I recently posted some comments on my year in music with a listing of top ten favorites (both new music and reissues/covers/live) cds released in 2009.
For years I’ve been making mix tapes of favorite tunes from my favorite albums of the year, here is my playlist of new music favorites from 2009:
E. Wayne’s Faves of 2009 (New Music)
(Track, Artist, Album)
- Trashed Aricraft Baby, Boston Spaceships, Zero To 99
- Party Time, Iggy Pop, Préliminaires
- Scumbag Blues, Them Crooked Vultures, Them Crooked Vultures
- What We Know, Sonic Youth, The Eternal
- You Never Know, Wilco, Wilco (The Album)
- We Let Her Down, Chris Isaak, Mr. Lucky
- Never Had Nobody Like You (Featuring Zooey Deschanel), M. Ward, Hold Time
- Move Along Train, Levon Helm, Electric Dirt
- Like A Train, Paul Burch, Still Your Man
- Say Please, Monsters of Folk, Monsters of Folk
- Avalon Or Someone Very Similar, Yo La Tengo, Popular Songs
- This Tornado Loves You, Neko Case, Middle Cyclone
- All of My Days and All of My Days Off, A.C. Newman, Get Guilty
- Looking Out, Brandi Carlile, Give Up the Ghost
- Someone Told Me, Marshall Crenshaw, Jaggedland
- Beyond Here Lies Nothin’, Bob Dylan, Together Through Life
- Sounds Like the Devil, Shemekia Copeland, Never Going Back
- Back Where I Started, Derek Trucks Band, Already Free
- Dearest Foresaken, Iron & Wine, Around the Well
- Where The Sun Don’t Shine, J. J. Cale, Roll On
- Fork In The Road, Neil Young, Fork In The Road