Philby Best Albums of 2016
- Subcontinental Drift—Sultans of String with Anwar Khurshid (BEST ALBUM; also BEST WORLD ALBUM)
- Homemade Vision—Angela Perley and The Howlin’ Moons (BEST ROCK ALBUM)
- Oak City Roots—Oak City Roots (BEST POP ALBUM) (BEST FEMALE VOCALS)
- Bad Church—Andy and The Pandys (BEST PUNK ALBUM)(BEST LYRICS)
- Are We There Yet? – The Turnback (BEST FORWARD LOOKING THROWBACK ALBUM)
- Fueled by Dreams of the Future—Dylan McDonald and The Avians (BEST FOLLOW UP ALBUM)
- The Traveling Kind—Emmylou Harris (Hall of Fame) and Rodney Crowell (BEST REAL COUNTRY ALBUM)
- American—Magic Kramer (BEST ROCK/POP/COUNTRY/BLUES ALBUM)
- Radio—Ian McFeron (BEST MALE SINGER/SONGWRITER ALBUM)
- Gold—Laura Rain and The Caesars (BEST R&B ALBUM)
- Blues of Desperation—Joe Bonamassa (BEST BLUES ALBUM)
- Moonkings—Vandenberg’s Moonkings (BEST CLASSIC ROCK ALBUM)
- Dig in Deep—Bonnie Raitt (BEST FEMALE BLUES ALBUM)
- Heal My Soul—Jeff Healey (Hall of Fame] (BEST ROCK/BLUES TIME CAPSULE ALBUM)
- If It Feels Good, Do It: A Sloan Tribute—Various Artists (BEST TRIBUTE ALBUM)
- Frankie and the No-Go Road—Rita Hosking (BEST CONCEPT ALBUM)
- The Album—Nikki James (BEST LOCAL BLUES ALBUM)
- If a Tree Falls…—Building Birds (BEST INDIE ROCK ALBUM)
- Mojo Deluxe—Bob Malone (BEST “MOJO” ALBUM)
- Limbo—Kristen Toedtman (BEST FEMALE POP/GOSPEL ALBUM)
- Red Letter Day—Courtney Yasmineh (BEST “ATTITUDE” ALBUM)
- Everything’s Beautiful Now—Christine Albert (BEST SONGS ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH ALBUM)
- Awkward Stage—Bill Berry (BEST COMEDY/POP ALBUM)
- Blizzard of Blues—Tommy Z (BEST BLUES GUITAR ALBUM)
- Everlasting Arms—Luke Winslow-King (BEST NEW ORLEANS FEEL BLUES ALBUM)
- World of Strangers—Zoe Muth and The Lost High Rollers (BEST FEMALE SINGER/SONGWRITER ALBUM)
- And Then There Were TrollZ—ShwizZ (BEST FUSION ALBUM)
- Hillbilly Zen-Punk Blues—Reverend Freakchild (BEST HILLBILLY ZEN-PUNK ALBUM)
- A Decade in the Shadows—These Curious Thoughts (BEST ANGLO/AMERICAN ALBUM)
- Into the Wild Blue—Roy Rogers (Blues Guitarist) (BEST WISH I’D KNOWN ABOUT HIM YEARS AGO ALBUM)
- From Prussia With Love—Nervous Germans (BEST GERMAN ROCK ALBUM, also BEST ALBUM TITLE)
- Give It Back to You—The Record Company (BEST ROOTS ALBUM)
- All Your Favorite Bands—Dawes (BEST MELLOW ALBUM)
- Revolutions—The Liquid Scene (BEST PSYCHEDELIC ALBUM)
- Lone Wolf—Jessica Lee Wilkes (BEST ROCKABILLY ALBUM)
- Midnight Mist—Voo Davis
- Shake It Up—Mick Clarke (BEST BRITISH BLUES ALBUM)
- Good Times! —The Monkees (BEST POP TIME CAPSULE ALBUM)
- Wampus Cat—Gigi Scott and Trouble Town
- Real—Laith Al-Saadi (BEST REDISCOVERY ALBUM)
- For Love and Spite—Latvian Radio (BEST BAND POWER POP ALBUM)
- Radio Sweetheart—Sarah Borges and The Broken Singles (BEST FEMALE POWER POP ALBUM)
- Hold On a Little Longer—Eugene Hideaway Bridges (BEST “BLUES YOU CAN USE” ALBUM)
- Wild Heart—Samantha Fish (BEST HORIZON ARTIST ALBUM)
- Ragged and Dirty—Devon Allman
- Ashes and Dust—Warren Haynes and Railroad Earth (BEST GUITAR LICKS ON AN AMERICANA ALBUM)
