The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Jan 17, 2016
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ | 1 | 2 | Something More Than Free | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Southeastern | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 2 | 1 | Servant of Love | Patty Griffin | PGM | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 3 | 6 | Yours & Mine | Dawn and Hawkes | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 4 | 5 | Salt As Wolves | Jeffrey Foucault | Blueblade | Folk |
| ▼ | 5 | 3 | Watkins Family Hour | Watkins Family Hour | WFH / Thirty Tigers | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 6 | 47 | Cautionary Tale | Dylan LeBlanc | Thirty Tigers | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 7 | 11 | Sermon on the Rocks | Josh Ritter | Pytheas | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 8 | 4 | Cicada Rhythm | Cicada Rhythm | New West | Folk |
| ▲ | 9 | 54 | Weighted Mind | Sierra Hull | Rounder | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 10 | 7 | At Peace with One's Ghosts | The Paperboys | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 11 | 8 | An Offering | Amanda Pearcy | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 12 | 17 | The Bell | Tony Furtado | Yousayfurtado | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 13 | 10 | Just for the Love of It | Happy Traum | Lark's Nest | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 14 | 14 | Fortune | Rod Picott | Welding Rod | Folk |
| ▼ | 15 | 12 | Compromised | Steve Forbert | Rock Ridge | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 16 | 15 | Sundown over Ghost Town | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sound | Traditional Folk |
| ▼ | 17 | 16 | Before This World | James Taylor | Concord | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 18 | 9 | Knockout Rose | The Boxcar Lilies | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 19 | 21 | Fine Bloom | Free The Honey | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 20 | 22 | Sorrows and Glories | Red Moon Road | Self-Release | Folk |
| ▼ | 21 | 18 | Long Gone Time | Kevin Gordon | Crowville Media | Folk |
| ▼ | 22 | 13 | Beautiful You | The Waifs | Compass | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 23 | 20 | Bright Shadow | Ana Egge | Self-released | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 24 | 19 | Monterey | The Milk Carton Kids | Self-Release | Folk |
| ▲ | 25 | 87 | Who Zat? | John Roy Zat | Flyin Bayou | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 26 | 38 | Tracker | Mark Knopfler | Verve | Folk |
| ▼ | 27 | 25 | Hallelujah I'm a Dreamer (feat. Will Sexton) | Amy LaVere | Archer Records | Folk |
| ▼ | 28 | 26 | Wild One | Awna Teixeira | Self-Release | Folk |
| - | 29 | 29 | Building a Human Being | Dana Cooper | Self Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 30 | 31 | Fall is a Good Time to Die | Jami Lynn | Self Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 31 | 30 | Songs in the Dark | The Wainwright Sisters | MapleMusic | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 32 | 23 | The Sun Coming in | Anne E. Dechant | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| - | 33 | 33 | Joe Hill's Last Will | John McCutcheon | Appalsong | Folk |
| *NEW* | 34 | - | In the Magic Hour | Aoife O'Donovan | Yep Roc | Folk |
| ▲ | 35 | 36 | The Widening Gyre | Altan | Compass Records | Celtic |
| ▲ | 36 | 41 | Water Walker | Folk Family Revival | Rock Ridge | Folk Rock |
| ▲ | 37 | - | The Bear / Never Had a Gun | Matt The Electrician | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 38 | 39 | HWY 62 | Peter Case | Omnivore | Folk |
| ▲ | 39 | 40 | Such Jubilee | Mandolin Orange | Yep Roc | Folk |
| ▲ | 40 | 82 | Liz Longley | Liz Longley | Sugar Hill | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 41 | - | Birds with Broken Wings | Ben Caplan | Coalition | Folk Rock |
| - | 42 | 42 | The Newpart | April Verch | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 43 | 59 | Israel Nash's Silver Season | Israel Nash | Loose Music | Folk |
| ▼ | 44 | 43 | Sorrow Bound | Kaia Kater | Kingswood Records | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 45 | 24 | Tomorrow's Child | Jonathan Edwards | Rising Records | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 46 | 49 | Made Us Strangers | Young Novelists | Self-Release | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 47 | 45 | Domestic Eccentric | Old Man Luedecke | True North | Folk |
| ▲ | 48 | 68 | Complicated Game | James McMurtry | Complicated Game | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 49 | 44 | Emerald | Dar Williams | Self Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 50 | 48 | Under Branch & Thorn & Tree | Samantha Crain | Ramseur | Contemporary Folk |
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