Best Albums of 2017
3 min readDec 13, 2017
- Whitney Rose — Rule 62/South Texas Suite
- The Regrettes — Feel Your Feelings Fool
- Angaleena Presley — Wrecked
- Lorde — Melodrama
- Turnpike Troubadours — A Long Way From Your Heart
- Charlie Worsham — The Beginning of Things
- Kip Moore — Slowheart
- Margo Price — All American Made
- St. Vincent — Masseduction
- Marty Stuart — Way Out West
- Lee Ann Womack — The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
- Walker Hayes — Boom
- Robert Plant — Carry Fire
- John Mayer — The Search for Everything
- Willie Nelson — God’s Problem Child
- Chris Robinson Brotherhood — Barefoot in the Head
- Midland — On the Rocks
- Carly Pearce — Every Little Thing
- JD McPherson — Undivided Heart and Soul
- Zephaniah OHora and the 18 Wheelers — This Highway
- The Strypes — Spitting Image
- Chuck Berry — CHUCK
- Thomas Rhett — Life Changes
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN
- Jason Isbell — The Nashville Sound
- Old Dominion — Happy Endings
- Buckingham & McVie — Buckingham & McVie
- Liam Gallagher — As You Were
- Noel Gallagher — Who Built the Sun
- Low Cut Connie — Dirty Pictures (Part One)
- Luke Combs — This One’s For You
- Rhiannon Giddens — Freedom Highway
- Kesha — Rainbow
- Chris Stapleton — From A Room, Vol. 1/From A Room, Vol. 2
- Dan Auerbach — Waiting On A Song
- Paramore — After Laughter
- Spoon — Hot Thoughts
- Benjamin Booker — Witness
- Neil Finn — Out of Silence
- Aimee Mann — Mental Illness
- Filthy Friends — Invitation
- Chris Hillman — Bidin’ My Time
- Nikki Lane — Highway Queen
- Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real — Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real
- Cait Brennan — Third
- Ray Davies — Americana
- Demi Lovato — Tell Me You Love Me
- Ryan Adams — Prisoner
- Natalie Hemby — Puxico
- Hurray for the Riff Raff — The Navigator
- Ray Scott — Guitar for Sale
- Cash Box Kings — Royal Mint
- Lilly Hiatt — Trinity Lane
- Randy Newman — Dark Matter
- Queens of the Stone Age — Villains
- Squeeze — The Knowledge
- Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm — Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm
- Juliana Hatfield — Pussycat
- Paul Weller — A Kind Revolution
- Bash & Pop — Anything Could Happen
- Jessie James Decker — Southern Girl City Lights
- Torres — Three Futures
- Cadillac Three--Legacy
- Dustbowl Revival — Dustbowl Revival
- Bob Dylan — Triplicate
- LCD Soundsystem — American Dream
- Ty Segall — Ty Segall
- Alex Williams — Better Than Myself
- Spiral Stairs — Doris and the Daggers
- Los Straitjackets — What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets
- Kim Wilson — Blues & Boogie, Vol. 1
- Brett Eldredge — Brett Eldredge
- Joe Nichols — Never Gets Old
- Alison Krauss — Windy City
- Little Big Town — The Breaker
- Old Crow Medicine Show — 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde
- Jim Lauderdale — London Southern
- Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzalez — Room 29
- Sunny Sweeney — Trophy
- SZA — CTRL
- Travis Meadows — First Cigarette
- Gorillaz — Human
- Colin Hay — Fierce Mercy
- Kelly Clarkson — Meaning of Life
- Aaron Watson — Vaquero
- Sheryl Crow — Be Myself
- Tyler Childers — Purgatory
- Conor Oberst — Salutations
- Bobby Bare — Things Change
- Michael Cavanagh — The Way I Hear It
- Harry Styles — Harry Styles
- Royal Blood — How Did We Get So Dark
- Nine Inch Nails — Add Violence
- Toby Keith — The Bus Songs
- Brantley Gilbert — The Devil Don’t Sleep
- Bob Seger — I Knew You When
- Chris Shiflett — West Coast Town
- Chris Young — Losing Sleep
- Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band — Front Porch Sessions
- Beck — Colors
- Taylor Swift — reputation
- The Killers — Wonderful Wonderful
- Weezer — Pacific Daydream
- Lana Del Rey — Lust for Life
- Jimmie Vaughan — Live At C-Boy’s
- Styx — The Mission
