The Roots Music Report's
Top Americana Country Album Chart
for the Year of 2023
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Day of the Doug | Son Volt | Transmit Sound |
| 2 | Calling You from My Mountain | Peter Rowan | Rebel |
| 3 | Strays | Margo Price | Loma Vista |
| 4 | The Chicago Sessions | Rodney Crowell | New West |
| 5 | Together Through the Dark | Slaid Cleaves | Candy House Media |
| 6 | Altitude | Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives | Superlatone Creative |
| 7 | Stampede | The Shootouts | Soundly |
| 8 | Workin' on a World | Iris Dement | FlariElla |
| 9 | Ain't Through Honky Tonkin' Yet | Brennen Leigh | Signature |
| 10 | Car Crash Life | Shoebox Letters | Self-Release |
| 11 | Risk It All for Love | Tom Faia & Kate Miller | Self-Release |
| 12 | The Man from Waco | Charley Crockett | Son of Davy |
| 13 | Denim & Diamonds | Nikki Lane | New West |
| 14 | Living in a Song | Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley | Compass |
| 15 | Ramblin' Soul | Melissa Carper | Thirty Tigers |
| 16 | Punch-Drunk Life | Rose's Pawn Shop | KZZ Music |
| 17 | Brandy Clark | Brandy Clark | Warner |
| 18 | No God in Juarez | Dallas Moore | Sol |
| 19 | Somewhere in West Texas | Al Staehely | Quarto Valley |
| 20 | A Cat in the Rain | Turnpike Troubadours | Bossier City |
| 21 | Feel Like Going Home | Miko Marks & the Resurrectors | Redtone |
| 22 | Southern Star | Brent Cobb | Ol' Buddy |
| 23 | Game Changer | Jim Lauderdale | Sky Crunch |
| 24 | Seeds & Bones | Joselyn & Don | Paintbrush |
| 25 | Thunder and Rain | Steve Louw | Self-Release |
| 26 | Starvation Box | Dale Watson | Cleopatra |
| 27 | Watch out for the Wolf | Ryan Bingham | Thirty Tigers |
| 28 | Bittersweet | David Bennett Cohen | Self-Release |
| 29 | Enjoy the Ride | Vince Herman | LoHi |
| 30 | Thin Places | Jason Hawk Harris | Bloodshot |
| 31 | Second Chances | Abby Posner | Blackbird |
| 32 | Wild Man | Joe Stamm Band | Joe Stamm |
| 33 | Tremolo | Michael McAdam | Permanent |
| 34 | Rosie | Whitney Rose | MCG |
| 35 | September | Steve Yanek | Primitive |
| 36 | Don't Call the Law on Me | Crosby Tyler | Self-Release |
| 37 | Paint This Town | Old Crow Medicine Show | ATO |
| 38 | If It All Goes South | Amy Ray | Daemon |
| 39 | Positano Songs | Will Ackerman | West River |
| 40 | Back in Business | Dave Goddess Group | Emotional |
| 41 | Something in the Water | Rusty Gear | Self-Release |
| 42 | Pieces of Honey | Billy Simard | Self-Release |
| 43 | The Ballad of Dood & Juanita | Sturgill Simpson | High Top Mountain |
| 44 | The Vandoliers | Vandoliers | Amerikinda |
| 45 | Dark Black Coal | Logan Halstead | ORCHARD |
| 46 | Needle in a Groove | Amanda Pruitt | Warpaint |
| 47 | Holler | The Watson Twins | Bloodshot |
| 48 | The Sinner and the Saint | Chris St. John | HALO |
| 49 | Mighty Love | 3 Pairs of Boots | Dark Country |
| 50 | Jubilee | Old Crow Medicine Show | ATO |
| 51 | The Horses and the Hounds | James McMurtry | New West |
| 52 | Take Me with You | Blue Mother Tupelo | JukeTonk |
| 53 | Sea of Heartbreak | Mustangs of the West | Blue Elan |
| 54 | For Jimmy | Boy Golden | Six Shooter |
| 55 | Half a Hundred Years | Asleep At The Wheel | Home |
| 56 | Gold Town Rush | Joel Hofmann | Self-Release |
| 57 | Stand in the Joy | William Prince | Six Shooter |
| 58 | A Thousand Turns | The Delevantes | Moon River |
| 59 | Flaws & All | The Living Room Floor Band | Squires Boys |
| 60 | In the Throes | Buddy & Julie Miller | New West |
| 61 | Curandera, Vol. I | Tremoloco | Self-Release |
| 62 | In the Company of a Song | Lynn Crossett | Self-Release |
| 63 | Jewels | Stephanie Anne Johnson | Self-Release |
