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Greatest Albums of All Time
 
 
Mat Kearney  

Mason Jennings

  1. U2 - Joshua Tree

  2. Johnny Cash - American Recordings

  3. Beatles - Revolver

  4. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

  5. Paul Simon - Graceland

  6. A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory

  7. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

  8. Emmylou Harris - Wrecking ball

  9. Travis - The Man Who

  10. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin

  

  1. Johnny Cash - American Recordings

  2. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks

  3. Led Zeppelin - 4

  4. Beatles - White Album

  5. Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender

  6. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake Its Morning

  7. Greg Brown - Further In

  8. Tom Petty - Wildflowers

  9. U2 - Joshua Tree

  10. Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
     
 

Umphrey's McGee

  

Grace Potter

  1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

  2. Beatles - White Album

  3. Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

  4. Queen - A Night at the Opera

  5. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

  6. King Crimson - Discipline

  7. Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

  8. Radiohead - OK Computer

  9. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

  10. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

  
  1. James Brown, 'Sex Machine'
  2. The Band, 'The Basement Tapes'
  3. Bob Dylan, 'Blood on the Tracks
  4. Rolling Stones, 'Sticky Fingers'
  5. Led Zeppelin, 'Led Zeppelin IV'
  6. Neil Young and Crazy Horse, 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere."
  7. The Who, 'Who's Next'
  8. George Harrison, All Things Must Pass'
  9. Radiohead, 'The Bends'
  10. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, 'Time the Revelator.'
     

 

Martin Sexton

  

Rob James of the Clarks Top 5
  1. Beatles -  Abbey Road
  2. Stevie Wonder -  Songs in the Key of Life
  3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
  4. Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
  5. Ani Difranco -  To The Teeth
  6. John Hiatt -  Stolen Moments
  7. The Atlantic Years - The Best of Ray Charles
  8. Jeff Buckley -  Grace
  9. Chris Whitley -  Living with the Law
  10. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
  
  1. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers-Damn The Torpedoes
  2. The Replacements-Tim
  3. The Long Ryders-Two-Fisted Tales
  4. Elvis Costello-This Years Model
  5. Peter Case-Peter Case
 
     

 

Sea Wolf

   Josh Ritter
  1. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
  2. The Beatles - Revolver
  3. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
  4. Elliot Smith - Either/Or
  5. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
  6. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
  7. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
  8. Neil Young - Harvest
  9. Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds of Silence 
  10. Pavement - Crooked Rain/Crooked Rain
  
  1. Bob Dylan, "Love & Theft"
  2. Leonard Cohen, "New Songs for the Old Ceremony"
  3. Spoon, "Gimme Fiction"
  4. Dawn Landes, "Fireproof"
  5. Bruce Springsteen, "The Rising"
  6. Modest Mouse, "The Moon and Antarctica"
  7. John Prine, "Sweet Revenge"
  8. Paul McCartney, "RAM"
  9. White Stripes, "Elephant"
  10. Beatles, "White Album"
     

 

Jason Isbell

  

Sarah Borges
  1. Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs' 
  2. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 'Damn the Torpedoes' 
  3. The Rolling Stones - 'Exile on Main Street' 
  4. The Beatles - 'Abbey Road' 
  5. Neutral Milk Hotel - 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'
  6. Bob Dylan - 'Blood on the Tracks' 
  7. Neil Young - 'Harvest' 
  8. The Band - 'Music From Big Pink' 
  9. Nirvana - 'Nevermind' 
  10. Robert Johnson -  'King of the Delta Blues Singers' 
  
  1. X - Los Angeles
  2. Throwing Muses - University
  3. Neil Young - Harvest
  4. Morphine - Cure For Pain
  5. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  6. Gillian Welch - Time (the Revelator)
  7. Old 97s - Too Far To Care
  8. Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
  9. Bob Dylan- Bringing it All Back Home
  10. Nick Lowe - Party of One
     

 

Terry of Carbon Leaf

  

Nellie McKay
  1. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
  2. Jane's Adiction - Nothing's Shocking
  3. Tenacious D - Tenacious D
  4. Neil Young - Harvest
  5. R.E.M - Life's Rich Pageant
  6. Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
  7. Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
  8. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
  9. The Cult - Electric
  10. Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
  
  1. Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin
  2. Tom Waits - Raindogs
  3. Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
  4. Dylan and the Band - Basement Tapes
  5. Thelonius Monk - Thelonius Monk Plays Duke Ellington
  6. Ella Fitzgerald - You'll Have to Swing It
  7. Taj Mahal - Recycling the Blues
  8. James Brown - Messing with the Blues
  9. Alan Price - O Lucky Man
  10. Acker Bilk - Stranger on the Shore
     

   

Shawn Mullins

    
  1. Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
  2. Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
  3. Joni Mitchell - Blue
  4. Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain
  5. James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
  6. Kris Kristofferson - Jesus Was A Capricorn
  7. Neil Young - Harvest
  8. Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
  9. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
  10. Doc Watson - Any of his live albums from the 60's
    
     

PATTERSON HOOD of Drive By Truckers
 
TOM WAITS - SWORDFISHTROMBONES - (16 Shells From A 30 Ought Six)
This one could have just as easily been Rain Dogs or Blue Valentine, but alas it had to be this one. Tomorrow it might be Rain Dogs, or hell even Alice, but one day, a few days later it will once again be this one. It's still growing on me 24 years later.
TODD RUNDGREN - SOMETHING / ANYTHING? - (Hello It's Me)
This may be the single most important record of my childhood (since 12 anyway). Hello It's Me is easily in top 3 fave songs. I probably learned more about song-writing from this album than any one record on earth.
BIG STAR - 3RD (vinyl reissue) - (Kangaroo)
I always liked Radio City better until hearing this sequence on vinyl. It's still pretty danged close, but this version is a revelation and as good as any record on earth, but so is Radio City. Kangaroo is in top five all time fave song list.
THE GLANDS - THE GLANDS - (Straight Down)
The best album ever to come out of Athens GA. Maybe Georgia. It's the best album so far this century, unless you count 2000 as last century. It's a little hard to find (Capricorn Records) but worth how ever much trouble it is. In ten years, It may well move up on this list.
BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND - THE BASEMENT TAPES - (Don't You Tell Henry)
I almost put The Band's brown self-titled album here, but today I liked this one best. American music never sounded better.
NEIL YOUNG - TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT - (Albuquerque)
Rust Never Sleeps could have easily gone here, but this one has Albuquerque which might have my second favorite chorus ever written. it sounds like he did it on a bet. And won.
THE ROLLING STONES - EXILE ON MAIN STREET - (Loving Cup)
Here I could substitute Sticky Fingers, Let It Bleed, Beggars Banquet (or Liz Phair's Exile In Guyville) but tonight I didn't.
EDDIE HINTON - DEAR Y'ALL (THE SONGWRITER SESSIONS VOL. 1) - (Get Off In It <alternate version>
Another one that's hard to find (Zane Records, a UK label, you have to have it imported) but its as great a bunch of soul songs as ever written, stripped down to songwriter demo essentials. It gets better with every listen, a thousand listens later.
THE REPLACEMENTS - TIM - (Bastards Of Young or Left of The Dial)
This crappy little album inspired me to drop out of college and form Adam's House Cat with my roommate Mike Cooley back in 1985. Let It Be might be a better album, but this one is why I'm here doing this tonight.
JOHN LENNON - PLASTIC ONO BAND - (Well Well Well)
I had to have a Beatle album, and this is my favorite one. Rubber Soul White Album and Band on the Run rank pretty high too.
 
 
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