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Americana Boogie Best Music of 2019

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Bill Frater

Here’s Bill Frater’s picks for the best music releases of 2019. As is usually the case, my Top 10 ends up being more of a Top 20! Please send me your picks for best music and I’ll post some here. Here’s to a Happy New Year.

1. Tyler Childers – Country Squire (Hickman Holler Records/RCA Records
2. Yola – Walk Through Fire (Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch Records)
3. Chris Knight – Almost Daylight (Drifters Church Productions)
4. J.S. Ondara – Tales of America (Verve Forecast)
5. Gary Nicholson – The Great Divide (Blue Corn Music)
6. The Highwomen – The Highwomen (Low Country Sound/Elektra Records)
7. Hayes Carll – What It Is (Dualtone Music)
8. Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley – World Full of Blues (Compass Records)
9. Kelsey Waldon – White Noise/White Lines (Oh Boy Records)
10. Josh Ritter – Fever Breaks (Pytheas Recordings)

Plus ten more….

Our Native Daughters – Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Rodney Crowell – Texas (RC1 Records)
Mandolin Orange – Tides of a Teardrop (Yep Roc Records)
Mike and the Moonpies – Cheap Silver and Solid Country Gold (Prairie Rose Records)
Mavis Staples – We Get By (Anti/Epitaph Records)
Ian Noe – Between The Country (National Treasury Recordings)
Charley Crockett – The Valley (Son of Davy Records)
Dori Freeman – Every Single Star (Blue Hens Music)
TK & The Holy Know-Nothings – Arguably OK (Mama Bird Recording Co.)
Karen & the Sorrows – Guaranteed Broken Heart (Ocean Born Mary Music)

Here’s Bill’s Best of 2019 Freight Train Boogie podcast…

Freight Train Boogie Show #459 (Best of 2019 Show)

Coming out soon… Marcus King, The Secret Sisters, Dustbowl Revival, Della Mae, Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band, Last Train Home, The Wood Brothers, Drive-By Truckers, The Mastersons, Annette Wasilik, Bart Budwig, Supersuckers, Aubrie Sellers, Michael Doucet, John Moreland, Christopher Paul Stelling, Will Sexton, James Hunter Six, Darrell Scott, The Third Mind…

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Bill Frater

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Americana Boogie Best Music of 2017

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Bill Frater

Here’s Bill Frater’s picks for the best music of 2017. As is usually the case, my Top 10 ends up being a Top 20, also I decided to select some favorite songs of the year. Please send me your picks for best music and I’ll post some here. Here’s to a great Christmas and holiday season and a Happy New Year.

1, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – The Nashville Sound
2. Margo Price – All American Made
3. Marty Stuart and the Fabulous Superlatives – Way Out West
4. John Moreland – Big Bad Luv
5. Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway
6. Tyler Childers – Purgatory
7. Lee Ann Womack – The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
8. Chris Hillman – Bidin’ My Time
9.Steve Earle & The Dukes – So You Wannabe an Outlaw
10. Zephaniah OHora and The 18 Wheelers – This Highway

also great…

Angaleena Presley – Wrangled
Colter Wall – Colter Wall
Jeremy Pinnell – Ties Of Blood And Affection
Lillie Mae – Forever and Then Some
Amber Cross – Savage on the Downhill
Bill Scorzari – Through These Waves
Travis Meadows – First Cigarette
Dori Freeman – Letters Never Read

Favorite songs of the year…

Bobby Bare – Things Change Things Change
Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real – Find Yourself Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real
Rodney Crowell – It Ain’t Over Yet Close Ties
Dave Rawlings – Yup Poor David’s Almanack
Chris Stapleton – Broken Halos From A Room, Vol. 1
Rachel Baiman – Shame Shame
Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer – Not Dark Yet Not Dark Yet
David Luning – Driftin’ Restless

Coming out early next year… Bob Livingston, Tommy Emmanuel, The Steep Canyon Rangers, The Ben Miller Band, John Gorka, Sam Lewis, Mary Gauthier, Brandi Carlile, Caleb Caudle, Lisa Morales, Calexico, J.D. Wilkes …

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Americana Boogie Best CD’s of 2016

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Bill Frater

Here’s my Top Ten CD releases for 2016, plus a few more…

Parker Millsap – The Very Last Day
Margo Price – Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
The Stray Birds – Magic Fire
John Prine – For Better, Or Worse
The Cactus Blossoms – You’re Dreaming
Various Artists – Southern Family
Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle – Colvin & Earle
Brent Cobb – Shine On Rainy Day
The Honeycutters – On The Ropes

