The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2019

1
What It is
by: Hayes Carll

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Dualtone
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
2
Patty Griffin
by: Patty Griffin

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Thirty Tigers
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
3
Assiniboine & the Red
by: The Small Glories

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Red House
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
4
What Will We Do
by: Lula Wiles

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazonbuy on CD Baby
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
5
The Storyteller's Suitcase
by: Ellis Paul

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Rosella
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
6
Front Porch
by: Joy Williams

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Sensibility
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
7
Standard Deviation
by: Danny Schmidt

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Live Once
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
8
Stay Human, Vol. 2
by: Michael Franti & Spearhead

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Boo Boo Wax
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
9
Adobe Road
by: Cej

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Gnosong
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
10
Mint Condition
by: Caroline Spence

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Rounder
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
11
Heart Land Again
by: Tim Grimm

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
12
There is No Other (with Francesco Turrisi)
by: Rhiannon Giddens

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Nonesuch
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
13
Better by Now
by: Benjamin Dakota Rogers

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Trespass Music
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
14
The Question
by: Anna Tivel

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Fluff And Gravy
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
15
Easy Money
by: Old Man Luedecke

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: True North
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
16
Hummingbird
by: John Smith

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Commoner
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
17
Everything's Shifting
by: Madison Violet

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Passenger Sounds
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
18
Charlie Parr
by: Charlie Parr

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Red House
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
19
Visions
by: Alice Howe

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
20
How We Want to Live
by: Lisa Bastoni

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Sweet Ondine
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
21
Adaptations
by: Maya De Vitry

Buy Now:
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
22
The Only Ones
by: The Milk Carton Kids

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Thirty Tigers
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
23
Dreams on Hold
by: Sarah Eide

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazonbuy on CD Baby
Label: Sugarbird
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
24
To Everyone in All the World: a Celebration of Pete Seeger
by: John McCutcheon

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Appalseed
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
25
Between the Country
by: Ian Noe

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Thirty Tigers
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
26
Soil in the Sky
by: Heather Maloney

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Signature Sounds
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
27
Paws of a Bear
by: Sofia Talvik

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Makaki
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
28
Pass It on Down
by: Linda Sussman

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
29
Riverland
by: Eric Brace, Peter Cooper & Thomm Jutz

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Red Beet
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
30
Coyote
by: Catherine MacLellan

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
31
Cold
by: Mean Mary

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
32
Seneca
by: Charles Wesley Godwin

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
33
Is It the Kiss
by: Ana Egge

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: StorySound
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
34
Caravan of Dawn
by: The Levins

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
35
All That's Real
by: Gathering Sparks

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Borealis
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
36
Back to Shore
by: Shari Ulrich

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Borealis
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
37
Casey Joe Lambert
by: Casey Joe Lambert

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Hill Country Artists
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
38
Come on Up to the House - Women Sing Waits
by: Dualtone

Buy Now:
buy on Amazon
Label: Dualtone
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
39
Medicine for Living
by: Alexa Rose

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Big Legal Mess
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
40
Straight to Marrow
by: Clint Alphin

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazonbuy on CD Baby
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
41
MWI
by: Jadea Kelly

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Tone Tree
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
42
Conspirators
by: Guy Forsyth

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Small and Nimble
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
43
PseudoMyopia
by: Rachael Sage

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: MPress
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
44
Tree of Shade
by: Driftwood

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
45
Acorns
by: Ben Winship

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazonbuy on CD Baby
Label: Snake River
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
46
Talk to a Human
by: Terri Hendrix

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazonbuy on CD Baby
Label: Wilory
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
47
Many a Moon
by: James Hill & Anne Janelle

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Borealis
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
48
To the Girl
by: Joy Zimmerman

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
49
Like the River Loves the Sea
by: Joan Shelley

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: No Quarter
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
50
Wildwood
by: Katie Dahl

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Leaky Boat
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
51
Making Life Sweet
by: The Early Risers

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Itchy Sabot
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
52
Common Man
by: Joe Iadanza

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazonbuy on CD Baby
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
53
In My Pocket
by: Brooksie Wells

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazonbuy on CD Baby
Label: Down Home Diva
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
54
Wooh Dang
by: Daniel Norgren

