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 | Raising the Bar | Chad Darou | Bell Buckle |
| 12 | Front and Center | Sideline | Mountain Home |
| 13 | Catch Another Dream | Terry Baucom | Dualtone |
| 14 | Fast Train to Lonesome | Eddie Sanders | Engelhardt Music Group |
| 15 | Right or Wrong | Dave Adkins | Mountain Fever |
| 16 | Hats off to Haggard | J.D. Crowe | Truegrass |
| 17 | Community | Gregg Welty | Self-Release |
| 18 | New Moon over My Shoulder | Larry Sparks | Rebel |
| 19 | Urge for Going | Dede Wyland | Patuxent Music |
| 20 | Back to the Country | Merle Monroe | Pinecastle |
| 21 | 30 | Larry Stephenson Band | Whysper Dream |
| 22 | Chaos Theory | Deer Creek Boys | Mountain Fever |
| 23 | For the Record | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers | New Day |
| 24 | Old Country Store | Turning Ground | Pinecastle |
| 25 | Songs from the Blue Ridge | Mickey Galyean | Rebel |
| 26 | Back Where I Come from | Traditionally Wound | Self-Release |
| 27 | Originalist | Audie Blaylock and Redline | Self-Release |
| 28 | Del Mccoury Still Sings Bluegrass | Del McCoury Band | McCoury Music |
| 29 | Carolina Chimes | Rudi Ekstein | Fox Fire |
| 30 | Somewhere Far Away: Silver Anniversary | Blue Highway | Rounder |
| 31 | Cover Story | Love Canon | Canon |
| 32 | Moonshiner's Daughter | Cindy G | Blue Road |
| 33 | What We Leave Behind | Tim Stafford | S&S |
| 34 | Thanks, Mac! | Jerry Wicentowski | Self-Release |
| 35 | Deeper Roots: Where the Bluegrass Grows | Steven Curtis Chapman | SCSEE |
| 36 | A Tribute to the Kentucky Colonels | Roland White & Friends | Mountain Home |
| 37 | Live at the CMA Theater in the Country Music Hall of Fame | The Earls of Leicester | Rounder |
| 38 | Toil, Tears & Trouble | The Po' Ramblin' Boys | Rounder |
| 39 | Time for Love | Donna Ulisse | Billy Blue |
| 40 | For Those Who Care to Listen | Volume Five | Missouri Boy |
| 41 | Groove | The Andrew Collins Trio | Sytesounds |
| 42 | The Tale of Willie Tackett | Caney Creek | 9 Lives |
| 43 | West Virginia Rail | Joe Hott | Rural Rhythm |
| 44 | True Grass Again | Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road | Pinecastle |
| 45 | The Story We Tell | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers | Rebel |
| 46 | Lord Help Me Find the Way | Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys | Stanley Family |
| 47 | Had a Big Time Today | Brennen Ernst | Patuxent Music |
| 48 | Time Won't Wait | Steve Gulley | Rural Rhythm |
| 49 | Have at It | Serene Green | Patuxent |
| 50 | Better Days | Dave Adkins | Mountain Fever |
| 51 | Just Another Story | Clay Hess Band | Pine Castle |
| 52 | Breaks to the Edge | Sideline | Mountain Home |
| 53 | High Peaks & New Ground | Steve Gulley | Rural Rhythm |
| 54 | Queen City Jubilee | The Slocan Ramblers | SloMusic |
| 55 | Forever and a Day | Mark Kuykendall & Bobby Hicks | Rebel |
| 56 | Long Ago | Jim and Lynna Woolsey | Bonefire |
| 57 | Time Has Made a Change | Jeff Parker & Company | Truegrass |
| 58 | Epilogue: a Tribute to John Duffey | Smithsonian Folkways | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 59 | Tradition | Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman | Self-Release |
| 60 | The Tillers | The Tillers | Sofaburn |
| 61 | When the Crops Are Laid by | The Gospel Plowboys | Bridge Building |
| 62 | Songs Like Those for Days Like These | The Chigger Hill Boys & Terri | Great Escape |
| 63 | Sounds of Kentucky Grass | Carolina Blue | Poor Mountain |
