Best Country Albums of 2010: The Boot

Erin Duvall and the folks at country music website The Boot offer up their choices for the best country albums of 2010:

1. Dierks Bentley’s “Up on the Ridge”
2. Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now”
3. The Zac Brown Band’s “You Get What You Give”
4. Darius Rucker’s “‘Charleston, SC 1966”
5. Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now”
6. Jamey Johnson’s “The Guitar Song”
7. The Band Perry’s “The Band Perry”
8. Jerrod Niemann’s “Judge Jerrod and the Hung Jury”
9. Blake Shelton’s “All About Tonight”
10. Josh Turner’s “Haywire”

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THE 2010 LIST OF LISTS:
Best Albums of the Year: WEXT’s Chris Wienk
Best TV Music Moments of the Year: Treble
Best Book Covers of the Year: The L Magazine
Best Folk Albums of the Year: About.com Guide
Best Albums of the Year: We Are Not a Rock Band
Best Movies of the Year: Christian Science Monitor
Best Television Shows of the Year: Channel Surfing
Best Concerts of the Year: Nippertown’s Andrzej Pilarczyk
Best Music Videos of the Year: IFC
Best Books of the Year: The New York Times Book Review
Best Live Acts of the Year: Paste Magazine
Best Poetry Books of the Year: Dan Chiasson of The New Yorker
Best Albums of the Year: Andy Maroney
Best Movie Titles of the Year That Sounded Like Porn, But, Alas, Were Not Porn: Movieline
Best DVDs of the Year: Rolling Stone
Best Albums of the Year: NME
Best Fiction of the Year: Salon
Best Jazz Albums of the Year: A Blog Supreme
Best Albums of the Year: Tim Livingston
Best Albums of the Year: Filter Magazine
Best Albums of the Year: Mojo Magazine