Year-End Lists

American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2015

1. Chris Stapleton
   Traveller
2. Torres
   Sprinter
3. Jason Isbell
   Something More Than Free
4. Courtney Barnett
   Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
5. James McMurtry
   Complicated Game
6. John Moreland
   High on Tulsa Heat
7. Wilco
   Star Wars
8. Craig Finn
   Faith In the Future
9. Natalie Prass
   Natalie Prass
10. Sufjan Stevens
    Carrie & Lowell
11. Kendrick Lamar
    To Pimp A Butterfly
12. Chvrches
    Every Open Eye
13. Houndmouth
    Little Neon Limelight
14. Kurt Vile
    B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
15. Rayland Baxter
    Imaginary Man
16. Kacey Musgraves
    Pageant Material
17. Dawes
    All Your Favorite Bands
18. Ashley Monroe
    The Blade
19. Patty Griffin
    Servant of Love
20. Josh Ritter
    Sermon on the Rocks
21. Alabama Shakes
    Sound & Color
22. Andrew Combs
    All These Dreams
23. Dave Rawlings Machine
    Nashville Obsolete
24. Titus Andronicus
    The Most Lamentable Tragedy
25. Steve Earle & The Dukes
    Terraplane
26. Drake
    If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
27. The Deslondes
    The Deslondes
28. Beach Slang
    The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
29. Lucero
    All a Man Should Do
30. Leon Bridges
    Coming Home
31. Dwight Yoakam
    Second Hand Heart
32. Florence + The Machine
    How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
33. Built to Spill
    Untethered Moon
34. Deerhunter
    Fading Frontier
35. Lana Del Rey
    Honeymoon
36. Jessica Pratt
    On Your Own Love Again
37. Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
    The Traveling Kind
38. My Morning Jacket
    The Waterfall
39. Promised Land Sound
    For Use and Delight
40. Bully
    Feels Like
41. Aaron Lee Tasjan
    In The Blazes
42. Adele
    25
43. GospelbeacH
    Pacific Surf Line
44. Father John Misty
    I Love You, Honeybear
45. Nora Jane Struthers
    Wake
46. Punch Brothers
    The Phosphorescent Blues
47. Iris DeMent
    The Trackless Woods
48. Glen Hansard
    Didn’t He Ramble
49. Sleater-Kinney
    No Cities To Love
50. Kristin Diable
    Create Your Own Mythology