The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Bluegrass Album Chart
for the Year of 2020
Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
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1 | Bad for You | The Steeldrivers | Rounder |
2 | Inner Journey | Darin & Brooke Aldridge | Rounder |
3 | Authentic | Band Of Ruhks | Rebel |
4 | 25 Trips | Sierra Hull | Rounder |
5 | Breaking in Lonesome | Rick Faris | Dark Shadow |
6 | Headlight | Della Mae | Rounder |
7 | No Headlights | Kristy Cox | Mountain Fever |
8 | Chicago Barn Dance | Special Consensus | Compass |
9 | Straighten the Curves | The Grascals | Crossroads |
10 | Banjo Player's Blues | High Fidelity | Rebel |
11 | With You | Kenny & Amanda Smith | Farm Bot |
12 | Tall Fiddler | Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper | Compass |
13 | Where the Dogs Don't Bite | Old Salt Union | Compass |
14 | The Secret of Life | Daryl Mosley | Pinecastle |
15 | Rise Sun | The Infamous Stringdusters | Tape Time |
16 | Distance and Time | Becky Buller | Dark Shadow |
17 | Ordinary Soul | Stephen Mougin | Dark Shadow |
18 | I Hope You Have a Good Life | Gina Furtado | Mountain Home Music Company |
19 | Elements | Fireside Collective | Mountain Home |
20 | Chronicle: Friends and Music | Gena Britt | Pinecastle |
21 | Freedom, Love, and the Open Road | Lindley Creek | Pinecastle |
22 | Undeniable | Nothin' Fancy | Mountain Fever |
23 | Outside Looking in | The Lonesome River Band | Mountain Home |
24 | Salem Town | Backline | Mountain Fever |
25 | Classy. Sassy. Bluegrassy. | Williamson Branch | Pinecastle |
26 | Oh Darlin' | Bradley & Adair | Pinecastle |
27 | City on a Hill | Mile Twelve | Delores the Taurus |
28 | Gonna Rise and Shine | Alan Bibey & Grasstowne | Mountain Fever |
29 | Blues Around My Cabin | Flashback | Pinecastle |
30 | Bridges and Backroads | Jerry Salley | Very Jerry |
31 | Waiting on a Ride | Songs From The Road Band | LDT |
32 | The Choosing Road | Chris Jones & the Night Drivers | Mountain Home |
33 | Bill Monroe’s Ol’ Mandolin | Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road | Pinecastle |
34 | The Hard Way | Dale Ann Bradley | Pinecastle |
35 | Memories of Home | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet | Pinecastle |
36 | Wings of a Jetliner | Nate Lee | Adverb |
37 | Point of No Return | Amanda Cook | Mountain Fever |
38 | Swing for the Fences (feat. Steve Gulley, Alan Bibey, Jason Burleson & Robert Hale) | Phil Leadbetter and the All Stars of Bluegrass | Pinecastle |
39 | Lovin' and Leavin' (A Bluegrass Tribute to Mickey Clark) | Aaron Bibelhauser | Self-Release |
40 | Pictures | Hammertowne | Mountain Fever |
41 | Changes | The Seldom Scene | Rounder |
42 | Live in Prague, Czech Republic | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Billy Blue |
43 | All for Money | Greensky Bluegrass | Big Blue Zoo |
44 | The Way I View the World | Chris Luquette | Self-Release |
45 | That's Why I'm Lonesome | Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass | Patuxent |
46 | Sister Sadie II | Sister Sadie | Pinecastle |
47 | Pieces | Jason Barie | Billy Blue |
48 | Mountains, Mamas and Memories | Big Country Bluegrass | Rebel |
49 | Myths We Tell Our Young | Unspoken Tradition | Mountain Home |
50 | Lonesome Riverboat Blues (feat. Jeff Autry) | Edgar Loudermilk | Rural Rhythm |
51 | The Bull Mountain Moonshiners' Way | Jesse McReynolds | Self-Release |
52 | The Storyteller in Me | Daniel Crabtree | Codel |
53 | Grass Stains | Carson Peters & Iron Mountain | FCP Productions |
54 | Route 3 | Route 3 | 7flat |
55 | Fast Track | Fast Track | Engelhardt Music Group |
56 | Hills and Home | High Fidelity | Rebel |
57 | Hold on to Your Heart | Shannon Slaughter | Self-Release |
58 | Modern Old Time Sounds for the Bluegrass and Folksong Jamboree | The Lonesome Ace Stringband | Self-Release |
59 | One Stop Along the Road | Amanda Cook | Self-Release |
60 | No Escape | Claybank | Mountain Fever |
61 | Ronnie Bowman | Ronnie Bowman | Engelhardt Music Group |
62 | Horrible World | Kathy Kallick Band | Live Oak |
63 | Blue Haze | Robert Hale | Pinecastle |
64 | Love Hard, Work Hard, Play Hard | Deanie Richardson | Pinecastle |
65 | Inside the Lines | Nick Chandler & Delivered | The 615 Hideaway |
66 | North Carolina Songbook | Steep Canyon Rangers | Yep Roc |
67 | Steam | Deeper Shade Of Blue | Mountain Fever |
