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		What You Need to Prove	Thomas Cassell	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
33		Changes	Amanda Cook	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
34		Hold on	Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen	Compass	Contemporary Bluegrass
35		Shades of Blue	Kristy Cox	Billy Blue	Contemporary Bluegrass
36		It's Just Me	Larry Sparks	Rebel	Contemporary Bluegrass
37		Roses	Jackson Hollow	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
38		From Sulphur Springs to Rising Fawn : the Songs of Norman Blake	Bob Minner	Engelhardt	Traditional Bluegrass
39		Make Each Second Last	Chris Jones & the Night Drivers	Moutain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
40		From the Ground Up	Jim Hurst	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
41		Ridin' Through the Country	Shannon Slaughter	Elite Circuit	Contemporary Bluegrass
42		The American Fiddler	Andy Leftwich	Mountain Home Music	Contemporary Bluegrass
43		Rare and Fine-uncommon Tunes of Bill Monroe	Mike Compton	Taterbug	Traditional Bluegrass
44		Somewhere Beyond	Breaking Grass	Mountain Fever	Progressive Bluegrass
45		I'll Come Back	AJ Lee & Blue Summit	Old White Horse	Contemporary Bluegrass
46		Accomplice Two	Tommy Emmanuel	CGP Sounds	Contemporary Bluegrass
47		Darkest Hour	The Gibson Brothers	Bull Run	Contemporary Bluegrass
48		Lost Voices	Tim Stafford & Thomm Jutz	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
49		Maria with a "J"	Marija Droze	RBR Ent	Contemporary Bluegrass
50		Uncommon Sky	Rick Faris	Dark Shadow	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		Livin' Large	Donna Ulisse	Billy Blue	Traditional Bluegrass
59		Banjophonics	Damien O'Kane & Ron Block	Pure	Contemporary Bluegrass
60		A Tribute to Flatt & Scruggs	The Infamous Stringdusters	Americana Vibes	Progressive Bluegrass
61		Renewal	Billy Strings	Rounder	Contemporary Bluegrass
62		Pick Your Poison	Benson	Mountain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
63		Jubilation	Appalachian Road Show	Billy Blue	Traditional Bluegrass
64		We're All Crazy	Dave Adkins	Mountain Fever	Traditional Bluegrass
65		A Life Well Lived	Daryl Mosley	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
66		Get Yourself Outside	Yonder Mountain String Band	Frog Pad	Contemporary Bluegrass
67		Kentucky for Me	Dale Ann Bradley	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
68		New Chapter	Cedar Hill	Mountain Fever	Traditional Bluegrass
69		Up All Night	The Grascals	Mountain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
70		Black Banjo	Tray Wellington	Mountain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
71		Last Chance to Win	East Nash Grass	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
72		Morning Shift	Steep Canyon Rangers	Yep Roc	Contemporary Bluegrass
73		Bridges and Backroads	Jerry Salley	Very Jerry	Contemporary Bluegrass
74		Ups, Downs and No Name Towns	Sideline	Mountain Home	Traditional Bluegrass
75		Toward the Fray	The Infamous Stringdusters	Americana Vibes	Contemporary Bluegrass
76		Hitchhiking to California	Alan Bibey & Grasstowne	Billy Blue	Traditional Bluegrass
77		To Willie from Billy	Bill and the Belles	Self-Release	Traditional Bluegrass
78		Pay Your Dues	Songs From The Road Band	Charles Humphrey III	Contemporary Bluegrass
79		Small Town Dreamer	Daryl Mosley	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
80		East Nash Grass	East Nash Grass	Lamb Lyfe	Contemporary Bluegrass
81		Let Time Ride	Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers	Billy Blue	Traditional Bluegrass
82		Jesse Smathers	Jesse Smathers	Self-Release	Traditional Bluegrass
83		All for the Song	Railroad Earth	Bag O' Seed	Progressive Bluegrass
84		Rhinestone Revival	The Kody Norris Show	Rebel	Traditional Bluegrass
85		Surely Will Be Singing	Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz	Mountain Fever	Contemporary 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	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		School Project	Cory Walker	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
117		Songs of Hope & Inspiration	Darren Nicholson	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
118		The Fretliners	The Fretliners	Self-Release	Traditional Bluegrass
119		How I Hear It	Jeremy Stephens	Rebel	Contemporary Bluegrass
120		The Tim Shelton Syndicate	The Tim Shelton Syndicate	10.26	Traditional Bluegrass
121		My Bluegrass Heart	Bela Fleck	Renew	Traditional Bluegrass
122		My Farm, My Bluegrass	Marty Falle	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
123		Bluegrass DNA	Tim Graves & the Farm Hands	Pinecastle	Traditional Bluegrass
124		Equality	The Sweet Lillies	Americana Vibes	Contemporary Bluegrass
125		Into the Blue	The String Cheese Incident	SCI Fidelity	Progressive Bluegrass
126		If You Hadn't Noticed	The Goodwin Brothers	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
127		Long Hill to Climb	Wolfpen Branch	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
128		Railroad Town	Jr Williams	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
129		I Could Get Used to This	Tim Raybon Band	Pinecastle	Traditional Bluegrass
130		Whispers in the Wind	Lindley Creek	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
131		Excelsior	Alan Munde	Patuxent	Contemporary Bluegrass
132		Covers for a Cause	The Barefoot Movement	Pinecastle	Progressive Bluegrass
133		The Broken Circle Sessions	Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
134		Distance and Time	Becky Buller	Dark Shadow	Contemporary Bluegrass
135		Shadow of the Cross	The Churchmen	Mountain Fever	Gospel Bluegrass
136		New Horizons	Mason Via	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
137		Straight from the Heartland	Lori King & Junction 63	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
138		People, Places, and Songs	Greg Blake	Turnberry	Contemporary Bluegrass
139		Smoky Mountain Favorites	Boone & Foster	Mountai Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
140		Tryin' to Have a Good Time	Tyler Grant	Americana Vibes	Contemporary Bluegrass
141		Apple & Setser	Apple & Setser	Bell Buckle	Contemporary Bluegrass
142		Great Big Skies	Wood Belly	Americana Vibes	Contemporary Bluegrass
143		100 Years of Hank	Haymakers	TOPTone	Contemporary Bluegrass
144		Songs of the Sunrise Fox	Andy Thorn	Thornpipe	Traditional Bluegrass
145		Losing Time	Route 3	Pinecastle	Contemporary Bluegrass
146		Book of Fools	Mipso	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
147		Imaginary Lines	Unspoken Tradition	Mountain Home	Contemporary Bluegrass
148		Lonesome Chronicles	Kathy Kallick Band	Live Oak	Contemporary Bluegrass
149		Crowe & Wasson	J.D. Crowe & Rickey Wasson	Truegrass	Traditional Bluegrass
150		It Never Gets Old	Chosen Road	Thoroughbred	Gospel Bluegrass
151		Shiny Side Up	The Dirty Grass Players	Self-Release	Contemporary Bluegrass
152		Gotta Lotta Lonesome	Carson Peters & Iron Mountain	Billy Blue	Contemporary Bluegrass
153		Welcome	The Arcadian Wild	Self-Release	Progressive Bluegrass
154		Here We Go Again	Nothin' Fancy	Mountain Fever	Contemporary Bluegrass
155		Live in Asheville	The JackTown Ramblers	Litte Ruby	Contemporary Bluegrass

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