American Songwriter’s Top 50 Albums Of 2011

Here’s the complete list:

1. Wilco – The Whole Love

2. Gillian Welch – The Harrow and 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 & 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 and 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. AA Bondy – Believers

30. Felice Brothers – Celebration, Florida

31. Robert Ellis – Photographs

32. 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. The Middle East – I Want That You Are Always Happy

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

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