WFHB FireHouse Broadcasting

~ determined by the airplay selections of WFHB's volunteer DJs

Jim Manion, Music Programming Director
Compiled by Steve Volan

WFHB Top 100 of 2009
artist / album title / label

TOP 10
 1. Eilen Jewell / Sea of Tears / Signature Sounds
 2. Neko Case / Middle Cyclone / Anti-
 3. Amadou & Mariam / Welcome to Mali / Because/Nonesuch
 4. JJ Cale / Roll On / Rounder
 5. Andrew Bird / Noble Beast / Fat Possum
 6. Steve Earle / Townes / New West
 7. Booker T. / Potato Hole / Anti-
 8. Early Day Miners / The Treatment / Secretly Canadian
 9. M. Ward / Hold Time / Merge
10. A.A. Bondy / When the Devil’s Loose / Fat Possum

THE REST
11. Cotton Jones / Paranoid Cocoon / Suicide Squeeze
12. Wilco / (the album) / Nonesuch
13. Monsters of Folk / Monsters of Folk / Shangri-La
14. Phosphorescent / To Willie / Dead Oceans
15. Buddy & Julie Miller / Written In Chalk / New West
16. Jill Sobule / California Years / Pinko
17. Grizzly Bear / Veckatimist / Warp
18. Susan Tedeschi / Back to the River / Verve
19. Baaba Maal / Television / Palm Pictures
20. Magnolia Electric Co / Josephine / Secretly Canadian
21. Caroline Peyton / Mock Up / */Numero Group
22. Sam Baker / Cotton / Music Road
23. Joe Henry / Blood from Stars / Anti-
24. Gentleman Caller / vs. the Elephant / Musical Family Tree
25. Bottle Rockets / Lean Forward / Bloodshot
26. Sarah Jarosz / Song Up In Her Head / Sugar Hill
27. Jorma Kaukonen / River of Time / Red House
28. The Bird and The Bee / Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future / EMI
29. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears / Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! /
Lost Highway
30. Deer Tick / Born On Flag Day / Partisan
31. Parts & Labor / Receivers / Jagjaguwar
32. Blitzen Trapper / Black River Killer / Sub Pop
32. Greg Brown / Dream City / Red House
34. Ya La Tengo / Popular Songs / Matador
35. Hot Club of Cowtown / Wishful Thinking / Gold Strike
36. Levon Helm / Electric Dirt / Vanguard
37. Erin McKeown / Hundreds of Lions / Righteous Babe
38. Bob Dylan / Together Through Life / Columbia
39. Iron and Wine / Around the Well / Sub Pop
40. Huun Huur Tu with Carmen Rizzo / Eternal / Electrotone
41. Ruthie Foster / The Truth According to Ruthie Foster / Blue Corn
42. Sonic Youth / The Eternal / Matador
43. St. Vincent / Actor / 4AD
44. Allen Toussaint / The Bright Mississippi / Nonesuch
45. John Mellencamp / Life Death Live And Freedom / Hear
46. Imogen Heap / Ellipse / Megaphonic
47. The Subdudes / Flower Petals / 429
48. Madeleine Peyroux / Bare Bones / Rounder
49. Eels / Hombre Loco / Vagrant
49 Gomez / A New Tide / ATO
51. Bela Fleck / Throw Down Your Heart / Rounder
52. Vasen / Vasen Street / North Side
53. Maria Muldaur & Her Garden of Joy /  / Stony Plain
54. Craig Brenner & The Crawdads / Live to Love / CBM
55. The Raveonettes / In And Out Of Control / Vice
56. Various Artists / Nigeria 70 / Strut/K7!
57. Ramblin' Jack Elliott / A Stranger Here / Anti-
58. Geoff Muldaur and The Texas Sheiks /  / Tradition and Moderne
59. The Revelations / Featuring Tre Williams / Decision
60. Buckwheat Zydeco / Lay Your Burden Down / Alligator
60. Jenny Devoe / Strange Sunshine / Rubin the Cat
62. John Vanderslice / Romanian Names / Dead Oceans
62. Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson / Rattlin' Bones / Sugar Hill
62. Gibbs / Grandpa Walked a Picket Line / Wanamaker
65. Willie Nelson & Asleep at The Wheel / Willie and The Wheel / Bismeaux
66. The Sea and Cake / Car Alarm / Thrill Jockey
67. Elvis Perkins / In Dearland / XL
68. Irma Thomas / Soul Queen of New Orleans / Rounder
69. The Soul of John Black / Black John / Electro Groove
70. Nikka Costa / Pebble to a Pearl / Stax
71. Califone / All My Friends Are Funeral Singers / Dead Oceans
72. Various Artists / Women of Jazz / Putumayo
73. The Flatlanders / Hills and Valleys / New West
74. Saffire / Havin' the Last Word / Alligator
75. 7 Worlds Collide / The Sun Came Out / Sony/Oxfam
75. Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 / Goodnight Oslo / Yep Roc
77. Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens / What Have You Done My
Brother? / Daptone
78. Various Artists / Dark Was the Night / 4AD/Red Hot
79. The Avett Brothers / I And Love And You / American
80. Guy Clark / Somedays the Song Writes You / Dualtone
81. The Clientele / Bonfires of the Heath / Merge
81. Jenni Muldaur / Dearest Darlin' / Dandelion
83. Jessica Lea Mayfield / With Blasphemy So Heartfelt / Polymer Sounds
84. N.A.S.A. / The Spirit of Apollo / Anti
85. Bonnie Prince Billy / Beware / Drag City
86. Vetiver / Tight Knit / Sub Pop
87. Bon Iver / Blood Bank / Jagjaguwar
88. Guy Davis / Sweetheart Like You / Red House
89. Mark Bingham / Psalms of Vengeance / Piety Street
90. Exene Cervenka / Somewhere Gone / Bloodshot
91. Laura Gibson / Beasts of Seasons / Hush
92. Lila Downs / Shake Away / Blue Note
93.The Band of Heathens / One Foot in the Ether / BOH
94. Son Volt / American Central Dust / Rounder
95. Candye Kane / Superhero / Delta Groove
96. Zee Avi / Zee Avi / Brushfire
97. Ben Harper / White Lies for Dark Times / EMI
98. Iggy Pop / Preliminaires / Reset/EMI
99. Rosie Flores / Girl of the Century / Bloodshot
100. Chuck Prophet / Let Freedom Ring / Yep Roc