Farce the Music's Top 25+ Albums of 2025

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1. Turnpike Troubadours - The Price of Admission

2. Luke Bell - The King is Back

3. Kathleen Edwards - Billionaire

4. Justin Wells - Cynthiana

5. James McMurtry - The Black Dog & The Wandering Boy

6. Cole Chaney - In the Shadow of the Mountain

7. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, & Oracles

8. Colter Wall - Memories & Empties

9. Charley Crockett - Dollar a Day

10. Ken Pomeroy - Cruel Joke

11. Tyler Childers - Snipe Hunt

12. Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow

13. Joe Stamm Band - Little Crosses

14. Waylon Jennings - Songbird

15. Jason Scott & The High Heat - American Grin

16. Ben Nichols - In the Heart of the Mountain

17. Patterson Hood - Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams

18. Matt Daniel - The Poet

19. Sunny Sweeney - Rhinestone Requiem

20. Tobacco City - Horses

21. Hailey Whitters - Corn Queen

22. Hayes Carll - We’re Only Human

23. Jason Boland & The Stragglers - The Last Kings of Babylon

24. Margo Price - Hard Headed Woman

25. Ryan Necci & The Buffalo Gospel - The Dead Can’t Take a Hint

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58 more I really liked (in no particular order):

Jesse Daniel - Son of the San Lorenzo

Muscadine Bloodline - …And What Was Left Behind

Snocaps - s/t

William Prince - Further From the Country

Amanda Shires - Nobody’s Girl

Nicholas Jamerson - The Narrow Way

Ani DiRusso - Super Pedestrian

Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out

Joshua Hedley - All Hat

Charley Crockett - Lonesome Drifter

Tami Neilson - Neon Cowgirl

Olivia Wolfe - Silver Rounds

The Wilder Blue - Still in the Runnin’

JD Clayton - Blue Sky Sundays

Nick Shoulders - Refugia Blues

Leon Majcen - Better Days

Whiskey Myers - Whomp Whack Thunder

Kat Hasty - The Time of Your Life

Brent Cobb - Ain’t Rocked in a While

Them Coulee Boys - No Fun in the Chrysalis

Vandoliers - Life Behind Bars

Petey USA - The Yips

Jesse Welles - Middle

Brennen Leigh - Don't You Ever Give Up on Love

Cody Jinks - In My Blood

Chaparral - Western Pleasure

Sam Stoane - Tales of the Dark West

Will Stewart - Moon Winx

Pug Johnson - El Cabron

Nick Shoulders - Refugia Blues

Juliet McConkey - Southern Front

Colby Acuff - Enjoy the Ride

Rebecca Porter - Roll With the Punches

Liquid Mike - Hell is an Airport

Tyler the Creator - Don’t Tap the Glass

Tanner Usrey - These Days

Bonnie Prince Billy - The Purple Bird

Jake Owen - Dreams to Dream

Will Hoge - Sweet Misery

Jeremy Pinnell - Decades

Juliet McConkey - Southern Front

Joshua Ray Walker - Tropicana

SG Goodman - Planting By the Signs

Silverada - Texas 42

Pigs x7 - Death Hilarious

Lola Kirke - Trailblazer

Deftones - Private Music

Trenton Fletcher - Tornado Alley 

Dalton Domino - Arizona 

Nolan Taylor - s/t

Ole 60 - Smokestack Town

Billy Woods - Golliwog

Avery Anna - Let Go Letters

Testament - Para Bellum

Brandi Carlile - Returning to Myself

Jake Worthington - When I Write the Song

Kelsey Waldon - Every Ghost

Ruston Kelly - Pale, Through the Window

Favorite Songs of 2025 Spotlight / Luke Bell / "Dark House of Fools"

Get Low!

 

Luke Bell Performs "Rattlesnake Man"

 Included on his excellent posthumous release, The King is Back. 

Noeline Hofmann Covers Luke Bell's "The Bullfighter"

Martha Spencer w/Luke Bell et al. / "Hesitation Blues"

Thanks for the Music, Luke Bell

 Troubled country singer Luke Bell passed away this week. Despite only one wide release album (and one a little harder to find), Bell had an intrigued fan base, and left us with some great neo-traditional country music. Rest in peace, Luke. Thank you for sharing your talents and struggles with us.

The Saturation of Luke

 

More Monday Memes: Lukes, Mitchell Tenpenny, Kane Brown

Country Music is Medicine

New(ish) Video: Luke Bell "Where Ya Been"

From his self-titled 2016 album.

More Monday Morning Memes: Waylon, Luke, Luke, Luke

Hip-Hop Country Memes

Favorite Albums of 2016: Mid-Year Report

This is Trailer's list of favorite albums. The year-end list will look a lot different because all 

Farce the Music's contributors will vote on it, there will be actual write-ups of the top albums, 

and besides... there are 6 more months in the year. 

 1. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

 

2. Flatland Cavalry - Humble Folks

 

3. Caleb Caudle - Carolina Ghost
 

 4. Gojira - Magma
 

5. Austin Lucas - Between the Moon and the Midwest
 

6. Brandy Clark - Big Day in a Small Town
 

7. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
 

8. Luke Bell - s/t
 

9. Robert Ellis - s/t
 

10. Rob Baird - Wrong Side of the River

11. Bonnie Raitt - Dig in Deep
12. Hayes Carll - Lovers and Leavers
13. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
14. Quaker City Night Hawks - El Astronauta
15. Western Centuries - Weight of the World
16. Loretta Lynn - Full Circle
17. Deftones - Gore
18. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
19. The Temperance Movement - White Bear (out July 22)
20. Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day
21. Band of Horses - Why Are You OK?
22. Larry Hooper - No Turning Back
23. Tedeschi Trucks Band - Let Me Get By
24. Southern Family
25. Robbie Fulks - Upland Stories
26. Candlebox - Disappearing in Airports
27. Arliss Nancy - Greater Divides
28. Dub Miller - The Midnight Ambassador
29. Chris King - Animal
30. Randy Rogers Band - Nothing Shines Like Neon
31. Wheeler Walker Jr. - Redneck Shit
32. The Honeycutters - On the Ropes
33. Rival Sons - Hollow Bones
34. YG - Still Brazy
35. The Cactus Blossoms - You're Dreaming
36. Mavis Staples - Livin' on a High Note
37. The Jayhawks - Paging Mr. Proust
38. Kyle Craft - Dolls of Highland
39. Bonnie Bishop - Ain't Who I Was
40. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity

Monday Morning Memes: Luke Bryan, Luke Bell, Bobby Bones, Bros

Thanks to Zackary Kephart for this idea!