The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2017
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Nashville Sound | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Sotheastern | Roots Rock |
| 2 | Prick of the Litter | Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men | Hot Shot | Roots Rock |
| 3 | Blue & Lonesome | The Rolling Stones | Universal | Roots Rock |
| 4 | Graveyard Whistling | Old 97's | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 5 | Waiting on a Song | Dan Auerbach | Nonesuch | Alternative Rock |
| 6 | Duende | The Band of Heathens | BOH | Roots Rock |
| 7 | Belle of the West | Samantha Fish | Ruf | Roots Rock |
| 8 | Black Irish | Shannon McNally | Compass | Roots Rock |
| 9 | Chuck | Chuck Berry | Dualtone | Rock & Roll |
| 10 | Revolution Come...Revolution Go | Gov't Mule | Concord | Roots Rock |
| 11 | I Got Your Medicine | Shinyribs | Mustard Lid | Roots Rock |
| 12 | Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins | Chuck Prophet | Yep-Roc | Alternative Rock |
| 13 | Lay It on Down | Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band | Concord | Roots Rock |
| 14 | Restless | David Luning | Blue Rose Music | Roots Rock |
| 15 | American Band | Drive-By Truckers | ATO | Rock & Roll |
| 16 | Pretty Little Troubles | Malcolm Holcombe | Gypsy Eyes | Roots Rock |
| 17 | Songs of Bob Dylan | Joan Osborne | Womanly Hips | Roots Rock |
| 18 | The Best of Paul Thorn | Paul Thorn | Perpetual Obscurity | Roots Rock |
| 19 | The Electric Pinecones | Southern Culture On The Skids | Kudzu | Rockabilly |
| 20 | Hot Thoughts | Spoon | Matador | Alternative Rock |
| 21 | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Fantasy | Roots Rock |
| 22 | What if | Jerry Douglas | Rounder | Roots Rock |
| 23 | Peach | Larkin Poe | Tricki-Woo | Roots Rock |
| 24 | A Deeper Understanding | The War on Drugs | Atlantic | Alternative Rock |
| 25 | Dr. Feelgood's Traveling Medicine Show | Great American Taxi | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 26 | Whiteout Conditions | The New Pornographers | Concord | Alternative Rock |
| 27 | I See You | The xx | Young Turks Recordings | Alternative Rock |
| 28 | A Cure for Loneliness | Peter Wolf | Concord | Roots Rock |
| 29 | Savage on the Downhill | Amber Cross | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 30 | Transient Lullaby | The Mastersons | Red House | Roots Rock |
| 31 | Long Hot Summer Days | Jim Byrnes | Black Hen Music | Roots Rock |
| 32 | Heartworms | The Shins | Columbia | Alternative Rock |
| 33 | Purgatory | Tyler Childers | Hickman Holler | Roots Rock |
| 34 | This Sweet Old World | Lucinda Williams | Thirty Tigers | Roots Rock |
| 35 | Northern Passages | The Sadies | Yep Roc | Alternative Rock |
| 36 | Gilded | Jade Jackson | Anti | Alternative Rock |
| 37 | Burn Something Beautiful | Alejandro Escovedo | Concord | Roots Rock |
| 38 | Forever and then Some | Lillie Mae | Third Man | Roots Rock |
| 39 | Silver Tears | Aaron Lee Tasjan | New West | Alternative Rock |
| 40 | Best of Old Crow Medicine Show | Old Crow Medicine Show | Nettwerk | Roots Rock |
| 41 | 2 | Mudcrutch | Reprise | Roots Rock |
| 42 | True Sadness | The Avett Brothers | Republic | Roots Rock |
| 43 | Pure Comedy | Father John Misty | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 44 | Light | Moses Guest | Aufheben | Alternative Rock |
| 45 | Run Skeleton Run | David Childers | Ramseur | Roots Rock |
| 46 | Snake Handler | India Ramey | Little River | Alternative Rock |
| 47 | Witness | Benjamin Booker | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 48 | La Divine | Cold War Kids | Capitol | Alternative Rock |
| 49 | Peace Trail | Neil Young | Reprise | Roots Rock |
