Before podcasts took over much of my time, my goal every year was to rank 100 albums a year. I have not come close to that the last 2-3 years, usually finishing around 50. Well, I got to 101 this year. Thanks Covid.

I’m going to split up my list this year into a few different posts, as I’m calling what I have so far my final list, but haven’t started writing anything up. For the first entry, I’m simply listing my albums 51-100. I plan to write a little more as I get higher on the list.

The ratings to the right are an average rating (1-10) of each track, for the album. My bell curve is fat in that 5.5 range, as I don’t give anything that isn’t I’ve Gotta Feeling one star and 9-10s are super rare as well. Only a few a year. For these, I’m simply going by that rating, not moving anything around arbitrarily. I tend to do that later in the list.

51	The War and Treaty	Hearts Town	5.58
52	Dawes	Good Luck With Whatever	5.56
53	Caylee Hammack	If It Wasn’t For You	5.54
54	Sadler Vaden	Anybody Out There?	5.5
55	Bob Dylan	Rough and Rowdy Ways	5.5
56	Dion	Blues With Friends	5.5
57	Nicholas Jamerson	Wild Frontier	5.5
58	Cordovas	Destiny Hotel	5.5
59	Brian Fallon	Local Honey	5.5
60	Fruition	Broken at the Break Of Day	5.43
61	Lucinda Williams	Good Souls Better Angles	5.42
62	Shemekia Copeland	Uncivil War	5.42
63	Eminem	Music To Be Murdered By	5.41
64	David Ramirez	My Love Is A Hurricane	5.4
65	The Allman Betts Band	Bless Your Heart	5.38
66	R.A. The Rugged Man	All My Heroes Are Dead	5.37
67	Jamie Wyatt	Neon Cross	5.36
68	Lilly Hiatt	Walking Proof	5.36
69	Aubrie Sellers	Far From Home	5.33
70	Zephaniah O’Hora	Listening To Music	5.33
71	Pokey LaFarge	Rock Bottom Rhapsody	5.3
72	Megan Thee Stallion	Good News	5.23
73	Giovannie and the Hired Guns	Giovannie and the Hired Guns	5.2
74	Maceo Parker	Soul Food: Cooking With Maceo	5.2
75	Corb Lund	Agricultural Tragic	5.16
76	Koe Wetzel	Sellout	5.09
77	Waylon Payne	Blue Eyes…	5.08
78	John Craigie	Asterisks The World	5
79	Karen Jonas	The Southwest Sky and other Dreams	5
80	Brennen Leigh	Prairie Love Lettter	5
81	Jay Electronica	A Written Testimony	5
82	The Chicks	Gaslighter	4.92
83	The Nude Party	Midnight Manor	4.92
84	Robert Cray	That’s What I Heard	4.92
85	Pinegrove	Marigold	4.9
86	The Jayhawks	Xoxo	4.83
87	Teddy Thompson	Heartbreaker Please	4.8
88	Josh Ritter	See Here, I Have Built You a Mansion	4.75
89	Twisted Pine	Right Now	4.7
90	Nathaniel Rateliff	And It’s Still Arlight	4.7
91	Joe Ely	Love In The Midst Of Mayhem	4.7
92	Justin Wells	The United State	4.7
93	Joachim Cooder	Over That Road I’m Bound	4.67
94	Kodak Black	Bill Israel	4.64
95	Sierra Hull	25 Trips	4.58
96	Muscadine Bloodlines	Burn it at Both Ends	4.55
97	Sarah Jaroz	World On The Ground	4.5
98	Courtney Marie Andrews	Old Flowers	4.5
99	John Calvin Abney	Familiar Ground	4.44
100	Paul McCartney	McCartney III	4
101	Mipso	Mipso	3.83