Here are Chuck Eddy's P&J and Country Music Critics ballots, which he gave me permission to print. (Btw, I disqualified myself from the country poll this year, but if I'd voted I'd surely have included the singles he voted for by Brantley Gilbert and Rascal Flatts, and likely would have gone for the Jamie O'Neal. And if I'd counted A Pony Named Olga as country, I'd have voted them in the singles category (haven't heard the alb Chuck voted for, which is three years old but came out in America only this year, and maybe if I'd heard it, its rockabilliness would've made it eligible in my mind; but their singles from this year wouldn't have seemed country enough for me to include).)
P&J
Albums Miranda Lambert – Platinum (RCA Nashville) 25 Kindred The Family Soul - A Couple Friends (Shanachie) 14 Bunji Garlin – Differentology (RCA/VP) 10 Black Space Riders – D:REI (BSR/Cargo) 9 Bubba Sparxxx – Made On McCosh Mill Road (eOne) 8 Edguy – Space Police: Defenders Of The Crown (Nuclear Blast) 8 Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste (Prospect Park) 7 A Pony Named Olga – The Land Of Milk And Pony (Saustex) 7 Golem – Tanz (Corason) 6 Mausoleum Gate – Mausoleum Gate (Cruz Del Sur) 6
singles Mia Martina featuring Dev – Danse (CP Music Group) BiS – STUPiG (Avex Japan) Calibre 50 – El Inmigrante (Disa) Brantley Gilbert – Bottoms Up (Valory Music Co.) Millie Jackson – Black B_tch Crazy (Weird Wreckuds) Xavie Shorts – Get Enough (Blacklever Musicgroup) DJ Snake and Lil Jon – Turn Down For What (Columbia) K. Michelle – Can’t Raise A Man (Atlantic) Kira Isabella – Quarterback (HitShop/Warner Music Nashville) Klass Band Brotherhood – My Angel (Music Access Inc.)
country poll TOP TEN COUNTRY ALBUMS OF 2014: 1. Miranda Lambert – Platinum (RCA Nashville) 2. Bubba Sparxxx – Made On McCosh Mill Road (eOne) 3. A Pony Named Olga – The Land Of Milk And Pony (Saustex) 4. Sunny Sweeney - Provoked (Aunt Daddy) 5. Angaleena Presley – American Middle Class (Three Tigers) 6. Little Big Town -- Painkiller (Capitol) 7. Corb Lund – Counterfeit Blues (New West) 8. Frankie Ballard – Sunshine & Whiskey (Warner Bros.) 9. Sam Hunt – Montevallo (MCA Nashville) 10. Over The Rhine – Blood Oranges In The Snow (Great Speckled Dog)
TOP TEN COUNTRY SINGLES OF 2014: 1. Brantley Gilbert – Bottoms Up 2. Millie Jackson – Black B_tch Crazy 3. Kira Isabella – Quarterback 4. Big Jay Cummings – Can We Ever Go Home Again 5. Sunny Sweeney – Bad Girl Phase 6. Kacey Musgraves – The Trailer Song 7. Eli Young Band – Dust 8. Jamie O'Neal – Wide Awake 9. Toby Keith – Drunk Americans 10. Rascal Flatts – Rewind
Chuck Eddy's P&J and Country Music Critics ballots
P&J
Albums
Miranda Lambert – Platinum (RCA Nashville) 25
Kindred The Family Soul - A Couple Friends (Shanachie) 14
Bunji Garlin – Differentology (RCA/VP) 10
Black Space Riders – D:REI (BSR/Cargo) 9
Bubba Sparxxx – Made On McCosh Mill Road (eOne) 8
Edguy – Space Police: Defenders Of The Crown (Nuclear Blast) 8
Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste (Prospect Park) 7
A Pony Named Olga – The Land Of Milk And Pony (Saustex) 7
Golem – Tanz (Corason) 6
Mausoleum Gate – Mausoleum Gate (Cruz Del Sur) 6
singles
Mia Martina featuring Dev – Danse (CP Music Group)
BiS – STUPiG (Avex Japan)
Calibre 50 – El Inmigrante (Disa)
Brantley Gilbert – Bottoms Up (Valory Music Co.)
Millie Jackson – Black B_tch Crazy (Weird Wreckuds)
Xavie Shorts – Get Enough (Blacklever Musicgroup)
DJ Snake and Lil Jon – Turn Down For What (Columbia)
K. Michelle – Can’t Raise A Man (Atlantic)
Kira Isabella – Quarterback (HitShop/Warner Music Nashville)
Klass Band Brotherhood – My Angel (Music Access Inc.)
country poll
TOP TEN COUNTRY ALBUMS OF 2014:
1. Miranda Lambert – Platinum (RCA Nashville)
2. Bubba Sparxxx – Made On McCosh Mill Road (eOne)
3. A Pony Named Olga – The Land Of Milk And Pony (Saustex)
4. Sunny Sweeney - Provoked (Aunt Daddy)
5. Angaleena Presley – American Middle Class (Three Tigers)
6. Little Big Town -- Painkiller (Capitol)
7. Corb Lund – Counterfeit Blues (New West)
8. Frankie Ballard – Sunshine & Whiskey (Warner Bros.)
9. Sam Hunt – Montevallo (MCA Nashville)
10. Over The Rhine – Blood Oranges In The Snow (Great Speckled Dog)
TOP TEN COUNTRY SINGLES OF 2014:
1. Brantley Gilbert – Bottoms Up
2. Millie Jackson – Black B_tch Crazy
3. Kira Isabella – Quarterback
4. Big Jay Cummings – Can We Ever Go Home Again
5. Sunny Sweeney – Bad Girl Phase
6. Kacey Musgraves – The Trailer Song
7. Eli Young Band – Dust
8. Jamie O'Neal – Wide Awake
9. Toby Keith – Drunk Americans
10. Rascal Flatts – Rewind