Brit magazine's list of top 2009 Americana albums

I know I still have a lot to learn about the relatively recent & very elastic music genre known as "Americana" (a term first popularized circa 1994), but I hadn't heard of half of the artists listed below. Any favorite records of yours among them?

The January 2010 issue of "Uncut", a hip London-based magazine, offers this odd list of the Best Americana Albums of 2009:
1. The Low Anthem - "Oh My God, Charlie Darwin" (cutesy title, but a nice band name)
2. Alela Diane - "To Be Still"
3. The Duke & the King - "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
4. The Felice Brothers - "Yonder Is the Clock"
5. Richard Fonatine - "We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River"
6. Levon Helm - "Electric Dirt" (still rockin' 41 years after The Band's debut)
7. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "Beware"
8. Neko Case - "Middle Cyclone" (to know her is to love her, and I do indeed)
9. Monsters of Folk - [eponymous title] (a rare supergroup that didn't disappoint)
10. M. Ward - "Hold Time" (one of the Folk Monsters scores twice)
11. Patterson Hood - "Murdering Oscar"
12. Steve Earle - "Townes" (a moving tribute by a master to his dead mentor)
13. A A Bondy - "When the Devil's Loose"
14. Arbouretum - "Song of the Pearl" (why the British spelling? Very un-Americana)
15. Guy Clark - "Somedays the Song Writes You" (a cool Dualtone release by perhaps Townes Van Zandt's best friend, after Guy's wife Susanna Clark)
16. Kris Kristofferson - "Closer to the Bone" (groovy video for the title track too)
17. Deer Tick - "Born on Flag Day"
18. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - [eponymous title]
19. Devon Sproule - "Don't Hurry for Heaven" (I'll try not to, sir)
20. The Handsome Family - "Honey Moon"

Notably absent from those UK editors' selections: Buddy & Julie Miller's "Written in Chalk", Wilco's "Wilco (The Album)", Justin Townes Earle's "Midnight at the Movies," The Avett Brothers et al. Nominate your own best Americana records of all time here. Mine just might be Bob Dylan's 1966 album "Blonde on Blonde" (recorded in Nashville with such session players as Charlie McCoy on harmonica,etc.).