The Roots Music Report's
Top Americana Country Album Chart
for the Year of 2022
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calling You from My Mountain | Peter Rowan | Rebel |
| 2 | Paint This Town | Old Crow Medicine Show | ATO |
| 3 | Ghost Stories | The Whitmore Sisters | Red House |
| 4 | The Horses and the Hounds | James McMurtry | New West |
| 5 | Delusions of Grandeur | Sophie & The Broken Things | Petaluma |
| 6 | Obsessed with the West | Brennen Leigh | Signature Sounds |
| 7 | Mad Twenties | Taylor Rae | Self-Release |
| 8 | One Day | The Cactus Blossoms | Walkie Talkie |
| 9 | Tarot Cards and Shooting Stars | The HawtThorns | Mule Kick |
| 10 | Triage | Rodney Crowell | RC1 |
| 11 | I'll Meet You Here | Dar Williams | Renew |
| 12 | A Thousand Turns | The Delevantes | Moon River |
| 13 | Half a Hundred Years | Asleep At The Wheel | Home |
| 14 | Ten Thousand Roses | Dori Freeman | Blue Hens |
| 15 | You Hear Georgia | Blackberry Smoke | 3 Legend |
| 16 | Country Coming Down | Paul Cauthen | Velvet Rose |
| 17 | Mercy | Cody Jinks | Late August |
| 18 | Lil G.L. Presents: Jukebox Charley | Charley Crockett | Son of Davy |
| 19 | Seven Cities of Gold | Moot Davis | Boot Knife |
| 20 | Invisible Pictures | Jeremy Ivey | Anti |
| 21 | Outsider | Jackie Bristow | MesaBlueMoon |
| 22 | Music City USA | Charley Crockett | Thirty Tigers |
| 23 | The Ballad of Dood & Juanita | Sturgill Simpson | High Top Mountain |
| 24 | Denim & Diamonds | Nikki Lane | New West |
| 25 | Songs My Friends Wrote | Corb Lund | New West |
| 26 | Lost Love Songs | The Pine Hearts | Hearth PR |
| 27 | How the Mighty Fall | Charles Wesley Godwin | Self-Release |
| 28 | The Waylon Sessions | Shannon McNally | Compass |
| 29 | The Man from Waco | Charley Crockett | Son of Davy |
| 30 | The Tightening of the Screws | Gurf Morlix | Rootball |
| 31 | To the Passage of Time | Jason Eady | Old Guitar |
| 32 | You Don't Really Know Me | Tim Easton | Black Mesa |
| 33 | Flight Risk | Shoebox Letters | Self-Release |
| 34 | DobroSinger | Abbie Gardner | Self-Release |
| 35 | Kingmaker | Tami Neilson | Outside Music |
| 36 | The Wilder Blue | The Wilder Blue | Soundly Music |
| 37 | What else Can She Do | Kaitlin Butts | Soundly |
| 38 | Dystopian Weekends | Leeroy Stagger | Tonic |
| 39 | Leftovers | Le Ren | Secretly Canadian |
| 40 | Treasure of Love (feat. Butch Hancock, Joe Ely & Jimmie Dale Gilmore) | The Flatlanders | Rack 'Em |
| 41 | Blue Blue Blue | Noel McKay | Self-Release |
| 42 | The Light Saw Me | Jason Boland And The Stragglers | Thirty Tigers |
| 43 | Starting over | Chris Stapleton | Mercury Nashville |
| 44 | The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters | Organic |
| 45 | The Incredible Heat Machine | TK & The Holy Know-Nothings | Mama Bird |
| 46 | Reckless | Morgan Wade | Ladylike |
| 47 | Game Changer | Jim Lauderdale | Sky Crunch |
| 48 | Single Wide Dreamer | Aaron Raitiere | Dinner Time |
| 49 | 11 from Kevin: Songs of Kevin Gordon | Julie Christensen | Wirebird |
| 50 | Long Overdue | Steve Yanek | Primitive |
| 51 | Stardust, Angels, Ghosts! | Nick Binkley | Self-Release |
| 52 | Raise a Banner | Zach Schmidt | Boss Dawg |
| 53 | No Regular Dog | Kelsey Waldon | Oh Boy |
| 54 | Dream Rich, Dirt Poor | Aaron Burdett | Organic |
| 55 | A Whole Lot of Nothin' | The Royal Hounds | Self-Release |
| 56 | Jerry Jeff | Steve Earle | New West |
| 57 | Ramblin' Soul | Melissa Carper | Thirty Tigers |
| 58 | Depreciated | John R. Miller | Rounder |
