Readers’ Pick: Best of 2025

• Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners – Before The Fall (26%, 40 Votes)
• Ward Hayden & The Outliers – Little by Little (14%, 21 Votes)
• James McMurtry – The Black Dog & the Wandering Boy (6%, 9 Votes)
• Ward Hayden and the Outliers – Piece By Piece (5%, 7 Votes)
• Jason Isbell – Foxes in the Snow (4%, 6 Votes)
• Turnpike Troubadours – Price of Admission (3%, 5 Votes)
• Webb Wilder – Hillbilly Speedball (3%, 5 Votes)
• Kathleen Edwards – Billionaire (3%, 5 Votes)
• Mavis Staples – Sad and Beautiful World (3%, 5 Votes)
• Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ – Room On The Porch (2%, 3 Votes)
• Brennen Leigh – Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love (2%, 3 Votes)
• Patterson Hood – Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams (1%, 2 Votes)
• Mike Farris – The Sound of Muscle Shoals (1%, 2 Votes)
• Ringo Starr – Look Up (1%, 2 Votes)
• Rodney Crowell – Airline Highway (1%, 2 Votes)
• The Wood Brothers – Puff of Smoke (1%, 2 Votes)
• Sunny Sweeney – Rhinestone Requiem (1%, 2 Votes)
• Tommy Womack – Live A Little (1%, 2 Votes)
• Brandi Carlile – Returning to Myself (1%, 2 Votes)
• Afton Wolfe – Ophiuchus (1%, 2 Votes)
• Larkin Poe – Bloom (1%, 1 Votes)
• Evan Nicole Bell – Shades of Blue (1%, 1 Votes)
• Charley Crockett – Lonesome Drifter (1%, 1 Votes)
• Kasey Anderson – To The Places We Lived (1%, 1 Votes)
• Todd Snider – Best Of All My Songs (1%, 1 Votes)
• JD Clayton – Blue Sky Sundays (1%, 1 Votes)
• Drew & Ellie Holcomb – Memory Bank (1%, 1 Votes)
• Pug Johnson – El Cabron (1%, 1 Votes)
• Kris Delmhorst – Ghosts in the Garden (1%, 1 Votes)
• Esther Rose – Want (1%, 1 Votes)
• Valerie June – Owls, Omens, and Oracles (1%, 1 Votes)
• Vandoliers – Life Behind Bars (1%, 1 Votes)
• S.G. Goodman – Planting by the Signs (1%, 1 Votes)
• Hayes Carll – We’re Only Human (1%, 1 Votes)
• Molly Tuttle – So Long Little Miss Sunshine (1%, 1 Votes)
• The Honeydogs – Algebra For Broken Hearts (1%, 1 Votes)
• Big Thief – Double Infinity (1%, 1 Votes)
• Neko Case – Neon Gray Midnight Green (1%, 1 Votes)
• Jeff Tweedy – Twilight Override (1%, 1 Votes)
• Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives – Space Junk (1%, 1 Votes)
• Paul Kelly – Seventy (1%, 1 Votes)
• Todd Snider – HIGH, LONESOME AND THEN SOME (1%, 1 Votes)
• Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover – What of Our Nature (1%, 1 Votes)
• Dion – The Rock ‘n’ Roll Philosopher (Keeping the Blues Alive) (1%, 1 Votes)
• Jim Keller – End of the World (1%, 1 Votes)
• Maygen & The Birdwatcher – The Americana Dream (1%, 1 Votes)
• Devil Makes Three – Spirits (0%, 0 Votes)
• Alison Krauss and Union Station – Arcadia (0%, 0 Votes)
• Kinky Friedman – Poet of Motel 6 (0%, 0 Votes)
• Mary Chapin Carpenter with Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart – Looking for Thread (0%, 0 Votes)
• John Lee Hooker – The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (0%, 0 Votes)
• Joel Timmons – Psychedelic Surf Country (0%, 0 Votes)
• Tommy Castro & the Painkillers – Closer To The Bone (0%, 0 Votes)
• Charles Wesley Godwin – Lonely Mountain Town (0%, 0 Votes)
• Palmyra – Restless (0%, 0 Votes)
