The older I get the more behind I seem to get.  Meaning, I could do a better
top 20 for 2005 (or maybe 2004 - finally got the Barn Burners in 2006) than
I can do top 20 for 2006 - still so many albums to be digested or to be
heard for the first time.  That said, I am sure that the following will be
on my list of the top albums of 2006, whenever I create the list:

Willie Nile - Streets of New York
Scott Miller - Citation
Rhett Miller - the Believer
Bill Lloyd - Horizontal Hold
Chris Brown - Now That Your Fed
Bob Dylan - Modern Times

I am also pretty sure I would include Pernice Brothers, Winnerys and the
Format.

Biggest Disappoint Will Kimbrough's Amercanitis - I love all his previous
recordings, but polemics usually with rare exceptions don't make for great
albums.

Bill