Best of 2011: Mr. Eck’s Top 10 Albums

Mr. Eck’s depressingly, even pathetically obvious, alphabetical-by-title list of Top 10 favorite records of 2011:

“Bad As Me” – Tom Waits
“The Goat Rodeo Sessions” – Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile
“The Harrow & The Harvest” – Gillian Welch
“I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive” – Steve Earle
“Old Brooklyn” – Andy Statman
“The Old Magic” – Nick Lowe
“Pull Up Some Dust & Sit Down” – Ry Cooder
“Reverie” – Joe Henry
“Sleep With One Eye Open” – Chris Thile & Michael Daves
“This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African American Gospel on 45 RPM, 1957-1982” –
Various artists

by Mr. Eck, Nippertown contributor

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