Amanda Shires – My Piece Of Land
Austin Lucas – Between the Moon & the Midwest
Lucinda Williams – The Ghosts of Highway 20
Robbie Fulks – Upland Stories
Paul Simon – Stranger To Stranger
Dori Freeman – Dori Freeman
Courtney Granger – Beneath Still Waters
The Devil Makes Three – Redemption and Ruin
Yarn – This is the Year
Darrell Scott – The Couchville Sessions

Due in early 2017… The Infamous Stringdusters, The Wood Brothers, John Craigie, Kasey Chambers, The Show Ponies, Dead Man Winter, Mac Wiseman, Rose Cousins, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Natalie Hemby, Brigitte Demeyer & Will Kimbrough, Tift Merritt, Ryan Adams, The Sadies, Scott H. Biram, The Old 97’s, Rhiannon Giddens, Chuck Prophet, Wesley Stace, Valerie June, Hurray for the Riff Raff …

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Bill Frater

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Freight Train Boogie Best Music of 2015

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Bill Frater

As always, it’s tough to narrow it down to only 10… my list could change day to day, especially as the more recent releases “settle in.” The Jason has been there since the day it came out and I have a soft space in my heart for the Bottle Rockets, McMurtry and the Wheel.

Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free
The Bottle Rockets – South Broadway Athletic Club
James McMurtry – Complicated Game
Chris Stapleton – Traveller
Rhiannon Giddens – Tomorrow Is My Turn
John Moreland – High on Tulsa Heat
Sam Outlaw – Angeleno
The Supersuckers – Holdin’ The Bag
Kacey Musgraves – Pageant Material
Asleep At The Wheel – Still The King: Celebrating The Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

Plus 10 more great ones!

Andrew Combs – All These Dreams
The Deslondes – The Deslondes
Kevin Gordon- Long Gone Time
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell – The Traveling Kind
The Honeycutters – Me Oh My
Lindi Ortega – Faded Gloryville
Joan Shelley – Over and Even (iTunes )
Willy Tea Taylor – The Very Best Knuckleball Prime
The Turnpike Troubadours – Turnpike Troubadours
Various Artists – Cold & Bitter Tears: The Songs of Ted Hawkins (iTunes)

Freight Train Boogie Best of 2015 podcast.

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Bill Frater

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Freight Train Boogie Best Music of 2014

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Bill Frater

As always, it’s tough to narrow it down to only 10… my list could change day to day, especially as the more recent releases “settle in.” Rosanne’s album has held firm for the whole year. I’ve always been a fan but husband John Leventhal’s guitar and songwriting contributions make this a masterpiece, in my humble opinion. I love Sturgill Simpson’s work and I applaud his success and Grammy nod but I wasn’t knocked out by his psychedelic experiments, so he’s in the bottom 5.

Rosanne Cash – The River & The Thread
Parker Millsap – Parker Millsap
Otis Gibbs – Souvenirs Of A Misspent Youth
Lucinda Williams – Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
Doug Seegers – Going Down To The River
Nikki Lane – All Or Nothin‘
Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Jesse Winchester – Reasonable Amount of Trouble
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Saturday Night/Sunday Morning
JP Harris & The Tough Choices – Home Is Where The Hurt Is

Honorable mentions…

Cory Branan – The No-Hit Wonder

The Earls Of Leicester –The Earls of Leicester

Front Country – Sake Of The Sound

Hiss Golden Messenger – Lateness of Dancers

Hurray For The Riff Raff – Small Town Heroes

Cahalen Morrison & Country Hammer – The Flower of Muscle Shoals

Doug Paisley – Strong Feelings

Freight Train Boogie Show #281 (Best of 2014) podcast

Happy holidays!

Bill Frater
Twitter: @Fratrain
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Freight Train Boogie Best Music Releases of 2013

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Bill Frater

Here’s FTB and Americana Boogie editor Bill Frater’s picks for the best music of 2013. The order is pretty flexible, all twenty albums are great. Click the artist or album links to find out more. The artist’s names link to their websites and the CD title links go either Amazon or CD Baby for easy ordering. I will post some of the reader’s Top Ten picks soon. Your comments and suggestions (and votes) are welcome!

