The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2022
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucifer on the Sofa | Spoon | Matador | Alternative Rock |
| 2 | The Future | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Stax | Roots Rock |
| 3 | Play Loud | The Record Company | Concord | Roots Rock |
| 4 | El Mirador | Calexico | Anti | Roots Rock |
| 5 | Downhill from Everywhere | Jackson Browne | Inside | Roots Rock |
| 6 | I Don’t Live Here Anymore | The War on Drugs | Atlantic | Alternative Rock |
| 7 | The Dream | Alt-J | Atlantic | Alternative Rock |
| 8 | The Boy Named if | Elvis Costello & The Imposters | Universal | Alternative Rock |
| 9 | Strictly a One-Eyed Jack | John Mellencamp | Republic | Roots Rock |
| 10 | Nashville Again | The Youngers | Let It Roll | Roots Rock |
| 11 | Established 1972 | The Nighthawks | VizzTone | Roots Rock |
| 12 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | Domino | Alternative Rock |
| 13 | Turn My Radio Up | The Coffis Brothers | Blue Rose | Roots Rock |
| 14 | Laurel Hell | Mitski | Dead Oceans | Alternative Rock |
| 15 | Together Alone (feat. Eric Ambel) | Sarah Borges | Blue Corn | Roots Rock |
| 16 | Stardust and Satellites | Steve Poltz | Red House | Roots Rock |
| 17 | Dreamland | Amos Lee | Dualtone | Roots Rock |
| 18 | The Million Things That Never Happened | Billy Bragg | Cooking Vinyl | Roots Rock |
| 19 | Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You | Big Thief | 4AD | Roots Rock |
| 20 | Glowing Lantern | The Mother Hips | Blue Rose | Alternative Rock |
| 21 | Remote Transmissions, Vol. 1 | The Band of Heathens | BOH | Roots Rock |
| 22 | Exit Wounds | The Wallflowers | New West | Roots Rock |
| 23 | Late Night TV Gold | Shinyribs | Easy Street | Roots Rock |
| 24 | My Morning Jacket | My Morning Jacket | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 25 | In a Roomful of Blood with a Sleeping Tiger | Bob Schneider | Shockorama | Roots Rock |
| 26 | Covers | Cat Power | Domino | Alternative Rock |
| 27 | Dreamland | Glass Animals | Polydor | Alternative Rock |
| 28 | Avondale Drive | Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers | Compass | Roots Rock |
| 29 | Not Your Little Girl | Abby Bryant & The Echoes | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 30 | What Happens Next | Davy Knowles | Mascot | Roots Rock |
| 31 | This is a Photograph | Kevin Morby | Dead Oceans | Alternative Rock |
| 32 | Songs of the Recollection | Cowboy Junkies | Proper | Roots Rock |
| 33 | One Last Thing | Jason Lee McKinney Band | Bonfire | Roots Rock |
| 34 | (watch My Moves) | Kurt Vile | Verve | Alternative Rock |
| 35 | Help…I'm Alive | The Boxmasters | Thirty Tigers | Roots Rock |
| 36 | If These Walls Could Talk | Luke Winslow-King | Ghost River | Roots Rock |
| 37 | In Heaven | Strand of Oaks | Thirty Tigers | Alternative Rock |
| 38 | Follow Your Heart | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Thirty Tigers | Alternative Rock |
| 39 | Bloodline Maintenance | Ben Harper | Chrysali | Roots Rock |
| 40 | Paper Hearts and Broken Arrows | Rod Picott | Welding Rod | Roots Rock |
| 41 | Welcome 2 Club XIII | Drive-By Truckers | ATO | Roots Rock |
| 42 | Texas Moon | Khruangbin | Columbia | Alternative Rock |
| 43 | Cool It Down | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Secretly Canadian | Alternative Rock |
| 44 | Young Blood | Marcus King | American Recordings | Roots Rock |
| 45 | House to House | Matt Andersen | Sonic | Roots Rock |
| 46 | Sympathy for Life | Parquet Courts | Rough Trade | Alternative Rock |
| 47 | Time Skiffs | Animal Collective | Domino | Alternative Rock |
| 48 | The Million Masks of God | Manchester Orchestra | Loma Vista | Alternative Rock |
| 49 | Colder Streams | The Sadies | Yep Roc | Alternative Rock |
