The folks who work on our site, edit the interviews, along with Betty list their favorite live performances and albums of last year.

Our contributors' lists appear on their individual pages. An eclectic mix of 15 artists are included under “Albums” and “Concerts” in no particular order...

Albums:

Neko Case - “Middle Cyclone”

Wilco - “Wilco The Album”

Ingrid Michaelson - “Everybody”

David Gray - “Draw The Line”

Muse - “The Resistance”

Gomez - “A New Tide”

Dirty Projectors - “Bitte Orca”

Shawn Colvin - “Live”

Shemekia Copeland - “Never Going Back”

Derek Trucks Band - “Already Free”

Jay-Z - “The Blueprint 3”

Monsters of Folk - “Monsters of Folk”

Mayer Hawthorne - “A Strange Arrangement”

Brandi Carlile - “Give Up The Ghost”

Nanci Griffith - “The Loving Kind”

Concerts:

“Three Girls and Their Buddy” - Featuring: Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, and Buddy Miller

Tracy Chapman

Leonard Cohen

Indigo Girls

Joan Osborne and The Holmes Brothers

Mary J Blige

Grace Potter and The Nocturnals

Idina Menzel

Ani DiFranco

Carole King

Alicia Keys

P!nk

Ray LaMontagne

Wilco

Neko Case