CKUA's Top 100 for 2005

Best of 2005 Chart

Artist - Album (Label)
= Albertan
= Canadian 
1 Corb Lund - Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer (Stony Plain)
2 Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez - Red Dog Tracks (Back Porch / Train Wreck)
3 De Phazz - Natural Fake (Universal International)
4 Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine (Nonesuch / Warner)
5 US3 - Questions (US3)
6 Karla Anderson - The Embassy Sessions (Indelible Music / www.karlaanderson.com)
7 Rodney Crowell - The Outsider (Columbia / Sony)
8 Eliza Gilkyson - Paradise Hotel (Red House)
9 Beck - Guero (Interscope / Universal)
10 Alice Russell - My Favourite Letters (Tru Thoughts)
11 Ridley Bent - BLAM! Advance EP (Maple Music)
12 Colin James - Limelight (Maple Music / Universal)
13 The Thievery Corporation - Cosmic Game (ESL - Beggars Group)
14 Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams (Brush Fire Records / Universal)
15 ¡Bomba! - Entre Sol Y Luz (www.bombaweb.com / Festival Distribution)
16 John Scofield - That's What I Say (Verve / Universal)
17 Kathleen Edwards - Back to Me (Maple Music / Universal)
18 Zap Mama - Ancestry in Progress (V2 / BMG)
19 Ann Vriend - Modes of Transport (www.annvriend.com)
20 Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses (Lost Highway / Universal)
21 Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now (Lost Highway / Universal)
22 Buck 65 - Secret House Against the World (Warner)
23 Bonnie Raitt - Souls Alike (Capitol)
24 Jerry Douglas - The Best Kept Secret (Koch)
25 Corey Harris - Daily Bread (Rounder Records)
26 John Hiatt - Master of Disaster (New West)
27 William Shatner - Has Been (Shout! Factory)
28 Delbert McClinton - Cost of Living (New West / Sony)
29 Mark Sterling and Friends - Come On In My Kitchen: First Serving (Indie)
30 Steve Dawson - We Belong to the Gold Coast (Black Hen / Universal)
31 Tim O'Brien - Cornbread Nation (Sugar Hill)
32 Van Morrison - Magic Time (Universal / Geffen)
33 Ian Tyson - Songs from the Gravel Road (Stony Plain)
34 Toto Bona Lokua - Toto Bona Lakua (Universal)
35 Steve Forbert - Just Like There's Nothing to It (Koch)
36 Paul Bellows - Tape Deck Classics (www.paulbellows.com)
37 Colin Linden - Southern Jumbo (True North / Universal)
38 John Prine - Fair & Square (Koch / Oh Boy!)
39 Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart - S&M Communion Bread (True North / Funzalo)
40 Tracy Chapman - Where You Live (Atlantic)
41 Marcus Miller - Silver Rain (Koch)
42 Nickelcreek - Why Should the Fire Die? (Sugar Hill)
43 Dar Williams - My Better Self (Razor & Tie)
44 The Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up (RCA / BMG)
45 Pieta Brown - In the Cool (Valley Entertainment)
46 Los Super Seven - Heard it On the X (Telarc)
47 Tori Amos - The Beekeeper (Epic / Sony)
48 Donna the Buffalo - Life's a Ride (Wildlife / Reincarnate Music)
49 Herbie Hancock - Possibilities (Vector)
50 Mike Ford - Canada Needs You Vol. 1 (Universal)
51 Bossacucanova - Uma Batida Diferente (Six Degrees)
52 Josh Rouse - Nashville (Rounder)
53 Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Naturally (Daptone Records)
54 Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche A Bamako (Warner / Nonesuch)
55 various artists - Country Soul Revue: Testifying (Casual)
56 Mr. Something Something - The Edge (www.mrsomethingsomething.com)
57 Willie Nelson - Countryman (Lost Highway)
58 Roomful of Blues - Standing Room Only (Alligator / Distribution Fusion III)
59 Soulive - Break Out (Concord)
60 Harry Manx - Mantras for Madmen (Dog My Cat)
61 Neil Young - Prairie Wind (Reprise)
62 Burning Spear - Our Music (Burning Music)
63 Stew Kirkwood - And a One and Two (indie / Sound Extractor)
64 Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman (Epic / Sony)
65 various artists - Rewind, Vol. 4 (Ubiquity)
66 Santana - All That I Am (Arista)
67 Iron and Wine - Woman King (Sub Pop / Warner)
68 Calexico & Iron and Wine - In the Reins (Overcoat Recordings)
69 various - Putumayo Presents World Groove (Putumayo / Koch Int'l)
70 Susie Arioli - Learn to Smile Again (Justin Time)
71 Tracy Bonham - Blink the Brightest (Zoe)
72 Lynn Miles - Love Sweet Love (True North)
73 Emm Gryner - Songs of Love and Death (www.emmgryner.com)
74 John Hammond - In Your Arms Again (Back Porch Records / EMI)
75 Kate Bush - Aerial (EMI)
76 Michelle Shocked - Threesome (Mighty Sound)
77 Sandro Dominelli - Meet Me In the Alley (Second Storey)
78 Paul Thorn - Are You With Me? (Back Porch / EMI)
79 Blue Rodeo - Are You Ready (Warner)
80 various - A Winter's Night (Nettwerk)
81 Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of Alabama - There Will Be a Light (Virgin Records)
82 Ani diFranco - Knuckle Down (Righteous Babe / Festival Distribution)
83 Eivør - Eivør (Spirit River)
84 The Duhks - The Duhks (Sugar Hill)
85 Esthero - Wikked Lil Grrrls (Reprise / Warner)
86 various - Verve/Remixed 3 (Verve / Universal)
87 Sarah Harmer - I'm a Mountain (Universal)
88 Marty Stuart - Soul's Chapel (Universal)
89 Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home (Columbia / Legacy / Sony)
90 Joni Mitchell - Songs of a Prairie Girl (Warner / Nonesuch)
91 Sillan and Young - Better Thing (independent / www.sillanyoung.com)
92 Allison Krauss - Lonely Runs Both Ways (Rounder)
93 Nitin Sawhney - Philtre (V2)
94 Michael Buble - It's Time (Warner)
95 various artists - Hands Across the Water (Compass)
96 Paul Kelly - Foggy Highway (True North / Cooking Vinyl)
97 Ben Lee - Awake is the New Sleep (New West)
98 The Laws - Another Road (indie / www.thelaws.ca)
99 Doug Cox and Sam Hurrie - Hungry Ghosts (Northern Blues)
100 Mike Clark Band - Clarkology (www.mikeclarkband.com)

 

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