Best Albums of 2011

#1 Dead Man Winter - Bright Lights

#2 Lynn Drury - Sugar on the Floor

#3 Eilen Jewell - Queen of the Minor Key

#4 Brigitte Demeyer - Rose of Jericho

#5 Pokey Lafarge & South City Three - Middle of Everywhere

#6 Musikanto - Sky of Dresses

#7 Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing

#8 Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest

#9 Drive-By Truckers - Go Go Boots

#10 Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down

#11 Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers - Starlight Hotel

#12 Great American Taxi - Paradise Lost

#13 Lydia Loveless - Indestructible Machine

#14 Jason Isbell  & The 400 Unit - Here We Rest

#15 Big Harp - White Hat

#16 Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Smoking in Heaven

#17 Owen Temple - Mountain Home

#18 Robert Earl Keen - Ready for Confetti

#19 The Black Lillies - 100 Miles of Wreckage

#20 Good Lovelies - Let the Rain Fall