American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2015
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2012, 2011]
- Chris Stapleton — Traveller
- TORRES — Sprinter
- Jason Isbell — Something More Than Free
- Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
- James McMurtry — Complicated Game
- John Moreland — High on Tulsa Heat
- Wilco — Star Wars
- Craig Finn — Faith In the Future
- Natalie Prass — Natalie Prass
- Sufjan Stevens — Carrie & Lowell
- Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
- Chvrches — Every Open Eye
- Houndmouth — Little Neon Limelight
- Kurt Vile — B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
- Rayland Baxter — Imaginary Man
- Kacey Musgraves — Pageant Material
- Dawes — All Your Favorite Bands
- Ashley Monroe — The Blade
- Patty Griffin — Servant of Love
- Josh Ritter — Sermon on the Rocks
- Alabama Shakes — Sound & Color
- Andrew Combs — All These Dreams
- Dave Rawlings Machine — Nashville Obsolete
- Titus Andronicus — The Most Lamentable Tragedy
- Steve Earle & The Dukes — Terraplane
- Drake — If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
- The Deslondes — The Deslondes
- Beach Slang — The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
- Lucero — All a Man Should Do
- Leon Bridges — Coming Home
- Dwight Yoakam — Second Hand Heart
- Florence + The Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
- Built to Spill — Untethered Moon
- Deerhunter — Fading Frontier
- Lana Del Rey — Honeymoon
- Jessica Pratt — On Your Own Love Again
- Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell — The Traveling Kind
- My Morning Jacket — The Waterfall
- Promised Land Sound — For Use and Delight
- Bully — Feels Like
- Aaron Lee Tasjan — In The Blazes
- Adele — 25
- GospelbeacH — Pacific Surf Line
- Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear
- Nora Jane Struthers — Wake
- Punch Brothers — The Phosphorescent Blues
- Iris DeMent — The Trackless Woods
- Glen Hansard — Didn’t He Ramble
- Sleater-Kinney — No Cities To Love
- Kristin Diable — Create Your Own Mythology