Here is a list of my Part 1 Top Album Picks for 2017 as broadcast on the Monday Traffic Jams January 8th. Never easy and certainly not inclusive of all the music that came out in 2017. I build the list all year long with my requirements of more than half the songs have to score a 4 or 5 star by me. The songs usually have to be more rock’n than ballads since my Monday Traffic Jams should be “driving you home”. If you hear a song you like, you will enjoy the entire album….trust me!! DJ Bobbie Duse….
| Ryan Adams | Prisoner |
| The Band Of Heathens | Duende |
| Bash & Pop | Anything Could Happen |
| Beck | Colors |
| Blitzen Trapper | Wild And Reckless |
| Selwyn Birchwood | Pick Your Poison |
| Beach Fossils | Somersault |
| Benjamin Booker | Witness |
| Randall Bramblett | Juke Joint At The Edge Of The World |
| Boxcar Hollow | Boxcar Hollow |
| Jake Bugg | Hearts That Strain |
| Brent Cowles | Cold Times – EP |
| Vanessa Collier | Meeting My Shadow |
| Mondo Cozmo | Plastic Soul |
| Kasey Chambers | Dragonfly [Disc 2] |
| Ray Davies | Americana |
| Depeche Mode | Spirit |
| Justin Townes Earle | Kids In The Street |
| FayRoy | Heaven At Twenty Seven |
| Fleet Foxes | Crack-Up |
| Ron Gallo | Heavy Meta |
| Peter Himmelman | There Is No Calamity |
| Derek Hoke | Bring The Flood |
| Jesca Hoop | Memories Are Now |
| Jason Isbell | The Nashville Sound |
| King Washington | Potential |
