2005 Gambler Awards

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(1) Ryan Adams - Cold Roses, (2) Son Volt - Okemah & The Melody Of Riot, (3) Marah - If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry, (4) Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy, (5) Sufjan Stevens - Illinois, (6) Richmond Fontaine - The Fitzgerald, (7) Lucero - Nobody's Darling, (8) South San Gabriel - The Carlton Chronicles, (9) My Morning Jacket - Z, (10) Ryan Adams - Jacksonville City Nights, (11) Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After The Blues, (12) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeny - Superwolf, (13) M Ward - Transistor Radio, (14) John Prine - Fair & Square, (15) Damien Jurado - On My Way To Absence, (16) Josh Rouse - Nashville, (17) Kathleen Edwards - Back To Me, (18) Elephant Micah - And the Agrarian Malaise, (19) Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning, (20) Spoon - Gimme Fiction, (20) The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan, (22) Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust, (23) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl, (24) Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities, (25) The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema, (26) Magnolia Electric Co. - Trials & Errors, (27) Hayes Carll - Little Rock, (28) James McMurtry - Childish Things, (29) Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell - Begonias, (30) Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm, (30) Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now, (32) The National - Alligator, (33) Ryan Adams - 29, (33) Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbeat, (35) Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary, (36) The Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers, (37) Tim Bluhm - California Ways, (38) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, (38) Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth, (40) Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs, (41) Joy Lynn White - One More Time, (41) Martha Wainright - Martha Wainright, (43) Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies and Minds, (44) Neil Young - Prairie Wind, (45) Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Exploration, (45) The Decemberists - Picaresque, (47) Clem Snide - End of Love, (48) Lucinda Williams - Live at the Filmore, (49) Portastic - Bright Ideas, (50) The Pernice Brothers - Discover a Lovelier You, (50) Radar Brothers - The Fallen Leaf Pages, (50) Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures, (50) Animal Collective - Feels, (54) Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine, (54) The Mountain Goats - The sunset Tree, (56) Fruit Bats - Spelled in Bones, (56) Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love, (58) Wilco - Kicking Television, (59) Beck - Guero, (59) Chris Mills - Wall to Wall Sessions, (61) Strays Don't Sleep - Strays Don't Sleep, (62) Phosphorescent - Aw Come Aw Wry, (62) Gary Allan - Tough All Over, (64) John Hiatt - Master of Disaster, (65) Ray Weaver - Confession, (65) Richard Hawley - Coles Corner, (65) Broken Social Scene  - Broken Social Scene, (65) Fountains Of Wayne - Out Of State Plates, (65) Milton Mapes - The Blacklight Trap, (65) Pajo - Pajo, (65) Peter Bruntnell - Ghost in a Spitfire, (72) Rodney Crowell - The Outsider, (72) Crooked Fingers - Dignity & Shame, (72) Kate Bush - Aerial, (75) Robbie Fulks - Georgia Hard, (75) Amos Lee - Amos Lee, (75) Foo Fighters - In Your Honor, (75) Built Like Alaska - Autumnland, (75) Chris Whitley - Soft Dangerous Shores, (75) Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Volume 1, (75) The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday, (75) Various Artists - American Primitive, Vol II, (83) Death Cab For Cutie - Plans, (83) The Ashtray Hearts - Perfect Halves, (83) Kanye West - Late Registration, (83) Los Super Seven - Heard it on the X, (83) Susan Tedeschi - Hope and Desire, (83) Teddy Thompson - Separate Ways, (83) Brendan Benson - The Alternative To Love, (83) Eric Taylor - The Great Divide, (83) The Mendoza Line - Full Of Light and Full Of Fire, (92) Sounds Like Fall - The Wolf Is at the Door, (92) The Doves - Some Cities, (92) Thomas Denver Jonsson - Barely Touching It, (92) Bobby Bare - The Moon Was Blue, (92) Joel Plaskett - La De Da, (92) Mack Starks - Blind Spot, (92) Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration, (92) Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth, (92) Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower, (92) Slow Dazzle  - The View From The Floor, (92) Townes Van Zandt - Be Here To Love