Wednesday, January 14, 2009

WFHB Top 100 of 2008











1. Blind Boys of Alabama / Down in New Orleans / TimeLife
 2. Bob Dylan / Tell Tale Signs / Columbia
 3. Cat Power / Jukebox / Merge
 4. Carrie Newcomer / The Geography of Light / Philo
 5. Taj Mahal / Maestro / Kan Du
 6. Jim White / Transnormal Skiperoo / Luaka Bop
 7. Bon Iver / For Emma, Forever Ago / Jagjaguwar
 8. Catherine Russel / Sentimental Streak / World Village
 9. Sia / Some People Have Real Problems / Sia Music
10. Krista Detor / Cover Their Eyes / Corazong
11. Randy Newman / Harps and Angels / Nonesuch
12. Lucinda Williams / Little Honey / Lost Highway
13. Mavis Staples / Live Hope at The Hideout / Anti
14. Dengue Fever / Venus on Earth / M80
15. Calexico / Carried to Dust / Quarterstick
16. Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs / Dirt Don't Hurt / Transdreamer
17. Lizz Wright / The Orchard / Verve Forecast
18. George Clinton / and his Gangsters of Love / Shanachie
19. Ani DiFranco / Red Letter Year / Righteous Babe
20. The Helio Sequence / Keep Your Eyes Ahead / Sub Pop
21. Eli "Paperboy" Reed / Roll With You / Q Division
22. Vampire Weekend / Vampire Weekend / XL
23. John Mellencamp / Life Death Love and Freedom / Hear Music
24. My Morning Jacket / Evil Urges / ATO
25. TV on the Radio / Dear Science / DGC
26. Greg Brown / Yellow Dog / Earthwork Music
27. Thievery Corporation / Radio Retaliation / ESL
28. Cowboy Junkies / Trinity Revisited / Zoe
29. British Sea Power / Do You Like Rock Music? / Rough Trade
30. Dr. John / The City That Care Forgot / 429
31. Various Artists / The Harlem Experiment / Ropeadope
32. Kentucky Nightmare / Take Her Favour / Kentucky Nightmare
33. Juliana Hatfield / How to Walk Away / Ye Olde
34. Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis / Two Men with the Blues / Blue Note
35. Arlen Roth / Toolin' Around Woodstock / Aquinnah
36. Maceo Parker / Roots & Grooves / Heads Up
37. David Byrne/Brian Eno / Everything That Happens.. / Todomundo/Opal
38. Ray Davies / Working Man's Cafe / New West
39. Solas / For Love and Laughter / Compass
40. Neil Halstead / Oh! Mighty Engine / Brushfire
41. Chicha Libre / Sonido Amazonico / Barbes
42. Rory Block / Blues Walkin' Like a Man / Stony Plain
43. Rodney Crowell / Sex & Gasoline / Work Song/Yep Roc
44. Michael Franti & Spearhead / All Rebel Rockers / Anti
45. Galactic / From the Corner to the Block / Anti
46. Amp Fiddler / Afro Strut / PIAS
47. Tim O'Brien / Chameleon / Proper American
48. Ben Solee / Learning to Bend / Sonablast
49. Hot Chip / Made in the Dark / Astralwerks
50. Thea Gilmore / Liejacker / Rykodisc
51. Ry Cooder / I, Flathead / Nonesuch
52. Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere / Nudge It Up a Notch / Stax
53. Amos Lee / Last Days at the Lodge / Blue Note
54. Richie Havens / Nobody Left to Crown / Verve
55. Alejandro Escovedo / Real Animal / Back Porch
56. Drive-By Truckers / Brighter Than Creation's Dark / New West
57. Mysteries of Life / Great Lakes / Musical Family Tree
58. Amp Fiddler/Sly&Robbie / Inspiration Information / Strut
59. BB King / One Kind Favor / Geffen
60. Lambchop / OH (Ohio) / Merge
61. Black Mountain / In the Future / Jagjaguwar
62. Blue Sky Back / Blue Sky Back / Upstairs Ape
63. Basia Bulat / Oh, My Darling / Rough Trade
64. James Combs / To Know You Is To Save You / James Combs Music
65. Jerry Douglas / Glide / Koch
66. The Watson Twins / Fire Songs / Vanguard
67. Tim Grimm / Holding Up the World / Vault
68. The Stairwell Sisters / Get Off Your Money / Yodel-Ay-Hee
69. Evangelicals / The Evening Descends / Dead Oceans
70. The Waybacks / Loaded / Compass
71. Abigail Washburn / and The Sparrow Quartet / Nettwerk
72. Herbie Hancock / River: The Joni Letters / Verve
73. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals / Cardinology / Lost Highway
74. James Jackson Toth / Waiting in Vain / Rykodisc
75. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Real Emotional Trash / Matador
76. The Breeders / Mountain Battles / 4AD
77. Mia Doi Todd / Gea / City Zen
78. Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile / s/t / Nonesuch
79. The Sacred Shakers / The Sacred Shakers / Signature Sound
80. Al Green / Lay It Down / Blue Note
81. Sam Phillips / Don't Do Anything / Nonesuch
82. Of Montreal / Skeletal Lamping / Polyvinyl
83. Devotchka / A Mad & Faithful Telling / Anti
84. Rebecca Martin / The Growing Season / Sunnyside
85. The Horse Flies / Until the Ocean / Pest Control
86. The Black Keys / Attack & Release / Nonesuch
87. Otis Taylor / Recapturing the Banjo / Telarc
88. Wyclef Jean / Carnival Vol II / Columbia
89. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! / Anti
90. Mason Jennings / In the Ever / Brushfire
91. Elf Power / In a Cave / Rykodisc
92. Giant Sand / proVISIONS / Yep Roc
93. Beck / Modern Guilt / DGC
94. Stanton Moore / Emphasis! on Parentesis / Telarc
95. Throw Me the Statue / Moondreams / Secretly Canadian
96. Marcia Ball / Peace, Love & BBQ / Alligator
97. Moby / Last Night / Mute
98. Medeski Martin & Wood / Radiolarians I / Indirecto
99. Menahan Street Band / Make the Road By Walking / Dunham/Daptone
100. Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Thanks for choosing Yellow Dog!

Susan Fawcett
earthworkmusic.com