{"id":54054,"date":"2025-12-17T20:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/the-country-albums-that-should-have-landed-on-your-2025-best-list\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T20:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:37:42","slug":"the-country-albums-that-should-have-landed-on-your-2025-best-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/the-country-albums-that-should-have-landed-on-your-2025-best-list\/","title":{"rendered":"The Country Albums That Should Have Landed on Your 2025 Best List"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Breaking down Rolling Stone<\/em>‘s top country and Americana albums of the year on our Nashville Now<\/em> podcast<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n\tRolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s list of the 25 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2025 is live and out in the world. Check out the full list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn a very special Year in Country Music episode of Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s Nashville Now<\/a><\/em> podcast, RS contributors and authors Marissa R. Moss (Her Country<\/a><\/em>: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be<\/em>) and Josh Crutchmer (the forthcoming Almost Almost Famous<\/a><\/em>) join us to break down the top five albums on the list. <\/p>\n

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\n\tWe also remember those we\u2019ve lost this year, including the Mavericks singer Raul Malo<\/a>, and tee up our final official interview of the year: singer-songwriter Brian Dunne, whose Clams Casino<\/a><\/em> made Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s all-genre list of the year\u2019s 100 best albums. <\/p>\n

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\n\tOur panel members also weigh in on their favorite albums and songs of 2025, the trends they\u2019ve recognized this year, and what they hope to see in 2026. They also offer their take on which country albums they would have liked to have seen make the year-end best list.<\/p>\n

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