The Judy Mayhan Website

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LISTEN UP | JIM FOURATT

LGNY 
New York City
January 2002

The Best In Music for 2001

Critics are currently going through the annual ritual of picking the top 10 albums of the year. These lists pop up everywhere but, amazingly, they usually contain 10 out of the same 15 albums. Critically, the most important list is the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop poll assembled under the watchful eye of Robert Christgau, the dean of rock critics. Pazz & Jop will be out in the February 15 issue of the Voice.

In putting together my list of the top 25 albums, I relied on those I'd been able to listen to a number of times over the last year. Sure it is subjective and there are omissions. For example, Bjork has been on my list in recent years, but this year I haven't heard her record. Also, September 11 had an impact on my list. I've found myself listening more to music that gives me comfort, and this tends to be music released prior to 2001.

I've included artists' web addresses where available, both so that you can learn more about their music and so you can buy the records. Remember: "Ripping off" Internet copies steals the work of the artists.


JUDY MAYHAN
See Here
Shayomi (limited edition)
A little Northern California label has reissued a lost treasure of a record released in 1971. Judy Mayhan recorded three major label albums in the late '60s and early '70s before she disappeared. Discovered first by Atlantic Record's Ahmed Ertegun, her exquisite voice brings forth, on this 1971 Decca recording produced by Nik Venet, recording gems written by the likes of Randy Newman, Lowell George, Fred Neil, and Dory Previn. But where her beautiful voice -- with an emotional range that arches from an angel's sweetness to the down and dirty sadness of a lost hobo -- really shines when she sings her own compositions. "See Here"and "Freest Fancy"are as sonically viable today as anything you might hear on any of the best Americana or triple A stations in the country today. A Heartfelt thank you to the folks at Shayomi Productions in Mendocino, California. www.judymayhan.com 

Here is the complete list of Jim Fouratt's Top 25 Albums of 2001

Record of the Year
MOREL
Queen of the Highway

In Alphabetical Order

ALICE RIPLEY Shine On Sh-k Boom ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS Blue Angel Durtro AVALANCHES Since I Left You Sire/Modular BINOCULAR You Maverick BOB DYLAN Love and Theft Columbia CINDY BULLENS Baby I Want Your Love Artemis CORNEL WEST Sketches of My Culture Artemis DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL So Impossible Vagrant GEOFF BERNER Light Enough to Travel Kolakovsky Music GILLIAN WELCH Time (The Revelation) Acony HOPE SANDOVAL & WARM INVENTIONS Bavarian Fruit Bread Rough Trade JOHN MELLENCAMP CuttinHeads Columbia

JUDY MAYHAN See Here Shayomi (limited edition) LE TIGRE Bang Bang Mr. Lady LEONARD COHEN Ten New Songs Columbia LUCINDA WILLIAMS Essence Lost Highway NICK LOWE The Convincer Yep Roc Records RODNEY CROWELL I Wish It Would Rain Sugar Hill RYAN ADAMS Gold Lost Highway SAUL WILLAMS Amethyst Rock Star Interscope SPIRITUALIZED Spiritualized db/Arista TIMELESS The Hank Williams Tribute Album Lost Highways TOM MCRAE Debut db/Arista YOKO ONO Open Your Box Mind Train

Contact: JF, ListenUp, 70-A Greenwich Ave., #327, NYC 10011.

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