Favorite Albums of 2024: First Quarter Report

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 Someday I won’t be too lazy to write some short review blurbs, but for now, here are my early favorites of 2024.

1. The Droptines - s/t

2. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

3. Jonathan Peyton - Nothing Here’s The Same

4. Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers

5. Sarah Jarosz - Polaroid Lovers

6. Old Heavy Hands - Small Fires

7. Shane Smith & The Saints - Norther

8. Taylor Hunnicutt - Alabama Sound

9. Blackberry Smoke - Be Right Here

10. Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well

11. The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards

12. Taylor McCall - Mellow War

13. Willi Carlisle - Critterland

Some other early favorites in no particular order:

Amigo the Devil - Yours Until the War is Over

Cody Jinks - Change the Game

The Montvales - Born Strangers

Lizzie No - Halfsies

Ellis Bullard - Honky Tonk Ain’t Noise Pollution

Mery Steel - She’s Back!

JJ Grey & Mofro - Olustee

Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips

Sam Morrow - On the Ride Here

Luke Grimes - s/t

Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past is Still Alive

Jordan Lee King - By and By

Casper McWade - Something for the Pain

Top Albums of 2023 So Far: First Quarter Report

No reviews, no comments, no links, just a list... 

1. Lucero - Should’ve Learned by Now

2. Pony Bradshaw - North Georgia Rounder

3. Drayton Farley - Twenty on High

4. Sundy Best - Feel Good Country

5. Brit Taylor - Kentucky Blue

6. Muscadine Bloodline - Teenage Dixie

7. The War & Treaty - Lover’s Game

8. JD Clayton - Long Way From Home

9. Myron Elkins - Factories, Farms & Amphetamines

10. Jamie Harris - Boomerang Town

11. The Band of Heathens - Simple Things

12. The Panhandlers - Tough Country

13. Meg McRee - Is It Just Me?

14. Channing Wilson - Dead Man

15. White Reaper - Asking for a Ride

16. Ritch Henderson - Fallacies & Four-Letter Words

17. Mason and the Gin Line - Sangre

18. Amanda Fields - What, When and Without

19. Slaid Cleaves - Together Through the Dark

20. Wolfpen Branch - Long Hill to Climb

21. Margo Price - Strays

22. Ben Chapman - Amber Sound, Vol. 1

Top Albums of 2020 - First Quarter Report

1. Futurebirds - Teamwork

2. Katie Pruitt - Expectations

3. Brandy Clark - Your Life is a Record

4. Gabe Lee - Honky Tonk Hell

5. Ashley McBryde - Never Will

6. Rookie - s/t

7. Marcus King - El Dorado

8. Jesse Daniel - Rollin’ On

9. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud

10. Hailey Whitters - The Dream

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*there are a few recent and forthcoming albums I haven't listened to enough to rank yet

**this is just Trailer's top 10 - year end list will include all FTM contributors

Top Albums of 2019 - First Quarter Report

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1. Vandoliers - Forever

2. Charles Wesley Godwin - Seneca

3. Joshua Ray Walker - Wish You Were Here

4. Molly Tuttle - When You’re Ready

5. Austin Meade - Waves

6. Kalyn Fay - Good Company

7. Dee White - Southern Gentleman

8. Jenny Lewis - On the Line

9. Yola - Walk Through Fire

10. Flatland Cavalry - Homeland Insecurity

11. Robert Ellis - Texas Piano Man

12. Reba McEntire - Stronger Than the Truth

13. Mary Bragg - Violets as Camouflage

14. Rod Melancon - Pinkville

15. Quaker City Night Hawks - QCNH

16. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

17. George Strait - Honky Tonk Time Machine

18. Hayes Carll - What It Is

19. Karly Driftwood - Too Mean to Die

20. Jimbo Mathus - Incinerator

21. Liz Brasher - Painted Image

22. Charlie Shafter - When I Was Yours and You Were Mine

23. Randy Houser - Magnolia

24. The Steel Woods - Old News

25. Rob Baird - After All

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*there are a few recent and forthcoming albums I haven't listened to enough to rank yet

**this is just Trailer's top 25 - year end list will include all FTM contributors

Top 20 Albums of 2018 - First Quarter Report

1. Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You

2. Caitlyn Smith - Starfire

3. Ashley McBryde - Girl Going Nowhere

4. Dallas Moore - Mr. Honky Tonk

5. First Aid Kid - Ruins

6. Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain

7. Caleb Caudle - Crushed Coins

8. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

9. Courtney Patton - What It's Like to Fly Alone

10. Buffalo Tom - Quiet and Peace

11. Ruby Boots - Don't Talk About It

12. Wade Bowen - Solid Ground

13. Mike & The Moonpies - Steak Night at the Prairie Rose

14. Trixie Mattel - One Stone

15. Whiskey Wolves of the West - Country Roots

16. Anderson East - Encore

17. Josh Grider - Good People

18. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Tearing at the Seams

19. Ross Cooper - I Rode the Wild Horses

20. Pedigo's Magic Pilsner - s/t

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*there are a few recent and forthcoming albums I haven't listened to enough to rank yet

**This is just Trailer's top 20 - year end list will include all contributors

Favorite Albums of 2016: First Quarter Report

(Note: This is only Trailer's Top 10 of 2016 so far and is subject to change. 

Our official list will be a combined effort from all contributors in December)

1. Hayes Carll - Lovers and Leavers (out Friday)

2. Caleb Caudle - Carolina Ghost

 

3. Flatland Cavalry - Humble Folks
 

4. Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day
 

5. Southern Family
 

6. Randy Rogers Band - Nothing Shines Like Neon
 

7. Bonnie Raitt - Dig in Deep
 

8. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
 

9. Loretta Lynn - Full Circle

 

10. The Cactus Blossoms - You're Dreaming