The Roots Music Report's
Top Americana Country Album Chart
for the Year of 2021
Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
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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 | Once in a Blue Moon | Dave Goddess Group | Emotional |
80 | Jump for Joy | Gary Louris | Thirty Tigers |
81 | Bright Lights, Long Drives, First Words | Nora Jane Struthers | Blue Pig |
82 | Hello from the End of the World | Trae Sheehan | Self-Release |
83 | Long Rider | 3 Pairs of Boots | Self-Release |
84 | Island Creek | David Massey | Poetic Debris |
85 | The People You Love | Robbie Mangiardi | Self-Release |
86 | Ghosts of West Virginia | Steve Earle | New West |
87 | Down in the Den | Ted Russell Kamp | PoMo |
88 | CHICKABOOM! | Tami Neilson | Outside |
89 | Alive | Fred Eaglesmith | Sawdust |
90 | The Incredible Heat Machine | TK & The Holy Know-Nothings | Mama Bird |
91 | Between Us | Ana Egge | Story Sound |
92 | Reclaiming My Time | John Hall | Sunset Blvd |
93 | Yard Sale | Suzanne Santo | Soundly |
94 | Such a Long Way | Jess Jocoy | Self-Release |
95 | Sins We Made | Harrow Fair | Roaring Girl |
96 | Rose Songs | Clint Roberts | Carry-On Music |
97 | Leftovers | Le Ren | Secretly Canadian |
98 | The Marfa Tapes | Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall | Vanner |
99 | Half Moon Light | The Lone Bellow | Dualtone |
100 | Start It over | Riley Downing | New West |
101 | Rock Botom Rhapsody | Pokey LaFarge | New West |
102 | Not That Fast | Bryan Haraway | Part Time Criminal |
103 | Stage Fright at 50 - an Ovation from Nashville | The Rock House All Stars | Pure |
104 | The Monolith Sessions | Jeremy Ivey | Anti |
105 | A Whole Lot of Nothin' | The Royal Hounds | Self-Release |
106 | American Siren | Emily Scott Robinson | Oh Boy |
107 | Your Life is a Record | Brandy Clark | Warner |
108 | The Tightening of the Screws | Gurf Morlix | Rootball |
109 | Blood | Allison Moorer | Thirty Tigers |
110 | A Horrible Beautiful Dream | Sean McConnell | Silent Desert |
111 | Agricultural Tragic | Corb Lund | New West |
112 | Come Along | Mac Gayden | ArenA |
113 | Dreaming Again | Lizzy Long | Vine |
114 | Big Road | David Bromberg | Red House |
115 | Pauline | Ashley Ray | Soundly |
116 | Boots No. 2: the Lost Songs, Vol. 3 | Gillian Welch | Acony |
117 | Harry's Place | Tom Faia & Kate Miller | Lazy Tom |
118 | Everyone a Song, Vol. 1 | The Steel Wheels | Big Ring |
119 | Fever Breaks | Josh Ritter | Pytheas |
120 | Mileposts | Doug Schmude | Lost Hubcap |
121 | Wilderness | Jade Jackson | Anti |
122 | Recollections | Wynonna | Anti |
123 | The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters | Organic |
124 | They'll Never Keep Us Down | Kelsey Waldon | Oh Boy |
125 | Secret | Billy Simard | Ki-Keek |
126 | Two | Matthew Austin Hunt | Edgewater Music Group |
127 | Welcome Back: a Collection | Michael Gaither | Self-Release |
128 | From Dreams to Dust | The Felice Brothers | Yep Roc |
129 | I'd Trade It All for a Little More | Jimmy Hefferan | Self-Release |
130 | Rediscovered | Dulcie Taylor | Mesa/Blue Moon |
131 | Goodbye L.A. | Jeremy Pinnell | Sofaburn |
132 | Come What May | Roger Street Friedman | Rock Ridge |
133 | All My Shame | Mando Saenz | Carnival |
134 | Waltz for Abilene | Cindy Cashdollar | Silver Shot |
135 | Dirty Camaro | Zachary Williams | Dualtone |
136 | Songs from the Briarpatch | Will Jackson | Mile Marker 14 |
137 | Frame by Frame | T. Buckley | Falle Tree |
138 | The Gulf Between Us | Craig Cummings | Self-Release |
139 | Riddy Arman | Riddy Arman | La Honda |
140 | Blue Eyes, the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher & Me | Waylon Payne | Carnival |
141 | Butter Miracle Suite One | Counting Crows | BMG |
142 | The Grief We Gave Our Mother | Matthew Fowler | Signature Sounds |
143 | The Loneliness in Me | Rachel Brooke | Mal |
144 | Life on the Flip Side | Jimmy Buffett | Mailboat |
145 | Color Outside the Lines | Jim Stanard | Manatee |
146 | Bones and Gravity | Lizanne Knott | Good Dog Jake |
147 | Rosegold | Ashley Monroe | Mountainrose Sparrow |
148 | Dreamers of Atlantis | Margaret McDuffie | Night Ride |
149 | Good Souls Better Angels | Lucinda Williams | Highway 20 |
150 | Destiny Hotel | Cordovas | ATO |
151 | Like I Used to | AJ Lee & Blue Summit | Self-Release |
152 | Blindsided | Mark Erelli | Self-Release |
153 | How Does It Feel | Zoe Nutt | Self-Release |
154 | Sights and Sounds | Flat River Band | Self-Release |
155 | Floor It!!! | The Texas Gentlemen | New West |
156 | Songs from the Rocky Fork Tavern | Bill Wence | 615 Records |
157 | Ramble in Music City: the Lost Concert (Live) | Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers | Nonesuch |
158 | Black Powder Soul | Taylor McCall | Self-Release |
159 | Dystopian Weekends | Leeroy Stagger | Tonic |
160 | Mad Twenties | Taylor Rae | Self-Release |
161 | All Dressed Up | Geoff Buell | Turnberry |
162 | Appalachia: American Stories | Grant Maloy Smith | Suburban Cowboy |
163 | Evergreen | Beth Bombara | Lemp Electric |
164 | Welcome to Hard Times | Charley Crockett | Son of Davy |
165 | The Light Saw Me | Jason Boland And The Stragglers | Thirty Tigers |
166 | Time in the Sun | SUSTO | New West |
167 | Amblin' Man | Greg Schochet | Self-Release |
168 | Star-crossed | Kacey Musgraves | Interscope |
169 | Safe Distance | Janet Simpson | Cornelius Chapel |
170 | When Carolina Comes Home Again | Jim Lauderdale | Yep Roc |
171 | Bluebonnet Highway | Buddy Jewell | Diamond Dust |
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