Americana Music Association’s Top 100 albums

ama_logo_button_redThe Americana music Association has just released its list of the top 100 Americana music albums, based on airplay between December 2, 2013 and December 1, 2014. It’s no surprise that genre veterans like Rosanne Cash, Nickel Creek and Rodney Crowell top the list, but it’s gratifying to see emerging artists like Nikki Lane, Shovels and Rope and Lake Street Dive break into the top 10.
The full list:
Rosanne Cash                                                                   The River & The Thread
Nickel Creek                                                                      A Dotted Line
Rodney Crowell                                                                Tarpaper Sky
Hard Working Americans                                              Hard Working Americans
Old Crow Medicine Show                                               Remedy
Nikki Lane                                                                         All Or Nothin’
Lake Street Dive                                                               Bad Self Portraits
Shovels And Rope                                                             Swimmin’ Time
John Hiatt                                                                          Terms Of My Surrender
Sturgill Simpson                                                                Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin                                                    Common Ground
St. Paul & The Broken Bones                                           Half The City
Parker Millsap                                                                    Parker Millsap
Willie Nelson                                                                      Band Of Brothers
Paul Thorn                                                                          Too Blessed To Be Stressed
Lucinda Williams                                                              Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone
Trampled By Turtles                                                         Wild Animals
Various – A Tribute To Jackson Browne                       Looking Into You
Keb Mo                                                                                 BLUESAmericana
Secret Sisters                                                                      Put Your Needle Down
John Fullbright                                                                  Songs
Amos Lee                                                                            Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song
Jamestown Revival                                                           Utah
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison                                          Our Year
Jason Eady                                                                         Daylight & Dark
Infamous Stringdusters                                                   Let It Go
Chuck Mead                                                                       Free State Serenade
Sarah Jarosz                                                                      Build Me Up From Bones
Billie Joe & Norah Jones                                                 Foreverly
Justin Townes Earle                                                         Single Mothers
Ryan Adams                                                                       Ryan Adams
Johnny Cash                                                                       Out Among The Stars
First Aid Kit                                                                        Stay Gold
Carlene Carter                                                                    Carter Girl
Devil Makes Three                                                             I’m A Stranger Here
Red Molly                                                                            The Red Album
Duhks                                                                                   Beyond The Blue
Mastersons                                                                          Good Luck Charm
Will Hoge                                                                             Never Give In
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings                                           South
Puss N Boots                                                                      No Fools, No Fun
Billy Joe Shaver                                                                 Long In The Tooth
Brandy Clark                                                                      12 Stories
Drive-By Truckers                                                             English Oceans
Carolina Story                                                                    Chapter Two
Lee Ann Womack                                                              The Way I’m Livin’
Will Kimbrough                                                                 Sideshow Love
Irene Kelley                                                                        Pennsylvania Coal
Trigger Hippy                                                                    Trigger Hippy
Shakey Graves                                                                   And The War Came
Carolina Story                                                                   Chapter One
Hurray For The Riff Raff                                                Small Town Heroes
Chuck Prophet                                                                   Night Surfer
Girls Guns & Glory                                                           Good Luck
Howlin’ Brothers                                                              Trouble
Blue Highway                                                                    The Game
Amy LaVere                                                                       Runaway’s Diary
Jim Lauderdale                                                                 I’m A Song
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings                                     Give The People What They Want
Black Prairie                                                                      Fortune
Ruthie Foster                                                                     Promise Of A Brand New Day
Whiskey Myers                                                                  Early Morning Shakes
Robert Ellis                                                                        The Lights From The Chemical Plant
Suzy Bogguss                                                                     Lucky
Seth Walker                                                                        Sky Still Blue
Felice Brothers                                                                   Favorite Waitress
Ray Benson                                                                         A Little Piece
Scott Miller                                                                         Big Big World
String Cheese Incident                                                     Song In My Head
Lydia Loveless                                                                   Somewhere Else
Mingo Fishtrap                                                                  On Time
Haden Triplets                                                                  Haden Triplets
Robert Cray Band                                                             In My Soul
Mike Farris                                                                        Shine For All The People
Tommy Malone                                                                Poor Boy
Zoe Muth                                                                           World Of Strangers
Greg Trooper                                                                     Incident on Willow Street
Charlie Robison                                                                High Life
Marty Stuart                                                                      Saturday Night/Sunday Morning
Various – Inside Llewyn Davis                                       Inside Llewyn Davis
Old 97s                                                                                Most Messed Up
Chris Smither                                                                    Still On The Levee
Various – A Tribute To Born in the USA                      Dead Man’s Town
Deep Dark Woods                                                             Jubilee
Rod Picott                                                                          Hang Your Hopes On A Crooked Nail
Steve Martin And The Steep Canyon Rangers           LIVE featuring Edie Brickell
Janiva Magness                                                                Original
Otis Gibbs                                                                          Souvenirs Of A Misspent Youth
Avett Brothers                                                                  Magpie And The Dandelion
Candi Staton                                                                     Life Happens
Blue Rodeo                                                                        In Our Nature
Dolly Parton                                                                      Blue Smoke
Head And The Heart                                                       Let’s Be Still
Peter Mulvey                                                                     Silver Ladder
John Mellencamp                                                            Plain Spoken
Laura Cantrell                                                                   No Way There From Here
Band Of Heathens                                                            Sunday Morning Record
Jim Lauderdale                                                                 Black Roses
Mary Gauthier                                                                   Trouble & Love
Hannah Aldridge                                                              Razor Wire
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