)
What is your favorite release for week of July 7?
- SON VOLT, American Central Dust (Rounder Records)
- DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Live from Austin Texas (New West)1
- THE MINUS FIVE, Killingsworth (Yep Roc)
- YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, I Think This Is (Yep Roc)
What is your favorite release for week of June 30?
- WILCO, Wilco (the Album) (Nonesuch)
- LEVON HELM, Electric Dirt (Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records)
- AMY SPEACE, The Killer In Me (Wildflower)
What is your favorite release for week of June 23?
- SONS OF BILL, One Town Away1
- PATTERSON HOOD, Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) (Ruth Street)
- CHARLIE ROBISON, Beautiful Day (Dualtone)
- DEER TICK, Born On Flag Day (Partisan)
- PETE YORN, Back & Forth (Columbia)
- LEMONHEADS, Varshons (The End)
What is your favorite release for week of June 16?
- HA HA TONKA, Novel Sounds Of The Nouveau South (Bloodshot Records)
- HOLLY WILLIAMS, Here With Me (Mercury Nashville)
- SARAH JAROSZ, Song Up In Her Head (Sugar Hill)
- RHONDA VINCENT, Destination Life (Rounder)
- daddy for the second time1
What is your favorite release for week of June 9?
- TODD SNIDER, The Excitement Plan (Yep Roc)
- ROADSIDE GRAVES, My Son’s Home (Autumn Tone)
- RHETT MILLER, Rhett Miller (Shout Factory!)
- The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (Nonesuch)1
- PETER HOLSAPPLE & CHRIS STAMEY, Here And Now (Bar/None)
What is your favorite release for week of June 2?
- RYAN BINGHAM, Road House Sun (Lost Highway)
- ELVIS COSTELLO, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (Hear Music)
- HOOTS AND HELLMOUTH, The Holy Open Secret (Mad Dragon)
- EELS, Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire (Vagrant)
- DAVE MATTHEWS, Big Whiskey & the Groo Grux King (RMG / RCA)
- IGGY POP, Preliminaires (Astralwerks)
What is your favorite release for week of May 26?
- DAVE ALVIN & THE GUILTY WOMEN, self-titled (Yep Roc)
- CHRIS GAFFNEY TRIBUTE, The Man Of Somebody’s Dreams (Yep Roc)
- GRIZZLY BEAR, Veckatimest (Warp)
- DAVID SERBY, Hony Tonk And Vine (Harbor Grove)
What is your favorite release for week of May 19?
- RED STICK RAMBLERS, My Suitcase Is Always Packed (Sugar Hill)
- SCOTT H. BIRAM, Something’s Wrong/Lost Forever (Bloodshot)
- IRON & WINE, Around The Well (Sub Pop)
- CARBON LEAF, Nothing Rhymes With Woman1
- ZEE AVI, self-titled (Brushfire)
What is your favorite release for week of May 12?
- STEVE EARLE, Townes (New West)
- ROMAN CANDLE, Oh Tall Tree In The Ear (Carnival Recording Company)
- DEXATEENS, Singlewide (Skybucket/Cornelius Chapel)
- MICHELLE SHOCKED, Soul of my Soul (Megaforce)
- CASEY DRIESSEN, Oog (Red Shoe)
What is your favorite release for week of May 5?
- CRACKER, Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey (429)
- BEN HARPER AND THE RELENTLESS 7, White Lies for Dark Times (Virgin)
- NEW YORK DOLLS, Cause I Sez So (Atco)
- JACK OBLIVIAN AND THE TENNESSEE TEARJERKERS, Disco Outlaw 1
What is your favorite release for week of April 28?
- TIM EASTON, Porcupine (New West)
- BOB DYLAN, Together Through Life (Columbia)
- KING WILKIE, The Wilkie Family Singers (Casa Nueva)
- SAMANTHA CRAIN, Songs In the Night (Ramseur)1
- LOS STRAITJACKETS, The Further Adventures Of (Yep Roc)
- BLACK CROWES, Warpaint Live (Eagle)
- BEN LEE, The Rebirth of Venus (New West)
What is your favorite release for week of April 21?
- EILEN JEWELL, Sea Of Tears (Signature Sounds)
- BOOKER T. JONES, Potato Hole (Anti-)
- THE GREENCARDS, Fascination (Sugar Hill)
- WAYNE HANCOCK, Viper Melody (Bloodshot)
- TINTED WINDOWS, Tinted Windows (S-Curve)
What is your favorite release for week of April 14?
- JOHN DOE AND THE SADIES, Country Club (Yep Roc)
- MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD, Radiolarians II (Indirecto/Megaforce)
- WILLIE NILE, House Of A Thousand Guitars (River House/GB)
- SCOTT MILLER, For Crying Out Loud (F.A.Y.)
- Mike Farris Shout1
What is your favorite release for week of April 7?
- FELICE BROTHERS, Yonder Is The Clock (Team Love)
- SARA WATKINS, Sara Watkins (Nonesuch)
- NEIL YOUNG, Fork In The Road (Reprise)
- MARIA TAYLOR, LadyLuck (Nettwerk)
- NAKIA, Water To Wine (self)
What is your favorite release for week of March 31?
- THE FLATLANDERS, Hills and Valleys (New West)
- GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS, Lost Channels (Nettwerk)
- GOMEZ, A New Tide (ATO)
- MICHELLE MALONE, Debris (SBS)
- PETER BJORN AND JOHN, Living Thing (Almost Gold)
What is your favorite release for week of March 24?
- SARAH BORGES, The Stars are Out (Sugar Hill)
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm (Vanguard)
- DECEMBERISTS, Hazards of Love (Capitol)
- ERIC LINDELL, Gulf Coast Highway (Alligator)
- INDIGO GIRLS, Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (Welk)
What is your favorite release for week of March 17?
- BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Beware (Drag City)
- JOHN WESLEY HARDING, Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is (Lost Highway)
- NICK LOWE, Quiet Please: The New Best of Nick Lowe (Yep Roc)
- KELLY JOE PHELPS, Western Bell (Black Hen)
- MGMT, Time To Pretend (Cantora/ Megaforce)
- WILLIE NELSON, Naked Willie (RCA/Legacy)
What is your favorite release for week of March 10?
