Year-End Lists

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

Common Ground

• 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

The List (alphabetical)

• 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