The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Oct 13, 2018
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | The Tree of Forgiveness | John Prine | Oh Boy | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 2 | 2 | Carter Stanley's Eyes | Peter Rowan | Rebel | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 3 | 43 | My American Dream | Will Hoge | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 4 | 11 | Secularia | Eliza Gilkyson | Red House | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 5 | 3 | Chains Are Broken | The Devil Makes Three | New West | Folk Rock |
| ▲ | 6 | 8 | Ms. Behave | Rosie & The Riveters | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 7 | 6 | The Magic Tree | Steve Forbert | Rose Music | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 8 | 5 | Sweet Old Religion | Pharis & Jason Romero | Lula | Traditional Folk |
| ▼ | 9 | 7 | The Tree | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 10 | 12 | All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do | The Milk Carton Kids | Anti | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 11 | 27 | City Painted Gold | The Brothers Comatose | Swamp Jam | Traditional Folk |
| *NEW* | 12 | - | Grenades | Kaia Kater | Smithsonian Folkways | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 13 | 30 | Walk in the Dark | Rob Lutes | Lucky Bear | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 14 | 15 | Take This Hammer | Joe Rollin Porter | Joropo | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 15 | 9 | Healing Tide | The War and Treaty | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 16 | 4 | Blood Brothers | Jeffrey Foucault | Tone Tree | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 17 | 19 | Black Cowboys | Dom Flemons | Smithsonian Folkways | Traditional Folk |
| ▼ | 18 | 17 | Oliver the Crow | Oliver the Crow | Self-Release | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 19 | 31 | Haven | We Banjo 3 | Self-Release | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 20 | 21 | Shelter | Olivia Chaney | Nonesuch | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 21 | 20 | Come and Meet Me | Sherman Ewing | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 22 | 13 | Silence in These Walls | Flatt Lonesome | Mountain Home Music | Contemporary Folk |
| *NEW* | 23 | - | Magic Ship | Mountain Man | Nonesuch | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 24 | 28 | True in Time | John Gorka | Red House | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 25 | 29 | Live at Tiny Telephone | T Sisters | Three Headed Sounds | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 26 | 18 | March Through Storms | House of Hamill | Self-Release | Folk Rock |
| ▲ | 27 | 54 | Pretty Bird | Kathy Mattea | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 28 | 34 | Sometimes Just the Sky | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 29 | 24 | Make Your Own Luck | Mustard's Retreat | Yellow Room | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 30 | 32 | My Mother the Moon | Dead Horses | Wolff Moon | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 31 | 35 | Open Road, Broken Heart | True North | True North | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 32 | 37 | Sunshiner | The Mammals | Humble Abode | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 33 | 14 | Folksinger Vol. 2 | Willie Watson | Acony | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 34 | 39 | The Lonesomest Sound That Can Sound | Clay Parker and Jodi James | Electric Wreck | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 35 | 23 | Life Between the Lines | Fireside Collective | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 36 | 38 | Fifteen | The Wailin' Jennys | Red House | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 37 | 55 | First Love | David G Smith | Hey Dave | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 38 | 41 | Shed My Skin | Dan Navarro | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 39 | 44 | Lost Souls | Loreena McKennitt | Quinlan Road Limited | Alternative Folk |
| - | 40 | 40 | White Tiger | Ana Egge | StorySound | Contemporary Folk |
| *NEW* | 41 | - | The Ledges | Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert | Dead Reckoning | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 42 | 10 | Brand New Old-Time Songs | Melissa Carper and Rebecca Patek | Self-Release | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 43 | 46 | Plays Well with Others | Lera Lynn | Single Lock | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 44 | 45 | Brand New Day | The Mavericks | Mono Mundo | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 45 | 16 | Down Hearted Blues | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sounds | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 46 | 25 | Still Here | Don Gallardo | Rock Ridge | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 47 | 36 | Rabbit in the Moon | Sparrow Blue | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 48 | 26 | Acrobats | Moors & McCumber | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 49 | 48 | Everything | Darden Smith | Compass | Contemporary Folk |
| *NEW* | 50 | - | Matches | Tragedy Ann | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
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