ALBUMS (10 each)
1. Uncle Earl - Waterloo, Tennessee
2. Mike Seeger - Early Southern Guitar Sounds
3. v/a - Old Time Banjo Festival
4. Erynn Marshall and Chris Coole - Meet Me in the Music
5. Judy Cook - Tenting Tonight: Songs of the Civil War
6. Charlie Louvin - Charlie Louvin
7. Cheick Hamala Diabate and Bob Carlin - From Mali to America
8. Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water Is Life
9. Bettye LaVette - The Scene of the Crime
10. Ge Gan-ru - Lost Style

TRACKS
1. Battles - Atlas
2. Charlie Louvin - Ira
3. Judy Cook - Lorena
4. Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races
5. Bettye LaVette - Before the Money Came (The Battle of Bettye LaVette)
6. Frank Su Huang - Yi Feng (Lost Style)
7. Margaret Leng Tan - Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!
8. Nick Gallant, Scott Dugdale, Rich Elkerton (and myself) - Surrender (from Guitar Hero II)
9. Uncle Earl - Wish I Had My Time Again
10. Notorious MSG - Chinatown Hustler

REISSUES
1. v/a - People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938
2. Forward Kwenda - Svikiro: Meditations from an Mbira Master
3. Loretta Kelley - AmerikaSpel
4. Eck Robertson - Old-Time Texas Fiddler: Vintage Recordings, 1922-1929
5. Frank Stokes - The Best of Frank Stokes: Classic Recordings of the 1920s

ARTISTS
1. Finding a real job
2. Learning to play some goddamn instruments myself
3. Letting magazine subscriptions run out
4. Ignoring blogs
5. Listening to all the shit I've already got

COMMENTS
Re: Reissues—You may care if it's new product; I don't. Some of my favorite music this year came from discs that were out of print or overlooked or simply dredged up from my stacks, having been insufficiently attended to in the past. For me, they might as well be reissues.

Re: Artist votes—you said trends were allowed.