The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Dec 7, 2019
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | What It is | Hayes Carll | Dualtone |
| ▲ | 2 | 4 | Adobe Road | Cej | Gnosong |
| ▼ | 3 | 2 | Charlie Parr | Charlie Parr | Red House |
| ▲ | 4 | 5 | Come on Up to the House - Women Sing Waits | Dualtone | Dualtone |
| ▼ | 5 | 3 | The Only Ones | The Milk Carton Kids | Thirty Tigers |
| ▲ | 6 | 8 | San Isabel | Jamestown Revival | Thirty Tigers |
| - | 7 | 7 | Heart Land Again | Tim Grimm | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 8 | 10 | Coyote | Catherine MacLellan | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 9 | 11 | Cold | Mean Mary | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 10 | 12 | Straight to Marrow | Clint Alphin | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 11 | 13 | Medicine for Living | Alexa Rose | Big Legal Mess |
| ▲ | 12 | 15 | The Storyteller's Suitcase | Ellis Paul | Rosella |
| ▲ | 13 | 14 | How We Want to Live | Lisa Bastoni | Sweet Ondine |
| ▲ | 14 | 20 | If Wishes Were Horses | Matt Patershuk | Black Hen |
| ▲ | 15 | 17 | Paws of a Bear | Sofia Talvik | Makaki |
| - | 16 | 16 | Tim O'Brien Band | Tim O'Brien | Howdy Skies |
| ▲ | 17 | 19 | Making Life Sweet | The Early Risers | Itchy Sabot |
| ▲ | 18 | 25 | All That's Real | Gathering Sparks | Borealis |
| ▼ | 19 | 18 | Pass It on Down | Linda Sussman | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 20 | 9 | Assiniboine & the Red | The Small Glories | Red House |
| ▲ | 21 | 43 | Evening Machines | Gregory Alan Isakov | Dualtone |
| ▲ | 22 | 29 | There is No Other (with Francesco Turrisi) | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
| ▲ | 23 | 26 | Down Hearted Blues | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sounds |
| ▼ | 24 | 22 | The Question | Anna Tivel | Fluff And Gravy |
| ▼ | 25 | 24 | Dreams on Hold | Sarah Eide | Sugarbird |
| ▲ | 26 | 28 | Casey Joe Lambert | Casey Joe Lambert | Hill Country Artists |
| ▲ | 27 | 32 | Between the Country | Ian Noe | Thirty Tigers |
| ▲ | 28 | 31 | Winter Stories (feat. Chatham County Line) | Judy Collins | Cleopatra |
| ▲ | 29 | 36 | Better by Now | Benjamin Dakota Rogers | Trespass Music |
| ▲ | 30 | 38 | The Iron Trios | Laurel Premo | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 31 | 33 | Back to Shore | Shari Ulrich | Borealis |
| ▼ | 32 | 21 | Pharmakon | Humbird | Green Thumb |
| ▲ | 33 | 39 | The Climb | Grady Shawver | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 34 | 40 | Acorns | Ben Winship | Snake River |
| ▲ | 35 | 41 | While We're Here | Catie Curtis | Megenta |
| ▲ | 36 | 62 | Second Sight | May Erlewine | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 37 | 42 | Down the Way | Angus & Julia Stone | Nettwerk |
| *NEW* | 38 | - | Bright Morning Stars | The Wailin' Jennys | High Romance |
| ▲ | 39 | 46 | Live at Tiny Telephone | T Sisters | Three Headed Sounds |
| ▲ | 40 | 44 | Easy Money | Old Man Luedecke | True North |
| ▲ | 41 | 45 | Acres of Elbow Room | John Wort Hannam | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 42 | 49 | Stay Warm | The O'Pears | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 43 | 56 | Art of Motion | Andy McKee | Candy Rat |
| ▲ | 44 | 47 | Grenades | Kaia Kater | Smithsonian Folkways |
| ▼ | 45 | 27 | Visions | Alice Howe | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 46 | 50 | Many a Moon | James Hill & Anne Janelle | Borealis |
| ▲ | 47 | 53 | The Order of Time | Valerie June | Concord |
| ▲ | 48 | 60 | Like the River Loves the Sea | Joan Shelley | No Quarter |
| ▲ | 49 | 52 | Through the Deep, Dark Valley | The Oh Hellos | Elektra |
| ▼ | 50 | 48 | Time Travel | Lennie Gallant | Self-Release |
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