The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Oct 17, 2020
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | World on the Ground | Sarah Jarosz | Rounder | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 2 | 3 | ...but I'd Rather Be with You | Molly Tuttle | Compass | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 3 | 4 | Asterisk the Universe | John Craigie | Thirty Tigers | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 4 | 2 | Rough and Rowdy Ways | Bob Dylan | Columbia | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 5 | 9 | Have Purpose Live Long | Josie Bello | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 6 | 5 | Ghost Tattoo | Kristen Grainger & True North | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 7 | 19 | Another Sky | Kelly's Lot | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 8 | 6 | Hoosier National | Otis Gibbs | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 9 | 11 | Brother Sister | Watkins Family Hour | Family Hour | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 10 | 18 | Aftermath | Elizabeth Cook | Agent Love | Folk Rock |
| ▲ | 11 | 17 | Friend of the Sky | Cej | Gnosong | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 12 | 7 | Just Like Leaving | Bella White | Self-Release | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 13 | 15 | Funeral for My Past | Liz Longley | Tone Tree | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 14 | 21 | Hearts Town | The War and Treaty | Rounder | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 15 | 13 | No Time for Love Songs | The Mastersons | Compass | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 16 | 45 | Over That Road I'm Bound | Joachim Cooder | Nonesuch | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 17 | 14 | 2020 | Eliza Gilkyson | Red House | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 18 | 51 | Ghost Town | Suzi Ragsdale | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| *NEW* | 19 | - | Woman in Color | Raye Zaragoza | Art Menius | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 20 | 55 | Eiderdown | Gordon Thomas Ward | Trespass Music | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 21 | 60 | A Dark Murmuration of Words | Emily Barker | Thirty Tigers | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 22 | 37 | What a Show | Kerry Patrick Clark | Studio 234 | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 23 | 38 | Long Day in the Milky Way | Kris Delmhorst | Self-Release | Traditional Folk |
| ▼ | 24 | 10 | No Summer | Cinder Well | Free Dirt | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 25 | 24 | Human Citizen | Keith Greeninger | Self-Release | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 26 | 25 | The Remains of Sunday | Alec Lytle & Them Rounders | Four Acre | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 27 | 65 | Ashes in the Morning | Ken Dunn | Trespass Music | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 28 | 8 | Speed, Sound, Lonely KV | Kurt Vile | Matador | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 29 | 27 | San Isabel | Jamestown Revival | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 30 | 28 | No Cactus | Jackdaw | Cutthroat | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 31 | 12 | The Balladeer | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 32 | 23 | Where the Heart Wants to Go | Buffalo Gals Band | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 33 | 29 | Flyover Country | Chicago Farmer | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 34 | 61 | Homegrown | Neil Young | Silver Bow | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 35 | 46 | Shore | Fleet Foxes | Anti | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 36 | 30 | The Road Not Taken | Nick Justice | Lulu Belle | Folk Rock |
| ▲ | 37 | 49 | Stumbling Home | The Sea The Sea | Antifragile Music | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 38 | 71 | Is It You, is It Me | The Dustbowl Revival | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 39 | 33 | The Hurting Kind | John Paul White | Single Lock | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 40 | 34 | We'll Never Know Unless We Try | Darling West | Jansen | Contemporary Folk |
| *NEW* | 41 | - | I'd Rather Lead a Band | Loudon Wainwright III | Search Party | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 42 | 36 | Evening Machines | Gregory Alan Isakov | Dualtone | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 43 | 39 | Who Cares | David G Smith | Hey Dave | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 44 | 40 | Matamoros | James Kahn | Words and Music | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 45 | 32 | Fish Pond Fish | Darlingside | Thirty Tigers | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 46 | 41 | Look Long | Indigo Girls | Rounder | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 47 | 22 | Blue on Blue | Sylvie Simmons | Compass | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 48 | 86 | Do, Baby. | Eric Selby | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 49 | 52 | Alone Together Sessions | Hayes Carll | Dualtone | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 50 | 53 | Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3 | Todd Snider | Aimless | Folk Rock |
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