Top Folk Album Chart for the Year of 2022

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2022

	Album Title	Band/Artist Name	Label	Sub Genre
1	12th of June	Lyle Lovett	Verve	Alternative Folk
2	Songs from the River Wind	Eliza Gilkyson	Howlin' Dog	Contemporary Folk
3	One More Time Before You Go: a Tribute to Tony Rice	Dan Tyminski	North Star	Traditional Folk
4	A Few Stars Apart	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Fantasy	Contemporary Folk
5	Things Are Great	Band Of Horses	BMG	Alternative Folk
6	Age of Apathy	Aoife O'Donovan	Yep Roc	Alternative Folk
7	Time out Session #2	The Accidentals	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
8	Anaïs Mitchell	Anais Mitchell	BMG	Contemporary Folk
9	Tape	Patty Griffin	PGM	Contemporary Folk
10	Watchhouse	Watchhouse	Thirty Tigers	Contemporary Folk
11	Violet Light	Maya De Vitry	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
12	Life on Earth	Hurray for the Riff Raff	Nonesuch	Contemporary Folk
13	Ride	Jack Broadbent	Crows Feet	Folk Rock
14	Mermaid Salt	John Craigie	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
15	River Fools & Mountain Saints	Ian Noe	Lock 13	Contemporary Folk
16	Now and the Evermore	Colin Hay	Compass	Alternative Folk
17	Breathe in the World, Breathe out Music	Mike Stevens	Stony Plain	Folk Rock
18	Just Beyond the Shine	Peach & Quiet	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
19	Stand for Myself	Yola	Easy Eye Sound	Folk Rock
20	Rain in the Desert	Lisa Morales	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
21	Coming Home: a Collection of Songs	Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb	Magnolia	Contemporary Folk
22	In These Silent Days	Brandi Carlile	Low Country Sound	Contemporary Folk
23	All Wood and Led	James Lee Stanley and Dan Navarro	Beachwood	Folk Rock
24	Barn	Neil Young	The Other Shoe	Contemporary Folk
25	Tell 'Em You Were Gold	Pharis & Jason Romero	Smithsonian Folkways	Traditional Folk
26	Phil Lee and Other Old Time Favorites	Phil Lee	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
27	Uranium Maiden	Kate MacLeod	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
28	Lighten Up	Erin Rae	Thirty Tigers	Alternative Folk
29	The Light at the End of the Line	Janis Ian	Rude Girls	Alternative Folk
30	Where Zat	John Roy Zat	Flyin Bayou	Alternative Folk
31	Calla Lily	The Brother Brothers	Compass	Contemporary Folk
32	Way Up in the Hills	Sad Daddy	Catfish	Traditional Folk
33	Meat Bird in Beigeville	Judy Nazemetz	Smokey Lady	Contemporary Folk
34	Extrovert	Mr. Sun	Compass	Traditional Folk
35	Last Days of Summer	Lucy Kaplansky	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
36	All Souls Hill	The Waterboys	Cooking Vinyl	Alternative Folk
37	Last of the Better Days Ahead	Charlie Parr	Smithsonian Folkways	Contemporary Folk
38	Small Towns	StillHouse Junkies	Dark Shadow	Traditional Folk
39	Lulu	Good Morning Bedlam	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
40	Awake	Mala Oreen	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
41	Outside Child	Allison Russell	Fantasy	Contemporary Folk
42	Fables in a Foreign Land	John Doe	Fat Possum	Traditional Folk
43	The State That We Are in	Rachel Garlin	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
44	True North	Caroline Spence	Rounder	Contemporary Folk
45	Shake It Loose Today	Linda Sussman	Sing Out Proud	Alternative Folk
46	Yard Sale	J-Rad Cooley	VizzTone	Folk Rock
47	Right Where I Am	Jonathan Edwards	Rising	Traditional Folk
48	Floating on a Dream	Avi Kaplan	Fantasy	Alternative Folk
49	That Spell	Andrea von Kampen	Fantasy	Alternative Folk
50	I Can Face the Truth	Dana Cooper	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
51	Gone, Long Gone	Steve Dawson	Black Hen	Contemporary Folk
52	Chinook Waltz	Over the Moon	Borealis	Contemporary Folk
53	Cover to Cover	The Brother Brothers	Compass	Contemporary Folk
54	Watkins Family Hour Vol. II	Watkins Family Hour	Family Hour/Thirty Tigers	Alternative Folk
55	Neon Blue	Joshua Hedley	New West	Contemporary Folk
56	Cycles	Rachel Baiman	Signature Sounds	Alternative Folk