1. JASON ISBELL – Southeastern

2. DELBERT McCLINTON & GLEN CLARK – Blind, Crippled and Crazy

3. KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON – Cheater’s Game

4. THE DEVIL MAKES THREE – I’m A Stranger Here

5. PATTY GRIFFIN – American Kid

6. STEVE EARLE – The Low Highway

7. THE BLACK LILLIES – Runaway Freeway Blues

8. TIM O’BRIEN AND DARRELL SCOTT – Memories & Moments

9. NICKI BLUHM AND THE GRAMBLERS – Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers

10. STURGILL SIMPSON – High Top Mountain

11. MANDO SAENZ – Studebaker

12. EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL – Old Yellow Moon

13. PAUL BURCH – Fevers

14. WILLIE SUGARCAPPS – Willie Sugarcapps

15. AUSTIN LUCAS – Stay Reckless

16. GUY CLARK – My Favorite Picture of You

17.ROBBIE FULKS – Gone Away Backward

18. Various Artists – The Big E: A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons

19. GREG TROOPER – Incident on Willow Street

20. BRENNEN LEIGH & NOEL McKAY – Before The World Was Made

Below are a few of the Freight Train Boogie readers’ year-end lists…

Here are the albums I listened to most this year:

Kenny Roby – Memories and Birds
Aoife O’Donovan – Fossils
Neko Case – The More….
Robbie Fulks – Gone Away Backwards
Kelly Willis/Bruce Robison – Cheater’s Game
Jason Isbell – Southeastern
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – Old Yellow Moon
Chris Stamey – Lovesick Blues
Willie Sugarcapps
Bob Dylan – Another Self Portrait

(Mark Plott, Greensboro NC)

1) Willie Sugarcapps – Willie Sugarcapps
2) Darrell Scott & Tim O’Brien – Memories and Moments
3) Slaid Cleaves – Still Fighting The War
4) Sam Baker – Say Grace
5) Reckless Kelly – Long Night Moon<
6) Ned Van Go – Lost In The Trouble
7) D B Reilly – Cross My Heart and Hope To Die
8) Guthrie Kennard – Cross Your Heart
9) Holly Williams – The Highway
10) Steve Earle – The Low Highway

That’s a really difficult thing to do from so much great music. Thanks again for another great year of shows.
All the best,
Rob

Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie

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Best Americana Music of 2012

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Bill Frater

It’s the end of another year and time to collect our thoughts and memories and favorite songs and albums…

Here’s Freight Train Boogie editor Bill Frater’s list for 2012… subject to change…

1. IRIS DeMENT – Sing The Delta (Flariella)
2. CHRIS KNIGHT – Little Victories (Drifter’s Church)
3. BUDDY MILLER AND JIM LAUDERDALE – Buddy & Jim (New West)
4. JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE – Nothing’s Going to Change The Way You Feel About Me Now … (Bloodshot)
5. CORB LUND – Cabin Fever (New West)
6. WORLD FAMOUS HEADLINERS – World Famous Headliners (Big Yellow Dog)
7. CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS – Leaving Eden (Nonesuch)
8. DARRELL SCOTT – Long Ride Home (Full Light)
9. Phil Madeira and Friends – Mercyland: Hymns for the Rest of Us (Mercyland/Tone Tree)
10. SAM LEWIS – Sam Lewis (self released)
11. THE TIME JUMPERS – The Time Jumpers (Rounder)
12. MALCOLM HOLCOMBE – Down the River (self released)
13. BRANDI CARLILE – Bear Creek (Columbia)
14. JOHN FULLBRIGHT – From the Ground Up (12th Street)
15. JP HARRIS & THE TOUGH CHOICES – I’ll Keep Calling (Cow Island)
16. FIRST AID KIT – The Lion’s Roar (Wichita)
17. THE TRISHAS – High, Wide & Handsome (self released)
18. MOOT DAVIS – Man About Town (Highway Kind)
19. THE WANDERING – Go On Now, You Can’t Stay Here (Songs Of The South)
20. KASEY CHAMBERS & SHANE NICHOLSON – Wreck & Ruin (Sugar Hill)

You can also listen to my Spotify Best Americana music of 2012 playlist with many of my favorite tunes from the year.

