Best of 2009 Lists from WYEP’s Programming Staff
Cindy Howes Morning Host Top 10 albums for 2009
1. Passion Pit- Manners
2. Boca Chica- Lace up Your Workboots
3. Sam Roberts- Love at the End of The World
4. Meeting of Important People- Meeting of Important People
5. Hallelujah The Hills- Colonial Drones
6. Fruit Bats- Ruminant Band
7. Tegan and Sara- Sainthood
8. Bill Callahan- Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle
9. Amadou & Miriam- Welcome to Mali
10. Jenny Owen Youngs- Transmitter Failure
Mike Sauter Midday Host and Music Director
Avett Brothers I and Love and You
Andrew Bird Noble Beast
Elvis Costello Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
Mike Doughty Sad Man Happy Man
Elizabeth & The Catapult Taller Children
Great Lake Swimmers Lost Channels
Indigo Girls Poseidon and the Bitter Bug
Chris Isaak Mr. Lucky
Joshua James Build Me This
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is!
Scott Miller & The Commonwealth For Crying Out Loud
The Stone Coyotes A Rude Awakening
The Swell Season Strict Joy
Rosemary Welsch Afternoon Host and Senior Producer Top 10 of 2009
1. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
2. So Kalmery – Brakka System
3. Elvis Perkins – Elvis Perkins In Dearland
4. Tom Waits – Glitter and Doom Live
5. Allen Toussaint – The Bright Mississippi
6. Low Anthem – Oh My God Charlie Darwin
7. Eels – Hombre Lobo
8. Taj Mahal – Maestro
9. Amadou & Miriam – Welcome To Mali
10. Rosanne Cash – The List
Kyle Smith Director of Programming and Content and Host of the Music Lab Top 10
1. The Avett Brothers I and Love and You
2. James Yuill Turning Down Water for Air
3. Great Lake Swimmers Lost Channels
4. Mark Knopfler Get Lucky
5. Benjamin Gibbard/ Jay Farrar One Fast Move or I’m Gone
6. Neko Case Middle Cyclone
7. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is!
8. The Swell Season Strict Joy
9. WPA Works Progress Administration
10. Joshua James Build Me This
Brian Siewiorek Production Director Top 10 of 2009
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Various Artists – Dark Was the Night
Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Florence and the Machine – Lungs
Girls – Album
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Mew – No More Stories…
Tags: Music of 2009
