The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2024
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Arsonist Daughter | Aspen Jacobsen | Self-Release |
| 16 | Occulations | Jim Lampos | Self-Release |
| 17 | A Recipe for Hope | Linda Marks | Self-Release |
| 18 | Cat Power Sings Dylan: the 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert | Cat Power | Domino |
| 19 | Man with the Muse | Bryce Ernest Taylor | Self-Release |
| 20 | Dang Fool | Eric Selby | Self-Release |
| 21 | Accentuate the Positive | Van Morrison | Exile |
| 22 | Yellow Peril | Nat Myers | Easy Eye Sound |
| 23 | Two Birds to Kill a Stone | Son Stone | Kaimana |
| 24 | Silver City | Amy Helm | Sun |
| 25 | Revelation | Leif Vollebekk | Secret City |
| 26 | Sing to Me About Tomorrow | Winterlark | Squink |
| 27 | Year of the Spider | Shannon & The Clams | Easy Eye Sound |
| 28 | The Newsman: a Man of Record | John McEuen | Compass |
| 29 | Walking on the Wire | Gordon Thomas Ward | Self-Release |
| 30 | The in Between | Kevin Gordon | Self-Release |
| 31 | All Now | The Staves | Nonesuch |
| 32 | Interpretations: Volume 1 | Alice DiMicele | Self-Release |
| 33 | Never Better | Wild Rivers | Nettwerk |
| 34 | A Place Beyond Belief | SLPSTRM | 941048 Records DK |
| 35 | Whiplash | Jobi Riccio | Yep Roc |
| 36 | Within | Michelle Qureshi | myndstream |
| 37 | Seek the Love You're Yearning | Brian Gore Guitar Poet | Self-Release |
| 38 | Two Singing Songs | Ben Gage | Self-Release |
| 39 | Accompany | Michael Nau | Karma Chief |
| 40 | Echo Me on | Lee Baggett | Perpetual Doom |
| 41 | Sailing Dreams | Muriel Anderson | Muriel Anderson |
| 42 | Sun Without the Heat | Leyla McCalla | Anti |
| 43 | Big Girl Pants | T Sisters | Burning House |
| 44 | Lifeline | Laura Zucker | Self-Release |
| 45 | Tripping off to Mars | Brad Strang | Self-Release |
| 46 | Blow My Cover | Ajay Mathur | Yakketeeyak |
| 47 | From Self, with Love | Lowland Hum | Tone Tree |
| 48 | Cover Art | The Accidentals | Self-Release |
| 49 | Everyday Legends | Linda Marks | Self-Release |
| 50 | Sundust | The Ballroom Thieves | Nettwerk |
| 51 | Me Daza | Reid Jamieson | Self-Release |
| 52 | Gold on the Horizon | Our Man in the Field | In the Field |
| 53 | Seed of a Seed | Haley Heynderickx | Mama Bird |
| 54 | Uncertain Country | Great Lake Swimmers | Pheromone |
| 55 | Trevor Hall and the Great In-Between | Trevor Hall | 3 Rivers |
| 56 | Cadence to the Flame | Nolen Sellwood | New Folk |
| 57 | Shake It Loose Today | Linda Sussman | Sing Out Proud |
| 58 | Agnes | Keegan McInroe | Self-Release |
| 59 | Here in the Mountains | The Honey Dewdrops | Self-Release |
| 60 | Rio Bravo | Scott Ballew | La Honda |
| 61 | Blue-Twangled Folk N Roll | Reckless Saints | Shiny Gnu |
| 62 | Epic Journey | Lucas Imbiriba | Self-Release |
| 63 | Dusty Highway | David Gelman | Self-Release |
| 64 | Emotional Contracts | Deer Tick | ATO |
| 65 | Ordinary Magic | Lea Morris | Big Bee |
| 66 | At the Roadhouse | The Paper Kites | Nettwerk |
| 67 | Blurry Vision | Shred Kelly | Self-Release |
| 68 | About the Winter | Barbaro | StorySound |
| 69 | Shine | Sussex | Lucky Bear |
| 70 | Dirt | Strung Like a Horse | Transoceanic |
| 71 | Walk Alone | Josh Gray | Self-Release |
| 72 | The Coward Brothers | The Coward Brothers | New West |
| 73 | The Light at the End of the Line | Janis Ian | Rude Girls |
| 74 | Leap! | John McCutcheon | Appalsongs |
| 75 | How Can I Say This? | Annie Capps | Self-Release |
| 76 | Dark Enough to See the Stars | Mary Gauthier | Self-Release |
