The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2019
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Assiniboine & the Red | The Small Glories | Red House |
| 2 | What Will We Do | Lula Wiles | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 3 | Stay Human, Vol. 2 | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Boo Boo Wax |
| 4 | Evening Machines | Gregory Alan Isakov | Dualtone |
| 5 | The Storyteller's Suitcase | Ellis Paul | Rosella |
| 6 | Front Porch | Joy Williams | Sensibility |
| 7 | Standard Deviation | Danny Schmidt | Live Once |
| 8 | Adobe Road | Cej | Gnosong |
| 9 | Mint Condition | Caroline Spence | Rounder |
| 10 | The Magic Tree | Steve Forbert | Rose Music |
| 11 | The Long Road | Beth Wood | Self-Release |
| 12 | The Question | Anna Tivel | Fluff And Gravy |
| 13 | Grenades | Kaia Kater | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 14 | Easy Money | Old Man Luedecke | True North |
| 15 | Hummingbird | John Smith | Commoner |
| 16 | Everything's Shifting | Madison Violet | Passenger Sounds |
| 17 | Charlie Parr | Charlie Parr | Red House |
| 18 | Visions | Alice Howe | Self-Release |
| 19 | To Everyone in All the World: a Celebration of Pete Seeger | John McCutcheon | Appalseed |
| 20 | How We Want to Live | Lisa Bastoni | Sweet Ondine |
| 21 | Adaptations | Maya De Vitry | Self-Release |
| 22 | Dreams on Hold | Sarah Eide | Sugarbird |
| 23 | Soil in the Sky | Heather Maloney | Signature Sounds |
| 24 | Riverland | Eric Brace, Peter Cooper & Thomm Jutz | Red Beet |
| 25 | Down the Way | Angus & Julia Stone | Nettwerk |
| 26 | Paws of a Bear | Sofia Talvik | Makaki |
| 27 | Pass It on Down | Linda Sussman | Self-Release |
| 28 | Pretty Bird | Kathy Mattea | Thirty Tigers |
| 29 | Acres of Elbow Room | John Wort Hannam | Self-Release |
| 30 | Coyote | Catherine MacLellan | Self-Release |
| 31 | The Place That You Call Home | Ever More Nest | Parish Road Music |
| 32 | Time Travel | Lennie Gallant | Self-Release |
| 33 | Cold | Mean Mary | Self-Release |
| 34 | My American Dream | Will Hoge | Thirty Tigers |
| 35 | Is It the Kiss | Ana Egge | StorySound |
| 36 | Seneca | Charles Wesley Godwin | Self-Release |
| 37 | The Other Side | Dawn and Hawkes | Self-Release |
| 38 | Stay Warm | The O'Pears | Self-Release |
| 39 | Healing Tide | The War and Treaty | Thirty Tigers |
| 40 | Bright Hills | The Appalucians | Self-Release |
| 41 | Caravan of Dawn | The Levins | Self-Release |
| 42 | Matches | Tragedy Ann | Self-Release |
| 43 | If Wishes Were Horses | Matt Patershuk | Black Hen |
| 44 | Casey Joe Lambert | Casey Joe Lambert | Hill Country Artists |
| 45 | Through the Deep, Dark Valley | The Oh Hellos | Elektra |
| 46 | All That's Real | Gathering Sparks | Borealis |
| 47 | Back to Shore | Shari Ulrich | Borealis |
| 48 | Art of Motion | Andy McKee | Candy Rat |
| 49 | The Tree | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers |
| 50 | Live at Tiny Telephone | T Sisters | Three Headed Sounds |
| 51 | Medicine for Living | Alexa Rose | Big Legal Mess |
| 52 | Straight to Marrow | Clint Alphin | Self-Release |
| 53 | MWI | Jadea Kelly | Tone Tree |
| 54 | Conspirators | Guy Forsyth | Small and Nimble |
| 55 | PseudoMyopia | Rachael Sage | MPress |
| 56 | Tree of Shade | Driftwood | Self-Release |
| 57 | Fragments | Chris Ronald | Borealis |
| 58 | Who Asked You Back | EllaHarp | Self-Release |
| 59 | No One Travels Alone | Jon Brooks | Borealis |
| 60 | White Tiger | Ana Egge | StorySound |
| 61 | Balancing Act | Judy Nazemetz | Smokey Lady Music |
| 62 | The Ledges | Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert | Dead Reckoning |
