Top Folk Album Chart for the Year of 2022

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2022

	Album Title	Band/Artist Name	Label	Sub Genre
1	12th of June	Lyle Lovett	Verve	Alternative Folk
2	Songs from the River Wind	Eliza Gilkyson	Howlin' Dog	Contemporary Folk
3	One More Time Before You Go: a Tribute to Tony Rice	Dan Tyminski	North Star	Traditional Folk
4	A Few Stars Apart	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Fantasy	Contemporary Folk
5	Things Are Great	Band Of Horses	BMG	Alternative Folk
6	Age of Apathy	Aoife O'Donovan	Yep Roc	Alternative Folk
7	Time out Session #2	The Accidentals	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
8	Dark Enough to See the Stars	Mary Gauthier	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
9	Resilience	Josie Bello	Guitar One	Contemporary Folk
10	Anaïs Mitchell	Anais Mitchell	BMG	Contemporary Folk
11	Tape	Patty Griffin	PGM	Contemporary Folk
12	Watchhouse	Watchhouse	Thirty Tigers	Contemporary Folk
13	Violet Light	Maya De Vitry	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
14	Life on Earth	Hurray for the Riff Raff	Nonesuch	Contemporary Folk
15	Ride	Jack Broadbent	Crows Feet	Folk Rock
16	Mermaid Salt	John Craigie	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
17	River Fools & Mountain Saints	Ian Noe	Lock 13	Contemporary Folk
18	Now and the Evermore	Colin Hay	Compass	Alternative Folk
19	Breathe in the World, Breathe out Music	Mike Stevens	Stony Plain	Folk Rock
20	Just Beyond the Shine	Peach & Quiet	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
21	Stand for Myself	Yola	Easy Eye Sound	Folk Rock
22	Rain in the Desert	Lisa Morales	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
23	Coming Home: a Collection of Songs	Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb	Magnolia	Contemporary Folk
24	In These Silent Days	Brandi Carlile	Low Country Sound	Contemporary Folk
25	All Wood and Led	James Lee Stanley and Dan Navarro	Beachwood	Folk Rock
26	Barn	Neil Young	The Other Shoe	Contemporary Folk
27	Tell 'Em You Were Gold	Pharis & Jason Romero	Smithsonian Folkways	Traditional Folk
28	Phil Lee and Other Old Time Favorites	Phil Lee	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
29	Uranium Maiden	Kate MacLeod	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
30	Lighten Up	Erin Rae	Thirty Tigers	Alternative Folk
31	The Light at the End of the Line	Janis Ian	Rude Girls	Alternative Folk
32	Where Zat	John Roy Zat	Flyin Bayou	Alternative Folk
33	Calla Lily	The Brother Brothers	Compass	Contemporary Folk
34	Way Up in the Hills	Sad Daddy	Catfish	Traditional Folk
35	Meat Bird in Beigeville	Judy Nazemetz	Smokey Lady	Contemporary Folk
36	Extrovert	Mr. Sun	Compass	Traditional Folk
37	Last Days of Summer	Lucy Kaplansky	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
38	All Souls Hill	The Waterboys	Cooking Vinyl	Alternative Folk
39	Last of the Better Days Ahead	Charlie Parr	Smithsonian Folkways	Contemporary Folk
40	Small Towns	StillHouse Junkies	Dark Shadow	Traditional Folk
41	Lulu	Good Morning Bedlam	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
42	Awake	Mala Oreen	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
43	Moving Through America	Steve Forbert	Blue Rose	Contemporary Folk
44	Outside Child	Allison Russell	Fantasy	Contemporary Folk
45	Fables in a Foreign Land	John Doe	Fat Possum	Traditional Folk
46	The State That We Are in	Rachel Garlin	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
47	True North	Caroline Spence	Rounder	Contemporary Folk
48	Shake It Loose Today	Linda Sussman	Sing Out Proud	Alternative Folk
49	Yard Sale	J-Rad Cooley	VizzTone	Folk Rock
50	Right Where I Am	Jonathan Edwards	Rising	Traditional Folk
51	Floating on a Dream	Avi Kaplan	Fantasy	Alternative Folk
52	That Spell	Andrea von Kampen	Fantasy	Alternative Folk
53	I Can Face the Truth	Dana Cooper	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
54	Gone, Long Gone	Steve Dawson	Black Hen	Contemporary Folk
55	Chinook Waltz	Over the Moon	Borealis	Contemporary Folk
56	Cover to Cover	The Brother Brothers	Compass	Contemporary Folk
