No Depression: Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2018, as selected by staffers, columnists, and reviewers
[see also 2017]
- Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
- Brandi Carlile — By The Way, I Forgive You
- John Prine — The Tree of Forgiveness
- The War and Treaty — Healing Tide
- Sarah Shook & the Disarmers — Years
- I’m With Her — See You Around
- The Brother Brothers — Some People I Know
Common Ground
- Aaron Lee Tasjan — Karma for Cheap
- Adrianne Lenker — abysskiss
- Amanda Shires — To the Sunset
- American Aquarium — Things Change
- various artists — American Folk (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Amigo — And Friends
- Amy Ray — Holler
- Ana Egge — White Tiger
- Anderson East — Encore
- Angélique Kidjo — Remain in Light
- Anna & Elizabeth — The Invisible Comes to Us
- Ashley McBryde — Girl Going Nowhere
- Ashley Monroe — Sparrow
- Austin Lucas — Immortal Americans
- Barrence Whitfield & The Savages — Soul Flowers of Titan
- Bettye LaVette — Things Have Changed
- Blue Yonder — Rough and Ready Heart
- The Bottle Rockets — Bit Logic
- boygenius — boygenius
- Brothers Osborne — Port Saint Joe
- Buck Meek — Buck Meek
- Caroline Rose — LONER
- Cat Power — Wanderer
- Colter Wall — Songs of the Plains
- Courtney Hartman & Taylor Ashton — Been on Your Side
- Courtney Marie Andrews — May Your Kindness Remain
- Cowboy Junkies — All That Reckoning
- David Crosby — Here If You Listen
- Dead Horses — My Mother the Moon
- Dillon Carmichael — Hell on an Angel
- Donna the Buffalo — Dance in the Street
- Doug Paisley — Starter Home
- Erin Rae — Putting on Airs
- Father John Misty — God’s Favorite Customer
- Field Report — Summertime Songs
- Frank Turner — Be More Kind
- Gregory Alan Isakov — Evening Machines
- Gretchen Peters — Dancing With the Beast
- Haley Heynderickx — I Need to Start a Garden
- Hawks and Doves — From a White Hotel
- Hawktail — Unless
- H.C. McEntire — Lionheart
- I See Hawks In L.A. — Live and Never Learn
- Isla Craig — The Becoming
- Jason Boland & The Stragglers — Hard Times Are Relative
- JD McPherson — Socks
- Jeffrey Foucault — Blood Brothers
- Jennifer Castle — Angels of Death
- Jimmy LaFave — Peace Town
- John Howie Jr. — Not Tonight
- Joshua Hedley — Mr. Jukebox
- Kaia Kater — Grenades
- Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
- Kevin Welch — Dust Devil
- Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert — The Ledges
- Leon Bridges — Good Thing
- Lera Lynn — Plays Well with Others
- Lindi Ortega — Liberty
- Liz Cooper & The Stampede — Window Flowers
- Loretta Lynn — Wouldn't It Be Great
- Lori McKenna — The Tree
- Lucy Dacus — Historian
- Malcolm Holcombe — Come Hell or High Water
- Mandy Barnett — Strange Conversation
- Mary Gauthier — Rifles and Rosary Beads
- Mariel Buckley — Driving in the Dark
- Marisa Anderson — Cloud Corner
- Marissa Nadler — For My Crimes
- Mark Knopfler — Down The Road Wherever
- Marlon Williams — Make Way for Love
- Martha Scanlan — The River and the Light
- Poor Blue — Wasteground
- The Milk Carton Kids — All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do
- Motel Mirrors — In the Meantime
- Mountain Man — Magic Ship
- Mumford & Sons — Delta
- Neko Case — Hell-On
- Nellie McKay — Sister Orchid
- The New Respects — Before The Sun Goes Down
- Parker Millsap — Other Arrangements
- Peter Rowan — Carter Stanley's Eyes
- Pharis & Jason Romero — Sweet Old Religion
- Phil Madeira — Providence
- Pistol Annies — Interstate Gospel
- Rosali — Trouble Anyway
- Rosanne Cash — She Remembers Everything
- Rosie & The Riveters — Ms. Behave
- Ruby Boots — Don't Talk About It
- Ruston Kelly — Dying Star
- Ry Cooder — The Prodigal Son
- Sam Lewis — Loversity
- Sam Moss — Neon
- Shemekia Copeland — America's Child
- Shooter Jennings — Shooter
- The Slocan Ramblers — Queen City Jubilee
- St. Paul & The Broken Bones — Young Sick Camellia
- The Beths — Future Me Hates Me
- The Jayhawks — Back Roads and Abandoned Motels
- The Mavericks — Hey! Merry Christmas!
- The Stray Birds — Let It Pass
- The Wood Brothers — One Drop of Truth
- various artists — Chicago Plays the Stones
- We Banjo 3 — Haven
- Whitey Morgan and the 78's — Hard Times and White Lines
- Will Hoge — My American Dream
- Yo La Tengo — There’s a Riot Going On