For the Archives: The Albums of 2020

Copied and pasted from my Album Release Schedule page, and, as the headline suggests, posted mainly for archival purposes.

January 2020:

10th

  • Ronnie Dunn – Re-Dunn
  • Tenille Arts – Love, Heartbreak & Everything In Between

15th

  • Futurebirds – Teamwork

17th

  • Little Big Town – Nightfall
  • Marcus King – El Dorado
  • Dustin Lynch – Tullahoma
  • Della Mae – Headlights
  • Eleven Hundred Springs – Here Tis’
  • Steve Moakler – Blue Jeans

24th

  • The Wood Brothers – Kingdom In My Mind
  • Netflix Series: The Ranch Soundtrack
  • Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band – Just Like Moby Dick

31st

  • Possessed by Paul James – As We Go Wandering
  • Drive-By Truckers – The Unraveling
  • Tre Burt – Caught It From The Rye

February 2020:

7th

  • Aubrie Sellers – Far From Home
  • John Moreland – LP5
  • The Lone Bellow – Half Moon Light
  • The Cadillac Three – COUNTRY FUZZ
  • The SteelDrivers – Bad For You
  • James Steinle – What I Came Here For
  • Dom Flemons – Prospect Hill
  • Brent Cobb – No Place Left To Leave

14th

  • Tami Neilson – Chickaboom!
  • Carly Pearce – Carly Pearce
  • Nathaniel Rateliff – And It’s Still Alright
  • Tyller Gummersall – Heartbreak College
  • Tyler Lance Walker Gill – Tyler Lance Walker Gill

15th

  • Billy Don Burns – The Country Blues

21st

  • Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line – Bright Lights, Long Drives, First Words
  • Katie Pruitt – Expectations

22nd

  • Hank Williams – Pictures From Life’s Other Side

28th

  • The Secret Sisters – Saturn Return
  • Sierra Hull – 25 Trips
  • Hailey Whitters – The Dream
  • Midland – Live From The Palomino

March 2020:

6th

  • Sadler Vaden – Anybody Out There?
  • Brandy Clark – Your Life Is A Record
  • Swamp Dogg – Sorry You Couldn’t Make It
  • Jim Lauderdale – When Carolina Comes Home Again
  • The Panhandlers – The Panhandlers
  • Lauren Alaina – Getting Good EP
  • Porter Union – Loved & Lost

13th

  • Caitlyn Smith – Supernova
  • Dave Simonett – Red Tail
  • Sam Doores – Sam Doores
  • Gabe Lee – Honky Tonk Hell

20th

  • Delta Rae – The Light
  • Kelsea Ballerini – kelsea
  • Robynn Shayne – Let’s Get This Show On The Road

27th

  • Jessi Alexander – Decatur County Red
  • Lilly Hiatt – Walking Proof
  • Ingrid Andress – Lady Like
  • Jesse Daniel – Rollin’ On
  • Kody West – Overgrown

April 2020:

3rd

  • Ashley McBryde – Never Will
  • Caleb Caudle – Better Hurry Up
  • Sam Hunt – Southside
  • Logan Ledger – Logan Ledger
  • Ruthie Collins – Cold Comfort
  • Western Centuries – Call The Captain

10th

  • John Anderson – Years
  • Maddie & Tae – The Way It Feels
  • Van Darien – Levee
  • Watkins Family Hour – brother sister

16th

  • Dalton Domino – Feverdreamer

17th

  • Bobby Bare – Great American Saturday Night
  • Joe Ely – Love In The Midst Of Mayhem

24th

  • Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels
  • Whitney Rose – We Still Go To Rodeos
  • Pam Tillis – Looking For A Feeling
  • Gwen Sebastian – Once Upon A Time In The West: Act II
  • Lennon Stella – Three. Two. One
  • Drake White – Stars

May 2020:

1st

  • American Aquarium – Lamentations
  • Hot Country Knights – The K is Silent
  • Kenny Chesney – Here And Now

8th

  • Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen – Hold My Beer Vol. 2
  • Zach Bryan – Elisabeth
  • Riley Green – Valley Road (EP)

15th

  • Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – Reunions
  • Gretchen Peters – The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs Of Mickey Newbury
  • Sara Evans – Copy That
  • Travis Denning – Beer’s Better Cold (EP)
  • Andrew Farriss – Andrew Farriss
  • Chase Rice- The Album Part II

22nd

  • Reckless Kelly – American Girls and American Jackpot
  • Steve Earle & the Dukes – Ghosts of West Virginia
  • Craig Morgan – God, Family, Country
  • High Valley – Grew Up On That (EP)
  • Tessy Lou Williams – Tessy Lou Williams
  • Daryl Mosley- The Secret Of Life
  • Chancey Williams – 3rd Street
  • Jordan Davis- Jordan Davis EP
  • Florida Georgia Line- 6-Pack EP
  • Hill Country – Hill Country

