The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Jan 23, 2021
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | Have Purpose Live Long | Josie Bello | Self-Release |
| - | 2 | 2 | World on the Ground | Sarah Jarosz | Rounder |
| - | 3 | 3 | Another Sky | Kelly's Lot | Self-Release |
| - | 4 | 4 | Ghost Tattoo | Kristen Grainger & True North | Self-Release |
| - | 5 | 5 | Woman in Color | Raye Zaragoza | Art Menius |
| ▲ | 6 | 15 | The Remains of Sunday | Alec Lytle & Them Rounders | Four Acre |
| ▲ | 7 | 8 | Over That Road I'm Bound | Joachim Cooder | Nonesuch |
| ▲ | 8 | 9 | Funeral for My Past | Liz Longley | Tone Tree |
| ▲ | 9 | 16 | Mipso | Mipso | Rounder |
| ▼ | 10 | 7 | A Field Guide to Loneliness | Jamestown Revival | Thirty Tigers |
| ▲ | 11 | 23 | We'll Never Know Unless We Try | Darling West | Jansen |
| ▲ | 12 | 14 | Hands and Knees | Two Bird Stone | Wondermore |
| - | 13 | 13 | Look Long | Indigo Girls | Rounder |
| ▲ | 14 | 24 | What a Show | Kerry Patrick Clark | Studio 234 |
| ▲ | 15 | 26 | No Time for Love Songs | The Mastersons | Compass |
| *NEW* | 16 | - | All About the Timing | Roland Roberts | Happy Life |
| ▼ | 17 | 12 | Ledgers and Stones | Thomas Hine | THM |
| - | 18 | 18 | Ashes in the Morning | Ken Dunn | Trespass Music |
| ▲ | 19 | 38 | The Balladeer | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers |
| ▼ | 20 | 6 | Flyover Country | Chicago Farmer | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 21 | 10 | Without People | Donovan Woods | Meant Well |
| ▼ | 22 | 11 | True to Life | Gracious Me | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 23 | 22 | Red, White & I Love You Too | The Mastersons | Red House |
| ▲ | 24 | 28 | Bravado | Rose Cousins | Outside Music |
| ▼ | 25 | 20 | Autonomy | Stephanie Lambring | Tone Tree |
| ▲ | 26 | 27 | One Sky | Philip Scott Poli | Trespass Music |
| ▲ | 27 | 30 | Hubble Space Parade | Giriffin Swank | Infirst |
| ▼ | 28 | 19 | We'll Look for Stars | Lynn Miles | Must Have Music |
| ▲ | 29 | 57 | All Mine | Sarah Morris | AW |
| ▼ | 30 | 29 | Hearts Town | The War and Treaty | Rounder |
| ▲ | 31 | 36 | Vari-Colored Songs: a Tribute to Langston Hughes | Leyla McCalla | Dixiefrog |
| ▼ | 32 | 17 | Character | Rachael Sage | MPress |
| ▲ | 33 | 51 | Homegrown | Neil Young | Silver Bow |
| ▼ | 34 | 21 | No Summer | Cinder Well | Free Dirt |
| ▼ | 35 | 33 | Is It You, is It Me | The Dustbowl Revival | Thirty Tigers |
| ▲ | 36 | 41 | Calm in the Eye of the Storm | Ken Whiteley | Borealis |
| ▼ | 37 | 34 | Evening Machines | Gregory Alan Isakov | Dualtone |
| ▼ | 38 | 35 | Every Road | Linda Sussman | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 39 | 55 | 2020 | Eliza Gilkyson | Red House |
| ▲ | 40 | 42 | This Storm | Tara MacLean & Catherine MacLellan | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 41 | 39 | Art of Motion | Andy McKee | Candy Rat |
| ▲ | 42 | 46 | Ghost Town | Suzi Ragsdale | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 43 | 25 | Do, Baby. | Eric Selby | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 44 | 45 | Pass It on Down | Linda Sussman | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 45 | 44 | Through the Deep, Dark Valley | The Oh Hellos | Elektra |
| ▼ | 46 | 43 | Down the Way | Angus & Julia Stone | Nettwerk |
| ▼ | 47 | 31 | This Too Shall Pass | Chris Wilhelm | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 48 | 47 | Where the Heart Wants to Go | Buffalo Gals Band | Self-Release |
| - | 49 | 49 | Blue on Blue | Sylvie Simmons | Compass |
| ▼ | 50 | 48 | Mike O'Brien | Mike O'Brien | Chouchou |
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