The 70 Best Alt-Country Albums of All Time

The following 70 albums span nearly four decades of alt-country and stretch the limits of “whatever that is.”

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,Good Times ,Drew Erickson ,Holy Ghost Haunted ,Broken Things ,Need You ,Know Why The River ,Still Cry ,Wreck Your Life ,American Water ,Morning Jacket ,Main Street Era ,Crazy Horse ,Short Man ,Worth Blues ,Neil Young Like ,Chocolate Drops ,Genuine Negro Jig ,Mississippi Mud Steppers ,Tennessee Chocolate Drops ,Carolina Chocolate Drops ,Black Banjo Gathering ,Blu Cantrell ,Tom Wait ,Magnolia Electric ,Rust Belt ,Townes Earle ,Harlem River Blues ,New England ,Deep South ,Dixie Chicks ,Him Fly ,Will Do The Talking ,Bottle Rockets ,Brooklyn Side ,Thornton Wilder ,Bottle Rocket ,Middle America ,Too Far To Care ,Bloodshot Records ,Im Wide Awake ,Wide Awake ,Mysterious Tale ,Howi Shouted ,Golden Hour ,Katie Crutchfeld ,Cerulean Salt ,Merge Records ,Lone Justice ,Til We Get Home ,Are The ,Rat Saw God ,Four Loko ,Mortal Kombat ,New Year ,Planet Fitness ,Fox Confessor Brings ,Tucson Area Renta Cred ,Northwestern Patsy Cline ,Saw That ,Traina Comin ,Roy Huskey ,Opry Saturday ,Lone Star ,Looking Through You ,Guitar Town ,Best Contemporary Folk Album ,Hollywood Town Hall ,Rocky Mountains ,Dragon New Warm Mountaini Believe ,New Warm Mountaini Believe ,Two Hands ,Wrecking Ball ,Wrecked Up My Heart ,Mean Maybe ,North Hollywood ,Runnin Wild ,Love Will Follow ,Being There ,Son Volt ,Four Thieves Gone ,Decoration Day ,Southern Rock Opera ,Ray Mckinnon ,Like Lennon ,Depression Era Appalachian Mountain ,Long Cut ,Car Wheels ,Gravel Road ,Mary Chapin Carpenter ,East Texas ,