December's off to a fast start, with one week of it almost gone. Since I'm planning on boring my reader(s) with my favorite records of the decade that's coming to a close, I may as well fire up another post - my favorite music from 2001
Note - I goofed up the first post, listing a record that was actually released in April of 1999 as my favorite record of 2000. I'm now double-checking all of the release dates prior to hitting the PUBLISH POST button.
Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8qeLx0nSMQpRY71Sf6ZzhxLbws4dHPOv9855ui1ijX2Nltg9Ydo6rzG5-AChDxqFXdg9QtpDuYzE_h4x0CQYdJV3j6faSx0guhr5WJrwH24_SF-B6tEKFRRGRb6sAdhb8QitFTSknVG6j/s320/southern-rock-opera.jpg)
Eight years on and I still love this record, it has definitely become one of my all-time favorites. A fantastic double-disc set about the South and, specifically, southern rock. Intelligent, ambitious, earnest and flat-out rawkin'. Turn it up, especially "Let There Be Rock". It's doubtful that the (still great) DBT will be able to top this.
Grant-Lee Phillips - MobilizeRadiohead - Amnesiac
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibJHUG6lxB23saLpZifaYVvG0Eep5-AbiwW2tPdYbPncpmIQ7fD3akXCRki7jzjpytCMWroLG2AZ_98tReV3XMpeddXTMFgM6Aq9-0PBCe5KRJk2DbnbjTf02NmOTTxAFlsZY37N8Wg3_Y/s320/White_Blood_Cells.jpg)
So, only six made the grade for favorites, making '01 a leaner year. However, all six are utterly fantastic. As I had previously mentioned, some years have richer harvests.
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