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American Songwriter: Top 25 Albums of 2017

06 December 2017

All American Made - Margo Price

American Songwriter: Top 25 Albums of 2017

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. All American Made
    Margo Price
  2. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
  3. Wrangled
    Angaleena Presley
  4. Soul of a Woman
    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
  5. UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL
    J.D. McPherson
  6. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
  7. Carry Fire
    Robert Plant
  8. MASSEDUCTION
    St. Vincent
  9. Freedom Highway
    Rhiannon Giddens
  10. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
  11. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
  12. Big Bad Luv
    John Moreland
  13. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
  14. The Navigator
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
  15. The Underside of Power
    Algiers
  16. So You Wannabe an Outlaw
    Steve Earle & The Dukes
  17. Spades and Roses
    Caroline Spence
  18. Heavy Meta
    Ron Gallo
  19. Goodnight Rhonda Lee
    Nicole Atkins
  20. Wonderful Wonderful
    The Killers
  21. The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
    Lee Ann Womack
  22. A Deeper Understanding
    The War on Drugs
  23. Puxico
    Natalie Hemby
  24. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
  25. Canyons of my Mind
    Andrew Combs

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