The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2024
Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
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1 | The Past is Still Alive | Hurray for the Riff Raff | Nonesuch |
2 | Witness Trees | David G Smith | Hey Dave |
3 | Common Sense | Gary Nicholson | Qualified |
4 | Pagan Church | John Craigie | Leslie/Songlines |
5 | Sparrow | Jeff Talmadge | Berkalin |
6 | Win or Lose | Linda Sussman | Sing Out Proud |
7 | Earl Jam | Tony Trischka | Down The Road |
8 | TREES | Laurie Lewis | Spruce And Maple Music |
9 | Simple Motion | Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz | Red Beet |
10 | Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free | Bonny Light Horseman | Jagjaguwar |
11 | Halfsies | Lizzie No | Thirty Tigers |
12 | Wide Open Light | Ben Harper | Chrysalis |
13 | Jump for Joy | Hiss Golden Messenger | Merge |
14 | Welcome to Whatever | Rainbow Girls | Self-Release |
15 | Occulations | Jim Lampos | Self-Release |
16 | Cat Power Sings Dylan: the 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert | Cat Power | Domino |
17 | A Recipe for Hope | Linda Marks | Self-Release |
18 | Dang Fool | Eric Selby | Self-Release |
19 | Accentuate the Positive | Van Morrison | Exile |
20 | Two Birds to Kill a Stone | Son Stone | Kaimana |
21 | Yellow Peril | Nat Myers | Easy Eye Sound |
22 | Silver City | Amy Helm | Sun |
23 | Revelation | Leif Vollebekk | Secret City |
24 | Sing to Me About Tomorrow | Winterlark | Squink |
25 | Year of the Spider | Shannon & The Clams | Easy Eye Sound |
26 | The Newsman: a Man of Record | John McEuen | Compass |
27 | The Ocean Knocked Me Down | Matt The Electrician | Self-Release |
28 | Walking on the Wire | Gordon Thomas Ward | Self-Release |
29 | The in Between | Kevin Gordon | Self-Release |
30 | All Now | The Staves | Nonesuch |
31 | Interpretations: Volume 1 | Alice DiMicele | Self-Release |
32 | Never Better | Wild Rivers | Nettwerk |
33 | Within | Michelle Qureshi | myndstream |
34 | Seek the Love You're Yearning | Brian Gore Guitar Poet | Self-Release |
35 | A Place Beyond Belief | SLPSTRM | 941048 Records DK |
36 | Whiplash | Jobi Riccio | Yep Roc |
37 | Two Singing Songs | Ben Gage | Self-Release |
38 | Echo Me on | Lee Baggett | Perpetual Doom |
39 | Sailing Dreams | Muriel Anderson | Muriel Anderson |
40 | Big Girl Pants | T Sisters | Burning House |
41 | Accompany | Michael Nau | Karma Chief |
42 | Sun Without the Heat | Leyla McCalla | Anti |
43 | Tripping off to Mars | Brad Strang | Self-Release |
44 | Lifeline | Laura Zucker | Self-Release |
45 | Blow My Cover | Ajay Mathur | Yakketeeyak |
46 | From Self, with Love | Lowland Hum | Tone Tree |
47 | Cover Art | The Accidentals | Self-Release |
48 | Everyday Legends | Linda Marks | Self-Release |
49 | Sundust | The Ballroom Thieves | Nettwerk |
50 | Me Daza | Reid Jamieson | Self-Release |
51 | Gold on the Horizon | Our Man in the Field | In the Field |
52 | Seed of a Seed | Haley Heynderickx | Mama Bird |
53 | Uncertain Country | Great Lake Swimmers | Pheromone |
54 | Artifacts | Hello June | 31 Tigers |
55 | The Great Escape | Emily Triggs | Self-Release |
56 | All is Forgiven | Lilli Lewis | Righteous Babe |
57 | Shake It Loose Today | Linda Sussman | Sing Out Proud |
58 | Cadence to the Flame | Nolen Sellwood | New Folk |
59 | Agnes | Keegan McInroe | Self-Release |
60 | Here in the Mountains | The Honey Dewdrops | Self-Release |
61 | Body of Light | The Dead Tongues | Psychic Hotline |
62 | Trevor Hall and the Great In-Between | Trevor Hall | 3 Rivers |
63 | Blue-Twangled Folk N Roll | Reckless Saints | Shiny Gnu |
64 | Rio Bravo | Scott Ballew | La Honda |
65 | Dusty Highway | David Gelman | Self-Release |
66 | Ordinary Magic | Lea Morris | Big Bee |
67 | Emotional Contracts | Deer Tick | ATO |
68 | At the Roadhouse | The Paper Kites | Nettwerk |
69 | Blurry Vision | Shred Kelly | Self-Release |
70 | Shine | Sussex | Lucky Bear |
71 | About the Winter | Barbaro | StorySound |
72 | Dirt | Strung Like a Horse | Transoceanic |
73 | Walk Alone | Josh Gray | Self-Release |
74 | The Coward Brothers | The Coward Brothers | New West |
75 | The Light at the End of the Line | Janis Ian | Rude Girls |
76 | Leap! | John McCutcheon | Appalsongs |
77 | How Can I Say This? | Annie Capps | Self-Release |
78 | American Railroad | Silkroad Ensemble & Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
79 | The Wilburland Session | Rena Guinn & the Gentlemen | Self-Release |
80 | Songs of Our Native Daughters | Our Native Daughters | Smithsonian Folkways |
81 | What You Feel is Real | Nina De Vitry | Self-Release |
82 | There is So Much Here | Glen Phillips | Compass |
83 | Lay Your Darkness Down | Mark Erelli | Soundly |
84 | Moving on Skiffle | Van Morrison | Virgin Music |
85 | 12th of June | Lyle Lovett | Verve |
86 | Come Back to Me | Peter One | Verve Forecast |
87 | Terms of Surrender | Hiss Golden Messenger | Merge |
88 | Phil Lee and Other Old Time Favorites | Phil Lee | Self-Release |
89 | Asterisk the Universe | John Craigie | Thirty Tigers |
90 | Bones | Melissa Ruth | Self-Release |
91 | All Souls Hill | The Waterboys | Cooking Vinyl |
92 | Honest | Ordinary Elephant | Self-Release |
93 | Things Are Great | Band Of Horses | BMG |
94 | Outpourings | Craig Bickhardt | Self-Release |
95 | The Rainbow Wheel of Death | Dougie Poole | Wharf Cat |
96 | 8th Wonder | The National Parks | Self-Release |
97 | Southern Sun | John Donovan | Self-Release |
98 | Brother Sister | Watkins Family Hour | Family Hour |
99 | Whoa! | Strung Like a Horse | Transoceanic |
100 | It's a Beautiful Day and I Love You | Jillette Johnson | Moss Rose |
101 | Changemakers | Crys Matthews | Self-Release |
102 | The Canvas Before Us | Joy Zimmerman | Self-Release |
103 | We Imagined an Ending | Matt The Electrician | Self-Release |
104 | Big Talk | Jarrod Dickenson | Hooked |
105 | A Murder of Songs | Grant Peeples | Self-Release |
106 | Something from Nothing | Chris Williams & Kid Reverie | Gray Sun |
107 | Gold | Carter Sampson | Horton |
108 | Colors & Covers | Brittany Jean | Self-Release |
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