The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2022
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just Like That... | Bonnie Raitt | Redwing | Roots Rock |
| 2 | Lucifer on the Sofa | Spoon | Matador | Alternative Rock |
| 3 | Play Loud | The Record Company | Concord | Roots Rock |
| 4 | El Mirador | Calexico | Anti | Roots Rock |
| 5 | I Don’t Live Here Anymore | The War on Drugs | Atlantic | Alternative Rock |
| 6 | The Dream | Alt-J | Atlantic | Alternative Rock |
| 7 | Georgia Blue | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Southeastern | Roots Rock |
| 8 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | Domino | Alternative Rock |
| 9 | Long Time Coming | Sierra Ferrell | Rounder | Roots Rock |
| 10 | Established 1972 | The Nighthawks | VizzTone | Roots Rock |
| 11 | Laurel Hell | Mitski | Dead Oceans | Alternative Rock |
| 12 | Turn My Radio Up | The Coffis Brothers | Blue Rose | Roots Rock |
| 13 | Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You | Big Thief | 4AD | Roots Rock |
| 14 | Together Alone (feat. Eric Ambel) | Sarah Borges | Blue Corn | Roots Rock |
| 15 | Things Take Time, Take Time | Courtney Barnett | Mom+Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 16 | The Future | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Stax | Roots Rock |
| 17 | Dreamland | Amos Lee | Dualtone | Roots Rock |
| 18 | The Million Things That Never Happened | Billy Bragg | Cooking Vinyl | Roots Rock |
| 19 | Glowing Lantern | The Mother Hips | Blue Rose | Alternative Rock |
| 20 | Remote Transmissions, Vol. 1 | The Band of Heathens | BOH | Roots Rock |
| 21 | Exit Wounds | The Wallflowers | New West | Roots Rock |
| 22 | Late Night TV Gold | Shinyribs | Easy Street | Roots Rock |
| 23 | Collapsed in Sunbeams | Arlo Parks | Transgressive | Rock |
| 24 | My Morning Jacket | My Morning Jacket | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 25 | Texas Moon | Khruangbin | Columbia | Alternative Rock |
| 26 | In a Roomful of Blood with a Sleeping Tiger | Bob Schneider | Shockorama | Roots Rock |
| 27 | Avondale Drive | Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers | Compass | Roots Rock |
| 28 | Covers | Cat Power | Domino | Alternative Rock |
| 29 | Dreamland | Glass Animals | Polydor | Alternative Rock |
| 30 | Downhill from Everywhere | Jackson Browne | Inside | Roots Rock |
| 31 | Lucky 13 | Babaux and The Peacemakers | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 32 | Not Your Little Girl | Abby Bryant & The Echoes | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 33 | External Combustion | Mike Campbell & Dirty Knobs | BMG | Alternative Rock |
| 34 | What Happens Next | Davy Knowles | Mascot | Roots Rock |
| 35 | Songs of the Recollection | Cowboy Junkies | Proper | Roots Rock |
| 36 | (Watch My Moves) | Kurt Vile | Verve | Alternative Rock |
| 37 | This is a Photograph | Kevin Morby | Dead Oceans | Alternative Rock |
| 38 | One Last Thing | Jason Lee McKinney Band | Bonfire | Roots Rock |
| 39 | Bloodline Maintenance | Ben Harper | Chrysali | Roots Rock |
| 40 | Help…I'm Alive | The Boxmasters | Thirty Tigers | Roots Rock |
| 41 | In Heaven | Strand of Oaks | Thirty Tigers | Alternative Rock |
| 42 | Cool It Down | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Secretly Canadian | Alternative Rock |
| 43 | Paper Hearts and Broken Arrows | Rod Picott | Welding Rod | Roots Rock |
| 44 | Welcome 2 Club XIII | Drive-By Truckers | ATO | Roots Rock |
| 45 | Young Blood | Marcus King | American Recordings | Roots Rock |
| 46 | House to House | Matt Andersen | Sonic | Roots Rock |
| 47 | Blood Harmony | Larkin Poe | Tricki-Woo | Roots Rock |
| 48 | Sympathy for Life | Parquet Courts | Rough Trade | Alternative Rock |
| 49 | Time Skiffs | Animal Collective | Domino | Alternative Rock |
