Top 10 Albums of 2011 - Rev. Robert Earl Reed's Ten

FTM pal and Mixtape participant (you can still get it through Monday! and get his album Carlene as a free bonus!) Robert Earl Reed gives us his top 10 albums of the year.

Reverend Robert Earl Reed's Top 10 Albums of 2011

#1 Confederate Buddha - Jimbo Mathus and The Tri-State Coalition

“Inner Planetary Honky Tonk” of the first degree.

#2 Money Marbles and Chalk - Powder Mill

REAL! Southern Rawk from the Ozarks

#3 Keys to the Kingdom - North Mississippi Allstars

North Mississippi Hill Country Influenced Badassness

#4 Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream - Gurf Morlix

Awesome story telling about an awesome story teller

#5 Bad Ingredients - Scott H. Biram

Pure Powerful XXX Music 

#6 I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive - Steve Earle

We are watching the making of a true American Songwriting Legend with every note

#7 Down in the Barnyard - Rachel Brooke

A Classic Beauty of Voice

#8 Blessed - Lucinda Williams

Just plain Ole Bad Ass Music

#9 Best of Harpo - Richard Harpole

An under heard, under appreciated, Mississippi Story Teller of Monumental Proportion (think Mark Twain)

#10 The SOUTHERN INDEPENDENTS VOL 1,2,3 - 42 XXX Artists

Real Songs, Real Artists 

Here's a video from Powder Mill, the #2 finisher on the Rev's list:

Larry Lee would not be happy.