Best Country Albums of All Time

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RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
13	Decade - Neil Young	1977	90.5	87.4	100	91.6	91.6	90	85	88
26	Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits - Creedence Clearwater Revival	1976	89.6	85.8	100	87.9	91.4	89.8	84	88
33	Rumours - Fleetwood Mac	1977	89.4	81	100	87.2	89.7	92.2	87	88.6
60	At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash	1968	88.5	82.4	98	88	87.6	90.6	83	90
133	Live at Massey Hall 1971 - Neil Young	2007	87	84.2	85	85.6	91.1	93	82	88
150	The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse	1997	86.8	82	88	87.8	85.9	92	84	87.8
160	Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1979	86.7	81.8	98	85	82	88.8	84	87.2
166	On the Beach - Neil Young	1974	86.6	81.6	95	85.1	83	90.8	84	86.6
174	Live Rust - Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1979	86.5	83	90	85.4	89.9	88.2	81	88
182	Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones	1971	86.4	79.6	93	83.6	84.3	91.2	86	87.2
220	The Magnolia Electric Co. - Songs: Ohia	2003	86.1	82.4	83	88.6	87.9	92.2	82	86.4
225	After the Gold Rush - Neil Young	1970	86	81.2	92	84.3	81.1	89.6	86	88
231	Cosmo's Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival	1970	86	80.2	96	83	82.2	89.2	85	86.2
238	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco	2001	85.9	79	91	86.2	83.2	92	85	85
254	Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones	1969	85.8	78.2	98	81.7	81.4	91	85	85.4
263	The Last Waltz - The Band	1978	85.7	80.6	80	87.2	93.9	87.4	81	90
277	Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1969	85.6	80.6	93	83	82	90	84	86.6
317	Tonight's the Night - Neil Young	1975	85.3	78.6	100	82.7	79.6	89.6	82	84.6
333	Exile on Main St. - Rolling Stones	1972	85.1	78.6	90	81.6	82.5	91.4	85	86.8
350	No Other - Gene Clark	1974	85.1	78.4	100	80.2	80.4	92.4	79	85
404	Ghosts of the Great Highway - Sun Kil Moon	2003	84.7	81	82	86.9	84.7	91.6	82	84.8
432	Déjà vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	1970	84.6	77.8	90	83.3	84.6	88.4	83	84.8
438	Willy and the Poor Boys - Creedence Clearwater Revival	1969	84.5	77.6	100	80.9	80.5	88	82	82.8
439	Europe '72 - Grateful Dead	1972	84.5	81.2	80	85.1	89.9	90.6	81	84
461	Bone Machine - Tom Waits	1992	84.5	79.2	89	84.2	85.6	88.2	79	86
476	Loaded - The Velvet Underground	1970	84.4	74.4	100	81.1	82.7	90.6	82	80
478	Harvest - Neil Young	1972	84.4	79.6	83	84.3	82.7	90.4	85	85.6
489	Pearl - Janis Joplin	1971	84.3	74.4	100	81.6	82.9	87.2	80	84
501	Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You - Big Thief	2022	84.2	79.8	86	86.4	85.5	89.4	83	79.4
505	Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones	1968	84.2	77	95	79.1	79.4	90.6	84	84.4
524	Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement	1994	84.1	79.2	86	84.3	80.7	90	83	85.6
539	Hasta la raíz - Natalia Lafourcade	2015	84	74.8	90	85	85.9	94.4	78	80
552	(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) - Lynyrd Skynyrd	1973	84	75.4	92	80.8	81.5	91	80	87
584	John Prine - John Prine	1971	83.8	76.8	98	79.8	79.5	91.8	79	82
595	Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac	1975	83.8	75.6	93	83.2	83.6	88.2	81	82
599	The Band - The Band	1969	83.8	75.8	96	79.6	78.6	89.4	81	86
609	summerteeth - wilco	1999	83.7	76.2	90	83.9	82.9	89.6	82	81.6
625	Didn't It Rain - Songs: Ohia	2002	83.7	78.8	88	84.5	82.7	90.4	77	84.4
630	Heavy Metal - Cameron Winter	2024	83.7	79.6	87	85.2	85.3	95	78	75.6
645	Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks - Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno	1983	83.6	78	88	85.8	83.3	90.2	80	80
647	American Beauty - Grateful Dead	1970	83.6	72.8	100	77.2	79.1	91.2	80	85
680	Preacher’s Daughter - Ethel Cain	2022	83.5	74.2	85	86.1	89.6	96.6	74	78.8
689	Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains	2019	83.4	78.6	86	83	84.7	93	79	79.8
693	Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival	1969	83.4	76.6	97	79.9	78.4	87.8	81	83.2
703	Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt	1969	83.4	81.4	70	85.5	88.7	92.4	81	84.6
745	Zuma - Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1975	83.2	78.8	89	82.3	82.5	87.8	80	82
752	69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields	1999	83.2	76.8	91	81.6	79.2	90.2	80	83.4
779	Just As I Am - Bill Withers	1971	83	76	94	82	81.1	90.2	76	82
