The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2025
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delta Traces | Billy Jeter | House on Fire |
| 2 | Shelby Means | Shelby Means | Self-Release |
| 3 | Crown of Roses | Patty Griffin | Thirty Tigers |
| 4 | Hysteria | Billy Jeter | Shine Eye |
| 5 | So Many Wows | Lucie Blue Tremblay | Self-Release |
| 6 | Flesh and Bone | Cynthia Marchant | Self-Release |
| 7 | Wilderness Within You | Parker Millsap | Okrahoma |
| 8 | Beautiful Thing | Peach & Quiet | Self-Release |
| 9 | Sticks and Stones | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | 6 Ace |
| 10 | DAGGOMIT! | Max Wareham | Self-Release |
| 11 | You Never Can Tell | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band | Self-Release |
| 12 | My One and Only | Nathan McEuen | Self-Release |
| 13 | 1988 | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers |
| 14 | Resilience | Josie Bello | Guitar One |
| 15 | I Only See the Moon | The Milk Carton Kids | Far Cry |
| 16 | Harbortowne | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus | Berkalin Records |
| 17 | Field of Stars | John McCutcheon | Appalseed |
| 18 | Ever-Changing | The Ruta Beggars | Self-Release |
| 19 | Middle | Jesse Welles | Self-Release |
| 20 | Heat of July | Briscoe | ATO |
| 21 | Made to Wander | The Crowe Boys | EMI |
| 22 | XOXO | The Two Peas | Self-Release |
| 23 | Love Unfettered | Marie-Rose | Self-Release |
| 24 | Armageddon in a Summer Dress | Sunny War | New West |
| 25 | Hear My Call | Cristina Vane | Blue Tip |
| 26 | Paper Flowers | Tim O'Brien | Howdy Skies |
| 27 | Reclamation | Crys Matthews | Self-Release |
| 28 | Lost Dog | Olive Klug | Signature Sounds |
| 29 | Returning to Myself | Brandi Carlile | Interscope |
| 30 | Maybe New Mexico | Helene Cronin | Self-Release |
| 31 | Vignettes | Steve and Kristi Nebel | Ice Bird |
| 32 | Dark Ages | Eliza Gilkyson | Realiza |
| 33 | Wait for the Night | Eric Schmitt | Self-Release |
| 34 | A Teacher, a Preacher, and a Bad Farmer | Ernie Palmer | Self-Release |
| 35 | It Matters | C. Daniel Boling | Perfectly Stable |
| 36 | Daylight Savings Time | Steve Forbert | Blue Rose |
| 37 | Redwood Frame | Stephen Moore Project | Self-Release |
| 38 | Larry Robbins: the Singles | Larry Robbins | Mazelations |
| 39 | Mind, Man, Medicine | The Secret Sisters | New West |
| 40 | Plus One | The War and Treaty | Mercury Nashville |
| 41 | Reverie | Amble | Warner |
| 42 | Night Owl Envies the Mourning Dove | Caitlin Canty | Tone Tree |
| 43 | After Tale | Eva Rose King | Rose King |
| 44 | Anything at All | Denison Witmer | Asthmatic Kitty |
| 45 | Weary Ramblers | Weary Ramblers | Self-Release |
| 46 | As the Chaos Unfolds | Rhona Macfarlane | Self-Release |
| 47 | Looking for the Thread | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Lambent Light |
| 48 | Exploding Star | Heather Maloney | Signature Sounds |
| 49 | Butcher Holler | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sounds |
| 50 | Spirit Ridge | Dean Owens | Self-Release |
| 51 | Flying with Angels | Suzanne Vega | Cooking Vinyl |
| 52 | Smithereens | Dan Reeder | Oh Boy |
| 53 | Tape | Patty Griffin | PGM |
| 54 | If the Sky Fell | Michael Henchman | Self-Release |
| 55 | Letters | The National Forest | Tiny House |
| 56 | Break of the Tide | The Lil Smokies | Americana Vibes |
| 57 | What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow | Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson | Nonesuch |
| 58 | Echolalia | Echolalia | Full Time Hobby |
| 59 | Winter Grace | Shane Pendergast | Corran Ban |
| 60 | American Recordings | Truman Sinclair | R&R |
| 61 | Heart Go Wild | Caroline Spence | Tone Tree |
| 62 | Born into a Blizzard | Jefferson Berry & the UAC | Urban Acoustic |
| 63 | Salt River | Sam Amidon | River Lea |
| 64 | Love, Dan | C. Daniel Boling | Perfectly Stable |
| 65 | Cracks | The Lowtimers | Alabama Sound Company |
| 66 | All Hat | Joshua Hedley | New West |
| 67 | Songs Worth Saving | Suzie Brown | Mule Kick |
| 68 | You Climb the Mountain | The Onlies | Self-Release |
| 69 | Animal Poem | Anna Tivel | Fluff & Gravy |
| 70 | The Wind Will Change Again | The Twangtown Paramours | Inside Edge |
| 71 | Unentitled | John Gorka | Red House |
| 72 | The Thanksgiving Album | Vi Wickam | Self-Release |
| 73 | Lonesome Road | Joel Mabus | Fossil |
| 74 | Another Glory | Another Glory | Jealous Butcher |
| 75 | Run to the Center | Cornelia Murr | 22TWENTY |
| 76 | Trailblazer | Lola Kirke | One Riot |
| 77 | Freeman's T.V Repair Shop | Darrin Bradbury | Like You Mean It |
