The Year/Decade in Review!!

For those of you who know me, YOU KNOW I love music and concerts! At the end of every year I try to compile a list of my favorite albums, favorite concerts, and so on. Warning...if you are afraid of having your face melted then you may need to stop reading right now!!

Best Concerts of 2009 (I put a limit of 2 Umph shows, since i saw so many this year)

1- Umphrey's Mcgee 2-22-09 -- Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, NC

2- Umphrey's Mcgee 11-21-09 -- 930 Club, Washington, DC

3- Donna the Buffalo 4-29-09 -- Merlefest- Dance Tent

4- The Dead 4-12-09 -- Greensboro Coliseum- Greensboro, NC (birthday show!)

5- Widespread Panic w/ ABB 10-07-09 -- Harbor Center- Portsmouth, VA

**In 2009 I attended 25 concerts

Best Albums of 2009:

1- Umphrey's Mcgee- Mantis

2- The Gourds- Haymaker

3- Akron/Family - Set em Wild, Set em free

4- Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

5- Greensky Bluegrass- Five Interstates

Best shows of the Decade!!

1- Umphrey's Mcgee-- 7-31-08 "Late Night" Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh, NC

2- String Cheese Incident -- 10-07-07 Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville, NC

3- Widespread Panic -- 7-28-00 Mark G. Etess Arena, Atlantic City, NJ

4- The Duhks -- 4-29-06 Merlefest, Wilkesboro, NC

4- Donna the Buffalo -- 4-26-08 Merlefest, Wilkesboro, NC

5- Railroad Earth -- 7-27-06 FloydFest, Floyd, VA

6- Wilco/The Roots -- 6-17-05 Red Rocks, Morrison, CO

7- Yonder Mountain String Band/ABB -- 9-1-06 Red Rocks, Morrison, CO

8- Umphrey's Mcgee -- 4-3-08 The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC

9- Moe. -- 1-25-07 Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO (HONEYMOOOOOON!)

10- String Cheese Incident -- 11-11-00 Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville, NC

Best Albums of Decade:

The Duhks- Migrations

Railroad Earth- The Good Life

Umphrey's Mcgee- Live at the Murat

Mason Jennings - Use Your Voice

Bruce Hornsby - Halcyon Days

Moe. - The Conch

Punch Brothers - Punch

Andrew Peterson - Love and Thunder

Acoustic Syndicate- Crazy Little Life

David Wilcox - Live Songs and Stories