The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Oct 18, 2025
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ | 1 | 2 | Witness Trees | David G Smith | Hey Dave | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 2 | 4 | Open | John Stowers | Howling Alex | Folk Rock |
| ▲ | 3 | 6 | Crown of Roses | Patty Griffin | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 4 | 7 | I'm Too Old for Games: a Live Tribute to Odetta | Misty Blues | Guitar One | Traditional Folk |
| ▼ | 5 | 1 | Shelby Means | Shelby Means | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 6 | 8 | Into the Light | Aliza Hava | Self-Release | Folk Rock |
| ▲ | 7 | 9 | One True Song | Karney | Self-Release | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 8 | 3 | Wild and Clear and Blue | I'm With Her | Rounder | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 9 | 5 | Heart So Rare | Dave Murphy | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 10 | 38 | Sons | Sons Of The East | Metropolitan Groove Merchants | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 11 | 10 | Northern Moon | John Donovan | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| - | 12 | 12 | Delta Traces | Billy Jeter | House on Fire | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 13 | 13 | Sing to Me About Tomorrow | Winterlark | Squink | Alternative Folk |
| - | 14 | 14 | Hysteria | Billy Jeter | Shine Eye | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 15 | 15 | So Many Wows | Lucie Blue Tremblay | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 16 | 16 | Cardiac | Aarythmers | Aarythmers | Folk Rock |
| ▲ | 17 | 27 | Memory Mountain | Max Gomez | New West | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 18 | 25 | Who Wants to Talk About Love? | Jade Bird | Glassnote | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 19 | 17 | EP Two | Slainte Baby | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 20 | 18 | Flesh and Bone | Cynthia Marchant | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 21 | 19 | Beautiful Thing | Peach & Quiet | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 22 | 20 | Wilderness Within You | Parker Millsap | Okrahoma | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 23 | 21 | Sticks and Stones | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | 6 Ace | Roots Rock |
| ▼ | 24 | 22 | Everything is Alive | Darlingside | More Doug | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 25 | 23 | The Silence of the Stars | Linda Marks | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| - | 26 | 26 | You Never Can Tell | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 27 | 11 | Wide Open Light | Ben Harper | Chrysalis | Alternative Folk |
| - | 28 | 28 | 1988 | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 29 | 29 | Occulations | Jim Lampos | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| - | 30 | 30 | I Only See the Moon | The Milk Carton Kids | Far Cry | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 31 | 31 | In the Moment | Raveis Kole | Bop | Folk Rock |
| - | 32 | 32 | Win or Lose | Linda Sussman | Sing Out Proud | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 33 | - | Reverie | Amble | Warner | Contemporary Folk |
| *NEW* | 34 | - | Heat of July | Briscoe | ATO | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 35 | 34 | Dang Fool | Eric Selby | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 36 | 35 | Love Unfettered | Marie-Rose | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 37 | - | Cracks | The Lowtimers | Alabama Sound Company | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 38 | 36 | Two Birds to Kill a Stone | Son Stone | Kaimana | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 39 | 37 | Bare Bones, Vol. 1: the Duo Recordings (Master Takes) | Jerry Garcia & David Grisman | Acoustic Disc | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 40 | - | Wartime Cartoons | My Brother's Keeper | Robust | Traditional Folk |
| *NEW* | 41 | - | Long Time Honey | Fox and Bones | Black Oak Artists | Folk Rock |
| ▲ | 42 | - | This Ol' Way | Benjamin Dakota Rogers | Good People | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 43 | 40 | Walking on the Wire | Gordon Thomas Ward | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 44 | 24 | Starting to Sync in | Eric Selby | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| *NEW* | 45 | - | You Climb the Mountain | The Onlies | Self-Release | Folk |
| *NEW* | 46 | - | Nature of Necessity | Adam Wright | Carnival | Contemporary Folk |
| *NEW* | 47 | - | Night Owl Envies the Mourning Dove | Caitlin Canty | Tone Tree | Contemporary Folk |
| *NEW* | 48 | - | Dance of the Yellow Leaf | Peter Salett | Dusty Shoes | Folk Rock |
| *NEW* | 49 | - | Have at It! | DUG | Claddagh | Folk Rock |
| *NEW* | 50 | - | Smokestack Town | Ole 60 | Three Twenty Four | Folk Rock |
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