| 50 | The Modern Lives, Vol. 1 | Jackie Greene | Blue Rose Music | Roots Rock |
| 51 | Road Less Traveled | Sara Petite | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 52 | Love and Hate | Michael Kiwanuka | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 53 | Dragonfly | Kasey Chambers | Essence Group | Roots Rock |
| 54 | Red Arrow | Christian Lopez Band | Blaster | Roots Rock |
| 55 | Soulrocker | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Fantasy | Alternative Rock |
| 56 | Masseduction | St. Vincent | Concord | Alternative Rock |
| 57 | RELAXER | Alt-J | Atlantic | Alternative Rock |
| 58 | Ladies Auxiliary | Scott Miller | F.A.Y. | Roots Rock |
| 59 | Apocalipstick | The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer | Tonic | Alternative Rock |
| 60 | Dust to Gold | Cris Jacobs | American Showplase | Roots Rock |
| 61 | Men Amongst Mountains | The Revivalists | Wind Up | Roots Rock |
| 62 | Believe | The String Cheese Incident | SCI Fidelity | Jam Band |
| 63 | Just Like Medicine | A.J. Croce | Compass | Roots Rock |
| 64 | Hug of Thunder | Broken Social Scene | Arts & Crafts | Alternative Rock |
| 65 | Didn't It Rain | Amy Helm | eOne | Roots Rock |
| 66 | Dig in Deep | Bonnie Raitt | Redwing | Roots Rock |
| 67 | Felony Blues | Jaime Wyatt | Forty Below | Roots Rock |
| 68 | Postcard Town | The Two Tracks | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 69 | Bring the Flood | Derek Hoke | Little Hollywood | Pop Rock |
| 70 | High-Dollar Gospel | Eli Cook | C.R. 8 | Roots Rock |
| 71 | Now That the Light is Fading | Maggie Rogers | Capitol | Alternative Rock |
| 72 | A Black Mile to the Surface | Manchester Orchestra | Loma Vista | Alternative Rock |
| 73 | Yours, Dreamily, | The Arcs | Nonesuch | Alternative Rock |
| 74 | Don't Try to Fight It | David Olney | Red Parlor | Roots Rock |
| 75 | Wildflower Blues | Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton | Cinquefoil | Roots Rock |
| 76 | Country Hustle | Jeb Loy Nichols | City Country City | Roots Rock |
| 77 | This Tall to Ride | Robyn Ludwick | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 78 | Like an Arrow | Blackberry Smoke | 3 Legged | Roots Rock |
| 79 | Let the Good Times Roll | JD McPherson | Rounder Records | Roots Rock |
| 80 | I Had a Dream That You Were Mine | Hamilton Leithauser | Glassnote | Alternative Rock |
| 81 | Little Fictions | Elbow | Concord | Alternative Rock |
| 82 | Four from the Sun | The B. Christopher Band | Big Bug | Surf |
| 83 | Colter Wall | Colter Wall | Thirty Tigers | Roots Rock |
| 84 | Painted Ruins | Grizzly Bear | RCA | Alternative Rock |
| 85 | Sleep Well Beast | The National | 4AD | Alternative Rock |
| 86 | Colvin & Earle | Colvin & Earle | Concord | Roots Rock |
| 87 | Thirteen | BoDeans | Shy Dog Music | Roots Rock |
| 88 | Roll with It | The Coffis Brothers | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 89 | Humanz | Gorillaz | Warner Music Group | Alternative Rock |
| 90 | Backlash | Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears | Self-Release | Alternative Rock |
| 91 | As You Were | Liam Gallagher | Warner Brothers | Alternative Rock |
| 92 | Paging Mr. Proust | The Jayhawks | Thirty Tigers | Alternative Rock |
| 93 | The Very Last Day | Parker Millsap | Okrahoma | Roots Rock |
| 94 | Death Song | The Black Angels | Partisan | Alternative Rock |
| 95 | A Face Like Mine | Peter Bradley Adams | Tone Tree Music | Roots Rock |
| 96 | Songs of a Renegade | Greg Sover | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 97 | Lorene | Left Arm Tan | Left Arm Tan | Roots Rock |
| 98 | Crack-Up | Fleet Foxes | Nonesuch | Alternative Rock |