• Bobby Rush and Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Young Fashioned Ways (0%, 0 Votes)
• The Seldom Scene – Remains to Be Scene (0%, 0 Votes)
• Them Coulee Boys – No Fun in the Chrysalis (0%, 0 Votes)
• Crys Matthews – Reclamation (0%, 0 Votes)
• Joshua Ray Walker – Tropicana (0%, 0 Votes)
• Shinyribs – Leaving Time (0%, 0 Votes)
• Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts – Talkin to the Trees (0%, 0 Votes)
• Watchouse – Rituals (0%, 0 Votes)
• I’m With Her – Wild and Clear and Blue (0%, 0 Votes)
• Carolyn Wonderland – Truth Is (0%, 0 Votes)
• The Shootouts – Switchback (0%, 0 Votes)
• Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson – What Did The Blackbird Say to The Crow (0%, 0 Votes)
• Gurf Morlix – A Taste of Ashes (0%, 0 Votes)
• Robert Randolph – Preacher Kids (0%, 0 Votes)
• Brown Horse – All The Right Weaknesses (0%, 0 Votes)
• Little Feat – Strike Up The Band (0%, 0 Votes)
• North Mississippi Allstars – Still Shakin (0%, 0 Votes)
• Alan Sparhawk – With Trampled by Turtles (0%, 0 Votes)
• Eliza Gilkyson – Dark Ages (0%, 0 Votes)
• Lord Huron – The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 (0%, 0 Votes)
• Tami Neilson – Neon Cowgirl (0%, 0 Votes)
• John Jenkins – Restless Hearts (0%, 0 Votes)
• Robert Plant – Saving Grace (0%, 0 Votes)
• Patty Griffin – Crown of Roses (0%, 0 Votes)
• Ketch Secor – Story the Crow Told Me (0%, 0 Votes)
• Stillhouse Junkies – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon (0%, 0 Votes)
• Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia – Help Yourself (0%, 0 Votes)
• Robbie Fulks – Now Then (0%, 0 Votes)
• Charley Crockett – Dollar A Day (0%, 0 Votes)
• Jade Bird – Who Wants to Talk About Love (0%, 0 Votes)
• Paul Carrick – The Country Side of Paul Carrack, Vol. 1 (0%, 0 Votes)
• Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – Hard Road (0%, 0 Votes)
• West Texas Exiles – 8000 Days (0%, 0 Votes)
• Grant-Lee Phillips – In The Hour of Dust (0%, 0 Votes)
• Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country – Horizons (0%, 0 Votes)
• The Wildmans – Longtime Friend (0%, 0 Votes)
• Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter – Forever, I’ve Been Being Born (0%, 0 Votes)
• Kim Wilson – Slow Burn (0%, 0 Votes)
• Rhett Miller – A Lifetime of Riding by Night (0%, 0 Votes)
• Melissa Carper – A Very Carper Christmas (0%, 0 Votes)
• Colter Wall – Memories and Empties (0%, 0 Votes)
• Gurf Morlix – Bristlecone (0%, 0 Votes)
• Luke Bell – The King Is Back (0%, 0 Votes)
• Luther Dickinson – Dead Blues Vol. 1 (0%, 0 Votes)
• Caitlin Canty – Night Owl Envies the Mourning Dove (0%, 0 Votes)
• Amy Speace – The Blue Rock Session (0%, 0 Votes)
• Willie Nelson – Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle (0%, 0 Votes)
• Ward Richmond – Big Addict Energy (0%, 0 Votes)
• Tony Joe White – The Real Thang (0%, 0 Votes)
• John Gorka – unentitled (0%, 0 Votes)
• Old Crow Medicine Show – OCMS XMAS (0%, 0 Votes)
• The Bros. Landreth – Dog Ear (0%, 0 Votes)
• Joshua Hedley – All Hat (0%, 0 Votes)
• The Barr Brothers – Let It Hiss (0%, 0 Votes)
• Paul Burch – Cry Love (0%, 0 Votes)
• Nicki Bluhm – Rancho Deluxe (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 153