The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2022
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12th of June | Lyle Lovett | Verve |
| 2 | Make Myself Me Again | Cristina Vane | Red Parlor |
| 3 | Things Are Great | Band Of Horses | BMG |
| 4 | Dark Enough to See the Stars | Mary Gauthier | Self-Release |
| 5 | Mermaid Salt | John Craigie | Self-Release |
| 6 | Now and the Evermore | Colin Hay | Compass |
| 7 | Phil Lee and Other Old Time Favorites | Phil Lee | Self-Release |
| 8 | Lighten Up | Erin Rae | Thirty Tigers |
| 9 | The Light at the End of the Line | Janis Ian | Rude Girls |
| 10 | Where Zat | John Roy Zat | Flyin Bayou |
| 11 | I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself | Colin Hay | Compass |
| 12 | All Souls Hill | The Waterboys | Cooking Vinyl |
| 13 | The State That We Are in | Rachel Garlin | Self-Release |
| 14 | Shake It Loose Today | Linda Sussman | Sing Out Proud |
| 15 | Floating on a Dream | Avi Kaplan | Fantasy |
| 16 | I Can Face the Truth | Dana Cooper | Self-Release |
| 17 | That Spell | Andrea von Kampen | Fantasy |
| 18 | Watkins Family Hour Vol. II | Watkins Family Hour | Family Hour/Thirty Tigers |
| 19 | Love is the Only Thing | Peter Mulvey | Righteous Babe |
| 20 | Cycles | Rachel Baiman | Signature Sounds |
| 21 | Who Cares | David G Smith | Hey Dave |
| 22 | Bucket List | John McCutcheon | Appalseed |
| 23 | Quietly Blowing It | Hiss Golden Messenger | Merge |
| 24 | Breaking the Thermometer | Leyla McCalla | Anti |
| 25 | Be Here Instead | Parker Millsap | Oklahoma/Thirty Tigers |
| 26 | Moonflora | River Whyless | Soundly |
| 27 | Clouds | The Ballroom Thieves | Nettwerk |
| 28 | There's No Going Back | Brandon Reeves | Self-Release |
| 29 | No. Blood | Reid Parsons | Unsigned Seats |
| 30 | Vessel | The Accidentals | Self-Release |
| 31 | Head Above Water | Heather Sarona | Self-Release |
| 32 | I'm Your Huckleberry | Tommy Goucher | Self-Release |
| 33 | Still Life | Carson McHone | Merge |
| 34 | Day by Day | Timothy B. Schmit | Self-Release |
| 35 | Sleeper | Anna Ash | Self-Release |
| 36 | Southern Currency | Jefferson Ross | Self-Release |
| 37 | A Very Lonely Solstice | Fleet Foxes | Anti |
| 38 | Heart over Head | Cassie Jean and the Fireflies | Self-Release |
| 39 | The Canvas Before Us | Joy Zimmerman | Self-Release |
| 40 | There is So Much Here | Glen Phillips | Compass |
| 41 | That Was You and Me | Fortunate Ones | Sonic |
| 42 | A Place Beyond Belief | SLPSTRM | 941048 Records DK |
| 43 | Good Luck, Take Care | Terry Klein | Self-Release |
| 44 | Whispers from the Woods | Gordon Thomas Ward | Trespass Music |
| 45 | Rolling Golden Holy | Bonny Light Horseman | 37d03d |
| 46 | Waysides | Bedouine | Self-Release |
| 47 | Gravity, Wings, and Heavy Things | Chuck Brodsky | Self-Release |
| 48 | These Walls | Linda Sussman | Sing Out Proud |
| 49 | You, Yeah, You | Tre Burt | Oh Boy |
| 50 | Jabberwockies | Wes Collins | Self-Release |
| 51 | Snake Creek | Pixie and The Partygrass Boys | Self-Release |
| 52 | The Darkest Brilliance | Coastwest Unrest | Reclaim |
| 53 | Can't Hold the Light | Quote the Raven | Self-Release |
| 54 | Geist | Shannon Lay | Sub Pop |
| 55 | Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions | The Dream Syndicate | Fire |
| 56 | New Girl | Jamie Drake | Anti-Fragile |
