TOP FOLK RECORDS OF 2025
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I'M WITH HER | Wild And Clear And Blue | Rounder/Concord |
| 2 | ELIZA GILKYSON | Dark Ages | Realiza |
| 3 | ALISON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION | Arcadia | Down The Road |
| 4 | JOHN MCCUTCHEON | Field Of Stars | Appalsongs |
| 5 | CHARLEY CROCKETT | Lonesome Drifter | Lone Star Rider/Island/UMG |
| 6 | SIERRA HULL | A Tip Toe High Wire | Self-Released |
| 7 | VALERIE JUNE | Owls, Omens, And Oracles | Concord |
| 8 | CALEB KLAUDER AND REEB WILLMS | Gold In Your Pocket | Free Dirt |
| 9 | MOLLY TUTTLE | So Long Little Miss Sunshine | Nonesuch |
| 10 | KEN POMEROY | Cruel Joke | Rounder/Concord |
| 11 | WOOD BROTHERS, THE | Puff Of Smoke | Honey Jar/Thirty Tigers |
| 12 | SG GOODMAN | Planting By The Signs | Slough Water/Thirty Tigers |
| 13 | SUNNY WAR | Armageddon in a Summer Dress | New West |
| 14 | JASON ISBELL | Foxes In The Snow | Southeastern/Thirty Tigers |
| 15 | BONNIE PRINCE BILLY | The Purple Bird | No Quarter |
| 16 | CRYS MATTHEWS | Reclamation | Self-Released |
| 17 | BILLY STRINGS | Highway Prayers | Reprise |
| 18 | CASSIE AND MAGGIE | Gold And Coal | Self-Released |
| 19 | GILLIAN WELCH AND DAVID RAWLINGS | Woodland | Acony |
| 20 | RHIANNON GIDDENS AND JUSTIN ROBINSON | What Did The Blackbird Say To The Crow | Nonesuch |
| 21 | MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER | Personal History | Thirty Tigers |
| 22 | TIM GRIMM | Bones Of Trees | Vault |
| 23 | ALISON BROWN AND STEVE MARTIN | Safe, Sensible And Sane | Compass |
| 24 | RINGO STARR | Look Up | UME |
| 25 | JEFF TWEEDY | Twilight Override | dBpm |
| 26 | NEKO CASE | Neon Grey Midnight Green | Anti- |
| 27 | MARGO PRICE | Hard Headed Woman | Loma Vista/Concord |
| 28 | CHATHAM RABBITS | Be Real With Me | Self-Released |
| 29 | CHARLEY CROCKETT | Dollar A Day | Lone Star Rider/Island/UMG |
| 30 | WILLIE NELSON | Oh What A Beautiful World | Sony |
| 31 | CARLA GOVER | Kentucky Queen | Redbird |
| 32 | HORSENECKS, THE | In the West | Tiki Parlour |
| 33 | ALICE HOWE AND FREEBO | Live | Know Howe |
| 34 | BIG THIEF | Double Infinity | 4AD/Beggars |
| 35 | KATHLEEN EDWARDS | Billionaire | Dualtone |
| 36 | JOHN GORKA | Unentitled | Red House |
| 37 | FOLK BITCH TRIO | Now Would Be A Good Time | Jagjaguwar |
| 38 | BRANDI CARLILE | Returning To Myself | Lost Highway/Interscope |
| 39 | LUCY KAPLANSKY | The Lucy Story | Lucyricky |
| 40 | CHRIS WALZ | All I Got And Gone | Self-Released |
| 41 | WATCHHOUSE | Rituals | Tiptoe Tiger |
| 42 | DEAN JOHNSON | I Hope We Can Still Be Friends | Saddle Creek |
| 43 | ROBBIE FULKS | Now Then | Compass |
| 44 | NUALA KENNEDY AND EAMON O'LEARY | Hydra | Under The Arch |
| 45 | JERRON PAXTON | Things Done Changed | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 46 | HEMLOCK | 444 (Four Four Four) | Self-Released |
| 47 | WEATHER STATION, THE | Humanhood | Fat Possum |
| 48 | JAMES MCMURTRY | The Black Dog And The Wandering Boy | New West |
| 49 | MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, JULIE FOWLIS, KARINE POLWART | Looking For The Thread | Thirty Tigers |
| 50 | ELI WEST | The Shape Of A Sway | Tender And Mild |
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