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Superpuma
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
55
A Bigger Fire
by: Joe Holt

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
56
Winter Stories (feat. Chatham County Line)
by: Judy Collins

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Cleopatra
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
57
Live in L.A.
by: Ken Dunn

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
58
The Hard Stuff
by: Susan Gibson

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Fortherecords
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
59
Pharmakon
by: Humbird

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Green Thumb
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
60
Phoenix
by: JigJam

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
61
The Iron Trios
by: Laurel Premo

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
62
Encore
by: Greg Jacobs

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazonbuy on CD Baby
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
63
Valley of the Bones
by: Jane Kramer

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
64
What if This is All There is
by: RJ Cowdery

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Goosepie Music
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
65
Home
by: Laura Berman

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
66
When the Sun Goes Down
by: Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Dead Reckoning
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
67
Somewhere in the Middle
by: Wes Weddell

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
68
Second Sight
by: May Erlewine

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on CD Baby
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
69
The Climb
by: Grady Shawver

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on CD Baby
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
70
Stay the Course
by: Same Latitude As Rome

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazonbuy on CD Baby
Label: Peter C. Boyer
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
71
American Darkness
by: Dan Tedesco

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
72
Rose Avenue
by: Joel Rafael

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Inside
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
73
Everything's Fine
by: Jamie Drake

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazonbuy on CD Baby
Label: AntiFragile
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
74
Frontiers
by: Eddie Berman

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Nettwerk
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
75
Healing
by: Upstate

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Royal Potato Family
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
76
Finch
by: Penny & Sparrow

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Thirty Tigers
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
77
The Point of Arrival
by: Carrie Newcomer

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Available Light
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
78
Noise
by: The Pairs

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Independent
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
79
Heart is a Tower
by: Genevieve Charbonneau

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
80
When They Fall
by: Annie & Rod Capps

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
81
It is As if
by: Jake Troth

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Atlantic
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
82
Father's Son
by: Pierce Pettis

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Compass
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
83
The Blackest Crow
by: Anna Nalick

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Chesky
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
84
The Botox
by: Jamie McDell

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Metropolitan Groove Merchants
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
85
Citizen Alien
by: Leaf Rapids

Buy Now:
Label: Coax
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
86
Reliever
by: William Prince

Buy Now:
buy on Amazon
Label: Six Shooter
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
87
Give Up Your Ghosts
by: Rebecca Loebe

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Blue Corn
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
88
In Sevens
by: Kora Feder

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
89
Speed
by: Keller Williams

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Freeky Disc
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
90
2
by: The Lark and the Loon

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
91
Queen of the West
by: Bob Bradshaw

Buy Now:
buy on Amazon
Label: Fluke
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
92
Yellow Coat
by: Matt Costa

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Dangerbird
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
93
Weight of the Sky
by: Province Of Thieves

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Blue Water
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
94
Light in the Lowlands
by: Kelly Augustine

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Orchard Music
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
95
That Kind of Girl
by: Amy Speace

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Wind Bone
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
96
The Hummingbird Revolution
by: Lesley Kernochan

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Make My Day
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
97
Dirty Mansions
by: Corin Raymond

Buy Now:
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
98
A Beginner's Guide to Bravery
by: David Keenan

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Rubyworks
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
99
Four Directions
by: Eli Lev

Buy Now:
buy on iTunes
Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
100
1000 Miles
by: Bettman & Halpin

Buy Now:
Label: Fiddlin' Lizard
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
101
Baked Not Fried
by: Paul Chet & the Whiskey Chickens

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Wickam Music
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
102
Collection 2008-2018
by: Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Berkalin
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
103
Not to Forget
by: Pint & a Half

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on CD Baby
Label: Pint & A Half
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
104
If I Catch My Dream: Songs of Hope for a Better World
by: Bett Padgett

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on CD Baby
Label: Ceilidhe's Music
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
105
Dedicated to the Proposition
by: Spook Handy

Buy Now:
Label: Akashic
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
106
There Used to Be Horses Here
by: Amy Speace

Buy Now:
buy on iTunesbuy on Amazon
Label: Windbone
Sub Genre:
Connect with the Artist:
 

To start reporting your play-list to the Roots Music Report Apply Here.