The Roots Music Report's
Top Americana Country Album Chart
for the Year of 2021
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starting over | Chris Stapleton | Mercury Nashville |
| 2 | The Horses and the Hounds | James McMurtry | New West |
| 3 | From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings | Dave Alvin | Yep Roc |
| 4 | Triage | Rodney Crowell | RC1 |
| 5 | The Waylon Sessions | Shannon McNally | Compass |
| 6 | Total Freedom | Kathleen Edwards | Dualtone |
| 7 | Chasing Old Highs | Ross Cooper | Start Swimming |
| 8 | Same Shirt, Different Day | Rodney Rice | Self-Release |
| 9 | Treasure of Love (feat. Butch Hancock, Joe Ely & Jimmie Dale Gilmore) | The Flatlanders | Rack 'Em |
| 10 | Electro Melodier | Son Volt | Transmit Sound |
| 11 | You Don't Really Know Me | Tim Easton | Black Mesa |
| 12 | You Hear Georgia | Blackberry Smoke | 3 Legend |
| 13 | Raise a Banner | Zach Schmidt | Boss Dawg |
| 14 | Bullseye | The Shootouts | Soundly |
| 15 | J.T. | Steve Earle | New West |
| 16 | Strawberry Mansion | Langhorne Slim | Dualtone |
| 17 | Ten Thousand Roses | Dori Freeman | Blue Hens |
| 18 | Working Woman | Grace Pettis | MPress |
| 19 | Waiting out the Storm | Jeremy Ivey | Anti |
| 20 | Blonde on the Tracks | Emma Swift | Tiny Ghost |
| 21 | Daddy's Country Gold | Melissa Carper | Self-Release |
| 22 | I'll Meet You Here | Dar Williams | Renew |
| 23 | Rise | Roger Street Friedman | Playroom |
| 24 | Migrants | Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra | Unknown |
| 25 | Dream Rich, Dirt Poor | Aaron Burdett | Organic |
| 26 | Restless | Wild & Blue | New Favorite |
| 27 | When I Wait for You | Dirk Powell | Compass |
| 28 | Hope | Jim Lauderdale | Yep Roc |
| 29 | Depreciated | John R. Miller | Rounder |
| 30 | Good at Being Lonely | Hank & Ella with the Fine Country Band | Self-Release |
| 31 | Eden and Her Borderlands | Anya Hinkle | Organic |
| 32 | These 13 | Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird | Thirty Tigers |
| 33 | To the Passage of Time | Jason Eady | Old Guitar |
| 34 | Play the Hits | The Mavericks | Mono Mundo |
| 35 | That's How Rumors Get Started | Margo Price | Loma Vista |
| 36 | In the Blossom of Their Shade | Pokey LaFarge | New West |
| 37 | Music City USA | Charley Crockett | Thirty Tigers |
| 38 | A Thousand Turns | The Delevantes | Moon River |
| 39 | Half a Hundred Years | Asleep At The Wheel | Home |
| 40 | Just a Little Rain | Ray Cardwell | Bonfire |
| 41 | Keep 'Em on They Toes | Brent Cobb | Thirty Tigers |
| 42 | Choose Your Own Adventure | The Weber Brothers And Timothy Bracken | Self-Release |
| 43 | First Time Feeling | Leah Blevins | Crabtree |
| 44 | Music City Joke | Mac Leaphart | Self-Release |
| 45 | Changing Faces | The Deep Dark Woods | Six Shooter |
| 46 | The Ballad of Dood & Juanita | Sturgill Simpson | High Top Mountain |
| 47 | When You Found Me | Lucero | Liberty & Lament |
| 48 | Prairie Love Letter | Brennen Leigh | Self-Release |
| 49 | Gettin' by on Gettin' Down | Sam Morrow | Forty Below |
| 50 | Plastic Bouquet | Kacy & Clayton | New West |
| 51 | Dandelion | Carolina Story | Black River |
| 52 | Cold Rain and Snow | Jared Rabin | Self-Release |
| 53 | Could Have Loved You | Fretland | Soundly Music |
| 54 | October in the Railroad Earth | Tom Russell | Frontera |