| 78 | Lift Up This Old World | Hilary Hawke | Adhyâropa |
| 79 | What It Takes | May Erlewine | Ten Good Songs |
| 80 | Volume 4 | Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert | Dead Reckoning |
| 81 | Speed | Keller Williams | Freeky Disc |
| 82 | Time out #3 | The Accidentals | Self-Release |
| 83 | Woman Creature (Portrait of a Woman, Pt. 2) | Mean Mary | Self-Release |
| 84 | Nature of Necessity | Adam Wright | Carnival |
| 85 | Homegrown | Cole Quest and The City Pickers | Jalopy |
| 86 | Beware Wolves Volume 9 | Beware Wolves | Aqualamb |
| 87 | Always Here | Trampled by Turtles | Banjodad |
| 88 | Firetrail | Erin Durant | Ruination |
| 89 | Woods | Darling West | Jansen |
| 90 | Back to the Light | Heather Pierson | Vessel |
| 91 | I Love You, Say It Back | Joe Holt | Self-Release |
| 92 | Part Time Believer | The Strumbellas | Glassnote |
| 93 | Worrying Boy | Chris Rosser | Self-Release |
| 94 | Xo, 1945 | Ryland Moranz | Tonic |
| 95 | Kentucky Queen | Carla Gover | Self-Release |
| 96 | These Days | Emily Hines | Keeled Scales |
| 97 | Wanderer | Ruth Moody | Blue Muse |
| 98 | Anything Beautiful | Trevor Bahnson | Dimed |
| 99 | I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away | Hayden Pedigo | Mexican Summer |
| 100 | Alice Howe & Freebo (Live) | Alice Howe | Know Howe Music |
| 101 | Dreamer's Motel | Joachim Cooder | Temple Of Leaves |
| 102 | Walkin' After Midnight | Eva Cassidy | Blix Street |
| 103 | The New Modern Hymns | Darrell Scott | Here |
| 104 | Time Will Finally Come | Wolf Jett | Hill House |
| 105 | Gardens Old, Flowers New | Tom Rush | Appleseed |
| 106 | Trains, Rivers & Trails | Monica Taylor | Horton |
| 107 | Fiction | Megan Bee | Self-Release |
| 108 | Moon over Larrabee | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band | Self-Release |
| 109 | Cry Love | Paul Burch | Glider |
| 110 | Together on a Rock | The Pairs | Self-Release |
| 111 | Tired of Trying | Joe Holt | Self-Release |
| 112 | Ghost Town | Nate Currin | Archaic Cannon |
| 113 | Sonora | Lisa Morales | Self-Release |
| 114 | One Deep River | Mark Knopfler | Blue Note |
| 115 | Polaroid Lovers | Sarah Jarosz | Rounder |
| 116 | Dark Harvest | Malcolm MacWatt | Singular |
| 117 | Blessed by the West | Sarah Pierce | Berkalin |
| 118 | Mood Ring | Joan Shelley | No Quarter |
| 119 | Devil Rail | John Zipperer | Self-Release |
| 120 | Across the Pond | JigJam | Self-Release |
| 121 | Two Saviors | Buck Meek | Keeled Scales |
| 122 | Heart on a Wire | Carolyn Shulman | Self-Release |
| 123 | The Living Kind | John Smith | Commoner |
| 124 | Desires Shape | Stoll Vaughan | Commonwealth Artist |
| 125 | All I Got and Gone | Chris Walz | Self-Release |
| 126 | Parry Lamont | Parry Lamont | Self-Release |
| 127 | Darkening Green | Kyle Morgan | Jalopy |
| 128 | Ghost Tattoo | Kristen Grainger & True North | Self-Release |
| 129 | Cup of Sugar | Tim O'Brien | Howdy Skies |
| 130 | Searching for a Home | David Hobbes | Self-Release |
| 131 | Sky | Diane King | Self-Release |
| 132 | Anarchist Gospel | Sunny War | New West |
| 133 | Bethlehem | Storyhill | Story Hills |
| 134 | All About the Timing | Roland Roberts | Happy Life |
| 135 | Pharmakon | Humbird | Green Thumb |
| 136 | Charlie Stevens | Charlie Stevens | Charlie Stevens |
| 137 | All the Eye Can See | Joe Henry | Worksong |
| 138 | Last of the Better Days Ahead | Charlie Parr | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 139 | In These Silent Days | Brandi Carlile | Low Country Sound |
| 140 | Even Better on the Bad Days | Scott Sean White | Self-Release |
| 141 | Local Valley | Jose Gonzalez | Mute |
| 142 | Over That Road I'm Bound | Joachim Cooder | Nonesuch |
| 143 | Outside Child | Allison Russell | Fantasy |
| 144 | Highway Islands | Strangebyrds | Gulch Groove |
| 145 | All That's Real | Gathering Sparks | Borealis |
| 146 | Stay the Course | Same Latitude As Rome | Peter C. Boyer |
| 147 | There is No Other (with Francesco Turrisi) | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
| 148 | Collection 2008-2018 | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus | Berkalin |
| 149 | Songs from the River Wind | Eliza Gilkyson | Howlin' Dog |
| 150 | 1960 | Martyn Joseph | Pipe |
| 151 | Barn | Neil Young | The Other Shoe |
| 152 | Cerulean | Ken Yates | Soundly |
| 153 | The Coming of the Years | Joe Jencks | Turtle Bear |
| 154 | The Little In-Between | Tim Grimm | Vault |
| 155 | Only This Far | The Rough & Tumble | Self-Release |
| 156 | Home | Eliza Gilkyson | Self-Release |
| 157 | Playing Pretend | Della | Self-Release |
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