(Miranda Lambert Platinum album cover courtesy of Sony Music Nashville)
Rolling Stone has compiled a list of what they feel were the 40 Best Country Albums of 2014 and Miranda Lambert is sitting on the top of the list.
The reigning CMA Female Vocalist of the Year for a history making five years in a row is the #1 Best Country Album of 2014 with her album Platinum according to Rolling Stone. Here are the top ten albums on the Rolling Stone list of the 40 Best Country Albums of 2014.
1) Platinum, Miranda Lambert
2) Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, Sturgill Simpson
3) The Outsiders, Eric Church
4) Small Town Heroes, Hurray for the Riff Raff
5) Pain Killer, Little Big Town
6) The Way I'm Livin, Lee Ann Womack
7) Riser, Dierks Bentley
8) The River & the Thread, Rosanne Cash
9) Provoked, Sunny Sweeney
10) Band of Brothers, Willie Nelson
You may notice some of country music’s biggest names are NOT included in the top ten. In fact, if you check out the complete list of Rolling Stone’s 40 Best Country Albums of 2014 by clicking here, you will notice that names like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Line and Blake Shelton cannot be found at all on the list.
Rolling Stone classifies their list as “The greatest statements from the year's outsiders, small town heroes and American middle class.” They also state that in their opinion country music in 2014 was “still awash in bro-country imagery — Trucks! Cutoffs! Bacardi! — but there were still enough doses of three chords and the truth to balance out the clichés.”
That is why you do NOT see those names on their list.
By: Buck Stevens