| 64 | The Hole | John Bowman | Mountain Home |
| 65 | Kentucky Bound | The Misty Mountain String Band | Self-Release |
| 66 | True Colors | Gina Clowes | Mountain Home |
| 67 | Allison De Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves | Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves | Free Dirt |
| 68 | Fire | Midnight Skyracer | Self-Release |
| 69 | Weep Little Willow | Larry Stephenson Band | Whysper Dream |
| 70 | Ramblin' Feels Good | Jeff Scroggins & Colorado | Self-Release |
| 71 | Acoustic Milestones: 20 Years | Mark Johnson & Emory Lester | Self-Release |
| 72 | Made to Move | Chris Jones & the Night Drivers | Mountain Home |
| 73 | Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys | Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys | Stanley Family |
| 74 | A Golden Anniversary Celebraton | Ray Edwards | Pinecastle |
| 75 | The Girl I Left Behind - Single | First Ladies Of Bluegrass | Compass |
| 76 | Unbroken | Trinity River Band | Orange Blossom |
| 77 | You've Still Got It | Damian Muller | Self-Release |
| 78 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Mercury Nashville | Mercury |
| 79 | Boeing Boeing 707 - Single | Chris Roberts | Engelhardt Music Group |
| 80 | The Game | Blue Highway | Rounder |
| 81 | Travel Down This Road with Me | Leona Williams, Ron Williams & Bluegrass Martinss | Loveshine |
| 82 | Meadow Mountain | Meadow Mountain | Tape Time |
| 83 | Hanging Tree | Blue Mafia | Pinecastle |
| 84 | Original Traditional | Blue Highway | Rounder |
| 85 | Lover's Leap | Darrell Webb | Mountain Fever |
| 86 | Tracks and Trains | Lou Reid & Carolina | Self-Release |
| 87 | Next Train South - Single | The Po' Ramblin' Boys | Rounder |
| 88 | Kentucky Turnpike - Single | Tim Crouch & Dennis Crouch | Engelhardt Music Group |
| 89 | My Kind of Country | Nathan Stanley | Self-Release |
| 90 | Rattle & Roar | The Earls of Leicester | Rounder |
| 91 | Bluegrass Rules! | Ricky Skaggs | Rounder |
| 92 | Here to Stay | Adam Steffey | Mountain Home |
| 93 | A Heart Never Knows | The Price Sisters | Rebel |
| 94 | No End in Sight - Single | Darin & Brooke Aldridge | Mountain Home Music |
| 95 | Looking Back | Scott Tackett | Kindred Records |
| 96 | Swing West | The Reno Brothers | Pinecastle |
| 97 | Short Stories | Beppe Gambetta | Borialis |
| 98 | Foggy Mountain Jamboree | Flatt & Scruggs | Columbia/Legacy CK-92801 |
| 99 | Will I Ever Know | Track 145 | Self-Release |
| 100 | The Back Forty | Marty Raybon | Rural Rhythm |
| 101 | Living for the Moment | Kristy Cox | Pisgah Ridge |
| 102 | What Should Have Been | Honi Deaton | Chateau Music Group |
| 103 | The Road That Brings You Home | Jim and Lynna Woolsey | Broken Record Records |
| 104 | Benefit of Doubt | Pam Gadd | Home Sweet Highway |
| 105 | The Blues Are Still the Blues | The Traditional Grass | Rebel Records |
| 106 | The Legacy Continues | Nathan Stanley | Self-Release |
| 107 | Archaic | Travers Chandler | Patuxent |
| 108 | Sings Hank Williams | Larry Sparks | Rebel |
| 109 | Adventures of a Blue Grass Boy | Tom Ewing | Patuxent |
| 110 | Groceries, Gas & Used Cars | Nick Chandler & Delivered | Self-Release |
| 111 | Only Me | Rhonda Vincent | Upper Management |
| 112 | Country Grass | Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road | Pinecastle |
| 113 | Cold | Balsam Range | Mountain Home |
| 114 | Like I Used to | Donna Ulisse | Billy Blue |
| 115 | Delloroto Island | Victor Furtado | Patuxent Music |
