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.

Best Songs of 2011

1. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Codeine

2. Kasey Anderson and the Honkies - Exit Ghost

3. Austin Lucas - Thunder Rail

4. Scott H. Biram - Broke Ass

5. The Damn Quails - Fools Gold

The Rest of the Best:
Hayes Carll - Another Like You

Adele - Rolling in the Deep

Bad Meets Evil - Fast Lane

Stoney Larue - Dresses

Ryan Adams - I Love You But I Don't Know What to Say

Robert Earl Reed - Road to Hattiesburg

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - She's So Scandalous

Mike Ethan Messick - Walking Into Walls

Robyn Ludwick - Out of These Blues

Larry Hooper - Time to Go

Ha Ha Tonka - Made Example Of

Dawes - Fire Away
Hellbound Glory - Better Hope You Die Young
Willie Tea Taylor - Life is Beautiful

Eric Church - Springsteen

Blitzen Trapper - Love the Way You Walk Away

The Black Keys - Gold on the Ceiling

Drew Kennedy - Home to Me

Bon Iver - Holocene

Frank Turner - If I Ever Stray
Brad Paisley - A Man Don't Have to Die

Kelsey Waldon - God-Fearing People

JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

Glossary - Some Eternal Spark

Justin Haigh - Is It Still Cheating?

Chris Young - Neon

Cary Ann Hearst - Are You Ready to Die?

The Damn Quails - Mary

John Moreland and the Dust Bowl Souls - Good Enough

Ponderosa - Devil on My Shoulder

Foo Fighters - Arlandria

Jimbo Mathus - Cling to the Roots

Amanda Shires - Ghost Bird

Pistol Annies - Trailer for Rent

Jason Fratesi and the Dirt Road Jam Band - Heart Cryin' Out Loud

John Popper and the Duskray Troubadors - Champipple

Social Distortion - Diamond in the Rough

Ronnie Dunn - Cost of Livin'

Miranda Lambert - Mama's Broken Heart

Left Lane Cruiser - Pig Farm

Nick 13 - Carry My Body Down

Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin'

Cage the Elephant - Aberdeen

Big KRIT - Another Naive Individual Glorifying Greed & Encouraging Racism

George Strait - Poison

Centro-matic - Estimate X 3

Amos Lee - Flower

YouTube Gems: Scott H Biram

From his new album Bad Ingredients, here's Scott H. Biram with "I Want My Mojo Back.