Top Bluegrass Album Chart for the Year of 2023

The Roots Music Report's
Top Bluegrass Album Chart
for the Year of 2023

	Album Title	Band/Artist Name	Label	Sub Genre
1	Me / and / Dad	Billy Strings	Rounder	Progressive Bluegrass
2	Crooked Tree	Molly Tuttle	Nonesuch	Contemporary Bluegrass
3	Lovin' of the Game	Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper	Compass	Contemporary Bluegrass
4	City of Gold	Molly Tuttle	Nonesuch	Contemporary Bluegrass
5	Radio John: Songs of John Hartford	Sam Bush	Smithsonian Folkways	Traditional Bluegrass
6	The Future of the Past	The Tennessee Bluegrass Band	Billy Blue	Traditional Bluegrass
7	Lowdown Hoedown	Jason Carter	Fiddleman	Traditional Bluegrass
8	Heartache and Trouble	Fast Track	Engelhardt Music	Contemporary Bluegrass
9	Details	Nick Dumas	Skyline	Contemporary Bluegrass
10	A Miner's Life	Stoney Creek Bluegrass Band	Calv'ry	Contemporary Bluegrass
11	Something You Didn't Count on	Jaelee Roberts	Mountain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
12	Snow White Memories	Irene Kelley	Self-Release	Progressive Bluegrass
13	On Banjo	Alison Brown	Compass	Progressive Bluegrass
14	Living in the South	Starlett & Big John	Rebel	Contemporary Bluegrass
15	Karma	Volume Five	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
16	Heyday	The Lonesome River Band	Mountain Home	Traditional Bluegrass
17	Never Slow Down	The Po' Ramblin' Boys	Smithsonian Folkways	Contemporary Bluegrass
18	Old Road New Again	The Dillards	Pinecastle	Traditional Bluegrass
19	Authentic Unlimited	Authentic Unlimited	Billy Blue	Contemporary Bluegrass
20	Things That I Like	Mickey Harris	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
21	Solitary Diamond	Laura Orshaw	Dark Shadow	Contemporary Bluegrass
22	Gospel Sessions, Vol. 1	Authentic Unlimited	Billy Blue	Contemporary Bluegrass
23	Leaving is Believing	Ashby Frank	Mountain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
24	That Kind of Lonesome	Eddie Sanders	Engelhardt Music Group	Traditional Bluegrass
25	Lost & Alone	Junior Sisk	Mountain Fever	Traditional Bluegrass
26	Just a Little Talk with Myself	Steven Moore	Self-Release	Progressive Bluegrass
27	The Next Mountain	Rick Faris	Dark Shadows	Contemporary Bluegrass
28	River Wild	Jeremy Garrett	Organic	Contemporary Bluegrass
29	This Life We're Livin'	Darin & Brooke Aldridge	Billy Blue	Contemporary Bluegrass
30	God Fearing Heathen	Dan Tyminski	8 Track Ent.	Contemporary Bluegrass
31	Quiet Country Town	Wildfire	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
32	Losing Game	David Peterson & 1946	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
33	What You Need to Prove	Thomas Cassell	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
34	Changes	Amanda Cook	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
35	Hold on	Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen	Compass	Contemporary Bluegrass
36	Shades of Blue	Kristy Cox	Billy Blue	Contemporary Bluegrass
37	It's Just Me	Larry Sparks	Rebel	Contemporary Bluegrass
38	Roses	Jackson Hollow	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
39	From Sulphur Springs to Rising Fawn : the Songs of Norman Blake	Bob Minner	Engelhardt	Traditional Bluegrass
40	Make Each Second Last	Chris Jones & the Night Drivers	Moutain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
41	From the Ground Up	Jim Hurst	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
42	Ridin' Through the Country	Shannon Slaughter	Elite Circuit	Contemporary Bluegrass
43	The American Fiddler	Andy Leftwich	Mountain Home Music	Contemporary Bluegrass
44	Rare and Fine-uncommon Tunes of Bill Monroe	Mike Compton	Taterbug	Traditional Bluegrass
45	Somewhere Beyond	Breaking Grass	Mountain Fever	Progressive Bluegrass
46	I'll Come Back	AJ Lee & Blue Summit	Old White Horse	Contemporary Bluegrass
47	Accomplice Two	Tommy Emmanuel	CGP Sounds	Contemporary Bluegrass
48	Darkest Hour	The Gibson Brothers	Bull Run	Contemporary Bluegrass
49	Lost Voices	Tim Stafford & Thomm Jutz	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
50	Maria with a "J"	Marija Droze	RBR Ent	Contemporary Bluegrass
51	Great Blue North	Special Consensus	Compass	Contemporary Bluegrass
52	Here in the Country	Terry Baucom	Self-Release	Traditional Bluegrass
53	Music is What I See	Rhonda Vincent	Upper Management	Contemporary Bluegrass
54	Radioactive	Jason Barie	Billy Blue	Contemporary Bluegrass
55	Mighty Poplar	Mighty Poplar	Free Dirt	Contemporary Bluegrass