57	Backroads	Johnsmith	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
58	Junk Drawer	Steve Wood	Benaji	Folk Rock
59	Love is the Only Thing	Peter Mulvey	Righteous Babe	Alternative Folk
60	1960	Martyn Joseph	Pipe	Contemporary Folk
61	Bucket List	John McCutcheon	Appalseed	Alternative Folk
62	Quietly Blowing It	Hiss Golden Messenger	Merge	Alternative Folk
63	Tucson	Amy Speace	WindBone	Contemporary Folk
64	Spell Songs II: Let the Light in	The Lost Words: Spell Songs	Quercus/Thirty Tigers	Contemporary Folk
65	Come Around	Rob Lutes	Lucky Bear	Contemporary Folk
66	Be Here Instead	Parker Millsap	Oklahoma/Thirty Tigers	Alternative Folk
67	Breaking the Thermometer	Leyla McCalla	Anti	Alternative Folk
68	By the Risin' of the Sea	James Kahn	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
69	Open House	The Fretless	Birthday Cake	Contemporary Folk
70	See the World Deluxe	Brett Dennen	Mick	Contemporary Folk
71	Vincent Neil Emerson	Vincent Neil Emerson	La Honda/Thirty Tigers	Traditional Folk
72	The Empress	The McDades	Free Radio	Celtic
73	All is Quiet	Susan Cattaneo	Columbus	Folk
74	Moonflora	River Whyless	Soundly	Alternative Folk
75	Let Love Be Your Guide	Dan + Claudia Zanes	Smithsonian Folkways	Contemporary Folk
76	Afterburn: Folk at Arena Level	Michael Johnathon	PoetMan	Contemporary Folk
77	Some See the Flowers	Suzie Brown	Mule Kick	Contemporary Folk
78	The River Flows, Vol. 2	John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen	Fur Peace Ranch	Contemporary Folk
79	Coyote Red	Bailey Bigger	Madjack	Contemporary Folk
80	Clouds	The Ballroom Thieves	Nettwerk	Alternative Folk
81	All In! - Single	Ray Wyatt	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
82	Bravado	Rose Cousins	Outside Music	Contemporary Folk
83	There's No Going Back	Brandon Reeves	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
84	No. Blood	Reid Parsons	Unsigned Seats	Alternative Folk
85	Desert Ghosts	Jaspar Lepak	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
86	Muscle Shoals Metaphysical	Firekid	Lucky Bird Media	Contemporary Folk
87	Covers	Mo Kenney	turtlemusik	Contemporary Folk
88	Overdue	Severin Browne	Self-Release	Folk Rock
89	Hurricane Clarice	Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves	Free Dirt	Traditional Folk
90	Poets	Liz Simmons	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
91	Head Above Water	Heather Sarona	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
92	Joyful Banner Blazing	Maria Dunn	Distant Whisper	Contemporary Folk
93	Broken English	Eddie Berman	Nettwerk	Contemporary Folk
94	I'm Your Huckleberry	Tommy Goucher	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
95	The Liar	John Fullbright	Blue Dirt	Contemporary Folk
96	Gonna Be Beautiful	Karney	Self-Release	Folk Rock
97	Horizon Line	Dan Navarro	Red Hen	Contemporary Folk
98	The Worst Kind of New	The Lied To's	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
99	Blue Heron Suite	Sarah Jarosz	Rounder	Contemporary Folk
100	Only the Killer Would Know	Valorie Miller	Blackbird	Contemporary Folk
101	Solastalgia	Annie Sumi	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
102	Song to a Refugee	Diana Jones	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
103	Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno	Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno	Free Dirt	Contemporary Folk
104	Sing to the Walls	Chastity Brown	Red House	Contemporary Folk
105	Metamorphosis	Cloud Cult	Earthology	Folk Rock
106	Still Life	Carson McHone	Merge	Alternative Folk
107	The New Faith	Jake Blount	Smithsonian Folkways	Contemporary Folk
108	Roscoe's Dream	Mapache	Innovative Leisure	Contemporary Folk
109	Seeker	Brigitte DeMeyer	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
110	Nowhere Sounds Lovely	Cristina Vane	Red Parlor	Contemporary Folk
111	All This Time Running	Craig Cardiff	True North	Contemporary Folk
112	Wish for You	Allison Moorer	Autotelic	Contemporary Folk
113	Run Like a Bull	Ryan Culwell	Missing Piece	Folk Rock
114	Sidelines	Wild Rivers	Nettwerk	Contemporary Folk
