2011 Top 10 Albums
from my Americana Music Blog
1. Chip Taylor (with John Platania, Kendel Carson), Rock And Roll Joe – A Tribute To The Unsung Heroes Of Rock ’n’ Roll (Train Wreck)
2. Ry Cooder, Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down (Nonesuch)
3. Lydia Loveless, Indestructible Machine (Bloodshot)
4. Greg Brown, Freak Flag (Yep Roc)
5. Robyn Ludwick, Out Of These Blues (Late Show Records)
6. Grant Peeples, Okra And Ecclesiastes (Gatorbone)
7. Zoe Muth and The Lost High Rollers, Starlight Hotel (Signature Sounds)
8. John Hiatt, Dirty Jeans And Mudside Hymns (New West)
9. Laura Cantrell, Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen Of Country Music (Diesel Only)
10. Stacie Collins, Sometimes Ya Gotta … (REV Records)
Runners-up (alphabetical order):
77 El Deora, The Crown & The Crow’s Confession (Western Independent Recording)
Dave Alvin, Eleven Eleven (Yep Roc)
Pieta Brown, Mercury (Red House)
Slaid Cleaves, Sorrow & Smoke – Live At The Horseshoe Lounge (Music Road)
Brigitte DeMeyer, Rose of Jericho (self-released)
Amber Digby & Midnight Flyer, Live at Swiss Alps Hall (Heart of Texas)
Drive-By Truckers, Go-Go Boots (ATO)
Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue, Set Two (self-released)
Larry Lange and his Lonely Knights, Wiggle Room (Steady Boy)
Nick Lowe, The Old Magic (YepRoc)
The Rainmakers, 25 On (Bat)
Rachel Timberlake (self-released)
Renée Wahl, Cumberland Moonshine (self-released)
Re-issues, Compilations:
Sir Douglas Quintet, The Mono Singles ’68–’72 (Sundazed)
The Rainmakers, The Good News And The Bad News (Bat; Original: 1989)
