Critics' Choice '78
High Fidelity
Album of the Year
1st place Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy (Asylum)
2nd place Elvis Costello: This Year's Model (Columbia)
3rd place Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Rolling Stones/Atlantic)
Best Pop Album
1st Nick Lowe: Pure Pop for Now People (Columbia)
2nd Willie Nelson: Stardust (Columbia)
3rd Gerry Rafferty: City to City (United Artists)
Best Rock & Roll Album
1st Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Rolling Stones/Atlantic)
2nd Elvis Costello: This Year's Model (Columbia)
3rd The Who: Who Are You? (MCA)
Best Country Album
1st Willie Nelson: Stardust (Columbia)
2nd Jerry Lee Lewis: Keeps Rockin' (Mercury)
3rd Marshall Chapman: Jaded Virgin (Epic)
Best R&B Album
1st The Staples: Unlock Your Mind (Warner Bros.)
2nd Village People: Macho Man (Casablanca)
3rd Johnny Guitar Watson: Funk Beyond the Call of Duty (DJM)
Best Fusion/Latin Album
1st Egberto Gismonti: Sol do meio Dia (ECM)
2nd Eddie Palmieri: Lucumi Macumba Voodoo (Epic)
Best Contemporary Jazz Album
1st Weather Report: Mr. Gone (ARC/Columbia)
2nd Keith Jarrett: Bop-Be (A 13C/ Impulse)
Best Classic Jazz Album
1st Joe Venuti: Violin Jazz (Yazoo)
2nd Teddi King: Lovers & Losers(Audiophile)
Best Off-the-Beaten Path Albums (LPs that are highly unlikely to race up the charts but deserve to outlive what will)
- Little Walter: Blue and Lonesome (Le Roi du Blues). N.T.
- Dead Boys: We Have Come for Your Children (Sire). T.G.
- Ken Bloom: Ken Bloom (Flying Fish). T.E.
- Wire: Pink Flag (Capitol). K.T.
- Rank Strangers: Rank Strangers (Pacific Arts). S.S.
- Inez Andrews: Chapter Five (ABC/ Songbird). K.E.
- Nimrod Workman & Phyllis Boyens: Passing Through the Garden (June Appal). J.S.R.
- Teddi King: Lovers & Losers (Audiophile) J.S.W.
- Oliver Lake: Life Dance of Is (Novus). D.H.
- Carol Douglas: Burnin' (Midsong). S.E.
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