Greetings ABF listeners! Here is the end of year notable releases for 2009. There is no ranking and these are a mere subset of good music released in the past year. Happy New Year! Fire up your iPods but also support brick and mortar music purveyors, local musicans and clubs and independent music producers of every kind. Playlist "time song was played" is almost imaginary. Mary
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Year | ||
| Jeff Bridges Colin Farrell | Falling and Flying | Crazy Heart | New West | 2010 | 1:02 | 3:00 |
| Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel | Sitting on top of the World | Willie and the Wheel | Bizmeaux | 2009 | 1:05 | 3:00 |
| Geoff Muldar and the Texas Sheiks | Blues in a Bottle | Texas Sheiks | Moderne GmbH | 2009 | 1:08 | 4:00 |
| Belleville Outfit | Good as it Gets | Time to Stand | Belleville | 2009 | 1:12 | 4:00 |
| Dallas Wayne | I'm Gonna Break Some Promises Tonight | I'll take the Fifth | Smith | 2009 | 1:16 | 3:00 |
| Sweetheart Sisters | Cannonball | Chicken ain't Chicken | Signature | 2009 | 1:19 | 3:00 |
| Lyle Lovett | Famer Brown/Chicken Reel | Natural Forces | Lost Highway | 2009 | 1:21 | 5:00 |
| Delbert McClinton | Mama's Baby | Acquired Taste | New West | 2009 | 1:26 | 4:00 |
| Sara Watkins | Fredricksburg | Sara Watkins | Nonsuch | 2009 | 1:30 | 4:00 |
| Roseanne Cash | Sea of Heartbreak | The List | Manhattan | 2009 | 1:34 | 3:00 |
| Laurie Lewis | Beaver Creek | Blossoms | Spruce and Maple | 2009 | 1:37 | 4:00 |
| Steve Martin | Pretty Flowers | The Crow | Rounder | 2009 | 1:41 | 3:00 |
| Carolina Cotton | 3 Miles south of Cash | Oxford American Best of 2009 | Oxford American | 2009 | 1:44 | 3:00 |
| Watermelon Slim | It's never too hard to be Humble | Escape from the Chickencoop | Northern Blues | 2009 | 1:47 | 4:00 |
| Dave Rawlings | To be Young | A Friend of a Friend | Acony | 2009 | 1:51 | 5:00 |
| Neko Case | People Got Alot of Nerve | Middle Cyclone | Anit | 2009 | 1:56 | 4:00 |
| Steve Earle | Rake | Townes | New West | 2009 | 2:01 | 5:00 |
| Adam Hood | 22 Days Too Long | Different Groove | Little Dog Records | 2009 | 2:06 | 4:00 |
| Rita Hosking | Montgomery Creek Blues | Come Sunriste | Rita Hosking | 2009 | 2:10 | 4:00 |
| Antje Duvekot | Vertigo | The Near Demise of a High Wire Dancer | Antje Duvekot | 2009 | 2:14 | 5:00 |
| Los Centzotles | One Hot Mama | American Horizon | Centzoles | 2009 | 2:19 | 4:00 |
| The Devil Makes 3 | Do Wrong Right | Do Wrong Right | Milan | 2009 | 2:21 | 3:00 |
| Linzay Young and Joel Savoy | Empty Bottle Blues | Linzay Young and Joel Savoy | Young and Savoy | 2009 | 2:24 | 4:00 |
| Tallboys | Cotton Eyed Joe | Around the Bend | Tallboys | 2009 | 2:28 | 3:00 |
| Buddy and Julie Miller | Ellis County | Written in Chalk | New West 2009 | 2:31 | 5:00 |
