Friday, December 24, 2010

Best of 2010

Coloradoan Top Bands of 2010

2010 was a good year for music in Colorado. Just take a look at this list of albums put out by homegrown artists and bands this year.

Americana/Bluegrass/Jam

Blue Canyon Boys, "Mountain Bound"

Boulder Acoustic Society, "Champion of Disaster"

Chris McGarry, "And the Weary Eyes Reply"

Grant Gordy, "Grant Gordy"

Great American Taxi, "Reckless Habits"

Haunted Windchimes, "Honey Moonshine"

Hollyfelds, "Lo Bueno, Lo Mao, Lo Feo"

Lonesome Traveler, "Looking for a Way"

Loose Cannon Bluegrass, "Loose Cannon Bluegrass"

Mile Markers, "Take to the Road"

Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore, "Saints & Sinners"

Nathaniel Rateliff, "In Memory of Loss"

Paper Bird, "When the River Took Flight"

Sean Hunting Morse, "Lines from Someplace"

Sweet Sunny South, "Carried Off By a Twister"

David Williams & the Wildgrass Band featuring Kristina Murray, "The Crazy Kind"

WhiteWater Ramble, "All Night Drive"




Mad Mackerel’s 2010 Top Ten Series: No 8, Mrs Mackerel

Here at MM we share, chat, argue, bury and praise music on a pretty regular basis…like daily. So throughout the year, the Mackerel crew (Mrs Mackerel, Barry-Sean, Christy-Popper, Dr Roddy, Polly Pocket, Starbar, MM and others) keep their own ever-changing top tens ready for publication at the climax of the festive season.

So last, but very much not least, is the lovely (though flu-stricken) Mrs Mackerel and her choices for 2010.

4. Haunted Windchimes – Sea Bride (Visit their website here. We can’t post the song or find a stream or a video….)

I loathe wind-chimes. Pointless instruments of aural torture. But once I got past the name, well this is a finger-pickin’ good tune. One of my outstanding films of 2010 wasWinter’s Bone and there’s a scene in it where a hill-billy Nan and her mates are sat round in what looks like someone’s front room/bar. What they make is real music for the soul. I could imagine the Haunted Windchimes pulling up a chair and being right at home – and I mean this musically, not in an in-bred, gun-toting sort of way (she adds hastily).


Mad Mackerel’s favorite albums of 2010

So after much deliberation, head scratching, discussion, and more head scratching, we have MM’s favourite albums of 2010. And we choose our words very carefully here, because we would not presume them to be the best, only those that have given us the most pleasure and enjoyment, records that we have returned to again and

24. Haunted Windchimes – Honey Moonshine


Traditional, old-timey backwoods, backporch music that burrowed its way into your head and then refused to budge.

Download The Haunted Windchimes – Don’t Take My Baby Away (Baby Back) mp3

http://madmackerel.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/mad-mackerels-albums-of-the-year/

KRCC'S BEST OF 2010

Top 10 List for the Grass Roots Revival for 2010:

  1. Infamous Stringdusters, Things That Fly (April 2010 Sugar Hill) (10)
  2. Darrell Scott, A Crooked Road (May 2010 Full Light) (9)
  3. The Haunted Windchimes, Honey Moonshine (June 2010 Blank Tape) (8)
  4. Keller & the Keels, Thief (5/2010 SCI Fidelity) (7)
  5. John Hiatt, The Open Road (March 2010 New West) (7)
  6. Crazy Heart, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (January 2010, New West) (7)
  7. Roy Schneider, Erleichda (May 2010 Shiny Gnu) (6)
  8. Crooked Still, Some Strange Country (May 2010 Signature Sounds) (6)
  9. Head for the Hills, Head for the Hills (2010, Self) (6)
  10. Nora Jane Struthers, Nora Jane Struthers (June 2010 Self) (6)

The last number in parentheses indicates the number of spins on the Revival this year.

http://www.krcc.org/top2010.php



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