Top 100 Americana Albums of the Year

The Americana Music Association announced its year end Top 100 Albums of the Year.  The Top 100 albums are based on those records reported to the Americana Airplay Chart during the period of November 17, 2009 through November 15, 2010. The Top Ten most played albums, as charted on the Americana Airplay Chart are: 

1) Various Artists, Crazy Heart Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / New West

2) Rosanne Cash, The List / Manhattan 

3) John Hiatt, The Open Road / New West

4) Carolina Chocolate Drops, Genuine Negro Jig / Nonesuch

5) Ray Wylie Hubbard, A Enlightenment B Endarkenment Hint There Is No C / Bordello/Thirty Tigers

6) Robert Earl Keen, The Rose Hotel / Lost Highway

7) Band Of Heathens, One Foot In The Ether / BOH Records

8) The Avett Brothers, I And Love And You / Columbia 

9) Patty Griffin, Downtown Church / Credential

10) Reckless Kelly, Somewhere In Time / Yep Roc

11) John Mellencamp, No Better Than This, Rounder

12) Darrell Scott, A Crooked Road, Full Light 

13) Merle Haggard, I Am What I Am, Vanguard 

14) Alejandro Escovedo, Street Songs of Love, Fantasy 

15) Willie Nelson, Country Music, Rounder 

16) Lyle Lovett, Natural Forces, Curb/Lost Highway 

17) Carrie Rodriguez, Love And Circumstance, Ninth Street 
18) Robert Plant, Band of Joy, Rounder 

19) Paul Thorn, Pimps & Preachers, Perpetual Obscurity 

20) Los Lobos, Tin Can Trust, Shout! Factory 

21) Jim Lauderdale, Patchwork   River, Thirty Tigers 

22) Cross Canadian Ragweed, Happiness And All The Other Things, Universal Records South 

23) Red Molly, James, Independent 

24) Chip Taylor , Yonkers   NY, Train Wreck

25) Yarn, Come On In, UFO 2

26) John Prine, In Person & On Stage, Oh Boy

27) Tift Merritt, See You On The Moon, Concord

28) Various Artists: Twistable Turnable Man, A Musical Tribute To The Songs Of Shel Silverstein, Sugar Hill 

29) Dave Rawlings Machine, A Friend Of A Friend, Acony 

30) Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Speed Of Life, NGDB 

31) Kevin Welch, A Patch Of Blue Sky, Music Road

32) Johnny Cash, American VI: Ain't No Grave, American/Lost Highway 

33) Elliot Randall & The Deadmen, Caffeine & Gasoline, ER 

34) Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs, God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise, RCA 

35) Shelby Lynne, Tears, Lies & Alibis , Everso/Fontana/CO5 

36) Marty Stuart, Studio B Sessions, Sugar Hill 

 37) Sam Bush, Circles Around Me, Sugar Hill 

 38) Will Kimbrough, Wings, Daphne 

 39) Corb Lund, Losin' Lately Gambler, New West 

 40) Elizabeth Cook, Welder, Thirty Tigers 

 41) Kevin Deal, 7 Seven, Blind Nello 

 42) Allison Moorer, Crows, Ryko 

 43) Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses, Junky Star, Lost Highway 

 44) Eleven Hundred Springs, This Crazy Life, Smith Entertainment 

 45) Guy Clark, Somedays The Song Writes You, Dualtone 

 46) Dierks Bentley, Up On The Ridge, Capitol / Sugar Hill

 47) Patty Loveless, Mountain Soul II,

Saguaro Road

 48) Drive-By Truckers, The Big To-Do, ATO/RED 

 49) Tim O'Brien, Chicken & Egg, Howdy Skies 

 50) Eilen Jewell, Butcher Holler - A Tribute To Loretta Lynn, Signature Sounds

 51) John Fogerty, The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again, Verve 

 52) Suzi Ragsdale, Best Regards & Less Of The Same, Stark Raven 

 53) Various Artists, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine, Oh Boy 

 54) Great American Taxi , Reckless Habits, Thirty Tigers 

55) Peter Wolf, Midnight Souvenirs , Verve

 56) Mary Gauthier, The Foundling, Razor & Tie 

 57) Jakob Dylan, Women And Country, Columbia

 58) Two Tons of Steel, Not That Lucky, Smith Entertainment

 59) Norah Jones, The Fall, Blue Note 

 60) Stone   River Boys, Love On The Dial, Cow   Island Music

 61) Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Age Of Miracles , Zoe 

 62) Court Yard Hounds, Court Yard Hounds, Columbia

 63) Delbert McClinton, Acquired Taste, New West 

 64) Jason & The Scorchers, Halcyon Times, Courageous Chicken

 65) Hank III, Rebel Within, Curb 

 66) Will Hoge, The Wreckage, Ryko 

 67) Martin Sexton, Sugarcoating, Kitchen Table 

 68) Cadillac Sky, Letters In The Deep, Dualtone 

 69) John Evans, Lollygaggin', Smith Entertainment 

 70) Steel Wheels, Red Wing, Independent 

 71) Blue Rodeo, The Things We Left Behind, Telesoul

 72) Chuck Prophet, Let Freedom Ring, Yep Roc 

 73) Justin Townes Earle, Harlem River Blues, Bloodshot

 74) Holmes Brothers, Feed My Soul, Alligator 

 75) Tom Russell, Blood And Candle Smoke, Shout! Factory 

 76) Sara Petite, Doghouse Rose, Sweet P 

 77) Doug and Telisha Williams, Ghost Of The Knoxville Girl, No Evil

 78) Radney Foster, Revival, Devil's River 

 79) Nora Jane Struthers, Nora Jane Struthers, Blue Pig Music 

 80) Various Artists, Coal Country Music, Liaison Records 

 81) Somebody's Darling, Somebody's Darling, Shiner 

 82) Cindy Bullens, Howling Trains And Barking Dogs, MC

 83) Infamous Stringdusters, Things That Fly, Sugar Hill 

 84) Fred Eaglesmith, Cha Cha Cha, Lonesome Day 

 85) Joe Pug, Messenger, Lightning Rod 

 86) Keller And The Keels, Thief, SciFidelity 

 87) Matt the Electrician, Animal Boy, Independent 

 88) Bill Kirchen, Word To The Wise, Proper American 

 89) Rebecca Loebe, Mystery Prize, Independent 

 90) Tom Gillam, Had Enough?, Smith Entertainment Records 

 91) Crooked Still, Some Strange Country, Signature Sounds 

 92) James McMurtry, Live In Europe , Lightning Rod

 93) Terri Hendrix, Cry Till You Laugh, Wilory 

 94) Shelley King, Welcome Home, Lemonade 95) Frazey Ford , Obadiah, Nettwerk

 96) Otis Gibbs, Joe Hill's Ashes, Wanamaker Recording Company 

 97) Mavis Staples, You Are Not Alone, Anti 

 98) Eric Bibb, Booker's Guitar, Telarc 

 99) Texas Tornados, Esta Bueno!, Bismeaux Records 1

100) Rosie Flores & The Pine   Valley Cosmonauts, Girl Of The Century, Bloodshot