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These are my setlists for my show on WRKE LP Salem 100.3

10/27

Bright Eyes-First Day Of My Life
Deas Vail-Shoreline
Daphne Loves Derby-Sundays
Dashboard Confessional-Fever Dreams
Dirty Projectors-Two Doves
Feist-Gatekeeper
Good Old War-Coney Island
The Format-The First Single
fun.-All The Pretty Girls
Audrye Sessions-Julianna
The Flaming Lips-Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Pt. 1
Broadcast-Before We Begin
Built to Spill-Conventional Wisdom
Human Highway-Moody Motorcycle

10/29

Alejandro Escovedo-Always A Friend
Carlos Vives-Carito
Buena Vista Social Club-De Camino a La Vereda
Andrea Echeverri-A Eme O
Fonseca-Arroyito
Miguel Bosé-Morenamia
Alejandro Fernández-Como Quien Pierde Una Estrella
Andres Cepeda-Tu Inspiracion
Bacilos-Tabaco y chanel
Los de Adentro-Tu y yo
Café Tacuba-Quiero Ver
Panda-Procedimientos Para Llegar a Un Comun Acuerdo
Juanes-Nada Valgo Sin Tu Amor

Rating 1 stars - Hatred (I really do not like this):

Aaskereia, Abandoned Grave, Aborym, Absurd, Ahab, Chainsaw Dissection, Circle of Dead Children, Clitoridus Invaginatus, No Age, The Darkness.
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Rating 2 stars - Annoying (Please switch this off):

Aardvarks, Abomination, Abscess, Adam Beebe-Infanticide, Adventure Time, Agalloch, Agathodaimon, Agonoize, Air, Alec Empire, Alex Metric, Alternative Control, Andreas Tilliander, Brutal Truth, Burial, Cartridge, dalt wisney, Deconformity, Dissection, Eddie Sender, Fuck...I'm Dead, GORESHIT, Guttural Decay, Headhunter, Hellsaw, Hercules and Love Affair, Inherit Disease, Inkvisition, Internal Bleeding, Moondog, Morbid Angel, Mourning Beloveth, Negator, No Anchor, Ophiolatry, St. Germain, The Bloody Beetroots, The Blue Nile, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Hacker, The Police, Thornesbreed, Thou Art Lord, Ufomammut, Villages, Virgin Prunes, Void Settler, Zombie Nation.
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Rating 3 stars - Dull (This is boring, isn't there something better)

A Hawk and a Hacksaw, A Place to Bury Strangers, A Secret Society, ABBA, Above, Absurd Minds, Accept, Ace of Base, Acylum, Æther, Afrika Bambaataa, Afro Celt Sound System, Agnes, Aïboforcen, Aim, Akon, Alien Sex Fiend, Alkonost, Alpha & Omega, Alva Noto, Amesoeurs, Amiina, Animal Collective, Arms and Sleepers, Bat for Lashes, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Bohren & der Club of Gore, Boom Bip, Broadcast, C-Lekktor, Congorock, Dead Combo, DilemN, Disease, DJ Muggs, DragonForce, Drumcorps, Dual Core, Editors, Electro Hippies, Element, Fila Brazillia, GAM, Genesis, God Is an Astronaut, Graveworm, Gwynbleidd, Impure Wilhelmina, Insect Warfare, Interlace, Intuit, Ladytron, Lali Puna, Leighton Meester, Lesbians on Ecstasy, Liechtenstein, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Mamiffer, Mortician, Mount Sims, My Bloody Valentine, Panic Lift, Peaches, Pitbull, Planet Funk, Portishead, PQM, Primordial, Realms and Evolution, Ronario, Ryan Farish, Saafi Brothers, Samsas Traum, Sebus Veutgiryn, Septic Flesh, Signum, Síol Na Gréine, Soft Machine, Soulja Boy, Standeg, Tagged, Telefon Tel Aviv, The J.B.'s, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Shadows, The Smiths, Thieves Like Us, Tiga, Varathron, Wolves in the Throne Room, Yppah.
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Rating 4 stars - Poor (I will listen to, but is it really worth it)

