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Vote for your Top 5 CD picks of 2013

npr.org/blogs/bestmusic2013

You’re invited to send in your Top 5 CD picks of 2013. We’ll add up listener picks and compile the Top 20 of 2013 to play back on Morning Music.

You’ll also have a chance to win in a random drawing from all entries. We’ll give away a WPM hoodie along with the classic Van Morrison Moondance CD, expanded edition with 11 previously unreleased tracks. 

Choose your Top 5 by midnight on December 26th. Our list of 2013 albums played this year on Wyoming Public Media is listed at the bottom of the post. There’s also an additional list below in a separate category: Top CD’s from Wyoming artists. Choose only one Wyoming artist.

Submit your vote in the comment section. All votes must include your first and last name and your email address. Entry rules.

Be sure to enter your e-mail address to be eligible in the drawing.

If you’ve already submitted your picks but forgot to add your e-mail for the drawing, login into Disqus, find your comment, click edit, and enter your email address. 

Credit Liz Osban Photography

Thanks for listening and sending in your favorites of 2013!

Choose your Top 5  favorite albums of 2013. You may have heard something this year that is not on this list.  Write-ins are welcome.

.       Aaron Neville- My True Story

.       Alt-J -  An Awesome Wave

.       Amanda Shires - Down Fell The Doves

·       Amos Lee - Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song

·       Anders Osborne - Peace

·       Aoife O’Donovan - Fossils

·       Arcade Fire - Reflecktor

·       Ashley Monroe - Like a Rose

·       Assembly Of Dust - Sun Shot

·       Avett Brothers - Magpie and Dandelion

·       Barenaked Ladies - Grinning Streak

·       Barnaby Bright - The Longest Day

·       Bastille - Bad Blood

·       Ben Harper/Charlie Musselwhite - I Don’t Believe A Word You Say

·       Best Coast - This Lonely Morning

·       Beth Hart/Joe Bonamassa - Seesaw

·       Beth Hart - Bang Bang Boom Boom

·       Blind Boys Of Alabama - I’ll Find A Way

·       Bobby Rush - Down In Louisiana

·       Booker T - Sound The Alarm

.       Bombino - Nomad

·       Brett Dennen - Smoke and Mirrors

·       Buddy Guy - Rhythm & Blues

·       Buddy Miller/Jim Lauderdale - Buddy & Jim

·       Buford Pope - Matching Numbers

·       Carrie Rodriquez - Give Me All You Got-Ninth Street

.       Cayucas - Bigfoot      

.       Charles Bradley - Victim Of Love

·       Chip Taylor - Block Out The Sirens Of This Lonely World

·       Courtyard Hounds – Amelita

.       Crystal Bowersox- All That For This

.       Current Swell- Long Time Ago

·       Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

·       Darden Smith - Love Calling

.       David Bowie – The Next Day

·       David Bromberg - Only Slightly Mad

·       Dawes - Stories Don’t End

·       Deep Dark Woods – Jubilee

.       Della May – This World Oft Can Be

·       Delbert & Glen - Blind, Crippled, and Crazy

·       Edward Sharpe - Edward Sharpe

·       Eels - Wonderful, Glorious

·       Elvis Costello And The Roots - Wise Up Ghost

·       Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell - Old Yellow Moon

·       Enter The Haggis - The Modest Revolution

·       Eric Burdon - Til Your River Runs Dry

·       Eric Clapton - Old Sock

.       Fabulous Thunderbirds- On the Verge

·       Fitz And The Tantrums - More Than Just A Dream

·       Franz Ferdinand - Right Action

·       Frightened Rabbit - The Woodpile

·       Gov’t Mule - Shout!

·       Guy Clark - My Favorite Picture Of You

.       Haim - Days Are Gone

.       Harpeth Rising- Tales from Jackson Street        

.       He’s My Brother She’s My Sister - Nobody Dances In This Town

·       Holly Williams - The Highway

·       Houndmouth - From The Hills Below The City

·       Iron & Wine - Ghost On Ghost

·       Ivan & Alyosha - All The Times We Had

·       Jack Johnson - From Here To Now To You

.       James Hunter Six- Minute By Minute

·       Jason Isbell - Southeastern

·       Jim James - Regions Of Light And Sound Of God

·       JJ Grey and Mofro - This River

·       John Fogerty - Wrote A Song For Everyone

·       John Mayer - Paradise Valley

·       Jonny Lang - Fight For My Soul

·       Joseph Arthur - The Ballad Of Boogie Christ

·       Josh Ritter - Joy To You Baby

·       Josh Rouse - The Happiness Waltz

·       Junior Brown - Volume Ten

·       Junip - Junip

·       Kasey Chambers& Shane Nicholson - Wreck & Ruin

·       Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison - Cheaters Game

