Year-End Lists

American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2015

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1. Traveller
   Chris Stapleton
2. Sprinter
   TORRES
3. Something More Than Free
   Jason Isbell
4. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
   Courtney Barnett
5. Complicated Game
   James McMurtry
6. High on Tulsa Heat
   John Moreland
7. Star Wars
   Wilco
8. Faith In the Future
   Craig Finn
9. Natalie Prass
   Natalie Prass
10. Carrie & Lowell
    Sufjan Stevens
11. To Pimp A Butterfly
    Kendrick Lamar
12. Every Open Eye
    Chvrches
13. Little Neon Limelight
    Houndmouth
14. B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
    Kurt Vile
15. Imaginary Man
    Rayland Baxter
16. Pageant Material
    Kacey Musgraves
17. All Your Favorite Bands
    Dawes
18. The Blade
    Ashley Monroe
19. Servant of Love
    Patty Griffin
20. Sermon on the Rocks
    Josh Ritter
21. Sound & Color
    Alabama Shakes
22. All These Dreams
    Andrew Combs
23. Nashville Obsolete
    Dave Rawlings Machine
24. The Most Lamentable Tragedy
    Titus Andronicus
25. Terraplane
    Steve Earle & The Dukes
26. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
    Drake
27. The Deslondes
    The Deslondes
28. The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
    Beach Slang
29. All a Man Should Do
    Lucero
30. Coming Home
    Leon Bridges
31. Second Hand Heart
    Dwight Yoakam
32. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
    Florence + The Machine
33. Untethered Moon
    Built to Spill
34. Fading Frontier
    Deerhunter
35. Honeymoon
    Lana Del Rey
36. On Your Own Love Again
    Jessica Pratt
37. The Traveling Kind
    Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
38. The Waterfall
    My Morning Jacket
39. For Use and Delight
    Promised Land Sound
40. Feels Like
    Bully
41. In The Blazes
    Aaron Lee Tasjan
42. 25
    Adele
43. Pacific Surf Line
    GospelbeacH
44. I Love You, Honeybear
    Father John Misty
45. Wake
    Nora Jane Struthers
46. The Phosphorescent Blues
    Punch Brothers
47. The Trackless Woods
    Iris DeMent
48. Didn’t He Ramble
    Glen Hansard
49. No Cities To Love
    Sleater-Kinney
50. Create Your Own Mythology
    Kristin Diable