Top Folk Album Chart for the Year of 2021

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2021

	Album Title	Band/Artist Name	Label	Sub Genre
1	A Few Stars Apart	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Fantasy	Contemporary Folk
2	Be Here Instead	Parker Millsap	Oklahoma/Thirty Tigers	Alternative Folk
3	Seeker	Brigitte DeMeyer	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
4	Calla Lily	The Brother Brothers	Compass	Contemporary Folk
5	They're Calling Me Home	Rhiannon Giddens	Nonesuch	Contemporary Folk
6	Have Purpose Live Long	Josie Bello	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
7	Stand for Myself	Yola	Easy Eye Sound	Folk Rock
8	Friend of the Sky	Cej	Gnosong	Alternative Folk
9	The River Flows	John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen	Culture Factory	Contemporary Folk
10	Just Beyond the Shine	Peach & Quiet	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
11	Outside Child	Allison Russell	Fantasy	Contemporary Folk
12	Asterisk the Universe	John Craigie	Thirty Tigers	Alternative Folk
13	In These Silent Days	Brandi Carlile	Low Country Sound	Contemporary Folk
14	Woman in Color	Raye Zaragoza	Art Menius	Contemporary Folk
15	These Walls	Linda Sussman	Sing Out Proud	Alternative Folk
16	Come Around	Rob Lutes	Lucky Bear	Contemporary Folk
17	Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno	Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno	Free Dirt	Contemporary Folk
18	Revolutionary Love	Ani DiFranco	Righteous Babe	Alternative Folk
19	Calico Jim	Pony Bradshaw	Black Mountain	Contemporary Folk
20	Vincent Neil Emerson	Vincent Neil Emerson	La Honda/Thirty Tigers	Traditional Folk
21	Just Like Leaving	Bella White	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
22	Brother Sister	Watkins Family Hour	Family Hour	Alternative Folk
23	Coffee & Cake	Mark Stoffel	Mountain Home	Traditional Folk
24	That Spell	Andrea von Kampen	Fantasy	Alternative Folk
25	Cycles	Rachel Baiman	Signature Sounds	Alternative Folk
26	A Dark Murmuration of Words	Emily Barker	Thirty Tigers	Alternative Folk
27	Hearts Town	The War and Treaty	Rounder	Contemporary Folk
28	Watchhouse	Watchhouse	Thirty Tigers	Contemporary Folk
29	Song to a Refugee	Diana Jones	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
30	Ghost Tattoo	Kristen Grainger & True North	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
31	Whoa!	Strung Like a Horse	Transoceanic	Alternative Folk
32	A Field Guide to Loneliness	Jamestown Revival	Thirty Tigers	Contemporary Folk
33	Over That Road I'm Bound	Joachim Cooder	Nonesuch	Contemporary Folk
34	The Remains of Sunday	Alec Lytle & Them Rounders	Four Acre	Contemporary Folk
35	Girl I Used to Be	Garrison Starr	Soundly Music	Alternative Folk
36	Desert Ghosts	Jaspar Lepak	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
37	A Good Chord on a Bad Guitar	Kathy Forste	Self-Release	Folk Rock
38	All This Time Running	Craig Cardiff	True North	Contemporary Folk
39	Rough and Rowdy Ways	Bob Dylan	Columbia	Traditional Folk
40	Flyover Country	Chicago Farmer	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
41	Quietly Blowing It	Hiss Golden Messenger	Merge	Alternative Folk
42	Last of the Better Days Ahead	Charlie Parr	Smithsonian Folkways	Contemporary Folk
43	Bucket List	John McCutcheon	Appalseed	Alternative Folk
44	Another Sky	Kelly's Lot	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
45	Shame and Sedition	Lula Wiles	Smithsonian Folkways	Contemporary Folk
46	Shore	Fleet Foxes	Anti	Alternative Folk
47	I Wanna Start a Band	Britton Patrick Morgan	Self-Release	Folk Rock
48	Annamania	Anna Elizabeth Laube	Ahh...Pockets!	Contemporary Folk
49	Markology II	Mark O'Connor	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
50	The River Flows, Vol. 2	John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen	Fur Peace Ranch	Contemporary Folk