| 99 | Modern Pressure | Daniel Romano | New West | Alternative Rock |
| 100 | In Times Like These | Rev. Sekou | Zent | Roots Rock |
| 101 | Odyssey | The Accidentals | Sony | Roots Rock |
| 102 | Rekihndled | Greg Kihn | Riot | Alternative Rock |
| 103 | Alone | Pretenders | BMG | Classic Rock |
| 104 | I Hold Gravity | Gerry Spehar & Friends | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 105 | Straw in the Wind | The Steel Woods | Self-Release | Southern Rock |
| 106 | New Lore | Sean Rowe | Anti | Alternative Rock |
| 107 | Memories Are Now | Jesca Hoop | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 108 | Cleopatra | The Lumineers | Dualtone | Alternative Rock |
| 109 | Walk into a Storm | The Lone Bellow | Sony Masterworks | Alternative Rock |
| 110 | Love Stuff | Elle King | RCA | Alternative Rock |
| 111 | Life Love Flesh Blood | Imelda May | Decca | Alternative Rock |
| 112 | Live at Red Rocks | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Concord | Roots Rock |
| 113 | Tell It to the Judge | Walker Lukens | Modern Outsider | Alternative Rock |
| 114 | The Warm Covers | JD McPherson | Concord | Roots Rock |
| 115 | Heart-Shaped Mountain | Ha Ha Tonka | Bloodshot | Alternative Rock |
| 116 | Heavy Meta | Ron Gallo | New West | Alternative Rock |
| 117 | Eternally Even | Jim James | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 118 | The Marcus King Band | The Marcus King Band | Concord | Roots Rock |
| 119 | Call It What It is | Ben Harper | Concord | Roots Rock |
| 120 | And then Like Lions | Blind Pilot | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 121 | Gates of Gold | Los Lobos | SLG | Roots Rock |
| 122 | Gold Rush | Hannah Aldridge | Self-Release | Alternative Rock |
| 123 | Sidelong | Sarah Shook & the Disarmers | Bloodshot | Roots Rock |
| 124 | In Mind | Real Estate | Domino | Alternative Rock |
| 125 | Queens of the Breakers | The Barr Brothers | Secret City | Alternative Rock |
| 126 | Something More Than Free | Jason Isbell | Southeastern | Roots Rock |
| 127 | Johannesburg | Mumford & Sons | Glassnote | Alternative Rock |
| 128 | When to Talk and when to Listen | Current Swell | Nettwerk | Alternative Rock |
| 129 | Psychotic Melancholia | Hayley Thompson-King | Hard To Kill | Roots Rock |
| 130 | Old School | Si Cranstoun | Ruf Records | Classic Rock |
| 131 | War Surplus | Becky Warren | Self Release | Roots Rock |
| 132 | Stiff | White Denim | Downtown Music | Alternative Rock |
| 133 | Soul Sick | Sallie Ford | Vanguard | Alternative Rock |
| 134 | Capacity | Big Thief | Saddle Creek | Roots Rock |
| 135 | New Magic | Son Little | Anti | Alternative Rock |
| 136 | New World Arisin' | Big Head Todd & The Monsters | Big | Roots Rock |
| 137 | Panther in the Dollhouse | Whitehorse | Six Shooter | Alternative Rock |
| 138 | Reskinned | Larkin Poe | RH Music | Alternative Rock |
| 139 | Still Summer | Matt Pond PA | 131 | Alternative Rock |
| 140 | I Am Another You | Making Movies | Self-Release | Alternative Rock |
| 141 | The Southern Surreal | The Legendary Shack Shakers | Tenticles | Alternative Rock |
| 142 | Close the Place Down | The Linemen | Self-Release | Pop Rock |
| 143 | A Kind Revolution | Paul Weller | Warner Bros | Roots Rock |
| 144 | Salutations | Conor Oberst | Nonesuch | Alternative Rock |
| 145 | Goodnight Rhonda Lee | Nicole Atkins | Single Lock | Alternative Rock |
| 146 | Case/lang/veirs | case/lang/veirs | Anti | Alternative Rock |
| 147 | Introducing Karl Blau | Karl Blau | Bella Union | Roots Rock |
| 148 | Firehorse | The Young Presidents | MKM Productions | Alternative Rock |
| 149 | We All Want the Same Things | Craig Finn | Partisan | Alternative Rock |
| 150 | 14 Steps to Harlem | Garland Jeffreys | Luna Park | Roots Rock |
