Year-End Lists

American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2011

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1. The Whole Love
   Wilco
2. The Harrow & The Harvest
   Gillian Welch
3. 21
   Adele
4. Go-Go Boots
   Drive-By Truckers
5. Nothing is Wrong
   Dawes
6. KMAG YOYO
   Hayes Carll
7. So Beautiful or So What
   Paul Simon
8. Hell on Heels
   Pistol Annies
9. El Camino
   The Black Keys
10. Metals
    Feist
11. Bad as Me
    Tom Waits
12. Here We Rest
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
13. Blessed
    Lucinda Williams
14. Circuital
    My Morning Jacket
15. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
16. Four the Record
    Miranda Lambert
17. Tell Me
    Jessica Lea Mayfield
18. Ashes & Fire
    Ryan Adams
19. The King of Limbs
    Radiohead
20. A Creature I Don’t Know
    Laura Marling
21. Helplessness Blues
    Fleet Foxes
22. The People’s Key
    Bright Eyes
23. Barton Hollow
    The Civil Wars
24. Slave Ambient
    The War on Drugs
25. Follow Me Down
    Sarah Jarosz
26. Mercury
    Pieta Brown
27. Divine Providence
    Deer Tick
28. Strange Mercy
    St. Vincent
29. Believers
    A.A. Bondy
30. Celebration, Florida
    The Felice Brothers
31. Photographs
    Robert Ellis
32. The King is Dead
    The Decemberists
33. Billy Jack
    Honeyhoney
34. Reverie
    Joe Henry
35. Invariable Heartache
    KORT
36. The Grand Theatre, Vol. 2
    Old 97′s
37. I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
    Steve Earle
38. Days
    Real Estate
39. Screws Get Loose
    Those Darlins
40. Middle Brother
    Middle Brother
41. Smoke Ring for My Halo
    Kurt Vile
42. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
    Noel Gallagher
43. Down On The Bikini Line
    Jonny Corndawg
44. Charlatans At The Garden Gate
    Tristen
45. We Are the Champions
    JEFF The Brotherhood
46. Hall Music
    Loney Dear
47. Own Side Now
    Caitlin Rose
48. City of Refuge
    Abigail Washburn
49. The Rip Tide
    Beirut
50. Candidate Waltz
    Centro-matic