50) Band of Horses – Mirage Rock
49) Matthew Ryan – In the Dusk of Everything
48) The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten
47) Ben Kweller – Go Fly a Kite
46) M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion
45) Delta Spirit – Delta Spirit
44) Dr. Dog – Be the Void
43) Beth Orton – Sugaring Season
42) Ben Howard – Every Kingdom
41) Old Crow Medicine Show – Old Crow Medicine Show
40) Diamond Rugs – Diamond Rugs
39) First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
38) Regina Spektor – What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
37) Tame Impala – Lonerism
36) Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur
35) Rhett Miller – The Dreamer
34) Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames – New Multitudes
33) Ben Folds Five – The Sound of the Life of the Mind
32) Rodney Crowell & Mary Karr – Kin
31) John Fullbright – From the Ground Up
30) Punch Brothers – Who’s Feeling Young Now?
29) Andrew Combs – Worried Man
28) Justin Townes Earle – Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel about Me Now
27) Loudon Wainwright III – Older Than My Old Man Now
26) Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
25) Norah Jones – Little Broken Hearts
24) Cory Branan – Mutt
23) Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes – Here
22) The Shins – Port of Morrow
21) Jack White – Blunderbuss
20) Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself
19) Frank Ocean – Channel ORANGE
18) Dwight Yoakam – 3 Pears
17) Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…
16) Father John Misty – Fear Fun
15) Brandi Carlile – Bear Creek
14) Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit – Live from Alabama
13) The Lumineers – The Lumineers
12) Iris DeMent – Sing the Delta
11) Todd Snider – Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
10) Alabama Shakes – Boys and Girls
09) Bonnie Raitt – Slipstream
08) Mumford & Sons – Babel
07) The Avett Brothers – The Carpenter
06) Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
05) Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
04) Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
03) Shovels and Rope – O‘ Be Joyful
02) Neil Young – Psychedelic Pill
01) Bob Dylan – Tempest
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