- ROMI MAYES, Achin’ In Yer Bones (self)
- JOHN WESLEY HARDING, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead (Popover Corps)
- MADELEINE PEYROUX, Bare Bones (Rounder)
- SOMETYMES WHY, Your Heart Is A Glorious Machine (Signature Sounds)
- ROCCO DELUCA, Mercy (Ironworks)
What is your favorite release for week of March 3?
- NEKO CASE, Middle Cyclone (-Anti)
- JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, Midnight at the Movies (Bloodshot)
- JULIE AND BUDDY MILLER, Written in Chalk (New West)
- RAUL MALO, Lucky One (Fantasy)
What is your favorite release for week of February 24?
- NEIL YOUNG, Archives (Reprise)
- JJ CALE, Roll On (Rounder)
- RANDY WEEKS, Going My Way (Certifiable)
- ALTERNATE ROUTES, A Sucker’s Dream (Vanguard)
What is your favorite release for week of February 17?
- JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (Lightning Rod)
- M. WARD, Hold Time (Merge)
- The Deep Dark Woods - Winter Hours (Black Hen Music)1
- SAM ROBERTS, Love At The End Of The World (Rounder)
- ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE VENUS 3, Goodnight Oslo (Yep Roc)
- TOMMY KEENE, In The Late Bright (Second Motion)
What is your favorite release for week of February 9?
- MIRANDA LEE RICHARDS, Light Of X (Nettwerk)
- BEN LEE, The Rebirth of Venus (New West)
- DEX ROMWEBER DUO, Ruins Of Berlin (Bloodshot)
What is your favorite release for week of February 3?
- BEN KWELLER, Changing Horses (ATO)
- ROBERT EARL KEEN TRIBUTE, Undone (Right Ave)
- HEARTLESS BASTARDS, The Mountain (Fat Possum)
- WILLIE NELSON & ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, Willie and the Wheel (Bismeaux)
- LISA HANNIGAN, Sea Sew (ATO)
- RUTHIE FOSTER, The Truth According To Ruthie Foster (Blue Corn)
What is your favorite release for week of January 27?
- MARK OLSON AND GARY LOURIS, Ready for the Flood (New West)
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Working on a Dream (Columbia)
- AUDIE BLAYLOCK, self-titled (Rural Rhythm)
- DUNCAN SHEIK, Whisper House (SMG/Victor)
- ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER, You Don’t Have To Like Them Both (Red Beet)
What is your favorite release for week of January 20?
- ANDREW BIRD, Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
- BEN NICHOLS, The Last Pale Light In The West (Liberty And Lament)
- NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS, Do It Like We Used To (NMA)
- A.C. NEWMAN, Get Guilty (Matador)
- HEARTLESS BASTARDS, The Mountain (Fat Possum)
What is your favorite release for week of January 13?
- BANG CAMARO, Bang Camaro II (8th Impression)
- DEREK TRUCKS BAND, Already Free (SMG/Victor)
- BEE GEES, Odessa: Deluxe Edition (Rhino)
What is your favorite release for week of January 6?
- GOURDS, Haymaker (Yep Roc)
- GLASVEGAS, Glasvegas (Sony)
- BIG SHANTY, Sold Out… (King Mojo)
What is your favorite holiday album of 2008?
- BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES, Jingle All The Way (Rounder)
- MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs Of Christmas (Zoe)
- FLESHTONES, Stocking Stuffer (Yep Roc)
- BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA, Christmas Rocks: The Best Of Collection (Surfdog)
- ROSIE THOMAS, A Very Rosie Christmas1
- BOXMASTERS, Christmas Cheer (Vanguard)
- DAVE CARTER & TRACY GRAMMER, American Noel (Signature Sounds)
- TONY BENNETT, Swinging Christmas1
Who will win the SEC Championship?
- Florida Gators (for Tom)
- Alabama Crimson Tide (for Chip)
What is your favorite release for week of November 25?
- SUPERSUCKERS, Get It Together (Mid-Fi)
- None of the above1
- DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (Todomundo)
- RIVERS CUOMO, Alone 2: The Home Recordings (DGC)
- SCOTT WEILAND, Happy in Galoshes (New West)
What is your favorite release for week of November 18?
- ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN, Sunday at Devil Dirt (Vagrant)
- MAX OCHS, Hooray For Another Day (Tompkins Square)
- FEMI KUTI, Day By Day (Mercer Street/Downtown)
- RANDY HOUSER, self-titled (Universal South)
What is your favorite release for week of November 11?
- BUTCH WALKER, Sycamore Meadows (Original Signal)
- WARREN ZEVON, self-titled (Rhino)
- TRACY CHAPMAN, Our Bright Future (Electra)
- SEAL, Soul (Warner Bros.)
What is your favorite release for week of November 4?
- MAVIS STAPLES, Hope at the Hideout (Anti-)
- HONEYHONEY, First Rodeo (Republic)1
- CHRIS CORNELL, Scream (Interscope)
- TRAVIS, Ode to J. Smith (Red Telephone Box)
What is your favorite release for week of October 28?
- RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS, Cardinology (Lost Highway)
- SUSAN TEDESCHI, Back to the River (Verve Forecast)
- THE CURE, 4:13 Dream (Geffen)
- KAISER CHIEFS, Off with Their Heads (Universal)
- SNOW PATROL, A Hundred Million Suns (Geffen)
What is your favorite release for week of October 21?
- HANK WILLIAMS III, Damn Right Rebel Proud (Sidewalk)
- AC/DC, Black Ice (Atlantic)
- GARY LOURIS, Acoustic Vagabonds (Ryko)1
- CARELESS HEARTS, Heart's Delight1
- BRETT DENNEN, Hope for the Hopeless (Dualtone)
- THE DEARS, Missles (Dangerbird)
What is your favorite release for week of October 14?
- LUCINDA WILLIAMS, Little Honey (Lost Highway)
- RAY LAMONTAGNE, Gossip In The Grain (RCA)
- Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall (Nonesuch)1
- KAISER CHIEFS, Off With Their Heads (Universal Motown)
- SIXPENCE NONE THE RICHER, The Dawn Of Grace (Nettwerk)
What is your favorite release for week of October 7?
