The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Bluegrass Album Chart
for the Year of 2019
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rise Sun | The Infamous Stringdusters | Tape Time |
| 2 | All for Money | Greensky Bluegrass | Big Blue Zoo |
| 3 | The Hard Way | Dale Ann Bradley | Pinecastle |
| 4 | If You Can't Stand the Heat | Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen | Compass |
| 5 | Royal Traveller | Missy Raines | Compass |
| 6 | Glory Bound | The Wooks | Gnar Vector |
| 7 | Sister Sadie II | Sister Sadie | Pinecastle |
| 8 | Myths We Tell Our Young | Unspoken Tradition | Mountain Home |
| 9 | Hills and Home | High Fidelity | Rebel |
| 10 | Love Hard, Work Hard, Play Hard | Deanie Richardson | Pinecastle |
| 11 | Where the Dogs Don't Bite | Old Salt Union | Compass |
| 12 | Rivers and Roads | Special Consensus | Compass |
| 13 | Point of No Return | Amanda Cook | Mountain Fever |
| 14 | The Butcher Shoppe | Della Mae | Rounder |
| 15 | Chronicle: Friends and Music | Gena Britt | Pinecastle |
| 16 | Tall Fiddler | Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper | Compass |
| 17 | Horrible World | Kathy Kallick Band | Live Oak |
| 18 | That's Why I'm Lonesome | Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass | Patuxent |
| 19 | The Hillbenders | The Hillbenders | Compass |
| 20 | Time Changes Everything | Nothin' Fancy | Mountain Fever |
| 21 | Steam | Deeper Shade Of Blue | Mountain Fever |
| 22 | Breaking in Lonesome | Rick Faris | Dark Shadow |
| 23 | Mountains, Mamas and Memories | Big Country Bluegrass | Rebel |
| 24 | No Escape | Claybank | Mountain Fever |
| 25 | Outside Looking in | The Lonesome River Band | Mountain Home |
| 26 | Pictures | Hammertowne | Mountain Fever |
| 27 | Straighten the Curves | The Grascals | Crossroads |
| 28 | Ricochet | Kristy Cox | Mountain Fever |
| 29 | The Choosing Road | Chris Jones & the Night Drivers | Mountain Home |
| 30 | Authentic | Band Of Ruhks | Rebel |
| 31 | Gonna Rise and Shine | Alan Bibey & Grasstowne | Mountain Fever |
| 32 | Salem Town | Backline | Mountain Fever |
| 33 | The Golden Angle | David Benedict | Shelton |
| 34 | On Time | Colebrook Road | Eisenbise |
| 35 | Didn’t He Ramble: Songs of Charlie Poole | David Davis & The Warrior River Boys | Rounder |
| 36 | Crêpe Paper Heart | Becky Buller | Dark Shadow |
| 37 | North Country | Danny Burns | Bonfire |
| 38 | Undeniable | Nothin' Fancy | Mountain Fever |
| 39 | New Freedom Blues | Town Mountain | Tone Tree |
| 40 | City on a Hill | Mile Twelve | Delores the Taurus |
| 41 | Waiting on a Ride | Songs From The Road Band | LDT |
| 42 | Milestones | Volume Five | Mountain Fever |
| 43 | Changes | The Seldom Scene | Rounder |
| 44 | Bowerbird | Aubrey Eisenman & The Clydes | Mountain Fever |
| 45 | Laws of Gravity | The Infamous Stringdusters | Compass |
| 46 | Tales from East Kentucky | Larry Cordle | Self-Release |
| 47 | Old World | NewTown | Mountain Home |
| 48 | A Thousand Wishes | Backline | Poor Mountain |
| 49 | Life is a Story | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Mountain Home |
| 50 | North of Despair | Wood & Wire | Blue Corn |
| 51 | Lonesome Riverboat Blues (feat. Jeff Autry) | Edgar Loudermilk | Rural Rhythm |
