American Songwriter: Top 25 Albums of 2017
[see also 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2011]
- Margo Price — All American Made
- Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit — The Nashville Sound
- Angaleena Presley — Wrangled
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings — Soul of a Woman
- J.D. McPherson — UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL
- The National — Sleep Well Beast
- Robert Plant — Carry Fire
- St. Vincent — MASSEDUCTION
- Rhiannon Giddens — Freedom Highway
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
- LCD Soundsystem — american dream
- John Moreland — Big Bad Luv
- Julien Baker — Turn Out the Lights
- Hurray for the Riff Raff — The Navigator
- Algiers — The Underside of Power
- Steve Earle & The Dukes — So You Wannabe an Outlaw
- Caroline Spence — Spades and Roses
- Ron Gallo — Heavy Meta
- Nicole Atkins — Goodnight Rhonda Lee
- The Killers — Wonderful Wonderful
- Lee Ann Womack — The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
- The War on Drugs — A Deeper Understanding
- Natalie Hemby — Puxico
- Perfume Genius — No Shape
- Andrew Combs — Canyons of my Mind