tegan and sara, so jealous My top five albums of 2004:
1. Tegan and Sara,
So Jealous
2. Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South
3. Patterson Hood, Killers and Stars
4. Magnetic Fields,
i
5. Elliott Smith, from a basement on
a hill
My top five of 2003:
1. Josh Rouse, 1972
2. Drive-By Truckers, Decoration
Day
3. Fountains of
Wayne,
Welcome Interstate Managers
4. Shelby Lynne, Identity Crisis
5. The
White Stripes, Elephant
My top five of 2002:
1. Drive-by Truckers, Southern
Rock Opera
2. Bruce Springsteen,
The Rising
3. Neko Case, Blacklisted
4. Linda Thompson, Fashionably Late
5. Amy Rigby, World on a
Broken String
My top five of 2001:
1. The White
Stripes, White Blood Cells
2. Lucinda
Williams, Essence
3. Chris Brokaw, red
cities
4. Bruce Springsteen
& the E Street Band, Live in New York
5. Ryan Adams, Gold
My top five of 2000:
1. Aimee Mann, Bachelor
No. 2
2. Belle
and Sebastian, Lazy Line Painter Jane
3. Marah, Kids in
Philly
4. Shelby Lynne, I Am
Shelby Lynne
5. Steve Earle, Transcendental
Blues
My top five of 1999:
1. Fountains of
Wayne,
Utopia
Parkway
2. Aimee Mann, Magnolia
soundtrack
3. Magnetic Fields,
69 Love Songs
4. Beck, Midnite Vultures
and Mutations
5. Kelly Willis, What I Deserve
My top five of 1998:
1. Lucinda
Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
2. Sarge, The
Glass Intact
3. Belle
and Sebastian, The Boy with the Arab Strap
4. Cheri Knight,
The
Northeast Kingdom
5. Elliott Smith,
XO
My top ten of the 1990s (in no particular order):
Lucinda
Williams, Sweet Old World
Aimee Mann, I'm With Stupid
Fountains of Wayne,
Utopia Parkway
Guided By Voices, Alien
Lanes
Amy Rigby, Diary of a Mod
Housewife
Freedy Johnston, Can You Fly
Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York
Blake Babies, Sunburn
Steve Earle, I Feel Alright
Iris DeMent, My Life
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