Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls

Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball

Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas

Justin Townes Earle – Nothing’s Gonna Change the way You Feel About Me Now

Jack White – Blunderbuss

Sugar + the High-Lows – Sugar + the High-Lows

Patti Smith – Banga

Todd Snider – Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables

Kelly Hogan – I Like to Keep Myself in Pain

Allah-Las – Allah-Las

1. Bob Dylan – Tempest
2. Dr. John – Locked Down
3. Bonnie Raitt – Slipstream
4. Best Coast – the Only Place
5. Nick Waterhouse – Time’s All Gone
6. Alejandro Escovedo – Big Station
7. The Avett Brothers – The Carpenter
8. Beachwood Sparks – The Tarnished Gold
9. Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale – Buddy and Jim
10. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
11. Ian Hunter – When I’m President
12. Sara Watkins – Sun Midnight Sun
13. ZZ Ward – Till The Casket Drops
14. Clairy Browne & the Bangin Rackettes – Baby Caught the Bus
15. The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten

Best Blues:

1. Tedeschi Trucks Band – Everybody’s Talkin’
2. Janiva Magness – Stronger for it
3. Michael Burks – Show of Strength
4. Magic Slim & The Teardrops – Bad Boy
5. Buddy Guy – Live At Legends
6. John Primer – Blues On Solid Ground
7. Joe Louis Walker – Hellfire
8. Dion – Tank Full of Blues
9. Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King – Close to the Bone
10. Joe Bonamassa – No Hits, No Hype, Just the Best / Driving Towards The Daylight / Beacon Theatre: Live From New York

1. Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
2. The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten
3. Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
4. Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
5. Justin Townes Earle – Nothing’s Gonna Change the way You Feel About Me Now
6. Jack White – Blunderbuss
7. Patti Smith – Banga
8. Todd Snider – Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
9. Kelly Hogan – I Like to Keep Myself in Pain
10. Cat Power – Sun
11. Dr. John – Locked Down
12. Amy Stroup & Trent Dabbs – Sugar + the High-Lows
13. Bonnie Raitt – Slipstream
14. Best Coast – the Only Place
15. Howlin Rain – The Russian Wilds
16. Diamond Rugs – Diamond Rugs
17. Silversun Pickups – Neck of the Woods
18. Tennis – Young and Old
19. Norah Jones – Little Broken Hearts
20. Alejandro Escovedo – Big Station

Of course this is a work in progress and will be shifting like sand in a wind storm.

1. Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
2. Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
3. Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
4. Justin Townes Earle – Nothing’s Gonna Change the way You Feel About Me Now
5. Jack White – Blunderbuss
6. Todd Snider – Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
7. Dr. John – Locked Down
8. Amy Stroup & Trent Dabbs – Sugar + the High-Lows
9. Bonnie Raitt – Slipstream
10. Best Coast – the Only Place
11. Howlin Rain – The Russian Wilds
12. Diamond Rugs – Diamond Rugs
13. Silversun Pickups – Neck of the Woods
14. Tennis – Young and Old
15. Norah Jones – Little Broken Hearts