Aaron Carter, Abinet Agonafir, Abyssinia Infinite, Ace, Adversus, Age of Jets, Airlock, Al Martino, Alabama, Albert Hammond, Alesana, Alithia, All The Cold, Alphabeat, Amália Rodrigues, Arnej, Asriel, Beauty's Confusion, Black Lips, Black Widow, Blue Sky Black Death, Branford Marsalis, Charlie Feathers, ChipHydra, Cougar, Damien Rice, Daughtry, Day26, Digitalism, Donna Lewis, Einherjer, Faster Pussycat, GirlJoy, Grasstowne, Happoradio, Helen Trevillion, Illnath, Infinity, Innerpartysystem, Karmacoda, Kitchens of Distinction, Madina Lake, Massive Attack, Max, Mechanical Apfelsine, Mihai Edrisch, MSTRKRFT, múm, Narkotiki, Noisia, Pain Of Salvatio, ROUND TABLE featuring Nino, Sally Shapiro, Scientist, Steve Angello, Stone Gods, Strand & NonGenetic, Suga Shikao, Teräsbetoni, The Ambition, The Halloween Singers, The Presets, Tool, Transatlantic, U2, Ulver, Wanda Jackson, Warrant, Wye Oak.
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Rating 5 stars - OK (I have no real opinion on this band)

¡Forward, Russia!, A, A Bunny's Caravan, Aaron Zigman, ABC, AC/DC, Adamo, Aerosmith, Afflicted, After School, Afterlife, Agents, Akercocke, Al Bowlly, Al Dexter & His Troopers, Al Jarreau, Alabama 3, Alabama Thunderpussy, Alan Vega, Alèmayèhu Eshèté, Alex Gopher, Alexander Rybak, Alexandre Desplat / Aaron Zigman, Ali Farka Touré, Alice in Videoland, Alison Krauss, All Shall Perish, Alma Cogan, Aloha, Altered Images, Amadou & Mariam, Amber Pacific, Andrea True Connection, Angus & Julia Stone, Artwood, Attack! Attack!, Aventura, Avskum, Benjamin Bear, Bersuit Vergarabat, Blackfoot, Blood Red Shoe, Bracket, Cemetary, Chicks on Speed, Client, Cradle of Filth, Dark Princess, Disclose, Forever the Sickest Kids, Goldfrapp, Groove Armada, Hot Bitch Arsenal, Hyper Crush, Jahn Teigen, Jez Lowe, Kickback, Lesley Gore, Lights, Malfunkshun, Mariana Aydar, Mediæval Bæbes, Megurine Luka, Miss Kittin, Moke, Morcheeba, Morning Musume., Niels Frevert, No Relax, Nosferatu, Oasis, Old & In the Way, OLIVIA, Once, Patricia Vonne, Rebellion, Sabaton, Sonic Youth, Soulsavers, Tenacious D, Terminal Choice, The Attery Squash, The Dubliners, The Flaming Lips, The Long Winters, The Meters, The Script, The Sonics, The Strokes, The Thrills, Time Was, Tommy Sparks, xAFBx, Yelle, Zion I.
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Rating 6 stars - Reasonable (I will choose to listen to, I may buy an album by them at the right price)

