{"id":1029,"date":"2011-11-21T07:27:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2011-11-21T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:27:07","slug":"best-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/reviews\/best-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, I was part of administering and a voting member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/fidsandkamily.com\">Fids &amp; Kamily Awards<\/a> this year. \u00a0Follow the link for a full description, but basically: a bunch of people who pay attention to family music vote on their favorites with a weighted ballot, and the albums with the most points win. \u00a0It&#8217;s based on the Village Voice Pazz &amp; Jop poll. \u00a0Wayne Brady didn&#8217;t get any votes.<\/p>\n<p>As you know if you listened on Saturday, <a href=\"http:\/\/recessmonkey.com\">Recess Monkey<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Flying!<\/em> won the top spot. \u00a0But I thought I&#8217;d also share what my picks were. \u00a0More than most years, I had a lot of ties, and relatively few huge spreads, so I&#8217;m just listing my top ten in alphabetical order by artist (though I&#8217;ll name my one favorite down below):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alastair Moock: <em>These Are My Friends<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Billy Kelly: <em>In the Family Garden<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Cat &amp; a Bird: <em>Cat &amp; a Bird<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Dan Zanes: <em>Little Nut Tree<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Deedle Deedle Dees: <em>Strange Dees, Indeed<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Frances England: <em>Mind of My Own<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lunch Money: <em>Original Friend<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Papa Crow: <em>Things That Roar<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Recess Monkey: <em>Flying!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>ScribbleMonster: <em>Look Both Ways<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Other artists that came thisclose to getting some votes (i.e., my honorable mentions): Flannery Brothers, Jimmies, Mike Park, Mister G, Gustafer Yellowgold, Brady Rymer, Not-Its!, Hipwaders. \u00a0Again, Wayne Brady wasn&#8217;t close.<\/div>\n<p>My overall favorite CD of the year was the Deedle Deedle Dees&#8217; <em>Strange Dees, Indeed<\/em>. \u00a0Anyone who&#8217;s paid attention knows that I love the Dees (and, full disclosure, have hosted them in our house and consider them good friends). \u00a0Their live shows have always been ridiculous fun. \u00a0Now they&#8217;ve got a record that matches up with those shows, thanks to the producing talents of Dean Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, I was part of administering and a voting member of the Fids &amp; Kamily Awards this year. \u00a0Follow the link for a full description, but basically: a bunch of people who pay attention to family music vote on their favorites with a weighted ballot, and the albums with the most points win. \u00a0It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}