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The Best Country Albums of the 2020s

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2020s
2020
2021

1.

Rose City Band - Summerlong
May 15, 2020
Critic Score
89
6 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

2.

Charley Crockett - Welcome to Hard Times
July 31, 2020
Critic Score
83
8 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

3.

Frazey Ford - U kin B the Sun
February 7, 2020
Critic Score
82
7 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

4.

The Chicks - Gaslighter
July 17, 2020
Critic Score
81
25 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

5.

Drive-By Truckers - The New OK
October 2, 2020
Critic Score
81
10 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

6.

Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band - Just Like Moby Dick
January 24, 2020
Critic Score
80
6 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

7.

Brandy Clark - Your Life Is a Record
March 6, 2020
Critic Score
79
6 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

8.

Tami Neilson - CHICKABOOM!
February 14, 2020
Critic Score
79
5 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

9.

Ruston Kelly - Shape & Destroy
August 28, 2020
Critic Score
79
7 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

10.

The Jayhawks - XOXO
July 10, 2020
Critic Score
79
10 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

11.

Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started
July 10, 2020
Critic Score
78
17 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

12.

Ashley McBryde - Never Will
April 3, 2020
Critic Score
77
7 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

13.

Pearl Charles - Magic Mirror
January 15, 2021
Critic Score
77
10 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

14.

Chris Stapleton - Starting Over
November 13, 2020
Critic Score
77
10 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

15.

Swamp Dogg - Sorry You Couldn't Make It
March 6, 2020
Critic Score
77
11 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

16.

Barry Gibb - Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1
January 8, 2021
Critic Score
75
7 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

17.

Whitney Rose - We Still Go to Rodeos
April 24, 2020
Critic Score
74
5 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

18.

Willie Nelson - First Rose of Spring
July 3, 2020
Critic Score
73
9 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

19.

Old 97's - Twelfth
August 21, 2020
Critic Score
72
8 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

20.

Black Lips - Sing in a World That's Falling Apart
January 24, 2020
Critic Score
72
16 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

21.

The Men - Mercy
February 14, 2020
Critic Score
66
6 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

22.

Sam Hunt - Southside
April 3, 2020
Critic Score
59
7 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

23.

Diplo - Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley Chapter 1: Snake Oil
May 29, 2020
Critic Score
42
11 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
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