2009 Americana Music Association Top 100

A few surprises and a few expected entries.

By Blurt Staff

The Americana Music Association recently announced its year end Top 100 Albums of the Year - as expected, Buddy & Julie Miller and Steve Earle topped the chart, but among the surprises lurking in the Top 10 listings were Slaid Cleaves, the Tejas Brothers and Earle's kid Justin Townes Earle.

It's been a good year for Americana, and things will get even better next year, in a sense, when the Grammys formally recognize Americana as a bonafide musical genre rather than trying to shoehorn some of those types of artists into other categories.

The Top 100 albums are based on those records reported during the period of November 17, 2008 through November 16, 2009. (Note that a number of them also made the BLURT Top 50 for 2009.) The Top Ten most played albums, as charted on the Americana Airplay Chart are:

1. Buddy & Julie Miller

2. Steve Earle

3. Slaid Cleaves

4. Flatlanders

5. Willie Nelson and Asleep At The Wheel

6. Gourds

7. Tejas Brothers

8. Levon Helm

9. Justin Townes Earle

10. J.J.Cale

To view the full 2009 Top 100 Albums visit the www.americanaradio.org and click the Top 100 Albums link or click HERE.