| 52 | Before Breakfast | The Grascals | Mountain Home |
| 53 | Renaissance | Billy Droze | Rural Rhythm |
| 54 | Breakin' Easy | Donna Ulisse | Mountain Home |
| 55 | Roadsigns and Highways | Claybank | Mountain Fever |
| 56 | Things Kids and Dogs Know | Brandon Rickman | Voxhall |
| 57 | Free | Williamson Branch | Pinecastle |
| 58 | I Hope You Have a Good Life | Gina Furtado | Mountain Home Music Company |
| 59 | Pieces | Jason Barie | Billy Blue |
| 60 | Live in Prague, Czech Republic | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Billy Blue |
| 61 | Classy. Sassy. Bluegrassy. | Williamson Branch | Pinecastle |
| 62 | The Bull Mountain Moonshiners' Way | Jesse McReynolds | Self-Release |
| 63 | The Rail | Scott Slay | Bonfire |
| 64 | Front Porch Philosophy | Jerry Salley | Very Jerry |
| 65 | The Storyteller in Me | Daniel Crabtree | Codel |
| 66 | Blue | The Cleverlys | Mountain Home |
| 67 | Fret a Spell | Darren Nicholson | Self-Release |
| 68 | Come See About Me (A Benefit for the Ibma Trust Fund) | The Mountain Home Family | Mountain Home Music |
| 69 | Spirits in the Hills | Wilson Banjo Co. | Pinecastle |
| 70 | Footprints in a Song | Circa Blue | Bell Buckle |
| 71 | Heart Wide Open | Kristi Stanley | Union House |
| 72 | The Big Picture | Christian Davis | Self-Release |
| 73 | Lovin' and Leavin' (A Bluegrass Tribute to Mickey Clark) | Aaron Bibelhauser | Self-Release |
| 74 | Deep Water | Amanda Cook | Mountain Fever |
| 75 | Good Things | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet | Pinecastle |
| 76 | Modernus | Circus No. 9 | Self-Release |
| 77 | Spirit to the Sea | Trout Steak Revival | Self-Release |
| 78 | Never Standing Still | Shannon Slaughter | Self-Release |
| 79 | Memories of Home | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet | Pinecastle |
| 80 | Illusion & Doubt | The Dead South | Curve |
| 81 | The Stories We Can Tell | Nu-Blu | Voxhall |
| 82 | Time and Place | George Jackson | Self-Release |
| 83 | No Headlights | Kristy Cox | Mountain Fever |
| 84 | Old Salt Union | Old Salt Union | Compass |
| 85 | Mayhayley's House | The Lonesome River Band | Mountain Home |
| 86 | Hot Rize's 40th Anniversary Bash (Live) | Hot Rize | Ten In Hand |
| 87 | Dale Ann Bradley | Dale Ann Bradley | Pinecastle |
| 88 | Ronnie Bowman | Ronnie Bowman | Engelhardt Music Group |
| 89 | In the Ground | The Gibson Brothers | Rounder |
| 90 | Banjophony | Damien O'Kane & Ron Block | Pure |
| 91 | Warning Signs | Breaking Grass | Mountain Fever |
| 92 | Plays Well with Others | Nate Lee | Self-Release |
| 93 | Every Bit of Me | Ali Shumate | Hadley Music Group |
| 94 | Midnight & Dawn | Deer Creek Boys | Mountain Fever |
| 95 | It's a Good Feeling | Nothin' Fancy | Mountain Fever |
| 96 | Timepiece | Milan Miller | Self-Release |
| 97 | Inner Journey | Darin & Brooke Aldridge | Rounder |
| 98 | Calling After Me | No Time Flatt | Self-Release |
| 99 | From the Crow's Nest | John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band | Cleopatra |
| 100 | Onwards | Mile Twelve | Delores The Taurus |
| 101 | McKay & Leigh | McKay & Leigh | Voxhall |
| 102 | Echo in the Valley | Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn | Rounder |