28th

  • Mike and the Moonpies – Touch Of You – The Lost Songs Of Gary Stewart

29th

  • Jaime Wyatt – Neon Cross
  • Kip Moore – Wild World
  • Diplo- Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley Chapter 1: Snake Oil
  • Teddy Thompson – Heartbreaker Please
  • Nicole Atkins – Italian Ice
  • Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton – Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton

June 2020:

5th

  • Hellbound Glory – Pure Scum
  • Sarah Jarosz – World On The Ground
  • John Baumann – Country Shade
  • Ryan Stevenson – Wildest Dreams

12th

  • Gone West – Canyons
  • High Fidelity – Banjo Player’s Blues
  • Larkin Poe – Self Made Man
  • Waylon Payne – Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me: Act I

19th

  • Clint Black – Out Of Sane
  • Gabby Barrett – Goldmine
  • Blackberry Smoke – Live: From Capricorn Sound Studios
  • The Boomswagglers – Heartbreakers Place in My Mind

June 20 (Record Store Day Ltd Ed Releases):

  • An Evening With The Allman Brothers Band: First Set – The Allman Brothers Band
  • A Rooster Says – Brandi Carlile
  • Classic Cash: Hall Of Fame Series – Early Mixes (1987) – Johnny Cash
  • Pearl Cadillac (Feat. Andra Day) – Gary Clark Jr
  • “The Unraveling” b/w “Sarah’s Flame” – Drive-By Truckers
  • “Times Like These / It’s About Blood” – Steve Earle
  • Live at the Austin Outhouse – Blaze Foley
  • The Man With No Shadow – John Wesley Harding
  • Live at Nick’s Fat City, 1995. – Hootie And The Blowfish
  • Shooter Live at Bonnaroo – Shooter Jennings
  • Angel With A Lariat – K.D. Lang & The Reclines
  • Drag – K.D. Lang
  • Cover Your Tracks EP – Corb Lund
  • Live From The Palomino – Midland
  • The Atlantic Albums – John Prine
  • The Kentucky Sessions – John Prine/Kelsey Waldon
  • Live At The Orange Peel – Son Volt
  • Hillbillies in Hell: Volume X – Various Artists
  • March of Dimes – Hank Williams

26th

  • Corb Lund – Agricultural Tragic
  • Tenille Townes – The Lemonade Stand
  • Kyle Nix – Lightning on the Mountain and Other Short Stories
  • Will Hoge – Tiny Little Movies
  • The Fisk Jubilee Singers – Celebrating Fisk! (The 150th Anniversary Album)
  • Casey Donahew – Lost My Brother’s Goat

July 2020:

3rd

  • Willie Nelson – First Rose Of Spring
  • Eric Paslay – Heartbeat Higher EP

10th

  • Margo Price – That’s How Rumors Get Started
  • Ray Wylie Hubbard – Co-Starring
  • Brett Eldredge – Sunday Drive
  • The Jayhawks – XO
  • Joshua Ray Walker – Glad You Made It
  • Jimmie Allen – Bettie James EP
  • Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – All The Good Times

17th

  • The Chicks – Gaslighter

24th

  • Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers
  • Lori McKenna – The Balladeer
  • Bill Anderson – The Hits Re-Imagined

31st

  • Mac McAnally – Once In A Lifetime
  • Charley Crockett – Welcome to Hard Times
  • Rascal Flatts – How They Remember You
  • Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1

August 2020:

7th

  • Luke Bryan – Born Here, Live Here, Die Here
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Dirt & The Stars
  • Daniel Donato – A Young Man’s Country
  • Aubrie Sellers – World On Fire
  • Joel Crouse – WasteLAnd
  • Cassadee Pope – Rise & Shine
  • Lindley Creek – Freedom, Love, And The Open Road

14th

  • Mark Chesnutt – Numbers On The Jukebox (EP)
  • Mo Pitney – Ain’t Lookin’ Back
  • Kathleen Edwards – Total Freedom
  • Arlo McKinley – Die Midwestern
  • Caylee Hammack – If It Wasn’t For You
  • Lindsay Ell – Heart Theory
  • Ashley Ray – Pauline
  • Orville Peck – Show Pony (EP)
  • Eric Paslay – Nice Guy
  • RaeLynn – Baytown
  • Jeannie Seely – An American Classic

21st

  • Josh Turner – Country State Of Mind
  • The Old 97’s – Twelfth
  • Tim McGraw – Here On Earth
  • Tucker Beathard – King
  • Mandy Barnett – A Nashville Songbook
  • Skip Ewing – Wyoming
  • Kree Harrison – Chosen Family Tree
  • The Mavericks – En Español