- CROOKED FINGERS, Forfeit/Fortune (self-released)
- JOLIE HOLLAND, The Living And The Dead (Anti-)
- THE PRETENDERS, Break Up the Concrete (Artist First)
- OASIS, Dig Out Your Soul (Big Brother)
- RACHEL YAMAGATA, Elephants… Teeth Sinking Into Heart (Warner Bros)
What is your favorite release for week of September 30?
- MARY-CHAPIN CARPENTER, Come Darkness Come Light (Zoe)1
- ANI DIFRANCO, Red Letter Year (Righteous Babe)
- BEN FOLDS, Way To Normal (Epic)
- PETE SEEGER, At 89 (Appleseed)
- JOSEPH ARTHUR & THE ASTRONAUTS, Temporary People (Lonely Astronauts)
- TAJ MAHAL, Maestro (Heads Up)
What is your favorite release for week of September 23?
- OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, Tennessee Pusher (Nettwerk)
- JENNY LEWIS, Acid Tongue (Warner Bros.)
- ELVIN BISHOP, The Blues Rolls On (Delta Groove/Electo Groove)
- KINGS OF LEON, Only By The Night (RCA)
- GRAHAM NASH, Songs For Beginners (Rhino)
What is your favorite release for week of September 16?
- KASEY CHAMBERS & SHANE NICHOLSON, Rattlin’ Bones (Sugar Hill)
- MARC BROUSSARD, Keep Coming Back (Atlantic)
- CHARLIE LOUVIN, Steps To Heaven (Tompkins Square)
- JEM, Down To Earth (ATO)
- LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM, Gift Of Screws (Reprise)
- NINA SIMONE, To Be Free (RCA/Legacy)
What is your favorite release for week of September 9?
- DAR WILLIAMS, Promised Land (Razor & Tie)
- CALEXICO, Carried To Dust (Touch & Go)
- DAMIEN JURADO, Caught In The Trees (Secretly Canadian)
- OKKERVIL RIVER, The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)
- STEVE WYNN, Crossing Dragon Bridge (Rock Ridge)
- GRAYSON CAPPS & THE STUMPKNOCKERS, Rott ‘N’ Roll (Hyena)
What is your favorite release for week of September 2?
- BRUCE ROBISON, The New World (Premium)
- RODNEY CROWELL, Sex & Gasoline (Yep Roc)
- BRIAN WILSON, That Lucky Old Sun (Capitol)
- SONYA KITCHELL, This Storm (Decca/Velour)
What is your favorite release for week of August 26?
- MATTHEW SWEET, Sunshine Lies (Shout! Factory)
- BACKYARD TIRE FIRE, The Places We Lived (Hyena)
- THE DERAILERS, Guaranteed to Satisfy (Palo Duro)
- B.B. KING, One Kind Favor (Geffen)
- BLUES TRAVELER, Shootout In North Hollywood (Verve)
- JJ GREY AND MOFRO, Orange Blossoms (Alligator)
What is your favorite release for week of August 19?
- CHRIS KNIGHT, Heart of Stone (Drifters Church)
- TODD SNIDER, Peace Queer (self)
- BLUE MOUNTAIN, Midnight in Mississiippi1
- DONOVAN FRANKENREITER, Pass It Around (Lost Highway)
- ALEX WOODARD, self-titled (Adrenaline)
- LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, Recovery (Yep Roc)
What is your favorite release for week of August 12?
- MURRY HAMMOND, I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I’m On My Way (self)
- IRMA THOMAS, Simply Grand (Rounder)
- BEN WEAVER, The Ax In The Oak (Bloodshot)
What is your favorite release for week of August 5?
- RANDY NEWMAN, Harps And Angels (Nonesuch)
- CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, She Ain’t Me (Manhattan)
- CONOR OBERST, self-titled (Merge)
- ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Luminous Groove (Yep Roc)
- THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT, The Airborne Toxic Effect (Shout Factory!)
- IDA, My Fair, My Dark (Polyvinyl)
What is your favorite release for week of July 29?
- ANDRE WILLIAMS & THE NEW ORLEANS HELLHOUNDS, Can You Deal With It? (Bloodshot)
- TAYLOR HOLLINGSWORTH, Bad Little Kitty (Mass)
- GUITAR RED, Lightnin’ in a Bottle (Backspace)
- JAMES JACKSON TOTH, Waiting In Vain (Rykodisc)
- RICHIE HAVENS, Nobody Left To Crown (Verve)
What is your favorite release for week of July 22?
- AVETT BROTHERS, The Second Gleam EP (Ramseur)1
- BUDDY GUY, Skin Deep (Silvertone)
- BENJI HUGHES, A Love Extreme (New West)
- PAUL WELLER, 22 Dreams (Yep Roc)
- DR. Dog, Fate (Park the Van)
What is your favorite release for week of July 15?
- HOLD STEADY, Stay Positive (Vagrant)
- RANDY TRAVIS, Around The Bend (Warner Nashville)
- JOHN MELLENCAMP, Life, Death, Love And Freedom (Hear)
- O.A.R., All Sides (Everfine)
- GRASCALS, Keep On Walkin’ (Rounder)
What is your favorite release for week of July 8?
- BASEBALL PROJECT, Volume 1: Frozen Ropes And Dying Quails (Yep Roc)
- DONNA THE BUFFALO, Silverlined (Sugar Hill)
- RON SEXSMITH, Exit Strategy Of The Soul (Yep Roc)
- ALBERT HAMMOND JR., Como Te Llama (RCA/RED)
- BECK, Modern Guilt (DGC)
- ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES, Have Another Ball1
What is your favorite release for week of July 1?
- WILLIE NELSON, Stardust: Legacy Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
- EARLIMART, Hymn And Her (Majordomo)
- LOS LONELY BOYS, Forgiven (Epic)
- JOHN MAYER, Where The Light Is: Live In Los Angeles (Columbia)
- NELS ANDREWS, Off Track Betting (Reveal)
What is your favorite release for week of June 24?
- RECKLESS KELLY, Bulletproof (Yep Roc)
- ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO, Real Animals (Manhattan)
- AMOS LEE, Last Days At The Lodge (Blue Note)
- HACIENDA BROTHERS, Arizona Motel (Proper)
- DANIEL GLEN TIMMS, La La Land (Blue Earth Records)1
- CROOKED STILL, Still Crooked (Signature Sounds)
What is your favorite release for week of June 17?
