The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2020
Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | No Time for Love Songs | The Mastersons | Compass |
2 | We'll Never Know Unless We Try | Darling West | Jansen |
3 | What It is | Hayes Carll | Dualtone |
4 | Have Purpose Live Long | Josie Bello | Self-Release |
5 | Bravado | Rose Cousins | Outside Music |
6 | Flyover Country | Chicago Farmer | Self-Release |
7 | Ghost Tattoo | Kristen Grainger & True North | Self-Release |
8 | Is It You, is It Me | The Dustbowl Revival | Thirty Tigers |
9 | Circadian | Letitia VanSant | Self-Release |
10 | The Balladeer | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers |
11 | 2020 | Eliza Gilkyson | Red House |
12 | Look Long | Indigo Girls | Rounder |
13 | Medicine for Living | Alexa Rose | Big Legal Mess |
14 | The Only Ones | The Milk Carton Kids | Thirty Tigers |
15 | The Remains of Sunday | Alec Lytle & Them Rounders | Four Acre |
16 | Another Sky | Kelly's Lot | Self-Release |
17 | The Romantic | Taylor Ashton | Signature Sounds |
18 | Pass It on Down | Linda Sussman | Self-Release |
19 | Heart Land Again | Tim Grimm | Self-Release |
20 | Woman in Color | Raye Zaragoza | Art Menius |
21 | Bull Frogs Croon (And Other Songs) | Aoife O'Donovan | Yep Roc |
22 | Over That Road I'm Bound | Joachim Cooder | Nonesuch |
23 | Straight to Marrow | Clint Alphin | Self-Release |
24 | Good Good Man | Vance Gilbert | Disismye Music |
25 | Reliever | William Prince | Six Shooter |
26 | All Mine | Sarah Morris | AW |
27 | Ashes in the Morning | Ken Dunn | Trespass Music |
28 | Coyote | Catherine MacLellan | Self-Release |
29 | Assiniboine & the Red | The Small Glories | Red House |
30 | A Beginner's Guide to Bravery | David Keenan | Rubyworks |
31 | How We Want to Live | Lisa Bastoni | Sweet Ondine |
32 | No Summer | Cinder Well | Free Dirt |
33 | The Storyteller's Suitcase | Ellis Paul | Rosella |
34 | Adobe Road | Cej | Gnosong |
35 | All That's Real | Gathering Sparks | Borealis |
36 | Dirty Mansions | Corin Raymond | Self-Release |
37 | Do, Baby. | Eric Selby | Self-Release |
38 | Funeral for My Past | Liz Longley | Tone Tree |
39 | Making Life Sweet | The Early Risers | Itchy Sabot |
40 | Winter Stories (feat. Chatham County Line) | Judy Collins | Cleopatra |
41 | Easy Money | Old Man Luedecke | True North |
42 | Phoenix | JigJam | Self-Release |
43 | Noise | The Pairs | Independent |
44 | Blue on Blue | Sylvie Simmons | Compass |
45 | Ledgers and Stones | Thomas Hine | THM |
46 | Come on Up to the House - Women Sing Waits | Dualtone | Dualtone |
47 | Hearts Town | The War and Treaty | Rounder |
48 | Is It the Kiss | Ana Egge | StorySound |
49 | Hubble Space Parade | Giriffin Swank | Infirst |
50 | This Storm | Tara MacLean & Catherine MacLellan | Self-Release |
51 | Visions | Alice Howe | Self-Release |
52 | Charlie Parr | Charlie Parr | Red House |
53 | Love and Leave You | 100 Mile House | Fallen Tree |
54 | Wildwood | Katie Dahl | Leaky Boat |
55 | Where the Heart Wants to Go | Buffalo Gals Band | Self-Release |
56 | Mike O'Brien | Mike O'Brien | Chouchou |
57 | Ghost Town | Suzi Ragsdale | Self-Release |
58 | Quiet Talkers | Ken Yates | Tone Tree |
59 | Character | Rachael Sage | MPress |
60 | Back to Shore | Shari Ulrich | Borealis |
61 | The Ridge | Julian Taylor | Howling Turtle |
62 | Many a Moon | James Hill & Anne Janelle | Borealis |
63 | Calm in the Eye of the Storm | Ken Whiteley | Borealis |
64 | The Botox | Jamie McDell | Metropolitan Groove Merchants |
65 | Homegrown | Neil Young | Silver Bow |
66 | Desires Shape | Stoll Vaughan | Commonwealth Artist |
67 | Better by Now | Benjamin Dakota Rogers | Trespass Music |
68 | Cold | Mean Mary | Self-Release |
69 | Alone | Mean Mary | WoodRock |
70 | Live at the Hotel Cafe | Kris Angelis | Self-Release |
71 | The Question | Anna Tivel | Fluff And Gravy |