- Above the Sweet Tea Line—Jeremy Porter and The Tuccos
- The Road in Me—Sally Barris (BEST FEMALE SONGWRITER ALBUM)
- Relaxtronaut—The Effort Award (HONORABLE MENTION: ALBUM TITLE)
- Lollipop Motel—Jason Didner and The Jungle Gym Jam (BEST KINDIE ALBUM)
- Untethered Moon—Built to Spill (BEST GUITAR ROCK ALBUM)
- Black Moon Spell—King Tuff (BEST “SICK MIND” ALBUM)
- Wild Nights—PINS (BEST ALL FEMALE ROCK ALBUM)
- We Will Reign—The Last Internationale (BEST POLITICAL ROCK ALBUM)
- I’m the Boss—Rachel B (BEST “NEW” POP ALBUM)
- Dismal Swamp Lords—Dismal Swamp Lords (BEST SWAMP ALBUM)
- Window on the World—John McKinley (BEST CANADIAN BLUES ALBUM)
- Just for the Love of It—Happy Traum (BEST FOLK STANDARDS ALBUM)
- Walking into White—Sarah McQuaid (BEST BRITISH FOLK ALBUM)
- Sufficiently Rude—Million Sellers (BEST GARAGE ALBUM)
- Three Big Ones—The Secrets (Detroit Secrets) (BEST KEPT SECRET IN DETROIT ALBUM)
- Gravity—Arjun (BEST INSTRUMENTAL FUSION ALBUM)
- I Was Told There Would Be Pie—Jen Houston
- Aragon Mill—Si Kahn and The Looping Brothers (BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM)
- Reign of the West—The Grave Jinglers (BEST OUTLAW ALBUM)
- Eventually—Super Heater (BEST ALBUM BY A BAND THAT BROKE UP IN 2016)
- Naturally—Raina Randolph
- Live at Roscoe’s—Detroit Johnny-O (BEST LIVE ROCK ALBUM)
- Highly Irregular—Whistler’s Father
- Little Vixen—Sigrid Christiansen (BEST LOCAL FOLK ALBUM)
- Leaving Boston—Christa Gniadek
- The Madcat Midnight Blues Journey—Peter Madcat Ruth, Drew Howard, Mark Schrock, Michael Shimmin (BEST LIVE BLUES ALBUM)
- Shadow Trails—Linda McRae (BEST CANADIAN FOLK ALBUM)
- California Nights—Best Coast (BEST POP/ROCK ALBUM)
- Good Luck, Bad Karma—Best Behavior (BEST KARMA ROCK ALBUM)
- Choose to Be Human—Xposed 4Heads (BEST “NORMAL” “OUT THERE” ALBUM)
- Dragonfly—Great Caesar’s Ghost (BEST DOUBLE ALBUM)
- Outskirts of Love—Shemekia Copeland
- 18th and Volstead—The Vaude Villains
- Talk—Jon Pousette-Dart (BEST ALBUM COVER)
- Capricorn—Happy Fangs
- Histories of Things—Calvin Becker
- Stumbling Towards the Light—Eric Banaan
- The Power, The Glory, and The Monkey Time—George Stephen Kelly (SECOND BEST ALBUM TITLE)
- Surf Noir—The 427s (BEST SURF ALBUM)
- Get Well—Birth of Joy (BEST POWER TRIO ROCK ALBUM)
- Multitudes—James Houlahan
- What I Did—Hey Mavis
- Pole Barn Rebels—Pole Barn Rebels (BEST “MITT” ALBUM)
- New Mexico Dirt—G.S. Harper (BEST SOLO ACOUSTIC ALBUM)
- World War Trio, Pts. 2 and 3—Consider the Source (BEST INSTRUMENTAL WORLD/FUSION ALBUM)
- Dr. Hyperstein—Redtenbacher’s Funkestra (BEST FUNK ALBUM)
- The Black Sky Sequined—Colorway
- Crazy Neighbors—Crazy Neighbors
- A Valentine to the Future—Telamor
- Up Close at Faraway Sound—The Brother Brothers (BEST HARMONIES ALBUM)
- Dirt—Lucid
- Weirdo Shrine—La Luz
- Waves—Big Brother Smokes (ALBUM WITH THE BEST BASS LINES)
- Beat the Champ—The Mountain Goats (BEST ALBUM ABOUT WRESTLING)
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