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Mayer’s Picks, More 2025 Favorites

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Here, in no particular order, are more favorites from 2025.

Growing Pains
Andy Frasco & the U.N.
Further From the Country
William Prince
Who Wants To Talk About Love
Jade Bird

Bloom
Larkin Poe
Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams
Patterson Hood
American Equator
Pete Mancini

Theory + Practice
Tophouse
Lonely Mountain Town
Charles Wesley Godwin
The Great Yellow Light
Willie Nile

Restless
Palmyra
The Return Of…
John Howie Jr. & the Rosewood Bluff
I Believe In You, My Honeydew
Josh Ritter

The Escape Artist
Bird Streets
The Black Dog and The Wandering Boy
James McMurtry
Forward
The Swell Season

Audience With the Queen
Galactic and Irma Thomas
Sweet Misery
Will Hoge
Transparent Towns
John Calvin Abney

Echo in the Dust
Julianna Riolino
All the Not So Gentle Reminders
David Ramirez
8000 Days
West Texas Exiles

One of the Guys
Zoë Pete Ford
Til the Glitter End
KP Hawthorn
Home Front
Terra Lightfoot

Best Western
Bones Owens
Baby, It’s Late
Patrick Sweany
Here I Am Amnesia
Butch Parnell

BS
Baby Said
Michigander
Michigander
When Youth Fades Away
Somebody’s Child

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