| 50 | Nightroamer | Sarah Shook & the Disarmers | Thirty Tigers | Roots Rock |
| 51 | Stardust and Satellites | Steve Poltz | Red House | Roots Rock |
| 52 | The Million Masks of God | Manchester Orchestra | Loma Vista | Alternative Rock |
| 53 | Last Days of Summer | Lucy Kaplansky | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 54 | Colder Streams | The Sadies | Yep Roc | Alternative Rock |
| 55 | Rich White Honky Blues | Hank Williams, Jr. | Easy Eye Sound | Roots Rock |
| 56 | Ballads of the Broken | Jelly Roll | Stoney Creek | Roots Rock |
| 57 | Manticore | Shovels & Rope | Dualtone | Alternative Rock |
| 58 | WE | Arcade Fire | Self-Release | Alternative Rock |
| 59 | Angel in Realtime. | Gang of Youths | Warner | Pop Rock |
| 60 | Wilderness of Mirrors | The Black Angels | Partisan | Alternative Rock |
| 61 | Going Places | Josh Rouse | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| 62 | When You See Yourself | Kings of Leon | RCA | Alternative Rock |
| 63 | Lava Lamp | Jonah Tolchin | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| 64 | Letter to You | Bruce Springsteen | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 65 | Skinty Fia | Fontaines D.C. | Partisan | Alternative Rock |
| 66 | Asphalt Meadows | Death Cab for Cutie | Atlantic | Alternative Rock |
| 67 | Love & Algorhythms | Seratones | New West | Alternative Rock |
| 68 | The Lost Year Part 1 | Delta Generators | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 69 | Fear of the Dawn | Jack White | Third Man | Alternative Rock |
| 70 | Daylight | Grace Potter | Concord | Alternative Rock |
| 71 | The Overload | Yard Act | Zen F.C. | Alternative Rock |
| 72 | Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown | Seth Avett | Ramseur | Roots Rock |
| 73 | Entering Heaven Alive | Jack White | Third Man | Alternative Rock |
| 74 | The Last Goodbye | ODESZA | Foreign Family Collective | Rock |
| 75 | Obviously | Lake Street Dive | Nonesuch | Alternative Rock |
| 76 | Snail Rocks | Snail | Self-Release | Classic Rock |
| 77 | This Machine Still Kills Fascists | Dropkick Murphys | Dummy Luck | Alternative Rock |
| 78 | Floating Ghost Hotel | Slink Moss Explosion | Hi-Style | Rockabilly |
| 79 | Circles & the Flames | Anthony Arya | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 80 | Medicine at Midnight | Foo Fighters | Roswell | Alternative Rock |
| 81 | Pre Pleasure | Julia Jacklin | Polyvinyl | Alternative Rock |
| 82 | Extreme Witchcraft | Eels | PIAS | Alternative Rock |
| 83 | By No Means | Jim Keller | Orange Mountain | Roots Rock |
| 84 | The Last Perfect Performance | Paul Bibbins | Self-Release | Classic Rock |
| 85 | Fun Machine: the Sequel | Lake Street Dive | UMG | Alternative Rock |
| 86 | Lifetime Achievement | Loudon Wainwright III | StorySound | Roots Rock |
| 87 | Hair on Fire | Jake La Botz | Under the El | Roots Rock |
| 88 | Daddy's Home | St. Vincent | Loma Vista | Alternative Rock |
| 89 | Waiting for the Daylight | Erja Lyytinen | Tuohi | Roots Rock |
| 90 | Leave the Light on | Pillow Queens | Royal Mountain | Alternative Rock |
| 91 | In Plain Sight | Neal Francis | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 92 | A Light for Attracting Attention | The Smile | Self Help Tapes | Alternative Rock |
| 93 | Blessings and Miracles | Santana | BMG | Progressive Rock |
| 94 | All That You Can Dream | Grant Lee Phillips | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| 95 | The Land That Time Forgot | Chuck Prophet | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| 96 | Never Too Late to Call | Paul Thorn | Thirty Tigers | Roots Rock |
| 97 | Mahal | Toro Y Moi | Dead Oceans | Alternative Rock |
| 98 | The Water Street Trilogy Pt. 1: Wild As the Wild Dogs | The Weber Brothers | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 99 | Milky Stars | Michael McArthur | Transoceanic | Roots Rock |
