This is my last "Best of 2010" post... I promise!
Favorite EPs of 2010:
Eleven Bones - Four Day March
Buy this, country and alt-country fans! It's so freaking good.... and they better put out a full album soon, or else!
Horatio Lee Jenkins - Drunker Than Satan
Funny stuff!
John Moreland - Hope Springs Ephemeral
Right up the alley of fans of Slobberbone, The 'Mats, Lucero and the like.
Favorite Live Albums of 2010
Drew Kennedy - Alone, But Not Lonely (Still a free download and well worth it! ;))
Drew with guitar, singing songs and telling stories about the songs. So good.
Jason Boland and the Stragglers - High in the Rockies
The band is in great form, tearing through a long set of originals and awesome covers.
Zac Brown Band - Pass the Jar
If you don't count the song with an ear-shredding performance by the cackling Angie Aparo, there's not a clunker to be found here. These guys are tight!
Biggest Disappointments of 2010
These aren't bad albums by any stretch…just not what I was hoping for from these artists.
Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
Hank III - Rebel Within
Ryan Bingham - Junky Star
Other 2010 Albums Beyond My Top 40 Worthy of Mention: (in some semblance of order)
Delta Spirit - History From Below
The Moondoggies - Tidelands
Against Me! - White Crosses
Marah - Life is a Problem
Phosphorescent - Here's to Taking It Easy
My Darkest Days - s/t
Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer of the Void
Travel By Sea - Two States and the Blindness that Follows
Easton Corbin - s/t
Monster Magnet - Mastermind
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Eminem - Recovery
Dierks Bentley - Up On the Ridge
Krizz Kaliko - Shock Treatment
Peter Cooper - The Lloyd Green Album
Tim Barry - 28th & Stonewall
Alan Jackson - Freight Train
Truckstop Darlin' - S/T
The National - High Violet
The Brothers Comatose - Songs from the Stoop
Nightjar - Hometown Stranger
Danzig - Deth Red Saboath
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Ray Wylie Hubbard - A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C)
Trombone Shorty - Backatown
Javi Garcia and the Cold Cold Ground - A Southern Horror
Jerrod Niemann - Judge Jerrod and the Hung Jury
Retribution Gospel Choir - 2
Brett Detar - Bird in the Tangle
Gary Allan - Get Off On the Pain
Butch Walker and the Black Widows - I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart
Walt Wilkins & the Mystiqueros - Agave
Rihanna - Loud
Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
South Memphis String Band - Home Sweet Home
American Graveyard - Hallelujahland
Josh Thompson - Way Out Here
Nappy Roots - The Pursuit of Nappyness
Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
The Steel Wheels - Red Wing
Shinyribs - Well After Awhile
Widespread Panic - Dirty Side Down
Whispering Pines - Family Tree
Mark Chesnutt - Outlaw
Guthrie Kennard - Matchbox
Murder By Death - Good Morning, Magpie
The Band Perry - s/t
D.B. Rielly - Love Potions and Snake Oil
The Benedictions - Play Devil Music
Little Brother - LeftBack
Stone Temple Pilots - s/t
Jakob Dylan - Women and Country
Memphis 59 - Ragged But Right
The Morning Benders - Big Echo
Slash - s/t
She & Him - Volume 2
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig
Freedy Johnston - Rain on the City
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
Rogue Wave - Permalight
I See Hawks in L.A. - Should've Been Gold
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
The Sadies - Darker Circles
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