Post by Kim on Dec 26, 2011 10:30:54 GMT -5
Alison Krauss & Union Station's 2011 CD, Paper Airplane. Photo courtesy of Rounder Records.
Billboard.com has released their list of the Top 50 Bluegrass Albums of 2011. Albums were ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. Congratulations to Alison Krauss & Union Station for having the Top Bluegrass Album of the year with Paper Airplane! What do you think of this ranking? Who’d top YOUR Top 50 list? Leave us a comment below!
Paper Airplane – Alison Krauss & Union Station
Rare Bird Alert – Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers
Up On The Ridge – Dierks Bentley
The Goat Rodeo Sessions – Yo-Yo Ma/Stuart Duncan/Edgar Meyer/Chris Thile
Follow Me Down – Sarah Jarosz
The Grascals and Friends: Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin – The Grascals
Palomino – Trampled By Turtles
Bright Morning Stars – The Wailin’ Jennys
Genuine Negro Jigs – Carolina Chocolate Drops
Best of Bluegrass – Steve Ivey
Antifogmatic – Punch Brothers
City of Refuge – Abigail Washburn
Christmas – The Isaacs
Sleep With One Eye Open – Chris Thile & Michael Daves
Reckless – The SteelDrivers
Daybreak – Sierra Hull
Dailey & Vincent Sing The Statler Brothers – Dailey & Vincent
The Isaacs Naturally: An Almost A Cappella Collection – The Isaacs
Taken – Rhonda Vincent
Country Hits Bluegrass Style – Ricky Skaggs
Carolina Chocolate Drops/ Luminescent Orchestrii – Carolina Chocolate Drops/Luminescent Orchestrii
American Legacies – Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band
Legacy – Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band
Bluegrass Gospel – Steve Ivey
O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack – Various Artists
Best of Bluegrass – Steve Ivey
The Great Divide – Tommy Shaw
Bluegrass Christmas – Dr. Elmo
Mother’s Prayer – Ralph Stanley
Song Up In Her Head – Sarah Jarosz
Why Can’t We – The Isaacs
Stomp And Smash – The Devil Makes Three
Handguns – Greensky Bluegrass
Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail – Noam Pikelny
Sounds of Home – Blue Highway
Chicken & Egg – Tim O’Brien
Dance Til Your Stockings Are Hot and Ravelin’ – The Grascals
Live At The Mauch Chunk Opera House – The Wailin’ Jennys
Echo Boom – The Farewell Drifters
Guts N’ Teeth – Old Man Markley
Lonesome Whistle – The Roys
Reason and Rhyme: Bluegrass Songs By Robert Hunter & Jim Lauderdale – Jim Lauderdale
Tall Grass & Cool Water: Cowboy Songs – Michael Martin Murphy
The Heart of a Song – Junior Sisk & The Ramblers Choice
The Brick Album – The Greencards
An Appalachian Christmas – Mark O’Connor
Songs of the Grateful Dead – Jesse McReynolds & Friends with David Nelson & Stu Allen
Live At The Down Home – NewFound Road
A Skaggs Family Christmas – Ricky Skaggs
The All-Star Jam – Various Artists