30 Great Country Albums of 2015 You Probably Didn’t Hear
From the bright country-pop of Kristian Bush’s ‘Southern Gravity’ to the defiant reinvention of Allison Moorer’s ‘Down to Believing’

Kasey Chambers and Butch Walker are two artists with new albums that shouldn't be overlooked.
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The great tragedy of music is that so many high-quality albums go unheard. Blame it on the glut of material released every year or the fact that the majority of artists don't have the big-budget promotional push to bring their records to the masses. With the year more than half over, we looked at LPs that deserve a second (or, in some cases, even first) listen, from big-name country releases like Dwight Yoakam's Second Hand Heart and Kristian Bush's Southern Gravity to the sublime singer-songwriter fare of Butch Walker and Kasey Chambers. Here are 30 albums from 2015 that you probably haven't, but really should listen to in their entirety.