115	Day by Day	Timothy B. Schmit	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
116	Steel and Wool	Kim Beggs	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
117	Harmony Ascension Division	Pete Bernhard	Kahn	Traditional Folk
118	Sleeper	Anna Ash	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
119	This Storm	Tara MacLean & Catherine MacLellan	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
120	(self-titled)	Marcus Mumford	Capitol	Contemporary Folk
121	Hold Our Ground	Tom Chapin	Sundance	Contemporary Folk
122	Biggest Moments	Rob Heath	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
123	Long Haul	John Wort Hannam	Black Hen	Contemporary Folk
124	Spellbound	Judy Collins	Cleopatra	Contemporary Folk
125	An Honest Effort	Matt Patershuk	Black Hen	Contemporary Folk
126	Fugue State	Luke LeBlanc	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
127	I Wanna Start a Band	Britton Patrick Morgan	Self-Release	Folk Rock
128	Heart over Head	Cassie Jean and the Fireflies	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
129	Southern Currency	Jefferson Ross	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
130	The Canvas Before Us	Joy Zimmerman	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
131	Cosmic Dreamer	Barney Bentall	True North	Contemporary Folk
132	Rabbit	Buffalo Rose & Tom Paxton	Misra	Contemporary Folk
133	A Very Lonely Solstice	Fleet Foxes	Anti	Alternative Folk
134	Tired of Trying	Joe Holt	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
135	Light & Dark	Chris Ronald	Borealis	Contemporary Folk
136	From Where I Stand	Wyatt Easterling	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
137	Forgiving It All	Christopher Paul Stelling	Tone Tree	Folk Rock
138	A Better Day A-Coming	Robin and Linda Williams	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
139	All About the Timing	Roland Roberts	Happy Life	Contemporary Folk
140	All Those Days of Drinking Dust	Tiffany Williams	Blue Redbird Music	Contemporary Folk
141	Sleeping Dogs	Damn Tall Buildings	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
142	Tiny Beautiful Things	May Erlewine	Tone City Music	Contemporary Folk
143	Calico Jim	Pony Bradshaw	Black Mountain	Contemporary Folk
144	Hands and Knees	Two Bird Stone	Wondermore	Contemporary Folk
145	Everything at the Same Time	Caroline Marie Brooks	Outside Music	Contemporary Folk
146	Cerulean	Ken Yates	Soundly	Contemporary Folk
147	The More I Give	Paula Standing	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
148	That Was You and Me	Fortunate Ones	Sonic	Alternative Folk
149	A Place Beyond Belief	SLPSTRM	941048 Records DK	Alternative Folk
150	Arrivals	Declan O'Rourke	Maiesta Musix	Contemporary Folk
151	The Local Honeys	The Local Honeys	La Honda	Contemporary Folk
152	Good Luck, Take Care	Terry Klein	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
153	1977	Michelle Malone	BFD	Contemporary Folk
154	Just Like Leaving	Bella White	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
155	Found Light	Laura Veirs	Bella Union	Contemporary Folk
156	Whispers from the Woods	Gordon Thomas Ward	Trespass Music	Alternative Folk
157	Kitchen Days	Braden Gates	Borealis	Contemporary Folk
158	Golden Loam	Laurel Premo	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
159	The Next Best Thing	Graham Lindsey	Self-Release	Celtic
160	For the People	Rupert Wates	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
161	There is So Much Here	Glen Phillips	Compass	Alternative Folk
162	Gravity, Wings, and Heavy Things	Chuck Brodsky	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
163	These Walls	Linda Sussman	Sing Out Proud	Alternative Folk
164	So Much Time, So Much Love	Shelton & Williams	Grass Tank Music	Contemporary Folk
165	Borrowed	Grey DeLisle	Regional	Folk Rock
166	Anthems of Home	HuDost	Open Sesame	Contemporary Folk

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The Roots Music Report's Top Folk Album Chart for the Year of 2022

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2022