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Here's the XPN Staff Picks for 2006

Roger LaMay, General Manager
1. Alejandro Escavedo / Boxing Mirror
2. Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 / Tick, Tick, Tick
3. Hold Steady / Boys and Girls in America
4. James Hunter / People Gonna Talk
5. Citizen Cope / Every Waking Moment
6. Los Lobos / The Town and the City
7. Gnarls Barkley / St. Elsewhere
8. Derek Trucks / Songlines
9. Amos Lee / Supply and Demand
10. Slo Mo / My Buzz Comes Back

Michaela Majoun, XPN Morning Show Host
1. Alejandro Escovedo / The Boxing Mirror
2. Corinne Bailey Rae / Corinne Bailey Rae
3. Gnarls Barkley / St. Elsewhere
4. Los Lobos / The Town and the City
5. Bruce Springsteen / The Seeger Sessions
6. Bob Dylan / Modern Times
7. Citizen Cope / Every Waking Moment
8. KT Tunstall / Eye To the Telescope
9. Slo Mo with Mic Wrecka / My Buzz Comes Back
10. Marisa Monte / Infinito Particular & Universo ao Meu Redor

Helen Leicht, Midday and Philly Local Host
1. Amos Lee / Supply & Demand
2. Ray Lamontagne / Till The Sun Turns Black
3. Citizen Cope / Every Waking Moment
4. Gnarls Barkley / St. Elsewhere
5. Melody Gardot / Worrisome Heart
6. Slo Mo w/Mic Wrecka / My Buzz Comes Back
7. Rodrigo Y Gabriela / Rodrigo Y Gabriela
8. Matt Duke / Winter Child
9. Birdie Busch / The Ways we Try
10. Antje Duvekot / Big Dream Boulevard

David Dye, World Cafe® Host
(in no particular order)
Josh Ritter / The Animal Years
Beck / The Information
The Black Keys / Magic Potion
The Hold Steady / Boys and Girls In America
Thom Yorke / The Eraser
Ray LaMontagne / 'Til The Sun Turns Black
Guillemots/ From The Cliffs
Los Lobos/ The Town and the City
Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra / Boulevard De L'Independence
Madeleine Peyroux / Half The Perfect World
Bubbling Under....
Midlake / The Trial of Van Occupanther
Bob Dylan / Modern Times
Jennifer O'Connor / Over the Mountain Across the Valley and Back To the Stars
JJ Cale and Eric Clapton / The Road To Escondido
My Morning Jacket / Okonokos
M. Ward / Post War
Portastatic / Be Still Please
Pernice Brothers / Live a Little
The Changes / Today Is Tonight
The Slip / Eisenhower
Song of the Year: Josh Ritter / Thin Blue Flame

Kathy O'Connell, Kids Corner Host
1. Trout Fishing in America / My Best Day
2. Vance Gilbert / Angels, Castles, Covers
3. Bruce Springsteen / We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
4. Various Artists / Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Kings
5. Kennedys / Songs of the Open Road
6. Kinky Friedman / Last of the Jewish Cowboys: The Best of Kinky Friedman
7. Barbara Cook/ Barbara Cook at the Met with Special Guests
8. Madeleine Peyroux / Half the Perfect World
9. Natalie MacMaster / Yours Truly
10. John Flynn / Two Wolves

Jonny Meister, Blues Show Host
1. Harmonica Shah / Listen At Me Good
2. Catherine Russell / Cat
3. Aziza Mustafa Zadeh / Contrasts
4. Angá / Echu Mingua
5. Guy Davis / Skunkmello
6. Rahsaan Roland Kirk / Brotherman In The Fatherland
7. Jimi "Prime Time" Smith / Back On Track
8. Burnside Exploration / The Record
9. India.Arie / Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship
10. Piney Brown / One Of These Days

Dan Reed, Operations Manager/Music Director
1. The Raconteurs / Broken Boy Soldiers
2. TV On The Radio / Return To Cookie Mountain
3. Tom Waits / Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
4. Gnarls Barkley / St. Elsewhere
5. Beck / The Information
6. The Hold Steady / Boys & Girls In America
7. The Killers / Sam's Town
8. Grean Bel Fisher / Full Moon Cigarette
9. My Morning Jacket / Okonokos
10. The Slip / Eisenhower

Bruce Warren, Assistant GM for Programming
(in no particular order)
Josh Ritter / The Animal Years
Justin Timberlake / FutureSex/LoveSounds
Gnarls Barkley / St. Elsewhere
Bob Dylan / / Modern Times
Decemberists / The Crane Wife
Hold Steady / Boys And Girls In America
Lupe Fiasco / Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
The Roots / Game Theory
TV On The Radio / Return To Cookie Mountain
Thom Yorke / The Eraser

Jim McGuinn, Y-Rock On XPN Host
1. Arctic Monkeys / Whatever You Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
2. Flaming Lips / At War with the Mystics
3. Gnarls Barkley / St. Elsewhere
4. Thom Yorke / The Eraser
5. The Dears / Gang of Losers
6. Beck / The Information
7. TV on the Radio / Return to Cookie Mountain
8. Snow Patrol / Eyes Open
9. The Raconteurs / Broken Boy Soldiers
10. Art Brut / Bang Bang Rock and Roll

Matt Reilly, Evening/Weekend Host
1. Thom Yorke / The Eraser
2. TV on the Radio / Return To Cookie Mountain
3. The Long Winters / Putting The Days To Bed
4. Say Hi To Your Mom / Impeccable Blahs
5. Gnarls Barkley / St. Elsewhere
6. Mastodon / Blood Mountain
7. Nine Black Alps / Everything Is
8. The Mercers / Pretty Things Walk
9. Centro-matic / Ft. Recovery
10. Tom Petty / Highway Companion

Chuck Elliot, Sleepy Hollow Host
1. Various Artists / Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys
2. Madeleine Peyroux / Half the Perfect World
3. Sparklehorse / Dreamt For Light Years Lying In The Belly Of A Mountain
4. Ellen Tepper and Ray Duffy / The Space Between the Strings (Philly Local)
5. Bar Scott / Parachute
6. Anonymous 4 / Gloryland
7. Peter Blanchette / Cinema Italiano
8. Peter Ostroushko / Postcards
9. Nouvelle Vague / Bande A-Part

Samantha Sullivan, Sleepy Hollow Host
1. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan / Ballad of the Broken Seas
2. David Gilmour / On An Island
3. Madeleine Peyroux / Half a Perfect World
4. Ane Brun / A Temporary Dive
5. Tom Waits / Orphans - Box Set