Originally posted at Facebook
These are the ones I was just about always happy to find popping up on the iPod. That's all.
Asterisks are for ones I think you may not know yet … and should. The rest are so excellent and well-known … they're just … like … obvious.Alphabetical by the music maker (but if I had to name My Own Personal Very Best Album of the Year, it would have to be Lord Bring Me Down by The Consolers ... what sorry excuse for a culture would not/could not steer me to them before now?)
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An Italian Songbook - Cecilia Bartoli
Sea Change - Beck
For Emma, Forever - Bon Iver
Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah - James Booker
The List - Rosanne Cash
Lord Bring Me Down - The Consolers*
My Life - Iris Dement
John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan
Since We Met - Bill Evans Trio
Shake That Thing - Stefan Grossman*
Two Short Stories - Jayber Crow*
Bach Sonatas & Partitas - Gidon Kremer
Oh My God Charlie Darwin - The Low Anthem
The Good Feeling - Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele*
Shakuhachi; Japanese Flute - Kohachiro Miyata*
The Sunset Tree - The Mountain Goats
The Voice of the Poet - Frank O'Hara
Brighten the Corners - Pavement
Little Grey Sheep - Danny Schmidt*
The Eternal - Sonic Youth
Going Up: The Very Best of the 13th Floor Elevators - 13th Floor Elevators
Wilco (the album) - Wilco
Live at Massey Hall 1971 - Neil Young