Here’s a nice list from Portland FTB reviewer Brad Price…

The Time Jumpers – The Time Jumpers
Bonnie Raitt – Slipstream
Dr. John – Locked Down
First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
Abigail Washburn – City of Refuge
Tedeschi/Trucks Band – Everybody’s Talkin’
Anais Mitchell – Young Man In America
Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
Bob Dylan – Tempest
The Lumineers – The Lumineers

Dan Ferguson, host of Boudin Barndance on WRIU-FM in Kingston, Rhode Island contributes the occasional fine review to the FTB site… Here are his favorite new releases & reissues of 2012…

Kelly Hogan – I Like to Keep Myself in Pain (Anti)
Heartless Bastards – Arrow (Partisan)
J.D. McPherson – Signs & Signifiers (Rounder)
Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls (ATO)
First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar (Wichita)
John Fullbright – From the Ground Up (Blue Dirt)
Winterpills – All My Lovely Goners (ATO)
Patterson Hood – Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance (ATO Records)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Meat + Bone (Boombox)
Dead Fingers – self-titled (Big Legal Mess)
Mark Cutler – Sweet Pain (75orless)
Lambchop – Mr. A (Merge)
Amy Allison & David Scott – Turn Like the World Does

Here’s a list from FTB fan Don Parsons from Spring Valley, MN

!. John Fullbright – From the Ground Up
2. Shovels and Rope – O’ Be Joyful
3. Justin Townes Earle – Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
4. Sons of Bill – Sirens
5. Uncle Lucius – And You Are Me
6. Chris Ross – Halfway to Wonderland
7. Whitehorse – The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss
8. Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit – Live From Alabama
9. Ray Wylie Hubbard – The Grifter’s Hymnal
10. Otis Gibbs – Harder Than Hammered Hell

Wim Tijskens checks in from The Netherlands

1. Caroline Herring: Camilla
2. Cahalen Morrison & Eli West: Our Lady of the Tall Trees
3. Darrell Scott: Long Ride Home
4. John Wort Hannam: Brambles and Thorns
5. The Pines: Dark So Gold
6. Iris DeMent: Sing The Delta
7. Old Man Luedecke: Tender is the Night
8. Ben Bedford: What We Lost
9. Black Prairie: A Tear in the Eye is A Wound in the Heart
10.The Stray Birds: The Stray Birds
Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie

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FTB Reader’s Favorite Music Releases of 2011

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Bill Frater

Here’s what some of the Freight Train Boogie readers chose for their favorite music from 2011.

1. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Here We Rest
2. Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Kings and Queens
3. Dawes – Nothing is Wrong
4. The Black Lilies – 100 Miles of Wreckage
5. Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire
6. Steve Earle – I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive
7. Ollabelle – Neon Blue Bird
8. Guy Clark – Songs and Stories
9. Amanda Shires – Carrying Lightning
10. Slaid Cleaves – Sorrow & Smoke

Don Parsons
Spring Valley, MN

1. Ashes & Fire, Ryan Adams
2. Here We Rest, Jason Isbell
3. The Whole Love, Wilco
4. This is Indian Land, Cody Canada & the Departed
5. Middle Brother, Middle Brother
6. Revelator, Tedeschi Trucks Band
7. Mockingbird Time, Jayhawks
8. Paradise Lost, Great American Taxi
9. The Harrow & the Harvest, Gillian Welch
10. Divine Providence, Deer Tick

Jeff Johnson
Tulsa, OK

1 The King is Dead | Long Live The King – The Decemberists

2 The Whole Love – Wilco

3 Indestructible Machine – Lydia Loveless

4 Here We Rest – Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit

5 Field Songs – William Elliott Whitmore

6 Photographs – Robert Ellis

7 The Harrow and the Harvest – Gillian Welch

8 All That The Rain Promises – Bombadil

9 Go-Go Boots – Drive-By Truckers

10 Own Side Now – Caitlin Rose

11 Nothing is Wrong – Dawes

12 Screws Get Loose – Those Darlins

13 WHOKILL – tUnE-yArDs

14 The Place I Left Behind – The Deep Dark Woods

15 KMAG YOYO – Hayes Carll

16 Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes

17 Billy Jack – HoneyHoney

18 Middle Brother – Middle Brother

19 Haste Make | Hard Hearted Stranger – Mandolin Orange

20 100 Miles of Wreckage – The Black Lillies

Chase Barnard

Cahalen Morrison & Eli West: The Holy Coming of The Storm
Pokey Lafarge And the South City Three: The Middle of Everywhere
Pharis and Jason Romero: Passing Glimpse
Matraca Berg: The Dreaming Fields
The Once: Row Upon Row Of The People They Know
Abigail Washburn: City of Refuge
Diana Jones: High Atmosphere
Ray Bonneville: Bad Man’s Blood
The Gibson Brothers: Help My Brother
Jonathan Byrd: Cackalack

As you can see, there’s a high Old-Timey level in my top 10!
Furthermore, also top 10 worthy: Putnam Smith, Eilen Jewell, April Verch, Downtown Ramblers, Paul Geremia, Scott Cook, Nell Robinson, Jason Isbell, Kyle Carey, BettySoo and Doug Cox, Rod Picott and Tom Russell (and I probably forget some others).

