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Here they are! The Top 89 of 2005 as voted on by our listeners!

WNKU Top 89 0f 2005

ARTIST

CD

1

Neil Young                              

Prairie Wind

2

Over The Rhine                       

Drunkard’s Prayer

3

Rodney Crowell                      

The Outsider

4

John Prine                               

Fair & Square

5

Beck                                       

Guero

6

Dar Williams                            

My Better Self

7

My Morning Jacket                 

Z

8

Son Volt                                  

Okemah and the Melody of Riot

9

Ray Lamontagne                      

Trouble                                               

10

James McMurtry                     

Childish Things

11

Coldplay                                 

X&Y

12

Death Cab for Cutie                

Plans

13

Alison Krauss                          

Lonely Runs Both Ways                      

14

U2                                          

How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

15

Jack Johnson                           

In Between Dreams

16

Mark Knopfler                        

Shagri-La                               

17

John Hiatt                                

Master of Disaster

18

Kasey Chambers                     

Wayward Angel 

19

Ben Harper/Blind Boys 

There Will Be A Light

20

Delbert McClinton                   

Cost of Living 

21

Madeleine Peyroux                  

Careless Love                                    

22

Bonnie Raitt                             

Souls Alike

23

Bruce Springsteen                    

Devils & Dust

24

Kate Bush                              

Aerial

25

Joss Stone                               

Mind, Body & Soul                 

26

Robert Earl Keen                    

What I Meant To Say 

27

North Mississippi Allsatars       

Electric Blue Watermelon

28

Wilco                                      

A Ghost is Born                                    

29

Nickel Creek                           

Why Should The Fire Die

30

The Duhks                               

The Duhks

31

Eric Clapton                            

Back Home

32

Susan Tedeschi                        

Hope & Desire

33

Amos Lee                               

Amos Lee

34

Van Morrison                         

Magic Time

35

Frances Dunnery                     

The Gulley Flats Boys

36

Ryan Adams                          

Cold Roses

37

Feist                                      

Let it Die

38

Fiona Apple

Extraordinary Machine

39

David Gray                              

Life in Slow Motion

40

Herbie Hancock                      

Possibilities

41

Ben Folds                                

Songs for Silverman

42

Tracy Grammer                       

Flower of Avalon

43

Mike Doughty             

Haughty Melodic

44

Eliza Gilkyson              

Paradise Hotel

45

Ryan Adams                        

Jacksonville City Nights

46

Kathleen Edwards                   

Back To Me

47

Chuck Prophet                        

Age of Miracles

48

Blind Boys of Alabama

Atom Bomb

49

Tori Amos                               

The Beekeeper

50

Mary Gautier

Mercy Now

51

Aimee Mann                            

The Forgotten Arm

52

Cowboy Junkies                      

Early 21st Century Blues

53

Ani Di Franco                          

Knuckle Down

54

Josh Rouse                              

Nashville 

55

Jamie Cullum                           

Catching Tales

56

Al Green                                 

Everything’s OK

57

Carrie Newcomer                    

Regulars and Refugees-

58

Calexico/Iron & Wine  

In the Reins

59

Mike Gordon/Leo Kottke        

Sixty Six Steps

60

B.B. King                                

80 Eighty

61

The Kentucky Struts

The Kentucky Struts

62

John Fogerty                           

Déjà Vu All Over Again                     

63

Blue Merle                             

Burning in the Sun

64

Catalogue Cowboys

American Roots Stew

65

Shemekia Copeland                  

The Soul Truth

66

Nanci Griffith                           

Hearts in Mind

67

Ellis Paul                                  

American Jukebox Fables

68

Jackie Greene                          

Sweet Somewhere Bound

69

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Howl

70

Jerry Douglas                          

Best Kept Secret

71

Bekah Williams

Bekah Williams

72

Eric Clapton-                          

Sessions for Robert J                          

73

Paul McCartney

Chaos & Creation in the Back Yard

74

Loudin Wainwright III  

Here Come the Choppers

75

The Kennedys             

Half A Million Miles

76

Solomon Burke                       

Make Do With What You Got

77

Amy Rigby                              

Little Fugitive

78

Tracy Chapman                      

Where You Live

79

Ry Cooder

Chavez Ravine

80

Sheryl Crow                            

Wildflower

81

Rilo Kiley                                

More Adventurous                 

82

Jeff Black                              

Tin Lily-

83

Rob Fetters

Musician

84

Bruce Hornsby                        

Halcyon Days                         

85

Shelby Lynne                                       Suit Yourself                        

86

Willie Nelson                           

It Will Always Be                    

87

R.E..M.                                   

Around The Sun                                 

88

Chris Thile                               

Deceiver                                 

89

Cheryl Wheeler                       

Defying Gravity

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