Here are Freight Train Boogie editor Bill Frater’s selections for the Top 20 Americana Album of 2010…
There’s still time for you to send in your vote to frater@freighttrainboogie.com with Best of 2010 in the subject line and you could be a big winner or get your list posted here later this month. Here’s a list with some suggestions. Deadline is Dec. 27th
The Americana Music Association announced its Top 100 Albums of the Year. The list is based on those records reported to the Americana Airplay Chart since Nov. ’09. Bear in mind that some of the albums on their list were released in ’09 and are not eligible for the FTB Best of ’10 List.
1. JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE – Harlem River Blues (Bloodshot)
2. SHELBY LYNNE – Tears, Lies, and Alibis (Everso)
3. MARTY STUART – Ghost Train (The Studio B Sessions) (Sugar Hill)
4. PATTY GRIFFIN – Downtown Church (Credential)
5. SHINYRIBS – Well After Awhile (Nine Mile)
6. ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER – Master Sessions (Red Beet)
7. JAMEY JOHNSON – The Guitar Song (Mercury/Nashville)
8. CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS – Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch)
9. ELIZABETH COOK – Welder (Thirty Tigers)
10. YVETTE LANDRY – Should Have Known (Soko Music)
11. ELVIS COSTELLO – National Ransom (Hear/Concord)
12. PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND – Legacy (Compass)
13. ZOE MUTH & THE LOST HIGH ROLLERS – Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers (self released)
14. WILLIE NELSON – Country Music (Rounder)
15. ROMAN CANDLE – Oh Tall Tree in the Ear (Thirty Tigers)
16. WILL KIMBROUGH – Wings (Daphne)
17. ADAM KLEIN – Wounded Electric Youth (Cowboy Angel)
18. CALEB KLAUDER – Western Country
19. DAVE GLEASON – Turn and Fade (326 Records)
20. ELLIOT RANDALL – Caffeine & Gasoline (self released)