68 | Ricochet | Kristy Cox | Mountain Fever |
69 | If You Can't Stand the Heat | Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen | Compass |
70 | The Golden Angle | David Benedict | Shelton |
71 | Roadsigns and Highways | Claybank | Mountain Fever |
72 | New Freedom Blues | Town Mountain | Tone Tree |
73 | Rivers and Roads | Special Consensus | Compass |
74 | Glory Bound | The Wooks | Gnar Vector |
75 | Renaissance | Billy Droze | Rural Rhythm |
76 | Sundrops on the Water - Reflections | The Sharp Flatpickers | Mountain Fever |
77 | McKay & Leigh | McKay & Leigh | Voxhall |
78 | Royal Traveller | Missy Raines | Compass |
79 | Crêpe Paper Heart | Becky Buller | Dark Shadow |
80 | What Does Time Care? | Armchair Boogie | GlueBrass |
81 | My Remedy | Missy Armstrong | Melton & Miller |
82 | The Hillbenders | The Hillbenders | Compass |
83 | Didn’t He Ramble: Songs of Charlie Poole | David Davis & The Warrior River Boys | Rounder |
84 | North of Despair | Wood & Wire | Blue Corn |
85 | Free | Williamson Branch | Pinecastle |
86 | Destination Horizon | The Plate Scrapers | Self-Release |
87 | Story of a Beautiful Life | Nick Dumas | Self-Release |
88 | To Live in Two Worlds, Vol. 1 | Thomm Jutz | Mountain Home |
89 | Headed South | Crandall Creek | Bell Buckle |
90 | Baby You're Gone | Tacie and the Sunshine Band | Self-Release |
91 | The Butcher Shoppe | Della Mae | Rounder |
92 | Bowerbird | Aubrey Eisenman & The Clydes | Mountain Fever |
93 | Time Changes Everything | Nothin' Fancy | Mountain Fever |
94 | Blue | The Cleverlys | Mountain Home |
95 | Banjophony | Damien O'Kane & Ron Block | Pure |
96 | Footprints in a Song | Circa Blue | Bell Buckle |
97 | Fall Like Rain | Justin Moses | Mountain Fever |
98 | The Stories We Can Tell | Nu-Blu | Voxhall |
99 | On Time | Colebrook Road | Eisenbise |
100 | A Thousand Wishes | Backline | Poor Mountain |
101 | Time and Place | George Jackson | Self-Release |
102 | Man on the Radio | Wood Belly | 857910 Records |
103 | Things She Couldn't Get over | Dale Ann Bradley | Pinecastle |
104 | Perfect Fit | Patrick McAvinue | Self-Release |
105 | To Live in Two Worlds, Vol. 2 | Thomm Jutz | Mountain Home |
106 | Bluegrass Legends: Live at the Ryman | Rhonda Vincent | Upper Management |
107 | Milestones | Volume Five | Mountain Fever |
108 | Fret a Spell | Darren Nicholson | Self-Release |
109 | With the Bass in Mind | Jeff Picker | Self-Release |
110 | Dixieland for Me | Mikayla Burrows | Self-Release |
111 | Tales from East Kentucky | Larry Cordle | Self-Release |
112 | Spirit to the Sea | Trout Steak Revival | Self-Release |
113 | Paper Bird | Paper Bird | Thirty Tigers |
114 | Old World | NewTown | Mountain Home |
115 | Long Way from Home | The Burnett Sisters Band | Bee Hive |
116 | Original | Bobby Osborne | Compass |
117 | Starry Southern Nights | Rock Hearts | Self-Release |
118 | North Country | Danny Burns | Bonfire |
119 | Things Kids and Dogs Know | Brandon Rickman | Voxhall |
120 | From the Heart | Donna Hughes | Running Dog |
121 | When It Rains | Lou Reid & Carolina | Sugar Hill |
122 | The Big Picture | Christian Davis | Self-Release |
123 | From Texas to Tennessee | The Family Sowell | Poor Mountain |
124 | Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 2 (Cowboy Arms Sessions) | Sturgill Simpson | High Top Mountain |
125 | Rented Room on Broadway | Wildfire | Pinecastle |
126 | Life is a Story | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Mountain Home |
127 | Foxhounds | Kathy Kallick Band | Live Oak |
128 | The Price Sisters | The Price Sisters | Rebel |
129 | Chapter 3 | Lawson & Williams | Mountain Home |
130 | Dale Ann Bradley | Dale Ann Bradley | Pinecastle |
131 | Timepiece | Milan Miller | Self-Release |
132 | The Old School | Peter Rowan | Compass |
133 | Laws of Gravity | The Infamous Stringdusters | Compass |
134 | American Grandstand | Rhonda Vincent & Daryle Singletary | Upper Management |
135 | The Road That Winds | Audie Blaylock and Redline | Patuxent |
136 | Front Porch Philosophy | Jerry Salley | Very Jerry |
137 | Just Another Memory | Emily Kirsch | Rabbit's Foot |
138 | World of Our Own | Bluegrass Martins | Self-Release |
139 | Better Than I Deserve | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet | Pinecastle Records |
140 | Bluegrass Outlaws | Bluegrass Outlaws | Self-Release |
141 | Playing It Forward | The Savage Hearts | Self-Release |
