DJ Donna Mavity of WTUF's Donna's Americana Radio Hour offers her best of 2012:

In alphabetical order...

TOP GROUP ALBUMS

* Bobtown - Bobtown
* Cicada Ladies - Under the Clay
* MaMuse - Integration of the Awkward
* The Aaron O Rourke Trio - Syzygy
* The Stray Birds - The Stray Birds

TOP MALE ARTIST ALBUMS

* Grant Peeples - Prior Convictions
* Jon Vezner - Catz of the Colosseum
* Otis Gibbs - Harder Than Hammered Hell
* Rodriguez - Searching for Sugarman
* Tim Grimm - Wilderness Songs and Badman Ballads

TOP FEMALE ARTIST ALBUMS

* Iris Dement - Sing the Delta
* Kate Campbell - 1000 Pound Machine
* Lucy Kaplansky - Reunion
* Nanci Griffith - Intersection
* Rebecca Loebe - Circus Heart