Top Folk Album Chart for the Year of 2023

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2023

	Album Title	Band/Artist Name	Label	Sub Genre
1	You're the One	Rhiannon Giddens	Nonesuch	Contemporary Folk
2	Yellow Peril	Nat Myers	Easy Eye Sound	Alternative Folk
3	Witness Trees	David G Smith	Hey Dave	Alternative Folk
4	Wilderness Within You	Parker Millsap	Okrahoma	Contemporary Folk
5	Home	Eliza Gilkyson	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
6	One More Time Before You Go: a Tribute to Tony Rice	Dan Tyminski	North Star	Traditional Folk
7	You Never Can Tell	Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
8	Sticks and Stones	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	6 Ace	Contemporary Folk
9	Celebrants	Nickel Creek	Thirty Tigers	Contemporary Folk
10	Wide Open Light	Ben Harper	Chrysalis	Alternative Folk
11	Jump for Joy	Hiss Golden Messenger	Merge	Alternative Folk
12	1988	Lori McKenna	Thirty Tigers	Contemporary Folk
13	Tell Me Who You Are: a Live Tribute to Odetta	Misty Blues	Guitar One	Traditional Folk
14	Cardiac	Aarythmers	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
15	Emotional Contracts	Deer Tick	ATO	Alternative Folk
16	In the Moment	Raveis Kole	Bop	Folk Rock
17	Lay Your Darkness Down	Mark Erelli	Soundly	Alternative Folk
18	Sanctuary	Rebecca Folsom	Sunshine Productions	Contemporary Folk
19	Resilience	Josie Bello	Guitar One	Contemporary Folk
20	Flesh and Bone	Cynthia Marchant	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
21	Larry Robbins: the Singles	Larry Robbins	Mazelations	Contemporary Folk
22	Cup of Sugar	Tim O'Brien	Howdy Skies	Contemporary Folk
23	The Returner	Allison Russell	Birds of Chicago	Contemporary Folk
24	12th of June	Lyle Lovett	Verve	Alternative Folk
25	I Only See the Moon	The Milk Carton Kids	Far Cry	Contemporary Folk
26	Traveling Wildfire	Dom Flemons	Smithsonian Folkways	Contemporary Folk
27	North Georgia Rounder	Pony Bradshaw	Black Mountain	Contemporary Folk
28	Beautiful Thing	Peach & Quiet	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
29	Ozarker	Israel Nash	Soundly	Folk Rock
30	Anarchist Gospel	Sunny War	New West	Contemporary Folk
31	And I for You	Pressing Strings	Evil Teen	Folk Rock
32	Everything is Alive	Darlingside	More Doug	Folk Rock
33	Lover's Game	The War and Treaty	Mercury	Contemporary Folk
34	You Only Get a Few	Upstate	Royal Potato Family	Contemporary Folk
35	Filament	Buddy Mondlock	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
36	Crank It, We're Doomed	Todd Snider	Aimless	Folk Rock
37	Safe to Run	Esther Rose	New West	Alternative Folk
38	Dang Fool	Eric Selby	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
39	Small Towns	StillHouse Junkies	Dark Shadow	Traditional Folk
40	Gonna Be Beautiful	Karney	Self-Release	Folk Rock
41	Tape	Patty Griffin	PGM	Contemporary Folk
42	Bits & Pieces	Malcolm Holcombe	Singular	Contemporary Folk
43	Meat Bird in Beigeville	Judy Nazemetz	Smokey Lady	Contemporary Folk
44	Creatures in the Garden	Karney	Self-Release	Folk Rock
45	Palomar Parade	Sons Of The East	Self-Release	Folk Rock
46	Dark Enough to See the Stars	Mary Gauthier	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
47	There is So Much Here	Glen Phillips	Compass	Alternative Folk
48	A Murder of Songs	Grant Peeples	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
49	Below Sea Level	Aarythmers	Self-Release	Folk Rock
50	Upstate Crossroads	Tim Ball	Irelandville	Contemporary Folk
51	Moving on Skiffle	Van Morrison	Virgin Music	Alternative Folk
52	Sanctity of Silence	Noah Derksen	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
