Best Albums of 2009

Week One 50 - 26

It started as a top twenty, expanded to forty and then to a top fifty albums of 2009. A very scientific approach was adopted. I spread the albums out on the floor and then put them into piles. Some were eliminated, some moved from one pile to the other.

Finally here they are. The order doesn't really matter but it was fun to go through the process. You'll have to wait until next week to see the top twenty-five.

magnolia electric co	secretly canadian	26	josephine
felice brothers	spunk	27	yonder is the clock
neko case	anti	28	middle cyclone
ben kweller	ato	29	changing horses
avett brothers	american	30	I and love and you
bill callahan	drag city	31	sometimes I wish we were an eagle
van walker	croxton	32	the last record store
dave alvin & the guilty women	yep roc	33	dave alvin & the guilty women
slaid cleaves	music road	34	everything you love will be taken away
patterson hood	ruth st	35	murdering oscar (and other love songs)
a.a. bondy	fat possum	36	when the devil's loose
reverend horton heat	bloodshot	37	laughin & cryin
conor oberst & the mystic valley band	merge	38	outer south
jeffrey foucault	signature sounds	39	shoot the moon right between the eyes
andrew bird	spunk	40	nobel beast
drive-by truckers	new west	41	the fine print
the weight	tee pee	42	are men
gourds	yep roc	43	haymaker!
maplewood	tapete	44	yeti boombox
ben nicholls	rebel group	45	the last pale light in the west
wayne hancock	bloodshot	46	viper of melody
low anthem	nonesuch	47	oh my god, charlie darwin
exene cervenka	bloodshot	48	somewhere gone
paul burch	ramseaur	49	still your man
devon sproule	tin angel	50	don't hurry for heaven