The Roots Music Report's
Top Bluegrass Album Chart
for the Year of 2019
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aeonic | Balsam Range | Mountain Home | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 2 | Rise Sun | The Infamous Stringdusters | Tape Time | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 3 | All for Money | Greensky Bluegrass | Big Blue Zoo | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 4 | Benny's TV Repair | Irene Kelley | Mountain Fever | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 5 | The Hard Way | Dale Ann Bradley | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 6 | If You Can't Stand the Heat | Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 7 | Royal Traveller | Missy Raines & the New Hip | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 8 | Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Present Appalachian Road Show | Appalachian Road Show | Billy Blue | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 9 | Gonna Love Anyway | Louisa Branscomb | Compass | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 10 | Sister Sadie II | Sister Sadie | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 11 | Glory Bound | The Wooks | Gnar Vector | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 12 | Smoke & Ashes | The Lonely Heartstring Band | Rounder | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 13 | A Brand New Shade of Blue | Junior Sisk | Mountain Fever | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 14 | Over the Line | Jeff Scroggins & Colorado | Patuxent | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 15 | The Butcher Shoppe | Della Mae | Rounder | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 16 | Hills and Home | High Fidelity | Rebel | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 17 | The Travelin' Mccourys | The Travelin' McCourys | Self-Release | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 18 | Tall Fiddler | Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 19 | Love Hard, Work Hard, Play Hard | Deanie Richardson | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 20 | Rivers and Roads | Special Consensus | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 21 | I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me | Carolina Blue | Pinecastle | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 22 | Where the Dogs Don't Bite | Old Salt Union | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 23 | Point of No Return | Amanda Cook | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 24 | Highland Travelers | Highland Travelers | Mountain Fever | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 25 | Raising the Bar | Chad Darou | Bell Buckle | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 26 | Horrible World | Kathy Kallick Band | Live Oak | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 27 | Chronicle: Friends and Music | Gena Britt | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 28 | Front and Center | Sideline | Mountain Home | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 29 | Breaking in Lonesome | Rick Faris | Dark Shadow | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 30 | The Hillbenders | The Hillbenders | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 31 | Right or Wrong | Dave Adkins | Mountain Fever | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 32 | Community | Gregg Welty | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 33 | Steam | Deeper Shade Of Blue | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 34 | Time Changes Everything | Nothin' Fancy | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 35 | New Moon over My Shoulder | Larry Sparks | Rebel | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 36 | Straighten the Curves | The Grascals | Crossroads | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 37 | Urge for Going | Dede Wyland | Patuxent Music | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 38 | Pictures | Hammertowne | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 39 | The Choosing Road | Chris Jones & the Night Drivers | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 40 | Mountains, Mamas and Memories | Big Country Bluegrass | Rebel | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 41 | No Escape | Claybank | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 42 | Sugar & Joy | The Dead South | Six Shooter | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 43 | Gonna Rise and Shine | Alan Bibey & Grasstowne | Mountain Fever | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 44 | Back to the Country | Tim Raybon Band | Pinecastle | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 45 | 30 | Larry Stephenson Band | Whysper Dream | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 46 | Authentic | Band Of Ruhks | Rebel | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 47 | Salem Town | Backline | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 48 | Chaos Theory | Deer Creek Boys | Mountain Fever | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 49 | The Golden Angle | David Benedict | Shelton | Bluegrass |
| 50 | Songs from the Blue Ridge | Mickey Galyean | Rebel | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 51 | Old Country Store | Turning Ground | Pinecastle | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 52 | On Time | Colebrook Road | Eisenbise | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 53 | Didn’t He Ramble: Songs of Charlie Poole | David Davis & The Warrior River Boys | Rounder | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 54 | Crêpe Paper Heart | Becky Buller | Dark Shadow | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 55 | North Country | Danny Burns | Bonfire | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 56 | Undeniable | Nothin' Fancy | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 57 | Originalist | Audie Blaylock and Redline | The 615 Hideaway | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 58 | Somewhere Far Away: Silver Anniversary | Blue Highway | Rounder | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 59 | Back Where I Come from | Traditionally Wound | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 60 | New Freedom Blues | Town Mountain | Tone Tree | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 61 | City on a Hill | Mile Twelve | Delores the Taurus | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 62 | Del Mccoury Still Sings Bluegrass | Del McCoury Band | McCoury Music | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 63 | Waiting on a Ride | Songs From The Road Band | LDT | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 64 | Carolina Chimes | Rudi Ekstein | Fox Fire | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 65 | Milestones | Volume Five | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 66 | Cover Story | Love Canon | Canon | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 67 | Cold | Breaking Grass | Mountain Fever | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 68 | Deeper Roots: Where the Bluegrass Grows | Steven Curtis Chapman | SCSEE | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 69 | Moonshiner's Daughter | Cindy G | Blue Road | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 70 | Bowerbird | Aubrey Eisenman & The Clydes | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 71 | Laws of Gravity | The Infamous Stringdusters | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 72 | Lonesome Riverboat Blues (feat. Jeff Autry) | Edgar Loudermilk Band | Rural Rhythm | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 73 | What We Leave Behind | Tim Stafford | S&S | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 74 | Old World | NewTown | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 75 | Thanks, Mac! | Jerry Wicentowski | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 76 | A Tribute to the Kentucky Colonels | Roland White & Friends | Mountain Home | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 77 | A Thousand Wishes | Backline | Poor Mountain | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 78 | Live at the CMA Theater in the Country Music Hall of Fame | The Earls of Leicester | Rounder | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 79 | North of Despair | Wood & Wire | Blue Corn | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 80 | The Goodfellers | The Goodfellers | Fly by Nite | Bluegrass |
| 81 | Before Breakfast | The Grascals | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 82 | Roadsigns and Highways | Claybank | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 83 | Renaissance | Billy Droze | Rural Rhythm | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 84 | For Those Who Care to Listen | Volume Five | Missouri Boy | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 85 | Groove | The Andrew Collins Trio | Sytesounds | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 86 | I Hope You Have a Good Life | The Gina Furtado Project | Mountain Home Music Company | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 87 | Pieces | Jason Barie | Billy Blue | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 88 | Things Kids and Dogs Know | Brandon Rickman | Voxhall | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 89 | All Ashore | Punch Brothers | Nonesuch | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 90 | Free | Williamson Branch | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 91 | The Tale of Willie Tackett | Caney Creek | 9 Lives | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 92 | The Storyteller in Me | Daniel Crabtree | Codel | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 93 | Classy. Sassy. Bluegrassy. | Williamson Branch | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 94 | West Virginia Rail | Joe Hott | Rural Rhythm | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 95 | The Rail | Scott Slay | Bonfire | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 96 | The Bull Mountain Moonshiners' Way | Jesse McReynolds | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 97 | True Grass Again | Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road | Pinecastle | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 98 | Blue | The Cleverlys | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 99 | Come See About Me (A Benefit for the Ibma Trust Fund) | The Mountain Home Family | Mountain Home Music | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 100 | Lord Help Me Find the Way | Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys | Stanley Family | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 101 | Spirits in the Hills | Wilson Banjo Co. | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 102 | Heart Wide Open | Kristi Stanley | Union House | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 103 | Footprints in a Song | Circa Blue | Bell Buckle | Bluegrass |
| 104 | Better Days | Dave Adkins | Mountain Fever | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 105 | The Big Picture | Christian Davis | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 106 | Good Things | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 107 | Deep Water | Amanda Cook | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 108 | Had a Big Time Today | Brennen Ernst | Patuxent Music | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 109 | Modernus | Circus No. 9 | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 110 | Spirit to the Sea | Trout Steak Revival | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 111 | Memories of Home | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 112 | Never Standing Still | Shannon Slaughter | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 113 | Breaks to the Edge | Sideline | Mountain Home | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 114 | Illusion & Doubt | The Dead South | Curve | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 115 | Just Another Story | Clay Hess Band | Pine Castle | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 116 | Hot Rize's 40th Anniversary Bash (Live) | Hot Rize | Ten In Hand | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 117 | Time and Place | George Jackson | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 118 | Old Salt Union | Old Salt Union | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 119 | High Peaks & New Ground | Steve Gulley | Rural Rhythm | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 120 | In the Ground | The Gibson Brothers | Rounder | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 121 | Ronnie Bowman | Ronnie Bowman | Engelhardt Music Group | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 122 | Dale Ann Bradley | Dale Ann Bradley | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 123 | Queen City Jubilee | The Slocan Ramblers | SloMusic | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 124 | Epilogue: a Tribute to John Duffey | Smithsonian Folkways | Smithsonian Folkways | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 125 | Long Ago | Jim and Lynna Woolsey | Bonefire | Bluegrass |
| 126 | Forever and a Day | Mark Kuykendall & Bobby Hicks | Rebel | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 127 | Banjophony | Damien O'Kane | Pure | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 128 | Warning Signs | Breaking Grass | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 129 | Plays Well with Others | Nate Lee | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 130 | Every Bit of Me | Ali Shumate | Hadley Music Group | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 131 | Inner Journey | Darin & Brooke Aldridge | Rounder | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 132 | Midnight & Dawn | Deer Creek Boys | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 133 | It's a Good Feeling | Nothin' Fancy | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 134 | Time Has Made a Change | Jeff Parker & Company | Truegrass | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 135 | Tradition | Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 136 | The Tillers | The Tillers | Sofaburn | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 137 | Timepiece | Milan Miller | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 138 | When the Crops Are Laid by | The Gospel Plowboys | Bridge Building | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 139 | Calling After Me | No Time Flatt | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 140 | Onwards | Mile Twelve | Delores The Taurus | Bluegrass |