| 151 | A Head Full of Dreams | Coldplay | Parlophone | Alternative Rock |
| 152 | Pile Driver | The Suitcase Junket | Signature Sounds | Roots Rock |
| 153 | What Now | Sylvan Esso | Loma Vista | Alternative Rock |
| 154 | Wade Waist Deep | Thomas Wynn & the Believers | Mascot | Roots Rock |
| 155 | Once a Day Rise Up | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Fantasy | Alternative Rock |
| 156 | Live at Hillbilly Haiku | Jefferson Ross | Deep Fried Discs | Roots Rock |
| 157 | Lotta Sea Lice | Courtney Barnett | Matador | Alternative Rock |
| 158 | Devil Music | Randall Bramblett | New West | Roots Rock |
| 159 | The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn | The Roosevelts | Self-Release | Alternative Rock |
| 160 | No Wolves | Eric Morrison & The Mysteries | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 161 | Last Place | Grandaddy | 30th Century | Alternative Rock |
| 162 | Dirty Wonder | K. Phillips | Rock Ridge | Roots Rock |
| 163 | The Shelters | The Shelters | Warner Brothers | Alternative Rock |
| 164 | Peaceful Easy Feeling: the Songs of Jack Tempchin | Jack Tempchin | Blue Elan | Roots Rock |
| 165 | Last of the Old Dogs | Tim Flannery | Whalebone | Roots Rock |
| 166 | To the Edge | 61 Ghosts | Bluzpic Media Group | Alternative Rock |
| 167 | Cry Cry Cry | Wolf Parade | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 168 | Reservoir | Gordi | Jagjaguwar | Alternative Rock |
| 169 | Any Way, Shape or Form | Ben Miller Band | New West | Roots Rock |
| 170 | This Old Dog | Mac DeMarco | Royal Mountain | Alternative Rock |
| 171 | Seekers and Finders | Gogol Bordello | Cooking Vinyl | Punk Rock |
| 172 | The Head and Heart | David Starr | Cedar Edge | Roots Rock |
| 173 | Silver Eye | Goldfrapp | Mute | Alternative Rock |
| 174 | Paradise | The Wood Brothers | Honey Jar | Roots Rock |
| 175 | Halo | Juana Molina | Crammed Discs | Roots Rock |
| 176 | Out in the Storm | Waxahatchee | Merge | Alternative Rock |
| 177 | Limit of Love | Boy & Bear | Universal | Alternative Rock |
| 178 | Robyn Hitckcock | Robyn Hitchcock | Yep Roc | Alternative Rock |
| 179 | Sunlit Youth | Local Natives | Concord Music | Alternative Rock |
| 180 | Pleasure | Feist | Polydor | Alternative Rock |
| 181 | Factory Made | Wyatt Brewer | Self-Release | Alternative Rock |
| 182 | Gasoline | Dale Boyle | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 183 | Revolution Radio | Green Day | Reprise | Punk Rock |
| 184 | The Ghost for You | Lines West | Nunya | Alternative Rock |
| 185 | Oczy Mlody | The Flaming Lips | Warner Bros. | Alternative Rock |
| 186 | A Moon Shaped Pool | Radiohead | XL Recordings | Alternative Rock |
| 187 | Kicked out of Eden | Javier Escovedo | Saustex | Glam Rock |
| 188 | 22, a Million | Bon Iver | Jagjaguwar | Alternative Rock |
| 189 | Gin and Rosewater | Chuck McDermott | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 190 | Jen Cloher | Jen Cloher | Marathon Artists | Alternative Rock |
| 191 | Boy Crazy and Single(s) | Lydia Loveless | Bloodshot | Roots Rock |
| 192 | VHS | X Ambassadors | Interscope | Alternative Rock |
| 193 | Tumbleweed | Big Something | Middle of Nowhere | Roots Rock |
| 194 | Acoustic Classics II | Richard Thompson | Beeswing | Roots Rock |
| 195 | Hurt & the Merciless | The Heavy | Bad Son | Rock |
| 196 | Still Life on Fire | Mise En Scene | Light Organ | Alternative Rock |
| 197 | Ty Segall | Ty Segall | Drag City | Rock |
| 198 | Fake Sugar | Beth Ditto | Virgin | Alternative Rock |
| 199 | Monster | Sarah Potenza | Snax Records | Alternative Rock |
| 200 | Passion | Buzz Cason | ArenA Recordings | Roots Rock |
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