56	Roundtable	Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	Billy Blue	Contemporary Bluegrass
57	Almost Proud	Del McCoury Band	Self-Release	Traditional Bluegrass
58	Uncommon Sky	Rick Faris	Dark Shadow	Contemporary Bluegrass
59	Livin' Large	Donna Ulisse	Billy Blue	Traditional Bluegrass
60	Banjophonics	Damien O'Kane & Ron Block	Pure	Contemporary Bluegrass
61	A Tribute to Flatt & Scruggs	The Infamous Stringdusters	Americana Vibes	Progressive Bluegrass
62	Renewal	Billy Strings	Rounder	Contemporary Bluegrass
63	Pick Your Poison	Benson	Mountain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
64	Jubilation	Appalachian Road Show	Billy Blue	Traditional Bluegrass
65	We're All Crazy	Dave Adkins	Mountain Fever	Traditional Bluegrass
66	A Life Well Lived	Daryl Mosley	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
67	Get Yourself Outside	Yonder Mountain String Band	Frog Pad	Contemporary Bluegrass
68	Kentucky for Me	Dale Ann Bradley	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
69	New Chapter	Cedar Hill	Mountain Fever	Traditional Bluegrass
70	Up All Night	The Grascals	Mountain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
71	Black Banjo	Tray Wellington	Mountain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
72	Last Chance to Win	East Nash Grass	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
73	Morning Shift	Steep Canyon Rangers	Yep Roc	Contemporary Bluegrass
74	Bridges and Backroads	Jerry Salley	Very Jerry	Contemporary Bluegrass
75	Ups, Downs and No Name Towns	Sideline	Mountain Home	Traditional Bluegrass
76	Toward the Fray	The Infamous Stringdusters	Americana Vibes	Contemporary Bluegrass
77	Hitchhiking to California	Alan Bibey & Grasstowne	Billy Blue	Traditional Bluegrass
78	To Willie from Billy	Bill and the Belles	Self-Release	Traditional Bluegrass
79	Pay Your Dues	Songs From The Road Band	Charles Humphrey III	Contemporary Bluegrass
80	Small Town Dreamer	Daryl Mosley	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
81	East Nash Grass	East Nash Grass	Lamb Lyfe	Contemporary Bluegrass
82	Let Time Ride	Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers	Billy Blue	Traditional Bluegrass
83	Jesse Smathers	Jesse Smathers	Self-Release	Traditional Bluegrass
84	All for the Song	Railroad Earth	Bag O' Seed	Progressive Bluegrass
85	Rhinestone Revival	The Kody Norris Show	Rebel	Traditional Bluegrass
86	Lead and Iron	Henhouse Prowlers	Dark Shadow	Contemporary Bluegrass
87	Man on a Mission	Darren Nicholson	Mountain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
88	Family Reunion	Della Mae	Soundly	Contemporary Bluegrass
89	Brand New Good Old Days	Leftover Salmon	Compass	Contemporary Bluegrass
90	Walk on Faith	The King James Boys	Pinecastle	Gospel Bluegrass
91	Things She Couldn't Get over	Dale Ann Bradley	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
92	Hell on Church Street	Punch Brothers	Nonesuch	Progressive Bluegrass
93	Cambium	Full Cord Bluegrass	Dark Shadow	Progressive Bluegrass
94	Ministry in Song	Larry Sparks	Rebel	Gospel Bluegrass
95	Six Degrees of Separation	Wilson Banjo Co.	Pinecastle	Traditional Bluegrass
96	Alone and Forsaken	Lou Reid	Self-Release	Traditional Bluegrass
97	In Dreams I Go Back	Seth Mulder & Midnight Run	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
98	You Can Learn a Lot from a Song	Hammertowne	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
99	Where the Trees Know My Name	Larry Cordle	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
100	Stress Dreams	Greensky Bluegrass	Big Blue Zoo	Progressive Bluegrass
101	Kinetic Tone	Balsam Range	Mountain Home	Traditional Bluegrass
102	A Little Bit of Bluegrass	Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road	Pinecastle	Traditional Bluegrass
103	If Not Now, Who?	Joe K. Walsh	Adhyâropa	Contemporary Bluegrass
104	Triple Shot	Shannon Leigh Reynolds	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
105	Greener Grass	Billy Swinson	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
106	Easy Listening for Jerks, Pt. 1	The Dead South	Six Shooter	Progressive Bluegrass
107	Round Feet, Chrome Smile	Ragged Union	Shining Castle	Contemporary Bluegrass
108	Greener Pastures	The Waymores	Chicken Ranch	Contemporary Bluegrass
109	Tina Adair	Tina Adair	Engelhardt Music	Contemporary Bluegrass
110	Lend Me a Hand	The String Cheese Incident	SCI Fidelity	Progressive Bluegrass
111	One Step Away	Casey Penn	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
112	Between the Lines	The Price Sisters	McCoury	Traditional Bluegrass
