The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Jan 2, 2021
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | Have Purpose Live Long | Josie Bello | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 2 | 2 | World on the Ground | Sarah Jarosz | Rounder | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 3 | 3 | Over That Road I'm Bound | Joachim Cooder | Nonesuch | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 4 | 4 | Ledgers and Stones | Thomas Hine | THM | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 5 | 5 | Woman in Color | Raye Zaragoza | Art Menius | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 6 | 6 | Asterisk the Universe | John Craigie | Thirty Tigers | Alternative Folk |
| - | 7 | 7 | Friend of the Sky | Cej | Gnosong | Alternative Folk |
| - | 8 | 8 | Ghost Tattoo | Kristen Grainger & True North | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 9 | 14 | Another Sky | Kelly's Lot | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 10 | 9 | A Field Guide to Loneliness | Jamestown Revival | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 11 | 10 | Brother Sister | Watkins Family Hour | Family Hour | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 12 | 11 | Just Like Leaving | Bella White | Self-Release | Traditional Folk |
| - | 13 | 13 | Mipso | Mipso | Rounder | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 14 | 15 | Funeral for My Past | Liz Longley | Tone Tree | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 15 | 16 | True to Life | Gracious Me | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 16 | 23 | Rough and Rowdy Ways | Bob Dylan | Columbia | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 17 | 21 | Without People | Donovan Woods | Meant Well | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 18 | 68 | Hearts Town | The War and Treaty | Rounder | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 19 | 17 | Shore | Fleet Foxes | Anti | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 20 | 18 | What a Show | Kerry Patrick Clark | Studio 234 | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 21 | 19 | The Remains of Sunday | Alec Lytle & Them Rounders | Four Acre | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 22 | 20 | Where the Heart Wants to Go | Buffalo Gals Band | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 23 | 41 | Fish Pond Fish | Darlingside | Thirty Tigers | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 24 | 22 | Red, White & I Love You Too | The Mastersons | Red House | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 25 | 24 | A Dark Murmuration of Words | Emily Barker | Thirty Tigers | Alternative Folk |
| - | 26 | 26 | Lifetime of Comedy | The Parson Red Heads | Fluff & Gravy | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 27 | 25 | Flyover Country | Chicago Farmer | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 28 | 27 | The Road Not Taken | Nick Justice | Lulu Belle | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 29 | 28 | A Good Chord on a Bad Guitar | Kathy Forste | Self-Release | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 30 | 29 | No Cactus | Jackdaw | Cutthroat | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 31 | 12 | Autonomy | Stephanie Lambring | Tone Tree | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 32 | 32 | We'll Never Know Unless We Try | Darling West | Jansen | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 33 | 33 | Who Cares | David G Smith | Hey Dave | Alternative Folk |
| - | 34 | 34 | Matamoros | James Kahn | Words and Music | Alternative Folk |
| - | 35 | 35 | No Time for Love Songs | The Mastersons | Compass | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 36 | 36 | Look Long | Indigo Girls | Rounder | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 37 | 37 | Hoosier National | Otis Gibbs | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 38 | 39 | Wonderland | Martha Renaud | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 39 | 42 | Eiderdown | Gordon Thomas Ward | Trespass Music | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 40 | 44 | Commonplaces | Partington & Sweeney | Trespass Music | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 41 | 43 | One Sky | Philip Scott Poli | Trespass Music | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 42 | 40 | Speed, Sound, Lonely KV | Kurt Vile | Matador | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 43 | 45 | Bet on Love | Pharis & Jason Romero | Lula | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 44 | 81 | Blue on Blue | Sylvie Simmons | Compass | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 45 | 46 | Coffee & Cake | Mark Stoffel | Mountain Home | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 46 | 47 | Hubble Space Parade | Giriffin Swank | Infirst | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 47 | 49 | Ashes in the Morning | Ken Dunn | Trespass Music | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 48 | 48 | Character | Rachael Sage | MPress | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 49 | 50 | No Summer | Cinder Well | Free Dirt | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 50 | 52 | Shadow of the Cyclone | Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt | Trespass Music | Alternative Folk |
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