WFHB'S TOP 100 OF 2005 * Compiled by TallSteve * 1. Shelby Lynne Suit Yourself Capitol 2. Magnolia Electric Co What Comes After the Blues Secretly Canadian 3. Bob Dylan No Direction Home Columbia Legacy 4. John Prine Fair & Square Oh Boy 5. Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs s/t Righteous Babe 6. The Duhks The Duhks Sugar Hill 7. Corey Harris Daily Bread Rounder 8. Beck Guero Interscope 9. Ry Cooder Chavez Ravine Nonesuch 10. Luna Rendezvous Jetset 11. Iron and Wine Woman King Sub Pop 12. Early Day Miners All Harm Ends Here Secretly Canadian 13. The Impossible Shapes Horus Secretly Canadian 14. John Scofield That's What I Say Verve 15. Lou Barlow Emoh Merge 16. Thievery Corporation Cosmic Game ESL 17. My Morning Jacket Z ATO 18. Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine Epic 19. Paris Combo Motifs Koch/Polydor 20. Laura Cantrell Humming By The Flowered Vine Matador 21. Magnolia Electric Co. Trials & Errors Secretly Canadian 22. Dirty Three Cinder Touch and Go 23. Eels Blinking Lights Vagrant 24. Dolorean Violence in the Snowy Fields Yep Roc 25. Michelle Shocked Don't Ask Don't Tell Mighty Sound 26. John Fogerty Deja Vu All Over Again Geffen 27. Bruce Cockburn Speechless Rounder 28. Mia Doi Todd Manzanita Plug Research 29. Marcia Ball Live! Down The Road Alligator 30. Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake It's Morning Saddle Creek 31. Damien Jurado On My Way to Absence Secretly Canadian 32. Mike Doughty Haughty Melodic ATO 33. Neil Young Prarie Wind Reprise 34. Nickel Creek Why Should the Fire Die? Sugar Hill 35. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Cold Roses Lost Highway 36. Van Morrison Magic Time Polydor/Geffen 37. Aimee Mann The Forgotten Arm Superego 38. Spoon Gimme Fiction Merge 39. Willie Nelson Countryman Lost Highway 40. The Black Keys Rubber Factory Fat Possum 41. Low The Great Destroyer Sub Pop 42. Sonny Landreth Grant St. Sugar Hill 43. Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene Arts & Crafts 44. Dwight Yoakam Blame the Vain New West 45. Fruit Bats Spelled in Bones Sub Pop 46. The Moaners Dark Snack Yep Roc 47. Balkan Beat Box Balkan Beat Box JDub 48. Son Volt Okemah and the Melody of Riot Transmit Sound 49. Brian Eno Another Day on Earth Opal 50. Buckwheat Zydeco Jackpot! Tommorrow 51. Joss Stone Mind Body & Soul S Curve 52. Antony and the Johnsons I Am a Bird Now Secretly Canadian 53. Crooked Fingers Dignity and Shame Merge 54. Great Lake Swimmers Bodies and Minds Misra 55. The Del McCoury Band The Company We Keep MCM/Sugar Hill 56. Merle Haggard Chicago Wind Capitol 57. Krista Detor Mudshow Tightrope 58. Pinback Summer in Abaddon Touch & Go 59. Tom Verlaine Warm and Cool Thrill Jockey 60. Jim White Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus Luaka Bop 61. Calexico/Iron & Wine In the Reins Overcoat 62. Mary Gauthier Mercy Now Lost Highway 63. Jimmie Dale Gilmore Come On Back Rounder 64. The Raveonettes Pretty In Black Columbia 65. Mercury Rev The Secret Migration V2 66. Keren Ann Nolita EMI 67. Alison Krauss Lonely Runs Both Ways Rounder 68. Seu Jorge Cru Wrasse 69. Vic Chesnutt Ghetto Bells New West 70. Kraftwerk Minimum-Maximum Astralwerks 71. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings Naturally Daptone 72. Oliver Mtukudzi Nhava Heads Up 73. Tab Benoit Voice of the Wetlands Rykodisc 74. Sigur Ros Takk Geffen 75. Richard Thompson Front Parlour Ballads Cooking Vinyl 76. Ben Lee Awake is the New Sleep New West 77. John Wilkes Booze Telescopic Eyes... Kill Rock Stars 78. Daniel Lanois Belladonna Anti 79. Ani DiFranco Knuckle Down Righteous Babe 80. Various Artists Stubbs the Zombie Shout Factory 81. John Hiatt Master of Disaster New West 82. Lizz Wright Dreaming Wide Awake Verve 83. The Clientele Strange Geometry Merge 84. Willie Nelson It Will Always Be Lost Highway 85. Sufjan Stevens Illinoise Asthmatic Kitty 86. Black Mountain Black Mountain Jagjaguwar 87. Rogue Wave Descended Like Vultures Sub Pop 88. Amadou & Mariam Dimanche A Bamako Nonesuch 89. Sleater-Kinney The Woods Subpop 90. Adrienne Young The Art of Virtue Addiebelle 91. Carrie Newcomer Regulars and Refugees Philo 92. The Arcade Fire Funeral Merge 93. Robert Earl Keen What I Really Mean Koch 94. Stars Set Yourself On Fire Arts & Crafts 95. Shooglenifty Live: Radical Mestzo Compass 96. Amy Rigby Little Fugitive Signature Sounds 97. Wilco Kicking Television Nonesuch 98. Dr John Sippiana Hericane Blue Note 99. Gogol Bordello Gypsy Punks Side One Dummy 100. The New Pornographers Twin Cinema Merge almost made it in... 101. Rufus Thomas Just Because I'm Leavin' Segue 102. Robert Plant Mighty Rearranger Sanctuary 103. World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's a Real Thing Luaka Bop 104. Joshua Redman Elastic Band Momentum Nonesuch 105. The Red Stick Ramblers Right Key, Wrong Keyhole 106. Dave's True Story Nature Bepop 107. Shemekia Copeland The Soul Truth Alligator 108. Robbie Fulks Georgia Hard Yep Roc 109. The Earlies These Were Secretly Canadian 110. Blind Boys of Alabama Atom Bomb Realworld