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Highest Rated Albums of 2009

Year

2009
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1. Mirah - (a)spera

March 10, 2009

Folk

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100

2. Lucero - 1372 Overton Park

October 6, 2009

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3. Daniel Johnston - Is and Always Was

October 6, 2009

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4. Various Artists - Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets: 1965–1968

September 22, 2009

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5. Castanets - Texas Rose, the Thaw, and the Beasts

September 22, 2009

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6. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

May 15, 2009

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7. Alela Diane - To Be Still

February 17, 2009

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8. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

January 20, 2009

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9. The Slits - Trapped Animal

October 20, 2009

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10. Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence

October 20, 2009

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11. Harper Simon - Harper Simon

October 13, 2009

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12. Grant-Lee Phillips - Little Moon

October 13, 2009

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13. Built to Spill - There is No Enemy

October 6, 2009

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14. The Dutchess and the Duke - Sunset/Sunrise

October 6, 2009

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15. Kris Kristofferson - Closer to the Bone

September 29, 2009

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16. The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love

September 22, 2009

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17. Joe Henry - Blood from Stars

August 18, 2009

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18. Ramona Falls - Intuit

August 18, 2009

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19. Son Volt - American Central Dust

July 7, 2009

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20. The Jayhawks - Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology

July 6, 2009

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21. Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (and other love songs)

June 23, 2009

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22. Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses - Roadhouse Sun

June 2, 2009

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23. St. Vincent - Actor

May 5, 2009

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24. The Disciplines - Smoking Kills

April 28, 2009

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25. Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care

April 7, 2009

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NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings American Songwriter awarded albums throughout 2009.

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