Auld Lang Syne: Drive-By Truckers, The funky Meters, Tea Leaf Green…

Well, the temperature is dropping, office holiday party tour is in full swing and my chapped lips are making me look like the kid on the cover of U2’s War, which can only mean one thing: Year End List Season has officially started. As in years past, we’ve asked a number of musicians, writers, photographers, managers, promoters, non-profit organizers and other members of our extended Relix/Jambands.com community to reflect on the past year. This year we also look back on the past decade, which I’m told is coming to a close at the end of the month. We’ll be posting a range of reflections into 2010, so be sure to check back throughout the year.PATTERSON HOOD (DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS)

What will you remember most about 2009?Having our son (Emmett 90/09/09), touring with Booker T., going to Australia and making our new album The Big To-Do.What album or albums appeared most often in your iTunes?Iron and Wine Around The WellBob Dylan Together Through LifeBloodkin Baby, They Told Us We Would Rise AgainA bunch of Gillian Welch songs (particularly from Time (The Revelator) and Hell Among The Yearlings).What was your favorite show or tour in 2009?Gillian Welch and Iron and Wine at No Depression’s Fest in Seattle, Springsteen at Bonnaroo, M. Ward at 40 Watt (Athens GA) and The Pogues at The Tabernacle.What emerging band should readers watch out for in 2010?The Low Anthem, The Girls, Pride Parade, Justin Townes Earle.What artist or artists will be most synonymous with the past decade?Radiohead, Jack White, Wilco, Bob Dylan.*****HOWIE SCHNEE (CREATIVE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP/SULLIVAN HALL)What will you remember most about 2009?My son Arlo being born.What album or albums appeared most often in your iTunes?Fela Kuti – Yellow FeverSigur Ros – With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play EndlesslyPutumayo’s African DreamlandAnders Osborne – Coming DownAnimal Collective – Merriweather Post PavilionZZ Top – Tres HombresWhat was your favorite show or tour in 2009?Tour: Phish!Shows:Phish-3/7, HamptonKrantz Carlock Lefebvre—2/25, Sullivan HallAnders Osborne—11/7, Sullivan HallWhat emerging band should readers watch out for in 2010?Zach Deputy, Christina Courtin, Cornmeal and Trombone Shorty & Orleans AveAlso, not emerging: Anders Osborne. He’s been around for a long time, but something happened in 2009, turning him into the most exciting live act (apart from Phish) that I’ve seen in a long time.What artist or artists will be most synonymous with the past decade?Ryan Adams, Sufjan Stevens, Radiohead, Kings of Leon, My Morning Jacket, The Bad Plus, Amy Winehouse, Fleet FoxesAnd I will never forget Umphrey’s McGee for showing up three days after 9/11 to play Lion’s Den, when almost every other local, regional or out-of-town band had cancelled their performances in NYC that week. I don’t think the 150 or so in attendance will ever forget that either.GEORGE PORTER JR. (FUNKY METERS)

What will you remember most about 2009?Going back to being happy on stageWhat album or albums appeared most often in your iTunes?There were not a lot as I only use my ipod/iTunes to do homework for up coming gigs [laughter]What was your favorite show or tour in 2009?Of shows there were three: The Meter Men at New Orleans Jazz Fest, The Funky Meters in Tokyo and Runnin’ Pardners at Red Rocks Amphitheater August 8, 2009.Tour there were four: John Scofield Tour in April and Porter Batiste Stoltz short tour in August, Global Noize short tour in September and The John Scofield Tour of Europe in November.What emerging band should readers watch out for in 2010?There are three from New Orleans: Terence Higgins and Swamp Grease, Water Seed and A re-energized Runnin’ Pardners band on the road.What artist or artists will be most synonymous with the past decade?For me it will be the New Orleans Artists we lost this year, Snooks Eaglin, Eddie Bo and Mrs. Juanita Brooks*****DAVE SIMONETT (TRAMPLED BY TURTLES)

What will you remember most about 2009?Probably the swearing in of our first African-American president.What album or albums appeared most often in your iTunes?Neko Case Middle CycloneRadiohead In RainbowsWilco A Ghost is BornRolling Stones Exile on Main St.What was your favorite show or tour in 2009?The Duluth Homegrown Music Festival in Duluth, MNWhat emerging band should readers watch out for in 2010?Charlie ParrWhat artist or artists will be most synonymous with the past decade?Wilco and maybe 50 Cent.JOSH CLARK (TEA LEAF GREEN)

What will you remember most about 2009?There were big changes personally, professionally and globally. Pretty big year really and even in tough times we all managed to party here and there.What album or albums appeared most often in your iTunes?The Footloose soundtrack.What was your favorite show or tour in 2009?Motorhead at the Warfield. They are Motorhead and they play rock and roll. What else is there?What emerging band should readers watch out for in 2010?I don’t know if they’ve already emerged but more people should listen to the Mother Hips.What artist or artists will be most synonymous with the past decade?Tea Leaf Green of course!*****SEAN SULLIVAN (SEAN BONES, SAM CHAMPION)

What will you remember most about 2009?Recording and releasing my first record RINGS, getting married, being in California to see Wah Do Dem win at the LA Film Fest.What album or albums appeared most often in your iTunes?Graham Coxon Spinning TopVarious Psychedelic Guide to Monsterism Island compilationFlaming Lips EmbryonicGlen Brown Termination DubPlus, Yabby You, Real Estate and Cleaners from VenusWhat was your favorite show or tour in 2009?Playing Terminal Five with Brett Dennen and Grace Potter was awesome.What emerging band should readers watch out for in 2010?Johnny Flynn, Port O’Brien, Luke Rathborne… my next record.What artist or artists will be most synonymous with the past decade?Probably Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears. Right?JACK ANTONOFF (STEEL TRAIN)

What will you remember most about 2009?Meeting Weird AlWhat album or albums appeared most often in your iTunes?ELO/Olivia Newton John – Xanadu soundtrackLa Roux – In for the KillTegan and Sara – SainthoodBilly Joel – The StrangerInterpol – Turn on the Bright LightsThat Dog – Retreat from the SunWhat was your favorite show or tour in 2009?Phish at the Garden or the Pulsars reunion show if I had been there. Or…Lykke Li at Highline BallroomWhat emerging band should readers watch out for in 2010?Rachael CantuJulia HaltiganFool’s GoldWhat artist or artists will be most synonymous with the past decade?The Arcade Fire—it’s the sound that everyone has been trying to do this decade, and they actually do it. All the best elements of this generation on music mashed up into one band.*****RACHEL SEIDEN BARON (RELIX, ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER & SR. VICE PRESIDENT)What will you remember most about 2009?Getting MarriedWhat album or albums appeared most often in your iTunes?Phoenix, Andrew Vladeck, Charlie Mars, Beyonce, Avett BrothersWhat was your favorite show or tour in 2009?Phish Indio and my weddingWhat emerging band should readers watch out for in 2010?Not a band, but Eclectic MethodWhat artist or artists will be most synonymous with the past decade?MMJ, Ryan Adams, Jay Z, Ri-Ri