The Roots Music Report's
Top Traditional Bluegrass Album Chart
for the Year of 2019
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aeonic | Balsam Range | Mountain Home | |
| 2 | Benny's TV Repair | Irene Kelley | Mountain Fever | |
| 3 | After All This Time | Blue Moon Rising | Mountain Fever | |
| 4 | Gonna Love Anyway | Louisa Branscomb | Compass | |
| 5 | Smoke & Ashes | The Lonely Heartstring Band | Rounder | |
| 6 | Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Present Appalachian Road Show | Appalachian Road Show | Billy Blue | |
| 7 | A Brand New Shade of Blue | Junior Sisk | Mountain Fever | |
| 8 | Over the Line | Jeff Scroggins & Colorado | Patuxent | |
| 9 | I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me | Carolina Blue | Pinecastle | |
| 10 | Highland Travelers | Highland Travelers | Mountain Fever | |
| 11 | Front and Center | Sideline | Mountain Home | |
| 12 | Catch Another Dream | Terry Baucom | Dualtone | |
| 13 | Fast Train to Lonesome | Eddie Sanders | Engelhardt Music Group | |
| 14 | Right or Wrong | Dave Adkins | Mountain Fever | |
| 15 | Hats off to Haggard | J.D. Crowe | Truegrass | |
| 16 | Community | Gregg Welty | Self-Release | |
| 17 | New Moon over My Shoulder | Larry Sparks | Rebel | |
| 18 | Urge for Going | Dede Wyland | Patuxent Music | |
| 19 | Back to the Country | Tim Raybon Band | Pinecastle | |
| 20 | 30 | Larry Stephenson Band | Whysper Dream | |
| 21 | Chaos Theory | Deer Creek Boys | Mountain Fever | |
| 22 | For the Record | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers | New Day | |
| 23 | Old Country Store | Turning Ground | Pinecastle | |
| 24 | Songs from the Blue Ridge | Mickey Galyean | Rebel | |
| 25 | Back Where I Come from | Traditionally Wound | Self-Release | |
| 26 | Originalist | Audie Blaylock and Redline | The 615 Hideaway | |
| 27 | Del Mccoury Still Sings Bluegrass | Del McCoury Band | McCoury Music | |
| 28 | Carolina Chimes | Rudi Ekstein | Fox Fire | |
| 29 | Somewhere Far Away: Silver Anniversary | Blue Highway | Rounder | |
| 30 | Cover Story | Love Canon | Canon | |
| 31 | Moonshiner's Daughter | Cindy G | Blue Road | |
| 32 | ![]() | What We Leave Behind | Tim Stafford | S&S |
| 33 | Thanks, Mac! | Jerry Wicentowski | Self-Release | |
| 34 | Deeper Roots: Where the Bluegrass Grows | Steven Curtis Chapman | SCSEE | |
| 35 | A Tribute to the Kentucky Colonels | Roland White & Friends | Mountain Home | |
| 36 | Live at the CMA Theater in the Country Music Hall of Fame | The Earls of Leicester | Rounder | |
| 37 | Toil, Tears & Trouble | The Po' Ramblin' Boys | Rounder | |
| 38 | Time for Love | Donna Ulisse | Billy Blue | |
| 39 | For Those Who Care to Listen | Volume Five | Missouri Boy | |
| 40 | Groove | The Andrew Collins Trio | Sytesounds | |
| 41 | The Tale of Willie Tackett | Caney Creek | 9 Lives | |
| 42 | West Virginia Rail | Joe Hott | Rural Rhythm | |
| 43 | True Grass Again | Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road | Pinecastle | |
| 44 | ![]() | The Story We Tell | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers | Rebel |
| 45 | Lord Help Me Find the Way | Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys | Stanley Family | |
| 46 | Had a Big Time Today | Brennen Ernst | Patuxent Music | |
| 47 | Time Won't Wait | Steve Gulley | Rural Rhythm | |
| 48 | Better Days | Dave Adkins | Mountain Fever | |
| 49 | Just Another Story | Clay Hess Band | Pine Castle | |
| 50 | Breaks to the Edge | Sideline | Mountain Home | |
| 51 | High Peaks & New Ground | Steve Gulley | Rural Rhythm | |
| 52 | Queen City Jubilee | The Slocan Ramblers | SloMusic | |
| 53 | Forever and a Day | Mark Kuykendall & Bobby Hicks | Rebel | |
| 54 | Long Ago | Jim and Lynna Woolsey | Bonefire | |
| 55 | Time Has Made a Change | Jeff Parker & Company | Truegrass | |
| 56 | ![]() | Epilogue: a Tribute to John Duffey | Smithsonian Folkways | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 57 | Tradition | Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman | Self-Release | |
| 58 | The Tillers | The Tillers | Sofaburn | |
| 59 | When the Crops Are Laid by | The Gospel Plowboys | Bridge Building | |
| 60 | Songs Like Those for Days Like These | The Chigger Hill Boys & Terri | Great Escape | |
| 61 | Sounds of Kentucky Grass | Carolina Blue | Poor Mountain | |
| 62 | The Hole | John Bowman | Mountain Home | |
| 63 | Kentucky Bound | The Misty Mountain String Band | Self-Release | |
| 64 | Allison De Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves | Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves | Free Dirt | |
