The Best Albums of 2002
This page last updated on February 6, 2003.
The Top 10 Albums of 2002
1) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2) Los Lobos - Good Morning Aztlán
3) Midnight Oil - Capricornia
4) Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home
5) Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me
6) George Harrison - Brainwashed
7) Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
8) Tom Petty - The Last DJ
9) Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
10) Kodo (w/ Mickey Hart) - Mondo Head
Reissues and Live Albums
1) Grateful Dead - Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead
2) Bob Dylan - Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue
3) Simon & Garfunkel - Live from New York City, 1967
4) Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks, Volume 24
5) Townes Van Zandt - Live at The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas
6) Johnny Cash - At Madison Square Garden
7) Grateful Dead - Go to Nassau
8) Grateful Dead - View from the Vault III
9) Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men - Out in California
10) Hot Rize - So Long of a Journey
The Best of the Rest
These releases may not be the cream of the crop for 2002, but each is remarkable in its own right — be they intriguing debuts, welcome returns, fond farewells, brilliant tributes, stunning leaps forward, or just good efforts from consistently creative artists.
David Bowie - Heathen
Guy Clark - The Dark
Steve Earle - Jerusalem
Peter Gabriel - Up
David Gray - A New Day at Midnight
Rodney Hayden - The Real Thing
Christine Kane - Rain and Mud and Wild and Green
Jorma Kaukonen - Blue Country Heart
Will Kimbrough - Home Away
James McMurtry - Saint Mary of the Woods
Tift Merritt - Bramble Rose
Ramsay Midwood - Shoot Out at the OK Chinese Restaurant
Van Morrison - Down the Road
Nickel Creek - This Side
Old & in the Gray - Old & in the Gray
Phantom Planet - The Guest
Peter Wolf - Sleepless
Warren Zevon -
My Ride's Here
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