Favorite Albums of 2023: Readers’ Pick!
Our readers voted for their favorite albums of 2023, and here are the results!
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We will also add a song from each from the top 10 albums to our New Americana Music playlist.
What a wonderful year of new music!! Thanks for voting. Check back and see our polls every month for your favorites of the month, then stay tuned next December for New Years’ vote too!
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Top favorite albums of 2023, in order:
1)Aaron Skiles “Whistle Past the Grave”
2) Cole Gallagher “The Confluence”
3) Last Birds “Endless Turn of Day Into Night”
4) Adam Klein “Holidays in United States”
5) Jacob Aranda “War Planes”`
6) Heather Miller “Count It In Moons”
7) Tipps & Obermiller “Love (and other Mysteries)”
8) Karyn Oliver “Cherchez La Femme”
9) Van Plating “Orange Blossom Child”
10) Ian Jones “Results Not Typical”
11)Jason Isbell “Weathervanes”
12) Ben de la Cour “Sweet Anhedonia”
13) Marina Rocks “Texcentric”
14)Charlotte Morris “Wild Child”
15) Handsome & the Humbles “Alternative —> Country”
16) Dan Israel “Seriously”
17) Miles & Mafale “Be Brave”
18) The Milk Carton Kids “I Only See The Moon”
19) Terry Klein “Leave the Light On”
20) Jaimee Harris “Boomerang Town”
21) Allison Russell “The Returner”
22) Daryl Mosley “A Life Well Lived”
23) Iris Dement “Workin’ On A World”
24) Nanci Griffith “Working in Corners”
25)Lucinda Williams “Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart”
26) Eliza Gilkyson “Home”
27) Brian Kalinec “The Beauty of it All”
28) William Prince “Stand in the Joy”
29) Jon Byrd “All Your Mistakes”
30) Molly Tuttle “City of Gold”
31) Jon Dee Graham “Only Dead for a Little While”
32) Wilco “Cousin”
31) Danny Burns “Promised Land”
32) Tom Waits “Closing Time” 50th
33) Dale Ann Bradley “Kentucky For Me”
34) Pert Near Sandstone “Waiting Days”
35) Zach Bryan self-titled
36) Lori McKenna “1988”
37) Son Volt “Day of the Doug”
38) Cowboy Junkies “Such Ferocious Beauty”
39) Jeff Plankenhorn “Alone At Sea”
40) Christian Parker – Sweethearts Tribute
41) Loveflowers “Golden Leaves”
42) Slaid Cleaves “Together Through the Dark”
43) Dolly Parton “Rockstar”
44) Jason Isbell “Southeastern (10th anniversary)”
45) Tyler Childers “Rustin in the Rain”
46) Rhiannon Giddens “You’re the One”
47) William Wallace “Lighthouse Keeper”
48) Margo Cilker “Valley of Heart’s Delight”
49) Malcolm Holcombe “Bits & Pieces”
50) Del Barber “Almanac”
Favorite Albums of 2023: Readers’ Pick
Thank you Americana Highways and those who voted. I am honored!
I vote for Grant Glad’s “One Man’s Story” for album of the year.