113	Here Within My Heart	Tina Adair	Englehardt Music Group	Contemporary Bluegrass
114	Modern Times	Paul Adkins & The Borderline Band	Rebel	Contemporary Bluegrass
115	Wanderer	Darren Nicholson	Mountain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
116	Pages in Your Hand	Chris Jones & the Night Drivers	Mountain Home Music Company	Contemporary Bluegrass
117	School Project	Cory Walker	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
118	Songs of Hope & Inspiration	Darren Nicholson	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
119	How I Hear It	Jeremy Stephens	Rebel	Contemporary Bluegrass
120	The Fretliners	The Fretliners	Self-Release	Traditional Bluegrass
121	The Tim Shelton Syndicate	The Tim Shelton Syndicate	10.26	Traditional Bluegrass
122	My Bluegrass Heart	Bela Fleck	Renew	Traditional Bluegrass
123	Dreams for Sale	Theo & Brenna	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
124	My Farm, My Bluegrass	Marty Falle	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
125	Bluegrass DNA	Tim Graves & the Farm Hands	Pinecastle	Traditional Bluegrass
126	Equality	The Sweet Lillies	Americana Vibes	Contemporary Bluegrass
127	No Fear	Sister Sadie	Mountain Home Music Company	Contemporary Bluegrass
128	Into the Blue	The String Cheese Incident	SCI Fidelity	Progressive Bluegrass
129	If You Hadn't Noticed	The Goodwin Brothers	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
130	Memory Lane	Wilson Banjo Co.	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
131	Long Hill to Climb	Wolfpen Branch	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
132	Railroad Town	Jr Williams	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
133	I Could Get Used to This	Tim Raybon Band	Pinecastle	Traditional Bluegrass
134	Whispers in the Wind	Lindley Creek	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
135	Silver Bird	Nick Chandler & Delivered	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
136	Excelsior	Alan Munde	Patuxent	Contemporary Bluegrass
137	Covers for a Cause	The Barefoot Movement	Pinecastle	Progressive Bluegrass
138	The Broken Circle Sessions	Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
139	Distance and Time	Becky Buller	Dark Shadow	Contemporary Bluegrass
140	Shadow of the Cross	The Churchmen	Mountain Fever	Gospel Bluegrass
141	New Horizons	Mason Via	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
142	Straight from the Heartland	Lori King & Junction 63	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
143	People, Places, and Songs	Greg Blake	Turnberry	Contemporary Bluegrass
144	The Secret of Life	Daryl Mosley	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
145	Smoky Mountain Favorites	Boone & Foster	Mountai Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
146	Great Big Skies	Wood Belly	Americana Vibes	Contemporary Bluegrass
147	Apple & Setser	Apple & Setser	Bell Buckle	Contemporary Bluegrass
148	Tryin' to Have a Good Time	Tyler Grant	Americana Vibes	Contemporary Bluegrass
149	100 Years of Hank	Haymakers	TOPTone	Contemporary Bluegrass
150	Songs of the Sunrise Fox	Andy Thorn	Thornpipe	Traditional Bluegrass
151	Losing Time	Route 3	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
152	Imaginary Lines	Unspoken Tradition	Mountain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
153	Book of Fools	Mipso	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
154	Lonesome Chronicles	Kathy Kallick Band	Live Oak	Contemporary Bluegrass
155	Lively Times (Live at the Anza Club!)	The Lonesome Ace Stringband	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
156	Crowe & Wasson	J.D. Crowe & Rickey Wasson	Truegrass	Traditional Bluegrass
157	It Never Gets Old	Chosen Road	Thoroughbred	Gospel Bluegrass
158	Shiny Side Up	The Dirty Grass Players	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
159	Heroes & Friends	Daniel Grindstaff	Bonfire Recording Co.	Contemporary Bluegrass
160	Gotta Lotta Lonesome	Carson Peters & Iron Mountain	Billy Blue	Contemporary Bluegrass
161	Welcome	The Arcadian Wild	Self-Release	Progressive Bluegrass
162	Live in Asheville	The JackTown Ramblers	Litte Ruby	Contemporary Bluegrass
163	Here We Go Again	Nothin' Fancy	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
164	Waking Up	Graber Gryass	Spaceman Orbits	Contemporary Bluegrass

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The Roots Music Report's Top Bluegrass Album Chart for the Year of 2023

The Roots Music Report's
Top Bluegrass Album Chart
for the Year of 2023