The Roots Music Report's
Top Americana Country Album Chart
for the Year of 2019
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gypsy | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sounds |
| 2 | When You're Ready | Molly Tuttle | Compass |
| 3 | Guy | Steve Earle | New West |
| 4 | Down the Road Wherever | Mark Knopfler | Blue Note |
| 5 | Fever Breaks | Josh Ritter | Pytheas |
| 6 | Forever | Vandoliers | Bloodshot |
| 7 | Texas | Rodney Crowell | RC1 |
| 8 | I Travel on | Jason Eady | Old Guitar |
| 9 | Love's Middle Name | Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles | Blue Corn |
| 10 | She Remembers Everything | Rosanne Cash | Blue Note |
| 11 | Union | Son Volt | Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers |
| 12 | The Eclipse Sessions | John Hiatt | New West |
| 13 | Play the Hits | The Mavericks | Mono Mundo |
| 14 | Over the Trees | The Steel Wheels | Big Ring |
| 15 | Undivided Heart and Soul | JD McPherson | New West |
| 16 | Breakdown on 20th Ave. South | Buddy & Julie Miller | New West |
| 17 | Sharing the Covers | Chatham County Line | Yep Roc |
| 18 | Crossing Willow Creek | Bill Abernathy | Lone Willow |
| 19 | Who I Am | Andrew Adkins | Mountain Soul |
| 20 | Easy Way | The Cactus Blossoms | Walkie Talkie |
| 21 | All American Made | Margo Price | Third Man |
| 22 | Shooter | Shooter Jennings | Elektra |
| 23 | Downey to Lubbock | Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore | Yep Roc |
| 24 | Interstate Gospel | Pistol Annies | Sony |
| 25 | Stranger to Me | The Black Lillies | Attack Monkey |
| 26 | Volunteer | Old Crow Medicine Show | Columbia |
| 27 | Other Arrangements | Parker Millsap | Okrahoma |
| 28 | This Too Shall Light | Amy Helm | Yep Roc |
| 29 | Southern State of Mind | Sugarcane Jane | Arena |
| 30 | Every Single Star | Dori Freeman | Blue Hens Music |
| 31 | From a Room: Volume 2 | Chris Stapleton | Mercury |
| 32 | Blood | Allison Moorer | Thirty Tigers |
| 33 | Jonathan Byrd & the Pickup Cowboys | Jonathan Byrd | Self-Release |
| 34 | The Maze | Ariana Gillis | Self-Release |
| 35 | Evergreen | Beth Bombara | Lemp Electric |
| 36 | Golden Hour | Kacey Musgraves | MCA Nashville |
| 37 | A List of Names | Karyn Oliver | Buxom County |
| 38 | Wilderness | Jade Jackson | Anti |
| 39 | Solstice | Luther Dickinson | New West |
| 40 | Hangin' on the Line | Chris Gardner | Self-Release |
| 41 | Violets As Camouflage | Mary Bragg | Tone Tree |
| 42 | Illusions | The Way Down Wanderers | Self-Release |
| 43 | World Full of Blues | Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley | Compass |
| 44 | Stand on My Own | Ray Cardwell | Bonfire |
| 45 | Burnt the Sawmill Down | The Caleb Daugherty Band | KDM |
| 46 | Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing | JP Harris | Free Dirt |
| 47 | Tales of America | J.S. Ondara | Verve |
| 48 | Broken Horses | Scott Thorn | Gregory Thoroman |
| 49 | The Crossing | Alejandro Escovedo | YepRoc |
| 50 | Close to Home | Chuck Mead | Plowboy |
| 51 | Liquor Store Flowers | Damhnait Doyle | Self-Release |
| 52 | Songs in the Key of E (feat. Charlie Daniels) | Beau Weevils | Blue Hat |
| 53 | Dance in the Street | Donna the Buffalo | Self-Release |
| 54 | Old Technology | Ben Morrison | Anti-Fragile |
| 55 | Call Me Lucky | Dale Watson | Red House |
| 56 | Almost Daylight | Chris Knight | Thirty Tigers |
| 57 | Ticket to Everywhere | Rob Heath | Self-Release |
| 58 | Room 41 | Paul Cauthen | Lightning Rod |
| 59 | Closer Than Together | The Avett Brothers | American |
| 60 | Reckless Saints | Roy Schneider & Kim Mayfield | Shiny Gnu |
| 61 | '87 | The Bros. Landreth | The Orchard |
| 62 | Arizona | Trae Sheehan | Twin Vision |
| 63 | Time Flies | Jim Lauderdale | Yep Roc |
| 64 | Acoustic Classics | Rodney Crowell | Rodney Crowell |
| 65 | The Dream and the Dreamer | Jeremy Ivey | Anti |
| 66 | Western Soul | Hacienda Brothers | Lux |
| 67 | It's a Hard Life | Ruby Lovett | Puff Bunny |
