Best albums, January 2011

Of the albums that arrived at the station in January 2011, my favorite was:

• Simply Eva by Eva Cassidy.  According to the liner notes, these are never before released recordings and we are supposed to think they are unlike what we have heard before.  They did not seem so novel to me.  I have already heard recordings of Eva Cassidy doing these songs.  I liked them when I heard them before, and I like them on this album too, but it doesn't feel to me like something new.