The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Mar 20, 2016
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | City Painted Gold | The Brothers Comatose | Swamp Jam | Traditional Folk |
| - | 2 | 2 | In the Magic Hour | Aoife O'Donovan | Yep Roc | Folk |
| - | 3 | 3 | Another Black Hole | Malcolm Holcombe | Gypsy Eyes | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 4 | 5 | Weighted Mind | Sierra Hull | Rounder | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 5 | 4 | Cautionary Tale | Dylan LeBlanc | Thirty Tigers | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 6 | 9 | Something More Than Free | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Southeastern | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 7 | 7 | Sermon on the Rocks | Josh Ritter | Pytheas | Alternative Folk |
| - | 8 | 8 | Servant of Love | Patty Griffin | PGM | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 9 | 10 | Above the Prairie | The Pines | Red House | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 10 | 15 | Long Gone Time | Kevin Gordon | Crowville Media | Folk |
| ▲ | 11 | 17 | Beautiful Scars | Lee Harvey Osmond | Latent | Folk Rock |
| - | 12 | 12 | Tomorrow is My Turn | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 13 | 14 | Ashes & Dust | Winter Wilson | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| *NEW* | 14 | - | Love You Strong | Terri Hendrix | Wilory | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 15 | 13 | Fortune | Rod Picott | Welding Rod | Folk |
| ▲ | 16 | 33 | Just for the Love of It | Happy Traum | Lark's Nest | Contemporary Folk |
| *NEW* | 17 | - | Wilder Side | Carter Sampson | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 18 | 26 | At Peace with One's Ghosts | The Paperboys | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 19 | 27 | The Bell | Tony Furtado | Yousayfurtado | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 20 | 40 | These Are the Days | Burning Bridget Cleary | Burning Bridget Cleary | Traditional Folk |
| ▼ | 21 | 18 | Yours & Mine | Dawn and Hawkes | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 22 | 38 | So Far | David Myles | Little Tiny Records | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 23 | 11 | Beyond the Rain | Quiles & Cloud | Compass | Folk |
| ▼ | 24 | 16 | Watkins Family Hour | Watkins Family Hour | WFH / Thirty Tigers | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 25 | 21 | Compromised | Steve Forbert | Rock Ridge | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 26 | 23 | Before This World | James Taylor | Concord | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 27 | 25 | Washashore Cowgirl | Monica Rizzio | Self-Release | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 28 | 43 | Tomorrow's Child | Jonathan Edwards | Rising Records | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 29 | 30 | Who Zat? | John Roy Zat | Flyin Bayou | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 30 | 31 | Monterey | The Milk Carton Kids | Self-Release | Folk |
| ▼ | 31 | 19 | Wondrous Traveler | The Small Glories | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 32 | 28 | Soaked to the Bone | The Black Feathers | Blue House Music | Folk |
| ▲ | 33 | 35 | Sundown over Ghost Town | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sound | Traditional Folk |
| *NEW* | 34 | - | Paths That Wind | The Paul McKenna Band | Self Release | Celtic |
| ▲ | 35 | 46 | Traveling Circus | No Fuss and Feathers | Roadshow Records | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 36 | 32 | Fine Bloom | Free The Honey | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| - | 37 | 37 | Knockout Rose | The Boxcar Lilies | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 38 | 39 | A Silent Song | Archie Fisher | Red House | Traditional Folk |
| ▲ | 39 | 99 | The Faster It Goes | The Railsplitters | Self Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 40 | 41 | HWY 62 | Peter Case | Omnivore | Folk |
| ▲ | 41 | 69 | Tracker | Mark Knopfler | Verve | Folk |
| ▲ | 42 | 65 | Welcoming the Flood | Scott Wolfson and Other Heroes | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 43 | 61 | Love, Guns & Money | Bianca De Leon | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| *NEW* | 44 | - | The Threshold & the Hearth | The Ragbirds | Rock Ridge | Folk Rock |
| ▲ | 45 | 77 | Birds Say | Darlingside | More Doug / Thirty Tigers | Folk Rock |
| ▲ | 46 | 49 | One Lost Day | Indigo Girls | Vanguard | Folk |
| ▲ | 47 | 96 | Worth the Wait | Goodbye Blue | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 48 | 50 | Under Branch & Thorn & Tree | Samantha Crain | Ramseur | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 49 | 22 | Cicada Rhythm | Cicada Rhythm | New West | Folk |
| ▲ | 50 | 53 | Bright Shadow | Ana Egge | Self-released | Contemporary Folk |
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