American Songwriter: Top 25 Albums Of 2018
[see also 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2011]
- Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
- Pistol Annies — Interstate Gospel
- Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
- Amanda Shires — To the Sunset
- John Prine — The Tree of Forgiveness
- Jeff Tweedy — WARM
- Eric Church — Desperate Man
- Charles Bradley — Black Velvet
- American Aquarium — Things Change
- Joshua Hedley — Mr. Jukebox
- Erin Rae — Putting on Airs
- The War and Treaty — Healing Tide
- Ruston Kelly — Dying Star
- Patrick Sweany — Ancient Noise
- Brothers Osborne — Port Saint Joe
- Lucero — Among the Ghosts
- Aaron Lee Tasjan — Karma for Cheap
- Caroline Rose — LONER
- Brandi Carlile — By The Way, I Forgive You
- Mary Gauthier — Rifles and Rosary Beads
- Colter Wall — Songs of the Plains
- John Hiatt — The Eclipse Sessions
- Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite — No Mercy In This Land
- Natalie Prass — The Future and the Past
- Mac Miller — Swimming