Nashville Obsolete
by Dave Rawlings Machine
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Nashville Obsolete is ranked as the best album by Dave Rawlings Machine.
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Nashville Obsolete track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Nashville Obsolete rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 92 Music Albums of 2015 | 7/92 | 5 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Exclaim! Top 10 Folk & Country Albums 2015 | 10/10 | - |
| 2025 |  sszwalbenest | Top 26 Music Albums of 2015 | 19/26 | 2 |
| 2025 | sszwalbenest | Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Albums Ranked | 8/10 | - |
| 2025 | spinout | Top 68 Music Albums of the 2010s | 22/68 | 14 |
| 2024 |  buzzdainer | Top 83 Music Albums of 2015 | 67/83 | 1 |
| 2024 | amirmishali | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 35/100 | 13 |
| 2020 | weston | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 40/100 | 3 |
| 2020 |  samistake2ice | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 26/100 | 4 |
| 2019 | amirmishali | Top 24 Music Albums of 2015 | 2/24 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 18 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 74 | |||
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Nashville Obsolete ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/04/2025 18:53 | RemainInLight | 3,871 | 36/100 |
| ! | 05/29/2025 12:58 | sszwalbenest | 1,765 | 76/100 |
| ! | 09/18/2022 21:52 |  sssvnnn | 8,499 | 67/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.5.
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zdwyatt 11/18/2015 16:03 in No Country for Young Men samistake2ice 09/23/2015 15:40 in What album are you listening to right now?Nashville Obsolete comments
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zdwyatt TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/18/2015 16:04 | #153096
This is a mixed collection overall, with half the length gobbled up by two unremarkable songs. The great guitar work is there, along with Rawlings' passable singing, though he too often does this Dylan-esque speak-singing thing. The good songs like "Bodysnatchers" are good enough that I am left feeling like he has a great album in him, if he could divorce himself of the need to do silly numbers like "Candy."
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