Americana Music Association announces Top 100 Americana Albums of 2010

I know we’re still working on our ND community poll for the Best Album of 2010 – and many of us have posted lists here – but I just got an email from the Americana Music Association announcing the Top 100 Americana Albums of 2010. This list is reportedly “based on those records reported to the Americana Airplay Chart during the period of November 17, 2009, through November 15, 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

51) John Fogerty, The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again / Verve

52) Suzi Ragsdale, Best Regards & Less of the Same / Stark Raven

53) Various Artists, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine / Oh Boy

54) Great American Taxi, Reckless Habits / Thirty Tigers

55) Peter Wolf, Midnight Souvenirs / Verve

56) Mary Gauthier, The Foundling / Razor & Tie

57) Jakob Dylan, Women + Country / Columbia

58) Two Tons of Steel, Not That Lucky / Smith Entertainment

59) Norah Jones, The Fall / Blue Note

60) Stone River Boys, Love on the Dial / Cow Island Music

61) Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Age of Miracles / Zoe

62) Court Yard Hounds, s/t / Columbia

63) Delbert McClinton, Acquired Taste / New West

64) Jason & the Scorchers, Halcyon Times / Courageous Chicken

65) Hank III, Rebel Within / Curb

66) Will Hoge, The Wreckage / Ryko

67) Martin Sexton, Sugarcoating / Kitchen Table

68) Cadillac Sky, Letters in the Deep / Dualtone

69) John Evans, Lollygaggin’ / Smith Entertainment

70) Steel Wheels, Red Wing / Independent

71) Blue Rodeo, The Things We Left Behind / Telesoul

72) Chuck Prophet, Let Freedom Ring / Yep Roc

73) Justin Townes Earle, Harlem River Blues / Bloodshot

74) Holmes Brothers, Feed My Soul / Alligator

75) Tom Russell, Blood and Candle Smoke / Shout! Factory

76) Sara Petite, Doghouse Rose / Sweet P

77) Doug and Telisha Williams, Ghost of the Knoxville Girl / No Evil

78) Radney Foster, Revival / Devil’s River

79) Nora Jane Struthers, s/t / Blue Pig Music

80) Various Artists, Coal Country Music / Liaison Records

81) Somebody’s Darling, s/t / Shiner

82) Cindy Bullens, Howling Trains and Barking Dogs / MC

83) Infamous Stringdusters, Things That Fly / Sugar Hill

84) Fred Eaglesmith, Cha Cha Cha / Lonesome Day

85) Joe Pug, Messenger / Lightning Rod

86) Keller and the Keels, Thief / SciFidelity

87) Matt the Electrician, Animal Boy / Independent

88) Bill Kirchen, Word to the Wise / Proper American

89) Rebecca Loebe, Mystery Prize / Independent

90) Tom Gilliam, Had Enough? / Smith Entertainment Records

91) Crooked Still, Some Strange Country / Signature Sounds

92) James McMurtry, Live in Europe / Lightning Rod

93) Terri Hendrix, Cry Til You Laugh / Wilory

94) Shelley King, Welcome Home / Lemonade

95) Frazey Ford, Obadiah / Nettwerk

96) Otis Gibbs, Joe Hill’s Ashes / Wanamaker Recording Company

97) Mavis Staples, You Are Not Alone / Anti

98) Eric Bibb, Booker’s Guitar / Telarc

99) Texas Tornados, Esta Bueno! / Bismeaux Records

100) Rosie Flores & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Girl of the Century / Bloodshot

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