The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2023
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yellow Peril | Nat Myers | Easy Eye Sound |
| 2 | Witness Trees | David G Smith | Hey Dave |
| 3 | Wide Open Light | Ben Harper | Chrysalis |
| 4 | Jump for Joy | Hiss Golden Messenger | Merge |
| 5 | Emotional Contracts | Deer Tick | ATO |
| 6 | Lay Your Darkness Down | Mark Erelli | Soundly |
| 7 | 12th of June | Lyle Lovett | Verve |
| 8 | Safe to Run | Esther Rose | New West |
| 9 | Dang Fool | Eric Selby | Self-Release |
| 10 | Dark Enough to See the Stars | Mary Gauthier | Self-Release |
| 11 | There is So Much Here | Glen Phillips | Compass |
| 12 | A Murder of Songs | Grant Peeples | Self-Release |
| 13 | Moving on Skiffle | Van Morrison | Virgin Music |
| 14 | Shake It Loose Today | Linda Sussman | Sing Out Proud |
| 15 | Arsonist Daughter | Aspen Jacobsen | Self-Release |
| 16 | Everyday Legends | Linda Marks | Self-Release |
| 17 | Now and the Evermore | Colin Hay | Compass |
| 18 | Whispers from the Woods | Gordon Thomas Ward | Trespass Music |
| 19 | Who Cares | David G Smith | Hey Dave |
| 20 | Outpourings | Craig Bickhardt | Self-Release |
| 21 | How Can I Say This? | Annie Capps | Self-Release |
| 22 | Accentuate the Positive | Van Morrison | Exile |
| 23 | Where Zat | John Roy Zat | Flyin Bayou |
| 24 | I'm Your Huckleberry | Tommy Goucher | Self-Release |
| 25 | There for You | Steve Free | Fraternity |
| 26 | All Souls Hill | The Waterboys | Cooking Vinyl |
| 27 | I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself | Colin Hay | Compass |
| 28 | Bones | Melissa Ruth | Self-Release |
| 29 | Come Back to Me | Peter One | Verve Forecast |
| 30 | Make Myself Me Again | Cristina Vane | Red Parlor |
| 31 | Meantime's Up | Jon Stickley Trio | Organic |
| 32 | Mermaid Salt | John Craigie | Self-Release |
| 33 | Man with the Muse | Bryce Ernest Taylor | Self-Release |
| 34 | Big Talk | Jarrod Dickenson | Hooked |
| 35 | Rolling Golden Holy | Bonny Light Horseman | 37d03d |
| 36 | Southern Sun | John Donovan | Self-Release |
| 37 | What You Feel is Real | Nina De Vitry | Self-Release |
| 38 | Phil Lee and Other Old Time Favorites | Phil Lee | Self-Release |
| 39 | Uncertain Country | Great Lake Swimmers | Pheromone |
| 40 | Blue-Twangled Folk N Roll | Reckless Saints | Shiny Gnu |
| 41 | A Place Beyond Belief | SLPSTRM | 941048 Records DK |
| 42 | Snake Creek | Pixie and The Partygrass Boys | Self-Release |
| 43 | Whiplash | Jobi Riccio | Yep Roc |
| 44 | The Rainbow Wheel of Death | Dougie Poole | Wharf Cat |
| 45 | 8th Wonder | The National Parks | Self-Release |
| 46 | Lifeline | Laura Zucker | Self-Release |
| 47 | Seek the Love You're Yearning | Brian Gore Guitar Poet | Self-Release |
| 48 | Blurry Vision | Shred Kelly | Self-Release |
| 49 | Shufflemania | Robyn Hitchcock | Tiny Ghost |
| 50 | Clouds | The Ballroom Thieves | Nettwerk |
| 51 | Breaking the Thermometer | Leyla McCalla | Anti |
| 52 | The Darkest Brilliance | Coastwest Unrest | Reclaim |
| 53 | From Self, with Love | Lowland Hum | Tone Tree |
| 54 | Gold | Carter Sampson | Horton |
| 55 | Homemaker | Jill Barber | Outside |
| 56 | At the Roadhouse | The Paper Kites | Nettwerk |
| 57 | Something from Nothing | Chris Williams & Kid Reverie | Gray Sun |
| 58 | Quietly Blowing It | Hiss Golden Messenger | Merge |
| 59 | Within | Michelle Qureshi | myndstream |
| 60 | Love is the Only Thing | Peter Mulvey | Righteous Babe |
| 61 | Sem Olhar Ao Tempo | Manuel Maio | Sons Vadios |
