Die finale Liste 2012:
*****
01. Neil Halstead – Palindrome hunches
****1/2
02. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic pill
03. Lincoln Durham – The shovel vs. the howling bones
04. Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Big moon ritual
05. Sons of Bill – Sirens
06. The Soft Hills – The bird is coming down to earth
****
07. Sean Rowe – The salesman and the shark
08. Evening Hymns – Spectral dusk
09. Jason Collett – Reckon
10. The Wave Pictures – Long black cars
11. Chris Robinson Brotherhood – The magic door
12. First Aid Kit – The lion’s roar
13. Punch Brothers – Who’s feeling young now?
14. Michael Kiwanuka – Home again
15. James Yorkston – I was a cat from a book
16. Bonnie Raitt – Slipstream
17. Tift Merritt – Traveling alone
18. Adrian Crowley – I see three birds flying
19. The Avett Brothers – The carpenter
20. Smoke Fairies – Blood speaks
21. The Dirty Guv’nahs – Somewhere beneath these southern skies
22. Glenn Hansard – Rhythm and repose
23. Phoebe Killdeer & the Short Straws – Innerquake
24. The See See – Fountayne mountain
25. Torpus & the Art Directors – From lost home to hope
26. The dB’s – Falling off the sky
27. Leeroy Stagger – Radiant land
28. Royal Headache – Royal Headache
29. Mark Lanegan Band – Blues funeral
30. Cowboy Junkies – The wilderness
31. Dodgy – Stand upright in a cool place
32. American Aquarium – Burn. Flicker. Die.
33. John Hiatt – Mystic pinball
34. Patti Smith – Banga
35. Kid Kopphausen – I
36. The Soft Pack – Strapped
37. Marissa Nadler – The sister
38. Chuck Prophet – Temple beautiful
39. Beachwood Sparks – The tarnished gold
40. Jack White – Blunderbuss
41. Leonard Cohen – Old ideas
42. Hurray For The Riff Raff – Look out Mama
43. Bill Fay – Life is people
44. Richard Hawley – Standing at the sky’s edge
45. Race Horses – Furniture
46. Drew Landry – Sharecropper’s whine
47. Left Lane Cruiser – Painkillers
48. Neil Young – Americana
49. Dry The River – Shallow bed
50. Mumford and Sons – Babel
51. Grant Creon – Damn those things
***1/2
52. Rush – Clockwork angels
53. Gallon Drunk – The road gets darker from here
54. Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg
55. The Mountain Goats – Transcendental youth
56. I See Hawks in L.A. – New kind of lonely
57. Nick Waterhouse – Time’s all gone
58. The Shins – Port of Morrow
59. The Crookes – Hold fast
60. Holmes – Burning bridges
61. Carter Tanton – Free clouds
62. Two Gallants – The bloom and the blight
63. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
64. The Walkmen – Heaven
65. Matt Harlan – Bow and be simple
66. Calexico – Algiers
67. Bob Dylan – Tempest
68. Adele & Glenn – Carrington Street
69. John K. Samson – Provincial
70. Malcolm Holcombe – Down the river
71. Here We Go Magic – A different ship
72. The Jim Jones Revue – The savage heart
73. Band of Horses – Mirage rock
74. Alabama Shakes – Boys & girls
75. The Honeydogs – What comes after
76. Simon Joyner – Ghosts
77. Band of Skulls – Sweet sour
78. Dakota Suite – An almost silent life
79. Walt Wilkins – Plenty
80. Best Coast – The only place
81. Van Morrison – Born to sing, no plan B
82. Great Lake Swimmers – New wild everywhere
83. Catherine Irwin – Little heater
84. Anders Osborne – Black eye galaxy
85. Dave Hardin – Miles of nowhere
86. Peter Karp / Sue Foley – Beyond the crossroads
87. Jim Cuddy – Skyscraper soul
88. Ben Kweller – Go fly a kite
89. John Primer – Blues on solid ground
90. Darrell Scott – Long ride home
91. Six Market Blvd. – Shake it down
92. Lana del Rey – Born to die
93. Royal Southern Brotherhood – s/t
94. Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking ball
***
95. Bap Kennedy – Sailor’s revenge
96. Redd Kross – Researching the Blues
97. Ingrid Michaelson – Human again
98. The XX – Coexist
99. Paul Thorn – What the hell is goin’on?
100. Jon Dee Graham – Garage sale
101. Kettcar – Zwischen den Runden
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