| 64 | Keep Your Courage | Natalie Merchant | Nonesuch |
| 65 | Siempre | Ags Connolly | At The Helm Publishing |
| 66 | Turnin' Right | Phil Profitt and His Fast Fortunes | Self-Release |
| 67 | Hosea's Hand | Mark Monroe Gibson | Apres Weed |
| 68 | Bridges & Kerosene | Austin Mayse | Self-Release |
| 69 | Bad Days Better | Adam Hood | Southern Songs |
| 70 | I Come from Crazy | Roxi Copland | Self-Release |
| 71 | Dead Man | Channing Wilson | Soundly |
| 72 | Glorieta | Matt Hillyer | State Fair |
| 73 | Flight Risk | Shoebox Letters | Self-Release |
| 74 | Dream Rich, Dirt Poor | Aaron Burdett | Organic |
| 75 | All Bad | Nick Shoulders | Gar Hole |
| 76 | The Waylon Sessions | Shannon McNally | Compass |
| 77 | Circumstance | Alice Howe | Know Howe |
| 78 | Blue Horizon | Paul Gurney | Tailgator Music |
| 79 | Obsessed with the West | Brennen Leigh | Signature Sounds |
| 80 | Rodney Rice | Rodney Rice | Edgewater |
| 81 | You Hear Georgia | Blackberry Smoke | 3 Legend |
| 82 | Cold As Rain | Jeb Lipson | Self-Release |
| 83 | See the Big Man Cry | Robert Rex Waller Jr. | Self-Release |
| 84 | AKA Billium | Bill Filipiak | Self-Release |
| 85 | First Light | Alysia Kraft | sonaBLAST! |
| 86 | Hard As Steel | Jus' Kyle | Catbone |
| 87 | Siren Songs | Trapper Schoepp | Grand Phony |
| 88 | Mad Twenties | Taylor Rae | Self-Release |
| 89 | Maybe Modern | Grace Morrison | Self-Release |
| 90 | The Biggest Life | Summer Dean | The Next Waltz |
| 91 | Music Man | Layng Martine Jr. | Kill Rock Stars |
| 92 | Used to Be the Next Big Thing | Maple Run Band | Back Pasture |
| 93 | Treasure of Love (feat. Butch Hancock, Joe Ely & Jimmie Dale Gilmore) | The Flatlanders | Rack 'Em |
| 94 | Stay Away from the Flame | Tom Faia & Kate Miller | Self-Release |
| 95 | Quaalude Lullabies | Chris Canterbury | Rancho Deluxe |
| 96 | Wings on My Shoes | Will Hoge | Soundly |
| 97 | Just Like a Rose: the Anniversary Sessions | Laura Cantrell | Propeller |
| 98 | Alchemy Road | Rusty Tinder | Self-Release |
| 99 | Traffic Fiction | Tre Burt | Oh Boy |
| 100 | The Enchanted World | THE RIFTERS | North River Road |
| 101 | Big Dreamers | Blue Dogs | Kennel |
| 102 | You Don't Really Know Me | Tim Easton | Black Mesa |
| 103 | Ghost Stories | The Whitmore Sisters | Red House |
| 104 | Tarot Cards and Shooting Stars | The HawtThorns | Mule Kick |
| 105 | The Confluence | Cole Gallagher | Raggy & Balls |
| 106 | Lines in the Levee | Town Mountain | New West |
| 107 | The Light Saw Me | Jason Boland And The Stragglers | Thirty Tigers |
| 108 | Twenty on High | Drayton Farley | Hargrove |
| 109 | Heat Comes Down | John R. Miller | Rounder |
| 110 | My Entire Life | SUSTO | New West |
| 111 | Rock Botom Rhapsody | Pokey LaFarge | New West |
| 112 | Pohorylle | Margo Cilker | Fluff & Gravy |
| 113 | I'll Meet You Here | Dar Williams | Renew |
| 114 | Delusions of Grandeur | Sophie & The Broken Things | Petaluma |
| 115 | Outsider | Jackie Bristow | MesaBlueMoon |
| 116 | Bloom & Fade | David Beck | Parade Ground |
| 117 | My Love of Country | Teddy Thompson | Chalky Sounds |
| 118 | Welcome Back: a Collection | Michael Gaither | Self-Release |
| 119 | The SunCrashers | Chris Ahlman | Self-Release |
| 120 | Lonely Street | The Malpass Brothers | Billy Jam |
| 121 | The Weakness | Ruston Kelly | Rounder |
| 122 | Ten Thousand Roses | Dori Freeman | Blue Hens |
| 123 | To the Passage of Time | Jason Eady | Old Guitar |
| 124 | Mercy | Cody Jinks | Late August |
| 125 | Invisible Pictures | Jeremy Ivey | Anti |
| 126 | Forsythia | Caleb Caudle | Soundly |
| 127 | Tough Country | The Panhandlers | Self-Release |
| 128 | The Perfect Answer | Cabela and Schmitt | Self-Release |