53	Cover to Cover	The Brother Brothers	Compass	Contemporary Folk
54	Shake It Loose Today	Linda Sussman	Sing Out Proud	Alternative Folk
55	Arsonist Daughter	Aspen Jacobsen	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
56	Everyday Legends	Linda Marks	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
57	Cosmos	Darling West	Jansen	Contemporary Folk
58	World Record	Neil Young	The Other Shoe	Contemporary Folk
59	What a Show	Kerry Patrick Clark	Studio 234	Contemporary Folk
60	So Many Wows	Lucie Blue Tremblay	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
61	The Liar	John Fullbright	Blue Dirt	Contemporary Folk
62	Now and the Evermore	Colin Hay	Compass	Alternative Folk
63	Night Work	James Maddock	Songs Of Avenue C	Traditional Folk
64	Whispers from the Woods	Gordon Thomas Ward	Trespass Music	Alternative Folk
65	Folkocracy	Rufus Wainwright	BMG	Contemporary Folk
66	Who Cares	David G Smith	Hey Dave	Alternative Folk
67	A Few Stars Apart	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Fantasy	Contemporary Folk
68	Outpourings	Craig Bickhardt	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
69	Now	Graham Nash	BMG	Folk Rock
70	How Can I Say This?	Annie Capps	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
71	Accentuate the Positive	Van Morrison	Exile	Alternative Folk
72	Moving Through America	Steve Forbert	Blue Rose	Contemporary Folk
73	Appaloosa Bones	Gregory Alan Isakov	Dualtone	Contemporary Folk
74	Where Zat	John Roy Zat	Flyin Bayou	Alternative Folk
75	I'm Your Huckleberry	Tommy Goucher	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
76	The Little In-Between	Tim Grimm	Vault	Contemporary Folk
77	The High Hawks	The High Hawks	Self-Release	Folk Rock
78	The Price We Pay for Love	Julie Christensen	Wierbird	Contemporary Folk
79	Alpenglow	Trampled by Turtles	Banjodad	Traditional Folk
80	Book of Life	Brian Blake	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
81	There for You	Steve Free	Fraternity	Alternative Folk
82	The Ballad of Aesop Fin	Barrett Davis	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
83	Sweet Beginnings	Kathryn Severing Fox	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
84	All Souls Hill	The Waterboys	Cooking Vinyl	Alternative Folk
85	I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself	Colin Hay	Compass	Alternative Folk
86	1977	Michelle Malone	BFD	Contemporary Folk
87	Bones	Melissa Ruth	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
88	Common Nation of Sorrow	Rachel Baiman	Signature Sounds	Contemporary Folk
89	Shadow Kingdom	Bob Dylan	Columbia	Folk
90	You Get It All	Hayes Carll	Dualtone	Contemporary Folk
91	Ever-Changing	The Ruta Beggars	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
92	Among Other Things	Bella White	Rounder	Traditional Folk
93	55	Ellis Paul	Rosella	Contemporary Folk
94	Come Back to Me	Peter One	Verve Forecast	Alternative Folk
95	Make Myself Me Again	Cristina Vane	Red Parlor	Alternative Folk
96	From Where I Stand	Wyatt Easterling	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
97	Hysteria	Billy Jeter	Shine Eye	Contemporary Folk
98	Stand for Myself	Yola	Easy Eye Sound	Folk Rock
99	Hold That Spirit	Raye Zaragoza	Rebel River	Contemporary Folk
100	Raise the Roof	Robert Plant & Allison Kraus	Rounder	Contemporary Folk
101	Close Enough to Hear	Mile Twelve	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
102	York's Lament & Other Stories	Reggie Garrett	WonderDog	Contemporary Folk
103	The Resonant Rogues	The Resonant Rogues	Sassafrass Sounds	Contemporary Folk