| 55 | Turning Tides | Grayson Jenkins | Self-Release |
| 56 | Church of Better Daze | Boy Golden | Six Shooter |
| 57 | Solitaire | Ted Russell Kamp | PoMo |
| 58 | Real Me | Brit Taylor | Cut A Shine |
| 59 | The Wildmans | The Wildmans | Mountain Fever |
| 60 | Now and then | Shaye Zadravec | Indelible Music |
| 61 | Boots No. 2: the Lost Songs, Vol 1. | Gillian Welch | Acony |
| 62 | Seven Cities of Gold | Moot Davis | Boot Knife |
| 63 | Blue Blue Blue | Noel McKay | Self-Release |
| 64 | Tangle of Souls | Scott Cook | Self-Release |
| 65 | Tiny Little Movies | Will Hoge | EDLO |
| 66 | Gasoline | Grain Thief | Self-Release |
| 67 | Solace in the Wild | Erin Ivey | Self-Release |
| 68 | Singing River | Chad Elliott | Self-Release |
| 69 | Ramble on | Charlie Marie | Self-Release |
| 70 | The Panhandlers | The Panhandlers | The Next Waltz |
| 71 | That Kind of Life | Michigan Rattlers | Massasauga |
| 72 | Reckless | Morgan Wade | Ladylike |
| 73 | Diamond Stone | Toria Richings | Self-Release |
| 74 | Almost Daylight | Chris Knight | Thirty Tigers |
| 75 | Flames to Ashes | Elissa Pernu | Self-Release |
| 76 | Hourglass | Murray McLauchlan | True North |
| 77 | All Alone | Steven Graves | One Essence |
| 78 | World Full of Blues | Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley | Compass |
| 79 | Jump for Joy | Gary Louris | Thirty Tigers |
| 80 | Bright Lights, Long Drives, First Words | Nora Jane Struthers | Blue Pig |
| 81 | Hello from the End of the World | Trae Sheehan | Self-Release |
| 82 | Long Rider | 3 Pairs of Boots | Self-Release |
| 83 | Island Creek | David Massey | Poetic Debris |
| 84 | The People You Love | Robbie Mangiardi | Self-Release |
| 85 | Ghosts of West Virginia | Steve Earle | New West |
| 86 | Down in the Den | Ted Russell Kamp | PoMo |
| 87 | CHICKABOOM! | Tami Neilson | Outside |
| 88 | Alive | Fred Eaglesmith | Sawdust |
| 89 | The Incredible Heat Machine | TK & The Holy Know-Nothings | Mama Bird |
| 90 | Between Us | Ana Egge | Story Sound |
| 91 | Reclaiming My Time | John Hall | Sunset Blvd |
| 92 | Yard Sale | Suzanne Santo | Soundly |
| 93 | Such a Long Way | Jess Jocoy | Self-Release |
| 94 | Sins We Made | Harrow Fair | Roaring Girl |
| 95 | Rose Songs | Clint Roberts | Carry-On Music |
| 96 | Leftovers | Le Ren | Secretly Canadian |
| 97 | The Marfa Tapes | Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall | Vanner |
| 98 | Half Moon Light | The Lone Bellow | Dualtone |
| 99 | Start It over | Riley Downing | New West |
| 100 | Rock Botom Rhapsody | Pokey LaFarge | New West |
| 101 | Not That Fast | Bryan Haraway | Part Time Criminal |
| 102 | Stage Fright at 50 - an Ovation from Nashville | The Rock House All Stars | Pure |
| 103 | The Monolith Sessions | Jeremy Ivey | Anti |
| 104 | A Whole Lot of Nothin' | The Royal Hounds | Self-Release |
| 105 | American Siren | Emily Scott Robinson | Oh Boy |
| 106 | Your Life is a Record | Brandy Clark | Warner |
| 107 | The Tightening of the Screws | Gurf Morlix | Rootball |
| 108 | Blood | Allison Moorer | Thirty Tigers |
| 109 | A Horrible Beautiful Dream | Sean McConnell | Silent Desert |
| 110 | Agricultural Tragic | Corb Lund | New West |
| 111 | Come Along | Mac Gayden | ArenA |
| 112 | Dreaming Again | Lizzy Long | Vine |
| 113 | Big Road | David Bromberg | Red House |
