Freitag, 20. Jan 2006, 13:51
Texas-based 3rd Coast Music magazine (TCMN) sponsors the Freeform American Roots (FAR) chart. The FAR list is a monthly survey of real-live free form DJs, mostly on non-profit & community radio, from the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Australia and New Zealand.
I don’t always agree with the collective wisdom—I’m more of an alt-country guy than a folkie. Still their year-end Best-Of list is usually a good Roots music preview of break-out artists and below-the-radar comebacks you’ll be listening to, or at least wish you were.
ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
Martí Brom: Sings Heartache Numbers (Goofin)
John Prine: Fair & Square (Oh Boy)
Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell Begonias (Yep Roc)
James McMurtry: Childish Things (Compadre)
Eliza Gilkyson: Paradise Hotel (Red House)
Rodney Crowell: The Outsider (Columbia)
Mary Gauthier: Mercy Now (Lost Highway)
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives: Souls' Chapel (Superlatone)
Dwight Yoakam: Blame The Vain (New West)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore: Come On Back (Rounder)
DEBUT
Miss Leslie & Her Juke Jointers: Honky Tonk Revival (Zero Label)
Sarah Borges: Silver City (Blue Corn)
Amber Digby: Music From The Honky Tonks (Yellow Rose)
http://www.yellowroserecords.com/yrr/amber.html
Abigail Washburn: Song Of The Traveling Daughter (Nettwerk)
Shooter Jennings: Put The O Back In Country (Universal South)
Hacienda Brothers (Koch)
Robyn Ludwick: For So Long (Late Show)
Dave Insley: Call Me Lonesome (self)
Twilight Ranchers: Who Stole That Train (Cow Island Music)
http://www.twilightranchers.com
Wayne Scott: This Weary Way (Full Light)
VARIOUS ARTISTS / TRIBUTE
Los Super 7: Heard It On The X (Telarc)
Tribute To Billy Joe Shaver (Compadre)
http://www.compadrerecords.com
For A Decade Of Sin; 11 Years Of Bloodshot Records (Bloodshot)
http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/
Elizabeth McQueen and The Firebrands: Happy Doing What We're Doing (Freedom)
REISSUE / HISTORIC
Blaze Foley: Wanted More Dead Than Alive (Waddell Hollow)
Terry Allen: The Silent Majority (Sugar Hill)
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (Sony Legacy)
Johnny Cash: The Legend (Sony Legacy)
John Lilly & Ralph Blizard: Blue Highway (self)
FEMALE ARTIST
Martí Brom
Mary Gauthier
Eliza Gilkyson
Elizabeth McQueen
Audrey Auld Mezera
Adrienne Young
Amber Digby
MALE ARTIST
John Prine
James McMurtry
Rodney Crowell
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Dwight Yoakam
SONGWRITER
James McMurtry
John Prine
Mary Gauthier
Rodney Crowell
Eliza Gilkyson
Tim Grimm
Cary Swinney
Interesting melange…. give 'the FAR charts a visit at:
http://www.accd.edu/tcmn/far/far_best2005.htm
jc