785	Music from Big Pink - The Band	1968	83	75.4	93	79.9	77.3	89.6	81	85
825	Wrecking Ball - Emmylou Harris	1995	82.9	75.8	90	80.6	83.2	91.2	78	81.6
882	Desire - Bob Dylan	1976	82.7	78.4	86	84.1	84.1	85.6	81	80
893	Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson	1975	82.7	74.4	97	78.6	76.2	88.8	79	85
894	American Water - Silver Jews	1998	82.7	77.8	84	83.1	82.4	91.4	78	82.2
919	I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes	2005	82.6	73.8	85	85.2	85	89.2	78	82.2
921	Lost Weekend - Phoebe Bridgers	2026	82.6	72.4	91	83.6	82.2	96.4	76	76.8
927	Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You - Ethel Cain	2025	82.6	75.2	83	84.5	83.7	96.2	76	79.6
959	Michigan - Sufjan Stevens	2003	82.5	77	87	84.2	82.5	86.8	80	79.8
966	Mule Variations - Tom Waits	1999	82.5	77.4	79	83.5	84.9	89.4	79	84
985	Honky Château - Elton John	1972	82.4	74.2	99	80.3	79.8	84.6	79	80
1018	Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons	1974	82.3	74	100	75.4	74.8	90	78	84
1020	Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen	1982	82.3	77.6	81	83.2	82.5	87.8	80	84
1032	Insignificance - Jim O'Rourke	2001	82.3	78.4	79	84.2	88.5	88.8	79	78
1068	Benji - Sun Kil Moon	2014	82.2	75	83	83.5	85.1	89.2	80	79.6
1095	Judee Sill - Judee Sill	1971	82.1	76.6	84	81.5	83.6	89.2	78	82
1096	From Elvis in Memphis - Elvis Presley	1969	82.1	72.6	100	74	77.3	88.4	79	83.6
1111	Time Out of Mind - Bob Dylan	1997	82.1	76	88	80.6	81.4	89.2	79	80.4
1116	I See a Darkness - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy	1999	82.1	74.8	86	82	80.1	90.8	79	81.8
1134	Lost in the Dream - The War on Drugs	2014	82	72.4	85	82.3	81.4	90.2	82	81
1135	Workingman's Dead - Grateful Dead	1970	82	72.8	98	75.4	74.7	89.8	79	84.6
1136	Songs From Suicide Bridge - David Kauffman & Eric Caboor	1984	82	79.6	77	87.3	79.7	87.4	78	85.2
1185	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs - Marty Robbins	1959	81.9	76.2	85	80.5	83	89.6	77	82
1201	Odelay - Beck	1996	81.9	73.6	92	81.7	76.2	87.4	80	82.2
1208	The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1997	81.9	75.2	83	80.1	82.5	89.4	81	81.8
1209	Metamodern Sounds in Country Music - Sturgill Simpson	2014	81.9	74.8	85	79.8	83.6	92	77	80.8
1220	Tindersticks - Tindersticks	1995	81.8	75.2	91	78	79.8	89.4	78	81.4
1239	Wildflowers - Tom Petty	1994	81.8	75.4	81	80.9	80.8	93.2	79	82.2
1252	Stardust - Willie Nelson	1978	81.8	73.4	95	78.3	78.4	86.2	77	84
1258	Bright Future - Adrianne Lenker	2024	81.7	75.8	87	82.9	82.4	91.4	78	74.6
1288	Our Mother the Mountain - Townes Van Zandt	1969	81.7	78.4	77	82.4	83.6	90.8	78	81.4
1296	3D Country - Geese	2023	81.6	77	81	84.5	84	94	77	74
1302	Stranger in the Alps - Phoebe Bridgers	2017	81.6	73.6	80	82.5	85.4	92.2	79	78.8
1328	Roads to the North - Panopticon	2014	81.6	74.2	83	82.7	81.9	91.6	78	79.8
1380	Southeastern - Jason Isbell	2013	81.5	75.4	84	80.4	77.2	92.2	76	85.2
1383	A Sailor's Guide to Earth - Sturgill Simpson	2016	81.5	73.2	85	80.7	84.5	91	76	80
1386	If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby	1971	81.5	74.2	93	77.1	76.1	89	77	84
1393	Younger Than Yesterday - The Byrds	1967	81.5	74.8	100	76.7	73	86.2	78	81.6
1427	Good Morning Spider - Sparklehorse	1998	81.4	74.8	87	82.5	80.7	85.8	77	81.8
1506	American IV: The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash	2002	81.2	77.4	69	82.2	84.3	90.8	81	83.6
1517	Miami - The Gun Club	1982	81.2	75.2	90	80.3	78.9	89.8	76	78
1520	Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield	1967	81.2	73.4	96	76.5	77.9	87.4	79	78
1533	Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty	1989	81.1	75	80	80.6	81	90.4	79	82
1536	So Tonight That I Might See - Mazzy Star	1993	81.1	73.6	83	80.5	82.9	90.8	79	78.2
1548	MY WOMAN - Angel Olsen	2016	81.1	72.8	86	82.5	83.6	88	79	76
1552	Some Girls - The Rolling Stones	1978	81.1	73	94	78	77.6	87.2	80	78
1594	The Natural Bridge - Silver Jews	1996	81	78.4	76	82.7	81.8	89.2	76	83
1636	Fox Confessor Brings the Flood - Neko Case	2006	80.9	74.8	84	81.1	80.7	87.8	78	80.2
1647	American III: Solitary Man - Johnny Cash	2000	80.9	76.8	81	80.9	81.2	89	78	79.4
1649	Meat Puppets II - Meat Puppets	1984	80.9	75.2	90	77.3	74.8	89	78	82
1673	American Recordings - Johnny Cash	1994	80.9	74.4	92	79.7	75.8	87.2	79	78
1697	The Lioness - Songs: Ohia	2000	80.8	77.8	71	83.3	81.5	93.6	76	82.6

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