72 | Without People | Donovan Woods | Meant Well |
73 | Collection 2008-2018 | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus | Berkalin |
74 | Western Sun | Nell & Jim Band | Whippoorwill Arts |
75 | A Field Guide to Loneliness | Jamestown Revival | Thirty Tigers |
76 | MWI | Jadea Kelly | Tone Tree |
77 | Paws of a Bear | Sofia Talvik | Makaki |
78 | Naked Garden | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Concord |
79 | True to Life | Gracious Me | Self-Release |
80 | Red, White & I Love You Too | The Mastersons | Red House |
81 | Citizen Alien | Leaf Rapids | Coax |
82 | Between the Country | Ian Noe | Thirty Tigers |
83 | Dreams on Hold | Sarah Eide | Sugarbird |
84 | At the Edge of the World | Mike McKenna Jr. | Self-Release |
85 | When the Sun Goes Down | Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert | Dead Reckoning |
86 | There is No Other (with Francesco Turrisi) | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
87 | A Bigger Fire | Joe Holt | Self-Release |
88 | Solo | Gordon Lightfoot | Warner |
89 | Autonomy | Stephanie Lambring | Tone Tree |
90 | Hands and Knees | Two Bird Stone | Wondermore |
91 | A Small Death | Samantha Crain | Ramseur |
92 | Second Sight | May Erlewine | Self-Release |
93 | Stumbling Home | The Sea The Sea | Antifragile Music |
94 | Casey Joe Lambert | Casey Joe Lambert | Hill Country Artists |
95 | Postcards from the Country | Trae Sheehan | Half Moon |
96 | Acorns | Ben Winship | Snake River |
97 | Alone Together Sessions | Hayes Carll | Dualtone |
98 | Folk N’ Roll Vol. 1: Tales of Isolation | J.S. Ondara | Verve Forecast |
99 | On My Own | Lera Lynn | Ruby Range |
100 | Flowers for You | Sawyer Fredericks | Windrake |
101 | I Can Still Hear You | Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche | StorySound |
102 | Forever Just Beyond | Clem Snide | Ramseur |
103 | Everything's Shifting | Madison Violet | Passenger Sounds |
104 | Chasing Echoes | Phil Henry | Board By Board |
105 | American Standard | James Taylor | Fantasy |
106 | Man on Fire | Danny Barnes | ATO |
107 | One Sky | Philip Scott Poli | Trespass Music |
108 | After the Great Storm | Ane Brun | Balloon Ranger |
109 | Yellow Coat | Matt Costa | Dangerbird |
110 | Off off on | This Is the Kit | Rough Trade |
111 | Treasures in My Chest | Andrew McKnight | Catalooch Music |
112 | The Blackest Crow | Anna Nalick | Chesky |
113 | Modern Appalachia | Sarah Siskind | Red Request |
114 | My Echo | Laura Veirs | Raven Marching Band |
115 | Fretland | Fretland | Tone Tree |
116 | Last Summer | John Batdorf | Self-Release |
117 | Speed | Keller Williams | Freeky Disc |
118 | Soil in the Sky | Heather Maloney | Signature Sounds |
119 | Lucid Stories, Tentative Lies | Jessica Smucker | Self-Release |
120 | The Iron Trios | Laurel Premo | Self-Release |
121 | Motivational Speakeasy | Jordan Tice | Padiddle |
122 | PseudoMyopia | Rachael Sage | MPress |
123 | Someday Soon Somehow | Scott Fab | Self-Release |
124 | The Hummingbird Revolution | Lesley Kernochan | Make My Day |
125 | Vignettes | Wesley Schultz | Dualtone |
126 | Pretty Free | Justin Farren | Self-Release |
127 | An Evening of New York Songs and Stories | Suzanne Vega | Amanuensis Productions |
128 | Beautiful and Strange | Chelsea Williams | Blue Elan |
129 | Mint Condition | Caroline Spence | Rounder |
130 | Pharmakon | Humbird | Green Thumb |
131 | The Hard Stuff | Susan Gibson | Fortherecords |
132 | Keep on Running | Joe Edwards | Tiny Mountain |
133 | Kitchen Days | Braden Gates | Borealis |
134 | All the Ways You Sing in the Dark | Old Sea Brigade | Nettwerk |
135 | Slower | Jules Shear | Funzalo |
136 | Patty Griffin | Patty Griffin | Thirty Tigers |
137 | Embracing the Journey | Kathleen Healy | Self-Release |
138 | Saudade | Juni Ata | Flying on Fire |
139 | Everything's Fine | Jamie Drake | AntiFragile |
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