Kellie Pickler’s 100 Proof, Jamey Johnson’s Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran, Lionel Richie’s Tuskegee, JB and the Moonshine Band’s Beer for Breakfast and Easton Corbin’s All Over the Road are Rolling Stone magazine’s Best Country Albums of 2012.

The article says, “That girl who almost became a Kennedy may be the new face of country music, but our picks for the best country albums of the year are more the down-home type.”