Here are my 25 favoriteds of 2008. Not too Audities a list.  There will be an associated blog post at http://apennysworth.blogspot.com/ in a day or so.

  1.. Cowboy Junkies, Trinity Revisited
  2.. Drive-By Truckers, Brighter Than Creation’s Dark 
  3.. Alejandro Escovedo, Real Animal
  4.. She and Him, Volume One
  5.. Jim Boggia, Misadventures in Stereo
  6.. Calexico, Carried to Dust
  7.. Mudcrutch, Mudcrutch
  8.. Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Volume 8: Telltale Signs
  9.. Gary Louris, Vagabonds
  10.. Lindsey Buckingham, Gift of Screws
  11.. BoDeans, Still
  12.. The Fireman, Electric Arguments
  13.. Lucinda Williams, Little Honey
  14.. Ani DiFranco, Red Letter Year
  15.. Todd Rundgren, Arena
  16.. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
  17.. Susan Tedeschi, Back to the River
  18.. Matthew Sweet, Sunshine Lies
  19.. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Cardinalogy:
  20.. Brian Wilson, Lucky Old Sun 
  21.. David Byrne and Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
  22.. John Mellencamp, Life, Death, Love and Freedom
  23.. B.B. King, One Kind Favor
  24.. Sheryl Crow, Detours
  25.. Ollabelle, Before This TIme