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Jon Boden, Jim Causley, Rachael McShane & others share their albums of the decade - UPDATED

Posted by Christopher Friedenthal on 01 December 2009

Believe it or not we’re rapidly approaching the end of another decade. To celebrate this looming inevitability luminaries from the Navigator Records roster have shared with us their albums of the decade. What do you think of their selection?

Jon Boden (Bellowhead, Spiers&Boden, solo artist)

  • Kate Bush - Aerial
  • Tom Waits - Blood Money
  • Ed Harcourt - The Beautiful Lie
  • Jim Moray - Sweet England
  • Mary Hampton - My Mothers Children
  • Eliza Carthy - Anglicana
  • Tom Waits - Orphans
  • The Long Blondes - Someone to drive you home
  • Eliza Carthy - Dreams of Breathing Underwater
  • Martin Simpson - True Stories

Rachael McShane (Bellowhead, solo artist)

  • Aidan O’Rourke - Sirius
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station - Lonely Runs Both Ways
  • Aqualung - Aqualung
  • Catherine Feeney - Hurricane Glass
  • Chris Thile - Not All Who Wander Are Lost
  • Chris Wood - The Lark Descending
  • Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
  • Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself
  • Sigur Ros - Takk
  • Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott - Real Time

Dave Delarre (Mawkin:Causley, Mawkin)

  • Girls Aloud - Chemistry
  • Lamb - What Sound
  • Tom Waits - Alice
  • Jeff Beck - Live at Ronnie Scotts
  • Radiohead - Kid A
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
  • Moldy Peaches - Moldy Peaches
  • Faithless - No Roots
  • Ali Farka Toure - Savane
  • Prodigy - Invaders Must Die

Jim Causley (Mawkin:Causley, Under One Sky, solo artist)

Jim wanted 15 as he found it hard...
  • Amparanoia - La Vida Te Da
  • Ani Difranco - Reveling & Reckoning
  • George Papavgeris - Ordinary Heroes
  • Johnny Flynn - A Larum
  • Julie Murphy - Lilac Tree
  • Kathryn Williams & Neil McColl - Two
  • Martyn Bennett - Grit
  • Mary Hampton - My Mother’s Children
  • Paul Wilson & Marilyn Tucker - Dead Maid’s Land
  • Suzanne Vega - Songs in Red and Gray
  • Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio
  • Dolly Parton - The Grass Is Blue
  • Joan Osbourne - Pretty Little Stranger
  • Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature
  • Waterson:Carthy - A Dark Light

Inge Thomson (Karine Polwart Band, solo artist)

  • Hanne Hukkelberg- Little Things
  • Laura Veirs- Carbon Glacier
  • Tin Hat Trio- Rodeo Eroded
  • Goldfrapp- Felt Mountain
  • May Monday- Karen Tweed & Timo Alakotilla
  • Amestoy Trio- Le Fil
  • Regina Spektor- Begin to Hope
  • Filippo Gambetta- Pria Goaea
  • Lamb- Between Darkness & Wonder
  • Cake - Comfort Eagle

...you?

Do you agree? What are your choices? Leave a comment below and have your voice heard!

Comments

Hurrah! Someone else likes Cake - Comfort Eagle!

Clare
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Unless I’m mistaken Jon Boden appears on at least three of his choices...

Nich S. Brook-Hart
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I agree about Anglicana and my favorite songs on it are ones that Jon isn’t playing on. But I do like his stuff as well but Eliza seems to embody English music when she does those great ballads.

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