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Our Best Albums of the Decade list continues with another 25 entries.

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Three Country Universe writers collaborated for this list of the best albums of 2018.

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We just kind of can’t with this year’s ACM nominees.

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The biggest story of the past week is the death of Glenn Frey, whose work with the Eagles has, for better or worse, influenced multiple generations of country artists.

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Now that our final lists of the 40 Best Singles of 2015 and 20 Best Albums of 2015 are posted and open for discussion, we have decided to post each of our seven writers’ individual

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