·       Kim Richey - Thorn In My Heart

·       Kim Taylor - Loves A Dog

·       Kopecky Family Band - Hope

·       Kris Kristofferson - Feeling Mortal

·       KT Tunstall - Selections from Invisible Empire

.       Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle

·       Los Lobos - Disconnected In New York City

·       Low - The Invisible Way

·       Madeline Peyroux - The Blue Room

·       Mark Knopfler - Privateering

·       Mary Gauthier - Live At Blue Rock

·       Mason Jennings - Always Been

·       Matisyahu - Spark Seeker

·       Mavis Staples - One True Vine

·       Max Gomez - Rule The World

·       Michael Franti - All People

·       Moreland & Arbuckle - 7 Cities

·       Natalie Maines - Mother

·       Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill

·       Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight………

·       Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers - Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers

·       Night Beds - Country Sleep

·       North Mississippi Allstars - World Boogie Is Coming

.       Otis Taylor- My World Is Gone

·       Over The Rhine - Meet Me At The Edge Of The World

·       Patty Griffin - American Kid

·       Patty Griffin - Silver Bell

·       Patty Larkin - Still Green

·       Paul McCartney - New

·       Paula Cole - Raven

·       Phosphorescent – Muchachao

.        Pickwick- Can’t Talk Medicine

·       Randall Bramblett - The Bright Spots

·       Richard Thompson - Electric

·       Robben Ford - Bringing It Back Home

·       Robbie Fulks - Gone Away Backward

·       Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Lickety  Split

·       Robert Randolph Presents - The Slide Brothers

·       Ron Sexsmith - Forever Endeavour

·       Sarah Jarosz - Build Me Up From Bones

·       Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Wassaic Way

·       Scott Miller – Big Bad World

·       Serena Ryder - Harmony

·       Shannon McNally - Small Town Talk

·       Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Give The People What They Want

·       She & Him - Vol. 3 

·       Slaid Cleaves - Still Fighting The War

.       Sons of Fathers- Burning Days

·       Son Volt - Honky Tonk

·       Steve Earle & The Dukes (and Duchesses) - The Low Highway

·       Steve Martin & Edie Brickell - Rounder

·       Tedeschi Trucks Band - Made Up Mind

·       Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - We The Common

·       The Band Of Heathens - Sunday Morning Record

·       The Devil Makes Three - I’m A Stranger Here

·       The Fabulous Thunderbirds - On The Verge

·       The Greencards - Sweetheart Of The Sun

·       The Head And The Heart - Let’s Be Still

·       The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow

·       The Mavericks - In Time 

·       The National - Trouble Will Find Me

.       The Waterboys- An Appointment With Mr. Yeats

·       Tim Easton - Not Cool

·       Tim O’Brien/Darrell Scott - Memories and Moments

·       Tommy Malone - Natural Born Days

·       Tony Joe White – Hoodoo

.       Toro Y Moi-Anything in Return

·       Treetop Flyers - Things Will Change

·       Trixie Whitley - Fourth Corner

·       Trombone Shorty - Say That To Say This

·       Truth and Salvage Co. - Appalachian Hilltop

·       Typhoon - White Lighter

·       Valerie June - Pushing Against The Stone

·       Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

·       Various Artists - A Tribute To John Denver

·       Various Artists - Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County

.       Villagers- Awayland

·       Wake Owl – Wild Country

·       Wayne Hancock - Ride

·       Willie Nelson - Lets Face The Music And Dance

·       Willie Nelson - To All The Girls

·       Willie Nile - American Ride

Best of Wyoming and regional artists-2013  (choose 1)

  • Birgit Burke, Hillery Lynn, Pryce Taylor - An Afternoon at Ben’s Place
  • Growling Old Men - Chicken Feed and Bailing Twine
  • Tom May and Chris Kennedy - Before the Time Slips Away
  • Lights Along the Shore - Excursion
  • The Patti Fiasco - Small Town Lights
  • Peculiar Patriots - Peculiar Patriots
  • Sneaky Pete and the Secret Weapons - Sneaky Pete and the Secret Weapons
  • Tremors with Equinox - The Butter Zone
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Grady has taken a circuitous route from his hometown of Kansas City to Wyoming. Sometime after the London Bridge had fallen down, he moved to Arizona and attended Arizona State University and actually graduated from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. ("He's a Lumberjack and he's OK……..!") He began his radio career in Prescott in 1982 and eventually returned to Kansas City where he continued in radio through the summer of 1991. Public Radio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky beckoned him to the bluegrass state where he worked as Operations/Program Manager at WKMS in Murray and WNKU in Highland Heights just across the Ohio from Cincinnati.