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Recommendations

A selection of favorites from our editors and polls. Readers’ Picks marked in bold.

2010

Summer

  • JJ GREY, Georgia Warhorse
  • MARTY STUART, Ghost Train (The Studio B Sessions)
  • NILS LOFGREN, I Came to Dance
  • EELS, Tomorrow Morning
  • RAY LAMONTAGNE, God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise
  • JOHN MELLENCAMP, No Better Than This
  • ELI “PAPERBOY” REED, Come And Get It
  • NEIL JUKEBOX YOUNG, Neil Young’s Jukebox
  • LOS LOBOS, Tin Can Trust
  • ARCADE FIRE, The Suburbs
  • BLACK CROWES, Croweology
  • GOV’T MULE, Mulennium
  • MARK OLSON, Many Colored Kite
  • BUTCHER HOLLER AND EILEN JEWELL, Butcher Holler
  • BIG HEAD TODD & THE MONSTERS, Rocksteady
  • SHERYL CROW, 100 Miles From Memphis
  • FRONTIER RUCKUS, Deadmalls and Nightfalls
  • 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
  • JIMMIE VAUGHAN, Jimmie Vaughan-Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites
  • STONEHONEY, The Cedar Creek Sessions
  • ROBERT POLLARD, Moses on a Snail

Spring

  • ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO, Street Songs of Love
  • JACKIE GREENE, Till The Light Comes
  • VARIOUS ARTISTS, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine
  • PAUL THORN, Pimps and Preachers
  • GRIFFIN HOUSE, The Learner
  • CONSTELLATIONS, Southern Gothic
  • GASLIGHT ANTHEM, American Slang
  • TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS, Mojo
  • PERNICE BROTHERS, Goodbye Killer
  • GRACE POTTER AND THE NOCTURNALS, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
  • DEER TICK, Black Dirt Sessions
  • DELTA SPIRIT, History From Below
  • TIFT MERRITT, See You On The Moon
  • JACK JOHNSON, The Bride Screamed Murder
  • WATERMELON SLIM, Ringers
  • SADIES, Darker Circles
  • BAND OF HORSES, Infinite Arms
  • BLACK KEYS, Brothers
  • MARY GAUTHIER, The Foundling
  • CROOKED STILL, Some Strange Country
  • JIM LAUDERDALE, Patchwork River
  • THE NATIONAL, High Violet
  • JACKSON BROWNE AND DAVID LINDLEY, Love Is Strange
  • JOSH RITTER, So Runs The World Away
  • HOLD STEADY, Heaven Is Whenever
  • JUSTIN CURRIE, The Great War
  • NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Together
  • JESSE MALIN & ST. MARKS SOCIAL, Love It to Life
  • ANDERS OSBORNE, American Patchwork
  • MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, The Age of Miracles
  • 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
  • CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, Love And Circumstance
  • MGMT, Congratulations
  • NATALIE MERCHANT, Leave Your Sleep
  • PETER WOLF, Midnight Souvenirs
  • JAKOB DYLAN, Women and Country
  • DR. DOG, Shame Shame
  • SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS, I Learned the Hard Way
  • MARTIN SEXTON, Sugarcoating
  • GRAHAM PARKER, Imaginary Television
  • JOAN ARMATRADING, This Charming Life
  • BLACK FRANCIS, Nonstoperotik

Winter

  • ROADSIDE GRAVES, You Won’t Be Happy With Me (EP)
  • THE RIGHT ONS, Look Inside, Now!
  • SHE AND HIM, Volume Two
  • DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The Big To-Do
  • THE WHITE STRIPES, Under Great White Northern Lights
  • POPA CHUBBY, The Fight Is On
  • THE CHIEFTAINS FEATURING RY COODER, San Patricio
  • FRIGHTENED RABBIT, The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
  • BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Beat the Devil’s Tattoo
  • JOHN HIATT, The Open Road
  • THE TEXAS TORNADOES, Esta Bueno
  • HOLMES BROTHERS, Feed My Soul
  • SHOOTER JENNINGS & HIEROPHANT, Black Ribbons
  • JOHNNY CASH, American VI: Ain’t No Grave
  • WILL KIMBROUGH, Wings
  • DEADSTRING BROTHERS, Sao Paulo
  • JOE PUG, Messenger
  • KASEY ANDERSON, Nowhere Nights
  • MATTHEW RYAN, Dear Lover
  • CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS, Genuine Negro Jig
  • IKE REILLY, Hard Luck Stories
  • BACKYARD TIRE FIRE, Good to Be
  • RECKLESS KELLY, Somewhere in Time
  • TIM BARRY, 28th & Stonewall
  • ALLISON MOORER, Crows
  • GLOSSARY, Feral Fire
  • PATTY GRIFFIN, Downtown Church
  • BLUE RODEO, The Things We Left Behind
  • LADY ANTEBELLUM, Need You Now
  • CRAZY HEART, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (New West)
  • DANNY BARNES, Pizza Box (ATO)
  • SPOON, Transference (Merge)
  • RAY WYLIE HUBBARD, A. Enlightenment, B. Endarkment (Hint: There Is No C)
  • LAURA VEIRS, July Flame
  • FREEDY JOHNSTON, Rain on the City

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