Our editors' picks for the best Folk & Americana songs this year. Cover: Jesse Welles

Roots Rising Presents: Best Folk & Americana Songs of 2025

Big Thief

Los Angeles / Grandmother

Los Angeles

Wednesday

Bleeds

Elderberry Wine

Jesse Welles

Middle

Horses

Ethel Cain

Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

Nettles

Tyler Childers

Snipe Hunter

Oneida

Jensen McRae

I Don't Know How But They Found Me!

Savannah

Annahstasia

Tether

Villain

I'm With Her

Wild and Clear and Blue

Sarah Jarosz

Aoife O'Donovan

Sara Watkins

Ancient Light

Silvana Estrada

Vendrán Suaves Lluvias

Flores

Folk Bitch Trio

Now Would Be A Good Time

The Actor

Hannah Cohen

Earthstar Mountain

Mountain

Nathaniel Rateliff

Gregory Alan Isakov

Flowers

Madison Cunningham

Break The Jaw

Billie Marten

Dog Eared

Leap Year

Leith Ross

I Can See The Future

Grieving

Bon Iver

SABLE, fABLE

There's A Rhythmn

Hudson Freeman

If You Know Me / Wild Horses

If You Know Me

Skullcrusher

And Your Song is Like a Circle

Exhale

Flock of Dimes

The Life You Save

Afraid

Alex G

Headlights

June Guitar

Margo Price

Hard Headed Woman

Love Me Like You Used To Do [Feat. Tyler Childers]

Dove Ellis

To The Sandals

Ken Pomeroy

Cruel Joke

Wolf In Sheep’s Clothes

Jason Isbell

Foxes in the Snow

Good While It Lasted

Molly Tuttle

So Long Little Miss Sunshine

That's Gonna Leave a Mark

Brandi Carlile

Returning To Myself

Alan Sparhawk

Trampled by Turtles

Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles

Not Broken

Lord Huron

The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1

Nothing I Need

The Lumineers

Automatic

Asshole

Gigi Perez

At The Beach, In Every Life

Samia

Bloodless

Carousel

Dora Jar

The Explorer

Haley Heynderickx

Max García Conover

What of Our Nature

Fluorescent Light

Alice Phoebe Lou

Oblivion

You and I

Joanne Robertson

Blurrr

Oliver Coates

Gown

Florence + The Machine

Everybody Scream

Music by Men

Mumford & Sons

RUSHMERE

Caroline

Greg Freeman

Burnover

Gallic Shrug

S.G. Goodman

Planting by the Signs

Fire Sign

Charley Crockett

Lonesome Drifter

Hannah Frances

Nested in Tangles

Daniel Rossen

The Space Between

Lucius

Gold Rush

Kingfishr

Diamonds & Roses

Joshua Slone

Thinking Too Much

Your Place At My Place

Sierra Hull

A Tip Toe High Wire

Boom

Black Country, New Road

Forever Howlong

Besties

caroline

caroline 2 (deluxe)

When I get home

Medium Build

takeaways

White Male Privilege

Way Dynamic

Massive Shoe

Miffed It

Natalia Lafourcade

Cancionera

El David Aguilar

Como Quisiera Quererte

S. Carey

Watercress

Annabelle Dinda

The Hand

Searows

Dearly Missed

Noah Cyrus

I WANT MY LOVED ONES TO GO WITH ME (DELUXE)

I Saw The Mountains

Paris Paloma

Good Boy

Wolf Alice

The Clearing

Play It Out

Of Monsters and Men

All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade

Ordinary Creature

Ella Ion

Looking For Nothing

Foxwarren

Andy Shauf

Darryl Kissick

Yvonne

Neko Case

Neon Grey Midnight Green

Wreck

Rhiannon Giddens

Justin Robinson

What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow

Going to Raleigh

Matt Maltese

Hers

Anytime, Anyplace, Anyhow

Sabine McCalla

Don't Call Me Baby

Sunshine Kisses

Andrea Bejar

Marigolds

The Man The Myth The Meatslab

Finding Love in Wilmer pt.1

Infinite

Lucy Dacus

Forever Is A Feeling

Ankles

Amble

Reverie

Schoolyard Days

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Authentic Natural Tradition

Liberation

Adam Ratzman

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