57	Watkins Family Hour Vol. II	Watkins Family Hour	Family Hour/Thirty Tigers	Alternative Folk
58	Neon Blue	Joshua Hedley	New West	Contemporary Folk
59	Cycles	Rachel Baiman	Signature Sounds	Alternative Folk
60	Backroads	Johnsmith	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
61	Junk Drawer	Steve Wood	Benaji	Folk Rock
62	Love is the Only Thing	Peter Mulvey	Righteous Babe	Alternative Folk
63	1960	Martyn Joseph	Pipe	Contemporary Folk
64	Bucket List	John McCutcheon	Appalseed	Alternative Folk
65	Quietly Blowing It	Hiss Golden Messenger	Merge	Alternative Folk
66	Tucson	Amy Speace	WindBone	Contemporary Folk
67	Spell Songs II: Let the Light in	The Lost Words: Spell Songs	Quercus/Thirty Tigers	Contemporary Folk
68	Come Around	Rob Lutes	Lucky Bear	Contemporary Folk
69	Be Here Instead	Parker Millsap	Oklahoma/Thirty Tigers	Alternative Folk
70	Breaking the Thermometer	Leyla McCalla	Anti	Alternative Folk
71	By the Risin' of the Sea	James Kahn	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
72	Open House	The Fretless	Birthday Cake	Contemporary Folk
73	See the World Deluxe	Brett Dennen	Mick	Contemporary Folk
74	Vincent Neil Emerson	Vincent Neil Emerson	La Honda/Thirty Tigers	Traditional Folk
75	The Empress	The McDades	Free Radio	Celtic
76	All is Quiet	Susan Cattaneo	Columbus	Folk
77	Moonflora	River Whyless	Soundly	Alternative Folk
78	Let Love Be Your Guide	Dan + Claudia Zanes	Smithsonian Folkways	Contemporary Folk
79	Afterburn: Folk at Arena Level	Michael Johnathon	PoetMan	Contemporary Folk
80	Some See the Flowers	Suzie Brown	Mule Kick	Contemporary Folk
81	The River Flows, Vol. 2	John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen	Fur Peace Ranch	Contemporary Folk
82	Coyote Red	Bailey Bigger	Madjack	Contemporary Folk
83	Clouds	The Ballroom Thieves	Nettwerk	Alternative Folk
84	All In! - Single	Ray Wyatt	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
85	Bravado	Rose Cousins	Outside Music	Contemporary Folk
86	There's No Going Back	Brandon Reeves	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
87	No. Blood	Reid Parsons	Unsigned Seats	Alternative Folk
88	Desert Ghosts	Jaspar Lepak	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
89	Muscle Shoals Metaphysical	Firekid	Lucky Bird Media	Contemporary Folk
90	Covers	Mo Kenney	turtlemusik	Contemporary Folk
91	Overdue	Severin Browne	Self-Release	Folk Rock
92	Hurricane Clarice	Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves	Free Dirt	Traditional Folk
93	Poets	Liz Simmons	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
94	Head Above Water	Heather Sarona	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
95	Joyful Banner Blazing	Maria Dunn	Distant Whisper	Contemporary Folk
96	Broken English	Eddie Berman	Nettwerk	Contemporary Folk
97	I'm Your Huckleberry	Tommy Goucher	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
98	The Liar	John Fullbright	Blue Dirt	Contemporary Folk
99	Gonna Be Beautiful	Karney	Self-Release	Folk Rock
100	Horizon Line	Dan Navarro	Red Hen	Contemporary Folk
101	The Worst Kind of New	The Lied To's	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
102	Blue Heron Suite	Sarah Jarosz	Rounder	Contemporary Folk
103	Only the Killer Would Know	Valorie Miller	Blackbird	Contemporary Folk
104	Solastalgia	Annie Sumi	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
105	Song to a Refugee	Diana Jones	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
106	Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno	Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno	Free Dirt	Contemporary Folk
107	Sing to the Walls	Chastity Brown	Red House	Contemporary Folk
108	Metamorphosis	Cloud Cult	Earthology	Folk Rock
109	Still Life	Carson McHone	Merge	Alternative Folk
110	The New Faith	Jake Blount	Smithsonian Folkways	Contemporary Folk
111	Roscoe's Dream	Mapache	Innovative Leisure	Contemporary Folk
112	Seeker	Brigitte DeMeyer	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
113	Nowhere Sounds Lovely	Cristina Vane	Red Parlor	Contemporary Folk
114	All This Time Running	Craig Cardiff	True North	Contemporary Folk
115	Wish for You	Allison Moorer	Autotelic	Contemporary Folk
