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
