The Houston Kid
by Rodney Crowell
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The Houston Kid is ranked as the best album by Rodney Crowell.
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The Houston Kid track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Houston Kid rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 12/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 39 Music Albums of 2001 | 5/39 | 4 |
| 2025 | henrygreen0203 | Top 31 Music Albums of 2001 | 13/31 | 3 |
| 2024 | amirmishali | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 25/100 | 15 |
| 2024 | cicadelic | Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2001 | 73/76 | - |
| 2023 | Switchgazer | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 30/40 | 19 |
| 2022 | arnellarsen | Top 88 Music Albums of the 2000s | 54/88 | 8 |
| 2022 | arnellarsen | Top 77 Music Albums of 2001 | 54/77 | 2 |
| 2021 | henrygreen0203 | Decades of Texas Singer-Songwriters | 41/100 | - |
| 2019 | henrygreen0203 | Artists Through the Decades | 76/99 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 22 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 74 | |||
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The Houston Kid ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/25/2025 02:50 | zags7000 | 20,568 | 64/100 |
| ! | 10/16/2024 18:11 | Jantje | 706 | 74/100 |
| ! | 05/25/2024 16:20 | Rayzer6 | 1,624 | 85/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 78.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.7.
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NoisyBeast 05/13/2023 17:06 in What album are you listening to right now?The Houston Kid comments
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A great late comeback from this Texas singer-songwriter. It's all Americana here, earthy and wooden to it's core. Good songs here, but overall not as concise as Diamonds & Dirt.
Track Pick: Wandering Boy
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