| 114 | Pauline | Ashley Ray | Soundly |
| 115 | Boots No. 2: the Lost Songs, Vol. 3 | Gillian Welch | Acony |
| 116 | Harry's Place | Tom Faia & Kate Miller | Lazy Tom |
| 117 | Fever Breaks | Josh Ritter | Pytheas |
| 118 | Mileposts | Doug Schmude | Lost Hubcap |
| 119 | Wilderness | Jade Jackson | Anti |
| 120 | Recollections | Wynonna | Anti |
| 121 | The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters | Organic |
| 122 | They'll Never Keep Us Down | Kelsey Waldon | Oh Boy |
| 123 | Secret | Billy Simard | Ki-Keek |
| 124 | Two | Matthew Austin Hunt | Edgewater Music Group |
| 125 | Welcome Back: a Collection | Michael Gaither | Self-Release |
| 126 | From Dreams to Dust | The Felice Brothers | Yep Roc |
| 127 | I'd Trade It All for a Little More | Jimmy Hefferan | Self-Release |
| 128 | Rediscovered | Dulcie Taylor | Mesa/Blue Moon |
| 129 | Goodbye L.A. | Jeremy Pinnell | Sofaburn |
| 130 | Come What May | Roger Street Friedman | Rock Ridge |
| 131 | All My Shame | Mando Saenz | Carnival |
| 132 | Waltz for Abilene | Cindy Cashdollar | Silver Shot |
| 133 | Dirty Camaro | Zachary Williams | Dualtone |
| 134 | Songs from the Briarpatch | Will Jackson | Mile Marker 14 |
| 135 | Frame by Frame | T. Buckley | Falle Tree |
| 136 | The Gulf Between Us | Craig Cummings | Self-Release |
| 137 | Riddy Arman | Riddy Arman | La Honda |
| 138 | Blue Eyes, the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher & Me | Waylon Payne | Carnival |
| 139 | Butter Miracle Suite One | Counting Crows | BMG |
| 140 | The Grief We Gave Our Mother | Matthew Fowler | Signature Sounds |
| 141 | Life on the Flip Side | Jimmy Buffett | Mailboat |
| 142 | The Loneliness in Me | Rachel Brooke | Mal |
| 143 | Color Outside the Lines | Jim Stanard | Manatee |
| 144 | Bones and Gravity | Lizanne Knott | Good Dog Jake |
| 145 | Rosegold | Ashley Monroe | Mountainrose Sparrow |
| 146 | Dreamers of Atlantis | Margaret McDuffie | Night Ride |
| 147 | Good Souls Better Angels | Lucinda Williams | Highway 20 |
| 148 | Destiny Hotel | Cordovas | ATO |
| 149 | Like I Used to | AJ Lee & Blue Summit | Self-Release |
| 150 | Blindsided | Mark Erelli | Self-Release |
| 151 | How Does It Feel | Zoe Nutt | Self-Release |
| 152 | Sights and Sounds | Flat River Band | Self-Release |
| 153 | Floor It!!! | The Texas Gentlemen | New West |
| 154 | Songs from the Rocky Fork Tavern | Bill Wence | 615 Records |
| 155 | Ramble in Music City: the Lost Concert (Live) | Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers | Nonesuch |
| 156 | Black Powder Soul | Taylor McCall | Self-Release |
| 157 | Dystopian Weekends | Leeroy Stagger | Tonic |
| 158 | Mad Twenties | Taylor Rae | Self-Release |
| 159 | All Dressed Up | Geoff Buell | Turnberry |
| 160 | Appalachia: American Stories | Grant Maloy Smith | Suburban Cowboy |
| 161 | Evergreen | Beth Bombara | Lemp Electric |
| 162 | Welcome to Hard Times | Charley Crockett | Son of Davy |
| 163 | The Light Saw Me | Jason Boland And The Stragglers | Thirty Tigers |
| 164 | Time in the Sun | SUSTO | New West |
| 165 | Amblin' Man | Greg Schochet | Self-Release |
| 166 | Star-crossed | Kacey Musgraves | Interscope |
| 167 | Safe Distance | Janet Simpson | Cornelius Chapel |
| 168 | When Carolina Comes Home Again | Jim Lauderdale | Yep Roc |
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