Readers’ Pick: Boots No. 1: Official by Gillian Welch

• Frontier Ruckus – On the Northline
• Jeffrey Foucault – Universal Fire
• Kelsey Waldon – There’s Always a Song
• AJ Lee and Blue Summit – City of Glass
• Anders Osborne – Picasso’s VIlla
• Bill Ryder-Jones – Iechyd Da
• Zach Bryan – The Great American Bar Scene
• Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – Woodland
• Grayson Capps – Heartbreak, Misery & Death
• The Dead South – Chains & Stakes
• Sour Bridges – Down and Out
• The Decemberists – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
• Charley Crockett – $10 Cowboy
• Dwight Yoakam – Brighter Days
• The Brother Brothers – The January Album
• Ruthie Foster – Mileage
• Ronnie Baker Brooks – Blues in My DNA
• Chris Smither – All About the Bones
• Shemekia Copeland – Blame It on Eve
• Phosphorescent – Revelator
• The Coward Brothers – Elvis Costello & T Bone Burnett
• Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive
• Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams – All This Time
• Will Kimbrough – For the Life of Me
• Sierra Ferrell – Trail of Flowers
• Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir
• Shane Smith and the Saints – Norther
• Jack the Radio – Under Lonely Light
• Eddie 9V – Saratoga
• Kim Richey – Every New Beginning
• Daniel Romano’s Outfit – Too Hot to Sleep
• Rick Estrin and the Nightcats – The Hits Keep Coming
• Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats – South of Here
• Shovels & Rope – Something Is Working Up Above My Head
• Maggie Rogers – Don’t Forget Me
• Shelby Lynne – Consequences of the Crown
• Teddy and the Rough Riders – Down Home
• The Felice Brothers – Valley of Abandoned Songs
• Jontavious Willis – West Georgia Blues
• Mindy Smith – Quiet Town
• Pernice Brothers – Who Will You Believe
• Iron & Wine – Light Verse
• Blackberry Smoke – Be Right Here
• Gangstagrass – The Blackest Thing on the Menu
• The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards
• Yonder Mountain String Band – Nowhere Next
• The Honey Dewdrops – Here in the Mountains
• Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well
• Sarah Jarosz – Polaroid Lovers
• Pokey LaFarge – Rhumba Country
• Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters – The Ones That Stay
• Alejandro Escovedo – Echo Dancing
• Lone Justice – Viva Lone Justice
• Will Hoge – Tenderhearted Boys
• The Cactus Blossoms – Every Time I Think About You
• Old Heavy Hands – Small Fires
• Liv Greene – Deep Feeler
• The Deslondes – Roll It Out
• Old 97’s – American Primitive
• Dustin Lowman – Invulnerable
• The Secret Sisters – Mind, Man, Medicine
• James Talley – Bandits, Ballads and Blues
• Father John Misty – Mashamashana
• Ray LaMontagne – Long Way Home
• Willie Nelson – The Border
• Cedric Burnside – Hill Country Love
• The Wild Feathers – Sirens
• Jesse Dayton – The Hard Way Blues
• Paul Cauthen – Black on Black
• Chris O’Leary – The Hard Line
• Jeremie Albino – Our Time in the Sun
• Richard Thompson – Ship to Shore
• Caleb Caudle – Sweet Critters
• Barnstar! – Furious Kindness
• Morgan Wade – Obsessed
• Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called
• Tinsley Ellis – Naked Truth
• Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch
• Sarah Shook and the Disarmers – Revelations
• Amy Speace – The American Dream
• Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
• Bonny Light Horseman – Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free
• Willie Nelson – Last Leaf on the Tree
• Joe Pug – Sketch of a Promised Departure
• Joshua Ray Walker – Thank You For Listening
• Melissa Carper – Borned in Ya
• The Steel Wheels – Sideways
• The Mavericks – Moon & Stars
• Amythyst Kiah – Still + Bright
• Samara Joy – Portrait
• MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks
• Holler Choir – Songs Before They Write Themselves
• Eric Bibb – In The Real World
• Laura Marling – Patterns in Repeat
• Corb Lund – El Viejo
• X – Smoke & Fiction
• Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore – TexiCali
• The Avett Brothers – The Avett Brothers
• Dawes – Oh Brother
• Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham – Cunningham Bird
• Kasey Anderson – To the Places We Lived
• Justin Townes Earle – All In: Unreleased and Rarities (The New West Years)
• Joe Ely – Driven to Drive
• Flatland Cavalry – Flatland Forever
• Amos Lee – Transmissions

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