Year-End Lists

No Depression: Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2018, as selected by staffers, columnists, and reviewers

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

Common Ground

• Golden Hour
  Kacey Musgraves
• By The Way, I Forgive You
  Brandi Carlile
• The Tree of Forgiveness
  John Prine
• Healing Tide
  The War and Treaty
• Years
  Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
• See You Around
  I’m With Her
• Some People I Know
  The Brother Brothers

The List (alphabetical)

• Karma for Cheap
  Aaron Lee Tasjan
• abysskiss
  Adrianne Lenker
• To the Sunset
  Amanda Shires
• Things Change
  American Aquarium
• American Folk (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  various artists
• And Friends
  Amigo
• Holler
  Amy Ray
• White Tiger
  Ana Egge
• Encore
  Anderson East
• Remain in Light
  Angélique Kidjo
• The Invisible Comes to Us
  Anna & Elizabeth
• Girl Going Nowhere
  Ashley McBryde
• Sparrow
  Ashley Monroe
• Immortal Americans
  Austin Lucas
• Soul Flowers of Titan
  Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
• Things Have Changed
  Bettye LaVette
• Rough and Ready Heart
  Blue Yonder
• Bit Logic
  The Bottle Rockets
• boygenius
  boygenius
• Port Saint Joe
  Brothers Osborne
• Buck Meek
  Buck Meek
• LONER
  Caroline Rose
• Wanderer
  Cat Power
• Songs of the Plains
  Colter Wall
• Been on Your Side
  Courtney Hartman & Taylor Ashton
• May Your Kindness Remain
  Courtney Marie Andrews
• All That Reckoning
  Cowboy Junkies
• Here If You Listen
  David Crosby
• My Mother the Moon
  Dead Horses
• Hell on an Angel
  Dillon Carmichael
• Dance in the Street
  Donna the Buffalo
• Starter Home
  Doug Paisley
• Putting on Airs
  Erin Rae
• God’s Favorite Customer
  Father John Misty
• Summertime Songs
  Field Report
• Be More Kind
  Frank Turner
• Evening Machines
  Gregory Alan Isakov
• Dancing With the Beast
  Gretchen Peters
• I Need to Start a Garden
  Haley Heynderickx
• From a White Hotel
  Hawks and Doves
• Unless
  Hawktail
• Lionheart
  H.C. McEntire
• Live and Never Learn
  I See Hawks In L.A.
• The Becoming
  Isla Craig
• Hard Times Are Relative
  Jason Boland & The Stragglers
• Socks
  JD McPherson
• Blood Brothers
  Jeffrey Foucault
• Angels of Death
  Jennifer Castle
• Peace Town
  Jimmy LaFave
• Not Tonight
  John Howie Jr.
• Mr. Jukebox
  Joshua Hedley
• Grenades
  Kaia Kater
• Heaven and Earth
  Kamasi Washington
• Dust Devil
  Kevin Welch
• The Ledges
  Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert
• Good Thing
  Leon Bridges
• Plays Well with Others
  Lera Lynn
• Liberty
  Lindi Ortega
• Window Flowers
  Liz Cooper & The Stampede
• Wouldn't It Be Great
  Loretta Lynn
• The Tree
  Lori McKenna
• Historian
  Lucy Dacus
• Come Hell or High Water
  Malcolm Holcombe
• Strange Conversation
  Mandy Barnett
• Rifles and Rosary Beads
  Mary Gauthier
• Driving in the Dark
  Mariel Buckley
• Cloud Corner
  Marisa Anderson
• For My Crimes
  Marissa Nadler
• Down The Road Wherever
  Mark Knopfler
• Make Way for Love
  Marlon Williams
• The River and the Light
  Martha Scanlan
• Wasteground
  Poor Blue
• All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do
  The Milk Carton Kids
• In the Meantime
  Motel Mirrors
• Magic Ship
  Mountain Man
• Delta
  Mumford & Sons
• Hell-On
  Neko Case
• Sister Orchid
  Nellie McKay
• Before The Sun Goes Down
  The New Respects
• Other Arrangements
  Parker Millsap
• Carter Stanley's Eyes
  Peter Rowan
• Sweet Old Religion
  Pharis & Jason Romero
• Providence
  Phil Madeira
• Interstate Gospel
  Pistol Annies
• Trouble Anyway
  Rosali
• She Remembers Everything
  Rosanne Cash
• Ms. Behave
  Rosie & The Riveters
• Don't Talk About It
  Ruby Boots
• Dying Star
  Ruston Kelly
• The Prodigal Son
  Ry Cooder
• Loversity
  Sam Lewis
• Neon
  Sam Moss
• America's Child
  Shemekia Copeland
• Shooter
  Shooter Jennings
• Queen City Jubilee
  The Slocan Ramblers
• Young Sick Camellia
  St. Paul & The Broken Bones
• Future Me Hates Me
  The Beths
• Back Roads and Abandoned Motels
  The Jayhawks
• Hey! Merry Christmas!
  The Mavericks
• Let It Pass
  The Stray Birds
• One Drop of Truth
  The Wood Brothers
• Chicago Plays the Stones
  various artists
• Haven
  We Banjo 3
• Hard Times and White Lines
  Whitey Morgan and the 78's
• My American Dream
  Will Hoge
• There’s a Riot Going On
  Yo La Tengo