Top 100:
01. Jason Isbell – Southeastern
02. John Grant – Queen of Denmark
03. Neil Halstead – Palindrome hunches
04. Ian Noe – Between the country
05. Ryley Walker – Golden sings that have been sung
06. The Teskey Brothers – Half mile harvest
07. Ed Romanoff – The orphan king
08. Ben Watt – Hendra
09. Sturgill Simpson – A sailor’s guide to earth
10. Israel Nash – Rain plans
11. City and Colour – Little hell
12. Lincoln Durham – The shovel vs. the howling bones
13. Jeff Tweedy – Together at last
14. Jonathan Wilson – Fanfare
15. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – The Nashville Sound
16. Sean Rowe – Magic
17. Babyshambles – Sequel to the Prequel
18. Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Big moon ritual
19. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push the sky away
20. Leonard Cohen – You want it darker
21. Lomond Campbell – Black river promise
22. Israel Nash – Silver season
23. Bettye LaVette – Worthy
24. Sons of Bill – Sirens
25. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic pill
26. Patrick Sweany – That old southern drag
27. Mount Moriah – Miracle temple
28. Mandolin Orange – Such jubilee
29. Hiss Golden Messenger – Hallelujah anyhow
30. Ryley Walker – Primrose green
31. I Am Kloot – Sky at night
32. Elvis Costello & The Imposter – Look now
33. PJ Bond – Where were you?
34. Damien Jurado – The horizon just laughed
35. Social Distortion – Hard times and nursery rhymes
36. Robert Plant – Carry fire
37. Lloyd Cole – Standards
38. The Teskey Brothers – Run home slow
39. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
40. Wilco – The whole love
41. Blitzen Trapper – Destroyer of the void
42. The War On Drugs – Lost in the dream
43. The Delines – The imperial
44. Rolling Blackouts C.f. – Hope downs
45. The Hanging Stars – Over the silvery lake
46. Richard Thompson – Dream attic
47. Ron Sexsmith – Long player late bloomer
48. Jeremy Irons & The Ratgang Malibus – Spirit knife
49. Will Stratton – Gray lodge wisdom
50. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Damage and joy
51. Jason Isbell – Something more than free
52. Lloyd Cole – Broken record
53. Simon Joyner – Pocket moon
54. Cowboy Junkies – All that reckoning
55. Robert Forster – Inferno
56. The Rolling Stones – Blue and lonesome
57. The See No Evils – Inner voices
58. Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer – Not dark yet
59. The Soft Hills – The bird is coming down to earth
60. Woodlands – Woodlands
61. A.A. Bondy – Believers
62. The Spitfires – Response
63. The Apartments – No song, no spell, no madrigal
64. Ryley Walker – All kinds of you
65. The Sadies – Darker circles
66. Hayward Williams – Cotton bell
67. Conor Oberst – Ruminations
68. The Waterboys – Modern Blues
69. Richmond Fontaine – You can’t go back if there’s nothing to go back to
70. David Bowie – Blackstar
71. Courtney Marie Andrews – May your kindness remain
72. Martin Carr – The breaks
73. Eilen Jewell – Down Hearted Blues
74. Mark Morriss – A flash of darkness
75. Sons of Bill – Love and logic
76. John Fullbright – Songs
77. The Magpie Salute – High water II
78. John Hiatt – The eclipse sessions
79. Green Apple Sea – Diretions
80. Gregory Alan Isakov – Evening machines
81. Damien Jurado – In the shape of a Strom
82. Sean Rowe – The salesman nd the shark
83. Evening Hymns – Spectral dusk
84. The Fabulous Penetrators – With love
85. Villagers – Becoming a jackal
86. Laura Marling – Short movie
87. Rival Sons – Feral roots
88. Liam Gallagher – Why me? Why not?
89. Mandolin Orange – Tides of a teardrop
90. Old Man Bannister – Evolver
91. The Wave Pictures – City forgiveness
92. Maria Taylor – Overlook
93. Phosphorescent – Here’s to taking it easy
94. Reigning Sound – Shattered
95. The See See – Late morning light
96. City and Colour – If I should go before you
97. Eilen Jewell – Sundown over ghost town
98. Glen Hansard – This wild willing
99. Josh Ritter – Fever breaks
100. The Jayhawks – Back roads and abandoned motels
01. – 04. *****
05. – 60. ****1/2
61. – 100. ****
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