| 141 | Songs Like Those for Days Like These | The Chigger Hill Boys & Terri | Great Escape | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 142 | Allison De Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves | Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves | Free Dirt | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 143 | Echo in the Valley | Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn | Rounder | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 144 | “The Long-Awaited Album” | Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers | Rounder | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 145 | Roll the Dice | Deadgrass | Desert Rock | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 146 | Sounds of Kentucky Grass | Carolina Blue | Poor Mountain | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 147 | The Hole | John Bowman | Mountain Home | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 148 | Kentucky Bound | The Misty Mountain String Band | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 149 | From Texas to Tennessee | The Family Sowell | Poor Mountain | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 150 | Bluegrass Legends: Live at the Ryman | Rhonda Vincent | Upper Management | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 151 | Perfect Fit | Patrick McAvinue | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 152 | Landmark | Jake Workman | Self-Release | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 153 | Denver Snow | Flashback | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 154 | To Whom It May Concern | Billy Droze | Rural Rhythm | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 155 | True Colors | Gina Clowes | Mountain Home | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 156 | North Carolina Songbook (Live from Merlefest, April 28, 2019) | Steep Canyon Rangers | Yep Roc | Bluegrass |
| 157 | Brothers and Heroes | Feller & Hill | Sony | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 158 | Fire | Midnight Skyracer | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 159 | Rise | Molly Tuttle | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 160 | Ramblin' Feels Good | Jeff Scroggins & Colorado | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 161 | Weep Little Willow | Larry Stephenson Band | Whysper Dream | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 162 | Muir Maid | Kitchen Dwellers | Self-Release | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 163 | Faster & Farther | Darin & Brooke Aldridge | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 164 | Acoustic Milestones: 20 Years | Mark Johnson & Emory Lester | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 165 | Made to Move | Chris Jones & the Night Drivers | Mountain Home | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 166 | Harlan Road | NewTown | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 167 | Grass Stains | Carson Peters & Iron Mountain | FCP Productions | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 168 | Portraits in Fiddles | Mike Barnett | Compass | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 169 | Unbroken | Trinity River Band | Orange Blossom | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 170 | Flight | Nightflyer | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 171 | Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys | Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys | Stanley Family | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 172 | What Does Time Care? | Armchair Boogie | GlueBrass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 173 | Run Away | Rebekah Long | Luk | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 174 | Route 3 | Route 3 | 7flat | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 175 | You've Still Got It | Damian Muller | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 176 | On That Other Green Shore | John Reischman & The Jaybirds | Corvus | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 177 | All I Ever Wanted | The Kevin Prater Band | Patuxent Music | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 178 | Burn Another Candle | Jenni Lyn | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 179 | Meadow Mountain | Meadow Mountain | Tape Time | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 180 | Old Friends New Memories / Music Among Friends | Cj the Dj | Self-Release | Bluegrass |
| 181 | Favorites | Doug Flowers | Discmakers | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 182 | Patriots and Poets | Dailey & Vincent | Dreamlined | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 183 | The Game | Blue Highway | Rounder | Bluegrass |
| 184 | Travel Down This Road with Me | Leona Williams, Ron Williams & Bluegrass Martinss | Loveshine | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 185 | Crazy if You Let It | Thomm Jutz | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 186 | Original Traditional | Blue Highway | Rounder | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 187 | Hanging Tree | Blue Mafia | Pinecastle | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 188 | Groceries, Gas & Used Cars | Nick Chandler & Delivered | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 189 | Original | Bobby Osborne | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 190 | A Storyteller's Memory | Remington Ryde | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 191 | The Way I View the World | Chris Luquette | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 192 | Ragin' Live | Rhonda Vincent | Rounder | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 193 | Undercover, Vol. 2 | The Infamous Stringdusters | Lumenhouse | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 194 | Love. Ain't Love | Yonder Mountain String Band | Frog Pad | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 195 | Tracks and Trains | Lou Reid & Carolina | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 196 | Lover's Leap | Darrell Webb | Mountain Fever | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 197 | Travelin' | Larry Sparks | Rebel | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 198 | A Sailor's Guide to Earth | Sturgill Simpson | Atlantic | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 199 | Della Mae | Della Mae | Rounder | Bluegrass |
| 200 | Lessons Learned | Ronnie Reno | Rural Rhythm | Bluegrass |
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