FTM 101 Best of 2011: 76-101

Maybe 101 albums is too many for a "Best of" list. Some may think it's indulgent or that I'm showing off how much music I listened to ....but that's not the case. I just love music so much and it needs to be seen that good music is still being put out in this day and age of disposable songs. I listened to many, many, many new albums in 2011 and passed on dozens more after previewing them. The FTM 101 includes all the albums I heard and think are most worthy of mention. Here's the first installment (higher up the chart will include write-ups).

76. Cage the Elephant - Thank You Happy Birthday

77. Mt. Moriah - s/t

78. Chris Young - Neon

79. The Jayhawks - Mockingbird Time

80. Mike McClure - Fifty Billion

81. 2 Steps Back - Lovers & Fighters

82. Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers - Unida Cantina

83. Trombone Shorty - For True

84. Too Slim and the Taildraggers - Shiver

85. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - Soul Time!

86. Middle Brother - S/T

87. Blind Boys of Alabama - Take the High Road

88. Black Spiders - Sons of the North

89. The V-Roys - Sooner or Later

90. Rachel Brooke - Down in the Barnyard

91. A Pale Horse Named Death - And Hell Will Follow…

92. Switchfoot - Vice Verses

93. Childish Gambino - Camp

94. Deer Dick - Divine Providence

95. Hank III - Ghost to a Ghost/Guttertown

96. Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers - Starlight Hotel

97. Trent Dabbs - Southerner

98. R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now

99. The Gourds - Old Mad Joy

100. My Morning Jacket - Circuital

101. Black Stone Cherry - Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea

Scotty McCreery on the Shelf #6

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If ____ Wrote a Christmas Song: 2011 Edition

If Yelawolf wrote a Christmas song
Catfish Billy gettin' ready
Delivering gifts in a big box Chevy
Got meth and speed and Oxycontin
Everything the girls and boys are wantin'
If you on the naughty list, get shotgun pellets

If Hank3 wrote a Christmas song
I been drinkin' and druggin' underneath the mistletoe
I'm a crazed Christmas rebel from long ago
Always courtin' trouble and I'm always on the run
Got a hooker named Noel, snorting blow off her buns




If Lil Wayne wrote a Christmas song
I got the toys like Geoffry giraffe
And you're Dane Cook, can't make me laugh
Ain't got the gifts the ho ho ho's need
Joy to the *&^@#$ (*@#$ @!###$ let's smoke weed





If Toby Keith wrote a Christmas song
I love you, red Santa hat
On a old man who's fat
It's made in 'merica!
It's made in 'merica!





If Miranda Lambert wrote a Christmas song
Silver bells, shotgun shells
It's Christmas in Tishomingo
Aim your shot, see 'em drop
Soon Rudolph will be filleted






If Willie Nelson wrote a Christmas song
I'm dreaming of a green Christmas
That's how I celebrate the yule
Where the smoke is funky
And I got munchies
Let's stop for ribs and biofuel




If Brantley Gilbert wrote a Christmas song
Cut off jeans and country boy's kiss
That's what's on her Christmas list
Santa's ridin' down an old dirt road
Sippin' spiked eggnog from the console
Johnny Paycheck was an outlaw
I wish you Merry Christmas, y'all

Scotty McCreery on the Shelf #5

Scotty McCreery on the Shelf #4