3 Inches of Blood, 3OH!3, A Case of Grenada, A Day Called Desire, a mafia, A Plea For Purging, Abacaxi, Abbey Lincoln, Abdullah Ibrahim, Abuso Sonoro, Adam and the Ants, Afghan Whigs, After the Burial, Agency, Agent Blue, AI, Aiden, Aja Addy, Al Cohn, Al Green, Al King, Al Pancho, Alan Howarth, Alannah Myles, Albert Hammond, Jr., Albert Washington, Alestorm, Alex Chilton, All That Remains, All Time Low, Aly & AJ, Amadou Balake, Amebix, America, Ania Dąbrowska, Art Blakey, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Beach Mercer, Big Youth, Black Diamond Heavies, Blanche, Blutengel, Bob Dylan, Bomb & Scary, Born of Osiris, Broadway Calls, Bryan Scary, Bush, Cage the Elephant, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Cat Power, Converge, Crazy Town, Cruachan, Dananananaykroyd, Delirium Tremens, Dion & The Belmonts, Drop Dead, Gorgeous, Dub War, Dusty Springfield, Eek-A-Mouse, Electrocute, Eric Von Schmidt, Every New Day, Felix da Housecat, Funeral for a Friend, Gama Bomb, Gang of Four, God Help The Girl, Goldfinger, Guns N' Roses, Havana 3 A.M., I Monster, I See Stars, Icke & Er, Igor Stravinsky, Jason Mraz, John Carpenter, John Otway, Jon Spencer, Kafeína, King Tubby, Korpiklaani, La Roux, Little Boots, Lucky Fonz III, Lush, Mad Cobra, Mims, My Baby wants to eat your pussy, Nachtgeschrei, Nine Inch Nails, R.E.M., Radio Birdman, Robots in Disguise, Rory Gallagher, Rossington Collins Band, Run Toto Run, Satyricon, Scary Chicken, SDI, Shaznay Lewis, Shena Ringo, Spinnerette, Split Habit, Starfucker, Stevie Nicks, Stoneman, Styles P, Television, The Be Good Tanyas, The Beautiful Girls, The Bones, The Boomtown Rats, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Doors, The DSC Project, The Filmscore Orchestra, The Haunted, The Hellacopters, The Herd, The Home Guard, The Innocence Mission, The Maine, The Monsters, The Rogers Sisters, The Sleeping, The Trashmen, The Tremeloes, The Unicorns, Tricky, U-Roy, Vive la Fête, Warface, Weird Al Yankovic, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zaunpfahl, Zeromancer, Zootsings, ZZ Top.
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Rating 7 stars - Good (I will choose to listen to, I will buy an album by them)

20 Bulls Each, 3Dbs Down, 45 Grave, 59 Times the Pain, A Wilhelm Scream, Abbi Walker, Abby Travis, abingdon boys school, Abnormal Sunday, Above the Law, Absent Mindead, ACID HEAD, Adele, Adema, Adrenalin O.D., Aesop Rock, After Forever, Afterhours, Aggression, Airhead, Akala, Alanis Morissette, Albert Ammons, Alesha Dixon, Alexander Scriabin, Alexei Lubimov, Alexisonfire, Alien Ant Farm, All About Eve, All Saints, Alpha Boy School, Alternative TV, Alton Ellis, Amen, Anti-Product, Argue Damnation, As I Lay Dying, Asian Dub Foundation, Banda Bassotti, Bauchklang, Béla Bartók, Bessie Smith, Big in Japan, Black Grape, Blood Duster, bluekilla, Boyz Too Sick, Buffalo Tom, Cannae, Capleton, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Charlie Brown Gets a Valentine, Chillerton, Chris Cornell, Chuck Ragan, Chumbawamba, Civilized Animal, Cledus T. Judd, co.uk, Cocoa Tea, Commonplace, Crazy Arm, Credit to the Nation, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Cyco Miko, D.I., Damone, Danny Elfman, Datura, Deacon Blue, Dead Letter Dept., Del Amitri, DevilDriver, Dilated Peoples, Doom, Dragster, Echobelly, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Elastica, Ellen and the Escapades, Epica, Eye for an Eye, Five Horse Johnson, FM2000, Foo Fighters, Frau Doktor, Gigolo Aunts, God Forbid, Gov't Mule, Grandmaster Flash, Green Jellÿ, Habakuk, Hot Water Music, imadethismistake, Imperial Vipers, In Flames, Insolence, Inspiral Carpets, Joell Ortiz, Kaiser Chiefs, Killa Kela, Lady Sovereign, Latterman, Living Colour, M.O.P., Madness, Magic System, Manic Street Preachers, Mary Hopkin, Modern Life Is War, Mr. Bones, Muff Potter, Murder by Death, My Passion, N.O.R.E., Nasum, Natas, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Nightrage, Norma Jean, Oh, Sleeper, Operator Please, Over It, Painstake, Paul Weller, Pearl Jam, Perry Como, Planlos, Pleymo, Pop Will Eat Itself, Psychopathic Rydas, Queens of the Stone Age, Racine, Raging Speedhorn, Rammstein, Recon, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Resident Weirdo, Righteous Jams, Roots Manuva, Rudi, Sack Trick, Saliva, Scanners, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Scout Niblett, Sheer Terror, Sizzla, Skindred, Skinlab, Slapstick, Smash Mouth, Snoop Dogg, Spellbound, Stan Getz, Steve Marriott, Synchromystickz, Tanita Tikaram, Tanto Metro, Tard, Tearjerkers, Terrorvision, That Handsome Devil, That Petrol Emotion, The Androids, The Arcade Version, The Bottrops, The Butlers, The Chariot, The Coral, The Cranberries, The Cumshots, The Fat Cats, The Forgotten, The Goats, The Hitchers, The J. Geils Band, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Know How, The Paper Chase, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Presidents of the United States of America, The Quireboys, The Saints, The Slapstickers, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Wonder Stuff, Them Crooked Vultures, Thrice, Transvision Vamp, Vacant Stare, Vagiant, Void, Wack Trucks, Weapons, Will Smith, Wolfpack Unleashed, Your Highness Electric, Zealous1, Zee Avi, Zero Boys.
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Rating 8 stars - Very Good (Music that gives me a good feeling, I will own their back catalogue as eventually)

