Best Folk Music of 2008?

November 26, 2008

It's that time of year to reflect back on all the great music released in 2008, and to compile our annual "Best Of" lists. We'll be posting our individual Folk Alley staff picks on the website soon, but this is the place for you - the Folk Alley audience - to tell us your favorite new CDs released in '08 (so far), your favorite new musical discoveries (e.g. new artists or bands that you recently discovered,) or how about your favorite new songs of the year?

Please add your favorites for 2008 below, and help us build our Best of 2008 Side Stream that will be available on-demand at the end of December and through the month of January.

Let's hear 'em!

To help refresh your memory, see below for a list of (most of) the new music added to Folk Alley in 2008..

Blue Highway - Through the Window of a Train
Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience - Live! World Wide
Beth Nielsen Chapman - Prism: The Human Family Songbook
Heidi Talbot - In Love & Light
Ray Bonneville - Goin' by Feel
Polecat Creek - Ordinary Seasons
Angel Band - Beautiful Noise
Carrie Newcomer - The Geography of Light
Blowzabella - Octomento
Dave Rice and His Old Time Cronies - Ned Went A'Fishin'
Meg Hutchinson - Come Up Full
Outlaw Social - Dry Bones
Caroline Herring - Lantana
Belleville Outfit - Wanderin'
Kym Tuvim - Nothing Sweet Nothing
Brooks Williams - The Time I Spend with You
Anna Wolfe - My Treasure
Shotgun Party - Shotgun Party
NewFound Road - Life in a Song
Dixie Bee-Liners - Ripe
Sally Barris - Restless Soul
Tret Fure - True Compass
Lily Wilson - Stargazer
Mando Saenz - Bucket
Punch Brothers - Punch
Kate Rusby - Awkward Annie
Erica Wheeler - Good Summer Rain
The Avett Brothers - Mignonette
Allison Moorer - Mocking Bird
Mae Robertson - Meet the Sun Halfway
The Weepies - Hideaway
Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic, Vol. 2
David Wilcox - Airstream
Tim O'Brien - Chameleon
Kensington Prairie - Captured in Still Life
The Gibson Brothers - Iron & Diamonds
Brian Henke - Tree of Life
The Waybacks - Loaded
Fayssoux McLean - Early
The Waifs - sundirtwater
The Bobs - Get your Monkey off my Dog
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder - Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947
Kathy Mattea - Coal
Karan Casey - Ships in the Forest
Dave Cousins - Secret Paths
Lindsay Mac - Small Revolution
Steve Dawson - Waiting for the Lights to Come Up
Shannon Wurst - Sunday Pie
Cara Luft - The Light Fantastic
Shawn Mullins - Honeydew
Eric Bibb - Get Onboard
Mozaik - Changing Trains
Victoria Vox - Chameleon
Van Morrison - Keep it Simple
Oliver Schroer - Hymns and Hers
Old Man Luedecke - Proof of Love
Lissa Schneckenburger - Song
Steppin' In It - Simple Tunes for Troubled Times
Capercaillie - Roses and Tears
Willie Nelson - Moment of Forever
Andy Cohen - Ridiculous Instrumentals
Railroad Earth - Amen Corner
Corbet/Chrisman/Tice - Early
Sirens - Look Up
John McCutcheon - Sermon on the Mound
The Wilders - Someone's Got to Pay
Robert Bowlin - Six String Soliloquy
Sarah Sample - Never Close Enough
The Biscuit Burners - Take Me Home
Terence Martin - Even Trade
South Austin Jug Band - Strange Invitation
Spring Creek - Lonesome Way To Go
Joe Crookston - Able Baker Charlie and Dog
Joel Rafael - Thirteen Stories High
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet - Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet
Crooked Still - Still Crooked
We're About 9 - Paperdust::Stardust
Kerfuffle - To the Ground
Pat Wictor - Sunset Waltz
Joe Cocker - Hymn For My Soul
The Stairwell Sisters - Get Off Your Money
Guy Forsyth - Calico Girl
Eliza Gilkyson - Beautiful World
Wayne Henderson - Made & Played
Ellis Paul - The Dragonfly Races
Blue Line Highway - A Perfect Curve
Amy Meyers - Lucky
Angel Band - With Roots & Wings
Colin Meloy - Colin Meloy Sings Live!
Jack Williams - Don't Let Go!
Jann Klose - Reverie
The Infamous Stringdusters - The Infamous Stringdusters
Maddy Prior - Seven for Old England
Lau - Lau Live
Christine Albert - Paris, TexaFrance
Jayme Stone - The Utmost
Joe Ely & Joel Guzman - Live Cactus!
Longview - Deep in the Mountains
Rachael Davis - Antebellum Queens
Chatham County Line - IV
Railroad Earth - Amen Corner
Cara - In Between Times
Natalia Zuckerman - Brand New Frame
Kort McCumber - Lickskillet Road
Breabach - Big Spree
Aidan O'Rourke - Sirius
The Brass Kings - Washboard Rope Guitar
The Belle Epoque Ensemble - havona Shores
Anne, Robbin & Holly - A Thistledown Nest
Willie Nelson / Wynton Marsalis - Two Men With The Blues
Kimmie Rhodes - Walls Fall Down
Peter Siegel - Living in Rome
The Horse Flies - Until the Ocean
Emmylou Harris - All I Intended to Be
Conjunto Jardin - Yerba Buena
Meatyard - Toot Toot Boom Boom
Kristin Andreassen - Kiss Me Hello
Red Molly - Love and Other Tragedies
Robby Hecht - Late Last Night
Kaiser Cartel - March Forth
Greg Greenway - Standing on the Side of Love
Greg Laswell - Three Flights From Alto Nido
Michael Doucet - From Now On
Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life
Moving Hearts - Live in Dublin
Blue Moon Rising - One Lonely Shadow
Various - Putumayo Presents: Quebec
Feufollet - Cow Island Hop
The Duhks - Fast Paced World
Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
John Mellencamp - Life Death Love and Freedom
Various - 10 Years of European World of Bluegrass
Solas - For Love and Laughter
Dana & Susan Robinson - 'Round My Door
Jonathan Byrd - The Law and the Lonesome
Rusty Truck - Luck's Changing Lanes
Vance Gilbert - Up on Rockfield
TrioTresca - Umpa Umpa: Balli E Canzi Tradiz
Hal Ketchum - Father Time
Pete Kennedy - Guitarslinger
Darrell Scott - Modern Hymns
Cephas & Wiggins - Richmond Blues
Bread and Bones - I Know Stories
Cadillac Sky - Gravity's Our Enemy
Johnny Flynn - A Larum
Sloan Wainwright - Rediscovery
Ferron - Boulder
Pitch the Peat - Far From Home
Donna the Buffalo - Silverlined
Drew Emmitt - Long Road
Vasen - Live in Japan
Band'o - Huu
Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson - Rattlin' Bones
Joan Baez - Day After Tomorrow
Kitty Donohoe - Northern Border
Lynne Hanson - Eleven Months
Mark Erelli - Delivered
Anne McCue - East of Electric
Putumayo - Acoustic France
Susan Gibson - New Dog Old Tricks
Catie Curtis - Sweet Life
Donal Hinely - Blue State Boy
Ashley Brooke Toussant - All Songs in English
Fotheringay - 2
The Gordons - Time Will Tell Our Story
Lowen and Navarro - Learning to Fall
Robin Williamson - Journey's Edge
Celeste Krenz - My Mother and Me
Al Stewart - Sparks of Ancient Light
Dar Williams - Promised Land
Jonatha Brooke - The Works
Pete Seeger - At 89
Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher
Steve Dawson - Telescope
Cherryholmes - III: Don't Believe
Tony Rice - NIght Flyer
Robin and Linda Williams - Buena Vista
Chris Stuart and Backcountry - Crooked Man