| 77 | We Imagined an Ending | Matt The Electrician | Self-Release |
| 78 | Moving on Skiffle | Van Morrison | Virgin Music |
| 79 | Brother Sister | Watkins Family Hour | Family Hour |
| 80 | Lay Your Darkness Down | Mark Erelli | Soundly |
| 81 | Terms of Surrender | Hiss Golden Messenger | Merge |
| 82 | 12th of June | Lyle Lovett | Verve |
| 83 | Whoa! | Strung Like a Horse | Transoceanic |
| 84 | Pseudonymous | WhiteWater Ramble | Self-Release |
| 85 | There is So Much Here | Glen Phillips | Compass |
| 86 | Acoustic Crossroads | Brad Strang | Self-Release |
| 87 | Songs of Our Native Daughters | Our Native Daughters | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 88 | What You Feel is Real | Nina De Vitry | Self-Release |
| 89 | Asterisk the Universe | John Craigie | Thirty Tigers |
| 90 | Things Are Great | Band Of Horses | BMG |
| 91 | Lucky Enough | Reed Foehl | Green Mountain |
| 92 | The State That We Are in | Rachel Garlin | Self-Release |
| 93 | Heart So Rare | Dave Murphy | Self-Release |
| 94 | Joni Mitchell at Newport (Live) | Joni Mitchell | Rhino |
| 95 | All Souls Hill | The Waterboys | Cooking Vinyl |
| 96 | Honest | Ordinary Elephant | Self-Release |
| 97 | Geist | Shannon Lay | Sub Pop |
| 98 | Watkins Family Hour Vol. II | Watkins Family Hour | Family Hour/Thirty Tigers |
| 99 | SHEL | SHEL | Moraine |
| 100 | It's a Beautiful Day and I Love You | Jillette Johnson | Moss Rose |
| 101 | Come Back to Me | Peter One | Verve Forecast |
| 102 | Leave No Bridge Unburned | Whitehorse | Six Shooter |
| 103 | Phil Lee and Other Old Time Favorites | Phil Lee | Self-Release |
| 104 | Wintertide | Brittany Jean | Self-Release |
| 105 | Bones | Melissa Ruth | Self-Release |
| 106 | The Canvas Before Us | Joy Zimmerman | Self-Release |
| 107 | Colors & Covers | Brittany Jean | Self-Release |
| 108 | Shore | Fleet Foxes | Anti |
| 109 | Be Here Instead | Parker Millsap | Oklahoma/Thirty Tigers |
| 110 | Winter is for Lovers | Ben Harper | Anti |
| 111 | A Very Lonely Solstice | Fleet Foxes | Anti |
| 112 | Mermaid Salt | John Craigie | Self-Release |
| 113 | Safe to Run | Esther Rose | New West |
| 114 | Outpourings | Craig Bickhardt | Self-Release |
| 115 | The Rainbow Wheel of Death | Dougie Poole | Wharf Cat |
| 116 | 8th Wonder | The National Parks | Self-Release |
| 117 | Southern Sun | John Donovan | Self-Release |
| 118 | Shall We Hope | Tony Trischka | Shefa |
| 119 | Revolutionary Love | Ani DiFranco | Righteous Babe |
| 120 | Changemakers | Crys Matthews | Self-Release |
| 121 | Big Talk | Jarrod Dickenson | Hooked |
| 122 | A Murder of Songs | Grant Peeples | Self-Release |
| 123 | Something from Nothing | Chris Williams & Kid Reverie | Gray Sun |
| 124 | Gold | Carter Sampson | Horton |
| 125 | Some Good Lives | Shook Twins | Dutch |
| 126 | Empathy and Comedy | Jay Brown | Self-Release |
| 127 | The Long Game | Johnathan Rice | Mano Walker |
| 128 | Another Burn on the Astroturf | Bart Budwig | Fluff & Gravy |
| 129 | Eno Axis | H.C. McEntire | Merge |
| 130 | Gravity, Wings, and Heavy Things | Chuck Brodsky | Self-Release |
| 131 | Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions | The Dream Syndicate | Fire |
| 132 | Heart over Head | Cassie Jean and the Fireflies | Self-Release |
| 133 | Shufflemania | Robyn Hitchcock | Tiny Ghost |
| 134 | Wherever You Aren't | Elizabeth Moen | Self-Release |
| 135 | Paint Horse | Benjamin Dakota Rogers | Good People |
| 136 | Meantime's Up | Jon Stickley Trio | Organic |
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