Our picks for Country-Americana Album of 2002:
1) Home by The Dixie Chicks
2) American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash
3) Jerusalem by Steve Earle
4) Blacklisted by Neko Case
5) Lovesick Broke and Driftin' by Hank Williams III
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Home
The Dixie Chicks aren't old enough to remember when radio programmed pop records next to country, rock, folk, and beyond, but their Texas DNA tells them that's the way music was meant to be heard. ...
American IV: The Man Comes Around
Jerusalem
Blacklisted
Article comments
1 - The Theory
o man... ralph stanley didn't make the list... there *is* injustice in the world after all.
peace.
2 - Al Barger
Having compiled the raw votes, I can tell you that Stanley's record was not mentioned on any ballot at all. Indeed, I have to confess to not having heard his album yet. This is a bad sin on my part, for which I will have to do penance.
3 - The Theory
haha. ouch. I didn't even vote for it, i guess...
bad bad Theory...
peace.
4 - Ron
I don't even know who does this, but I need to help spread the word on the incredible "Freedom's Child" by Billy Joe Shaver. An amazing "record" by one of the preeminent (and largely unknown) songwriters of the outlaw country/americana genre. The new record is an amazing mix of every form of country you've ever heard. Although "Home" is a great CD for the Chicks, "Freedom's Child" is far and away the best country CD of the year.