| 59 | Rock Botom Rhapsody | Pokey LaFarge | New West |
| 60 | At Home Again | Jay Byrd | Triad |
| 61 | The Grief We Gave Our Mother | Matthew Fowler | Signature Sounds |
| 62 | While the Sun Still Shines | Walter Finley | Trueborn |
| 63 | Big Dreamers | Blue Dogs | Kennel |
| 64 | The Vandoliers | Vandoliers | Amerikinda |
| 65 | Frame by Frame | T. Buckley | Falle Tree |
| 66 | Growing Pains | Courtney Hale Revia | Self-Release |
| 67 | This Mess We're in | Arlo McKinley | Oh Boy |
| 68 | Bloor Street | Kiefer Sutherland | Cooking Vinyl |
| 69 | Bullseye | The Shootouts | Soundly |
| 70 | Sweet As You | John Aulabaugh | Self-Release |
| 71 | The People You Love | Robbie Mangiardi | Self-Release |
| 72 | Letters to Aliens | Rhyan Sinclair | Little Haunted Girl |
| 73 | Turning Tides | Grayson Jenkins | Self-Release |
| 74 | Feel Like Going Home | Miko Marks & the Resurrectors | Redtone |
| 75 | Church of Better Daze | Boy Golden | Six Shooter |
| 76 | Wings on My Shoes | Will Hoge | Soundly |
| 77 | Migrants | Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra | Unknown |
| 78 | One Shy of a Six Pack | Doug Schmude | Lost Hubcap |
| 79 | Hope | Jim Lauderdale | Yep Roc |
| 80 | Pins and Needles | Natalie Hemby | Fantasy |
| 81 | Oyo | Oyo | Self-Release |
| 82 | Darkness at Dawn | David Massey | Poetic Debris |
| 83 | Oh to Be That Free | Michaela Anne | Yep Roc |
| 84 | Where I'm from | Joel White | Self-Release |
| 85 | Same Shirt, Different Day | Rodney Rice | Self-Release |
| 86 | If It All Goes South | Amy Ray | Daemon |
| 87 | Leave to Come Home | Just A Season | Northern Electric |
| 88 | That's How Rumors Get Started | Margo Price | Loma Vista |
| 89 | What's a Song Worth | Eddie Kesler & 3/4 Time | Self-Release |
| 90 | Birds in the Ceiling | John Moreland | Old Omens |
| 91 | Hello from the End of the World | Trae Sheehan | Self-Release |
| 92 | Stripped Gear | Rusty Gear | Chickahominy Marsh |
| 93 | Decembering | Tony Furtado | Self-Release |
| 94 | Eden and Her Borderlands | Anya Hinkle | Organic |
| 95 | Show Up and Love Me | Joe McClour | Self-Release |
| 96 | Take It Like a Man | Amanda Shires | ATO |
| 97 | Ways & Means | The Deslondes | New West |
| 98 | Solitaire | Ted Russell Kamp | PoMo |
| 99 | Come Morning | The Bros. Landreth | Birthday Cake |
| 100 | Don't Ever Stop: the Nashville Sessions | Steven Graves | Self-Release |
| 101 | The Confluence | Cole Gallagher | Raggy & Balls |
| 102 | The Way the River Goes | Dan Weber | Self-Release |
| 103 | Troubadour Songs (Vol. 1) | Robert Cline Jr. | Mockingbird |
| 104 | Going the Distance | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus | Berkalin |
| 105 | Then and Now | The North Star Band | Self-Release |
| 106 | Star-crossed | Kacey Musgraves | Interscope |
| 107 | Clouding Up Your City | The Damn Quails | HonkyTonk Laboratory |
| 108 | Lonesome Desert Strum | David Gideon | Self-Release |
| 109 | Mighty Love | 3 Pairs of Boots | Dark Country |
| 110 | Soul of a Showgirl | Kyra Gordon | Self-Release |
| 111 | Hourglass | Murray McLauchlan | True North |
| 112 | From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings | Dave Alvin | Yep Roc |
| 113 | Bullies in the Backyard | Matt North | Self-Release |
| 114 | Changing Faces | The Deep Dark Woods | Six Shooter |
| 115 | Back in Business | Dave Goddess Group | Emotional |
| 116 | American Siren | Emily Scott Robinson | Oh Boy |
| 117 | Forsythia | Caleb Caudle | Soundly |
| 118 | Ramble in Music City: the Lost Concert (Live) | Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers | Nonesuch |