| 100 | Teeth Marks | S.G. Goodman | Verve Forecast | Roots Rock |
| 101 | Omnium Gatherum | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | KGLW | Alternative Rock |
| 102 | Normal Isn't Normal Anymore | Rod Abernethy | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 103 | No Rules Sandy | Sylvan Esso | Loma Vista | Alternative Rock |
| 104 | Bleed out | The Mountain Goats | Merge | Alternative Rock |
| 105 | Surfing with a Vintage Lady | The B. Christopher Band | Guitar One | Surf |
| 106 | Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? | Tyler Childers | Sony | Roots Rock |
| 107 | Blue Skies | Dehd | Fat Possum | Alternative Rock |
| 108 | For the Sake of Bethel Woods | Midlake | ATO | Roots Rock |
| 109 | The Memphis Recordings | Justin Pickard & the Thunderbird Winos | Fun Guy | Rockabilly |
| 110 | The Astronaut | Jana Pochop | Patient Grasshopper | Roots Rock |
| 111 | Ants from Up There | Black Country, New Road | Ninja Tune | Alternative Rock |
| 112 | Emerald Blue | Andrew Duhon | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 113 | Red, White and American Blues (It Couldn't Happen Here) | Nathan Bell | Singular | Roots Rock |
| 114 | The Other Side | Christian Lopez Band | Paradox | Roots Rock |
| 115 | Wild Loneliness | Superchunk | Merge | Progressive Rock |
| 116 | A Bit of Previous | Belle & Sebastian | Matador | Alternative Rock |
| 117 | CockadoodleDeux | The Legendary Shack Shakers | Alternative Tentacles | Rockabilly |
| 118 | I Wanna Go with You | Wide Mouth Mason | We Are Busy Bodies | Roots Rock |
| 119 | The Misfit | Rhett Miller | ATO | Roots Rock |
| 120 | Labyrinthitis | Destroyer | Merge | Alternative Rock |
| 121 | Alvarado | The Wild Feathers | New West | Roots Rock |
| 122 | Spencer Gets It Lit | Jon Spencer & the HITmakers | Sony | Progressive Rock |
| 123 | Rose Pink Cadillac | Dope Lemon | BMG | Alternative Rock |
| 124 | Noestásaquí | Caramelo Haze | Nacional | Alternative Rock |
| 125 | Black Pumas (Deluxe) | Black Pumas | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 126 | Cave World | Viagra Boys | YEAR0001 | Punk Rock |
| 127 | Observatory | Aeon Station | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 128 | Dripfield | Goose | No Coincidence | Jam Band |
| 129 | Everything Was Beautiful | Spiritualized | Fat Possum | Alternative Rock |
| 130 | Marriage | Deap Vally | Cooking Vinyl Limited | Alternative Rock |
| 131 | Early Morning Rain | Steve Forbert | Blue Rose Music | Roots Rock |
| 132 | American Static, Vol. 1 | Andrew Leahey & Homestead | Mule Kick | Roots Rock |
| 133 | Good People | Bob Malone | Delta Moon | Soft Rock |
| 134 | See Through You | A Place to Bury Strangers | Dedstrange | Alternative Rock |
| 135 | Into the Blue | The String Cheese Incident | SCI Fidelity | Jam Band |
| 136 | Reason in Decline | Archers of Loaf | Merge | Alternative Rock |
| 137 | No Gods No Masters | Garbage | Infectious | Alternative Rock |
| 138 | Only the Strong Survive | Bruce Springsteen | Columbia | Roots Rock |
| 139 | Havasu | Pedro the Lion | Polyvinyl | Alternative Rock |
| 140 | Love Songs for Losers | The Lone Bellow | Dualtone | Roots Rock |
| 141 | Change the World | Ringo Starr | Universal | Rock & Roll |
| 142 | Surface Sounds | Kaleo | Electra | Alternative Rock |
| 143 | Grizzly Peak | The Dodos | Polyvinyl | Alternative Rock |
| 144 | In the Game | Mick Flannery | Chart Room Media | Roots Rock |
| 145 | Calling Cadence | Calling Cadence | hi-res | Roots Rock |
| 146 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Willie Nile | River House | Roots Rock |
| 147 | Projector | Geese | Partisan | Alternative Rock |
| 148 | Excess | Automatic | Stones Throw | Alternative Rock |
| 149 | Butterfly 3000 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | KGLW | Alternative Rock |
