Top album: If Wishes Were Horses by Matt Patershuk
= Albertan
= Canadian
Matt Patershuk: If Wishes Were Horses (Black Hen)
Kacy & Clayton: Carrying On (New West)
- Brittany Howard: Jaime (ATO)
The New Pornographers: In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights (Concord)
Begonia: Fear (Rex Baby/ The Orchard)
The Bros. Landreth: ’87 (Birthday Cake)
- Sturgill Simpson: Sound & Fury (Elektra)
- Stray Cats: 40 (Surfdog/ BMG)
- Billy Strings: Home (Rounder)
Del Barber: Easy Keeper (Acronym)
- Ikebe Shakedown: Kings Left Behind (Coalmine)
Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley: Gold Cadillac (G Three)
Robbie Robertson: Sinematic (Universal)
Corb Lund: Cover Your Tracks (Warner)
Zachary Lucky: Midwestern (Wroxton)
- Liam Gallagher: Why Not Me (Warner)
Alex Cuba: Sublime (Caracol)
- Sheryl Crow: Threads (Big Machine)
- The Highwomen: The Highwomen (Elektra)
- Big Thief: Two Hands (4AD)
Big Little Lions: Inside Voice (Independent)
- Lakou Mizik: HaitiaNola (Cumbancha)
Catherine MacLellan: Coyote (Independent)
- The Long Ryders: Psychedelic Country Soul (Omivore)
- Joan Shelley: Like The River Loves The Sea (No Quarter)
- Tinariwen: Amadjar (ANTI-)
Delhi 2 Dublin: We Got This (Inside Pocket)
The Bluesland Horn Band: Keep It In The Shadows (Independent)
- The Avett Brothers: Closer Than Together (Republic)
Moka Only: Patina (Instrumentals) (URBNET)