Our Favorite CDs of 2005
At the end of each year it’s fun to think about all the great new music that’s been released over the past 12 months. It can be a real challenge to pick your Top 10 Favorites for the year. It’s worse when you’re asked to pick your top 5 favorite CDs of the year. But I asked myself this the other night…If I could only choose 5 favorite 2005 releases to take with me on a road trip to Baja and back, what would they be? Or, what 5 2005 releases am I likely to play in my living room in another 5 years? I also asked the Folk Alley staff to tell me their 5 Favorite CDs for 2005.
What about you? What are your Top 5 Favorite CDs that were released in 2005?
Here are the Folk Alley staff picks:
Linda Fahey – Programming & Marketing Director
Robert Earl Keen – What I Really Mean
The Greencards – Weather and Water
Abigail Washburn – Song of the Traveling Daughter
Kate Rusby – The Girl Who Couldn’t Fly
Pat Donohue – Profile
Chris Boros – Production & Operations Director
John Doyle – Wayward Son
Abigail Washburn – Song of the Traveling Daughter
Tim O’Brien – Cornbread Nation
Shooglenifty – Radial Mestizo
Porcupine Tree – Deadwing
Ann VerWiebe – Queen of All Things Copy Related & Trivia Quiz Maven
Jackson Browne – Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1
The Clumsy Lovers – Smart Kid
Alison Brown – Stolen Moments
Cheryl Wheeler – Defying Gravity
The Bills – Let ‘Em Run
Jim Blum – host, and Patron Saint of Rescue Dogs
Harry Manx – West Eats Meet
Alison Brown – Stolen Moments
Jamie Hartford – Part Of Your History
Polyjesters – Ka-CHUNK
Jackson Browne – Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1
The Fabulous Ms. Elena See – host
Abigail Washburn – Song of the Traveling Daughter
Over the Rhine – Drunkard’s Prayer
Mary Gauthier – Mercy Now
Jeff Black – Tin Lily
Iron and Wine, Calexico – In the Reins
Jeff St. Clair – another granola crunchin’, tree huggin’ folk music host
The Duhks – The Duhks
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez – Red Dog Tracks
The Lonesome Sisters – The Lonesome Sisters
Abigail Washburn – Song of the Traveling Daughter
Joel Mabus – Parlor Guitar
