Top Rock Album Chart for the Year of 2017

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	Rock
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	My Piece of Land	Amanda Shires	Silver Knife	Alternative Rock
27	Whiteout Conditions	The New Pornographers	Concord	Alternative Rock
28	I See You	The xx	Young Turks Recordings	Alternative Rock
29	A Cure for Loneliness	Peter Wolf	Concord	Roots Rock
30	Savage on the Downhill	Amber Cross	Self-Release	Roots Rock
31	Transient Lullaby	The Mastersons	Red House	Roots Rock
32	Long Hot Summer Days	Jim Byrnes	Black Hen Music	Roots Rock
33	Heartworms	The Shins	Columbia	Alternative Rock
34	Purgatory	Tyler Childers	Hickman Holler	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	Standard	Fred Eaglesmith	Self-Release	Roots Rock
39	Forever and then Some	Lillie Mae	Third Man	Roots Rock
40	2	Mudcrutch	Reprise	Roots Rock
41	True Sadness	The Avett Brothers	Republic	Roots Rock
42	Pure Comedy	Father John Misty	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
43	Light	Moses Guest	Aufheben	Alternative Rock
44	Run Skeleton Run	David Childers	Ramseur	Roots Rock
45	Witness	Benjamin Booker	ATO	Alternative Rock
46	La Divine	Cold War Kids	Capitol	Alternative Rock
47	Peace Trail	Neil Young	Reprise	Roots Rock
48	The Modern Lives, Vol. 1	Jackie Greene	Blue Rose Music	Roots Rock
49	Road Less Traveled	Sara Petite	Self-Release	Roots Rock
50	Southern Gothic	Rod Melancon	Blue Élan	Rockabilly
51	Love and Hate	Michael Kiwanuka	Self-Release	Roots Rock
52	Red Arrow	Christian Lopez Band	Blaster	Roots Rock
53	Soulrocker	Michael Franti & Spearhead	Fantasy	Alternative Rock
54	Masseduction	St. Vincent	Concord	Alternative Rock
55	RELAXER	Alt-J	Atlantic	Alternative Rock
56	Ladies Auxiliary	Scott Miller	F.A.Y.	Roots Rock
57	Apocalipstick	The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer	Tonic	Alternative Rock
58	Dust to Gold	Cris Jacobs	American Showplase	Roots Rock
59	Men Amongst Mountains	The Revivalists	Wind Up	Roots Rock
60	Believe	The String Cheese Incident	SCI Fidelity	Jam Band
61	Just Like Medicine	A.J. Croce	Compass	Roots Rock
62	Didn't It Rain	Amy Helm	eOne	Roots Rock
63	Hug of Thunder	Broken Social Scene	Arts & Crafts	Alternative Rock
64	Dig in Deep	Bonnie Raitt	Redwing	Rock
65	Felony Blues	Jaime Wyatt	Forty Below	Roots Rock
66	Postcard Town	The Two Tracks	Self-Release	Roots Rock
67	Bring the Flood	Derek Hoke	Little Hollywood	Pop Rock
68	High-Dollar Gospel	Eli Cook	C.R. 8	Roots Rock
69	Now That the Light is Fading	Maggie Rogers	Capitol	Alternative Rock
70	A Black Mile to the Surface	Manchester Orchestra	Loma Vista	Alternative Rock
71	Assimilation	Ron Francis Blake	highspeedhorns	Rock
72	Yours, Dreamily,	The Arcs	Nonesuch	Alternative Rock
73	Don't Try to Fight It	David Olney	Red Parlor	Roots Rock
74	Wildflower Blues	Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton	Cinquefoil	Roots Rock
75	Like an Arrow	Blackberry Smoke	3 Legged	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	Let the Good Times Roll	JD McPherson	Rounder Records	Roots Rock
79	Little Fictions	Elbow	Concord	Alternative Rock
80	I Had a Dream That You Were Mine	Hamilton Leithauser	Glassnote	Alternative Rock
81	Colter Wall	Colter Wall	Thirty Tigers	Roots Rock
82	Painted Ruins	Grizzly Bear	RCA	Alternative Rock