| 68 | The Keep | New Reveille | Loud & Proud |
| 69 | Dusty Streets | Jon Spear | Self-Release |
| 70 | From a Room: Volume 1 | Chris Stapleton | Mercury |
| 71 | That Kinda Guy | Mike Dekle | Parlay |
| 72 | Like I Used to | AJ Lee & Blue Summit | Self-Release |
| 73 | Save the Ones You Love | Heathcote Hill | Self-Release |
| 74 | Float | Jeff Kossack & the OtherHand | Self-Release |
| 75 | Love & Revelation | Over the Rhine | Great Speckled Dog |
| 76 | Steel Blossoms | Steel Blossoms | Billy Jam |
| 77 | Let It Pass | The Stray Birds | Yep Roc |
| 78 | Resurrection | Kinky Friedman | Self-Release |
| 79 | Out in the Open | Steep Canyon Rangers | Ramseur |
| 80 | Hey Karma | Michael Gaither | Miracle Mile |
| 81 | Gotta Lotta Rhythm | Motel Mirrors | Wild Honey |
| 82 | Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne | Amy Speace | Windbone |
| 83 | Boots No. 1: the Official Revival Bootleg | Gillian Welch | Acony |
| 84 | Old News | The Steel Woods | Woods Music |
| 85 | Bobbie Gentry's the Delta Sweete Revisited | Mercury Rev | Partisan |
| 86 | Lauren Morrow | Lauren Morrow | Self-Release |
| 87 | Kids in the Street | Justin Townes Earle | New West |
| 88 | The Outsider | Jesse Dayton | Blue Elan |
| 89 | Return to El Paso | The Carolyn Sills Combo | Self-Release |
| 90 | Lucky Girl | Claudia Nygaard | Bet The Ranch |
| 91 | Stubborn in My Blood | Tia McGraff | Self-Release |
| 92 | Bones and Gravity | Lizanne Knott | Good Dog Jake |
| 93 | Walkin' Shoes | Ted Russell Kamp | Self-Release |
| 94 | Hell on an Angel | Dillon Carmichael | Riser House |
| 95 | Ghost on the Car Radio | Slaid Cleaves | Candy House |
| 96 | Half Moon Light | The Lone Bellow | Dualtone |
| 97 | Don't Call Me Angel | Hilary Scott | Belltown |
| 98 | Straight to the Middle | Stacia Thiel | Self-Release |
| 99 | Worn out Dream | Daybreakers | Self-Release |
| 100 | Gods & Ghosts | Adam Wakefield | Average Joes |
| 101 | I Walked in Them Shoes | Adam Carroll | Self-Release |
| 102 | Further from the Storm | Elliott Peck | Blue Rose |
| 103 | Carousel | Carson McHone | Nine Mile |
| 104 | Renegade Road | Alan Turner | Big Daddy & Spike |
| 105 | Street Blues | Simon Kinny-Lewis | Self-Release |
| 106 | Sailing to Philadelphia | Mark Knopfler | Mercury |
| 107 | Lay Your Head Down | Carolina Story | Black River Entertainment |
| 108 | The Devil Between My Ears | James Leblanc & The Winchesters | Self-Release |
| 109 | The Skin I'm in | Amanda Rheaume | Self-Release |
| 110 | Mignonette | The Avett Brothers | Ramseur |
| 111 | Festival for One | Shadowfields | Hm Music |
| 112 | Lonesome Miles | Root Cellar Xtract | Self-Release |
| 113 | Supposed to Fly | David Graff | Self-Release |
| 114 | Finally Free | Daniel Romano | New West |
| 115 | Whiskey Myers | Whiskey Myers | Wiggy Thump |
| 116 | Jumping over Rocks | Jamie Lin Wilson | Self-Release |
| 117 | Sea of Life | Dwayne Ferris | Self-Release |
| 118 | Morning Sun | The HawtThorns | Forty Below |
| 119 | Sothern Ambrosia | Kristina Murray | Loud Magnolia |
| 120 | The Minutes and the Mistress | Allen Foster | Horizontal Trees |
| 121 | Holler | Amy Ray | Compass |
| 122 | Can You See Me Now | John Mcdonough | Self-Release |
| 123 | King of the Crows | Mark Cline Bates | Self-Release |
| 124 | The Lone Bellow | The Lone Bellow | Descendant |
| 125 | Encore | Anderson East | Elektra |
| 126 | The Art of Letting Go | Jason Erie | Erie St. |
| 127 | Duo | The Watson Twins | Self-Release |
| 128 | White Noise / White Lines | Kelsey Waldon | Oh Boy |
| 129 | Tennessee Alabama Fireworks | Boo Ray | BRRB Music |
| 130 | Natural Disasters | Matt Woods | Lonely Ones |
| 131 | Undesirable | Becky Warren | Self-Release |
| 132 | Heaven, Hell or Oklahoma | DocFell & Co. | IndieExtreme |
| 133 | Life is Good on the Open Road | Trampled by Turtles | Banjodad |
| 134 | The Stories We Can Tell | Nu-Blu | Voxhall |
| 135 | Dying Star | Ruston Kelly | Concord |
