Best of 2011: Greg Haymes’ Top 13 Most-Listened-To Albums

I’m not saying that these were the best albums of the year. But they were the ones that I found myself returning to again and again and again:

13. Laura Marling’s “A Creature I Don’t Know” (Virgin)
12. Joe Ely’s “Satisfied at Last” (Rack’em)
11. Tom Waits’ “Bad as Me” (Anti-)
10. Alison Krauss & Union Station’s “Paper Airplane” (Rounder)
9. Abigail Washburn’s “City of Refuge” (Foreign Children)
8. Gillian Welch’s “The Harrow & the Harvest” (Acony)
7. Gretchen Parlato’s “The Lost and Found” (ObliqSound)
6. James Blake’s “James Blake” (Universal Republic)
5. Wilco’s “The Whole Love” (dBpm)
4. Lindsey Buckingham’s “Seeds We Sow” (Mind Kit)
3. Ry Cooder’s “Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down” (Nonesuch)
2. Glen Campbell’s “Ghost on the Canvas” (Surfdog)
1. Willy DeVille’s “The Best of Willy DeVille: Come a Little Bit Closer” (Eagle)

by Greg Haymes, Nippertown writer-editor

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