Rank   Artist   Album Total Points Votes
64   Califone   Roots and Crowns 18 2
Rubashov (10), 3legcat (8)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rank   Artist   Album Total Points Votes
64   The Lemonheads   The Lemonheads 18 4

Great comeback for Evan Dando. Here (along with members of The Descendents) he manages to satisfy both his teen punk rock urges with power pop songwriting so good it would make Alex Chilton jealous. The 10 years wandering in oblivion did nothing but increase this man's talent. - Beldo - (4)

Shiftless (6), 1973 (5), The Lushus (3)

 

 

 

 

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Rank   Artist   Album Total Points Votes
67   Bellwether   The Stinging Nettles 17 5
Bellwether keeps managing to sneak out of semi retirement and put out some of the most well written and warm country rock this side of the Jayhawks. - Nortwoods - (8)

Like the upbeat pedal steel tunes on this cool record! - Milesfrom - (3)

Bellwether is criminally overlooked to the point that I feel like they were warranted in breaking up. Thank god they didn't. - Matt Mett - (1)

Nvlowden (4), Colorado Sun (1)

 

 

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Rank   Artist   Album Total Points Votes
67   Golden Smog   Another Fine Day 17 4
There are so many diverse songs on this album that I can play it a couple of times in a row without getting tired of it. Can’t think of another album where I’ve done that. - Track 11 - (5)

No finer Alt Country super group. - Murmur - (4)

Fun and loose. Wow, does anybody remember how to do that anymore? - DADDY - (2)

Guitari (6)

 

 

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(Matt Mays - When Angels Make Contact, The Wailin' Jennys - Firecracker, 

The Wave Pictures - Sophie, Eric Bachmann - To The Races)