What a great year for new music! This list features some of my favorites from the past year. It's a wide range of genres, certainly not limited to "Americana," but all worth a listen.
Best of 2011
1. Middle Brother – Middle Brother
2. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
3. Dawes – Nothing is Wrong
4. Hayes Carll – KMAG-YOYO
5. Tune-Yards – WhoKill
6. J. Mascis – Several Shades of Why
7. Johnny Corndawg – Down on the Bikini Line
8. Drive By Truckers – Go-Go Boots
9. Sarah Jarosz – Follow Me Down
10. Lucinda Williams - Blessed
11. Jason Isbell – Here We Rest
12. My Morning Jacket – Circuital
13. Gillian Welch – The Harrow and The Harvest
14. Wilco – Whole Love
15. Yuck – Yuck
16. Ryan Adams – Dirty Rain
17. Amy Winehouse – Lioness: Hidden Treasures
18. The Black Keys – El Camino
19. Foster the People – Torches
20. Man Man – Life Fantastic
21. The Black Angels – Phosgene Nightmare
22. Alison Kraus and Union Station – Paper Airplane
23. Chris Thile and Michael Daves – Sleep With One Eye Open
24. Tom Waits – Bad As Me
25. Portugal the Man – In the Mountain in the Cloud
Also Worth Noting...
Amanda Shires – Crazy Lightning; Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts; Seryn - This is Where We Are; Those Darlins – Screws Get Loose; Malcom Holcombe – To Drink the Rain; Deer Tick – Divine Providence; Radiohead – King of Limbs; Tedeschi Trucks Band – Revelator; Greg Allman – Lowcountry Blues; TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light; Umphrey’s McGee – Death by Stereo; John Hiatt – Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hyms; The Jayhawks – Mockingbird Time; The Gourds – Old Mad Joy; Primus – Green Naugahyde; The Head and the Heart – Self-Titled; Gomez – Whatever’s on Your Mind; The Decembrists – The King is Dead; Steve Earle – I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive; Big Daddy Love – Let it Grow; The V-Roys – Sooner or Later; Trombone Shorty – For True; Stuart Duncan, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, Yo-Yo Ma – The Goat Rodeo Sessions
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