The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2021
Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Be Here Instead | Parker Millsap | Oklahoma/Thirty Tigers |
2 | Friend of the Sky | Cej | Gnosong |
3 | Asterisk the Universe | John Craigie | Thirty Tigers |
4 | These Walls | Linda Sussman | Sing Out Proud |
5 | Revolutionary Love | Ani DiFranco | Righteous Babe |
6 | Brother Sister | Watkins Family Hour | Family Hour |
7 | That Spell | Andrea von Kampen | Fantasy |
8 | Cycles | Rachel Baiman | Signature Sounds |
9 | A Dark Murmuration of Words | Emily Barker | Thirty Tigers |
10 | Whoa! | Strung Like a Horse | Transoceanic |
11 | Girl I Used to Be | Garrison Starr | Soundly Music |
12 | Quietly Blowing It | Hiss Golden Messenger | Merge |
13 | Bucket List | John McCutcheon | Appalseed |
14 | Shore | Fleet Foxes | Anti |
15 | How Many Times | Esther Rose | Father/Daughter |
16 | No Cactus | Jackdaw | Cutthroat |
17 | Matamoros | James Kahn | Words and Music |
18 | There for You | Steve Free | Fraternity |
19 | Wonderland | Martha Renaud | Self-Release |
20 | A Place Beyond Belief | SLPSTRM | 941048 Records DK |
21 | Shall We Hope | Tony Trischka | Shefa |
22 | You, Yeah, You | Tre Burt | Oh Boy |
23 | Mondegreens | Rachel Garlin | Self-Release |
24 | The State That We Are in | Rachel Garlin | Self-Release |
25 | Hoosier National | Otis Gibbs | Self-Release |
26 | It's a Beautiful Day and I Love You | Jillette Johnson | Moss Rose |
27 | On the Wings of the Wind | Alec Fraser Jr | Circus Bass |
28 | Highway Troubadour | Jesse Colin Young | BMG |
29 | Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine | John McCutcheon | Appalsongs |
30 | Geist | Shannon Lay | Sub Pop |
31 | Carolina Child | Ric Robertson | Free Dirt |
32 | How to Break a Fall | Maya De Vitry | Mad Maker Studio |
33 | Namesake | Them Coulee Boys | Some Fun |
34 | No. Blood | Reid Parsons | Unsigned Seats |
35 | Shadow of the Cyclone | Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt | Trespass Music |
36 | Changemakers | Crys Matthews | Self-Release |
37 | We Imagined an Ending | Matt The Electrician | Self-Release |
38 | Things Are Great | Band Of Horses | BMG |
39 | Ghost Folk | Allysen Callery | Self-Release |
40 | The Canvas Before Us | Joy Zimmerman | Self-Release |
41 | The Ocean Wide | Sussex | Lucky Bear |
42 | Age of Apathy | Aoife O'Donovan | Yep Roc |
43 | Within | Michelle Qureshi | myndstream |
44 | Jake & Friends | Jake Shimabukuro | Music Theories |
45 | What Keeps the Heart Afloat | Garrett Wieland | Self-Release |
46 | Waysides | Bedouine | Self-Release |
47 | Springshine | Debbie Cushman | Self-Release |
48 | The Light We Bring | Trout Steak Revival | Tsrecords |
49 | Now and the Evermore | Colin Hay | Compass |
50 | Hooptie | Derek Bodkin | Self-Release |
51 | Speed, Sound, Lonely KV | Kurt Vile | Matador |
52 | Epic Journey | Lucas Imbiriba | Self-Release |
53 | Without Susie | James Lee Stanley | Beachwood |
54 | Year of the Spider | Shannon & The Clams | Easy Eye Sound |
55 | Mortal Flames | John Dennis | Self-Release |
56 | I'll Be Back Soon | Tiffany Williams | Self-Release |
57 | En Masse | Mike Edel | Pennant |
58 | Old Future | Norma MacDonald | Noyes |
59 | Unfollow the Rules (The Paramour Session) [Live] | Rufus Wainwright | BMG |
60 | Songs of Our Native Daughters | Our Native Daughters | Smithsonian Folkways |
61 | Pseudonymous | WhiteWater Ramble | Self-Release |
62 | Sage | Michelle Qureshi | Self-Release |
63 | Can't Hold the Light | Quote the Raven | Self-Release |
64 | We Go On: Si Kahn's Songs of Hope in Hard Times | Katie Oates | Self-Release |
65 | Terms of Surrender | Hiss Golden Messenger | Merge |
66 | I'd Rather Lead a Band | Loudon Wainwright III | Search Party |
67 | Rewrite the Ending | Ina May Wool | Self-Release |
68 | Lucky Enough | Reed Foehl | Green Mountain |
69 | Lighten Up | Erin Rae | Thirty Tigers |
70 | Circles | Jeremy Garrett | Organic |
71 | Honest | Ordinary Elephant | Self-Release |
72 | The Greatest Part | Becca Mancari | Captured Tracks |
73 | Scatter the Light | Eileen Ivers | Musical Bridge |
74 | Empathy and Comedy | Jay Brown | Self-Release |
75 | And Laurie Lewis | Laurie Lewis | Spruce And Maple |
76 | Ghost Hotel | Karen Morand & The Bosco Boys | Trespass Music |
77 | The Light at the End of the Line | Janis Ian | Rude Girls |
78 | Low Flyin' Planes | Adam Klein | Broken Hill Songs |
79 | Any Kind of Weather | The River Arkansas | Mike Clark |
80 | Chasing the Sun | Bobtown | Self-Release |
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