Americana Music Association announces Top 100 Americana Albums of 2010
Kim Ruehl
Posted On December 14, 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