104	Songs from the River Wind	Eliza Gilkyson	Howlin' Dog	Folk
105	Mermaid Salt	John Craigie	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
106	Man with the Muse	Bryce Ernest Taylor	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
107	Meantime's Up	Jon Stickley Trio	Organic	Alternative Folk
108	Center of the Universe	Sofia Talvik	Makaki	Contemporary Folk
109	The Waiting Room	Alex Mabey	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
110	I Draw Slow	I Draw Slow	Compass	Contemporary Folk
111	Big Talk	Jarrod Dickenson	Hooked	Alternative Folk
112	All the Eye Can See	Joe Henry	Worksong	Contemporary Folk
113	Sleeping Sun, Waking Moon	Band For Sale	Electric Habitat	Folk Rock
114	Junk Drawer	Steve Wood	Benaji	Folk Rock
115	Rolling Golden Holy	Bonny Light Horseman	37d03d	Alternative Folk
116	In These Silent Days	Brandi Carlile	Low Country Sound	Contemporary Folk
117	Time is Funny That Way	Nina Gerber	Goatscape	Folk
118	Watchhouse	Watchhouse	Thirty Tigers	Contemporary Folk
119	What You Feel is Real	Nina De Vitry	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
120	He Walked on	Tim O'Brien	Howdy Skies	Contemporary Folk
121	Phil Lee and Other Old Time Favorites	Phil Lee	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
122	Brady Street	Dead Horses	Vos & Wolff	Contemporary Folk
123	Uncertain Country	Great Lake Swimmers	Pheromone	Alternative Folk
124	Southern Sun	John Donovan	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
125	Blue-Twangled Folk N Roll	Reckless Saints	Shiny Gnu	Alternative Folk
126	Greener Pastures	The Waymores	Chicken Ranch	Traditional Folk
127	Snake Creek	Pixie and The Partygrass Boys	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
128	A Place Beyond Belief	SLPSTRM	941048 Records DK	Alternative Folk
129	Tired of Trying	Joe Holt	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
130	Passages and Partings	April Verch	Slab Town	Contemporary Folk
131	The New Faith	Jake Blount	Smithsonian Folkways	Contemporary Folk
132	Sisters of White Chapel	Annie Bartholomew	Muskeg Collective	Contemporary Folk
133	Whiplash	Jobi Riccio	Yep Roc	Alternative Folk
134	In the Summertime	Tattletale Saints	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
135	Uranium Maiden	Kate MacLeod	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
136	Age of Apathy	Aoife O'Donovan	Yep Roc	Folk
137	The Rainbow Wheel of Death	Dougie Poole	Wharf Cat	Alternative Folk
138	Sleeping Dogs	Damn Tall Buildings	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
139	Roscoe's Dream	Mapache	Innovative Leisure	Contemporary Folk
140	Landmarks	Helene Cronin	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
141	Nine Apples of Gold	Karan Casey	Crow Valley	Contemporary Folk
142	8th Wonder	The National Parks	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
143	Tiny Beautiful Things	May Erlewine	Tone City Music	Contemporary Folk
144	The More I Give	Paula Standing	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
145	Reimagining	Claudia Schmidt	Self-Release	Folk
146	Seek the Love You're Yearning	Brian Gore Guitar Poet	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
147	Another End of a Year	Connor Garvey	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
148	Coming Home: a Collection of Songs	Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb	Magnolia	Contemporary Folk
149	Lifeline	Laura Zucker	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
150	Shufflemania	Robyn Hitchcock	Tiny Ghost	Alternative Folk
151	Pizza Tickets	Taylor Ashton	Signature Sounds	Contemporary Folk