999, 100 Demons, 25 ta Life, A Billion Ernies, A Day to Remember, A Global Threat, A Static Lullaby, Accustomed to Nothing, Acoustic Front of Resistance, Across Five Aprils, Adam Linder, Adequate Seven, Against Me!, Agallah "The Don Bishop", Agent Orange, Agression, Akrobatik, Albert Collins, Albert King, Alejandro Escovedo, Alice Cooper, alice in chain, Alice Russell, Alicia Keys, Alisha's Attic, Alison Moyet, All, All Out War, Angel Cage, Angelic Upstarts, Anthony B, Atreyu, Audioslave, Aynsley Lister, Babar Luck, Backfire!, Banane Metalik, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, Barcode, Batmobile, Beastie Boys, Big D and the Kids Table, Bionic Jive, Black Friday '29, Black My Heart, Bloodhound Gang, Bloodsimple, Bob Marley, Bobaflex, Born From Pain, Boss Hog, Brotha Lynch, Buck-O-Nine, Bun Dem Out, Butt Trumpet, Calabrese, Cancer Bats, Captain Dan & The Scurvy Crew, Casey Jones, Choking Susan, Choking Victim, Civet, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Dead End Cruisers, Dead Hearts, Demented Are Go!, Descendents, Deviate, Die Happy, Die So Fluid, Diesel Park West, Dillinger Four, Distemper, Dog Eat Dog, Down by Law, Dr. Dre, Drongos For Europe, Dropkick Murphys, Dry Kill Logic, Dust Junkys, DYS, Eazy-E, Edna's Goldfish, Embraced by Hatred, Eminem, Evergreen Terrace, Faith No More, Final Prayer, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Turner, Furious Styles, Godless Wicked Creeps, Goldblade, Government Issue, Gravediggaz, Guano Apes, Gutter Demons, Hadouken!, Harry Chapin, Haste the Day, Hoods, Howlin' Wolf, Ian McNabb, Ice Cube, Ill Bill, In Blood We Trust, Insane Clown Posse, Insane Poetry, It Dies Today, J.J. Fad, Jamie Madrox, Janis Joplin, Jesse Dangerously, Jimmy Reed, Joanne Shaw Taylor, John Lee Hooker, Kid Dynamite, Kill Your Idols, Klingonz, Knuckledust, KoЯn, Lady Saw, Less Than Jake, Levellers, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lone Ranger, Looking Up, Loudon Wainwright III, Lower Class Brats, Maceo Parker, Machine Head, Mad Caddies, Mad Sin, MC Frontalot, Menstrual Tramps, Mishkin, Miss Li, Mr. Hyde, MxPx, My Ruin, N.A.S.T.Y., Nirvana, No Doubt, No Sports, Ocean Colour Scene, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Olias Fall, Once Over, One Minute Silence, Os Catalépticos, OS101, Otis Rush, OutKast, Papa Roach, Path Of Resistance, Period Pains, Plan B, Primus, Propagandhi, Public Enemy, Pura Vida, Raised Fist, Ramones, Reach the Sky, Ready Steady Go!, Refused, Rise Against, Riz Mc, Rob Zombie, Robert Johnson, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Sarah Blackwood, Scars of Tomorrow, Scary Bitches, Scribe, Seasick Steve, Senser, Sepultura, Settle the Score, Shadows Fall, Shark Attack, Shattered Realm, Sinai Beach, Skaos, Slayer, Snapcase, Snot, Soldiers, Sonny Boy Williamson, Stellar Corpses, Still Remains, Stretch Arm Strong, Strung Out, Sugarland Slim, System of a Down, Tech N9ne, Temple of the Dog, The 57th Dynasty, The Alchemist, The B Sharps, The Babylon Whackers, The Banner, The Beautiful South, The Boys, The B-Sharps, The Busters, The Code, The Creepshow, The Damned, The Dictators, The Godfathers, The Grit, The Icicle Works, The Knife, The Mitchell Brothers, The Offspring, The Planet Smashers, The Porkers, The Selecter, The Spook, The Vandals, The Vibrators, The Warriors, This Is Hell, Thunder, Tiger Army, To Kill, Total Chaos, Toxic Narcotic, Van Morrison, Voice of the Beehive, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, Whiskey Rebels, Wiley, Wiley aka Eskiboy, Wisdom in Chains, Wu-Tang Clan, X-Ray Spex, xTyrantx, Your Demise.
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Rating 9 stars - Great (Really good music, I will own their back catalogue as soon as possible)