| 103 | “The Long-Awaited Album” | Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers | Rounder |
| 104 | Roll the Dice | Deadgrass | Desert Rock |
| 105 | Carolina Red Vintage 1978 | Red Wine | Class Act |
| 106 | Swing for the Fences (feat. Steve Gulley, Alan Bibey, Jason Burleson & Robert Hale) | Phil Leadbetter and the All Stars of Bluegrass | Pinecastle |
| 107 | Perfect Fit | Patrick McAvinue | Self-Release |
| 108 | From Texas to Tennessee | The Family Sowell | Poor Mountain |
| 109 | Denver Snow | Flashback | Pinecastle |
| 110 | Bluegrass Legends: Live at the Ryman | Rhonda Vincent | Upper Management |
| 111 | To Whom It May Concern | Billy Droze | Rural Rhythm |
| 112 | North Carolina Songbook | Steep Canyon Rangers | Yep Roc |
| 113 | Brothers and Heroes | Feller & Hill | Sony |
| 114 | Rise | Molly Tuttle | Self-Release |
| 115 | Faster & Farther | Darin & Brooke Aldridge | Mountain Home |
| 116 | Grass Stains | Carson Peters & Iron Mountain | FCP Productions |
| 117 | Flight | Nightflyer | Pinecastle |
| 118 | What Does Time Care? | Armchair Boogie | GlueBrass |
| 119 | Run Away | Rebekah Long | Luk |
| 120 | Harlan Road | NewTown | Mountain Home |
| 121 | Route 3 | Route 3 | 7flat |
| 122 | All the Rage, Vol. One | Rhonda Vincent | Upper Management |
| 123 | Burn Another Candle | Jenni Lyn | Self-Release |
| 124 | All I Ever Wanted | The Kevin Prater Band | Patuxent Music |
| 125 | On That Other Green Shore | John Reischman & The Jaybirds | Corvus |
| 126 | Favorites | Doug Flowers | Discmakers |
| 127 | My Remedy | Missy Armstrong | Melton & Miller |
| 128 | Patriots and Poets | Dailey & Vincent | Dreamlined |
| 129 | Crazy if You Let It | Thomm Jutz | Mountain Fever |
| 130 | Original | Bobby Osborne | Compass |
| 131 | The Way I View the World | Chris Luquette | Self-Release |
| 132 | Travelin' | Larry Sparks | Rebel |
| 133 | A Storyteller's Memory | Remington Ryde | Pinecastle |
| 134 | Bluegrass Outlaws | Bluegrass Outlaws | Self-Release |
| 135 | Welcome Home | Rex Wiseman | Dixie Dawg |
| 136 | Grandpa Built a Church House | Cedar Hill | Nickeltown |
| 137 | Oh Darlin' | Bradley & Adair | Pinecastle |
| 138 | World of Our Own | Bluegrass Martins | Self-Release |
| 139 | Bound for Nowhere | Randy Murphy & Clay Hess | 7flat |
| 140 | Della Mae | Della Mae | Rounder |
| 141 | American Grandstand | Rhonda Vincent & Daryle Singletary | Upper Management |
| 142 | Southern Skies | Troy Engle | Rocky Glenn |
| 143 | 'Tween Earth and Sky | Becky Buller | Dark Shadow |
| 144 | Hamilton County Ramblers | Hamilton County Ramblers | Self-Release |
| 145 | Where Do I Go from Here | Diamond Creek | New Time |
| 146 | A Little Girl...A Big Four-Lane | Alecia Nugent | Rounder |
| 147 | Sister Sadie | Sister Sadie | Pinecastle |
| 148 | Part of Me | Kristy Cox | Pisgah Ridge |
| 149 | The Road That Winds | Audie Blaylock and Redline | Patuxent |
| 150 | Playing It Forward | The Savage Hearts | Self-Release |
| 151 | Rented Room on Broadway | Wildfire | Pinecastle |
| 152 | Chapter 3 | Lawson & Williams | Mountain Home |
| 153 | Next New Heartbreak | Brad Hudson | Pinecastle |
| 154 | This Ole Towne | Destination Bluegrass Band | Self-Release |