83	Sleep Well Beast	The National	4AD	Alternative Rock
84	Colvin & Earle	Colvin & Earle	Concord	Roots Rock
85	Thirteen	BoDeans	Shy Dog Music	Roots Rock
86	Roll with It	The Coffis Brothers	Self-Release	Roots Rock
87	Humanz	Gorillaz	Warner Music Group	Alternative Rock
88	Backlash	Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears	Self-Release	Alternative Rock
89	As You Were	Liam Gallagher	Warner Brothers	Alternative Rock
90	Paging Mr. Proust	The Jayhawks	Thirty Tigers	Alternative Rock
91	The Very Last Day	Parker Millsap	Okrahoma	Roots Rock
92	Death Song	The Black Angels	Partisan	Alternative Rock
93	A Face Like Mine	Peter Bradley Adams	Tone Tree Music	Roots Rock
94	Songs of a Renegade	Greg Sover	Self-Release	Roots Rock
95	Lorene	Left Arm Tan	Left Arm Tan	Roots Rock
96	Crack-Up	Fleet Foxes	Nonesuch	Alternative Rock
97	Modern Pressure	Daniel Romano	New West	Alternative Rock
98	In Times Like These	Rev. Sekou	Zent	Roots Rock
99	Odyssey	The Accidentals	Sony	Roots Rock
100	Rekihndled	Greg Kihn	Riot	Alternative Rock
101	Alone	Pretenders	BMG	Classic Rock
102	I Hold Gravity	Gerry Spehar & Friends	Self-Release	Roots Rock
103	Memories Are Now	Jesca Hoop	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
104	New Lore	Sean Rowe	Anti	Alternative Rock
105	Straw in the Wind	The Steel Woods	Self-Release	Southern Rock
106	Cleopatra	The Lumineers	Dualtone	Alternative Rock
107	Walk into a Storm	The Lone Bellow	Sony Masterworks	Alternative Rock
108	Life Love Flesh Blood	Imelda May	Decca	Alternative Rock
109	Love Stuff	Elle King	RCA	Alternative Rock
110	Live at Red Rocks	Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	Concord	Roots Rock
111	Tell It to the Judge	Walker Lukens	Modern Outsider	Alternative Rock
112	The Warm Covers	JD McPherson	Concord	Roots Rock
113	Heart-Shaped Mountain	Ha Ha Tonka	Bloodshot	Alternative Rock
114	Heavy Meta	Ron Gallo	New West	Alternative Rock
115	The Marcus King Band	The Marcus King Band	Concord	Roots Rock
116	Eternally Even	Jim James	ATO	Alternative Rock
117	Call It What It is	Ben Harper	Concord	Roots Rock
118	And then Like Lions	Blind Pilot	ATO	Alternative Rock
119	Gates of Gold	Los Lobos	SLG	Roots Rock
120	Sidelong	Sarah Shook & the Disarmers	Bloodshot	Rock
121	Queens of the Breakers	The Barr Brothers	Secret City	Alternative Rock
122	In Mind	Real Estate	Domino	Alternative Rock
123	Something More Than Free	Jason Isbell	Southeastern	Roots Rock
124	Johannesburg	Mumford & Sons	Glassnote	Alternative Rock
125	When to Talk and when to Listen	Current Swell	Nettwerk	Alternative Rock
126	Old School	Si Cranstoun	Ruf Records	Classic Rock
127	Psychotic Melancholia	Hayley Thompson-King	Hard To Kill	Roots Rock
128	War Surplus	Becky Warren	Self Release	Roots Rock
129	Stiff	White Denim	Downtown Music	Rock
130	Soul Sick	Sallie Ford	Vanguard	Alternative Rock
131	Capacity	Big Thief	Saddle Creek	Roots Rock
132	New Magic	Son Little	Anti	Alternative Rock
133	New World Arisin'	Big Head Todd & The Monsters	Big	Roots Rock
134	Panther in the Dollhouse	Whitehorse	Six Shooter	Roots Rock
135	Reskinned	Larkin Poe	RH Music	Alternative Rock
136	Still Summer	Matt Pond PA	131	Alternative Rock
137	The Southern Surreal	The Legendary Shack Shakers	Tenticles	Alternative Rock
138	I Am Another You	Making Movies	Self-Release	Alternative Rock
