Ditto.  The Spade is the best album of the year that would have sounded great on the radio in 1978, which is why it would never get played anywhere today.  Definitely in my Top 10.


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 From: Steve <toddfan@comcast.net>
To: audities@smoe.org 
Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2012 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: Favorites of 2011
 
I absolutely love Butch Walker...once you see him "live", you have no choice
other than to become "converted"!
(Too much rock for one hand....!)

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From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Rundman
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 6:34 PM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Favorites of 2011

Hey Auditeers,

Here's my list of favorite albums of 2011. I remember a few years ago  
I was buying and enjoying so many records it was tough to edit down my  
Best of the Year lists to only 10.
In the past few years, though, I've had a hard time coming up with 10  
new releases that I really liked.

Anyway...

Here's my 2011 favorites list:

1. BUTCH WALKER: The Spade
2. THE RAINMAKERS: 25 On
3. FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE: Sky Full of Holes
4. BRUCE COCKBURN: Small Source of Comfort
5. CIVIL WARS: Barton Hollow

This was the year I discovered BLEU: Four, which I think is from 2010,  
and was easily my most-listened-to album of the year.

Happy 2012!

Jonathan Rundman
http://www.jonathanrundman.com