Americana Music Association announces Top 100 Americana Albums of 2010:
Here’s the Top 100, without further ado:
1) Various Artists, Crazy Heart Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / New West
2) Rosanne Cash, The List / Manhattan
3) John Hiatt, The Open Road / New West
4) Carolina Chocolate Drops, Genuine Negro Jig / Nonesuch
5) Ray Wylie Hubbard, A Enlightenment B Endarkenment Hint There Is No C / Bordello/Thirty Tigers
6) Robert Earl Keen, The Rose Hotel / Lost Highway
7) Band Of Heathens, One Foot In The Ether / BOH Records
8) The Avett Brothers, I And Love And You / Columbia
9) Patty Griffin, Downtown Church / Credential
10) Reckless Kelly, Somewhere In Time / Yep Roc
11) John Mellencamp, No Better Than This / Rounder
12) Darrell Scott, A Crooked Road / Full Light
13) Merle Haggard, I Am What I Am / Vanguard
14) Alejandro Escovedo, Street Songs of Love / Fantasy
15) Willie Nelson, Country Music / Rounder
16) Lyle Lovett, Natural Forces / Curb/Lost Highway
17) Carrie Rodriguez, Love and Circumstance / Ninth Street Opus
18) Robert Plant, Band of Joy / Rounder
19) Paul Thorn, Pimps and Preachers / Perpetual Obscurity
20) Los Lobos, Tin Can Trust / Shout! Factory
21) Jim Lauderdale, Patchwork River / Thirty Tigers
22) Cross Canadian Ragweed, Happiness and All the Other Things / Universal Records South
23) Red Molly, James / Independent
24) Chip Taylor, Yonkers NY / Train Wreck
25) Yarn, Come On In / UFO
26) John Prine, In Person & On Stage / Oh Boy
27) Tift Merritt, See You on the Moon / Concord
28) Various Artists, Twistable, Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to the Songs of Shel Silverstein / Sugar Hill
29) Dave Rawlings Machine, A Friend of a Friend / Acony
30) Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Speed of Life / NGDB
31) Kevin Welch, A Patch of Blue Sky / Music Road
32) Johnny Cash, American VI: Ain’t No Grave / American/Lost Highway
33) Elliott Randall & the Deadmen, Caffeine and Gasoline / ER
34) Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs, God Willin‘ & the Creek Don’t Rise / RCA
35) Shelby Lynne, Tears, Lies & Alibis / Everso/Fontana/CO5
36) Marty Stuart, Studio B Sessions / Sugar Hill
37) Sam Bush, Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill
38) Will Kimbrough, Wings / Daphne
39) Corb Lund, Losin‘ Lately Gambler / New West
40) Elizabeth Cook, Welder / Thirty Tigers
41) Kevin Deal, 7 Seven / Blind Nello
42) Allison Moorer, Crows / Ryko
43) Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses, Junky Star / Lost Highway
44) Eleven Hundred Springs, This Crazy Life / Smith Entertainment
45) Guy Clark, Somedays the Song Writes You / Dualtone
46) Dierks Bentley, Up on the Ridge / Capitol/Sugar Hill
47) Patty Loveless, Mountain Soul II / Saguaro Road
48) Drive-By Truckers, The Big To-Do / ATO/RED
49) Tim O’Brien, Chicken & Egg / Howdy Skies
50) Eilen Jewell, Butcher Holler: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn / Signature Sounds
die restl. 5o hier
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