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. With the top twenty-five the order was shuffled many times and my number one changed a few times, until I settled on this line up.
Finally here they are. The order doesn't really matter but it was fun to go through the process.
Week Two (1-25)
| todd snider | shock | 1 | excitement plan |
| jordie lane | vitamin | 2 | sleeping patterns |
| justin townes earle | bloodshot | 3 | midnight at the movies |
| phosphorescent | dead oceans | 4 | to willie |
| black crowes | silver arrow | 5 | before the frost |
| son volt | rounder | 6 | american central dust |
| wagons | croxton | 7 | rise and fall of goodtown |
| the duke and the king | shock | 8 | nothing gold can stay |
| bonnie prince billy | spunk | 9 | beware |
| steve earle | new west | 10 | townes |
| downhills home | self released | 11 | the wolves in the woods |
| corb lund | new west | 12 | losin lately gambler |
| wilco | nonesuch | 13 | wilco (the album) |
| buddy and julie miller | new west | 14 | written in chalk |
| dave rawlings machine | acony | 15 | a friend of a friend |
| wrinkle neck mules | lower 40 | 16 | let the lead fly |
| eilen jewell | signature sounds | 17 | sea of tears |
| great lake swimmers | nettwerk | 18 | lost channels |
| cave singers | matador | 19 | welcome joy |
| mark olson & gary louris | new west | 20 | ready for the flood |
| richmond fontaine | non zero | 21 | we used to think the freeway sounded like a river |
| jason isbell & the 400 Unit | lightning rod | 22 | jason isbell & the 400 Unit |
| m ward | spunk | 23 | hold time |
| john doe and the sadies | yep roc | 24 | country club |
| monsters of folk | spunk | 25 | monsters of folk |
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