The Roots Music Report's
Top Americana Country Album Chart
for the Year of 2020
Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
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1 | Good Souls Better Angels | Lucinda Williams | Highway 20 |
2 | Play the Hits | The Mavericks | Mono Mundo |
3 | Gypsy | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sounds |
4 | Total Freedom | Kathleen Edwards | Dualtone |
5 | World Full of Blues | Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley | Compass |
6 | Half Moon Light | The Lone Bellow | Dualtone |
7 | Waltz for Abilene | Cindy Cashdollar | Silver Shot |
8 | Big Road | David Bromberg | Red House |
9 | Just Like Moby Dick | Terry Allen | Paradise of Bachelors |
10 | Starting over | Chris Stapleton | Mercury Nashville |
11 | Blonde on the Tracks | Emma Swift | Tiny Ghost |
12 | Old Flowers | Courtney Marie Andrews | Fat Possum |
13 | CHICKABOOM! | Tami Neilson | Outside |
14 | Caught It from the Rye | Tre Burt | Oh Boy |
15 | That's How Rumors Get Started | Margo Price | Loma Vista |
16 | Every Single Star | Dori Freeman | Blue Hens Music |
17 | Blindsided | Mark Erelli | Self-Release |
18 | Blood | Allison Moorer | Thirty Tigers |
19 | The Family Songbook | The Haden Triplets | Thirty Tigers |
20 | Rock Botom Rhapsody | Pokey LaFarge | New West |
21 | Love in the Midst of Mayhem | Joe Ely | Rack'Em |
22 | LP5 | John Moreland | Thirty Tigers |
23 | When You're Ready | Molly Tuttle | Compass |
24 | Prairie Love Letter | Brennen Leigh | Self-Release |
25 | I Travel on | Jason Eady | Old Guitar |
26 | Closer Than Together | The Avett Brothers | American |
27 | Forever | Vandoliers | Bloodshot |
28 | From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings | Dave Alvin | Yep Roc |
29 | Your Life is a Record | Brandy Clark | Warner |
30 | The Panhandlers | The Panhandlers | The Next Waltz |
31 | Breakdown on 20th Ave. South | Buddy & Julie Miller | New West |
32 | Fever Breaks | Josh Ritter | Pytheas |
33 | Agricultural Tragic | Corb Lund | New West |
34 | Easy Way | The Cactus Blossoms | Walkie Talkie |
35 | Boots No. 2: the Lost Songs, Vol 1. | Gillian Welch | Acony |
36 | Evergreen | Beth Bombara | Lemp Electric |
37 | Once in a Blue Moon | Dave Goddess Group | Emotional |
38 | Over the Trees | The Steel Wheels | Big Ring |
39 | Undivided Heart and Soul | JD McPherson | New West |
40 | Bright Lights, Long Drives, First Words | Nora Jane Struthers | Blue Pig |
41 | Keep 'Em on They Toes | Brent Cobb | Thirty Tigers |
42 | Gasoline | Grain Thief | Self-Release |
43 | Old Technology | Ben Morrison | Anti-Fragile |
44 | Welcome to Hard Times | Charley Crockett | Son of Davy |
45 | Like I Used to | AJ Lee & Blue Summit | Self-Release |
46 | Tiny Little Movies | Will Hoge | EDLO |
47 | Almost Daylight | Chris Knight | Thirty Tigers |
48 | The Dream and the Dreamer | Jeremy Ivey | Anti |
49 | Floor It!!! | The Texas Gentlemen | New West |
50 | Love's Middle Name | Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles | Blue Corn |
51 | Crossing Willow Creek | Bill Abernathy | Lone Willow |
52 | Second Helpings | Chris Gardner | Split Dog |
53 | Reckless Saints | Roy Schneider & Kim Mayfield | Shiny Gnu |
54 | A Long Way Back: the Songs of Glimmer | Kim Richey | Yep Roc |
55 | The Wildmans | The Wildmans | Mountain Fever |
56 | Far from Home | Aubrie Sellers | Soundly Music |
57 | 2020 | Buzz Cason & Sons | Arena |
58 | Same Shirt, Different Day | Rodney Rice | Self-Release |
59 | Ghosts of West Virginia | Steve Earle & The Dukes | New West |
60 | Arizona | Trae Sheehan | Twin Vision |
61 | Rise | Roger Street Friedman | Playroom |
62 | Sins We Made | Harrow Fair | Roaring Girl |
63 | Hollywood and Western | Alisa Wood | Daddy Kool |
64 | Wilderness | Jade Jackson | Anti |
65 | Dandelion | Carolina Story | Black River |
66 | Easy Keeper | Del Barber | Corn Cob |
67 | Tangle of Souls | Scott Cook | Self-Release |
68 | Better Hurry Up | Caleb Caudle | Baldwin County Public |