Me, (103) Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now, (103) Black Mountain - Black Mountain, (103) Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: Bootleg Series 7, (103) dEUS - Pocket Revolution, (103) Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines, (103) Graham Weber - Beggars Blues, (103) Grayson Capps - If You Knew My Mind, (103) Heartless Bastards - Stairs and Elevators, (103) Low Lights - Dark End Road, (103) Michael Dean Damron - A Perfect Day For A Funeral, (103) Of Montreal  - The Sundlandic Twins, (103) The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir, (103) The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang, (116) Bob Mould - Body Of Song, (116) Greg Dulli - Amber Headlights, (116) Old 97's - Alive and Wired, (116) Son Volt - Retrospective, (116) A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses In The Sky, (116) Chad VanGaalen - Infiniheart, (116) The Foxymorons - Hesitation Eyes, (116) John Doe - Forever Hasn't Happened Yet, (116) Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard, (116) Richard Thompson  - Front Parlour Ballads, (116) Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft, (116) The Fall - Fall Heads Roll, (116) USS Horsewhip - USS Horsewhip Wants You Dead, (116) Wooden Wand - Harem of the Sundrum & the Witness Figg, (130) Shurman - Jubilee, (131) Dwight Yoakam - Blame The Vain, (131) Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful, (131) Daddy - At The Women's Club, (131) Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better, (131) James William Hindle - Town Feeling, (131) John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt, (131) Kasabian - Kasabian, (131) Magik Markers - I Trust My Guitar, Etc., (131) Medications - Your Favorite People All In One Place, (131) Norfolk & Western - If You Were Born Overseas, (131) Sarah Harmer - I'm A Mountain, (131) Townes Van Zandt - Live At Union Church, (143) Brad Paisley - Time Well Wasted, (143) Dave Insley - Call Me Lonesome, (143) Erin McKeown - We Will Become Like Birds, (143) Flotation Toy Warning - Bluffers Guide to the Flight Deck, (143) George Jones - Hits I Missed ..., (143) K.T. Tunstall - Eye to The Telescope, (143) Kate Campbell - Blues & Lamentations, (143) Limbeck - Let Me Come Home, (143) Matt Pond PA - Several Arrows Later, (143) Miranda Lambert - Kerosene, (143) Mount Eerie - No Flashlight, (143) Nada Surf - The Weight Is a Gift, (143) Nickel Creek - Why Should The Fire Die?, (143) Port-Royal - Flares, (143) Reckless Kelly - Wicked Twisted Road, (143) Shakira - Oral Fixation Vol. 2, (143) Start Your Own Country - New Sounds Of The Old West, (143) Talib Kweli - Right About Now, (143) The Frames - Burn The Maps, (162) Robert Earl Keen - What I Really Mean, (162) Amy Rigby - Little Fugitive, (162) Brakes - Give Blood, (162) Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness, (162) Devandra Banhart - Cripple Crow, (162) Eliza Gilkyson - Paradise Hotel, (162) Federation X - Rally Day, (162) Feist - Let It Die, (162) Glen Philips - Winter Pays For Summer, (162) Graham Parker - Songs of No Consequence, (162) Holopaw - Quit +/ Or Fight, (162) Brandi Carlile - Brandi Carlile, (162) Neil Diamond - 12 Songs, (162) Shelby James & The Cryin' Shames - Downs On 9th, (176) Adam Carroll - Far Away Blues, (176) Chris Holt - Summer Reverb, (176) Corb Lund - Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer, (176) Creosote - Blacksmoke, (176) Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer, (176) Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Revelations, (176) Embrace - Out of Nothing, (176) Goodman County - Dead-ends and Transits, (176) Kaiser Chiefs - Unemployment, (176) Low - The Great Destroyer, (176) Richard Swift - The Novelist Walking Without Effort, (176) The Drones - Wait Long By The River ... Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By, (176) The Hotel Alexis - The Shining Examples Is Lying On The Floor, (176) Tom Russell - Hotwalker, (190) Ben Burroughs - Sugarbush, (190) Bobby Pinson - Man Like Me, (190) Coldplay - X&Y, (190) Dave Alvin - The Great American Music Galaxy, (190) Dios Malos - Dios (Malos), (190) Mark Eitzel - Candy Ass, (190) Gorillaz - Demon Days, (190) Kate Rusby - The Girl Who Couldn't Fly, (190) Kevin Kerby - Secret Lives of All Night Radios, (190) Laura Veirs - Year Of Meteor, (190) Mugison - Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?, (190) Sigur Ros - Takk..., (190) Thelonius Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - Live At Carnegie Hall, (190) Tim Williams - Tales Of Digression, (190) Weezer - Make Believe 

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