Year-End Lists

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2018 Music

American Songwriter: Top 25 Albums Of 2018

07 December 2018

Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves

American Songwriter: Top 25 Albums Of 2018

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
  2. Interstate Gospel
    Pistol Annies
  3. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
  4. To the Sunset
    Amanda Shires
  5. The Tree of Forgiveness
    John Prine
  6. WARM
    Jeff Tweedy
  7. Desperate Man
    Eric Church
  8. Black Velvet
    Charles Bradley
  9. Things Change
    American Aquarium
  10. Mr. Jukebox
    Joshua Hedley
  11. Putting on Airs
    Erin Rae
  12. Healing Tide
    The War and Treaty
  13. Dying Star
    Ruston Kelly
  14. Ancient Noise
    Patrick Sweany
  15. Port Saint Joe
    Brothers Osborne
  16. Among the Ghosts
    Lucero
  17. Karma for Cheap
    Aaron Lee Tasjan
  18. LONER
    Caroline Rose
  19. By The Way, I Forgive You
    Brandi Carlile
  20. Rifles and Rosary Beads
    Mary Gauthier
  21. Songs of the Plains
    Colter Wall
  22. The Eclipse Sessions
    John Hiatt
  23. No Mercy In This Land
    Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite
  24. The Future and the Past
    Natalie Prass
  25. Swimming
    Mac Miller

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