American Songwriter – Top 50 Songs of 2011
01) Hayes Carll – Another like You
02) Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Codeine
03) Iron & Wine – Tree by the River
04) Gillian Welch – The Way It Goes
05) Amanda Shires – When You Need a Train It Never Comes
06) Wilco – I Might
07) Adele – Someone like You
08) Dawes – If I Wanted Someone
09) Tom Waits – Chicago
10) Drive -By Truckers – Used to Be a Cop
11) Jessica Lea Mayfield – Trouble
12) Fleet Foxes – Grown Ocean
13) Bon Iver – Perth
14) Decemberists – Calamity Song
15) Feist – The Circle Married the Line
16) Paul Simon – Getting Ready for Christmas Day
17) Radiohead – Lotus Flower
18) Bright Eyes – Haile Selassie
19) PJ Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder
20) Lucinda Williams – Sweet Love
21) Miranda Lambert – Fine Tune
22) Abigail Washburn – Burn Thru
23) Robert Ellis – Friends like Those
24) Bill Callahan – Riding for the Feeling
25) A.A. Bondy – Surfer King
26) Pieta Brown – Mercury
27) The Felice Brothers – River Jordan
28) War On Drugs – Baby Missiles
29) Lana del Ray – Video Games
30) My Morning Jacket – Victory Dance
31) Laura Marling – The Beast
32) Steel Magnolia – Bulletproof
33) Lykke Li – I Follow Rivers
34) tUnE -yArDs – My Country
35) Matraca Berg – You and Tequila
36) Eleanor Friedberger – My Mistakes
37) Marissa Nadler – Baby, I Will Leave You in the Morning
38) Those Darlins – Waste Away
39) Destroyer – Savage Night at the Opera
40) Real Estate – It’s Real
41) Pistol Annies – Trailer for Rent
42) Florence + The Machine – Shake It Out
43) Cass McCombs – County Line
44) J. Mascis – Circle
45) Jens Lekman – Waiting for Kirsten
46) Mekons – I Fall Asleep
47) Amy LaVere – Damn Love Song
48) The Ettes – Excuse
49) Anna Calvi – Suzanne & I
50) Smith Westerns – All Die Young
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