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
12The Great Irish SongbookDervishRounder
13A Fireproof House of SunshineHackensaw BoysFree Dirt
14Hurricane ClariceAllison de Groot & Tatiana HargreavesFree Dirt
15Just Like LeavingBella WhiteSelf-Release
16Wide AwakeJoy Kills SorrowSignature Sound
17Sleeping DogsDamn Tall BuildingsSelf-Release
18Vincent Neil EmersonVincent Neil EmersonLa Honda/Thirty Tigers
19Long Day in the Milky WayKris DelmhorstSelf-Release
20Rearrange My HeartChe ApalacheFree Dirt
21Fables in a Foreign LandJohn DoeFat Possum
22AlpenglowTrampled by TurtlesBanjodad
 

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