- TEDDY THOMPSON, A Piece of What You Need
- DAN TYMINSKI, Wheels
- EEF BARZELAY, Lose Big
- SILVER JEWS, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
- HONEYBROWNE, Mile by Mile
What is your favorite release for week of June 10?
- EMMYLOU HARRIS, All I Intended To Be1
- MY MORNING JACKET, Evil Urges
- INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, self-titled
- RAILROAD EARTH, Amen Corner
- SOLOMON BURKE, Like A Fire
- JAMES HUNTER, The Hard Way1
- JAKOB DYLAN, Seeing Things
What is your favorite release for week of June 3?
- CENTRO-MATIC/SOUTH SAN GABRIEL, Dual Hawks
- MOTHER TRUCKERS, Let’s All Go To Bed
- ED HARCOURT, The Beautiful Lie
- AIMEE MANN, @#%&*! Smilers
- JESSE MALIN, Mercury Retrograde
What is your favorite release for week of May 27?
- JOHN HIATT, Same Old Man
- ELIZA GILKYSON, Beautiful World
- AL GREEN, Lay It Down
- JYPSI, self-titled
What is your favorite release for week of May 20?
- BAND OF HEATHENS, self-titled
- I SEE HAWKS IN LA, Hallowed Ground
- ABIGAIL WASHBURN & THE SPARROW QUARTET, The Sparrow Quartet
- DANIELIA COTTON, Rare Child
- EXPLORERS CLUB, Freedom Wind
- MASON JENNINGS, In The Ever
What is your favorite release for week of May 13?
- OLD 97's, Blame It On Gravity
- DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, Narrow Straits
- The Stairwell Sisters1
- LOCAL H, 12 Angry Months
- PETER WALKER, Echo Of My Soul
- T BONE BURNETT, Tooth Of Crime
What is your favorite release for week of May 6?
- ELVIS COSTELLO, Momofuku
- SIERRA HULL, Secrets
- FIREWATER, The Golden Hour
- JEB LOY NICHOLS, Days Are Mighty
What is your favorite release for week of April 29?
- LANGHORNE SLIM, self-titled
- GRIFFIN HOUSE, Flying Upside Down
- BOMBADIL, A Buzz, A Buzz
- STEVE WINWOOD, Nine Lives
What is your favorite release for week of April 22?
- BILLY BRAGG, Mr. Love & Justice
- CHRIS MILLS, Living In The Aftermath
- FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS, self-titled
- THE WEEPIES, Hideaway
What is your favorite release for week of April 15?
- JAMES MCMURTRY, Just Us Kids
- JORDAN ZEVON, Insides Out
- TRISTAN PRETTYMAN, Hello
- BLACK FRANCIS, Svn Fngrs
- DIXIE BEE-LINERS, Ripe
What is your favorite release for week of April 8?
- HAYES CARLL, Trouble In Mind
- NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
- BREEDERS, Mountain Battles
- COLIN MELOY, Skulls, Ships, Sheep
- IKE REILLY, Poison The Hit Parade
- GIBSON BROTHERS, Iron & Diamonds
What is your favorite release for week of April 1?
- MATTHEW RYAN, Matthew Ryan Vs. The Silver State
- R.E.M., Accelerate
- JACKIE GREENE, Giving Up The Ghost
- BLACK KEYS, Attack & Release
- SUN KIL MOON, April1
- POI DOG PONDERING, Seven
- VAN MORRISON, Keep It Simple
What is your favorite release for week of March 25?
- JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, The Good Life
- COUNTING CROWS, Saturday Nights And Sunday Mornings
- RACONTEURS, Consolers Of The Lonely
- TIM O’BRIEN, Chameleon
- ELF POWER, In A Cave
- WAYBACKS, Loaded
What is your favorite release for week of March 18?
- SHE & HIM, Volume 1
- DANIEL LANOIS, Here Is What Is
- JOSEPH ARTHUR, Could We Survive
- BRYAN ADAMS, 11
- DEVOTCHKA, Mad and Faithful Telling1
- DESTROYER, Trouble in Dreams1
- ADAM GREEN, Sixes & Sevens
What is your favorite release for week of March 11?
- SHAWN MULLINS, Honeydew (Vanguard)
- DESTROYER, Trouble In Dreams (Merge)
- KAKI KING, Dreaming of Revenge1
- GREG LASWELL, How The Day Sounds EP (Vanguard)
- PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, These Are The Good Times People (Fugitive)
What is your favorite release for week of March 4?
- KATHLEEN EDWARDS, Asking For Flowers
- BLACK CROWES, Warpaint
- CHATHAM COUNTY LINE, IV
- FELICE BROTHERS, self-titled
- JO CAROL PIERCE, Dog of Love1
- BODEANS, Still
- ELI “PAPERBOY” REED & THE TRUE LOVES, Roll With You
- JIM BIANCO, Sing
- WAIFS, sundirtwater
- MARK PICKEREL & HIS PRAYING HANDS, Cody’s Dream
- STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS, Real Emotional Trash
- WHAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS, What Doesn’t Kill Us
What is your favorite release for week of February 26?
- AUSTIN COLLINS, Roses Are Black
- TIFT MERRITT, Another Country
- COWBOY JUNKIES, Trinity Revisited
- PUNCH BROTHERS, Punch
- RICHARD JULIAN, Sunday Morning In Saturday Shoes
- MISSY HIGGINS, On A Clear Night
- DOLLY PARTON, Backwoods Barbie
What is your favorite release for week of February 19?
- GARY LOURIS, Vagabonds
- MIKE DOUGHTY, Golden Delicious
- RAY DAVIES, Working Man’s Cafe
- JON DEE GRAHAM, Swept Away
- JIM LAUDERDALE, Honey Songs
- PAUL THORN, A Long Way From Tupelo
- ALLISON MOORER, Mockingbirds
- SEAN COSTELLO, We Can Get Together
What is your favorite release for week of February 12?
- WIDESPREAD PANIC, Free Somehow
- BLUE HIGHWAY, Through The Window Of A Train
- KATE MAKI, On High
- ANTIETAM, Opus Mixtum
- CARRIE NEWCOMER, The Geography Of Light
What is your favorite release for week of February 5?
- MANDO SAENZ, Bucket
- BOB MOULD, District Line
- JASON COLLETT, Here’s To Being Here
- NADA SURF, Lucky
- JACK JOHNSON, Sleep Through The Static
What is your favorite release for week of January 29?