| 129 | Honey Harper & the Infinite Sky | Honey Harper | ATO |
| 130 | Forty's the New Thirty | Anton O'Donnell | Gypsy Heart |
| 131 | Promised Land | Danny Burns | Bonfire |
| 132 | Feel Good | Jaime Wyatt | New West |
| 133 | This Old World | Shannon Clark & the Sugar | Self-Release |
| 134 | Kentucky Blue | Brit Taylor | Cut A Shine |
| 135 | Lost at Sea | Chris Shiflett | Blue Elan |
| 136 | The Long and Lonesome Letting Go | Jim Lauderdale and The Po' Ramblin' Boys | Sky Crunch |
| 137 | The Restless | Karen Jonas | Yellow Brick |
| 138 | Birdsongs of the American West | Birds of Play | Self-Release |
| 139 | The Last Rodeo | Rosedale Junction | Center Block |
| 140 | Lil G.L. Presents: Jukebox Charley | Charley Crockett | Son of Davy |
| 141 | Have Harmony, Will Travel 3 | Carla Olson | Self-Release |
| 142 | Poor Pretender | Long Mama | Frozen Desert |
| 143 | One to Grow on | Mike and the Moonpies | Prairie Rose |
| 144 | Keep 'Em on They Toes | Brent Cobb | Thirty Tigers |
| 145 | Sweet Anhedonia | Ben de la Cour | Jullian |
| 146 | Decembering | Tony Furtado | Self-Release |
| 147 | Oh to Be That Free | Michaela Anne | Yep Roc |
| 148 | Won't Die This Way | Erin Viancourt | Late August |
| 149 | Almanac | Del Barber | Acronym |
| 150 | Say What You Like | Doug Paisley | Outside Music |
| 151 | Witness | Angela Easterling | Self-Release |
| 152 | Family Ties | Charles Wesley Godwin | Big Loud |
| 153 | Night Comes Falling | Stephen McCarthy & Carla Olson | Self-Release |
| 154 | Live from the Devil's Backbone | Mike and the Moonpies | Prairie Rose |
| 155 | Water from the Stone | Erik Lunde | Self-Release |
| 156 | Better Man | Lance Roark | Self-Release |
| 157 | Goodtime Charlie | Mick Flannery | Self-Release |
| 158 | What is It Even? | Joshua Ray Walker | Soundly |
| 159 | Strays II | Margo Price | Concord |
| 160 | Morning Star | Julia Sanders | Self-Release |
| 161 | Life on the Flip Side | Jimmy Buffett | Mailboat |
| 162 | Reckless Ways of Living | Drunken Hearts | Kaleidoscopic Songs |
| 163 | Doctor Moan | Peter Case | Self-Relase |
| 164 | Americana Soul | The Jorgensens | Parmour |
| 165 | Leaving Again | Sweet Virginia | Gitcha |
| 166 | Dandelion Breeze | The Clements Brothers | Plow Man |
| 167 | Oyo | Oyo | Self-Release |
| 168 | Chasing the Light | Jared Rabin | Self-Release |
| 169 | Patina | John David Kent | Blackland |
| 170 | Drink the River | Gabe Lee | Torrez |
| 171 | The Life and Adventures of Kevin Daniel | Kevin Daniel | Organic |
| 172 | Depreciated | John R. Miller | Rounder |
| 173 | Coyote Howl | Amelia Presley | Edgewater |
| 174 | While the Sun Still Shines | Walter Finley | Trueborn |
| 175 | Nothing for Me, Please | Dean Johnson | Mama Bird |
| 176 | Ways & Means | The Deslondes | New West |
| 177 | Songs to Keep You Warm | Flatland Cavalry | Self-Release |
| 178 | Starting over | Chris Stapleton | Mercury Nashville |
| 179 | Border Radio | John Baumann | Terlingua Spring |
| 180 | Nate Fredrick and the Wholesome Boys | Nate Fredrick | Wanda |
| 181 | Healing Happens | Robin Ruddy | Parlor |
| 182 | People Talk | Lauren Morrow | Big Kitty |
| 183 | Same Shirt, Different Day | Rodney Rice | Self-Release |
| 184 | The Hometown Kid | Gabe Lee | Torrez Music Group |
| 185 | Dandelion | Rick Hornyak | Self-Release |
| 186 | Clouding Up Your City | The Damn Quails | HonkyTonk Laboratory |
| 187 | Going Places | Jack Nelson | Self-Release |
| 188 | Troubadour Songs (Vol. 1) | Robert Cline Jr. | Mockingbird |
| 189 | Thank Ya Kindly | Royce Johns | Self-Release |
| 190 | When You're Ready | Molly Tuttle | Compass |
| 191 | Lost at Sea | Masorti | Self-Release |
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