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WNCW's 2014 Top 100 - Staff Picks

Martin Anderson’s Top 10:
1. Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy
2. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes
3. I Draw Slow – White Wave Chapel
4. Lake Street Dive - Bad Self Portraits
5. Bryan Sutton – Into My Own
6. St. Paul & The Broken Bones - St. Paul & The Broken Bones
7. Hot Rize – When I’m Free
8. Sam Amidon – Lily-O
9. Thievery Corporation - Saudade
10. Curtis McMurtry - Respectable Enemy

Joe Kendrick’s Top 10:
1. Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness of Dancers
2. Quilt - Held In Splendor
3. Aaron Burdett - Fruits Of My Labor
4. I Draw Slow - White Wave Chapel
5. The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger - Midnight Sun
6. Nick Waterhouse - Holly
7. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker
8. Reigning Sound – Shattered
9. David Kilgour - End Times Undone
10. Ty Segall – Manipulator

Roland Dierauf’s Top 10:
1. Goat  - Commune
2. Jeff Sipe Trio - Jeff Sipe Trio
3. Frazey Ford - Indian Ocean
4. Liz Carroll - On The Offbeat
5. Sam Amidon - Lily-O
6. Budos Band - Burnt Offering
7. Cyrille Aimee - It's A Good Day
8. Bob Dylan - Complete Basement Tapes
9. Allah-Las - Worship The Sun
10. Clothesline Revival - The Greatest Show On Mars

Laura Blackley’s Top 10:
1. Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness of Dancers
2. Shovels & Rope - Swimmin' Time
3. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
4. Nikki Lane - All Or Nothin'
5. Barr Brothers  - Sleeping Operator
6. Amy Ray - Goodnight Tender
7. Tom Petty - Hypnotic Eye
8. Earls of Leicester - Earls of Leicester
9. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
10. Saint Paul and the Broken Bones - Half The City

Tom Pittman’s Top 10:
1. Flatt Lonesome - Too
2. Junior Sisk - Trouble Follows Me
3. Earls of Leicester - Earls of Leicester
4. Larry Sparks - Lonesome and Then Some
5. Joe Mullins - Another Day from Life
6. Crowe, Lawson & Williams - Standing Tall and Tough
7. Darren Nicholson - Things Left Undone
8. Michael Cleveland - On Down the Line
9. Hot Rize - When I’m Free
10. Brooke & George Buckner - So Far from Forgetting

Rob Daves’ Top 10 (Tie for 1st Place):
1. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
1. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker
3. Pixies - Indie Cindy
4. Goat - Commune
5. Old 97's - Most Messed Up
6. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
7. Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine
8. Jesus Sons - Jesus Sons
9. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
10. Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band - Intensity Ghost

Scotty Robertson’s Top 10:
1. Tony Allen – Film of Life
2. Lake Street Dive – Bad Self Portraits
3. Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
4. Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Complete Basement Tapes
5. Old Crow Medicine Show – Remedy
6. Hiss Golden Messenger – Lateness of Dancers
7. String Cheese Incident – Song in My Head
8. Achilles Wheel – Stones to Sand
9. Curtis McMurtry – Respectable Enemy
10. Michael Bellar & the As-Is Ensemble - Oh No Oh Wow

Jasmin Melton-Jones’ Top 10:
1. Boy & Bear - Harlequin Dream
2. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
3. Frazey Ford - Indian Ocean
4. Jamestown Revival - Utah
5. Chuck Mead - Free State Serenade
6. Roadkill Ghost Choir - In Tongues
7. Levon Helm Band - Midnight Ramble Sessions Vol. 3
8. Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare
9. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker
10. Hurray For The Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes

Spencer Jones’ Top 10:
1. Poets of Rhythm - Anthology 1992-2003
2. Ginger Baker - Why?
3. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
4. Billie Joe & Norah - Foreverly
5. The Jeff Sipe Trio - The Jeff Sipe Trio
6. Lake Street Dive - Bad Self Portraits
7. Luther Dickinson - Rock N' Roll Blues
8. Budos Band - Burnt Offering
9. Dirk Powell - Walking Through the Clay
10. Curtis McMurtry - Respectable Enemy

Scotty Robertson’s Top 10 For The Rhythm Theorem
(Saturday Nights 11pm):

1. Tony Allen – Film for Life
2. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings- Give the People What They Want
3. Ike Stubblefield – Righteous!
4. Cookin’ on 3 Burners – Blind Bet
5. New Mastersounds – Therapy
6. The Liberators – Power Struggle
7. Dumpstaphunk – Dirty Word
8. Rebirth Brass Band – Move Your Body
9. Shaolin Afronauts – Follow the Path
10. Various Artists – 25 Years of Mr. Bongo