The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2021
Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
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1 | A Few Stars Apart | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Fantasy |
2 | Seeker | Brigitte DeMeyer | Self-Release |
3 | Calla Lily | The Brother Brothers | Compass |
4 | They're Calling Me Home | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
5 | Have Purpose Live Long | Josie Bello | Self-Release |
6 | The River Flows | John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen | Culture Factory |
7 | Just Beyond the Shine | Peach & Quiet | Self-Release |
8 | Outside Child | Allison Russell | Fantasy |
9 | In These Silent Days | Brandi Carlile | Low Country Sound |
10 | Woman in Color | Raye Zaragoza | Art Menius |
11 | Come Around | Rob Lutes | Lucky Bear |
12 | Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno | Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno | Free Dirt |
13 | Calico Jim | Pony Bradshaw | Black Mountain |
14 | Hearts Town | The War and Treaty | Rounder |
15 | Watchhouse | Watchhouse | Thirty Tigers |
16 | Song to a Refugee | Diana Jones | Self-Release |
17 | Ghost Tattoo | Kristen Grainger & True North | Self-Release |
18 | A Field Guide to Loneliness | Jamestown Revival | Thirty Tigers |
19 | Over That Road I'm Bound | Joachim Cooder | Nonesuch |
20 | The Remains of Sunday | Alec Lytle & Them Rounders | Four Acre |
21 | Desert Ghosts | Jaspar Lepak | Self-Release |
22 | All This Time Running | Craig Cardiff | True North |
23 | Flyover Country | Chicago Farmer | Self-Release |
24 | Last of the Better Days Ahead | Charlie Parr | Smithsonian Folkways |
25 | Another Sky | Kelly's Lot | Self-Release |
26 | Shame and Sedition | Lula Wiles | Smithsonian Folkways |
27 | Annamania | Anna Elizabeth Laube | Ahh...Pockets! |
28 | The River Flows, Vol. 2 | John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen | Fur Peace Ranch |
29 | Joyful Banner Blazing | Maria Dunn | Distant Whisper |
30 | Funeral for My Past | Liz Longley | Tone Tree |
31 | All About the Timing | Roland Roberts | Happy Life |
32 | Poets | Liz Simmons | Self-Release |
33 | Love & Rage | Carsie Blanton | So Ferocious |
34 | No Summer | Cinder Well | Free Dirt |
35 | There Used to Be Horses Here | Amy Speace | Windbone |
36 | Covers | Mo Kenney | turtlemusik |
37 | The Midnight Broadcast | Peter Case | Bandaloop |
38 | We'll Never Know Unless We Try | Darling West | Jansen |
39 | Between Here and There | Sarah Morris | AW |
40 | Maybe Key Lime Pie | ThorNton Creek | Self-Release |
41 | Nowhere Sounds Lovely | Cristina Vane | Red Parlor |
42 | Bravado | Rose Cousins | Outside Music |
43 | Queen of the in Between | K.C. Jones | Self-Release |
44 | Do, Baby. | Eric Selby | Self-Release |
45 | The Martin Gilmore Trio | The Martin Gilmore Trio | Self-Release |
46 | Hands and Knees | Two Bird Stone | Wondermore |
47 | Hubble Space Parade | Giriffin Swank | Infirst |
48 | Only Human | Luke LeBlanc | 145 Entertainment LLC |
49 | I'm Still Here | Travis Linville | Black Mesa |
50 | This Storm | Tara MacLean & Catherine MacLellan | Self-Release |
51 | Where the Heart Wants to Go | Buffalo Gals Band | Self-Release |
52 | The Ridge | Julian Taylor | Howling Turtle |
53 | See the World Deluxe | Brett Dennen | Mick |
54 | Last Birds | Last Birds | Self-Release |
55 | Live at the Hotel Cafe | Kris Angelis | Self-Release |
56 | Is It You, is It Me | The Dustbowl Revival | Thirty Tigers |
57 | Ledgers and Stones | Thomas Hine | THM |
58 | Without People | Donovan Woods | Meant Well |
59 | Xo, 1945 | Ryland Moranz | Tonic |
60 | Mike O'Brien | Mike O'Brien | Chouchou |
61 | Chasing Echoes | Phil Henry | Board By Board |
62 | Kitchen Days | Braden Gates | Borealis |
63 | Voyageur in Song | David Leask | Self-Release |
64 | True to Life | Gracious Me | Self-Release |
65 | Autonomy | Stephanie Lambring | Tone Tree |
66 | The Balladeer | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers |
67 | Ashes in the Morning | Ken Dunn | Trespass Music |
68 | Blue on Blue | Sylvie Simmons | Compass |