| 65 | True Colors | Gina Clowes | Mountain Home | |
| 66 | Fire | Midnight Skyracer | Self-Release | |
| 67 | Weep Little Willow | Larry Stephenson Band | Whysper Dream | |
| 68 | Ramblin' Feels Good | Jeff Scroggins & Colorado | Self-Release | |
| 69 | Acoustic Milestones: 20 Years | Mark Johnson & Emory Lester | Self-Release | |
| 70 | Made to Move | Chris Jones & the Night Drivers | Mountain Home | |
| 71 | Unbroken | Trinity River Band | Orange Blossom | |
| 72 | Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys | Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys | Stanley Family | |
| 73 | You've Still Got It | Damian Muller | Self-Release | |
| 74 | The Game | Blue Highway | Rounder | |
| 75 | Travel Down This Road with Me | Leona Williams, Ron Williams & Bluegrass Martinss | Loveshine | |
| 76 | Meadow Mountain | Meadow Mountain | Tape Time | |
| 77 | Hanging Tree | Blue Mafia | Pinecastle | |
| 78 | Groceries, Gas & Used Cars | Nick Chandler & Delivered | Self-Release | |
| 79 | Original Traditional | Blue Highway | Rounder | |
| 80 | Tracks and Trains | Lou Reid & Carolina | Self-Release | |
| 81 | Lover's Leap | Darrell Webb | Mountain Fever | |
| 82 | My Kind of Country | Nathan Stanley | Self-Release | |
| 83 | Rattle & Roar | The Earls of Leicester | Rounder | |
| 84 | Bluegrass Rules! | Ricky Skaggs | Rounder | |
| 85 | Here to Stay | Adam Steffey | Mountain Home | |
| 86 | A Heart Never Knows | The Price Sisters | Rebel | |
| 87 | Looking Back | Scott Tackett | Kindred | |
| 88 | Short Stories | Beppe Gambetta | Borialis | |
| 89 | Will I Ever Know | Track 145 | Self-Release | |
| 90 | Only Me | Rhonda Vincent | Upper Management | |
| 91 | Living for the Moment | Kristy Cox | Pisgah Ridge | |
| 92 | ![]() | The Back Forty | Marty Raybon | Rural Rhythm |
| 93 | The Road That Brings You Home | Jim and Lynna Woolsey | Broken Record Records | |
| 94 | Benefit of Doubt | Pam Gadd | Home Sweet Highway | |
| 95 | ![]() | I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky (A Bill Monroe Celebration) | Audie Blaylock and Redline | Rural Rhythm |
| 96 | Country Grass | Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road | Pinecastle | |
| 97 | The Blues Are Still the Blues | The Traditional Grass | Rebel Records | |
| 98 | The Legacy Continues | Nathan Stanley | Self-Release | |
| 99 | Archaic | Travers Chandler | Patuxent | |
| 100 | Adventures of a Blue Grass Boy | Tom Ewing | Patuxent | |
| 101 | Delloroto Island | Victor Furtado | Patuxent Music | |
| 102 | It's About Tyme | Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out | Break A String | |
| 103 | Croweology | Rickey Wasson | Truegrass Entertainment | |
| 104 | ![]() | The Old School Road | The Grass Cats | New Time Records |
| 105 | Good Time Blues | The Boys from Indiana | Rebel | |
| 106 | Hardest Kind of Memories | Brandon Lee Adams | Self-Release | |
| 107 | ![]() | Places I've Been | Gold Heart | Mountain Fever |
| 108 | Silver and Gold | Claire Lynch | Rounder | |
| 109 | Look for Me | Angelica Grim | Patuxent | |
| 110 | Hard Cry Moon | Donna Ulisse | Hadley Music Group | |
| 111 | Wandering Again | Chris Burton | Self-Release | |
| 112 | Living the Dream | The Spinney Brothers | Mountain Fever | |
| 113 | ![]() | Second Season | Kristin Scott Benson | Pinecastle |
| 114 | Bluegrass & Beyond | Bobby Osborne | Rounder | |
| 115 | ![]() | David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition | David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition | Self-Release |
| 116 | Going Home | The Little Roy and Lizzy Show | Stowtown | |
| 117 | Carnegie Tradition: a Tribute to Flatt and Scruggs | Carnegie Tradition | Raincoe | |
| 118 | Happy Prisoner: the Bluegrass Sessions | Robert Earl Keen | Dualtone | |
| 119 | Different Roads | The Seldom Scene | Rebel Records | |
| 120 | Burden Bearer | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Mountain Home | |
| 121 | Old Friends Get Together | Crowe, Lawson & Williams | Mountain Home Records | |
| 122 | Blue Rambler 2 | Laurel Canyon Ramblers | Sugar Hill | |
| 123 | Wondrous Love | Blue Highway | Rounder | |
| 124 | ![]() | Traveling Show | Songs From The Road Band | Lucks Dumpy Toad |
| 125 | Walter & Alice | Concession 23 | Self Release | |
| 126 | Jump off the Ship | Trinity River Band | Orange Blossom | |
| 127 | ![]() | Old Time Power | David Peterson & 1946 | Self-Release |
| 128 | Quartet | Peter Rowan | Rounder | |
| 129 | Mountain Voodoo | Balsam Range | Mountain Home |
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