Essential Listening
This page keeps a list of the cream of the crop of music we have heard in 2008. It is not exclusive to albums released in 2008, it is for music that we heard for the first time in 2008. Also, it is not in any order of preference. As albums are added to the list they will be added to the bottom and will link back to the article on ninebullets which will feature links to the band’s web sites and cd buy links. I hope y’all find some stuff on here that appeals to you as much as it has to me.
Best Album of 2006: Lucero - Rebels, Rouges & Sworn Brothers
Best Album of 2007: The Fox Hunt - Nowhere Bound
Ninebullets.net’s Favorite Albums of 2008:
- Patrick Sweany - Every Hour Is A Dollar Gone
- Left Lane Cruiser - Bring Yo’ Ass To The Table
- Glossary - The Better Angels Of Our Nature
- Drag the River - You Can’t Live This Way
- Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
- North Mississippi Allstars - Hernando
- Miss T-Bones - Voodoo Doll
- The Whipsaws - 60 Watt Avenue
- Eilen Jewell - Letters From Sinners and Strangers
- Bean Pickers Union - Potlatch
- Moreland & Arbuckle - 1861
- The Devil Makes Three - The Devil Makes Three
- American Gun - The Means and The Machine
- Those Poor Bastards - The Plague
- Slim Cessna’s Auto Club - Cipher
- Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life
- Black Keys - Attack and Release
- Ha Ha Tonka - Buckle in the Bible Belt
- Honey Tongue Devils - All Tall & The Melting Moon
- The Lancaster Orchestra - Never Cried Once When I Could Have
- The Weight - Are Men
- Hayes Carll - Trouble In Mind
- The Black Diamond Heavies - A Touch of Someone Else’s Class
- Possessed By Paul James - Cold and Blind
- Scrapomatic - Sidewalk Caesars
- American Relay - Corn & Oil
- Andre Williams & The New Orleans Hellhounds - Can You Deal With It?
- John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love & Freedom
- Reverend Deadeye - Turn or Burn
- A Night In The Box - Write A Letter
- Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs - Dirt Don’t Hurt
- Chris Knight - Heart of Stone
- The Steeldrivers - The Steeldrivers
- Will Quinlan & The Diviners - Navasota
- Grayson Capps - Rott ‘N Roll
- Olin & The Moon - 40 Miles Of Bad Road
- Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher
- Ben Nichols - The Last Pale Light In The West
- O’Death - Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin
- Two Cow Garage - Speaking In Cursive
- Hank III - Damn Right, Rebel Proud
- Leroy Powell - Angles & Curves
- Whitey Morgan and the 78’s - Honky Tonks & Cheap Motels
- Those Poor Bastards - Satan Is Watching
- Tim Barry - Manchester
- The Sumner Brothers - The Sumner Brothers