Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for July 25th, 2025. Click the artist or album links to find out more. The artist’s names link to their websites and the CD title links go to either Amazon, iTunes, Bandcamp or the artist’s site for ordering or downloading. A + sign means although not a featured release, it’s a notable album that’s still worth checking out. Also, this page will be updated as I find out about other new releases so check back again.
Tyler Childers
Snipe Hunter (Hickman Holler Records)
Childers once again proves why he’s one of the most vital and unpredictable voices in modern country with this 13-track album is a bold testament to Childers’ evolution as an artist — one who reveres tradition while constantly redrawing its boundaries. Produced by the legendary Rick Rubin alongside Childers himself and Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn, Snipe Hunter is a masterclass in artistic conviction. The sonic landscape is rich and varied, drawing from the Appalachian roots that launched Childers into the spotlight, while weaving in subtle, unexpected textures that reflect his fearless experimentation. He leans into emotional honesty, layered arrangements, and the kind of storytelling that transcends genre lines. Snipe Hunter isn’t just a new album — it’s a statement. A reaffirmation that Tyler Childers is not only here to stay, but here to lead. (edited from The Sound Cafe review)
Patty Griffin
Crown of Roses (PGM)
On her 10 albums since that debut, Griffin has pinballed between post-grunge rock and graceful folk, between Spanish balladry and sizzling blues, even duetting with Mavis Staples before cutting a country-gospel wonder in Nashville. As she wrote about civil rights and bigotry, adventure and lust, she continued to examine her difficult childhood. Those family tunes culminate on her new album, with the arresting “Way Up to the Sky,” singing about being the youngest of seven children who rarely made their mother feel valued amid a collapsing marriage in a cash-strapped household held together by Catholicism and convenience. Her mother never heard the song, she died in February at 93. Griffin hopes that her mother’s death and Crown of Roses are the capstone of a nearly two-decade period she calls “the come apart.” It began around 2009, her father died, she and Robert Plant broke up, she got breast cancer, and lost her voice. Recognizing how much was out of her control, she started to loosen up, to laugh a little more at the world. She learned to do more with a smaller voice and to write to the sound of it again, as she had done in the ’90s.
(edited from NY Times review)
Also new this week…
Folk Bitch Trio – Now Would Be A Good Time (Jagjaguwar Records)
The Honeydogs – Algebra for Broken Hearts (Jullian Records)
Grayson Jenkins – Country Parables (independent) +
Cody Jinks – In My Blood (Late August Records)
Minor Gold – Way to the Sun (independent) +
Ben Nichols – In the Heart of the Mountain (Liberty & Lament Records)
Coming out soon … Hayes Carll, Sunny Sweeney, Rodney Crowell, Molly Tuttle, Patrick Sweany, Kathleen Edwards, Margo Price, The Wood Brothers, Josh Ritter, Dallas Burrow, Asleep at the Wheel, Jeff Tweedy, Clover County and more!