51	Joyful Banner Blazing	Maria Dunn	Distant Whisper	Contemporary Folk
52	Funeral for My Past	Liz Longley	Tone Tree	Contemporary Folk
53	All About the Timing	Roland Roberts	Happy Life	Contemporary Folk
54	Poets	Liz Simmons	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
55	Love & Rage	Carsie Blanton	So Ferocious	Contemporary Folk
56	No Summer	Cinder Well	Free Dirt	Contemporary Folk
57	There Used to Be Horses Here	Amy Speace	Windbone	Contemporary Folk
58	Covers	Mo Kenney	turtlemusik	Contemporary Folk
59	The Road Not Taken	Nick Justice	Lulu Belle	Folk Rock
60	How Many Times	Esther Rose	Father/Daughter	Alternative Folk
61	The Midnight Broadcast	Peter Case	Bandaloop	Contemporary Folk
62	We'll Never Know Unless We Try	Darling West	Jansen	Contemporary Folk
63	Between Here and There	Sarah Morris	AW	Contemporary Folk
64	Maybe Key Lime Pie	ThorNton Creek	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
65	Nowhere Sounds Lovely	Cristina Vane	Red Parlor	Contemporary Folk
66	Bravado	Rose Cousins	Outside Music	Contemporary Folk
67	Overdue	Severin Browne	Self-Release	Folk Rock
68	Queen of the in Between	K.C. Jones	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
69	Do, Baby.	Eric Selby	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
70	The Martin Gilmore Trio	The Martin Gilmore Trio	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
71	No Cactus	Jackdaw	Cutthroat	Alternative Folk
72	Hands and Knees	Two Bird Stone	Wondermore	Contemporary Folk
73	Hubble Space Parade	Giriffin Swank	Infirst	Contemporary Folk
74	Matamoros	James Kahn	Words and Music	Alternative Folk
75	Only Human	Luke LeBlanc	145 Entertainment LLC	Contemporary Folk
76	Bet on Love	Pharis & Jason Romero	Lula	Traditional Folk
77	I'm Still Here	Travis Linville	Black Mesa	Contemporary Folk
78	This Storm	Tara MacLean & Catherine MacLellan	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
79	Where the Heart Wants to Go	Buffalo Gals Band	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
80	There for You	Steve Free	Fraternity	Alternative Folk
81	Wonderland	Martha Renaud	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
82	The Ridge	Julian Taylor	Howling Turtle	Contemporary Folk
83	See the World Deluxe	Brett Dennen	Mick	Contemporary Folk
84	Harmony Ascension Division	Pete Bernhard	Kahn	Traditional Folk
85	Last Birds	Last Birds	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
86	Live at the Hotel Cafe	Kris Angelis	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
87	A Better Day A-Coming	Robin and Linda Williams	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
88	A Place Beyond Belief	SLPSTRM	941048 Records DK	Alternative Folk
89	Is It You, is It Me	The Dustbowl Revival	Thirty Tigers	Contemporary Folk
90	Shall We Hope	Tony Trischka	Shefa	Alternative Folk
91	Ledgers and Stones	Thomas Hine	THM	Contemporary Folk
92	The Next Best Thing	Graham Lindsey	Self-Release	Celtic
93	American Quilt	Paula Cole	Renew	Folk Rock
94	Without People	Donovan Woods	Meant Well	Contemporary Folk
95	Xo, 1945	Ryland Moranz	Tonic	Contemporary Folk
96	The Darkness Dressed in Colored Lights	Sean Rowe	Fluff & Gravy	Folk Rock
97	Mike O'Brien	Mike O'Brien	Chouchou	Contemporary Folk
98	Chasing Echoes	Phil Henry	Board By Board	Contemporary Folk
99	Kitchen Days	Braden Gates	Borealis	Contemporary Folk
100	Commonplaces	Partington & Sweeney	Trespass Music	Traditional Folk
101	Voyageur in Song	David Leask	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
102	True to Life	Gracious Me	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
103	You, Yeah, You	Tre Burt	Oh Boy	Alternative Folk
104	Mondegreens	Rachel Garlin	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
105	The State That We Are in	Rachel Garlin	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