| 119 | Barry Waldrep & Friends Celebrate Tony Rice | Barry Waldrep | Delta Grass |
| 120 | Cold Rain and Snow | Jared Rabin | Self-Release |
| 121 | Welcome Back: a Collection | Michael Gaither | Self-Release |
| 122 | Waiting out the Storm | Jeremy Ivey | Anti |
| 123 | Tornillo | Whiskey Myers | Wiggy Thump |
| 124 | Working Woman | Grace Pettis | MPress |
| 125 | Stay Away from the Flame | Tom Faia & Kate Miller | Self-Release |
| 126 | And Now, Let's Turn to Page… | Brent Cobb | Ol' Buddy |
| 127 | Between Us | Ana Egge | Story Sound |
| 128 | Enjoy the Ride | Vince Herman | LoHi |
| 129 | Shines Like Gold | The Weight Band | Self-Release |
| 130 | This Better Be Good | Peter Donovan | Red Parlor |
| 131 | Alchemy Road | Rusty Tinder | Self-Release |
| 132 | Watch Me Learn | Dallas Ugly | Adhyâropa |
| 133 | The Monolith Sessions | Jeremy Ivey | Anti |
| 134 | Positano Songs | Will Ackerman | West River |
| 135 | Music City Joke | Mac Leaphart | Self-Release |
| 136 | Bloom & Fade | David Beck | Parade Ground |
| 137 | Come What May | Roger Street Friedman | Rock Ridge |
| 138 | Songs from the Green Couch | Seth Swirsky | Lolipop |
| 139 | Tunes from Texas | The Pipkin Project | Self-Release |
| 140 | Keep 'Em on They Toes | Brent Cobb | Thirty Tigers |
| 141 | Just a Little Rain | Ray Cardwell | Bonfire |
| 142 | Leaving Again | Sweet Virginia | Gitcha |
| 143 | Always the Outsider | Stacy Antonel | Ginger Cowgirl |
| 144 | Reclamation | Jeb Lipson | Self-Release |
| 145 | Turnin' Right | Phil Profitt and His Fast Fortunes | Self-Release |
| 146 | Castle Rock | Jason Scott & The High Heat | Self-Release |
| 147 | Bad Days Better | Adam Hood | Southern Songs |
| 148 | Good Day | Danielia Cotton | Cottontown |
| 149 | Cuntry Covers Vol. 1 | Bria | Sub Pop |
| 150 | CHICKABOOM! | Tami Neilson | Outside |
| 151 | Riddy Arman | Riddy Arman | La Honda |
| 152 | All Dressed Up | Geoff Buell | Turnberry |
| 153 | Departure | Lyman Ellerman | Self-Release |
| 154 | Flaws & All | The Living Room Floor Band | Squires Boys |
| 155 | Honey Harper & the Infinite Sky | Honey Harper | ATO |
| 156 | Water from the Stone | Erik Lunde | Self-Release |
| 157 | Tomorrow | The Rave-Ups | Omnivore |
| 158 | Peculiar, Missouri | Willi Carlisle | Free Dirt |
| 159 | Sins We Made | Harrow Fair | Roaring Girl |
| 160 | Artefact | Clever Hopes | Self-Release |
| 161 | Plastic Bouquet | Kacy & Clayton | New West |
| 162 | Punch-Drunk Life | Rose's Pawn Shop | KZZ Music |
| 163 | First Light | Alysia Kraft | sonaBLAST! |
| 164 | The Nashville Sessions | Toria Richings | Self-Release |
| 165 | Electro Melodier | Son Volt | Transmit Sound |
| 166 | Mary Bragg | Mary Bragg | Tone Tree |
| 167 | At the Cold Copper Ranch | Family Shiloh | C-Side |
| 168 | Let There Be No Despair | Jess Jocoy | Self-Release |
| 169 | Now and then | Shaye Zadravec | Indelible Music |
| 170 | Total Freedom | Kathleen Edwards | Dualtone |
| 171 | One to Grow on | Mike and the Moonpies | Prairie Rose |
| 172 | Stage Fright at 50 - an Ovation from Nashville | The Rock House All Stars | Pure |
| 173 | These 13 | Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird | Thirty Tigers |
| 174 | Brand New Day | Jessica Willis Fisher | Bard Craft |
| 175 | Stumblin' Through the Neon | Chris Gardner | Self-Release |
| 176 | The Marfa Tapes | Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall | Vanner |
| 177 | I Come from Crazy | Roxi Copland | Self-Release |
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