Magnus Eriksson, årets bästa skivor plus en del från 2007 som jag inte hittade förrän i år eller som kom för sent för förra årets lista


Country, folk och bluegrass


Tommy Alverson: Country to the Bone (Palo Duro/Hemifrån)

Joan Baez: Day After Tomorrow (Proper/BAM)

Baskery: Fall Among Thieves (Veranda/BAM)

Reagan Boggs: Right Now (www.reaganboggs.com)

The Bowmans: Far from Home (Continental Song/Playground)

Eva Cassidy: Somewhere (Blix/Border)

Brandi Carlisle: The Story (Columbia/SonyBMG)

Kasey Chambers & Shane Ncholson: Rattlin’ Bones (Essence/import)

Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe (Skaggs Family/Playground)

Rodney Crowell: Sex & Gasoline (Work Song/Border)

Kathleen Edwards: Asking for Flowers (Rounder/Universal)

Fayssoux: Early (Red Beet Records/Hemifrån)

Gravity: Roadman (Limestone/Enviken)

Emmylou Harris: All I Intended To Be (Nonesuch/Warner)

Alan Jackson: Good Time (Arista/SonyBMG)

Patty Loveless: Sleepless Nights (Saguaro Road/BAM)

Kathy Mattea: Coal (Captain Potato/import)

Brad Paisley: Play. The Guitar Album (Arista/SonyBMG)

Joel Rafael: Thirteen Stories High (Inside/BAM)

Kimmie Rhodes: Walls Fall Down (Sunbird/Hemifrån)

Stacie Rose: Shotgun Daisy (Enchanted Records/Hemifrån)

The Sacred Shakers: The Sacred Shakers (Signature Sounds/Playground)

Crystal Sands: Crystal Sands (Ah-Ha/import)

Becky Schlegel: For All the World to See (Lilly Bay Records/import)

Ashton Shepherd: Sounds so Good (MCA Nashvile/BAM)

Chris Sprague: Diesel Made for Two (Sonic/Border)

Chip Taylor: New Somgs of Freedom (Train Wreck/Border)

Donna Ulisse: When I Look Back (Hadley Music/import)

Rhonda Vincent: Good Thing Going (Rounder/Playground)

Lee Ann Womack: Call Me Crazy (MCA Nashville/import)

Michelle Wright: Everything And More (Savannah/Playground)

Trisha Yearwood: Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love (Big Machine/import)


Rock och blues

Theresa Andersson: Hummingbird, Go! (Basin Street/import)

Jackson Browne: Time the Conqueror (Inside/BAM)

Bjurman: Fogerty Files (Poe)

Peter O Ekberg: Versions Vol. 1: The Bedroom Tapes (Peter O)

Peter O Ekberg: Versions Vol. 2: The Basement Demos (Peter O)

Melissa Horn: Långa nätter (SonyBMG)

I See Hawks in L.A.: Hallowed Ground (Big Book Records/Border)

Amy LaVere: Anchors & Anvils (Rocksnob/Border)

Little Feat: Join the Band (Proper/Bam)

Nils Lofgren: The Loner. Nils Sings Neil (Hypertension/Soundcarrier/BAM)

Randy Newman: Harps and Angels (Nonesuch/Warner)

Savoy Brown featuring Kim Simmonds: Steel (SPV/Border)

Rebecka Törnqvist: The Cherry Blossom and the Skyline Rising from the Street (Moule/EMI)

Stevie Winwood: Nine Lives (Columbia/SonyBMG)

Carolyn Wonderland: Miss Understood (Ruf/Soundcarrier/BAM)


Jazz

Karl-Martin Almqvist Qartet: Stretching a Portfolio (Prophone/Naxos)

Jörg Brinkmann Trio: Ha! (Act/BAM)

Avishai Cohen: Gently Disturbed (Razsaz/CDA)

Carla Bley and Her Remarkable Big Band: Appearing Nightly (ECM/Naxos)

Marilyn Crispell: Vignettes (ECM/BAM)

e.s.t.: Leucocyte (Act/BAM)

Bill Frisell: History, Mystery (Nonesuch/Warner)

Henriette Groth & Lotte Aanker: Du fugl (ILK/import)

Donkey Monkey: Ouature (Umlaut/dotshop.com)

Double Standards: Live! (Kopasetic/CDA)

Loïc Dequidt Quartet: Nomade (Kopasetic/CDA)

Wolfgang Haffner: Acoustic Shapes (Act/BAM)

The Jolly-Boat Pirates: End of Tour. Live (Umlaut/dotshop.com)

Cennet Jönsson Quartet: Antelope Dance (Kopasetic/CDA)

Koppel / Piromalli / Kornazov / Andersson / Humair: European Jazz Factory (Cowbell/import)

Koppel / Bley / Andersson / Mazur / Nilsson: Ears to the Ground (Cowbell/import)

David Liebman & Ellery Eskelin: Renewal (Hatology/Naxos)

Marilyn Mazur / Jan Garbarek: Elixir (ECM/BAM)

Meloscope: Deluxe (Kopasetic/CDA)

Evan Parker: Boustrophedon (ECM/BAM)

Matana Roberts: The Chicago Project (Central Control/Border)

Catherine Russell Sentimental Streak (World Village/CMM)

Bobo Stenson Trio: Cantando« ECM/Naxos)

John Surman / Howard Moody: [b]Rain on the Window (ECM/BAM)

Torben Waldorff: Afterburn (ArtistShare/www.torbenwaldorff.com)

Marcin Wasilewsky Trio: January (ECM/BAM)

Mike Westbrook: Westbrook-Rossini (Hatology/Naxos)

Cassandra Wilson: Loverly (Blue Note/EMI)

Norma Winstone: Distances (ECM/BAM)

Savivi Yannatou: Songs of An Other (ECM/Naxos)


Klassiskt

Julian Bream: The Essential (SonyBMG)

Gerald Finley & Julius Drake: Charles Ives: Romanzo di Central Park (Hyperion/CMM)

Hilary Hahn: Schönberg/Sibelius: Violinkonzerte (DG/Universal)


Arkeologi, samlingar och återutgivningar

Bengt Berger & Kjell Westling: Live in Stockholm 77 (Country & Eastern/CDA)

Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison (Columbia Legacy/SonyBMG)

Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs. The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 (Columbia Legacy/SonyBMG)

The Fugs: Don’t Stop! Don’t Stop! (Fugs Records/Ace/BAM)

Mac Gayden: Skyboat / Hymn to the Seeker (Big Beat/BAM)

Carole King: Tapestry (Legacy/SonyBMG)

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Street Survivors (Geffen DeLuxe Edition)

Lulu: The Atco sessions 1969 - 1972 (Rhino Warner)

Willie Nelson: One Hell of a Ride (Columbia Legacy/SonyBMG)

Nico: The Frozen Borderline (Rhino/Warner)

Robert Wyatt: Rock bottom ; Ruth is stranger than Richard ; Nothing can stop us ; Theatre Royal Drury Lane Sunday 8th September 1974 ; Old Rottenhat ; Dondestan (revisited) ; Schleep ; Cuckooland ; Ep’s (Domino/Playground)


Jag har angivit svenska distributörer. Det kan vara andra avtal i Norge. ECM övertogs av Naxos från BAM under året, och jag vet inte hur man löst backkatalogen. Jag anger den distributör som hade hand om skivan när den gavs ut i Sverige.