(hed) Planet Earth, 4FT Fingers, Adolescents, AFI, Against All Authority, Alkaline Trio, All For Nothing, B.B. King, Babyboom, Bad Religion, Bane, Billy Talent, Black Flag, Blood for Blood, Brainless Wanker, Buddy Guy, Cheap Sex, Clawfinger, Comeback Kid, Crime in Stereo, Cynical Smile, Cypress Hill, Danny Diablo, Dead Kennedys, Death Before Dishonor, Die Hunns, Discipline, Dizzee Rascal, Eastfield, Elmore Jame, Eric Clapton, First Blood, Funkoars, Gorilla Biscuits, Hazen Street, HorrorPops, Icepick, Imperial Leisure, Jesse James, Justin Sane, Kelly Kemp, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, Metallica, Minor Threat, N.W.A, No Allegiance, NoComply, NOFX, Oxymoron, Pitchshifter, Pulkas, Queen, Reagan Youth, Roger Miret and the Disasters, Schaffer The Darklord, Slipknot, Social Distortion, Soundgarden, Suicide Bid, Terror, The Dead Pets, The Exploited, The Forces of Evil, The Jam, The JB Conspiracy, The Peacocks, The Skints, The Suffrajets, The Unseen, Thick As Blood, Tim Armstrong, Walls of Jericho, Xzibit, Youth of Today.
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Rating 10 stars - Love It (I have to listen to this band as much as possible)

Agnostic Front, Anti-Flag, Capdown, Frank Zappa, Gallows, Gash, Green Day, H2O, Hatebreed, King Prawn, Madball, PJ Harvey, Rage Against the Machine, Rancid, Random Hand, Sick of It All, Sonic Boom Six, Subhumans, The Clash, The Filaments, The King Blues, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, They Might Be Giants.
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This is my personal taste and not a criticism of anybodies music, or taste. I set this up so that all the new bands I have found I can easily know what I think of them

More lists posing as journals composed inside the teeny tiny lost.fm edit box!