106	Autonomy	Stephanie Lambring	Tone Tree	Contemporary Folk
107	Topaz	Israel Nash	Desert Folklore	Folk Rock
108	Hoosier National	Otis Gibbs	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
109	The Balladeer	Lori McKenna	Thirty Tigers	Contemporary Folk
110	It's a Beautiful Day and I Love You	Jillette Johnson	Moss Rose	Alternative Folk
111	Ashes in the Morning	Ken Dunn	Trespass Music	Contemporary Folk
112	Blue on Blue	Sylvie Simmons	Compass	Contemporary Folk
113	Gone	Tim Grimm	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
114	Let Love Be Your Guide	Dan + Claudia Zanes	Smithsonian Folkways	Contemporary Folk
115	Local Valley	Jose Gonzalez	Mute	Contemporary Folk
116	The Skies We Look to	Kris Angelis	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
117	Calm in the Eye of the Storm	Ken Whiteley	Borealis	Contemporary Folk
118	Awake	Mala Oreen	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
119	An Honest Effort	Matt Patershuk	Black Hen	Contemporary Folk
120	13 or So	Nick Hornbuckle	Ruby's Slipper	Traditional Folk
121	Becalmyounglovers	Bowerbirds	Psychic Hotline	Contemporary Folk
122	When We Wander	Jesse Terry	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
123	On the Wings of the Wind	Alec Fraser Jr	Circus Bass	Alternative Folk
124	Highway Troubadour	Jesse Colin Young	BMG	Alternative Folk
125	Elisabeth	Zach Bryan	Warner	Contemporary Folk
126	Rope the Wind	Nick Justice	Lulu Belle	Folk Rock
127	I Can Still Hear You	Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche	StorySound	Contemporary Folk
128	Look Long	Indigo Girls	Rounder	Contemporary Folk
129	Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine	John McCutcheon	Appalsongs	Alternative Folk
130	No Time for Love Songs	The Mastersons	Compass	Contemporary Folk
131	Geist	Shannon Lay	Sub Pop	Alternative Folk
132	Carolina Child	Ric Robertson	Free Dirt	Alternative Folk
133	The More I Give	Paula Standing	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
134	Ghost Town	Suzi Ragsdale	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
135	Euphoric Ouroboric	David Wax Museum	Mark of the Leopard	Traditional Folk
136	Last Summer	John Batdorf	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
137	How to Break a Fall	Maya De Vitry	Mad Maker Studio	Alternative Folk
138	Namesake	Them Coulee Boys	Some Fun	Alternative Folk
139	No. Blood	Reid Parsons	Unsigned Seats	Alternative Folk
140	Light & Dark	Chris Ronald	Borealis	Contemporary Folk
141	Blue Heron Suite	Sarah Jarosz	Rounder	Contemporary Folk
142	Golden Loam	Laurel Premo	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
143	Red, White & I Love You Too	The Mastersons	Red House	Contemporary Folk
144	2020	Eliza Gilkyson	Red House	Contemporary Folk
145	Sober Again	Jackson Grimm	Vault	Contemporary Folk
146	Monroe Bus	Andy Statman	Shefa	Traditional Folk
147	At the Edge of the World	Mike McKenna Jr.	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
148	Wolf Jett	Wolf Jett	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
149	Birdtalker	Birdtalker	AntiFragile	Contemporary Folk
150	Slower	Jules Shear	Funzalo	Contemporary Folk
151	Two Saviors	Buck Meek	Keeled Scales	Contemporary Folk
152	Scatter & Gather	Shay Martin Lovette	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
153	Why Wait!	Kate Taylor	Red House	Contemporary Folk
154	Ballad of a Bad Girl	Kate McDonnell	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
155	One Sky	Philip Scott Poli	Trespass Music	Contemporary Folk
156	Quiet Talkers	Ken Yates	Tone Tree	Contemporary Folk
157	Madison Archives	Frank Evans & Ben Plotnick	Self-Release	Traditional Folk

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The Roots Music Report's Top Folk Album Chart for the Year of 2021

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2021