The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Aug 11, 2018
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | The Tree of Forgiveness | John Prine | Oh Boy |
| ▲ | 2 | 3 | Silence in These Walls | Flatt Lonesome | Mountain Home Music |
| ▼ | 3 | 2 | The Tree | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers |
| - | 4 | 4 | See You Around | I'm With Her | Concord |
| ▲ | 5 | 7 | Secularia | Eliza Gilkyson | Red House |
| ▲ | 6 | 9 | By the Way, I Forgive You | Brandi Carlile | Elektra |
| ▲ | 7 | 8 | Blood Brothers | Jeffrey Foucault | Tone Tree |
| ▼ | 8 | 6 | White Tiger | Ana Egge | StorySound |
| ▼ | 9 | 5 | All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do | The Milk Carton Kids | Anti |
| ▲ | 10 | 17 | Sometimes Just the Sky | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Thirty Tigers |
| ▲ | 11 | 13 | Walk in the Dark | Rob Lutes | Lucky Bear |
| - | 12 | 12 | Shelter | Olivia Chaney | Nonesuch |
| ▼ | 13 | 10 | The Lonesomest Sound That Can Sound | Clay Parker and Jodi James | Electric Wreck |
| ▲ | 14 | 16 | Life Between the Lines | Fireside Collective | Self-Release |
| - | 15 | 15 | Plays Well with Others | Lera Lynn | Single Lock |
| ▲ | 16 | 18 | Down Hearted Blues | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sounds |
| ▲ | 17 | 21 | Open Road, Broken Heart | True North | True North |
| ▼ | 18 | 11 | My Mother the Moon | Dead Horses | Wolff Moon |
| ▲ | 19 | 30 | Said Little Sparrow | Kim Beggs | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 20 | 34 | Shed My Skin | Dan Navarro | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 21 | 29 | Fifteen | The Wailin' Jennys | Red House |
| ▲ | 22 | 26 | Ghost Light | John McCutcheon | Appalseed Productions |
| ▼ | 23 | 20 | Southland | Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 24 | 22 | Healing Tide | The War and Treaty | Thirty Tigers |
| ▼ | 25 | 24 | Live at Tiny Telephone | T Sisters | Three Headed Sounds |
| ▼ | 26 | 14 | The Broken Heart of Everything | David Francey | Laker Music |
| ▼ | 27 | 19 | The Forgotten | Joe Jencks | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 28 | 27 | While We're Here | Catie Curtis | Megenta |
| ▼ | 29 | 23 | 10,000 Days Like These | Low Lily | Mad River |
| ▼ | 30 | 25 | Come and Meet Me | Sherman Ewing | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 31 | 41 | Fragments | Chris Ronald | Borealis |
| ▲ | 32 | 45 | Better Than Brand-New | Martin Kerr | Hype Music |
| ▼ | 33 | 32 | Wilderness Years | Jory Nash | Thin Man |
| ▼ | 34 | 33 | Everything | Darden Smith | Compass |
| ▼ | 35 | 28 | Rabbit in the Moon | Sparrow Blue | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 36 | 38 | Letters Never Read | Dori Freeman | Free Dirt |
| ▼ | 37 | 35 | The Art of Forgetting | Kyle Carey | Riverboat |
| ▲ | 38 | 40 | That's What Love Can Do to Your Heart | Tracy Newman and the Reinforcements | Kabeauty Music |
| ▼ | 39 | 37 | The Way These Things Go | FY5 | Swingfingers |
| ▲ | 40 | 49 | And the Sky Caught Fire | Nichole Wagner | Star Catcher |
| ▲ | 41 | 61 | The Drifter and the Preacher | Barney Bentall | True North |
| - | 42 | 42 | From the Light | The Sea The Sea | Tone Tree |
| - | 43 | 43 | T Sisters | T Sisters | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 44 | 36 | Home on the River | Caroline Cotter | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 45 | 46 | Balancing Act | Judy Nazemetz | Smokey Lady Music |
| ▼ | 46 | 44 | Low Tide | Tracy Grammer | Self-Release |
| - | 47 | 47 | Fall Away Blues | Red Tail Ring | Earthwork |
| *NEW* | 48 | - | The Lies the Poets Tell | Laurie MacAllister | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 49 | 48 | The Order of Time | Valerie June | Concord |
| - | 50 | 50 | While I Was Asleep | Darling West | Jansen |
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