Favorite Albums of 2024: Readers’ Pick!
Our readers voted for their favorite albums of 2024, and here are the results!
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Top favorite albums of 2024, in order:
1) Dana Cooper “The Ghost of Tucumcari”
2) John Louis “For Everyone (Especially You)”
3) River Drivers “Live at SteelShacks”
4) Claudia Gibson “The Fields of Chazy”
5) Don Merckle “Same Devil New Skin”
6) Old Heavy Hands “Small Fires”
7) Pi Jacobs “Soldier On”
8) Gillian Welch & David Rawlings “Woodland”
9) David Serby “Low Hanging Stars”
10) New Earth Farmers “The Sky From Underground”
11) Sugarcane Jane “On a Mission”
12) Rod Picott “Starlight Tour”
13) Connor Daly “Colors Fade”
14) Lost Weekend Band “One Hell of a Time”
15) Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz “Simple Motion”
16) Neale Eckstein “Never Too Late”
17) Kevin Gordon “The In Between”
18) Sturgill Simpson “Passage Du Desir”
19) Will Kimbrough “For the Life of Me”
20) Sierra Ferrell “Trail of Flowers”
21) Lolly Lee self-titled
22) Hayes Carll and the Band of Heathens “Hayes & the Heathens”
23) Dwight Yoakam “Brighter Days”
24) Joe Ely “Driven to Drive”
25) American Aquarium “The Fear of Standing Still”
26) Clay Parker & Jodi James “Your Very Own Dream”
27) Drive-By Truckers “American Band (deluxe)”
28) Tylor and the Train Robbers “Hum of the Road”
29) Will Hoge “Tenderhearted Boys”
30) Heather Little “By Now”
31) Rees Shad “The Galahad Blues”
32) Walt Wilkins “Through the Stars”
33) Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit “Live From the Ryman, Vol 2.”
34) Amythyst Kiah “Still + Bright”
35) Heather Pierson “Back to the Light”
36) Erin Ash Sullivan “Signposts & Marks”
37) Linda Thompson “Proxy Music”
38) Willie Nelson “The Border”
40) Old 97s “American Primitive”
41) Hurray for the Riff Raff “The Past is Still Alive”
42) Susan Werner “Halfway to Houston”
43) MJ Lenderman “Manning Fireworks”
44) Mac Leaphart “Motel Breakfast”
45) Jeffrey Foucault “The Universal Fire”
46) Molly Tuttle “Into the Wild”
47) Carolyn Shulman “Heart on a Wire”
48) Zac Harmon “Floreada’s Boy
49) Justin Townes Earle “ALL IN”
50) (tied) The Red Clay Strays “Made By These Moments”
50 (tied) Melissa Carper “Borned in Ya”
50 (tied) Chris Robeson “Euphoriphobia”
50 (tied) Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Dave Alvin “TexiCali”
50 (tied) Robert Earl Keen “Western Chill”
50 (tied) Jubal Lee Young “Wild Birds Warble”
50 (tied) Nichole Wagner “Plastic Flowers”
50 (tied) Kim Richey “Every New Beginning”
50 (tied) Aoife O’Donovan “All My Friends”
50 (tied) Shane Smith & the Saints “Norther”
50 (tied) Ted Russell Kamp “California Son”
50 (tied) Scott Sean White “Even Better on the Bad Days”
50 (tied) William Elliott Whitmore “Silently, The Mind Breaks”
Favorite Albums of 2024: Readers’ Pick
