100 Greatest Country Music Albums

Album covers for At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash and Coat Of Many Colors by Dolly Parton
Criteria: These Country Music albums were chosen for their impact, influence, originality, quality of the music, and lasting popularity. (Greatest Hits albums are excluded from top 100 - see sidebar.)

Last Updated: 2017-06-24
Newly added names are in  Red 
Country Music Albums
  1. At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
  2. Complete Live At San Quentin - Johnny Cash
  3. Coat Of Many Colors - Dolly Parton
  4. Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music - Ray Charles
  5. Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson
  6. Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
  7. Honky Tonk Heroes - Waylon Jennings
  8. Showcase - Patsy Cline
  9. Roses In The Snow - Emmylou Harris
10. Big City - Merle Haggard
11. Coal Miners Daughter - Loretta Lynn
12. No Fences - Garth Brooks
13. American Recordings - Johnny Cash
14. I Am What I Am - George Jones
15. Bean Blossom - Bill Monroe
16. The Grass Is Blue - Dolly Parton
17. The Ramblin Man - Waylon Jennings
18. Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Johnny Cash
19. Storms Of Life - Randy Travis
20. Joshua - Dolly Parton
21. San Antonio Rose - Willie Nelson & Ray Price
22. Sentimentally Yours - Patsy Cline
23. Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard - Buck Owens
24. Strangers - Merle Haggard
25. Moody Blue - Elvis Presley
26. Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette
27. Foggy Mountain Banjo - Flatt & Scruggs
28. American III: Solitary Man - Johnny Cash
29. Golden Ring - Tammy Wynette and George Jones
30. The Woman In Me - Shania Twain
31. Breathe - Faith Hill
32. Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. - Dwight Yoakam
33. Unchained - Johnny Cash
34. Some Hearts - Carrie Underwood
35. Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris
36. Seven Year Ache - Rosanne Cash
37. Home - Dixie Chicks
38. When Love Finds You - Vince Gill
39. Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
40. Little Sparrow - Dolly Parton
41. At Carnegie Hall! - Flatt & Scruggs
42. Fearless - Taylor Swift
43. Come On Over - Shania Twain
44. Trio - Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris
45. Alison Krauss & Union Station Live - Alison Krauss & Union Station
46. For My Broken Heart - Reba McEntire
47. Pieces of the Sky - Emmylou Harris
48. Gamblin Man - Kenny Rogers
49. Saturday Night And Sunday Morning - Ralph Stanley
50. American IV: When the Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
51. Blue - Leann Rimes
52. Hazel & Alice - Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
53. Pontiac - Lyle Lovett
54. Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson
55. Blue Clear Sky - George Strait
56. Did I Shave My Legs For This - Deanna Carter
57. Why Not Me - The Judds
58. Killin' Time - Clint Black
59. Hello Darlin' - Conway Twitty
60. Always & Forever - Randy Travis
61. Mountain Soul - Patty Loveless
62. Revival - Gillian Welch
63. Me and Bobby McGee - Kris Kristofferson
64. Songs My Father Left Me - Hank Williams Jr.
65. D-I-V-O-R-C-E - Tammy Wynette
66. A Deeper Shade of Blue - Del McCoury
67. Halos & Horns - Dolly Parton
68. In Pieces - Garth Brooks
69. Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
70. Roots - The Everly Brothers
71. I'm A Lonesome Fugitive - Merle Haggard
72. One on the Way - Loretta Lynn
73. Be Here - Keith Urban
74. Mountain Music - Alabama
75. Hello, I'm Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash
76. Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
77. Strait Country - George Strait
78. Honky Tonk Angels - Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette
79. Highwaymen - The Highwaymen
80. O Brother Where Art Thou - Original Soundtrack (Various)
81. Traveller - Chris Stapleton
82. All I Want - Tim McGraw
83. Van Lear Rose - Loretta Lynn
84. Hag - Merle Haggard
85. Time Well Wasted - Brad Paisley
86. Bluegrass Rules! - Ricky Skaggs
87. King's Record Shop - Rosanne Cash
88. Wide Open Spaces - Dixie Chicks
89. Faith - Faith Hill
90. End Time - Freakwater
91. Same Trailer Different Park - Kacey Musgraves
92. Alot About Living (And A Little About Love) - Alan Jackson
93. Diamonds & Dirt - Rodney Crowell
94. Revolution - Miranda Lambert
95. Shadowland - k.d. lang
96. TNT - Tanya Tucker
97. Come On Come On - Mary Chapin Carpenter
98. Everybody Knows - Trisha Yearwood
99. Nickel Creek - Nickel Creek
100. Chief - Eric Church





Top Country Greatest Hits Albums
1. Wildwood
 - The Carter Family

2. 12 Greatest Hits
 - Patsy Cline

3. 40 Greatest Hits
 - Hank Williams

4. The Sun Years
 - Johnny Cash

5. Farther Along: The Best of the Flying Burrito Brothers
 - Flying Burrito Brothers

6. The Essential Jimmie Rogers
 - Jimmie Rogers

7. Bill Monroe: Anthology
 - Bill Monroe

8. The Essential Dolly Parton Vol. 2
 - Dolly Parton

9. The Lonesome Fugitive:
Merle Haggard Anthology
 - Merle Haggard

10. Now That I've Found You:
A Collection
 - Alison Krauss

11. The Essential Willie Nelson
 - Willie Nelson

12. Anniversary: 20 Years of Hits
 - Tammy Wynette

13. The Essential Flatt & Scruggs:
'Tis Sweet To Be Rememberd
 - Flatt & Scruggs

14. Greatest Hits Vol. III
 - Reba McEntire

15. The Essential Waylon Jennings
 - Waylon Jennings

16. Very Best of Randy Travis
 - Randy Travis

17. Greatest Hits Collection: Vol. 2
 - Alan Jackson

18. Best of 1955-1967
 - George Jones

19. Greatest Hits
 - The Judds

20. Greatest Hits
 - Martina McBride





Greatest Country Box Sets
1. The Complete Hank Williams
 - Hank Williams Sr.

2. Portraits
 - Emmylou Harris

3. Essential Johnny Cash
1955-1983
 - Johnny Cash

4. Music of Bill Monroe
 - Bill Monroe

5. The Patsy Cline Collection
 - Patsy Cline

6. Double Live
 - Garth Brooks

7. Reprise Please Baby
 - Dwight Yoakam

8. The Essential George Jones:
The Spirit of Country
 - George Jones

9. Look What Thoughts Will Do
 - Lefty Frizzell

10. Unearthed
 - Johnny Cash









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