I heard a lot of new (to me) music this year but most of it was pre-2006.  753 trades on lala.com kept me busy discovering many things, including Looper, Chris Whitley, John Southworth, Mel Torme, and so on.

However, I did have time for new music as well (often thanks to the wisdom of this list):

In order:

1. Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac a classic I will play for years to come.
2. John Southworth - Yosemite
3. Belle & Sebastien - Life Pursuit
4. Cloud Eleven - Sweet Happy Life
5. Linus of Hollywood - Triangle
6. Sparks - Hello Young Lovers
7. Neko Case - Fox Confessor
8. Steve Lawson - Behind Every Word (brilliant UK solo bass & looper - he is at the LP1 booth at NAMM this week)
9. Minus 5 - Minus 5
10. Racontuers - Broken Boy Soldiers (big disappointment at first but returned to CD late in year and it grew on me)
11. Golden Smog - Another Fine Day
12. Scott Walker - Drift
13. Josh Rouse - Subtitlo
14. Paul Simon - Surprise
15. Glass/Reich - Music 4 Hands
16. The Sleepy Jackson - Personality
17. William Orbit - Hello Waveforms
18. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
19. Rhett Miller - The Believer
20. Beth Orton - Copmfort of Strangers