69 | Gone | Tim Grimm | Self-Release |
70 | Let Love Be Your Guide | Dan + Claudia Zanes | Smithsonian Folkways |
71 | Local Valley | Jose Gonzalez | Mute |
72 | The Skies We Look to | Kris Angelis | Self-Release |
73 | Calm in the Eye of the Storm | Ken Whiteley | Borealis |
74 | Awake | Mala Oreen | Self-Release |
75 | An Honest Effort | Matt Patershuk | Black Hen |
76 | Becalmyounglovers | Bowerbirds | Psychic Hotline |
77 | When We Wander | Jesse Terry | Self-Release |
78 | Elisabeth | Zach Bryan | Warner |
79 | I Can Still Hear You | Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche | StorySound |
80 | Look Long | Indigo Girls | Rounder |
81 | No Time for Love Songs | The Mastersons | Compass |
82 | The More I Give | Paula Standing | Self-Release |
83 | Ghost Town | Suzi Ragsdale | Self-Release |
84 | Last Summer | John Batdorf | Self-Release |
85 | Light & Dark | Chris Ronald | Borealis |
86 | Blue Heron Suite | Sarah Jarosz | Rounder |
87 | Golden Loam | Laurel Premo | Self-Release |
88 | Red, White & I Love You Too | The Mastersons | Red House |
89 | 2020 | Eliza Gilkyson | Red House |
90 | Sober Again | Jackson Grimm | Vault |
91 | At the Edge of the World | Mike McKenna Jr. | Self-Release |
92 | Wolf Jett | Wolf Jett | Self-Release |
93 | Birdtalker | Birdtalker | AntiFragile |
94 | Slower | Jules Shear | Funzalo |
95 | Two Saviors | Buck Meek | Keeled Scales |
96 | Scatter & Gather | Shay Martin Lovette | Self-Release |
97 | Why Wait! | Kate Taylor | Red House |
98 | Ballad of a Bad Girl | Kate McDonnell | Self-Release |
99 | One Sky | Philip Scott Poli | Trespass Music |
100 | Quiet Talkers | Ken Yates | Tone Tree |
101 | The Ghost and the Wall | Joshua Radin | Nettwerk |
102 | Long Haul | John Wort Hannam | Black Hen |
103 | Chinook Waltz | Over the Moon | Borealis |
104 | Happy Again | Bill and the Belles | Ditty Boom |
105 | Timber | Bryan Rahija | Thirty Tigers |
106 | All Mine | Sarah Morris | AW |
107 | Strange Flight | The Wanted | Self-Release |
108 | Soaking Wet | River Kittens | Create |
109 | Motivational Speaking | Old Sea Brigade | Nettwerk |
110 | Afraid of Love | Beta Radio | Nettwerk |
111 | Impossible World | Front Country | AntiFragile |
112 | Under the Pepper Tree | Sara Watkins | New West |
113 | After the Great Storm | Ane Brun | Balloon Ranger |
114 | The Romantic | Taylor Ashton | Signature Sounds |
115 | Technicolour Blue | Arrica Rose & the ...'s | Self-Release |
116 | Through the Smoke | Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs | Self-Release |
117 | Uppity | Laura Love | Octoroon Biography |
118 | Somewhere | McKain Lakey | Self-Release |
119 | Pass It on Down | Linda Sussman | Self-Release |
120 | Everything at the Same Time | Caroline Marie Brooks | Outside Music |
121 | Character | Rachael Sage | MPress |
122 | Into the Ground | Beth Whitney | Tone Tree |
123 | Some See the Flowers | Suzie Brown | Mule Kick |
124 | Blue World | Anna Tivel | Fluff & Gravy |
125 | Paws of a Bear | Sofia Talvik | Makaki |
126 | Spell Songs II: Let the Light in | The Lost Words: Spell Songs | Quercus/Thirty Tigers |
127 | Vignettes | Wesley Schultz | Dualtone |
128 | Desires Shape | Stoll Vaughan | Commonwealth Artist |
129 | Love and Leave You | 100 Mile House | Fallen Tree |
130 | Open House | The Fretless | Birthday Cake |
131 | Barn | Neil Young | The Other Shoe |
132 | Homegrown | Neil Young | Silver Bow |
133 | This Too Shall Pass | Chris Wilhelm | Self-Release |
134 | Shadow Work | Rorie Kelly | Self-Release |
135 | The Desert Trilogy, Vol. 1: the Burning Heart | Dean Owens | Self-Release |
136 | Phoenix | JigJam | Self-Release |
137 | Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger | Kronos Quartet | Smithsonian Folkways |
138 | Off off on | This Is the Kit | Rough Trade |
139 | Screaming into the Void | EllaHarp | Silver Harp |
140 | Motivational Speakeasy | Jordan Tice | Padiddle |
141 | Arrivals | Declan O'Rourke | Maiesta Musix |
142 | Settler | Malcolm MacWatt | Singular |
143 | Frontiers Woman | Angela Autumn | Cacti Omen |
144 | Kisbee Ring | Abby Posner | Self-Release |
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