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

Close calls:
  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

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