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
Best Album of 2008: Slim Cessna’s Auto Club - Cipher
Ninebullets.net’s Favorite Albums of 2009:
- Seasick Steve - I Started Out with Nothin and I Still Got Most of It Left (2008)
- The Gaslight Anthem - The ‘59 Sound (2008)
- Swamp Candy - The Dirty Suite (2007)
- Davina and the Vagabonds - Live at the Times (2008)
- John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives - Spills & Thrills (2009)
- Otis Gibbs - Grandpa Walked A Picket Line (2008)
- North Twin - Stronger At The Broken Places (2009)
- The Fox Hunt - America’s Working So We Don’t Have To (2009)
- William Elliott Whitmore - Animals In The Dark (2009)
- Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit (2009)
- Alela Diane - To Be Still (2009)
- Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis - Two Men With The Blues (2008)
- Leroy Powell - Paranoid (2009)
- Bloodkin - Baby, They Told Us We Would Rise Again (2009)
- Various Artists - Rodentia (2008)
- Jon Snodgrass - Visitor’s Band (2009)
- Kate Mann - Things Look Different When The Sun Goes Down (2009)
- Strawfoot - Chasing Locusts (2008)
- Pinebox Serenade - Let The River Take Them Home (2008)
- Eilen Jewell - Sea of Tears (2009)
- Justin Townes Earle - Midnight At The Movies (2009)
- Hang Jones - The Ballad of Carlsbad County (2008)
- Uncle Sinner - Ballads and Mental Breakdowns (2008)
- The Devil Makes Three - Do Wrong Right (2009)
- Michael Dean Damron - Father’s Day (2009)
- Hill Country Revue - Make A Move (2009)
- Scott H. Biram - Something’s Wrong / Lost Forever (2009)
- Roppongi’s Ace - Into The Night (2009)
- Little Foot Long Foot - Harsh Words (2009)
- Kristeenyoung - Music for Strippers, Hookers, and the Odd On-Looker (2009)
- American Aquarium - Dances For The Lonely (2009)