The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Dec 2, 2017
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | Down Hearted Blues | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sounds |
| ▲ | 2 | 5 | Letters Never Read | Dori Freeman | Free Dirt |
| ▲ | 3 | 4 | Same As I Ever Have Been | Matt Patershuk | Black Hen |
| ▼ | 4 | 2 | Silence in These Walls | Flatt Lonesome | Mountain Home Music |
| ▼ | 5 | 3 | Tell the Devil I'm Gettin' There As Fast As I Can | Ray Wylie Hubbard | Thirty Tigers |
| ▲ | 6 | 7 | Fifteen | The Wailin' Jennys | Red House |
| ▼ | 7 | 6 | Small Believer | Anna Tivel | Fluff & Gravy |
| ▲ | 8 | 9 | Life Between the Lines | Fireside Collective | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 9 | 8 | Poor David's Almanack | Dave Rawlings | Acony |
| - | 10 | 10 | Where the River Meets the Road | Tim O'Brien | Howdy Skies |
| - | 11 | 11 | Freedom Highway | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
| - | 12 | 12 | Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers | Joe Jencks | Turtle Bear Music |
| ▲ | 13 | 15 | The Dustbowl Revival | The Dustbowl Revival | Signature Sounds |
| ▼ | 14 | 13 | Everything | Darden Smith | Compass |
| ▼ | 15 | 14 | Cider | Gwyneth Moreland | Blue Rose Music |
| ▲ | 16 | 19 | The Drifter and the Preacher | Barney Bentall | True North |
| - | 17 | 17 | Further Down the Line | Scott Cook | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 18 | 21 | While We're Here | Catie Curtis | Megenta |
| ▼ | 19 | 18 | The Road We Once Knew | The Eisenhauers | Black Hen Music |
| - | 20 | 20 | Before the Bridge | Eddie Berman | Nettwerk |
| ▲ | 21 | 23 | Balancing Act | Judy Nazemetz | Smokey Lady Music |
| ▲ | 22 | 37 | If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous | Sarah McQuaid | Shovel And A Spade |
| ▲ | 23 | 27 | Singin' | Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio | Vessel Recordings |
| - | 24 | 24 | A Girl in Teen City | Oh Susanna | Stella |
| - | 25 | 25 | Wow and Flutter | Amilia K Spicer | Free Range |
| ▲ | 26 | 56 | Boomtown Ghosts | Pint & a Half | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 27 | 22 | You Don't Own Me Anymore | The Secret Sisters | New West |
| ▼ | 28 | 26 | Daybreak over Jackson Street | Steph Cameron | Pheromone |
| ▲ | 29 | 49 | Lenore | Lenore | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 30 | 31 | Jayme Stone's Folklife | Jayme Stone | Borealis |
| ▼ | 31 | 28 | God Bless the Grass | The Malvinas | Soona Songs |
| ▼ | 32 | 29 | Pacific Northwest Bound | Mike McKenna Jr. | Self-Release |
| - | 33 | 33 | The Order of Time | Valerie June | Concord |
| - | 34 | 34 | If It's Alright with You - the Songs of Gene MacLellan | Catherine MacLellan | True North |
| ▲ | 35 | 43 | Something More Than Free | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Southeastern |
| ▼ | 36 | 35 | Reach for the Stars | Elaine Mahon | Gatorbone |
| ▲ | 37 | 38 | Out from the Harbor | Nikki Talley | Self Release |
| ▼ | 38 | 36 | Thousand Springs | Korby Lenker | Soundly Music |
| ▲ | 39 | 41 | Hide nor Hair | Abigail Lapell | Coax |
| ▼ | 40 | 30 | Uneven Ground | Lynne Hanson | Continental Song City |
| ▼ | 41 | 39 | Electric Blue Dandelion | Raveis Kole | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 42 | 48 | Boomerang | Chelsea Williams | Blue Elan |
| ▼ | 43 | 40 | 2 | Shook Twins | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 44 | 42 | Against All Tides | Harpeth Rising | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 45 | 61 | Natural Conclusion | Rose Cousins | Old Farm Pony |
| ▲ | 46 | 47 | Tales from the Self-Help Section | Flagship Romance | Gatorbone |
| ▼ | 47 | 45 | Itinerant Arias | Christopher Paul Stelling | Anti |
| ▼ | 48 | 44 | Weighted Mind | Sierra Hull | Rounder |
| ▼ | 49 | 46 | The Queen of Hearts | Offa Rex | Nonesuch |
| - | 50 | 50 | Before I Go | Ordinary Elephant | Berkalin |
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