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The Best Country Albums of the 2020s

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1.

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

2.

Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)
November 12, 2021
Critic Score
88
17 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

3.

Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
February 11, 2022
Critic Score
85
33 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

4.

The Sadies - Colder Streams
July 22, 2022
Critic Score
85
8 reviews
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Spotify

5.

Angel Olsen - Big Time
June 3, 2022
Critic Score
84
28 reviews
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6.

Noah Cyrus - The Hardest Part
September 16, 2022
Critic Score
84
5 reviews
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7.

Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
March 27, 2020
Critic Score
84
36 reviews
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8.

Lord Huron - Long Lost
May 21, 2021
Critic Score
83
11 reviews
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9.

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real - A Few Stars Apart
June 11, 2021
Critic Score
83
7 reviews
Amazon

10.

Neil Young - Homegrown
June 19, 2020
Critic Score
83
25 reviews
Amazon
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11.

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

12.

CMAT - If My Wife New I'd Be Dead
March 4, 2022
Critic Score
83
12 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

13.

Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - Nightroamer
February 18, 2022
Critic Score
82
5 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

14.

Margo Price - Strays
January 13, 2023
Critic Score
82
22 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

15.

Honey Harper - Starmaker
March 6, 2020
Critic Score
82
7 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

16.

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

17.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Way Down In The Rust Bucket
February 26, 2021
Critic Score
82
9 reviews
Amazon

18.

Maren Morris - Humble Quest
March 25, 2022
Critic Score
82
7 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

19.

S.G. Goodman - Teeth Marks
June 3, 2022
Critic Score
81
5 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

20.

Amanda Shires - Take It Like a Man
July 29, 2022
Critic Score
81
10 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall - The Marfa Tapes
May 7, 2021
Critic Score
81
6 reviews
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Spotify

24.

Lilly Hiatt - Walking Proof
March 27, 2020
Critic Score
81
8 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

25.

Wilco - Cruel Country
May 27, 2022
Critic Score
80
17 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify
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