WHISKEY RIFF – When the team here sat down and put together our shortlist of albums worthy of consideration… we had over 75 albums on the list, and I admittedly probably wasn’t as thorough as I usually am. Most years, I gather up EVERY album released during the year and then send it to a handful of the team members here and we all rank our own top 40. However this year, I just asked for everyone’s albums and built my list off that. Then I take those lists and blend it into one, an official Top 40 albums list.