69 | Such a Long Way | Jess Jocoy | Self-Release |
70 | Come Along | Mac Gayden | ArenA |
71 | Leave Tonight | David Myles | Little Tiny |
72 | Living Life Grand | Chakra Bleu | 1746 |
73 | Down in the Den | Ted Russell Kamp | PoMo |
74 | Absolute Surprise | Craig Cummings | Self-Release |
75 | Right Now | Twisted Pine | Signature Sounds |
76 | Heartbreaker Please | Teddy Thompson | Thirty Tigers |
77 | All American Made | Margo Price | Third Man |
78 | Resurrection | Kinky Friedman | Self-Release |
79 | How Does It Feel | Zoe Nutt | Self-Release |
80 | Pauline | Ashley Ray | Soundly |
81 | Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne | Amy Speace | Windbone |
82 | Union | Son Volt | Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers |
83 | We Still Go to Rodeos | Whitney Rose | MCG Recordings |
84 | Waiting out the Storm | Jeremy Ivey | Anti |
85 | Volunteer | Old Crow Medicine Show | Columbia |
86 | One | Bryan Haraway | Part Time Criminal |
87 | Bones and Gravity | Lizanne Knott | Good Dog Jake |
88 | '87 | The Bros. Landreth | The Orchard |
89 | This Too Shall Light | Amy Helm | Yep Roc |
90 | Other Arrangements | Parker Millsap | Okrahoma |
91 | Texas | Rodney Crowell | RC1 |
92 | Trouble in Town | Wild Rabbit Salad | Regi Music |
93 | Just a Little Rain | Ray Cardwell | Bonfire |
94 | Burnt the Sawmill Down | The Caleb Daugherty Band | KDM |
95 | Arm in Arm | Steep Canyon Rangers | Yep Roc |
96 | Stand on My Own | Ray Cardwell | Bonfire |
97 | Guy | Steve Earle & The Dukes | New West |
98 | The Maze | Ariana Gillis | Self-Release |
99 | Superstar | Caroline Rose | New West |
100 | Bluebonnet Highway | Buddy Jewell | Diamond Dust |
101 | Gettin' by on Gettin' Down | Sam Morrow | Forty Below |
102 | Dusty Streets | Jon Spear | Self-Release |
103 | Life on the Flip Side | Jimmy Buffett | Mailboat |
104 | Sharing the Covers | Chatham County Line | Yep Roc |
105 | Walking Proof | Lilly Hiatt | New West |
106 | When I Wait for You | Dirk Powell | Compass |
107 | When Carolina Comes Home Again | Jim Lauderdale | Yep Roc |
108 | Life is Good on the Open Road | Trampled by Turtles | Banjodad |
109 | Great American Saturday Night | Bobby Bare | BFD |
110 | Harvest Day | Teague Brothers Band | Self-Release |
111 | Strange Fascination | Chatham County Line | Yep Roc |
112 | Now and then | Shaye Zadravec | Indelible Music |
113 | Brand New Me | Bill Filipiak | Self-Release |
114 | Band of Gypsies | Don Ray | Margdon |
115 | Downey to Lubbock | Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore | Yep Roc |
116 | My Love is a Hurricane | David Ramirez | Sweetworld |
117 | Love, ~ Pearl | Cheryl Cawood | Self-Release |
118 | Traveller | Chris Stapleton | Mercury |
119 | Sailing to Philadelphia | Mark Knopfler | Mercury |
120 | White Noise / White Lines | Kelsey Waldon | Oh Boy |
121 | Down the Road Wherever | Mark Knopfler | Blue Note |
122 | Worn out Dream | Daybreakers | Self-Release |
123 | Songs from the Rocky Fork Tavern | Bill Wence | 615 Records |
124 | Sigourney Fever | Trampled by Turtles | Banjodad |
125 | Love Me for Who I Am | Johnny Collier | Self-Release |
126 | Hank & Ella and the Fine Country Band | Hank & Ella with the Fine Country Band | Self-Release |
127 | Flames to Ashes | Elissa Pernu | Self-Release |
128 | Alive | Fred Eaglesmith | Sawdust |
129 | Shine | The Danberrys | Self-Release |
130 | American Jackpot / American Girls | Reckless Kelly | Thirty Tigers |
131 | Little Black Dress | Jonell Mosser | Siren Songs |
132 | Close to Home | Chuck Mead | Plowboy |
133 | Tales of America | J.S. Ondara | Verve |
134 | It's a Hard Life | Ruby Lovett | Puff Bunny |
135 | Recollections | Wynonna | Anti |
136 | Boots No. 2: the Lost Songs, Vol. 3 | Gillian Welch | Acony |
137 | Soar | Joselyn & Don | Paintbrush |
138 | Die Midwestern | Arlo McKinley | Oh Boy |
139 | No Direction | Jared Rabin | Golden Twine |
140 | The Country | Tennessee Jet | Thirty Tigers |
