Favorite Albums of 2025: Readers’ Pick!
Our readers voted for their favorite albums of 2024, and here are the results!
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We will also add a song from each from the top 12 albums to our New Americana Music playlist.
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100 top favorite albums of 2025, in order:
1) Tom Ciurczak “Yorick”
2)Kurt Lee Wheeler “Lathemtown”
3) Vicki Peterson & John Cowsill “Long After the Fire”
4) Lance Cowan “Against the Grain”
5) James McMurtry “The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy”
6) Helene Cronin “Maybe New Mexico”
7) Jason Isbell “Foxes in the Snow”
8) Jonathan Peyton “How We’ve Come So Far”
9) Michael Rudd “Going to the Mountain”
10) Liam St John “Man of the North”
11) Alice DiMicele “Reverse the Flow”
12) Doug Kolmar “We’ll Be Fine”
13) Joselyn & Don “Lost & Found Highway”
14) The Swell Season “Forward”
15) John Cowan and Andrea Zonn “The HercuLeons”
16) The Lucky Losers “Arrival”
17) Larkin Poe “Bloom”
18) Josh Ritter “I Believe In You, My Honeydew”
19) Robert Plant “Saving Grace”
20) The Waterboys “Life, Death, and Dennis Hopper”
21) Rodney Crowell “Airline Highway”
22) Jack Barksdale “Voices”
23) Charming Disaster “The Double”
24) Gary Louris “Dark Country”
25) Joe Ely “Love and Freedom”
26) Zach Top & Billy Strings “Me & Billy”
27) North Mississippi Allstars “Still Shakin'”
28) Turnpike Troubadours “The Price of Admission”
29) Elliott Murphy “Infinity”
30) Ringo Starr “Look Up”
31) Willie Nelson “Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle”
32) Los Straitjackets “Somos Los Straitjackets”
33) Marshall Crenshaw “From the Hellhole”
34) Travis Roberts “Rebel Rose”
35) Mary Chapin Carpenter “Personal History”
36) I’m With Her “Wild & Clear & Blue”
37) Esther Rose “Want”
38) Kristina Murray “Little Blue”
39) Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson “What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow?”
40) Kris Delmhorst “Ghosts in the Garden”
41) Patterson Hood “Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams”
42) Mavis Staples “Sad and Beautiful World”
43) Warren Zevon “Live at Edmonton Festival”
44) Joshua Hedley “All Hat”
45) Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Night After Night”
46) Dar Williams “Hummingbird Highway”
47) John Prine “Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings” (deluxe)
48) Rosie Flores “Impossible Frontiers”
49) Jeff Tweedy “Twilight Override”
50) Warren Haynes “The Whisper Sessions”
51) Kathleen Edwards “Billionaire”
52) Molly Tuttle “So Long Little Miss Sunshine”
53) Tyler Childers “Snipe Hunter”
54) doubleVee “Periscope at Midnight”
55) Buddy Guy “Ain’t Done With the Blues”
56) Patty Griffin “Crown of Roses”
57) Rachel McIntyre Smith “Honeysuckle Friend” (deluxe)
58) Mickey & the Motorcars self-titled
59) SG Goodman “Planting by the Signs”
60) Bruce Springsteen “Tracks II: The Lost Albums”
61) Marc Ribot “Map of a Blue City”
62) Alison Krauss “Arcadia”
63) Mumford & Sons “Rushmere”
64) Neil Young “Oceanside Countryside”
65) The Devil Makes Three “Spirits”
66) Horsebath “Another Farewell”
67) The Lumineers “Automatic”
68) Sunny War “Armageddon in a Summer Dress”
69) Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg “No Resemblance Whatsoever”
70) Brennen Leigh “Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love”
71) Caitlin Canty “Night Owl Envies the Mourning Dove”
72) Saint Pierre “Luck & Gravity”
73) Todd Snider “High, Lonesome, and The Some”
74) Brandi Carlile “Returning to Myself”
75) Madi Diaz “Fatal Optimist”
76)Diane King “Sky”
77) Neko Case “Neon Grey Midnight Green”
78) Otis Gibbs “The Trust of Crows”
79) Wednesday “Bleeds”
80) Big Thief “Double Infinity”
81) Shawn Camp (Guy Clark co-writes) “The Ghost of Sis Draper”
82) West Texas Exiles “8000 Days”
83) Zach Top “Ain’t In It For My Health”
84) Sunny Sweeney “Rhinestone Requiem”
85) Asleep at the Wheel “Riding High in Texas”
86) The Wildmans “Longtime Friend”
87) Cody Jinks “In My Blood”
88) William Beckmann “Whiskey Lies & Alibis”
89) The Storm Windows “More Lucky”
90) Willie Nile “The Great Yellow Light”
91) Vandoliers “Live Behind Bars”
92) Robert Randolph “Preacher Kids”
93) The Steeldrivers “Outrun”
94) Ken Pomeroy “Cruel Joke”
95) Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ “Room on the Porch”
96) Watchhouse “Rituals”
97) Grace Potter “Medicine”
98) The Wildwoods “Dear Meadowlark”
99) Mike Delevante “September Days”
100) Billy Strings & Bryan Sutton “Live at the Americana Legion”