28th

  • Heidi Newfield – The Barfly Sessions
  • Zephaniah OHora – Listening To The Music
  • Ruston Kelly – Shape & Destroy
  • Karen Jonas – The Southwest Sky and Other Dreams
  • Colter Wall – Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs
  • Molly Tuttle – … but I’d rather be with you
  • Justin Wells – The United State
  • Moe Bandy – A Love Like That
  • The Reeves Brothers – The Last Honky Tonk
  • The Avett Brothers – The Third Gleam
  • Wood & Wire – No Matter Where It Goes From Here

September 2020:

4th

  • HARDY – A ROCK
  • Carolina Story – Dandelion
  • Lauren Alaina – Getting Over Him (EP)
  • Hayes Carll – Alone Together Sessions
  • Tennessee Jet – The Country
  • Wade Bowen- The Waiting (EP)

11th

  • Waylon Payne – Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me
  • Elizabeth Cook – Aftermath
  • Delta Spirit – What Is There
  • Reba McEntire- Rumor Has It) (30th Anniversary Edition
  • Mickey Guyton – Bridges (EP)
  • Kelsea Ballerini – ballerini

18th

  • Keith Urban – The Speed of Now Part 1
  • Brennen Leigh – Prairie Love Letter
  • Luke Laird – Music Row
  • Gillian Welch – Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs
  • Tyler Childers – Long, Violent History

25th

  • The War And Treaty – Hearts Town
  • Lydia Loveless – Daughter
  • Band of Heathens – Stranger
  • Carrie Underwood – My Gift
  • Terri Clark – It’s Christmas…Cheers!
  • Justin Moore – Live at the Ryman
  • Granger Smith – Country Things Vol. 1
  • Earl Thomas Conley – Promised Land: The Lost Album

October 2020:

2nd

  • Brent Cobb- Keep ‘Em on They Toes
  • Jaime O’Neal – Sometimes
  • Rascal Flatts – Twenty Years of Rascal Flatts: The Greatest Hits
  • Drive-By Truckers – The New OK
  • Dolly Parton – A Holly Dolly Christmas

9th

  • Brothers Osborne – Skeletons
  • Ashley Campbell – Something Lovely

16th

  • Cordovas – Destiny Motel
  • Steep Canyon Rangers – Arm In Arm
  • Trace Adkins – Ain’t That Kind of Cowboy (EP)
  • Parker McCollum – Hollywood Gold (EP)
  • Runaway June – When I Think About Christmas
  • Tanya Tucker- Live at the Troubadour
  • Sturgill Simpson – Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1

23rd

  • Maddie & Tae – We Need Christmas
  • Rachel Brooke- The Loneliness In Me
  • The Cadillac Three – Tabasco & Sweet Tea
  • Kylie Frey – Rodeo Queen (EP)
  • David Quinn – Letting Go

30th

  • Cam – The Otherside
  • Sam Morrow – Gettin’ By on Gettin’ Down
  • Wynonna – Recollections (EP)
  • Austin Lucas – Alive in the Hot Zone

31st

  • The Bloody Jug Band – Stranded (EP)

November 2020:

13th

  • Chris Stapleton – Starting Over
  • Josh Abbott – The Highway Kind
  • Shenandoah – Every Road
  • Sunny Sweeney- Recorded Live at the Machine Shop
  • Spencer Cullum – Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection
  • Easton Corbin – Didn’t Miss A Beat (EP)
  • Seth Jones – Whiskey Attitude
  • Margo Price – Perfectly Imperfect at the Ryman

20th

  • Lee Brice – Hey World
  • Garth Brooks – Fun
  • Ward Davis – Black Cats and Crows
  • Collin Raye – SCARS
  • Kelsey Waldon – They’ll Never Keep Us Down
  • Koe Wetzel – Sellout

27th

  • Willie Nelson – Live at Austin City Limits 1976
  • Zach Bryan – Quiet, Heavy Dreams
  • Scott H. Biram – Fever Dreams

29th

  • Erin Enderlin – Campfire Covers

December 2020:

4th

  • Kalie Shorr – Open Book: Unabridged
  • Russell Dickerson – Southern Symphony
  • Cody Jinks – Red Rocks Live

11th

  • Randall King – Leanna (EP)
  • Willie Nelson – American Outlaw (CD + DVD)
  • Billy Don Burns & Josh Morningstar – Brothers of the Music
  • Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks – Dream Curse
  • David Nail – Bootheel (EP)
  • Sturgill Simpson – Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 2 (The Cowboy Arms Sessions)
  • Various Artists – Sing Me Back Home: The Music of Merle Haggard

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