Year-End Lists

Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Best Albums of 2017

1. Rule 62
   Whitney Rose
1. South Texas Suite
   Whitney Rose
2. Feel Your Feelings Fool!
   The Regrettes
3. Wrangled
   Angaleena Presley
4. Melodrama
   Lorde
5. A Long Way from Your Heart
   Turnpike Troubadours
6. Beginning of Things
   Charlie Worsham
7. Slowheart
   Kip Moore
8. All American Made
   Margo Price
9. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
10. Way Out West
    Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
11. The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
    Lee Ann Womack
12. Boom
    Walker Hayes
13. Carry Fire
    Robert Plant
14. The Search for Everything
    John Mayer
15. God's Problem Child
    Willie Nelson
16. Barefoot in the Head
    Chris Robinson Brotherhood
17. On the Rocks
    Midland
18. Every Little Thing
    Carly Pearce
19. UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL
    J.D. McPherson
20. This Highway
    Zephaniah OHora with The 18 Wheelers
21. Spitting Image
    The Strypes
22. Chuck
    Chuck Berry
23. Life Changes
    Thomas Rhett
24. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
25. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
26. Happy Endings
    Old Dominion
27. Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie
    Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie
28. As You Were
    Liam Gallagher
29. Who Built the Moon?
    Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
30. Dirty Pictures, Pt. 1
    Low Cut Connie
31. This One's for You
    Luke Combs
32. Freedom Highway
    Rhiannon Giddens
33. Rainbow
    Ke$ha
34. From A Room: Volume 1
    Chris Stapleton
34. From A Room: Volume 2
    Chris Stapleton
35. Waiting on a Song
    Dan Auerbach
36. After Laughter
    Paramore
37. Hot Thoughts
    Spoon
38. Witness
    Benjamin Booker
39. Out of Silence
    Neil Finn
40. Mental Illness
    Aimee Mann
41. Invitation
    Filthy Friends
42. Bidin' My Time
    Chris Hillman
43. Highway Queen
    Nikki Lane
44. Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
    Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
45. Third
    Cait Brennan
46. Americana
    Ray Davies
47. Tell Me You Love Me
    Demi Lovato
48. Prisoner
    Ryan Adams
49. Puxico
    Natalie Hemby
50. The Navigator
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
51. Guitar for Sale
    Ray Scott
52. Royal Mint
    The Cash Box Kings
53. Trinity Lane
    Lilly Hiatt
54. Dark Matter
    Randy Newman
55. Villains
    Queens of the Stone Age
56. The Knowledge
    Squeeze
57. Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm
    Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm
58. Pussycat
    Juliana Hatfield
59. A Kind Revolution
    Paul Weller
60. Anything Could Happen
    Bash & Pop
61. Southern Girl City Lights
    Jessie James Decker
62. Three Futures
    TORRES
63. Legacy
    The Cadillac Three
64. Dustbowl Revival
    Dustbowl Revival
65. Triplicate
    Bob Dylan
66. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
67. Ty Segall
    Ty Segall
68. Better Than Myself
    Alex Williams
69. Doris and the Daggers
    Spiral Stairs
70. What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets
    Los Straitjackets
71. Blues and Boogie, Vol. 1
    Kim Wilson
72. Brett Eldredge
    Brett Eldredge
73. Never Gets Old
    Joe Nichols
74. Windy City
    Alison Krauss
75. The Breaker
    Little Big Town
76. 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde
    Old Crow Medicine Show
77. London Southern
    Jim Lauderdale
78. Room 29
    Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker
79. Trophy
    Sunny Sweeney
80. Ctrl
    SZA
81. First Cigarette
    Travis Meadows
82. Humanz
    Gorillaz
83. Fierce Mercy
    Colin Hay
84. Meaning of Life
    Kelly Clarkson
85. Vaquero
    Aaron Watson
86. Be Myself
    Sheryl Crow
87. Purgatory
    Tyler Childers
88. Salutations
    Conor Oberst
89. Things Change
    Bobby Bare
90. The Way I Hear It
    Michael Cavanaugh
91. Harry Styles
    Harry Styles
92. How Did We Get So Dark?
    Royal Blood
93. Add Violence
    Nine Inch Nails
94. The Bus Songs
    Toby Keith
95. The Devil Don't Sleep
    Brantley Gilbert
96. I Knew You When
    Bob Seger
97. West Coast Town
    Chris Shiflett
98. Losing Sleep
    Chris Young
99. Front Porch Sessions
    The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
100. Colors
     Beck
101. reputation
     Taylor Swift
102. Wonderful Wonderful
     The Killers
103. Pacific Daydream
     Weezer
104. Lust for Life
     Lana Del Rey
105. Live at C-Boy's
     Jimmie Vaughan Trio feat. Mike Flanigin
106. The Mission
     Styx