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The Music Critic Country and Alternative Country section includes 599 album reviews from the genre. The origins of country music are found in the folk music of working-class Americans and blue-collar life, and it remains very popular in America to this day.

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Now showing the 50 best reviewed Country Albums out of the last 100 releases, with the highest scoring shown at the top

90
A Few Stars Apart
By Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
Fantastic, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Jun 11, 2021
Genre: Country
90
A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings
[Box Set]
By Elvis Presley
Fantastic, based on reviews by 3 critics
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Release date: Jul 28, 2017
Genre: Country
90
Rifles and Rosary Beads
By Mary Gauthier
Fantastic, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Jan 26, 2018
Genre: Country
88
Treasure of Love
By The Flatlanders
Exceptionally Good, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Jul 9, 2021
Genre: Country
87
Sparrow
By Ashley Monroe
Exceptionally Good, based on reviews by 3 critics
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Release date: Apr 20, 2018
Genre: Country
87
Interstate Gospel
By Pistol Annies
Exceptionally Good, based on reviews by 3 critics
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Release date: Nov 2, 2018
Genre: Country
87
Bronco
By Orville Peck
Exceptionally Good, based on reviews by 3 critics
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Release date: Apr 8, 2022
Genre: Country
86
Golden Hour
By Kacey Musgraves
Exceptionally Good, based on reviews by 3 critics
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Release date: Mar 30, 2018
Genre: Country
83
Your Life Is a Record
By Brandy Clark
Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Mar 6, 2020
Genre: Country
83
The Marfa Tapes
By Miranda Lambert
Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: May 7, 2021
Genre: Country
82
J.T.
By Steve Earle & the Dukes
Excellent, based on reviews by 4 critics
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Release date: Jan 4, 2021
Genre: Country
82
Manic Revelations
By Pokey LaFarge
Excellent, based on reviews by 3 critics
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Release date: May 19, 2017
Genre: Country
81
Close Ties
By Rodney Crowell
Excellent, based on reviews by 7 critics
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Release date: Mar 31, 2017
Genre: Country
81
Canyons of My Mind
By Andrew Combs
Excellent, based on reviews by 3 critics
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Release date: Apr 7, 2017
Genre: Country
81
Volunteer
By Old Crow Medicine Show
Excellent, based on reviews by 3 critics
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Release date: Apr 20, 2018
Genre: Country
81
Rule 62
By Whitney Rose
Excellent, based on reviews by 5 critics
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Release date: Oct 6, 2017
Genre: Country
81
May Your Kindness Remain
By Courtney Marie Andrews
Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Mar 23, 2018
Genre: Country
80
White Noise/White Lines
By Kelsey Waldon
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Oct 4, 2019
Genre: Country
80
While I'm Livin'
By Tanya Tucker
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Aug 23, 2019
Genre: Country
80
Dixie Blur
By Jonathan Wilson
Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Mar 6, 2020
Genre: Country
80
Close to Home
By Chuck Mead
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Jun 21, 2019
Genre: Country
80
Country Squire
By Tyler Childers
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Aug 2, 2019
Genre: Country
80
Wild! Wild! Wild!
By Robbie Fulks
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Aug 10, 2018
Genre: Country
80
The Saint of Lost Causes
By Justin Townes Earle
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: May 24, 2019
Genre: Country
80
Psychedelic Country Soul
By The Long Ryders
Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Feb 15, 2019
Genre: Alt-Country
80
Other Arrangements
By Parker Millsap
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: May 4, 2018
Genre: Alt-Country
80
Providence Canyon
By Brent Cobb
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: May 11, 2018
Genre: Country
80
Time Flies
By Jim Lauderdale
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Aug 3, 2018
Genre: Country
80
To the Sunset
By Amanda Shires
Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Aug 3, 2018
Genre: Country
80
Starmaker
By Honey Harper
Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Mar 6, 2020
Genre: Country
80
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Send A Prayer My Way
By Julien Baker & TORRES
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Apr 18, 2025
Genre: Country
80
Empty Horses
By Tobin Sprout
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Sep 18, 2020
Genre: Country
80
Country Hustle
By Jeb Loy Nichols
Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Apr 7, 2017
Genre: Country
80
Strays
By Margo Price
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Jan 13, 2023
Genre: Country
80
The Spur
By Joan Shelley
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Jun 24, 2022
Genre: Country
80
From Where I Started
By Sera Cahoone
Excellent, based on reviews by 3 critics
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Release date: Mar 24, 2017
Genre: Country
80
Big Time
By Angel Olsen
Excellent, based on reviews by 5 critics
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Release date: Jun 3, 2022
Genre: Alt-Country
80
Chains Are Broken
By The Devil Makes Three
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Aug 24, 2018
Genre: Country
80
Waiting Out the Storm
By Jeremy Ivey
Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Oct 16, 2020
Genre: Country
79
The Highwomen
By The Highwomen
Excellent, based on reviews by 3 critics
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Release date: Sep 6, 2019
Genre: Country
78
All American Made
By Margo Price
Great, based on reviews by 10 critics
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Release date: Oct 20, 2017
Genre: Country
78
Desperate Man
By Eric Church
Great, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Oct 5, 2018
Genre: Country
78
Other Girls
By Lillie Mae
Great, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Aug 16, 2019
Genre: Country
78
God's Problem Child
By Willie Nelson
Great, based on reviews by 10 critics
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Release date: Apr 28, 2017
Genre: Country
78
She Remembers Everything
By Rosanne Cash
Great, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Nov 2, 2018
Genre: Country
77
Sound & Fury
By Sturgill Simpson
Great, based on reviews by 5 critics
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Release date: Sep 27, 2019
Genre: Country
77
Daughter
By Lydia Loveless
Great, based on a review by 1 critic
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Release date: Sep 25, 2020
Genre: Alt-Country
77
Last Man Standing
By Willie Nelson
Great, based on reviews by 5 critics
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Release date: Apr 27, 2018
Genre: Country
77
Raise The Roof
By Robert Plant And Alison Krauss
Great, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Nov 19, 2021
Genre: Country
77
How Many Times
By Esther Rose
Great, based on reviews by 2 critics
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Release date: Mar 26, 2021
Genre: Country

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