The Best Albums of 2006
The Top Albums of 2006
1) Bob Dylan - Modern Times
2) Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
3) T Bone Burnett - The True False Identity
4) Elton John - The Captain & The Kid
5) Willie Nelson - You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
6) Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
7) Ray LaMontagne - Till the Sun Turns Black
8) Neil Young - Living with War
9) Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
10) The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
11) Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
12) Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning
13) Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - The River in Reverse
14) Josh Rouse - Subtitulo
15) The Stills - Without Feathers
16) Beck - The Information
17) J.J. Cale & Eric Clapton - The Road to Escondido
18) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
19) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
20) The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love
21) Tom Petty - Highway Companion
22) Indigo Girls - Despite Our Differences
23) Ray Charles and the Count Basie Orchestra - Ray Sings, Basie Swings
24) Ramblin' Jack Elliott - I Stand Alone
25) Steve Wynn - ...tick...tick...tick
Best Boxed Sets (3 or More CDs/DVDs)
1) Johnny Cash - At San Quentin: Legacy Edition
2) Jerry Lee Lewis - A Half Century of Hits
3) Willie Nelson - The Complete Atlantic Sessions
4) Buddy Guy - Can't Quit the Blues
5) The Clash - The Singles
Best Reissues
1) Nina Simone - Forever Young, Gifted and Black: Songs of Freedom and Spirit
2) Santana - Santana III: Legacy Edition
3) Johnny Cash - Personal File
4) Pretenders - Pretenders: Deluxe Edition / Pretenders II: Deluxe Edition
5) Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
6) Roy Orbison - The Essential Roy Orbison/Sings Lonely and Blue/Crying/In Dreams
7) The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me [Deluxe Edition]/ The Head on the Door [Deluxe Edition]
8) T Bone Burnett - Twenty Twenty: The Essential T Bone Burnett
9) George Harrison - George Harrison - Living in the Material World
10) Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
Best Live Albums / DVDs
1) Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Hammersmith-Odeon, London '75
2) Neil Young - Live at the Fillmore East: March 6 & 7, 1970
3) Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar
4) Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Brotherman in the Fatherland
5) Neil Young - Neil Young: Heart of Gold
6) Peter Rowan - Crucial Country
7) Steve Goodman - Live at the Earl of Old Town
8) Railroad Earth - Elko
9) Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Real Live Roadrunning
Best Holiday Outings / Reissues / Compilations
1) Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
2) Various Artists - Putumayo Presents: New Orleans Christmas
3) James Taylor - At Christmas
Notable Enhanced Audio Releases
With the advent of DVD-Audio, SACD, and DualDisc technology, music
making — both past and present — has taken on a whole new dimension.
Classic efforts are being re-mixed and newer outings are being recorded
from an entirely different perspective. These are some of the most notable
reissues and releases of 2006.
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - The Hidden Land
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Talking Heads - Naked
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Music for Children
Justin Roberts - Meltdown!
Brady Rymer - Every Day Is a Birthday
Trout Fishing in America - My Best Day
Various Artists - Putumayo Kids Presents: New Orleans Playground
Books
Leonard Cohen - Book of Longing
Robert Greenfield - Timothy Leary: An Experimental Life
George Pelecanos - Drama City
George Pelecanos - The Night Gardener
Michael Walker - Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Legendary Neighborhood
Odds & Ends
The Be Good Tanyas - Hello Love
Lindsey Buckingham - Under the Skin
Solomon Burke - Nashville
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas
Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
Dion - Bronx in Blue
The Duhks - Migrations
Elbow -Leaders of the Free World
Gob Iron - Death Songs for the Living
Gov't Mule - High & Mighty
Sarah Harmer - I Am a Mountain
Hem - Funnel Cloud
James Hunter - People Gonna Talk
Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire
Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man Standing
Branford Marsalis - Braggtown
John Mayer - Continuum
Paul McCartney - Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart)
Eliot Morris - What's Mine Is Yours
The M's - Future Women
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Michael Powers - Prodigal Son
Damien Rice - 9
Chris Smither - Leave the Light On
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
The Who - Endless Wire
Widespread Panic - Earth to America
Cassandra Wilson - Thunderbird
Zero 7 - The Garden
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