It’s the season to ask you, our beloved readers, what your favorite album of 2023 was. To help, we’ve created a poll with over 100 nominations. If you’re wondering where this list comes from, it comes from your contributions to our poll throughout the year. We’ve created this amazing list of the top 25 picks from each season.
The 2023 Season Poll Results
The Poll
Which was your favorite Readers’ Top Pick of 2023?
- Neil Young – Chrome Dreams (21%, 29 Votes)
- Jason Isbell – Weathervanes (14%, 20 Votes)
- Andrew Kirell – Torch Songs (6%, 9 Votes)
- Iris DeMent – Workin’ on a World (4%, 5 Votes)
- Drayton Farley – Twenty on High (3%, 4 Votes)
- Marty Stuart – Altitude (3%, 4 Votes)
- Buddy and Julie Miller – In the Throes (3%, 4 Votes)
- Lydia Loveless – Nothing’s Gonna Stand in My Way Again (3%, 4 Votes)
- Margo Price – Strays (I & II) (2%, 3 Votes)
- Eilen Jewell – Get Behind the Wheel (2%, 3 Votes)
- Parker Millsap – Wilderness Within You (2%, 3 Votes)
- Margo Cilker – Valley of Heart’s Delight (2%, 3 Votes)
- Turnpike Troubadours – A Cat in the Rain (2%, 3 Votes)
- Colin Cutler – Tarwater (2%, 3 Votes)
- Dylan LeBlanc – Coyote (2%, 3 Votes)
- Natalie Merchant – Keep Your Courage (1%, 2 Votes)
- Carter Sampson – Gold (1%, 2 Votes)
- The Handsome Family – Hollow (1%, 2 Votes)
- Lori McKenna – 1988 (1%, 2 Votes)
- The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds (1%, 2 Votes)
- Jaime Wyatt – Feel Good (1%, 2 Votes)
- Slaid Cleaves – Together Through the Dark (1%, 1 Votes)
- Lucero – Should’ve Learned By Now (1%, 1 Votes)
- Jaimee Harris – Boomerang Town (1%, 1 Votes)
- Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley – Living in a Song (1%, 1 Votes)
- Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (1%, 1 Votes)
- JD Clayton – Long Way From Home (1%, 1 Votes)
- Doug Paisley – Say What You Like (1%, 1 Votes)
- Ron Sexsmith – The Vivian Line (1%, 1 Votes)
- The Pink Stones – You Know Who (1%, 1 Votes)
- Bob Dylan – Shadow Kingdom (1%, 1 Votes)
- Son Volt – Day of the Doug (1%, 1 Votes)
- Kassi Valazza – Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing (1%, 1 Votes)
- Bruce Cockburn – O Sun O Moon (1%, 1 Votes)
- Tommy Prine – This Far South (1%, 1 Votes)
- Tanya Tucker – Sweet Western Sound (1%, 1 Votes)
- Kevin Morby – More Photographs (A Continuum) (1%, 1 Votes)
- Taj Mahal – Savoy (1%, 1 Votes)
- Gregory Alan Isakov – Appaloosa Bones (1%, 1 Votes)
- Wilco – Cousin (1%, 1 Votes)
- Shinyribs – Transit Damage (1%, 1 Votes)
- Joni Mitchell – At Newport (1%, 1 Votes)
- The Paper Kites – At the Roadhouse (1%, 1 Votes)
- Hiss Golden Messenger – Jump for Joy (1%, 1 Votes)
- Colter Wall – Little Songs (1%, 1 Votes)
- Luther Dickinson – Magic Music for Family Folk (1%, 1 Votes)
- John R. Miller – Heat Comes Down (1%, 1 Votes)
- Jessi Colter – Edge of Forever (1%, 1 Votes)
- Vincent Neil Emerson – The Golden Crystal Kingdom (1%, 1 Votes)
- The Third Mind – The Third Mind 2 (1%, 1 Votes)
- Channing Wilson – Dead Man (0%, 0 Votes)
- The Nude Party – Rides On (0%, 0 Votes)
- Mark Erelli – Lay Your Darkness Down (0%, 0 Votes)
