WNCW listeners vote Avett Brothers’ ‘Second Gleam’ CD best of 2008

Jason Sandford

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Here’s the link to WNCW’s annual list of the top 100 CDs of the year. The Avett Brother’s Second Gleam topped the list. Congratulations! To me, the record is a wonderfully quiet reflection.

Other records on the list really struck me this year. I love the Fleet Foxes record; I saw Abigail Washburn for the first time at AMJam and was so impressed that I ran out and bought her music; James McMurtry scares me, in a good way; I saw BB King at the Biltmore Estate Summer Concert Series and was awed to be in his very presence; Dehlia Low is getting noticed, but Ashvegas noticed first!; and Emmylou’s voice is truly the voice of an angel. 

Here’s the top 20:

1       Avett Brothers – The Second Gleam      

2       Bob Dylan – Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 

3       Old Crow Medicine Show – Tennessee Pusher      

4       Drive By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark      

5       Wood Brothers – Loaded 

6       Lucinda Williams – Little Honey

7       James McMurtry – Just Us Kids  

8       Alejandro Escovedo – Real Animal       

9       Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal      

10      Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet – (self-titled) 

11      B.B. King – One Kind Favor     

12      Belleville Outfit – Wanderin’  

13      My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges 

14      Tyler Ramsey – A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea      

15      Al Green – Lay it Down 

16      Dehlia Low – Dehlia Low

17      Emmylou Harris – All I Intended to Be  

18      Beck – Modern Guilt    

19      Aimee Mann – @#%&*! Smilers    

20      Donna the Buffalo – Silverlined