139	Variety Pak	Judy Nazemetz	Smokey Lady Music	Metal
140	A Kind Revolution	Paul Weller	Warner Bros	Roots Rock
141	Close the Place Down	The Linemen	Self-Release	Pop Rock
142	Salutations	Conor Oberst	Nonesuch	Alternative Rock
143	Goodnight Rhonda Lee	Nicole Atkins	Single Lock	Alternative Rock
144	Case/lang/veirs	case/lang/veirs	Anti	Alternative Rock
145	Introducing Karl Blau	Karl Blau	Bella Union	Roots Rock
146	Scott McMahan	Scott McMahan	Self Release	Rock
147	Firehorse	The Young Presidents	MKM Productions	Alternative Rock
148	We All Want the Same Things	Craig Finn	Partisan	Alternative Rock
149	14 Steps to Harlem	Garland Jeffreys	Luna Park	Roots Rock
150	A Head Full of Dreams	Coldplay	Parlophone	Alternative Rock
151	What Now	Sylvan Esso	Loma Vista	Alternative Rock
152	Pile Driver	The Suitcase Junket	Signature Sounds	Roots Rock
153	Wade Waist Deep	Thomas Wynn & the Believers	Mascot	Roots Rock
154	Live at Hillbilly Haiku	Jefferson Ross	Deep Fried Discs	Roots Rock
155	Once a Day Rise Up	Michael Franti & Spearhead	Fantasy	Alternative Rock
156	Devil Music	Randall Bramblett	New West	Roots Rock
157	Lotta Sea Lice	Courtney Barnett	Matador	Alternative Rock
158	The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn	The Roosevelts	Self-Release	Alternative Rock
159	Last Place	Grandaddy	30th Century	Alternative Rock
160	No Wolves	Eric Morrison & The Mysteries	Self-Release	Roots Rock
161	Hang	Foxygen	Jagjaguwar	Pop Rock
162	Dirty Wonder	K. Phillips	Rock Ridge	Roots Rock
163	Peaceful Easy Feeling: the Songs of Jack Tempchin	Jack Tempchin	Blue Elan	Roots Rock
164	The Shelters	The Shelters	Warner Brothers	Alternative 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	The Head and Heart	David Starr	Cedar Edge	Roots Rock
171	This Old Dog	Mac DeMarco	Royal Mountain	Alternative Rock
172	Seekers and Finders	Gogol Bordello	Cooking Vinyl	Punk 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	CT Swan	CT Swan	Painting Sounds	Pop Rock
181	Pleasure	Feist	Polydor	Alternative Rock
182	Factory Made	Wyatt Brewer	Self-Release	Alternative Rock
183	Gasoline	Dale Boyle	Self-Release	Roots Rock
184	Revolution Radio	Green Day	Reprise	Punk Rock
185	The Ghost for You	Lines West	Nunya	Alternative Rock
186	Oczy Mlody	The Flaming Lips	Warner Bros.	Alternative Rock
187	A Moon Shaped Pool	Radiohead	XL Recordings	Alternative Rock
188	Kicked out of Eden	Javier Escovedo	Saustex	Glam Rock
189	22, a Million	Bon Iver	Jagjaguwar	Alternative Rock
190	Gin and Rosewater	Chuck McDermott	Self-Release	Roots Rock
191	Jen Cloher	Jen Cloher	Marathon Artists	Alternative Rock
192	Boy Crazy and Single(s)	Lydia Loveless	Bloodshot	Roots Rock
193	VHS	X Ambassadors	Interscope	Alternative Rock
194	Tumbleweed	Big Something	Middle of Nowhere	Roots Rock
195	Acoustic Classics II	Richard Thompson	Beeswing	Roots Rock
196	Hurt & the Merciless	The Heavy	Bad Son	Rock
197	Ty Segall	Ty Segall	Drag City	Rock
198	Still Life on Fire	Mise En Scene	Light Organ	Alternative Rock
199	Monster	Sarah Potenza	Snax Records	Alternative Rock
200	Fake Sugar	Beth Ditto	Virgin	Alternative Rock

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The Roots Music Report's Top Rock Album Chart for the Year of 2017

The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2017