- Mike Stinson and Johnny Irion – Working My Way Down (0%, 0 Votes)
- The Shootouts – Stampede (0%, 0 Votes)
- H.C. McEntire – Every Acre (0%, 0 Votes)
- The Bad Ends – The Power and the Glory (0%, 0 Votes)
- Waco Brothers – The Men That God Forgot (0%, 0 Votes)
- Daddy Long Legs – Street Sermons (0%, 0 Votes)
- The War and Treaty – Lover’s Game (0%, 0 Votes)
- Willie Nelson – I Don’t Know a Thing About Love (0%, 0 Votes)
- The Panhandlers – Tough Country (0%, 0 Votes)
- Cat Clyde – Down Rounder (0%, 0 Votes)
- Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (0%, 0 Votes)
- The Gibson Brothers – Darkest Hour (0%, 0 Votes)
- Erik Huey – Appalachian Gothic (0%, 0 Votes)
- Lucinda Williams – Stories From a Rock N Roll Heart (0%, 0 Votes)
- Raveis Kole – In the Moment (0%, 0 Votes)
- Robert Earl Keen – Western Chill (0%, 0 Votes)
- Eliza Gilkyson – Home (0%, 0 Votes)
- Josh Ritter – Spectral Lines (0%, 0 Votes)
- Esther Rose – Safe to Run (0%, 0 Votes)
- Fruit Bats – A River Running to Your Heart (0%, 0 Votes)
- Robbie Fulks – Bluegrass Vacation (0%, 0 Votes)
- Caitlin Canty – Quiet Flame (0%, 0 Votes)
- Ian Hunter – Defiance, Part 1 (0%, 0 Votes)
- The Wood Brothers – Heart Is the Hero (0%, 0 Votes)
- Dropkick Murphys – Okemah Rising (0%, 0 Votes)
- Jim Lauderdale and Po’ Ramblin Boys – The Long and Lonesome Letting Go (0%, 0 Votes)
- Cordovas – The Rose of Aces (0%, 0 Votes)
- Vince Gill and Paul Franklin – Sweet Memories: The Music of Ray Price & The Cherokee Cowboys (0%, 0 Votes)
- Brent Cobb – Southern Star (0%, 0 Votes)
- Dale Watson – Starvation Box (0%, 0 Votes)
- Nils Lofgren – Mountains (0%, 0 Votes)
- Tyler Childers – Rustin’ in the Rain (0%, 0 Votes)
- Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real – Sticks and Stones (0%, 0 Votes)
- Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – City of Gold (0%, 0 Votes)
- Sofia Tavlik – Center of the Universe (0%, 0 Votes)
- EmiSunshine and the Rain – Sideshow (0%, 0 Votes)
- Robert Finley – Black Bayou (0%, 0 Votes)
- Shooter Jennings and the Werewolves of Los Angeles – Shooter Jennings and the Werewolves of Los Angeles Do Zevon (0%, 0 Votes)
- Chris Stapleton – Higher (0%, 0 Votes)
- Dori Freeman – Do You Recall (0%, 0 Votes)
- Jon Dee Graham – Only Dead for a Little While (0%, 0 Votes)
- Todd Snider – Crank It, We’re Doomed (0%, 0 Votes)
- Flatland Cavalry – Wandering Star (0%, 0 Votes)
- Dolly Parton – Rockstar (0%, 0 Votes)
- Terra Lightfoot – Healing Power (0%, 0 Votes)
- The Mountain Goats – Jenny From Thebes (0%, 0 Votes)
- Rod Picott – Starlight Tour (0%, 0 Votes)
- Squirrel Flower – Tomorrow’s Fire (0%, 0 Votes)
- Tré Burt – Traffic Fiction (0%, 0 Votes)
- Jolie Holland – Haunted Mountain (0%, 0 Votes)
- Ida Mae – Thunder Above You (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 141
Loading ...Certainly, we know some spectacular albums did not make this list, unfortunately. But, we hope cutoffs like this will encourage everyone to vote throughout the year.
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