- WILLIE NELSON, Moment Of Forever
- SHELBY LYNNE, Just A Little Lovin’
- BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, Down In New Orleans
- JOE JACKSON, Rain
- ROBERT POLLARD, Superman Was A Rocker
- TWILIGHT HOTEL, Highway Prayer
What is your favorite release for week of January 22?
- DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
- NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL-STARS, Hernando
- LIAM FINN, I’ll Be Lightning
- STEVE POLTZ, Traveling
- WHIGS, Mission Control
What is your favorite release for week of January 15?
- STEELDRIVERS, self-titled
- ERIC LINDELL, Low On Cash, Rich In Love
- MAGNETIC FIELDS, Distortion
- TYLER RAMSEY, A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea
- RINGO STARR, Liverpool 8
- MATT COSTA, Unfamiliar Faces
What is your favorite release for week of January 7?
- MARAH, Angels Of Destruction!
- KATE NASH, Made of Bricks
- SIA, Some People Have Real Problems
- MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD, Let’s Go Everywhere
What is your favorite '07 holiday album?
- MINDY SMITH, "My Holiday"
- OVER THE RHINE, "Snow Angels"
- DARLENE LOVE, "It's Christmas, Of Course"
- RELIANT K, "Let It Snow Baby... Let It Reindeer"
What is your favorite release for week of December 4?
- BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, American X: Baby 81 Sessions
- HACIENDA BROTHERS, Music for Ranch & Town Live
- WRECKERS, Way Back Home: Live From New York
What is your favorite release for week of November 27?
- JESSE DAYTON & BRENNEN LEIGH, Holdin’ Our Own & Other Country Gold Duets
What is your favorite release for week of November 20?
- BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Ask Forgiveness1
- ED HARCOURT, Until Tomorrow Then: The Best Of
- NINE INCH NAILS, Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D
- GORILLAZ, D-Sides
- SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, Shelter From The Ash
What is your favorite release for week of November 13?
- BETH WHITNEY, Leave Your Shoes
- ANA EGGE, Lazy Days1
- TRISHA YEARWOOD, Heaven, Heartache & The Power Of Love
- THE HIVES, The Black and White Album
- ARETHA FRANKLIN, Jewels in the Crown
- LURRIE BELL, Let’s Talk About Love
What is your favorite release for week of November 6?
- THE MOTHER TRUCKERS, Broke, Not Broken
- LITTLE BIG TOWN, A Place To Land
- ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS, Radio Songs
- ROMAN CARTER, Never Slow Down
- OR THE WHALE, Light Poles and Pines1
- PETER MULVEY, Notes From Elsewhere
What is your favorite release for week of October 30?
- LEVON HELM, Dirt Farmer
- BLUE RODEO, Small Miracles
- Justin Currie, What is Love For1
- JOSH TURNER, Everything Is Fine
- NICOLE ATKINS, Neptune City
- SUNSHONE STILL, Ten Cent American Novels
What is your favorite release for week of October 23?
- ALISON KRAUSS & ROBERT PLANT, Raising Sand
- NEIL YOUNG, Chrome Dreams II
- RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS, Follow The Lights EP
- GRAYSON CAPPS, Songbones
- REDWALLS, self-titled
- SHOOTER JENNINGS, The Wolf
What is your favorite release for week of October 16?
- GARRISON STARR, The Girl That Killed September
- JUSTIN CURRIE, What Is Love For
- ROBYN HITCHCOCK, I Wanna Go Backwards
- DAN WILSON, Free Life
- JIMMY EAT WORLD, Chase the Light
- SOULSAVERS, It’s Not How Far You Fall, It’s The Way You Land
What is your favorite release for week of October 9?
- WILL HOGE, Draw The Curtains
- DEADSTRING BROTHERS, Silver Mountain
- MINDY SMITH, My Holiday
- BAND OF HORSES, Cease To Begin
- TIM CARROLL, The Devil is a Busy Man
What is your favorite release for week of October 2?
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND, Magic
- CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED, Mission California
- JOHN FOGERTY, Revival
- BOB DYLAN, Dylan
- P J HARVEY, White Chalk1
- SADIES, New Seasons
What is your favorite release for week of September 25?
- STEVE EARLE, Washington Square Serenade
- IRON & WINE, The Shepherd’s Dog
- BETTYE LAVETTE, The Scene of the Crime
- BILLY JOE SHAVER, Everybody’s Brother
- MATT POND PA, Last Light
- MELISSA ETHERIDGE, The Awakening
What is your favorite release for week of September 18?
- MARK KNOPFLER, Kill To Get Crimson
- EDDIE VEDDER, Into the Wild
- MARY GAUTHIER, Between Daylight And Dark
- BEN LEE, Ripe
- KT TUNSTALL, Drastic Fantastic
- MICHELLE SHOCKED, ToHEAVEnuRIDE
What is your favorite release for week of September 11?
- JOE HENRY, Civilians
- OAKLEY HALL, I’ll Follow You
- ANN WILSON, Hope & Glory
- BLACK FRANCIS, Bluefinger
- HOT HOT HEAT, Happiness LTD.
What is your favorite release for week of September 4?
- WILL KIMBROUGH, EP
- PATTI SCIALFA, Play It As It Lays
- Sam Mellon and the Skylarks1
- MICHELLE SHOCKED, To Heaven U Ride
- FERRABY LIONHART, Catch the Brass Ring
What is your favorite release for week of August 28?
- LYLE LOVETT AND HIS LARGE BAND, It’s Not Big It’s Large
- BEN HARPER, Lifeline
- VHS OR BETA, Bring On The Comets
- SUBDUDES, Street Symphony
What is your favorite release for week of August 21?
- JOSH RITTER, The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter
- RILO KILEY, Under The Blacklight
- NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Challengers
- MEKONS, Natural
- OVER THE RHINE, The Trumpet Child
- PATRICK PARK, Everyone’s In Everyone
What is your favorite release for week of August 14?
- LORI MCKENNA, Unglamorous
- IAN MOORE, To Be Loved
- EISLEY, Combinations
- MATT NATHANSON, Some Mad Hope
- LINDA THOMPSON, Versatile Heart
- LEE ROCKER, Black Cat Bone
What is your favorite release for week of August 7?
- GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS, This Is Somewhere
- MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO., Sojourner
- TWO DOLLAR PISTOLS, Here Tomorrow, Gone Today
- DONAVON FRANKENREITER, Recycled Recipes
- OKKERVIL RIVER, The Stage Names
- BILLY JOE SHAVER, Everybody’s Brother
- PETER CASE, Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John
What is your favorite release for week of July 31?
- JOSH ROUSE, Country Mouse, City House
- DERAILERS, Under The Influence Of Buck
- LUKA BLOOM, Tribe
- G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE, A Year and a Night With…
- SHIVAREE, Tainted Love: Mating Calls And Fight Songs
What is your favorite release for week of July 24?
- TONI PRICE, Talk Memphis1
- TEDDY THOMPSON, Up Front And Down Low
- EMILY HAINES, What is Free to a Good Home
- PRINCE, Planet Earth
- FLAMING LIPS, UFOs at the Zoo
- WAYLON JENNINGS, The Essential Waylon Jennings1
- BILLY BOB THORNTON, Beautiful Door
- TREY ANASTASIO, The Horseshoe Curve
What is your favorite release for week of July 17?
- RAUL MALO, After Hours
- SUZANNE VEGA, Beauty & Crime
- CHARLES MINGUS SEXTET WITH ERIC DOLPHY, Cornell 1964
- JEFF KANZLER, Black Top Road1
- MAGIC NUMBERS, Those The Brokes
- MEAT PUPPETS, Rise To Your Knees
What is your favorite release for week of July 10?
- JASON ISBELL, Sirens Of The Ditch
- SPOON, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
- BUFFALO TOM, Three Easy Pieces
- CROWDED HOUSE, Time on Earth
- GOURDS, Noble Creatures
What is your favorite release for week of June 26?
- RYAN ADAMS, Easy Tiger
- NICK LOWE, At My Age
- KELLY WILLIS, Translated From Love
- MARK BROUSSARD, S.O.S.: Save Our Soul
- BEASTIE BOYS, The Mix-Up
What is your favorite release for week of June 19?
- WHITE STRIPES, Icky Thump
- HACKENSAW BOYS, Look Out
- MOONEY SUZUKI, Have Mercy
- ROCKY VOTOLATO, The Brag & Cuss
- XAVIER RUDD, White Moth
What is your favorite release for week of June 12?
- JOHN DOE, A Year In The Wilderness
- SARAH BORGES & THE BROKEN SINGLES, Diamonds In The Dark
- UNITED STEEL WORKERS OF MONTREAL, Kerosene
- ABRA MOORE, On The Way
- CHERRYHOLMES, II: Black And White
- PAULA COLE, Courage
What is your favorite release for week of June 5?
- MATT POND PA, If You Want Blood
- PAUL MCCARTNEY, Memory Almost Full
- MARTY STUART, Compadres: An Anthology Of Duets
- PORTER WAGONER, The Wagonmaster
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, With The Sessions Band Live In Dublin
- MARSHALL TUCKER BAND, The Next Adventure
- PRETENDERS, Learning To Crawl and Get Close
What is your favorite release for week of May 29?
- RICHARD THOMPSON, Sweet Warrior
- FRANK SMITH, Heavy Handed Peace & Love
- CARY BROTHERS, Who You Are
- JOHNETTE NAPOLITANO, Scarred
- RAY PRICE, The Essential
What is your favorite release for week of May 22?
- LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, Strange Weirdos
- WRINKLE NECK MULES, Wicks Have Met
- RICHMOND FONTAINE, Thirteen Cities
- THE NATIONAL, Boxer
- JOAN OSBORNE, Breakfast In Bed
- ADRIENNE YOUNG, Room To Grow
- JEFF BUCKLEY, So Real
- UNCLE MONK, self-titled
What is your favorite release for week of May 15?
- WILCO, Sky Blue Sky
- AVETT BROTHERS, Emotionalism
- BRUCE ROBISON, It Came From San Antonio
- DOLORES O’RIORDAN, Are You Listening?
- GRETCHEN WILSON, One Of The Boys
- RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Release The Stars
What is your favorite release for week of May 8?
- ADAM HOOD, Different Groove
- ELLIOTT SMITH, New Moon
- TRAVIS, The Boy with No Name
- SHANNON WRIGHT, Let In The Light
What is your favorite release for week of May 1?
- MIRANDA LAMBERT, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
- BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Baby 81
- PATTY HURST SHIFTER, Fugitive Glue
- DINOSAUR JR., Beyond
- FEIST, The Reminder
What is your favorite release for week of April 24?
- ARCTIC MONKEYS, Favourite Worst Nightmare
- JOHN PRINE & MAC WISEMAN, Standard Songs For Average People
- TWO COW GARAGE, III
- DALE WATSON, From The Cradle To The Grave
- MANDO DIAO, Ode to Ochrasy
- MATT THE ELECTRICIAN, One Thing Right
What is your favorite release for week of April 17?
- DAVID SERBY, Another Sleepless Night
- MATTHEW RYAN, From A Late Night High-Rise
- JOSEPH ARTHUR & THE LONELY ASTRONAUTS, Let’s Just Be
- PAM TILLIS, Rhinestoned
- PATTI SMITH, Twelve
- COWBOY JUNKIES, At The End Of Paths Taken
What is your favorite release for week of April 10?
- BRIGHT EYES, Cassadaga
- SCOTT MILLER & THE COMMONWEALTH, Reconstruction
- GRINDERMAN, self-titled
- LAURA VEIRS, Saltbreakers
- NATHAN, Key Principles
What is your favorite release for week of April 3?
- CHRIS KNIGHT, The Trailer Tapes
- MARTIN SEXTON, Seeds
- TODD SNIDER, Peace, Love And Anarchy
- FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE, Traffic and Weather
- PIERCES, Thirteen Tales Of Love & Revenge
- GINA VILLALOBOS, Miles Away
- CHRIS WHITLEY & JEFF LANG, Dislocation Blues
What is your favorite release for week of March 27?
- KAISER CHIEFS, Yours Truly, Angry Mob
- WARREN ZEVON, Excitable Boy, Stand In The Fire & The Envoy
- GRANT LEE PHILLIPS, Strangelet
- DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER, More Behind The Picture Than The Wall
What is your favorite release for week of March 20?