| 57 | Leap! | John McCutcheon | Appalsongs |
| 58 | The Garden | Basia Bulat | Secret City |
| 59 | A Dark Murmuration of Words | Emily Barker | Thirty Tigers |
| 60 | Eiderdown | Gordon Thomas Ward | Trespass Music |
| 61 | Year of the Spider | Shannon & The Clams | Easy Eye Sound |
| 62 | New Waves (Live Recordings ’19-’21) | Leif Vollebekk | Secret City |
| 63 | The Ocean Wide | Sussex | Lucky Bear |
| 64 | Truth is | Vanessa Lively | Self-Release |
| 65 | Don't Be Discouraged | Peter Lehndorff | Self-Release |
| 66 | ...but I'd Rather Be with You | Molly Tuttle | Compass |
| 67 | Stevie Cornell | Stevie Cornell | Sonoma-Sonic |
| 68 | Woodlands Hideout | SLPSTRM | More Cowbell |
| 69 | Much Further out Than Inevitable: a Fiddle and Banjo Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford | John Showman | Self-Release |
| 70 | Carving Canyons | Lissie | Lionbo |
| 71 | Ghost Hotel | Karen Morand & The Bosco Boys | Trespass Music |
| 72 | Man with the Muse | Bryce Ernest Taylor | Self-Release |
| 73 | Revolutionary Love | Ani DiFranco | Righteous Babe |
| 74 | Namesake | Them Coulee Boys | Some Fun |
| 75 | Shufflemania | Robyn Hitchcock | Tiny Ghost |
| 76 | Le Olem | Alex Krawczyk | MTS |
| 77 | A Beautiful World | Calista Garcia | Self-Release |
| 78 | St. Paul's Boulevard | Michael McDermott | Pauper Sky |
| 79 | Honest | Ordinary Elephant | Self-Release |
| 80 | Wonderland | Martha Renaud | Self-Release |
| 81 | Rewrite the Ending | Ina May Wool | Self-Release |
| 82 | Moving on Skiffle | Van Morrison | Virgin Music |
| 83 | Shall We Hope | Tony Trischka | Shefa |
| 84 | A Winter Wonderful | We Banjo 3 | Self-Release |
| 85 | Overthinking | Dauzat St. Marie | Self-Release |
| 86 | Empathy and Comedy | Jay Brown | Self-Release |
| 87 | Asterisk the Universe | John Craigie | Thirty Tigers |
| 88 | Shore | Fleet Foxes | Anti |
| 89 | Pseudonymous | WhiteWater Ramble | Self-Release |
| 90 | Come Close | Baby No Name | Self-Release |
| 91 | Coconut Bunny Cake | Nadia Ackerman | Self-Release |
| 92 | Whoa! | Strung Like a Horse | Transoceanic |
| 93 | Brother Sister | Watkins Family Hour | Family Hour |
| 94 | We Imagined an Ending | Matt The Electrician | Self-Release |
| 95 | It's a Beautiful Day and I Love You | Jillette Johnson | Moss Rose |
| 96 | How Many Times | Esther Rose | Father/Daughter |
| 97 | Lucky Enough | Reed Foehl | Green Mountain |
| 98 | Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine | John McCutcheon | Appalsongs |
| 99 | The Light We Bring | Trout Steak Revival | Tsrecords |
| 100 | Winter is for Lovers | Ben Harper | Anti |
| 101 | Terms of Surrender | Hiss Golden Messenger | Merge |
| 102 | SHEL | SHEL | Moraine |
| 103 | Ghost Folk | Allysen Callery | Self-Release |
| 104 | Old Future | Norma MacDonald | Noyes |
| 105 | The Greatest Part | Becca Mancari | Captured Tracks |
| 106 | Scatter the Light | Eileen Ivers | Musical Bridge |
| 107 | What Keeps the Heart Afloat | Garrett Wieland | Self-Release |
| 108 | The Long Game | Johnathan Rice | Mano Walker |
| 109 | Friend of the Sky | Cej | Gnosong |
| 110 | Bonny Light Horseman | Bonny Light Horseman | 37d03d |
| 111 | Songs of Our Native Daughters | Our Native Daughters | Smithsonian Folkways |
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