Year-End Lists

American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2012

1. Bob Dylan
   Tempest
2. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
   Psychedelic Pill
3. Shovels and Rope
   O’ Be Joyful
4. Leonard Cohen
   Old Ideas
5. Bruce Springsteen
   Wrecking Ball
6. Sharon Van Etten
   Tramp
7. Avett Brothers
   The Carpenter
8. Mumford & Sons
   Babel
9. Bonnie Raitt
   Slipstream
10. Alabama Shakes
    Boys & Girls
11. Todd Snider
    Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
12. Iris DeMent
    Sing the Delta
13. The Lumineers
    The Lumineers
14. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
    Live From Alabama
15. Brandi Carlile
    Bear Creek
16. Father John Misty
    Fear Fun
17. Fiona Apple
    The Idler Wheel…
18. Dwight Yoakam
    3 Pears
19. Frank Ocean
    Channel Orange
20. Andrew Bird
    Break It Yourself
21. Jack White
    Blunderbuss
22. The Shins
    Port of Morrow
23. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
    Here
24. Cory Branan
    Mutt
25. Norah Jones
    Little Broken Hearts
26. Michael Kiwanuka
    Home Again
27. Loudon Wainwright III
    Older Than My Old Man Now
28. Justin Townes Earle
    Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
29. Andrew Combs
    Worried Man
30. Punch Brothers
    Who’s Feeling Young Now?
31. John Fullbright
    From The Ground Up
32. Rodney Crowell & Mary Karr
    Kin
33. Ben Folds Five
    The Sound of The Life of The Mind
34. Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames
    New Multitudes
35. Rhett Miller
    The Dreamer
36. Kathleen Edwards
    Voyageur
37. Tame Impala
    Lonerism
38. Regina Spektor
    What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
39. First Aid Kit
    The Lion’s Roar
40. Diamond Rugs
    Diamond Rugs
41. Carry Me Back
    Old Crow Medicine Show
42. Ben Howard
    Every Kingdom
43. Beth Orton
    Sugaring Reason
44. Dr. Dog
    Be the Void
45. Delta Spirit
    Delta Spirit
46. M. Ward
    A Wasteland Companion
47. Ben Kweller
    Go Fly A Kite
48. The Gaslight Anthem
    Handwritten
49. Matthew Ryan
    In The Dusk of Everything
50. Band Of Horses
    Mirage Rock