The 2009 Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Nominees are:

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Real Animal, by Alejandro Escovedo
Written In Chalk, by Buddy and Julie Miller
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, by Jason Isbell
Midnight At The Movies, by Justin Townes Earle

ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Alejandro Escovedo
Buddy Miller
Justin Townes Earle
Raul Malo

INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR
Buddy Miller
Gurf Morlix
Jerry Douglas
Sam Bush

NEW & EMERGING ARTIST
Band Of Heathens
Belleville Outfit
Justin Townes Earle
Sarah Borges

SONG OF THE YEAR
“Chalk,” written by Julie Miller, performed by Buddy Miller & Patty Griffin
“Country Love” by the Gourds
“Homeland Refugee,” by Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock, performed by The Flatlanders
“Rattlin’ Bones” Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson
“Sex And Gasoline,” Rodney Crowell

DUO GROUP OF THE YEAR
Buddy & Julie Miller
Flatlanders
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson
Reckless Kelly
My impressions: I haven't spent much time with the Millers' Chalk. I do really like J.T.Earle's new songs. In fact I'm becoming quite impressed by young Earle's quality and range. John Conquest (3rd Coast Music News) is a long time sceptic of the AMA, but also a long time fan of Sarah Borges (rhymes with gorgeous, he says). I don't know the Belleville Outfit, but have been reading up on Band of Heathens. Might have put Micky and the Motorcars in this group. On the bottom line I'd think the Flatlanders would be the only acceptable choice--should be more like Group of the Decade, or Group touring Once a Decade.

Not a bad bunch. Could be better. Can always be better.
-jc

2008 Fave Albums

1-10
The Walkmen - You & Me
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
The Bug - London Zoo
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig !!!
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Man Man - Rabbit Habits
TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
Sons & Daughters - This Gift
James McMurtry - Just Us Kids

11-20
The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
Immortal Technique - The 3rd World
The Black Keys - Attack & Release
Micah P. Hinson - and the Red Orchestra
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
Al Green - Lay It Down
Why? - Alopecia
Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances

21-30
Blood on the Wall - Liferz
The Roots - Rising Down
Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
The Mae Shi - HILLYH
Grand Archives - The Grand Archives
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
DeVotchKa - A Mad & Faithful Telling
Lil Wayne - Carter III
Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark

31-50
Hayes Carll - Trouble In Mind
Shearwater – Rooks
Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
She & Him - Volume I
Toadies- No Deliverance
The Kills - Midnight Boom
Nneka - Don't Worry in Wari
Albert Hammond Jr - ¿Cómo Te Llama?
Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal
The Black Angels – Directions to See a Ghost
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Teddy Thompson - A Piece of What You Need
The Low Lows- Shining Violence
Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
Sam Roberts - Love at the End of the World
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Portishead – Third
Nas – Untitled
Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash

Alejandro Escovedo "Sex Beat" (Bourbonitis Blues_Bloodshot)
Antony & The Johnsons "Kiss My Name" (The Crying Light_Secretly Canadian)
Final Solution "I Don't Care" (Brotherman OST_Numero Group)
Erykah Badu "Honey (DJ Day edit)" (white label 7")
k-os "The Avenue!" (Yes_Universal)
Ruby Andrews "Casanova 70" (Casanova (Your Playing Days Are Over)_Aim Records)
Diplomats of Solid Sound "If You're Wrong (Lack Of Afro Remix)" (If You're Wrong 7"_Records Kicks)
Marvin Gaye "What's Going On (DJ Day edit)" (white label 7")
Sufjan Stevens "To Be Alone With You (Pocketknife's Considerate Eagle Scout Remix)" (Cousin Cole and Pocketknife_Tambourine Dream)
Interpol "Mind Over Time" (Our Love to Admire_Capitol)
Minotaur Shock "This Plane Is Going To Fall" (Amateur Dramatics_4AD)
Iron & Wine "Each Coming Night (Pocketknife's Rooftop Telescope Remix)" (Cousin Cole and Pocketknife_Tambourine Dream)
Bon Iver "Woods" (Blood Bank EP_Jagjaguwar)
Adrian Crowley "Electric Eels" (Long Distance Swimmer_Tin Angel)
Scala & Kolacny Brothers "Creep" (On The Rocks_PIAS)
Micah P. Hinson "I Keep Havin' These Dreams" (Micah P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra_Full Time Hobby)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "Get Your Hands Dirty" (Louisville Is For Lovers)
Calexico "Billy (Main Title Theme) (live)" (I'm Not There Live Benefit_bootleg)
Bill Janovitz "In A Misty Morning" (Cover of the Week #6_www)
The Raconteurs "Old Enough" (EP_WB)
PD GIG Chuck Prophet "Naked Ray" (Soap And Water_Yep Roc)
KaiserCartel "Inside Out" (March Forth_Bluhammock)
Shannon McArdle "That Night In June" (Summer of the Whore_Bar None Records)

