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Greg Beets

1) NEON INDIAN Psychic Chasms (Lefse)

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2) THE STRANGE BOYS ... And Girls Club (In the Red)

3) WHITE DENIM Fits (Downtown)

4) BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! (Lost Highway)

5) THE KRAYOLAS Long Leaf Pine (No Smack Gum) (Box)

6) THE BAND OF HEATHENS One Foot in the Ether (BOH)

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7) WILD MOCCASINS Microscopic Metronomes

8) GLEESON The Very Very Best of Gleeson (Almost There)

9) OPPOSITE DAY What Is Is? (Future Banana Replacement)

Jim Caligiuri

1) BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! (Lost Highway)

2) UNCLE LUCIUS Pick Your Head Up (BooClap)

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3) SARAH JAROSZ Song Up in Her Head (Sugar Hill)

4) CHARLIE ROBISON Beautiful Day (Dualtone)

5) SLAID CLEAVES Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away ... (Music Road)

6) THE BELLEVILLE OUTFIT Time to Stand

7) ROBERT EARL KEEN The Rose Hotel (Lost Highway)

8) THE FLATLANDERS Hills and Valleys (New West)

9) LYLE LOVETT Natural Forces (Lost Highway)

Thomas Fawcett

1) OCOTE SOUL SOUNDS Coconut Rock (ESL)

2) BROWNOUT Aguilas and Cobras (Six Degrees)

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3) BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! (Lost Highway)

4) WHITE DENIM Fits (Downtown)

5) LITTLE JOE WASHINGTON Texas Fire Line (Dialtone)

6) T BIRD & THE BREAKS Learn About It

7) SOUTHBOUND Seasons Change

8) MATT THE ELECTRICIAN Animal Boy

9) GARY FLOATER A Hero Never Learns: The Songs of Gary Floater (Gary Floater Worldwide Entertainment)

Doug Freeman

1) STEVE EARLE Townes (New West)

2) BALMORHEA All Is Wild, All Is Silent (Western Vinyl)

3) THE STRANGE BOYS ... And Girls Club (In the Red)

4) ST. VINCENT Actor (4AD)

5) BRAZOS Phosphorescent Blues (Autobus)

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6) BILL CALLAHAN Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)

7) SLAID CLEAVES Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away ... (Music Road)

8) WHITE DENIM Fits (Downtown)

9) SAM BAKER Cotton

Chase Hoffberger

1) SOUTHBOUND Seasons Change

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2) WHITE DENIM Fits (Downtown)

3) THE STRANGE BOYS ... And Girls Club (In the Red)

4) BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! (Lost Highway)

5) THE ARCHIBALDS Easy Living (Super Pop)

6) BRAZOS Phosphorescent Blues (Autobus)

7) ZEALE Haterz and Robotz

8) TEE DOUBLE Bio-Music (Kinetic Global)

9) C.O.D. Ova the Stove, Volume 3

Margaret Moser

1) SARAH JAROSZ Song Up in Her Head (Sugar Hill)

2) BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! (Lost Highway)

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3) BOB SCHNEIDER Lovely Creatures (Kirtland)

4) SHELLEY KING Welcome Home (Lemonade)

5) JOEL GUZMAN & SARAH FOX Conjuntazzo (Guzman Fox)

6) CHARLIE ROBISON Beautiful Day (Dualtone)

7) THE STEPS Take It All In

8) ROSIE FLORES & THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS Girl of the Century (Bloodshot)

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9) THE DAYLIGHT TITANS Boom and Chime

Jay Trachtenberg

1) BROWNOUT Aguilas and Cobras (Six Degrees)

2) BILL CALLAHAN Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)

3) KAT EDMONSON Take to the Sky (Convivium)

4) JEFF LOFTON QUARTET Jazz to the People

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5) MONAHANS Dim the Aurora (Misra)

6) GURF MORLIX Last Exit to Happyland

7) WILLIE NELSON & ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL Willie & the Wheel (Bismeaux)

8) OCOTE SOUL SOUNDS Coconut Rock (ESL)

9) T BIRD & THE BREAKS Learn About It

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