| 116 | It's About Tyme | Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out | Break A String |
| 117 | Silence in These Walls | Donna Ulisse | Mountain Home |
| 118 | Right or Wrong | Sideline | Mountain Home |
| 119 | Croweology | Rickey Wasson | Truegrass Entertainment |
| 120 | The Old School Road | The Grass Cats | New Time Records |
| 121 | Dancin' Annie | Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie | Rural Rhythm Records |
| 122 | Silver and Gold | Claire Lynch | Rounder |
| 123 | Bring Me Home | Most Wanted Bluegrass | Unknown |
| 124 | The Bramble and the Rose | Lynn Morris | Rounder |
| 125 | 40 | Larry Sparks | Rebel Records |
| 126 | Bloodline | Darrell Webb | Rural Rhythm Records |
| 127 | Zink & Company | Zink & Company | Unknown |
| 128 | Hardest Kind of Memories | Brandon Lee Adams | Self-Release |
| 129 | Look for Me | Angelica Grim | Patuxent |
| 130 | Good Time Blues | The Boys from Indiana | Rebel |
| 131 | Places I've Been | Gold Heart | Mountain Fever |
| 132 | I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky (A Bill Monroe Celebration) | Audie Blaylock and Redline | Rural Rhythm |
| 133 | Fiddle Patch | Bobby Hicks | Rounder |
| 134 | Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go | The Nashville Bluegrass Band | Sugar Hill |
| 135 | In Good Company | Bill Evans | native and fine |
| 136 | Hard Cry Moon | Donna Ulisse | Hadley Music Group |
| 137 | Wandering Again | Chris Burton | Self-Release |
| 138 | Living the Dream | The Spinney Brothers | Mountain Fever |
| 139 | Frost on the Pumpkin | Kenny Baker | County Records |
| 140 | Second Season | Kristin Scott Benson | Pinecastle |
| 141 | Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration - a Classic Bluegrass Tribute | Ralph Stanley | Rounder |
| 142 | Bluegrass & Beyond | Bobby Osborne | Rounder |
| 143 | David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition | David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition | Self-Release |
| 144 | Going Home | The Little Roy and Lizzy Show | Stowtown |
| 145 | Carnegie Tradition: a Tribute to Flatt and Scruggs | Carnegie Tradition | Raincoe |
| 146 | Life is a Story | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers | New Day |
| 147 | For the Record | Joe Mullins | Unknown |
| 148 | Happy Prisoner: the Bluegrass Sessions | Robert Earl Keen | Dualtone |
| 149 | Different Roads | The Seldom Scene | Rebel Records |
| 150 | Burden Bearer | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Mountain Home |
| 151 | Tools of the Trade | The Cache Valley Drifters | Flying Fish |
| 152 | Bluegrass Hits and Heartsongs | Mac Wiseman | Rebel |
| 153 | Me and the Stars - Single | The Wooks | Self-Release |
| 154 | Old Friends Get Together | Crowe, Lawson & Williams | Mountain Home Records |
| 155 | Blue Rambler 2 | Laurel Canyon Ramblers | Sugar Hill |
| 156 | 20th Anniversary | Larry Stephenson Band | Pinecastle |
| 157 | Wondrous Love | Blue Highway | Rounder |
| 158 | Traveling Show | Songs From The Road Band | Lucks Dumpy Toad |
| 159 | Walter & Alice | Concession 23 | Self Release |
| 160 | Jump off the Ship | Trinity River Band | Orange Blossom |
| 161 | Old Time Power | David Peterson & 1946 | Self-Release |
| 162 | Quartet | Peter Rowan and Tony Rice | Rounder |
| 163 | Mountain Voodoo | Balsam Range | Mountain Home |
| 164 | Song for a Winter's Night (Single) | Sideline | Mountain Home Music Company, a division of Crossroads Entertainment & Marketing, Inc. |
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