1. Matt Woods - Deadman's Blues
From earlier review:
...almost painful to hear, in the best of ways. It's like we're the accidental witnesses to a late night confessional and I can't help feeling a little guilty finding so much beauty in such a raw disclosure. And those vocals… it's a masculine delivery with a tear deeply embedded; then he rips your heart out when he lets it all go in the final seconds.
2. Jason Isbell - Elephant
4. John Moreland - 3:59
5. Shooter Jennings - The Gunslinger
6. Brandy Clark - What'll Keep Me Out of Heaven
7. Sturgill Simpson - You Can Have the Crown
8. Ashley Monroe - Morning After
9. Austin Lucas - Splinters
10. Todd Farrell Jr. and the Dirty Birds - Pawn Shops
Beyond the Top 10 (no specific order):
The National - I Should Live in Salt
Run the Jewels - Sea Legs
Queens of the Stone Age - If I Had a Tail
Kasey Anderson and the Honkies - Some Depression
Drew Kennedy - The Poet at 33
Wade Bowen - Songs About Trucks
Son Volt - Angel of the Blues
Chris Stapleton - What Are You Listening To?
Valerie June - Tennessee Time
Water Liars - Wyoming
Will Hoge - Home is Where the Heart Breaks