5ft High & Rising for Saturday, 1 January 2011

5ft High & Rising : Playlist for Saturday, 1 January 2011

A Selection of the Best Alt-Country Tunes 1989-2009

Artist | Track/Song Name | Album Title | Label/Distibutor | Comments

1 richmond fontaine | twyla | winnemucca | el cortez

2 gillian welch | april the 14th part one | time (the revalator) | acony
3 todd snider | waco moon | near truths & hotel rooms live | oh boy
4 iron and wine | bird stealing bread | our endless numbered days | sub pop
5 josh ritter | snow is gone | hello starling | v2

6 pines | wishing well waltz | pines | trailer
7 freakwater | South of Cincinnati | rough trade shops:country vol.1 rough trade
8 sun kil moon | carry me ohio | ghosts of the great highway | caldo verde

9 songs ohia | farwell transmission | magnolia electric co | secretly canadian |
10 my morning jacket | at dawn | at dawn | daarla
11 whiskeytown | avenues | strangers almanac | geffen
12 richard buckner | blue and wonder | bloomed |

13 mazzy star | fade into you | so tonight that I might see | capitol
14 calexico | sunken waltz | feast of wire | spunk
15 ryan adams | dear chicago | demolition | lost highway

16 wilco | sunken treasure | being there | reprise
17 blue mountain | blue canoe | omnibus | broadmoor
18 richmond fontaine | always on the ride | post to wire | el cortez
19 lucinda williams | I lost it | car wheels on a gravel road | mercury

20 beck | asshole | one foot in the grave | k records
21 neko case | people gotta a lot of nerve | middle cyclone | anti
22 bellwether | afterthoughts | home late | rust belt
23 jay farrar | outside the door | sebastopol | artemis

24 golden smog | radio king | down by the old mainstream | ryko
25 blitzen trapper | wild mountain nation | wild mountain nation | lidkercow
26 original harmony ridge creek dippers | owens valley day | pacific coast rambler | koch
27 felice brothers | frankie's gun | felice brothers | spunk

28 pavement | father to a sister of thought | wowee zowee | matador
29 old 97's | wish the worst | hitch hike to rhome | big iron
30 slobberbone | I can tell your love is waning | crow pot pie | new west
31 lucero | that much further west | that much further west | rogue

32 jayhawks | settled down like rain | hollywood town hall | american
33 son volt | down | trace | sony
34 wrinkle neck blues | bottomland | the wicks has met | lower 40

35 steve earle | tanneytown | el corazon | warner
36 uncle tupelo | graveyard shift | no depression | legacy
37 replacements | achin to be | don't tell a soul | sire
38 drive by truckers | self destructive zones | brighter than creations dark | new west