| 155 | Hold on to Your Heart | Shannon Slaughter | Self-Release |
| 156 | Bad for You | The Steeldrivers | Rounder |
| 157 | Man on the Radio | Wood Belly | 857910 Records |
| 158 | Deep Waters | The Lonely Heartstring Band | Rounder |
| 159 | When I'm Free | Hot Rize | Ten In Hand Records |
| 160 | I Sang the Song (Life of the Voice with a Heart) | Mac Wiseman | Mountain Fever |
| 161 | Band of Ruhks | Band Of Ruhks | 101 Ranch Records |
| 162 | Hillbilly Heroes | Hammertowne | Mountain Fever |
| 163 | Ep3 | Crowe Brothers | Mountain Fever |
| 164 | From the Heart | Donna Hughes | Running Dog |
| 165 | Forty Years Old | Crowe Brothers | Mountain Fever Records |
| 166 | Taken | Rhonda Vincent | Upper Managment |
| 167 | Heartache Looking for a Home | Charlie Sizemore | Rebel |
| 168 | Just Another Memory | Emily Kirsch | Rabbit's Foot |
| 169 | Back to the Well | Daughters of Bluegrass | Blue Circle Records BCR003 |
| 170 | Foxhounds | Kathy Kallick Band | Live Oak |
| 171 | Georgia Maple | Edgar Loudermilk | Pinecastle |
| 172 | Take Me Back | Kyle Perkins | Self-Release |
| 173 | Little Bird | Becky Buller | Self-Release |
| 174 | Foxhounds & Fiddles | Flashback | Pinecastle |
| 175 | Red Grass | Ilya Toshinskiy | Hadley Music Group |
| 176 | Rollin' on | Lou Reid & Carolina | KMA |
| 177 | The Price Sisters | The Price Sisters | Rebel |
| 178 | Nightbird | The Bankesters | Compass |
| 179 | Bluegrass Fiddler | Corrina Rose Logston | Patuxent Music |
| 180 | Young Heart, Old Soul | The Garrett Newton Band | Pinecastle |
| 181 | By Request | Cedar Hill | Self-Release |
| 182 | Turn Back the Years | Bluegrass Martins | Self-Release |
| 183 | Songs from Lyon County | Dennis Duff | Gracey Holler |
| 184 | Bluegrass Headquarters | Jussi Syren & The Groundbreakers | Bluelight |
| 185 | Modern Old Time Sounds for the Bluegrass and Folksong Jamboree | The Lonesome Ace Stringband | Self-Release |
| 186 | Give Me Jesus | Larry Cordle | MightyCord |
| 187 | Wonderful World Outside | The Piedmont Melody Makers | Vigortone |
| 188 | Take Five | Ned Luberecki | Self-Release |
| 189 | Fiddler's Dream | Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper | Compass |
| 190 | These Hills | Irene Kelley | Mountain Fever |
| 191 | Southern Crescent | Town Mountain | Self-Release |
| 192 | Bidin' My Time | Chris Hillman | Rounder |
| 193 | The Walls of Time | Peter Rowan | Sugar Hill |
| 194 | Eat the Moon | FY5 | Self-Release |
| 195 | All-Star Duets | Larry Cordle | MightyCord |
| 196 | Coming Home | O'Connor Band | Rounder |
| 197 | Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn | Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn | Rounder |
| 198 | So Lucky | The Lucky Sisters | Patio Records |
| 199 | Family, Friends & Heroes | Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen | Compass |
| 200 | Blue Skies | Mountain Heart | Compass |
| 201 | The More I Learn | Bryan Sutton | Sugar Hill |
| 202 | Paper Bird | Paper Bird | Thirty Tigers |
| 203 | Peter Rowan | Peter Rowan | Flying Fish |
| 204 | The Mind of a Traveler | Flat River Band | EBR |
| 205 | Man About a Horse | Man About a Horse | Self-Release |
| 206 | Beyond Measure | Justin Moses | Self-Release |
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