- JESSE MALIN, Glitter in the Gutter
- MERLE HAGGARD, WILLIE NELSON & RAY PRICE, Last Of The Breed
- MODEST MOUSE, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
- TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS, Living With The Living
- JOSS STONE, Introducing Joss Stone
- STOOGES, Weirdness
What is your favorite release for week of March 6?
- SON VOLT, The Search
- THE ARCADE FIRE, Neon Bible1
- RY COODER, My Name Is Buddy
- GRAND CHAMPEEN, Dial “T” for This
- MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, The Calling
- GREENCARDS, Viridian
- OKKERVIL RIVER, Black Sheep Boy
- GREEN PITCH, Ace of Hearts1
- THE STOOGES, The Weirdness
What is your favorite release for week of February 27?
- BURRITO DELUXE, Disciples Of The Truth
- NATHAN HAMILTON, Six Black Birds
- DASH RIP ROCK, Hee Haw Hel
- DEAN [WAREHAM] & BRITTA [PHILLIPS], Back Numbers
- ELANA JAMES, self-titled
What is your favorite release for week of February 20?
- THE FRAMES, The Cost
- CHARLIE LOUVIN, Charlie Louvin
- JOHN STARLING & CAROLINA STAR, Slidin’ Home
- SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS, Countrypolitan Favorites
- CHIP TAYLOR, This Side Of The Big River
- # THE WELLS, The Outcast Will Make a Strong Nation
What is your favorite release for week of February 13?
- KEEGAN DEWITT, And the Sparrows
- LUCINDA WILLIAMS, West
- ANAIS MITCHELL, The Brightness
- INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, Fork In The Road
- PO’ GIRL, Home To You
- VAN MORRISON, At the Movies
What is your favorite release for week of February 6?
- PATTY GRIFFIN, Children Running Through
- RICKIE LEE JONES, Sermon On Exposition Boulevard
- BACKYARD TIRE FIRE, Vagabonds And Hooligans
- SONDRE LERCHE, Phantom Punch
- JESSE SYKES & THE SWEET HEREAFTER, Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls Of The Soul
What is your favorite release for week of January 30?
- CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, Some Loud Thunder
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Endless Highway: The Music Of The Band
- NORAH JONES, Not Too Late
- PAOLO NUTINI, These Streets
- ART GARFUNKEL, Some Enchanted Evening
- LILY ALLEN, Alright Still
What is your favorite release for week of January 23?
- CADILLAC SKY, Blind Man Walking
- THE SHINS, Wincing the Night Away
- YOU AM I, Convicts
- JOHN MELLENCAMP, Freedom’s Road
- menomena - friend and foe1
- KRISTIN HERSH, Learn To Sing Like A Star
- LEE HAZLEWOOD, Cake Or Death
- RESENTMENTS, On My Way To See
What is your favorite release for week of January 16?
- CROWDED HOUSE, Farewell to the World
- HOLMES BROTHERS, State Of Grace
- BOW THAYER, Spend It All
- SMITHEREENS, Meet the Smithereens
- this is just wonderful1
- HONEYDOGS, Amygdala
- KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD, 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads DVD
What is your favorite release for week of January 9?
- RON SEXSMITH, Time Being
- AMERICA, Here & Now
- ERIN MCKEOWN, Sing You Sinners
- SPANIC BOYS, Sunshine
What is your most anticipated album for 2007?
- LUCINDA WILLIAMS, West
- NORAH JONES, Not Too Late
- PATTY GRIFFIN, Children Running Through
- SON VOLT, The Search
- RY COODER, My Name Is Buddy
- ryan adams1
- WILCO, tbd1
- Kelly Clarkson1
- JESSE MALIN, Glitter In The Gutter
What is your favorite '06 holiday album?
- SUFJAN STEVENS, for Christmas
- ANDREW BUTLER, A Zoe Isabelle Costello Christmas1
- JAMES TAYLOR, At Christmas
- SARAH MCLACHLAN, Wintersong
- KELLY WILLIS AND BRUCE ROBISON, Happy Holidays1
- DARYL HALL AND JOHN OATES, Home for Christmas
- THE DB'S, Christmas Time Again1
- RHONDA VINCENT, Beautiful Star: The Christmas Collection
- AIMEE MANN, One More Drifter in the Snow
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- very annoying
- pretty cool
What is your favorite release for week of November 21?
- TOM WAITS, Orphans: Brawlers, Brawlers And Bastards
- BRETT DENNEN, So Much More
- SUFJAN STEVENS, for Christmas
- GUY CLARK, Workbench Songs
What is your favorite release for week of November 14?
- DAMIEN RICE, 9
- NANCI GRIFFITH, Ruby’s Torch
- JOAN OSBORNE, Pretty Little Stranger
- JOANNA NEWSOM, Ys
- none1
What is your favorite release for week of November 7?
- J.J. CALE AND ERIC CLAPTON, The Road to Escondido
- ISOBEL CAMPBELL, Milk White Sheets
What is your favorite release for week of October 31?
- WILLIE NELSON, Songbird
- GOB IRON, Death Songs For The Living
- THE FAGS, Light ‘Em Up
- Twang Dragons, Love Junkie1
- Deftones, Saturday NIght Wrist1
- ANDERS PARKER, self-titled
What is your favorite release for week of October 24?
- GUY CLARK, Workbench Songs
- MELISSA FERRICK, In The Eyes Of Strangers
- BEN FOLDS, Supersunnyspeedgraphic: The LP
- THE WALKMEN, Pussy Cats
- Bob Frank & John Murry1
- BRIAN SETZER, 13
What is your favorite release for week of October 17?
- K.T. TUNSTALL, K.T. Tunstall’s Acoustic Extravaganza
- ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES, Love Their Country
- BADLY DRAWN BOY, Born In The UK
- TANYA DONELLY, The Hungry Life
- SADIES, Tales Of The Rat Fink soundtrack
What is your favorite release for week of October 10?
- ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND, Colorblind
- SISTER HAZEL, Absolutely
- BE GOOD TANYAS, Hello Love
- MINDY SMITH, Long Island Shores
- 1
- WAYNE HANCOCK, Tulsa
What is your favorite release for week of October 3?