| 50 | Blood Harmony | Larkin Poe | Tricki-Woo | Roots Rock |
| 51 | External Combustion | Mike Campbell & Dirty Knobs | BMG | Alternative Rock |
| 52 | Ballads of the Broken | Jelly Roll | Stoney Creek | Roots Rock |
| 53 | WE | Arcade Fire | Self-Release | Alternative Rock |
| 54 | Skinty Fia | Fontaines D.C. | Partisan | Alternative Rock |
| 55 | When You See Yourself | Kings of Leon | RCA | Alternative Rock |
| 56 | Manticore | Shovels & Rope | Dualtone | Alternative Rock |
| 57 | Lava Lamp | Jonah Tolchin | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| 58 | Letter to You | Bruce Springsteen | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 59 | Wilderness of Mirrors | The Black Angels | Partisan | Alternative Rock |
| 60 | Going Places | Josh Rouse | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| 61 | Nightroamer | Sarah Shook & the Disarmers | Thirty Tigers | Roots Rock |
| 62 | Rich White Honky Blues | Hank Williams, Jr. | Easy Eye Sound | Roots Rock |
| 63 | Asphalt Meadows | Death Cab for Cutie | Atlantic | Alternative Rock |
| 64 | Love & Algorhythms | Seratones | New West | Alternative Rock |
| 65 | The Lost Year Part 1 | Delta Generators | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 66 | Leftover Feelings | John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band | New West | Roots Rock |
| 67 | Fear of the Dawn | Jack White | Third Man | Alternative Rock |
| 68 | Daylight | Grace Potter | Concord | Alternative Rock |
| 69 | The Overload | Yard Act | Zen F.C. | Alternative Rock |
| 70 | Obviously | Lake Street Dive | Nonesuch | Alternative Rock |
| 71 | Snail Rocks | Snail | Self-Release | Classic Rock |
| 72 | Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown | Seth Avett | Ramseur | Roots Rock |
| 73 | Floating Ghost Hotel | Slink Moss Explosion | Hi-Style | Rockabilly |
| 74 | Circles & the Flames | Anthony Arya | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 75 | Medicine at Midnight | Foo Fighters | Roswell | Alternative Rock |
| 76 | PRE PLEASURE | Julia Jacklin | Polyvinyl | Alternative Rock |
| 77 | This Machine Still Kills Fascists | Dropkick Murphys | Dummy Luck | Alternative Rock |
| 78 | Extreme Witchcraft | Eels | PIAS | Alternative Rock |
| 79 | Blessings and Miracles | Santana | BMG | Progressive Rock |
| 80 | Daddy's Home | St. Vincent | Loma Vista | Alternative Rock |
| 81 | Only the Strong Survive | Bruce Springsteen | Columbia | Roots Rock |
| 82 | Entering Heaven Alive | Jack White | Third Man | Alternative Rock |
| 83 | Lifetime Achievement | Loudon Wainwright III | StorySound | Roots Rock |
| 84 | Fun Machine: the Sequel | Lake Street Dive | UMG | Alternative Rock |
| 85 | Hair on Fire | Jake La Botz | Under the El | Roots Rock |
| 86 | Leave the Light on | Pillow Queens | Royal Mountain | Alternative Rock |
| 87 | In Plain Sight | Neal Francis | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 88 | Waiting for the Daylight | Erja Lyytinen | Tuohi | Roots Rock |
| 89 | A Light for Attracting Attention | The Smile | Self Help Tapes | Alternative Rock |
| 90 | The Land That Time Forgot | Chuck Prophet | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| 91 | Mahal | Toro Y Moi | Dead Oceans | Alternative Rock |
| 92 | Never Too Late to Call | Paul Thorn | Thirty Tigers | Roots Rock |
| 93 | Milky Stars | Michael McArthur | Transoceanic | Roots Rock |
| 94 | Normal Isn't Normal Anymore | Rod Abernethy | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 95 | The Water Street Trilogy Pt. 1: Wild As the Wild Dogs | The Weber Brothers | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 96 | Bleed out | The Mountain Goats | Merge | Alternative Rock |
| 97 | Beware of Worthless Imitations Vol 1 | Jeffrey Halford & the Healers | Continental Song Cit | Roots Rock |
| 98 | For the Sake of Bethel Woods | Midlake | ATO | Roots Rock |
