Why didn't I like these discs?

The discs by these well-known artists just didn't click for me: Lucinda Williams, John Hiatt, Ryan Adams, Steve Earle and Wilco. It isn't that I don't dig these artists. I've seen them all live multiple times. I have every official release from each artist as well as a slew of bootlegs. I know many readers put them on their 2011 lists.
I guess that's not really a discussion but more of an observation.
Instead I found the following discs to be my 2011 favorites:
1-Jason Isbell "Here We Rest"
2-Girls Guns and Glory "Sweet Nothings"
3-Todd Snider "The Storyteller"
4-Dave Alvin "Eleven Eleven"
5-Joe Ely "Satisfied At Last"
6-Drew Kennedy "Fresh Water and the Salton Sea"
7-Emory Quinn "See You At The Next Light"
8-John Howie Jr. and the Rosewod Bluff "Leavin' Yesterday"
9-Los Fabulocos "Dos"
10-The Bottle Rockets "Not So Loud"

Originally published on NoDepression.