- AMOS LEE, Supply and Demand
- BECK, The Information
- LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM, Under The Skin
- PERNICE BROTHERS, Live a Little
- RAY CHARLES & THE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA, Ray Sings, Basie Swings
What is your favorite release for week of September 26? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Lucero, "Rebels, Rogues & Sworn Brothers"
- Bobby Bare Jr.’s Young Criminals Starvation League, "The Longest Meow"
- Grayson Capps, "Wail & Ride"
- Solomon Burke, "Nashville"
- The Lemonheads, "The Lemonheads"
- Robert Randolph & The Family Band, "Colorblind"
What is your favorite release for week of September 19? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Ben Kweller, "Ben Kweller"
- Guy Clark, "Workbench Songs"
- Indigo Girls, "Despite Our Differences"
- Jim Lauderdale, "Country Super Hits, Vol.1"
- Jonny Lang, "Turn Around"
What is your favorite release for week of September 12? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Chris Thile, "How To Grow a Woman From the Ground"
- Kasey Chambers, "Carnival"
- Black Keys, "The Magic Potion"
- The Duhks, "Migrations"
- Mastodon1
- Los Lobos, "The Town and The City"
What is your favorite release for week of September 5? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Richmond Fontaine, “Live At The Doug Fir Lounge”
- Hem, “Funnel Cloud”
- Libby Johnson, “Annabella”
- The Transmissionary Six, “Radar”
What is your favorite release for week of August 29? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Ray LaMontagne, “Till the Sun Turns Black”
- Bob Dylan, “Modern Times”
- Pete Yorn, “Nightcrawler”
- Old Crow Medicine Show, “Big Iron World”
- Sam Moore, “Overnight Sensational”
What is your favorite release for week of August 22? Feel free to add your own answer.
- What Made Milwaukee Famous, “Trying to Never Catch Up”
- Eric Bachmann, “To The Races”
- M. Ward, “Post-War”
- Crooked Still, “Shaken By A Low Sound”
- Jennifer O’Connor, “Over the Mountain, Across the Valley and Back to the Stars”
What is your favorite release for week of August 15? Feel free to add your own answer.
- The Damnwells, “Air Stereo”
- Pete Droge, “Under The Waves”
- Bonnie Raitt, “Bonnie Raitt and Friends”
- Carrie Rodriguez, “Seven Angels On A Bicycle”
What is your favorite release for week of August 8? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Gin Blossoms, “Major Lodge Victory”
- Bernard Fanning, “Tea & Sympathy”
- La Rocca, “The Truth”
- Carey Ott, “Lucid Dream”
- Todd Snider, “The Devil You Know”
What is your favorite release for week of August 1? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Ollabelle, “Riverside Battle Songs”
- G.Love, “Lemonade”
- Charlie Sexton and Shannon McNally, “Southside Sessions” EP
- Kelly Joe Phelps, “Tunesmith Retrofit”
- Greg Trooper, “The BackShop Live”
- Kacey Jones, “Sings Mickey Newbury”
What is your favorite release for week of July 25? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Will Kimbrough, "Americanitis"1
- Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, "Stranger Things"
- Tom Petty, "Highway Companion"
- Keith Urban, "Tonight I Wanna Cry"1
- John Doe, "For the Best of Us"
- Raul Malo, "You’re Only Lonely"
What is your favorite release for week of July 18? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Golden Smog, "Another Fine Day"
- Meat Purveyors, "Someday Soon Things Will Be Much Worse"
- Chip Taylor, "Unglorious Hallelujah"
- scott H Biram. "Graveyard Shift"1
- Bruce Cockburn, "Life Short Call Now"
- Los Lonely Boys, "Sacred
What was your favorite June 2006 release? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Roman Candle, "The Wee Hours Revue"
- Keb Mo, "Suitcase"
- Tim O’Reagan, "Tim O’Reagan"
- Bottle Rockets, "Zoysia"
- Allison Moorer, "Getting Somewhere"
What is your favorite release for week of June 27? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Ray Wylie Hubbard, Snake Farm
- Tim O’Reagan, Tim O’Reagan
- Grant-lee Phillips, nineteeneighties
- Kris Delmhorst, Strange Conversation
- Hacienda Brothers, What’s Wrong With Right
What is your favorite release for week of June 20? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Guster, "Ganging Up on the Sun"
- Frank Black, "Fastman Raiderman"
- Roman Candle, "The Wee Hours Revue"
- The Yayhoos, "Put the Hammer Down"
What was your favorite May 2006 release? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Neil Young, "Living With War"
- Alejandro Escovedo, "The Boxing Mirror"
- The Raconteurs, "Broken Boy Soldier"
- Pearl Jam, "Pearl Jam"
- Sam Roberts Band, "Chemical City"
What was your favorite April 2006 release? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Bruce Springsteen, "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions"
- Drive-by Truckers, "A Blessing and a Curse"
- Josh Ritter, "The Animal Years"
- Neil Young - Living with War1
- Built to Spill, "You in Reverse"
- Flaming Lips, "At War With the Mystics"
What was your favorite March 2006 release? Feel free to add your own answer.
- Neko Case, "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood"
- Jackie Greene, "American Myth"
- The Little Willies, "The Little Willies"
- The Wood Brothers, "Ways Not To Lose"1
- Ben Harper, "Both Sides of the Gun"
- Van Morrison, "Pay the Devil"
What was your favorite February 2006 release? Feel free to add your own.
- Will Hoge, "The Man Who Killed Love"
- Shawn Mullins, "9th Ward Pickin' Parlor"
- Rhett Miller, "The Believer"
- Willie Nile, "Streets of New York"
- Robinella, "Solace for the Lonely"
Did you have a favorite January '06 release? If so, vote for one in this list or add your own:
- Patty Hurst Shifter, "Too Crowded on the Losing End"
- Robert Pollard, "From a Compound Eye"
- Rosanne Cash, "Black Cadillac"
- Cat Power, "The Greatest"
What will be your most anticipated album for 2006?
- Will Hoge, "The Man Who Killed Love"
- The Drive-by Truckers, "A Blessing and a Curse"
- Patty Hurst Shifter, "Too Crowded On The Losing End"
- Josh Ritter, "The Animal Years"
Favorite '05 holiday album?
- Marah's "A Christmas Kind of Town"
- Reverend Horton Heat's "We Three Kings"
- Martin Sexton's "Camp Holiday"