Each year the DJs on the Third Coast Music's Freeform American Roots (FAR) chart vote. Thanks to editor/publisher/chief bottle water John Conquest down San Antonio ways for compiling the monthly FAR charts, 113 months and counting. http://www.tcmnradio.com/far/.

Note: Album winner Miss Leslie below is the Miss Leslie of Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers on previous years' FAR & Away lists. Good old fashioned Honky Tonk Angel, yes sirreeee.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
#1 Miss Leslie: Between The Whiskey And Wine (Zero Label)
2 Starline Rhythm Boys: Live at Charlie O’s World Famous (Cow Island Music)
3 Hayes Carll: Trouble In Mind (Lost Highway)
4 James McMurtry: Just Us Kids (Lightning Rod)
5 Arty Hill and the Long Gone Daddys: Bar of Gold (Cow Island Music)
6 The Cornell Hurd Band: American Shadows, Songs Of Moon Mullican (Behemoth)
7 Alejandro Escovedo: Real Animal (Back Porch)
8 Jim Stringer & The AM Band: Triskaidekaphilia (Music Room)
9 Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson: Rattlin’ Bones (Liberation/Sugar Hill)
10 Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (New West)

DEBUT ALBUM
#1 Justin Townes Earle: The Good Life (Bloodshot)
2 The Dixons: Still Your Fool (Cow Island Music)
3 The Belleville Outfit; Wanderin’ (self)
4 Rod Picott & Amanda Shires: Sew Your Heart With Wires (self)
5 Grant Peeples: It’s Later Than You Think (self)
6 Peter Cooper: Mission Door (Red Beet)

VARIOUS ARTISTS/TRIBUTE ALBUMS
#1 Ribbon Of Highway Endless Skyway (Music Road)
2 Our Side Of Town (Red House)
3 Cornell Hurd Band: American Shadows; Songs of Moon Mullican (Behemoth)
4 The Imus Ranch Record (New West)
5 Moneyland (MCCOURY MUSIC)
6 Welcome To The Club; Early Female Rockabilly (El Toro)

REISSUE/HISTORIC ALBUM
#1 Hank Williams: Unreleased Recordings (TimeLife)
2 Border Blasters: Blast From The Past (Boquillas)
3 Charlie Pickett : Bar Band Americanus (Bloodshot)
4 Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs (Columbia)
5 Neil Young: Sugar Mountain (Reprise)
6 Whiskeytown: Stranger’s Almanac Reissue (Lost Highway)
7 Best Of The Johnny Cash TV Show (Columbia Legacy)
8 Walter Hyatt: Some Unfinished Business Vol 1 (King Tears)

FEMALE ARTIST
#1 Miss Leslie
2 Eliza Gilkyson
3 Carrie Rodriquez
4 Eilen Jewell
5 Caroline Herring
6 Emmylou Harris
7 Kathleen Edwards
8 Amber Digby
9 Lucinda Williams
10 Abi Tapia

MALE ARTIST
#1 Alejandro Escovedo
2 Hayes Carll
3 James McMurtry
4 Cornell Hurd
5 Darrell Scott
6 Rodney Crowell
7 Arty Hill
8 Ry Cooder
9 Justin Townes Earle
10 Eric Hisaw

GROUP
#1 Starline Rhythm Boys
2 Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson
3 Joe Ely & Joel Guzman
4 Drive-By Truckers
5 Cornell Hurd Band
6 Robin & Linda Williams
7 Arty Hill & The Long Gone Daddys
8 Jeni & Billy