| 62 | Paint Horse | Benjamin Dakota Rogers | Good People |
| 63 | Wintertide | Brittany Jean | Self-Release |
| 64 | Halfsies | Lizzie No | Thirty Tigers |
| 65 | Beyond the Great Pause | Doug Cox & Linda McRae | Self-Release |
| 66 | John 20:20 | Reid Jamieson | Self-Release |
| 67 | Carving Canyons | Lissie | Lionbo |
| 68 | Le Olem | Alex Krawczyk | MTS |
| 69 | Agnes | Keegan McInroe | Self-Release |
| 70 | Is This Now? | Rena Guinn | Self-Release |
| 71 | Honest | Ordinary Elephant | Self-Release |
| 72 | Leap! | John McCutcheon | Appalsongs |
| 73 | Wherever You Aren't | Elizabeth Moen | Self-Release |
| 74 | Colors & Covers | Brittany Jean | Self-Release |
| 75 | Much Further out Than Inevitable: a Fiddle and Banjo Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford | John Showman | Self-Release |
| 76 | Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions | The Dream Syndicate | Fire |
| 77 | Vessel | The Accidentals | Self-Release |
| 78 | Dusty Highway | David Gelman | Self-Release |
| 79 | Trevor Hall and the Great In-Between | Trevor Hall | 3 Rivers |
| 80 | Epic Journey | Lucas Imbiriba | Self-Release |
| 81 | Joni Mitchell at Newport (Live) | Joni Mitchell | Rhino |
| 82 | Gold on the Horizon | Our Man in the Field | In the Field |
| 83 | Wonderland | Martha Renaud | Self-Release |
| 84 | I Can Face the Truth | Dana Cooper | Self-Release |
| 85 | Lucky Enough | Reed Foehl | Green Mountain |
| 86 | A Very Lonely Solstice | Fleet Foxes | Anti |
| 87 | Brother Sister | Watkins Family Hour | Family Hour |
| 88 | We Imagined an Ending | Matt The Electrician | Self-Release |
| 89 | A Beautiful World | Calista Garcia | Self-Release |
| 90 | Watkins Family Hour Vol. II | Watkins Family Hour | Family Hour/Thirty Tigers |
| 91 | How Many Times | Esther Rose | Father/Daughter |
| 92 | Terms of Surrender | Hiss Golden Messenger | Merge |
| 93 | The State That We Are in | Rachel Garlin | Self-Release |
| 94 | Pseudonymous | WhiteWater Ramble | Self-Release |
| 95 | Blow My Cover | Ajay Mathur | Yakketeeyak |
| 96 | Whoa! | Strung Like a Horse | Transoceanic |
| 97 | Empathy and Comedy | Jay Brown | Self-Release |
| 98 | About the Winter | Barbaro | StorySound |
| 99 | Revolutionary Love | Ani DiFranco | Righteous Babe |
| 100 | The Light at the End of the Line | Janis Ian | Rude Girls |
| 101 | Day by Day | Timothy B. Schmit | Self-Release |
| 102 | Things Are Great | Band Of Horses | BMG |
| 103 | The Long Game | Johnathan Rice | Mano Walker |
| 104 | Don't Be Discouraged | Peter Lehndorff | Self-Release |
| 105 | Bucket List | John McCutcheon | Appalseed |
| 106 | Geist | Shannon Lay | Sub Pop |
| 107 | Gravity, Wings, and Heavy Things | Chuck Brodsky | Self-Release |
| 108 | Truth is | Vanessa Lively | Self-Release |
| 109 | Asterisk the Universe | John Craigie | Thirty Tigers |
| 110 | SHEL | SHEL | Moraine |
| 111 | The Greatest Part | Becca Mancari | Captured Tracks |
| 112 | That Was You and Me | Fortunate Ones | Sonic |
| 113 | Jabberwockies | Wes Collins | Self-Release |
| 114 | Shore | Fleet Foxes | Anti |
| 115 | Winter is for Lovers | Ben Harper | Anti |
| 116 | You, Yeah, You | Tre Burt | Oh Boy |
| 117 | Moonflora | River Whyless | Soundly |
| 118 | Leave No Bridge Unburned | Whitehorse | Six Shooter |
| 119 | Floating on a Dream | Avi Kaplan | Fantasy |
| 120 | Die Happy | Them Coulee Boys | LoHi |
| 121 | That Spell | Andrea von Kampen | Fantasy |
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