| 63 | Unfortunate Point of View | Katherine Rondeau | Self-Release |
| 64 | Acorns | Ben Winship | Snake River |
| 65 | T Sisters | T Sisters | Self-Release |
| 66 | Talk to a Human | Terri Hendrix | Wilory |
| 67 | Many a Moon | James Hill & Anne Janelle | Borealis |
| 68 | To the Girl | Joy Zimmerman | Self-Release |
| 69 | The Broken Heart of Everything | David Francey | Laker Music |
| 70 | Sometimes Just the Sky | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Thirty Tigers |
| 71 | Make Your Own Luck | Mustard's Retreat | Yellow Room |
| 72 | Abandoned Companions | Dave McEathron | Watson Ent. |
| 73 | Busted Stuff | Dave Matthews Band | BMG |
| 74 | The Only Ones | The Milk Carton Kids | Thirty Tigers |
| 75 | What If? | Luca Stricagnoli | Candyrat |
| 76 | Like the River Loves the Sea | Joan Shelley | No Quarter |
| 77 | Wildwood | Katie Dahl | Leaky Boat |
| 78 | Home for the Harvest | Craig Bickhardt | Stone Barn |
| 79 | Making Life Sweet | The Early Risers | Itchy Sabot |
| 80 | Common Man | Joe Iadanza | Self-Release |
| 81 | The Canadian River | James Lee Baker | Self-Release |
| 82 | These Wilder Things | Ruth Moody | Red House |
| 83 | Shed My Skin | Dan Navarro | Self-Release |
| 84 | Silence in These Walls | Flatt Lonesome | Mountain Home Music |
| 85 | Winter Stories (feat. Chatham County Line) | Judy Collins | Cleopatra |
| 86 | The Lonesomest Sound That Can Sound | Clay Parker and Jodi James | Electric Wreck |
| 87 | Blood Brothers | Jeffrey Foucault | Tone Tree |
| 88 | In My Pocket | Brooksie Wells | Down Home Diva |
| 89 | Eighty-Eight | Wild Rivers | Self Release |
| 90 | Wooh Dang | Daniel Norgren | Superpuma |
| 91 | Shelter | Olivia Chaney | Nonesuch |
| 92 | Phoenix | JigJam | Self-Release |
| 93 | Noonday Dream | Ben Howard | Universal |
| 94 | Live in L.A. | Ken Dunn | Self-Release |
| 95 | The Hard Stuff | Susan Gibson | Fortherecords |
| 96 | Magic Ship | Mountain Man | Nonesuch |
| 97 | Home Again | James Lee Baker | Self-Release |
| 98 | No Contest | Liam Russell | Hidden Pony |
| 99 | Wilderness Years | Jory Nash | Thin Man |
| 100 | The Iron Trios | Laurel Premo | Self-Release |
| 101 | Pharmakon | Humbird | Green Thumb |
| 102 | Encore | Greg Jacobs | Self-Release |
| 103 | Valley of the Bones | Jane Kramer | Self-Release |
| 104 | Open Road, Broken Heart | True North | True North |
| 105 | Come and Meet Me | Sherman Ewing | Self-Release |
| 106 | What if This is All There is | RJ Cowdery | Goosepie Music |
| 107 | Dazed and Confused | Michael Johnathon | Poet Man |
| 108 | Somewhere in the Middle | Wes Weddell | Self-Release |
| 109 | Home | Laura Berman | Self-Release |
| 110 | Second Sight | May Erlewine | Self-Release |
| 111 | The Climb | Grady Shawver | Self-Release |
| 112 | American Darkness | Dan Tedesco | Self-Release |
| 113 | Rose Avenue | Joel Rafael | Inside |
| 114 | A Million Miles Away | Missouri Mile | Self-Release |
| 115 | The Way These Things Go | FY5 | Swingfingers |
| 116 | Better Than Brand-New | Martin Kerr | Hype Music |
| 117 | Everything's Fine | Jamie Drake | AntiFragile |
| 118 | Frontiers | Eddie Berman | Nettwerk |
| 119 | Healing | Upstate | Royal Potato Family |
| 120 | Finch | Penny & Sparrow | Thirty Tigers |
| 121 | The Point of Arrival | Carrie Newcomer | Available Light |
| 122 | My Mother the Moon | Dead Horses | Wolff Moon |
| 123 | Gaps in the Stories | Denise Glover | Blue Poppy |
| 124 | Before It's Too Late | Karen Tobin | Sunnyland Productions |
| 125 | Heart is a Tower | Genevieve Charbonneau | Self-Release |
| 126 | I'm the Only One Who Will Tell You, You're Bad | Goodnight Moonshine | Keep the Spark |