| 99 | No Rules Sandy | Sylvan Esso | Loma Vista | Alternative Rock |
| 100 | Blue Skies | Dehd | Fat Possum | Alternative Rock |
| 101 | The Memphis Recordings | Justin Pickard & the Thunderbird Winos | Fun Guy | Rockabilly |
| 102 | The Astronaut | Jana Pochop | Patient Grasshopper | Roots Rock |
| 103 | Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? | Tyler Childers | Sony | Roots Rock |
| 104 | All That You Can Dream | Grant Lee Phillips | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| 105 | Red, White and American Blues (it Couldn't Happen Here) | Nathan Bell | Singular | Roots Rock |
| 106 | Ants from Up There | Black Country, New Road | Ninja Tune | Alternative Rock |
| 107 | Omnium Gatherum | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | KGLW | Alternative Rock |
| 108 | The Other Side | Christian Lopez Band | Paradox | Roots Rock |
| 109 | Wild Loneliness | Superchunk | Merge | Progressive Rock |
| 110 | I Wanna Go with You | Wide Mouth Mason | We Are Busy Bodies | Roots Rock |
| 111 | CockadoodleDeux | The Legendary Shack Shakers | Alternative Tentacles | Rockabilly |
| 112 | Alvarado | The Wild Feathers | New West | Roots Rock |
| 113 | Emerald Blue | Andrew Duhon | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 114 | The Misfit | Rhett Miller | ATO | Roots Rock |
| 115 | LABYRINTHITIS | Destroyer | Merge | Alternative Rock |
| 116 | Spencer Gets It Lit | Jon Spencer & the HITmakers | Sony | Progressive Rock |
| 117 | NOESTÁSAQUÍ | Caramelo Haze | Nacional | Alternative Rock |
| 118 | First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder | Todd Snider | Thirty Tigers | Roots Rock |
| 119 | A Bit of Previous | Belle & Sebastian | Matador | Alternative Rock |
| 120 | Observatory | Aeon Station | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 121 | Everything Was Beautiful | Spiritualized | Fat Possum | Alternative Rock |
| 122 | Cave World | Viagra Boys | YEAR0001 | Punk Rock |
| 123 | Marriage | Deap Vally | Cooking Vinyl Limited | Alternative Rock |
| 124 | Rose Pink Cadillac | Dope Lemon | BMG | Alternative Rock |
| 125 | Late Night Polaroids | Bruce Hughes | Broke Dick | Pop Rock |
| 126 | American Static, Vol. 1 | Andrew Leahey & Homestead | Mule Kick | Roots Rock |
| 127 | Good People | Bob Malone | Delta Moon | Soft Rock |
| 128 | Dripfield | Goose | No Coincidence | Jam Band |
| 129 | See Through You | A Place to Bury Strangers | Dedstrange | Alternative Rock |
| 130 | Soberish | Liz Phair | Chrysalis | Alternative Rock |
| 131 | No Gods No Masters | Garbage | Infectious | Alternative Rock |
| 132 | Havasu | Pedro the Lion | Polyvinyl | Alternative Rock |
| 133 | Grizzly Peak | The Dodos | Polyvinyl | Alternative Rock |
| 134 | Surface Sounds | Kaleo | Electra | Alternative Rock |
| 135 | In the Game | Mick Flannery | Chart Room Media | Roots Rock |
| 136 | Ain't It Tragic | Dead Sara | Atlantic | Alternative Rock |
| 137 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Willie Nile | River House | Roots Rock |
| 138 | Love Songs for Losers | The Lone Bellow | Dualtone | Roots Rock |
| 139 | Black Pumas (Deluxe) | Black Pumas | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 140 | This is for the Barbarians | Mondo Cozmo | Last Gang | Alternative Rock |
| 141 | How Many Miles | Bo Ramsey | 3527670 | Roots Rock |
| 142 | Calling Cadence | Calling Cadence | hi-res | Roots Rock |
| 143 | Bummer Year | Good Looks | Keeled Scales | Alternative Rock |
| 144 | Reason in Decline | Archers of Loaf | Merge | Alternative Rock |
| 145 | Physical Thrills | Silversun Pickups | WMG | Alternative Rock |
| 146 | Excess | Automatic | Stones Throw | Alternative Rock |
| 147 | Projector | Geese | Partisan | Alternative Rock |
| 148 | Doggerel | Pixies | BMG | Alternative Rock |
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