INSTRUMENTALIST
#1 Gurf Morlix
2 Jim Stringer
3 Redd Volkaert
4 Buddy Miller
5 Deke Dickerson
6 Bobby Flores
7 Duke Levine
8 Lloyd Maines

SONGWRITER
#1 Leslie Sloan aka Miss Leslie
2 James McMurtry
3 Hayes Carll
4 Arty Hill
5 Ronny Elliott
6 Rodney Crowell
7 Alejandro Escovedo
8 Eliza Gilkyson
9 Tim Grimm
10 Chip Taylor
11 Bobby Charles

BEST IN THE INDUSTRY
#1 Bill Hunt (Cow Island www.cowislandmusic.com)
2 Joe Swank (Bloodshot www.bloodshotrecords.com)
3 Martha Moore (SoMuchMoore www.somuchmoore.com)
4 Ellen Stanley (Red House www.redhouserecords.com)
aka Mother Banjo
5 Al Moss & Trish Wagner (almosspromotion.com)
6 Fred Boenig (http://www.myspace.com/americanamediapro)
7 Leslie Rouffe (http://www.myspace.com/leslierouffe)
8 Jenni Finlay (www.jennifinlaypromotions.com)

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I'm taking the plunge and working on a dedicated blog at www.jcshepard.com in a cooperative venture with a good friend here on last.fm pushing me off the plank.

I'll be cross-posting some of my last.fm journals; some I will be modifying, adding to, excerpting from, generally trying a variety of content suited to each platform. This entry is a good example--I haven't added value on the content, but I hope I've given my last.fm Friends links to some artists I think you might enjoy. Think for the new blog I'll skip this encyclopedic re-posting of last.fm links and just cherry-pick some data over there, then try to do more in-depth features over the next couple weeks for y'all on both sites. See what works where.

Working theory is the blog site will focus on being un-focused--covering many areas of professional & personal interest. Just have to see where we're led. Come on over and visit, I'll throw another log on the fire.

-jc

Alejandro Escovedo - Always a Friend
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Come Saturday
Morrissey – Something is Squeezing My Skull
The Tallest Man on Earth – I Won't Be Found
Goblin Cock – Kegrah the Dragon Killer
Future of the Left - Small Bones Small Bodies
Napalm Death – On the Brink of Extinction
Bon Iver – Blood Bank
Zu – Beata Viscera
Tim Hecker – Sea of Pulses
dälek – Armed With Krylon
Thinking Machines – Kamikaze Astronaut
Jim O'Rourke – Therefore, I Am
Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
Napalm Death – Fallacy Dominion
The Yoleus – Where are my Shoes?
The Gaslight Anthem – Say I Won't (recognize)
Telepathe – So Fine
Zu – Mimosa Hostilis
Food For Animals – Shy (Nero's Day At Disneyland Cash Check or Money Order Edit davide jebise)
Giant Sand – Stranded Pearl
Neutrino – For Lack of A Better Word
Napalm Death – Life and Limb
KEN mode – Extending Common Coutresy Throughout the Evning
Built by snow – Invaders
Sun Kill Moon – Tonight the Sky

I will try to limit this list to ten albums; may have to throw in some Honorable Mentions or something!
1. Old Crow Medicine Show: Tennessee Pusher
2. Two Cow Garage: Speaking in Cursive
3. Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation's Dark
4. Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson: Rattlin' Bones
5. Lucinda Williams: Little Honey
6. Band Of Heathens: Band of Heathens
7. Alejandro Escovedo: Real Animal
8. Mudcrutch: Mudcrutch
9. John Hiatt: Same Old Man
10. JJ Grey & Mofro: Orange Blossoms

OK, this was hard! I just want to give a few Honorable Mentions that I hated leaving off the list:

Kathleen Edwards: Asking For Flowers
Paul Thorn: A Long Way From Tupelo
Susan Tedeschi: Back To The River
The Mother Truckers: Let's All Go To Bed
Mark Olson & Gary Louris: Ready For The Flood
Chris Knight: Heart Of Stone
The Avett Brothers: The Second Gleam

There are many more worthy of mentioning, but I have to stop somewhere! Hope you guys will share your favorites with me.