Year-End Lists

Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart

8. Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2023: No Depression
38. Dean's List 2023: Robert Christgau
86. The 100 Best Albums of 2023: Rolling Stone

Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You

• 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023: Washington Post

Good Souls Better Angels

5. Dean's List 2020: Robert Christgau
6. The Best Albums of 2020: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
9. Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2020: No Depression
24. The 60 Best Albums of 2020: PopMatters
28. 75 Best Albums of 2020: Uncut
38. 75 Best Albums of 2020: Mojo
46. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Billboard
47. Best Albums of 2020: Rolling Stone
81. The 100 Best Albums of 2020: Albumism

• The Best Albums of 2020: Andrew Barker: Variety
• The Best Albums of 2020: Chris Willman: Variety

The Ghosts of Highway 20

8. Top 25 Albums of 2016: Magnet
12. 25 Best Albums of 2016: Slant
15. Top 50 Albums of 2016: American Songwriter
34. 75 Best Albums of 2016: Uncut
49. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Slant
70. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop

Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone

16. Top 40 Albums of 2014: Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Sound Opinions
17. 75 Best Albums of 2014: Uncut
17. Top 20 Albums of 2014: Greg Kot: Chicago Tribune: Sound Opinions
49. Top 100 Albums of 2014: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop

Blessed

1. Top 10 Albums of 2011: Margaret Moser: Austin Chronicle
2. Top 10 Albums of 2011: Jon Bream: Minneapolis Star Tribune
13. Top 50 Albums of 2011: American Songwriter
23. 40 Favorite Albums of 2011: Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Sound Opinions
69. 75 Best Albums of 2011: PopMatters