The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Dec 1, 2018
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ | 1 | 5 | The Magic Tree | Steve Forbert | Rose Music |
| ▼ | 2 | 1 | The Tree of Forgiveness | John Prine | Oh Boy |
| ▼ | 3 | 2 | Secularia | Eliza Gilkyson | Red House |
| ▲ | 4 | 6 | My American Dream | Will Hoge | Thirty Tigers |
| ▲ | 5 | 7 | Down Hearted Blues | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sounds |
| ▼ | 6 | 4 | Healing Tide | The War and Treaty | Thirty Tigers |
| ▼ | 7 | 3 | Grenades | Kaia Kater | Smithsonian Folkways |
| ▲ | 8 | - | The Other Side | Dawn and Hawkes | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 9 | 11 | Silence in These Walls | Flatt Lonesome | Mountain Home Music |
| ▼ | 10 | 8 | What It is | Hayes Carll | Dualtone |
| ▲ | 11 | 29 | Rabbit in the Moon | Sparrow Blue | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 12 | 9 | The Ledges | Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert | Dead Reckoning |
| ▲ | 13 | 32 | Make Your Own Luck | Mustard's Retreat | Yellow Room |
| ▲ | 14 | 17 | Bright Hills | The Appalucians | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 15 | 12 | Walk in the Dark | Rob Lutes | Lucky Bear |
| ▼ | 16 | 13 | The Place That You Call Home | Ever More Nest | Parish Road Music |
| ▲ | 17 | 24 | Sometimes Just the Sky | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Thirty Tigers |
| ▼ | 18 | 15 | The Tree | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers |
| ▲ | 19 | 22 | Life Between the Lines | Fireside Collective | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 20 | 25 | Everything | Darden Smith | Compass |
| - | 21 | 21 | My Mother the Moon | Dead Horses | Wolff Moon |
| ▲ | 22 | 26 | The Lonesomest Sound That Can Sound | Clay Parker and Jodi James | Electric Wreck |
| ▼ | 23 | 16 | White Tiger | Ana Egge | StorySound |
| ▲ | 24 | 27 | Balancing Act | Judy Nazemetz | Smokey Lady Music |
| ▲ | 25 | 43 | Matches | Tragedy Ann | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 26 | 10 | Evening Machines | Gregory Alan Isakov | Dualtone |
| ▲ | 27 | 31 | Come and Meet Me | Sherman Ewing | Self-Release |
| - | 28 | 28 | Shelter | Olivia Chaney | Nonesuch |
| ▼ | 29 | 14 | Blood Brothers | Jeffrey Foucault | Tone Tree |
| ▲ | 30 | 51 | Wilderness Years | Jory Nash | Thin Man |
| ▼ | 31 | 30 | Magic Ship | Mountain Man | Nonesuch |
| ▼ | 32 | 19 | Pretty Bird | Kathy Mattea | Thirty Tigers |
| ▲ | 33 | 35 | Stay Human, Vol. 2 | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Boo Boo Wax |
| ▼ | 34 | 20 | While We're Here | Catie Curtis | Megenta |
| ▼ | 35 | 18 | The Broken Heart of Everything | David Francey | Laker Music |
| - | 36 | 36 | No One Travels Alone | Jon Brooks | Borealis |
| - | 37 | 37 | Open Road, Broken Heart | True North | True North |
| - | 38 | 38 | Live at Tiny Telephone | T Sisters | Three Headed Sounds |
| - | 39 | 39 | Shed My Skin | Dan Navarro | Self-Release |
| - | 40 | 40 | Eighty-Eight | Wild Rivers | Self Release |
| ▲ | 41 | 71 | Both Ways | Donovan Woods | Meant Well |
| ▼ | 42 | 33 | All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do | The Milk Carton Kids | Anti |
| ▼ | 43 | 23 | Fragments | Chris Ronald | Borealis |
| ▼ | 44 | 41 | While I Was Asleep | Darling West | Jansen |
| ▼ | 45 | 44 | Beginning Again | Rod Macdonald | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 46 | 45 | Words We Mean | Annie Oakley | Horton |
| - | 47 | 47 | Before It's Too Late | Karen Tobin | Sunnyland Productions |
| ▼ | 48 | 46 | Better Than Brand-New | Martin Kerr | Hype Music |
| ▼ | 49 | 48 | That's What Love Can Do to Your Heart | Tracy Newman and the Reinforcements | Kabeauty Music |
| ▼ | 50 | 49 | Fall Away Blues | Red Tail Ring | Earthwork |
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