| 127 | That's What Love Can Do to Your Heart | Tracy Newman and the Reinforcements | Kabeauty Music |
| 128 | Father's Son | Pierce Pettis | Compass |
| 129 | When They Fall | Annie & Rod Capps | Self-Release |
| 130 | It is As if | Jake Troth | Atlantic |
| 131 | The Blackest Crow | Anna Nalick | Chesky |
| 132 | Bright Morning Stars | The Wailin' Jennys | High Romance |
| 133 | Rising Tide | Taivi | Self-Release |
| 134 | Give Up Your Ghosts | Rebecca Loebe | Blue Corn |
| 135 | Plays Well with Others | Lera Lynn | Single Lock |
| 136 | Nature | Paul Kelly | Cooking Vinyl |
| 137 | The Person I Admire | Joe Holt | Self-Release |
| 138 | Acrobats | Moors & McCumber | Self-Release |
| 139 | In Sevens | Kora Feder | Self-Release |
| 140 | The Conversation | Stoll Vaughan | Commonwealth Artist |
| 141 | Keeping Time | The Ennis Sisters | Self-Release |
| 142 | With the Sun | Sunny War | Hen House Studios |
| 143 | Shadow | Zoe Boekbinder | Self-Release |
| 144 | If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous | Sarah McQuaid | Shovel And A Spade |
| 145 | 2 | The Lark and the Loon | Self-Release |
| 146 | Motel Bouquet | Caitlin Canty | Self-Release |
| 147 | The Gift of the Magi (And Other Seasonal Stories) | Darryl Purpose | Gambler's Grace Music |
| 148 | Weights & Wings | Brother Sun | Self-Release |
| 149 | Light in the Lowlands | Kelly Augustine | Orchard Music |
| 150 | Weight of the Sky | Province Of Thieves | Blue Water |
| 151 | The Forgotten | Joe Jencks | Self-Release |
| 152 | Been on Your Side | Courtney Hartman & Taylor Ashton | Free Dirt |
| 153 | And the Sky Caught Fire | Nichole Wagner | Star Catcher |
| 154 | The Hummingbird Revolution | Lesley Kernochan | Make My Day |
| 155 | Small Believer | Anna Tivel | Fluff & Gravy |
| 156 | Both Ways | Donovan Woods | Meant Well |
| 157 | Wondrous Traveler | The Small Glories | Self-Release |
| 158 | Fall Away Blues | Red Tail Ring | Earthwork |
| 159 | Beginning Again | Rod Macdonald | Self-Release |
| 160 | Tales from the Self-Help Section | Flagship Romance | Gatorbone |
| 161 | Words We Mean | Annie Oakley | Horton |
| 162 | Wasted Time | Winona Wilde | Rescue Dog |
| 163 | Fifteen | The Wailin' Jennys | Red House |
| 164 | 1000 Miles | Bettman & Halpin | Fiddlin' Lizard |
| 165 | Call to Arms | Harrow Fair | Roaring Girl |
| 166 | Blue Divide | Richard Shindell | Shanachie |
| 167 | Against the Grain | Moors & McCumber | Self-Release |
| 168 | Beautiful You | The Waifs | Compass |
| 169 | Boomtown Ghosts | Pint & a Half | Self-Release |
| 170 | Live from Blue Rock | Moors & McCumber | Self-Release |
| 171 | James | Eliot Bronson | Rock Ridge |
| 172 | Universal Favorite | Noam Pikelny | Rounder |
| 173 | If the Static Clears | Gabrielle Louise | Sandalwood Records |
| 174 | Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers | Joe Jencks | Turtle Bear Music |
| 175 | Mockingbird Soul | Brigitte DeMeyer | MRI |
| 176 | A Permeable Life | Carrie Newcomer | Avalilable Light |
| 177 | Paperweights | Roo Panes | CRC |
| 178 | Small Brown Birds | Zoe Mulford | Azalea City Recordings |
| 179 | The Queen of Hearts | Offa Rex | Nonesuch |
| 180 | The Art of Forgetting | Kyle Carey | Riverboat |
| 181 | Off-Grid Lo-Fi | Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer | Self-Release |
| 182 | Live at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater | Carrie Newcomer | Available Light |
| 183 | Pandemonium | Moors & McCumber | Self-Release |
| 184 | Travelers Code | Darryl Purpose | Tangible Music |
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