I missed that Bottle Rockets release!!! Gonna have to find it!
I may be good for one more LP list (2011) after this one, but honestly I pretty much stopped buying what passes for Rock and roll around in this period.
What I still buy (and listen to) most probably wouldn't call rock and roll anymore. So I'll probably be ceasing these lists soon. Meantime my 2010 list!
1. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers --- "Mojo" (Their best! A band of brothers/professionals at the peaks of their abilities creating blues roots-rock masterpieces from Tom's songs and inspiration without ANY other consideration but making the best music they could make! REPEAT: THIS is the Best full band {Heartbreakers} release that we'll {sadly} now be able to hear. "Poor Tom Jefferson loved the little maid out back, Midnight creepin' out to the servant's shack" Those are the first lyrics of the LP and it just gets better!!!)
2. Buddy & Julie Miller --- "Written In Chalk" (Stupendous performances on haunting songs! A bit of help from friends Robert Plant and Emmylou Harris here and there.) **
3. John Common & Blinding Flashes Of Light --- (Self-titled) (Beautiful songs, beautifully performed, contains the best Pop single that no one {well, a few of us have!} ever heard "Love Is A Shark" Find it, listen to it.........you'll be hooked!)
4. Robert Plant --- "Band Of Joy" (Still making striking original rock that grabs and moves you........ what else is there?)
5. Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses --- "Junky Star" (More roadhouse swagger from the gravelly voiced Bingham. Produced By T-Bone Burnett)
6. Robert Earl Keen ---- "Rose Hotel" (Robert's best. Grows on you with every listen. I listen to this often still!) **
7. Drive By Truckers --- "The Big To-Do" (More careening in between genre rock and roll, without Isbell!)
8. Works Progress Administration --- "WPA" (This is an odd one. A "band" consisting of Sean and Sara Watkins, Glen Phillips, Luke Bulla, Benmont Tench, Greg Leisz, Davey Faragher and a drummer from LA I can't remember right now put this out. It varies from pop to country to just weird....... but it's all good! Google search the band members!) **
9. Jakob Dylan --- "Women + Children" (Dylan's kid goes it alone {no Wallflowers on this one} with the help of producer T-Bone Burnett The result is my favorite of his!)
10. BoDeans --- "Mr. Sad Clown" (This one is produced by Kurt himself. A bit of a harbinger of things to come as Kurt really shines on this one)
Honorable Mention to Kevin Welch for his "A Patch of Blue Sky"
** These are actually 2009 releases BUT I didn't begin to listen/get into them until 2010 as they were (most likely) my Christmas gifts to myself that year, :-)