Year-End Lists

American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2011

1. Wilco
   The Whole Love
2. Gillian Welch
   The Harrow & The Harvest
3. Adele
   21
4. Drive-By Truckers
   Go-Go Boots
5. Dawes
   Nothing is Wrong
6. Hayes Carll
   KMAG YOYO
7. Paul Simon
   So Beautiful or So What
8. Pistol Annies
   Hell on Heels
9. The Black Keys
   El Camino
10. Feist
    Metals
11. Tom Waits
    Bad as Me
12. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
    Here We Rest
13. Lucinda Williams
    Blessed
14. My Morning Jacket
    Circuital
15. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
16. Miranda Lambert
    Four the Record
17. Jessica Lea Mayfield
    Tell Me
18. Ryan Adams
    Ashes & Fire
19. Radiohead
    The King of Limbs
20. Laura Marling
    A Creature I Don’t Know
21. Fleet Foxes
    Helplessness Blues
22. Bright Eyes
    The People’s Key
23. The Civil Wars
    Barton Hollow
24. The War on Drugs
    Slave Ambient
25. Sarah Jarosz
    Follow Me Down
26. Pieta Brown
    Mercury
27. Deer Tick
    Divine Providence
28. St. Vincent
    Strange Mercy
29. A.A. Bondy
    Believers
30. The Felice Brothers
    Celebration, Florida
31. Robert Ellis
    Photographs
32. The Decemberists
    The King is Dead
33. Honeyhoney
    Billy Jack
34. Joe Henry
    Reverie
35. KORT
    Invariable Heartache
36. Old 97′s
    The Grand Theatre, Vol. 2
37. Steve Earle
    I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
38. Real Estate
    Days
39. Those Darlins
    Screws Get Loose
40. Middle Brother
    Middle Brother
41. Kurt Vile
    Smoke Ring for My Halo
42. Noel Gallagher
    Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
43. Jonny Corndawg
    Down On The Bikini Line
44. Tristen
    Charlatans At The Garden Gate
45. JEFF The Brotherhood
    We Are the Champions
46. Loney Dear
    Hall Music
47. Caitlin Rose
    Own Side Now
48. Abigail Washburn
    City of Refuge
49. Beirut
    The Rip Tide
50. Centro-matic
    Candidate Waltz