Picking favorite tunes by Guy Clark is more an exercise in what to leave out, rather than what to include. The songwriting legend is entering his seventh decade, still at the top of his game.

If you're a music lover (and we guess you are), then you're surely as excited as we are about a brand new year with brand new music. It can be hard to keep up with releases, but our DJs are here to help.

Here's my list of top 10 favorite albums and favorite songs of 2011. Enjoy and happy new year!

Listed below are 15 of my favorite compilations and/or reissues from 2011. So much to choose from. I believe any of the following will provide hours of rewarding listening.

Here's my roundup of favorite country sounds of 2011. Enjoy!

Derided in countless jokes, often by the very people that play it, the banjo just might be poised to show us why it really is the greatest instrument ever. Or, at the very least, to make a good case as to why it isn't the worst.

While 2011 certainly provided plenty of top-shelf records, I want to do KDHX readers a solid, and as opposed to you running out and buying every album I mention, like I know you certainly would, I put together a cheat sheet of some of my favorite songs.

My top albums this year all seem to have a return to a rock ethos. There was a certain vibe of retro cool that permeated my favorites from 2011, like amped-up echoes of past artists but channeled into something new.

While looking at all the music I was listening to this year I see that most of my favorite stuff ended up being single songs. (Stay tuned for a post on that topic.) But the albums that I dove into I dove into repeatedly and often. Here are about half of my favorites.

Below is my personal list of top 10 favorite albums of 2011 -- and a couple of bonus lists as well.

Music isn't a sport though the idea of a top 10 list can make it seem competitive. It isn't like that, of course, but there are some recordings that are, well, better than others.

Like many other things in life that I still haven't figured out, finding a methodology for creating year-end lists is something that I struggle with.

It's been an amazing year in music, and the DJs of 88.1 KDHX have been spinning it for you all throughout 2011. In this feature, our DJs pick their top 10 albums of the year.

If you've listened to my show, Bittersweet Melody, you know that Drive-by Truckers are one of my favorite bands. No one band represents the South in today's rock world more than Drive-by Truckers.

The year 2011 is flying by at the speed of sound. As we hit the midyear mark, the DJs of 88.1 KDHX have pressed pause, surveyed the scene and weighed in with their favorite releases -- thus far.

It is seriously difficult to rank or rate the songs of Stereolab. I know I am wrong all ready. It isn't possible to have a constant favorite 10 Stereolab songs. These turf-greedy songs demand and require, slutty and intimate, jealously polyamorous relationships with your unconscious.

With Arcade Fire due in St. Louis tonight at the Scottrade Center, it seems fitting to honor quite possibly the most critically acclaimed band of this young century. After three albums, one EP and heaps and heaps of praise, I bring to you my Top 10 Arcade Fire songs (so far).

In memory of March 16 -20, I present my Top 10 Uncle Tupelo songs.

In honor of the silver-tongued devil's appearance with his old friend Merle Haggard at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on March 9, I thought a list was in order -- as absurd as any such list of songs by one of the true masters could be.

Over 30 DJs at 88.1 KDHX have weighed in with their favorite releases of 2010. It's a grand tour of some of the grandest music of the year.