CKUA's Top 100 for 2009

The Top 100 is derived from the albums in our biweekly top 30 chart, and the placement is based on number of spins, then highest charting position and then number of weeks on the chart.

Best of 2009 Chart

Artist - Album (Label)
= Albertan
= Canadian 
1 Rachelle Van Zanten – Where Your Garden Grows (Indie: rachellevanzanten.com)
2 Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels (Nettwerk)
3 Corb Lund – Losin’ Lately Gambler (New West)
4 Various – Dark Was The Night (4AD)
5 The Secretaries – The Secretaries (Indie: myspace.com/thesecretariesedmonton)
6 Joel Plaskett – Three (Maple Music)
7 Trevor Tchir – Sky Locked Land (Indie: trevortchir.com)
8 Wilco – Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)
9 Lee Harvey Osmond – A Quiet Evil (Latent)
10 Iron and Wine – Around The Well (Sub Pop)
11 Harry Manx – Bread and Buddha (Dog My Cat)
12 The Bad Plus – For All I Care (Heads Up)
13 Good Lovelies – Good Lovelies (Indie: goodlovelies.com)
14 Julie Doiron – I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day (Endearing)
15 Cornershop – Judy Sucks a Lemon For Breakfast (Indie: cornershop.com)
16 The Hylozoists – L’Isle de Sept Villes (Outside)
17 Rosanne Cash – The List (Manhattan)
18 Amy Millan – Masters of the Burial (Arts & Crafts)
19 Neko Case – Middle Cyclone (Anti)
20 Romi Mayes – Achin’ In Yer Bones (Indie: romimayes.com)
21 Delbert McClinton & Dick 50 – Acquired Taste (New West)
22 Alex Cuba – Alex Cuba (Caracol)
23 Eleni Mandell – Artificial Fire (Indie: elenimandell.com)
24 Ann Vriend – Close Encounters (Indie: annvriend.com)
25 Jenni Muldaur – Dearest Darlin’ (Dandelion)
26 Apostle of Hustle – Eats Darkness (Arts & Crafts)
27 Jenn Grant – Echoes (Six Shooter)
28 Watermelon Slim– Escape From the Chicken Coop (Northern Blues)
29 David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (Todomundo)
30 Regina Spektor – Far (Sire)
31 A.C. Newman – Get Guilty (Last Gang)
32 The Wheat Pool – Hauntario (Shameless)
33 Amelia Curran – Hunter Hunter (Six Shooter)
34 Chris Velan – Solidago (Newsong)
35 Michael Kaeshammer – Lovelight (Alert)
36 Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara – Tell No Lies (Real World)
37 Heather Blush & The Uppercuts – Versa (Indie: heatherblush.com)
38 Quantic & His Combo Barbaro – Tradition in Transition (Tru Thoughts)
39 Andrew Bird – Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
40 Steve Earle – Townes (New West)
41 Melissa McClelland – Victoria Day (Six Shooter)
42 Catherine MacLellan – Water In the Ground (High Romance)
43 Blue Rodeo – The Things We Left Behind (Warner)
44 Lyle Lovett – Natural Forces (Lost Highway)
45 Eddi Reader – Love Is The Way (Rough Trade)
46 Lhasa – Lhasa (Audiogram)
47 Peter Mulvey – Letter From a Flying Machine (Signature Sounds)
48 Chuck Prophet – ¡Let Freedom Ring! (Yep Roc)
49 Mishka – Above The Bones (Indie: mishka.com)
50 The Derek Trucks Band – Already Live EP (Victor)
51 Joe Louis Walker – Between a Rock And The Blues (Stony Plain)
52 Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey & The GrooGrux King (Bama Rags)
53 Jeff Stuart & The Hearts – Black Dogs Blue Giants (Indie: jeffstuart.com)
54 Tom Russell – Blood And Candle Smoke (Shout!)
55 Joe Henry – Blood From Stars (Anti)
56 Karla Anderson – Brand New Day (Indie: karlaanderson.com)
57 Psapp – The Camel’s Back (Domino)
58 Victoria Vox – Chameleon (Obus)
59 Sam Baker – Cotton (Music Road)
60 Stephanie Bosch – Departures (Sandro Dominelli)
61 Dave McCann & The Firehearts – Dixiebluebird (Oldman River)
62 The Fireman – Electric Arguments (EMI)
63 Imogen Heap – Ellipse (RCA)
64 Leeroy Stagger – Everything Is Real (Boompa)
65 Todd Snider – The Excitement Plan (Yep Roc)
66 Norah Jones – The Fall (Blue Note)
67 Metric – Fantasies (Last Gang)
68 Cara Dillon – Hill of Thieves (Charcoal)
69 Downchild – I Need a Hat (Linus)
70 Bidiniband – Land Is Wild (Pheromone)
71 Michael Bernard Fitzgerald – The MBF Love LP (Load)
72 Cheryl Fisher – Moments Like This (Catfish)
73 Dragon Fli Empire – Redefine (Make Believe)
74 The Provincial Archive – Nameless Places (Bedrooms and Basements)
75 Hayden – The Place Where We Lived (Hardwood)
76 John Scofield – Piety Street (EmArcy)
77 Mocky – Saskamodie (Crammed Discs)
78 Colin James – Rooftop and Satellites (Maple Music)
79 Jim Byrnes – My Walking Stick (Black Hen)
80 Wilfred N & The Grown Men – Stop Go Romeo (Zonik)
81 Black Mold – Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz (Flemish Eye)
82 Martin Simpson – True Stories (Topic)
83 Guy Davis – Sweetheart Like You (Red House)
84 Jessica Heine – Songteller Storywriter (Indie: jessicaheine.com)
85 Bob Dylan – Together Through Life (Columbia)
86 Pink Mountaintops – Outside Love (Jagjaguwar)
87 Reverie Sound Review – Reverie Sound Review (Boompa)
88 Willie Nelson & Asleep At the Wheel – Willie & The Wheel (Bismeax)
89 Paolo Nutini – Sunny Side Up (Atlantic)
90 Jesse Cook – The Rumba Foundation (EMI)
91 Baaba Maal – Television (Palm)
92 Jorma Kaukonen – River of Time (Relix)
93 Buddy & Julie Miller – Written In Chalk (New West)
94 Ruthie Foster – The Truth According to Ruthie Foster (Blue Corn)
95 Mike Plume – 8:30 Newfoundland (Moraine)
96 Bebel Gilberto – All In One (Verve)
97 Madeleine Peyroux – Bare Bones (Rounder)
98 Diane Birch – Bible Belt (S-Curve)
99 Lorelei Loveridge – Bakhoor (Orderly Bazaar)
100 Bop Ensemble – Between Trains (Cordova Bay)

 

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