142 | Take Five | Ned Luberecki | Self-Release |
143 | Run Away | Rebekah Long | Luk |
144 | Taken | Rhonda Vincent | Upper Managment |
145 | Listen to the Music | 3 Fox Drive | KOCH |
146 | So Familiar | Steve Martin & Edie Brickell | Rounder |
147 | How to Grow a Woman from the Ground | Chris Thile | Sugar Hill |
148 | Colors | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet | Pinecastle |
149 | Hillbilly Heroes | Hammertowne | Mountain Fever |
150 | Before Breakfast | The Grascals | Mountain Home |
151 | “The Long-Awaited Album” | Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers | Rounder |
152 | Wonderful World Outside | The Piedmont Melody Makers | Vigortone |
153 | Gospel from My Grassroots | Jerry Salley | Very Jerry Records |
154 | Sister Sadie | Sister Sadie | Pinecastle |
155 | Mayhayley's House | The Lonesome River Band | Mountain Home |
156 | Deep Water | Amanda Cook | Mountain Fever |
157 | Good Things | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet | Pinecastle |
158 | Give Me Jesus | Larry Cordle | MightyCord |
159 | 'Tween Earth and Sky | Becky Buller | Dark Shadow |
160 | The Next Move | Phil Leadbetter and the All Stars of Bluegrass | Pinecastle |
161 | Down Home | Josh Williams | Rounder |
162 | Where Do I Go from Here | Diamond Creek | New Time |
163 | Part of Me | Kristy Cox | Pisgah Ridge |
164 | In the Ground | The Gibson Brothers | Rounder |
165 | All for Today | Shawn Lane | Rebel |
166 | Rob Benzing | Rob Benzing | Patuxent Music |
167 | To Whom It May Concern | Billy Droze | Rural Rhythm |
168 | Brothers and Heroes | Feller & Hill | Sony |
169 | Warmer Kind of Blue | Kathy Kallick Band | Copper Creek |
170 | Lovin' Pretty Women | Steep Canyon Rangers | Rebel Records |
171 | Deep Waters | The Lonely Heartstring Band | Rounder |
172 | All the Rage, Vol. One | Rhonda Vincent | Upper Management |
173 | Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn | Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn | Rounder |
174 | When I'm Free | Hot Rize | Ten In Hand Records |
175 | Radio | Steep Canyon Rangers | Rounder |
176 | Blue Skies | Mountain Heart | Compass |
177 | North by South | Claire Lynch | Compass |
178 | Man About a Horse | Man About a Horse | Self-Release |
179 | Denver Snow | Flashback | Pinecastle |
180 | The Last Dirt Road | Adam McPeak & Mountain Thunder | Kindred Records |
181 | A Storyteller's Memory | Remington Ryde | Pinecastle |
182 | Band of Ruhks | Band Of Ruhks | 101 Ranch Records |
183 | It's a Good Feeling | Nothin' Fancy | Mountain Fever |
184 | Every Bit of Me | Ali Shumate | Hadley Music Group |
185 | The Earls of Leicester | The Earls of Leicester | Rounder |
186 | Runaway Train | Flatt Lonesome | Mountain Home |
187 | Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers | Dailey & Vincent | Rounder |
188 | Weary River | Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass | Patuxent Music |
189 | By Request | Cedar Hill | Self-Release |
190 | Jump in | The Railsplitters | Self-Release |
191 | Hot Rize's 40th Anniversary Bash (Live) | Hot Rize | Ten In Hand |
192 | Gone Like the Cotton | The Cox Family | Rounder |
193 | Georgia Maple | Edgar Loudermilk | Pinecastle |
194 | Just As Strong | Breaking Grass | Mountain Fever |
195 | Pavement and Pathways | Urban Monroes | Mountain Sky Media |
196 | Tommy: a Bluegrass Opry | The Hillbenders | Compass |
197 | Eat the Moon | FY5 | Self-Release |
198 | Murder on Music Row | Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time | Shell Point |
199 | Travelin' | Larry Sparks | Rebel |
200 | The Country Blues | Rob Ickes | Compass |
201 | Coming Home | O'Connor Band | Rounder |
202 | A Distant Horizon | Jeff Brown and Still Lonesome | Union House |
203 | Peter Rowan | Peter Rowan | Flying Fish |
204 | Fiddler's Dream | Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper | Compass |
205 | Faster & Farther | Darin & Brooke Aldridge | Mountain Home |
206 | Warning Signs | Breaking Grass | Mountain Fever |
207 | The Mind of a Traveler | Flat River Band | EBR |
208 | Old Salt Union | Old Salt Union | Compass |
209 | Breakin' Easy | Donna Ulisse | Mountain Home |
210 | Onwards | Mile Twelve | Delores The Taurus |
211 | Flight | Nightflyer | Pinecastle |
212 | This Ole Towne | Destination Bluegrass Band | Self-Release |
213 | The Rail | Scott Slay | Bonfire |
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