141 | Lucky Girl | Claudia Nygaard | Bet The Ranch |
142 | Out in the Open | Steep Canyon Rangers | Ramseur |
143 | Steel Blossoms | Steel Blossoms | Billy Jam |
144 | Harlem River Blues | Justin Townes Earle | Bloodshot |
145 | From a Room: Volume 1 | Chris Stapleton | Mercury |
146 | As We Go Wandering | Possessed By Paul James | Hillgrass Bluebilly |
147 | This Side of Jordan | Mandolin Orange | Yep Roc |
148 | Ruffled Feathers: Songs in the Key of Me | Sugarcane Jane | MTS |
149 | The Lone Bellow | The Lone Bellow | Descendant |
150 | Second Gleam | The Avett Brothers | Ramseur Records |
151 | Mignonette | The Avett Brothers | Ramseur |
152 | The Carpenter | The Avett Brothers | American |
153 | Love Drought | Emily Ortego | Self-Release |
154 | The Devil Between My Ears | James Leblanc & The Winchesters | Self-Release |
155 | Your Friend | Ross Kennedy | Self-Release |
156 | The Stories We Are Told | Heathcote Hill | 311 Music |
157 | Color Outside the Lines | Jim Stanard | Manatee |
158 | Strawberry Mansion | Langhorne Slim | Dualtone |
159 | Sinner | Leslie Stevens | LyricLand |
160 | Daytime Highs and Overnight Lows | Eric Brace & Last Train Home | Red Beet |
161 | Shape & Destroy | Ruston Kelly | Rounder |
162 | The Harrow and the Harvest | Gillian Welch | Acony |
163 | The Singin' Hills Sessions, Vol. I Sunset | Billy Ray Cyrus | This Is Hit |
164 | Sing Your Dreams | Ace Of Cups | High Moon |
165 | The Nature of Storms | Whippoorwill | Self-Release |
166 | Southern Gentleman | Dee White | Warner |
167 | J.T. | Steve Earle | New West |
168 | Liquor Store Flowers | Damhnait Doyle | Self-Release |
169 | The Troth Sessions | Rich Krueger | Self-Release |
170 | Never Mind | Margie Singleton | aintquittin music |
171 | Plastic Bouquet | Kacy & Clayton | New West |
172 | I Am Shelby Lynne | Shelby Lynne | Rounder |
173 | Turn Back the Clock | Tommy Townsend | Black Country Rock |
174 | Room 41 | Paul Cauthen | Lightning Rod |
175 | Issues | Elaina Kay | Self-Release |
176 | Burning Bridges | Market Junction | Self-Release |
177 | Whiskey Myers | Whiskey Myers | Wiggy Thump |
178 | From a Room: Volume 2 | Chris Stapleton | Mercury |
179 | Solstice | Luther Dickinson | New West |
180 | The Minutes and the Mistress | Allen Foster | Horizontal Trees |
181 | Treasure Map | Shoebox Letters | Self-Release |
182 | Morning Sun | The HawtThorns | Forty Below |
183 | They'll Never Keep Us Down | Kelsey Waldon | Oh Boy |
184 | Last Light on the Highway | Robert Jon & The Wreck | Self-Release |
185 | Western Soul | Hacienda Brothers | Lux |
186 | Big Blue Sky in the Morning | Barbara Jo Kammer | Self-Release |
187 | The Loneliness in Me | Rachel Brooke | Mal |
188 | A Lifetime of Almost | PK and the In-Betweens | Self-Release |
189 | Fly over Country | Susan Werner | Self-Release |
190 | Sea of Life | Dwayne Ferris | Self-Release |
191 | Toolshed | Ben Winship | Self-Release |
192 | Small Town Heroes | Hurray for the Riff Raff | ATO Records |
193 | A List of Names | Karyn Oliver | Buxom County |
194 | Everyone a Song, Vol. 1 | The Steel Wheels | Big Ring |
195 | I'm into Now | Shoebox Letters | Self-Release |
196 | She Remembers Everything | Rosanne Cash | Blue Note |
197 | South and West | David Starr | Self-Release |
198 | Big Day in a Small Town | Brandy Clark | Slate Creek |
199 | Downtown Mystic | DownTown Mystic | Sha-La Music |
200 | Stranger to Me | The Black Lillies | Attack Monkey |
201 | Shooter | Shooter Jennings | Elektra |
202 | Mike McAdoo | Mike McAdoo | 615 Records |
203 | The Skin I'm in | Amanda Rheaume | Self-Release |
204 | Easy Pickin's | Rick Street | Self-Release |
205 | Good to Be Around | Whippoorwill | Self-Release |
206 | Something Higher | Leftover Salmon | Soundly Music |
207 | Walkin' Shoes | Ted Russell Kamp | Self-Release |
208 | Violets As Camouflage | Mary Bragg | Tone Tree |
209 | While I'm Livin' | Tanya Tucker | Fantasy |
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