The Roots Music Report's
Top Traditional Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2025

 
Album Title Band/Artist Name Label
1I'm Too Old for Games: a Live Tribute to OdettaMisty BluesGuitar One
2Willie WatsonWillie WatsonThirty Tigers
3A Sunday DriveEd SweeneySelf-Release
4Doing Things RightJim KweskinJalopy
5Memory MountainMax GomezNew West
6Wartime CartoonsMy Brother's KeeperRobust
7It's Already Better Than It's Ever Going to BeBryant RosesSelf-Release
8Gold and CoalCassie and MaggieSelf-Release
9The Universe is HungryDamn Tall BuildingsDamn Tall Buildings
10Unseen Hands 12 Songs 12 StringsKen WhiteleyPyramid
11Never Too LateJim KweskinStorySound
12Carrying onKacy & ClaytonNew West
13Rough and Rowdy WaysBob DylanColumbia
14Small TownsStillHouse JunkiesDark Shadow
15The Great Irish SongbookDervishRounder
16A Fireproof House of SunshineHackensaw BoysFree Dirt
17Hurricane ClariceAllison de Groot & Tatiana HargreavesFree Dirt
18Just Like LeavingBella WhiteSelf-Release
19LeylinesRising AppalachiaSelf-Release
20Wide AwakeJoy Kills SorrowSignature Sound
21Sleeping DogsDamn Tall BuildingsSelf-Release
22Vincent Neil EmersonVincent Neil EmersonLa Honda/Thirty Tigers
23Long Day in the Milky WayKris DelmhorstSelf-Release
24Rearrange My HeartChe ApalacheFree Dirt
25Fables in a Foreign LandJohn DoeFat Possum
26AlpenglowTrampled by TurtlesBanjodad
 

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