[A] I've always listed him under the broad category of rock, following Drive-By Truckers, and I've never thought about him enough to rethink that. But throwing the 'C' flag was easy enough, so I tried it. Put him in the number 1 spot on the C-F-A list, which I find a little creepy, but happens with genre-crossing. (Do metal fans agree that my top EOY-listed metal albums are real metal? I doubt it.)

Why I threw "Americana" on the end of "Country-Folk" is somewhat mysterious. Probably because my view of Country is broader than the Nashville-Austin axis, and that's where the outliers get slotted, but I wouldn't want the definition to creep into including such Americana-ish rockers as Mellencamp, Springsteen, and Neil Young.