TnJ 050 (12/31/08) Best of 2008

-HOUR ONE-

KELLER WILLIAMS w/MOSELEY, DROLL & SIPE – Skitso (2008 Live)
KELLER WILLIAMS w/MOSELEY, DROLL & SIPE – Temple Balls (2008 Live)
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Kentucky Mandolin (2008 Mountain Tracks Volume 5)
KELLER WILLIAMS w/MOSELEY, DROLL & SIPE – Thin Mint (2008 Live)
DeVotchKa – Blessing in Disguise (2008 A Mad & Faithful Telling)
STEPHEN MALKMUS & the JICKS – Elmo Delmo (2008 Real Emotional Trash)
THE RACONTEURS – Consoler of the Lonely (2008 Consolers of the Lonely)
moe. – Cathedral (2008 Sticks and Stones)
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD – All I Want Is You (2008 All Rebel Rockers)

-HOUR TWO-

XAVIER RUDD – Uncle (2008 Dark Shades of Blue)
RAINMAKER – Further from the Truth (2008 Long Slow Fade)
THE DUHKS – Ship High in Transit > Magalenha (2008 Fast Paced World)
THE INAFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Black Rock (2008 The Infamous Stringdusters)
LITTLE FEAT w/EMMYLOU HARRIS, SAM BUSH & BÉLA FLECK – Sailin’ Shoes (2008 Join the Band)
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Solid Rock (6/28/08 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO)
MY MORNING JACKET – Evil Urges (2008 Evil Urges)
TEA LEAF GREEN – Let Us Go (2008 Raise Up the Tent)

See the next post(s) if you’re a “High Fidelity” type who wants to examine the order in which we actually ranked the Best TnJ Discs of 2008. This playlist has the sequence shuffled for aesthetic as well as practical broadcast reasons. These are not necessarily our favorite tracks (though in the cases of the Raconteurs and My Morning Jacket, they were) from these releases, because there’s a good chance we already played those earlier in ’08, and were trying not to repeat ourselves the first year. Drew Emmitt slipped through twice with the Marshall Tucker Band cover, “Take the Highway,” but at least we tried for no repeats in a year. We TRIED, dammit (^_^)

The Widespread Panic track isn’t from an official 2008 release, but rather from Chris’ favorite concert experience this year. Thanks to Ira Gordon and Jordan Zucker for putting me and my wife there. It was Kate’s first Red Rocks show and she was suitably impressed.

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