116	Run Like a Bull	Ryan Culwell	Missing Piece	Folk Rock
117	Sidelines	Wild Rivers	Nettwerk	Contemporary Folk
118	Day by Day	Timothy B. Schmit	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
119	Steel and Wool	Kim Beggs	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
120	Harmony Ascension Division	Pete Bernhard	Kahn	Traditional Folk
121	Sleeper	Anna Ash	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
122	This Storm	Tara MacLean & Catherine MacLellan	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
123	(self-titled)	Marcus Mumford	Capitol	Contemporary Folk
124	Hold Our Ground	Tom Chapin	Sundance	Contemporary Folk
125	Biggest Moments	Rob Heath	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
126	Long Haul	John Wort Hannam	Black Hen	Contemporary Folk
127	Spellbound	Judy Collins	Cleopatra	Contemporary Folk
128	An Honest Effort	Matt Patershuk	Black Hen	Contemporary Folk
129	Fugue State	Luke LeBlanc	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
130	I Wanna Start a Band	Britton Patrick Morgan	Self-Release	Folk Rock
131	Heart over Head	Cassie Jean and the Fireflies	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
132	Southern Currency	Jefferson Ross	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
133	The Canvas Before Us	Joy Zimmerman	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
134	Cosmic Dreamer	Barney Bentall	True North	Contemporary Folk
135	Rabbit	Buffalo Rose & Tom Paxton	Misra	Contemporary Folk
136	A Very Lonely Solstice	Fleet Foxes	Anti	Alternative Folk
137	Tired of Trying	Joe Holt	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
138	Light & Dark	Chris Ronald	Borealis	Contemporary Folk
139	From Where I Stand	Wyatt Easterling	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
140	Forgiving It All	Christopher Paul Stelling	Tone Tree	Folk Rock
141	A Better Day A-Coming	Robin and Linda Williams	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
142	All About the Timing	Roland Roberts	Happy Life	Contemporary Folk
143	All Those Days of Drinking Dust	Tiffany Williams	Blue Redbird Music	Contemporary Folk
144	Sleeping Dogs	Damn Tall Buildings	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
145	Tiny Beautiful Things	May Erlewine	Tone City Music	Contemporary Folk
146	Calico Jim	Pony Bradshaw	Black Mountain	Contemporary Folk
147	Hands and Knees	Two Bird Stone	Wondermore	Contemporary Folk
148	Everything at the Same Time	Caroline Marie Brooks	Outside Music	Contemporary Folk
149	Cerulean	Ken Yates	Soundly	Contemporary Folk
150	The More I Give	Paula Standing	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
151	That Was You and Me	Fortunate Ones	Sonic	Alternative Folk
152	A Place Beyond Belief	SLPSTRM	941048 Records DK	Alternative Folk
153	Arrivals	Declan O'Rourke	Maiesta Musix	Contemporary Folk
154	The Local Honeys	The Local Honeys	La Honda	Contemporary Folk
155	Good Luck, Take Care	Terry Klein	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
156	1977	Michelle Malone	BFD	Contemporary Folk
157	Just Like Leaving	Bella White	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
158	Found Light	Laura Veirs	Bella Union	Contemporary Folk
159	Whispers from the Woods	Gordon Thomas Ward	Trespass Music	Alternative Folk
160	Kitchen Days	Braden Gates	Borealis	Contemporary Folk
161	Golden Loam	Laurel Premo	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
162	The Next Best Thing	Graham Lindsey	Self-Release	Celtic
163	For the People	Rupert Wates	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
164	There is So Much Here	Glen Phillips	Compass	Alternative Folk
165	Gravity, Wings, and Heavy Things	Chuck Brodsky	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
166	These Walls	Linda Sussman	Sing Out Proud	Alternative Folk
167	So Much Time, So Much Love	Shelton & Williams	Grass Tank Music	Contemporary Folk
168	Borrowed	Grey DeLisle	Regional	Folk Rock
169	Anthems of Home	HuDost	Open Sesame	Contemporary Folk

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The Roots Music Report's Top Folk Album Chart for the Year of 2022

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2022