| 150 | This is for the Barbarians | Mondo Cozmo | Last Gang | Alternative Rock |
| 151 | Nation of Heat Revisited | Joe pug | Nation Head | Roots Rock |
| 152 | How Many Miles | Bo Ramsey | 3527670 | Roots Rock |
| 153 | Physical Thrills | Silversun Pickups | WMG | Alternative Rock |
| 154 | Bummer Year | Good Looks | Keeled Scales | Alternative Rock |
| 155 | For Work or Love | The Commonheart | Jullian | Roots Rock |
| 156 | Expert in a Dying Field | The Beths | Carpark | Alternative Rock |
| 157 | Doggerel | Pixies | BMG | Alternative Rock |
| 158 | In the Aftermath | Hollis Brown | Mascot | Rock & Roll |
| 159 | The Juice | G. Love & Special Sauce | Thirty Tigers | Alternative Rock |
| 160 | Breaking Point | Jackson+Sellers | Anti | Alternative Rock |
| 161 | Spaceology | The Space Age Travellers | CRS Music | Surf |
| 162 | My Other People | TV Priest | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 163 | Monte Carlo | Abraxas | Suicide Squeeze | Alternative Rock |
| 164 | Old Dead Young (B-Sides & Rarities) | Broken Social Scene | Arts & Crafts | Alternative Rock |
| 165 | Night Gnomes | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | Marathon Artists | Psychedelic |
| 166 | Success | Oneida | Joyful Noise | Alternative Rock |
| 167 | Holiday | Jennah Barry | Forward Music | Alternative Rock |
| 168 | Lonely Beach | Miynt | B3SCI | Alternative Rock |
| 169 | People Helping People | No Age | Drag City | Punk Rock |
| 170 | Digital Dream | Deap Vally | Cooking Viny | Alternative Rock |
| 171 | Artificial Countrysides | Elf Power | Yep Roc | Alternative Rock |
| 172 | Chopper | Kiwi jr. | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 173 | Crawler | IDLES | Partisan | Alternative Rock |
| 174 | Inner World Peace | Frankie Cosmos | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 175 | Apocalypse Love | The Black Lips | Fire | Alternative Rock |
| 176 | After the Head Rush | Art d'Ecco | Paper Bag | Glam Rock |
| 177 | Extend | Robot Slide | Aura Vortex | Alternative Rock |
| 178 | Happening | Launder | Ghostly International | Alternative Rock |
| 179 | The Waterfall II | My Morning Jacket | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 180 | A Higher Place | Tombstones in Their Eyes | Kitten Robot | Alternative Rock |
| 181 | Sunshine | The Black Moods | STEELHORSE | Alternative Rock |
| 182 | Caveman | Gurf Morlix | Rootball | Roots Rock |
| 183 | Music of the Spheres | Coldplay | Parlophone | Alternative Rock |
| 184 | At Home with Southern Culture on the Skids | Southern Culture On The Skids | Kudzu | Roots Rock |
| 185 | Steady | SLOAN | Yep Roc | Alternative Rock |
| 186 | The Golden Casket | Modest Mouse | Epic | Alternative Rock |
| 187 | Super Natural | King Ropes | Big and Just Little | Alternative Rock |
| 188 | Thirsty | Desert Hollow | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 189 | 2020 Vision | Martin Sexton | Kitchen Table | Roots Rock |
| 190 | For Free | David Crosby | Three Blind Mice | Roots Rock |
| 191 | Still Got the Jacket | Jr. Gone Wild | Weewerk | Roots Rock |
| 192 | Hellfire | black midi | Rough Trade | Alternative Rock |
| 193 | SongBook | The Lazy Eyes | Self-Release | Psychedelic |
| 194 | "Hello, Hi" | Ty Segall | Drag City | Alternative Rock |
| 195 | Black Lipstick | Chicano Batman | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 196 | You Reap What You Sow | The Weeping Willows | Compass Bros | Roots Rock |
| 197 | Interlude | Travel Horse | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 198 | Changes | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | KGLW | Alternative Rock |
| 199 | Outside Spectrum | The Empty Pockets | MT Pockets | Roots Rock |
| 200 | If These Walls Could Talk | Luke Winslow-King | Ghost River | Roots Rock |
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