Favorite Music of 2009

Hmmm, it would seem I have neglected this blog toward the later half of the year. I don’t really have a good reason, it just happened. So, in order to correct this I am going to do one of those New Year’s resolution things and resolve to update this page more frequently. Wish me the best.

To that end, I’m going to start off by posting some of my favorite music from 2009. As a disclaimer, I have to say that that much of my music listening this year involved a sort of fetish for Suburban Home Records. I’ve written about them before and just have too many good things to say to list here. Besides that, a lot of my listening habits have changed as I spend the majority of my time at work in front of a computer. I’ve found myself more often than not listening to albums online using lala, npr, or orb. So, in no specific order, here it is, my top 20 list:

I And Love And You by The Avett Brothers
Something’s Wrong/Lost Forever by Scott H. Biram
Be Set Free by Langhorne Slim
Strict Joy by The Swell Season
One Fast Move Or I’m Gone Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur by Benjamin Gibbard, Jay Farrar
1372 Overton Park by Lucero
All You Can Eat!! by Left Lane Cruiser
Split 7” by Jon Snodgrass & Cory Branan
Somebody Loves You by Austin Lucas
Taker Easy by The Takers
Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) by Patterson Hood
Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well by The Builders and the Butchers
Midnight at the Movies by Justin Townes Earle
Visitor’s Band by Jon Snodgrass
Keep It Hid by Dan Auerbach
Winter Hours by The Deep Dark Woods
Animals In The Dark by William Elliott Whitmore
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit by Jason Isbell
The Last Pale Light In The West by Ben Nichols
When the Stage Lights Go Dim by Micah Schnabel

For those interested, you can stream most of these albums online using my lala blog. Just do a search for the artist and/or album in the upper right-hand corner. Happy Holidays!