Metacritic/EOY Aggregate: 2025 New Compilations of Old/Various Music: Country/Americana/Folk

For information on what lists are consulted, and what the various abbreviations and notes mean, click here.

Reissues, compilations, vault music, etc. For new records, click here.

Sub-Lists

Some breakdowns by genre:

• Blues/Gospel
• Country/Americana/Folk
• Classical/New Age
• Electronica/Dance
• Hip-Hop/R&B
• Jazz
• Metal
• World
• Other (Mostly Pop/Rock, or Unknown)
• Everything

Ranking

1. Luke Bell: The King Is Back (2013-16, All Blue/Thirty Tigers) {13}: scm:++*, tl_r:5 -- RX:A-, TH:A-
2. Grace Potter: Medicine (2008, Hollywood) {7}: -- RX:A-, TH:***
3. Waylon Jennings: Songbird () {3}: scm:++*
4. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver/Stanley Cowell/Cecil McBee/Jimmy Hopps]: Music Inc.'1970, Strata-East (04-25) {3}: TH:**
5. Barnyard Beehive (Numero Group) {2}: am:*, am_z:+ -- A:90/1
6. Those Poor Bastards: Songs of Desperation [20th Anniversary Edition] (2005, Tribulation) {1}: scm:+