152	Moon Calendar	Travis McNamara	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
153	Clouds	The Ballroom Thieves	Nettwerk	Alternative Folk
154	From Self, with Love	Lowland Hum	Tone Tree	Alternative Folk
155	Blurry Vision	Shred Kelly	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
156	Borrowed	Grey DeLisle	Regional	Folk Rock
157	At the Roadhouse	The Paper Kites	Nettwerk	Alternative Folk
158	The Darkest Brilliance	Coastwest Unrest	Reclaim	Alternative Folk
159	Breaking the Thermometer	Leyla McCalla	Anti	Alternative Folk
160	Long Day's Journey into Light	Payson Lyon	Earwig	Contemporary Folk
161	Extrovert	Mr. Sun	Compass	Traditional Folk
162	Time out Session #2	The Accidentals	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
163	With You in My Life	Sheila K. Cameron	Glalell	Contemporary Folk
164	Avalanche	Jenny Owen Youngs	Yep Roc	Contemporary Folk
165	Let All Who Will	Chris Pierce	Friends at Work	Contemporary Folk
166	Party Lines	Romen Buffalo and The Loyal Order	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
167	Songs of Our Grandfathers	Zoe & Cloyd	Organic	Traditional Folk
168	Songs for a Winter's Night	Reid Jamieson	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
169	Gold	Carter Sampson	Horton	Alternative Folk
170	Constellations	Meredith Moon	True North	Contemporary Folk
171	Canvas	Natalie MacMaster	Linus	Folk
172	Quietly Blowing It	Hiss Golden Messenger	Merge	Alternative Folk
173	Where I'm from	Mike Berman	Self-Release	Folk Rock
174	Within	Michelle Qureshi	myndstream	Alternative Folk
175	Tell 'Em You Were Gold	Pharis & Jason Romero	Smithsonian Folkways	Traditional Folk
176	Homemaker	Jill Barber	Outside	Alternative Folk
177	Barn	Neil Young	The Other Shoe	Contemporary Folk
178	Love is the Only Thing	Peter Mulvey	Righteous Babe	Alternative Folk
179	Do, Baby.	Eric Selby	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
180	Twenty-First Century Times	Joe Astley	Self-Release	Folk Rock
181	Better Days Ahead	Kate Weekes	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
182	Sem Olhar Ao Tempo	Manuel Maio	Sons Vadios	Alternative Folk
183	Another Ghost Town	Andy & Judy	Self-Release	Celtic
184	Songs of the Celtic Winter II	Ashley Davis	Daisy Rings	Celtic
185	See the World Deluxe	Brett Dennen	Mick	Contemporary Folk
186	Rain in the Desert	Lisa Morales	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
187	Gently As I Go	Caroline Cotter	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
188	Gog Magog	The Trials of Cato	Self-Release	Traditional Folk
189	Ever Onward	Bob and Sarah Amos	Self-Relese	Contemporary Folk
190	Wintertide	Brittany Jean	Self-Release	Alternative Folk
191	Dear Day Dear Darling	Good Morning Bedlam	Good Morning Bedlam	Contemporary Folk
192	Halfsies	Lizzie No	Thirty Tigers	Alternative Folk
193	Songs of Stupid Hope	Jim Brunberg	Self-Release	Folk Rock
194	Something from Nothing	Chris Williams & Kid Reverie	Gray Sun	Alternative Folk
195	The Birds, the Stars & the Chimney Sweeps	Frontier Station	Self-Release	Folk Rock
196	Only This Far	The Rough & Tumble	Self-Release	Contemporary Folk
197	So Much Time, So Much Love	Shelton & Williams	Grass Tank Music	Contemporary Folk
198	Seven Stones	Katie Dahl	Leaky Boat	Contemporary Folk
199	A Great Wild Mercy	Carrie Newcomer	Available Light	Contemporary Folk
200	Ceremony	Tiny Ruins	Marathon Artists	Contemporary Folk

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The Roots Music Report's Top Folk Album Chart for the Year of 2023

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2023