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It's year-end list/reader poll time - What's your Top 10 of 2011?

Well, folks...here we are, approaching the end of another year full of so many good albums it's hard to even count. In other words, it's time for year-end lists.

There's a long tradition here at No Depression of compiling a community poll - a grand list of albums you, the community, most loved and adored this year. The rules are pretty simple. Respond to this blog post (in the comments section) with your personal Top 10 Albums of 2011. While you're more than welcome to expand upon your list with video clips, explanations, etc., in a separate blog post, you'll have to post your basic Top 10 in the comments here in order to be counted. Likewise, lists posted on Facebook, Twitter, or any other site around the web won't be counted unless they're also included in the comments here.

To comment on this post, scroll to the bottom of this page and leave your list in the comments section.

In the interest of my sanity (your fearless Community Manager Kim) We will not be accepting Top 20 (or longer) lists this year but feel free to add honorable mentions in addition to your top 10.

You have until 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Dec. 16 to submit your top ten list via this blog post. I (along with a small team of volunteers) will then disappear into a meditative state, where I will employ a complicated mathematical formula to combine all your lists into one master list. This master list will be published on this site on Monday Dec. 26, 2011, as the final official No Depression Community Poll. (Also published that day will be a masterlist of the favorites from our most frequently featured bloggers - the closest we'll get on this site to your standard critics' poll).

Reissues don't count, nor do box sets. We're looking for the ten best new recordings this year. Some allowances can be made for albums released in 2010 in Europe and 2011 in the States, and vice versa. No other scientific rules apply.

Now, give it some thought, then cast your votes.

Comment by Janice Brooks on November 26, 2011 at 9:20am: 1. "Help My Brother" The Gibson Brothers

2. "Texas Songbook" Gary Nicholson

3. "Heartache Looking For A Home" Charlie Sizemore

4. "Mark Twain Words and Music" various

5. "Tommy Duncan Vol 2" Billy Mata and Texas Tredition

6. "The Ghost of Noah Hayes" Rick Pardue and Tim Massey

7. "Back When" The Carper Family

8. "Working In Tennessee" Merle Haggard

9. "An Easy Climb" Donna Ulisse

10. "Reason and Rhyme" Jim Lauderdale

Comment by Jim Werkmeister on November 26, 2011 at 9:41am: 1. My Morning Jacket- Circuital

2. Bright Eyes- The People's Key

3. Decemberists- The King is Dead

4. Ryan Adams- Ashes & Fire

5. The Deep Dark Woods- The Place I Left Behind (my favorite song of the year is "Mary's Gone" from this album)

6. Social Distortion- Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes

7. Crooked Fingers- Breaks in the Armor

8. Okkervil River- I Am Very far

9. Tom Waits- Bad As Me

10. (tie) John Doe- Keeper

10. (tie) Exene Cervenka- The Excitement of Maybe (I know "tie" is cheating to get one more pick, but I couldn't include John without Exene)

Comment by Jayson Kaplan on November 26, 2011 at 9:44am: 1. Tom Waits - "Bad As Me"

2. Kasey Anderson & the Honkies - "Heart of a Dog"

3. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - "Here We Rest"

4, Steve Earle - "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive"

5. Star Anna & the Laughing Dogs - "Alone In this Together"

6. Wilco - "The Whole Love"

7. Bill Frisell - "All We Are Saying"

8. Explosions in the Sky - "Take Care Take Care Take Care"

9. Those Darlins - "Screws Get Loose"

10. Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - "Scandalous"

Comment by Tess Sweeney on November 26, 2011 at 10:04am: 1. Wilco - The Whole Love

2. The Decemberists - The King is Dead

3. Blackie and The Rodeo Kings - Kings and Queens

4. John Doe - Keeper

5. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

6. Lucinda Williams - Blessed

7. Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter - Marble Son

8. Fruit Bats - Tripper

9. Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing

10. Low Anthem - Smart Flesh

Comment by Mike Hopkins on November 26, 2011 at 10:15am: 1. My Morning Jacket - Circuital

2. Decemberists - The King is Dead

3. Hayes Carll - KMAG YOYO

4. Fountains of Wayne - Sky Full of Holes

5. Wilco - The Whole Love

6. Black Joe Lewis - Scandalous

7. Lydia Loveless - Indestrucible Machine

8. Social Distortion - Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes

9. Dave Alvin - Eleven Eleven

10. Nick Lowe - That Old Magic

Comment by Arlene on November 26, 2011 at 11:19am: 1. Gillian Welch- The Harrow and The Harvest

2. Sarah Jarosz- Follow Me Down

3. Low Anthem- Smart Flesh

4. Zoe Muth- Starlight Hotel

5. The Decemberists- The King is Dead

6. Blackie and the Rodeo Kings- Kings and Queens

7. Robyn Ludwick- Out of These Blues

8. Buddy Miller- The Majestic Silver Strings

9. Abigail Washburn- City of Refuge

10. Emmylou Harris- Hard Bargain

Comment by Hal Bogerd on November 26, 2011 at 12:24pm: Did Dylan really not release a disc this year?

Comment by victoria nowak on November 26, 2011 at 2:54pm: 1 Merle Haggard - Working in Tennessee

2 Gillian Welch-Harrow and the Harvest

3 Nick Lowe- That Old Magic

4REM- Collapse into Now

5 Paul Simon- So Beautiful or So What

6 Smith Westerns-Dye it Blonde

7Adele-

8Abigale Washburn- City of Refuge

9The Decemberists- The King is Dead

10-Hayes Carll-KMAG YOYO

Comment by Tony Pierini on November 26, 2011 at 4:12pm: 1. The Decemberists- The King Is Dead

2. The Civil Wars- Barton Hollow

3. Steve Earle- I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive

4. The Head And the Heart- The Head And The Heart

5. Gillian Welch- The Harrow And The Harvest

6. Amos Lee- Mission Bell

7. Wilco- The Whole Love

8. Tedeschi Trucks Band- Revelator

9. The Jayhawks- Mockingbird Time

10. Blind Pilot- We Are The Tide

Comment by No Depression on November 26, 2011 at 5:21pm: Feel free to add honorable mentions or other cd's you enjoyed that didn't necessarily make your top 10 at the bottom of your lists if you'd like. Those tend to be a great source of music discovery for others.