| 136 | Something Higher | Leftover Salmon | Soundly Music |
| 137 | Issues | Elaina Kay | Self-Release |
| 138 | Somewhere in Between | Adam Hood | Southern Songs |
| 139 | Love is Real | Jamie Kindleyside | James Perkins |
| 140 | This Side of Jordan | Mandolin Orange | Yep Roc |
| 141 | The Carpenter | The Avett Brothers | American |
| 142 | Second Gleam | The Avett Brothers | Ramseur Records |
| 143 | Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters | Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters | Organic |
| 144 | To the Sunset | Amanda Shires | Silver Knife |
| 145 | While I'm Livin' | Tanya Tucker | Fantasy |
| 146 | A Different Kind of Train | Craig Moreau | Self-Release |
| 147 | Back to My Green | Jess Klein | Motherlode |
| 148 | Fires, Floods & Things We Leave Behind | Melanie Brulée | Lapin Blanc |
| 149 | Bender | Shoebox Letters | Self-Release |
| 150 | Toolshed | Ben Winship | Self-Release |
| 151 | Worthy Cause | Chad Richard | Chad Richard |
| 152 | Deepest Light | The Get Ahead | Jullian |
| 153 | When the Rooster Crows | The Robbie Walden Band | Floating |
| 154 | Seen Enough Leavers | Meghan Hayes | Self-Release |
| 155 | Circus of Life | Kinky Friedman | Echo Hill |
| 156 | Dangerous Endeavor | Bianca De Leon | Lonesome Highway |
| 157 | Talking Dogs & Atom Bombs | Darrin Bradbury | Anti |
| 158 | I'm a Survivor | Leslie Cours Mather | LionEyes |
| 159 | Stay the Course | Same Latitude As Rome | Peter C. Boyer |
| 160 | Mark Shock | Mark Shock | Self-Release |
| 161 | Easy Pickin's | Rick Street | Self-Release |
| 162 | To Be Continued... | Francine Honey | Self-Release |
| 163 | Folk Soul Revival | Folk Soul Revival | Self-Release |
| 164 | High Flyer | Sarah White | Sarah White Music |
| 165 | Easy Keeper | Del Barber | Corn Cob |
| 166 | Sparrow in a Shoebox | Liz Frame & The Kickers | Self-Release |
| 167 | Dreams | Twisted Pine | Signature Sounds |
| 168 | Line of Light | David Wax Museum | Nine Mile |
| 169 | Scattered Poems | Alex Dunn | Self-Release |
| 170 | Esoebo VI | ESOEBO | Knot Reel |
| 171 | Stand Tall | Jason Ringenberg | Self-Release |
| 172 | Undress | The Felice Brothers | Yep Roc |
| 173 | Tex | Terry Klein | Self-Release |
| 174 | Sinner | Leslie Stevens | LyricLand |
| 175 | Dirt Roads and Fence Lines | Doug Adkins | Lyric Mountain |
| 176 | Don't Want It All, but I Don't Want Nothin' | Fanny Grace | Pablo And Cita |
| 177 | Back Being Blue | Kelly Willis | Premium |
| 178 | South and West | David Starr | Self-Release |
| 179 | Rifles and Rosary Beads | Mary Gauthier | In The Black |
| 180 | Lifers | Cody Jinks | Rounder |
| 181 | Hanging on | Pretty Archie | Curve Music |
| 182 | May Your Kindness Remain | Courtney Marie Andrews | Fat Possum |
| 183 | Time Captain | Ragged Union | Shining Castle |
| 184 | Motel La Grange | The National Reserve | Thirty Tigers |
| 185 | The Last Saturday Night | Pinto Bennett | Mess Around |
| 186 | Austinology - Alleys of Austin | Michael Martin Murphey | Wildfire |
| 187 | Tea Leaf Confessions | Ynana Rose | Self-Release |
| 188 | Concrete and Mud | Sam Morrow | Forty Below |
| 189 | Hank & Ella and the Fine Country Band | Hank & Ella with the Fine Country Band | Self-Release |
| 190 | Lost + Found | Hugh Masterson | Rock Ridge Music |
| 191 | Shoot the Moon | Roger Street Friedman | The Playroom |
| 192 | Songs for the Living and Otherwise | The Mulligan Brothers | Southern Routes |
| 193 | Anthology | Lizanne Knott | Tansoceanic |
| 194 | Good to Be Around | Whippoorwill | Self-Release |
| 195 | The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone | Lee Ann Womack | ATO |
| 196 | Nowthen | Rich Krueger | Rockin'K |
| 197 | Your Friend | Ross Kennedy | Self-Release |
| 198 | Like Hell It's Yours | Jacki Stone | El Hefe Music |
| 199 | Things I Need to Say | Jeremy Parsons | Self-Release |
| 200 | Paradise Outlaw | Pieta Brown | Red House |
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