Essential Listening

This page keeps a list of the cream of the crop of music we have heard in 2009. It is not exclusive to albums released in 2009, it is for music that we heard for the first time in 2009. 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
Best Album of 2008: Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Cipher
Best Album of 2009: Micah Schnabel – When The Stage Lights Go Dim

Ninebullets.net’s Favorite Albums of 2010:

• Grayson Capps – Live At The Paradiso (2009)
• Black Diamond Heavies – Alive As Fuck (2009)
• Ray Wylie Hubbard – A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is no C) (2010)
• Glossary – Feral Fire (2010)
• Kasey Anderson – Nowhere Nights (2010)
• Tim Barry – 28th & Stonewall (2010)
• Joe Pug – Messenger (2010)
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band – Preservation (2010)
• The Fox Hunt – Long Way To Go (2010)
• Otis Gibbs – Joe Hill’s Ashes (2010)
• Drive-By Truckers – The Big To-Do (2010)
• Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Buried Behind The Barn (2010)
• .357 String Band – Lightning From The North (2010)
• The Brothers Comatose – Songs From The Stoop (2010)
• Seasick Steve – Man From Another Time (2010)
• Bourbon Crow – Long Way To The Bottom
• Elliot Randall & The Deadmen – Caffeine and Gasoline
• Eleven Hundred Springs – This Crazy Life
• Moreland & Arbuckle – Flood
• Wade Bowen – Live at Billy Bobs
• American Aquarium – Small Town Hymns
• The Legendary Shack Shakers – Agridustrial
• The Hold Steady – Heaven in Whenever
• Red Clay River – Cover Our Faces With Soot and Dreams
• The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
• Eilen Jewell presents: Butcher Holler (a tribute to Loretta Lynn)
• The Black Keys – Brothers
• Javi Garcia and The Cold Cold Ground – Southern Horror
• Possum Jenkins – Collection of Bad Habits
• Mat D – Plank Road Drag
• Reverend Deadeye – Trails & Tribulations
• I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House – The Sounds of Dying
• American Graveyard – Hallelujahland
• Possessed By Paul James – Feed The Family
• Tin Horn Prayer – Get Busy Dying