Wim Tijskens
The Netherlands

New releases due in January include KATHLEEN EDWARDS, FRED EAGLESMITH, DOLLY VARDEN, RUTHIE FOSTER, LEONARD COHEN…

Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie

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Freight Train Boogie Favorite Music Releases of 2011

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Bill Frater

Here’s my Top Ten plus Ten list for calender year 2011. I say calender year because the awards shows like to break up the year for some reason. Keep in mind that this is just my opinion, and there have been more great new releases this year by so-called big Americana artists that it’s a difficult and sometimes random task. I only have so much time to really listen to new music and there are some albums that I’ve heard are great that I either never received or haven’t gotten into yet (Gillian Welch). So here ya go, I’d love to hear what your picks are. Send them to me (frater@freighttrainboogie.com), and I’ll post some here and put you in the hat to win 3 grab-bags of extra rootsy CD’s that I have around here… And you can listen to the podcast of the Freight Train Boogie #143, Favorite Music Releases of 2011 from this link.

Top 10 Major Label Releases

JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT – Here We Rest
DEEP DARK WOODS – The Place I Left Behind
STEVE EARLE – I’ll Never Get of This World Alive
TARA NEVINS – Wood and Stone
BLACKIE AND THE RODEO KINGS – Kings & Queens
THE CIVIL WARS – Barton Hollow
THE DECEMBERISTS – The King Is Dead
EMMYLOU HARRIS – Hard Bargain
RY COODER – Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down
BUDDY MILLER’s THE MAJESTIC SILVER STRINGS – The Majestic Silver Strings

Top 10 Independent Releases

JUBAL LEE YOUNG – Take It Home
OLD CALIFORNIO – Sundrunk Angels
JONATHAN BYRD – Cackalack
ROD PICOTT – Welding Burns
THE BLACK LILLIES – 100 Miles of Wreckage
CAM PENNER – Gypsy Summer
GREG TROOPER – Upside-Down Town
TED RUSSELL KAMP – Get Back To The Land
POKEY LAFARGE AND THE SOUTH CITY THREE – Middle of Everything
NELL ROBINSON – On The Brooklyn Road

Various Artist’s and Tribute Releases

Various Artists – The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
Various Artists – I Love: Tom T. Hall’s Songs of Fox Hollow

The Americana Music Association has announced its year-end Top 10 & Top 100 Albums of the Year. The Top 100 albums are based on those records reported to the Americana Airplay Chart during the period of November 16, 2010 through November 14, 2011.

This years’ Top Ten most played albums are:

1) Hayes Carll, KMAG YOYO / Lost Highway

2) Lucinda Williams, Blessed / Lost Highway

3) Steve Earle, I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive / New West

4) Alison Krauss & Union Station, Paper Airplane / Rounder

5) Emmylou Harris, Hard Bargain / Nonesuch

6) Gregg Allman, Low Country Blues / Rounder

7) Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Here We Rest / Lightning Rod

8) John Hiatt, Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns / New West

9) Decemberists, The King Is Dead / Capitol

10) Band of Heathens, Top Hat Crown & The Clapmaster’s Son / BOH Records

To view the full 2010-2011 Top 100 Albums, visit http://www.americanamusic.org and click the Top 100 Albums link.

Happy Holidays!

Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie

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Freight Train Boogie podcast #100, The Best of 2010

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #100 features song selections from my Best of 2010 list. My full in-order list is posted here. Some of the CD’s on the bigger labels have not given me permission to use their music so they are not included here. These artsits include JAMEY JOHNSON,CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS and ELVIS COSTELLO. our input is always encouraged and appreciated. Please email me with any questions or suggestions for the podcasts. frater(at)freighttrainboogie.com

The full playlist is posted below. Check the artist’s websites and order their CD’s or downloads and tell ’em you heard the songs on the Freight Train Boogie podcast. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now! And this is the RSS feed for non-iTunes listeners: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss

Also, starting the first of the year, all FTB podcast playlists with players and iTunes links will be posted at FTBpodcasts.com.

Show #100 Best of 2010