The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Oct 19, 2019
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ | 1 | 3 | Assiniboine & the Red | The Small Glories | Red House |
| ▲ | 2 | 4 | Who Asked You Back | EllaHarp | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 3 | 11 | If Wishes Were Horses | Matt Patershuk | Black Hen |
| ▼ | 4 | 2 | The Storyteller's Suitcase | Ellis Paul | Rosella |
| ▲ | 5 | 14 | How We Want to Live | Lisa Bastoni | Sweet Ondine |
| ▲ | 6 | 7 | Heart Land Again | Tim Grimm | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 7 | 10 | There is No Other (with Francesco Turrisi) | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
| ▲ | 8 | 54 | The Only Ones | The Milk Carton Kids | Thirty Tigers |
| ▼ | 9 | 8 | Charlie Parr | Charlie Parr | Red House |
| ▼ | 10 | 1 | What It is | Hayes Carll | Dualtone |
| ▲ | 11 | 13 | Adobe Road | Cej | Gnosong |
| ▲ | 12 | 19 | Tim O'Brien Band | Tim O'Brien | Howdy Skies |
| ▼ | 13 | 6 | San Isabel | Jamestown Revival | Thirty Tigers |
| ▲ | 14 | 26 | Down Hearted Blues | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sounds |
| ▲ | 15 | 16 | Stay Human, Vol. 2 | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Boo Boo Wax |
| ▲ | 16 | 23 | Dreams on Hold | Sarah Eide | Sugarbird |
| ▼ | 17 | 12 | Is It the Kiss | Ana Egge | StorySound |
| ▲ | 18 | - | Conspirators | Guy Forsyth | Small and Nimble |
| ▲ | 19 | 20 | Pass It on Down | Linda Sussman | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 20 | 30 | Talk to a Human | Terri Hendrix | Wilory |
| ▼ | 21 | 18 | Soil in the Sky | Heather Maloney | Signature Sounds |
| ▲ | 22 | 35 | Easy Money | Old Man Luedecke | True North |
| ▲ | 23 | 32 | Cold | Mean Mary | Self-Release |
| *NEW* | 24 | - | All That's Real | Gathering Sparks | Borealis |
| ▲ | 25 | 27 | Acorns | Ben Winship | Snake River |
| ▼ | 26 | 15 | The Question | Anna Tivel | Fluff And Gravy |
| ▲ | 27 | 44 | Grenades | Kaia Kater | Smithsonian Folkways |
| ▼ | 28 | 9 | Visions | Alice Howe | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 29 | 24 | Casey Joe Lambert | Casey Joe Lambert | Hill Country Artists |
| ▼ | 30 | 28 | Paws of a Bear | Sofia Talvik | Makaki |
| ▼ | 31 | 29 | Better by Now | Benjamin Dakota Rogers | Trespass Music |
| ▼ | 32 | 17 | Between the Country | Ian Noe | Thirty Tigers |
| ▲ | 33 | 49 | Many a Moon | James Hill & Anne Janelle | Borealis |
| ▼ | 34 | 31 | Everything's Shifting | Madison Violet | Passenger Sounds |
| ▼ | 35 | 33 | Wildwood | Katie Dahl | Leaky Boat |
| ▼ | 36 | 34 | Art of Motion | Andy McKee | Candy Rat |
| ▼ | 37 | 36 | Home | Laura Berman | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 38 | 37 | Down the Way | Angus & Julia Stone | Nettwerk |
| - | 39 | 39 | Evening Machines | Gregory Alan Isakov | Dualtone |
| - | 40 | 40 | Medicine for Living | Alexa Rose | Big Legal Mess |
| ▲ | 41 | 56 | Frontiers | Eddie Berman | Nettwerk |
| ▼ | 42 | 41 | While We're Here | Catie Curtis | Megenta |
| ▲ | 43 | 46 | Stay Warm | The O'Pears | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 44 | 53 | What Will We Do | Lula Wiles | Smithsonian Folkways |
| *NEW* | 45 | - | Everything's Fine | Jamie Drake | AntiFragile |
| ▼ | 46 | 43 | Like the River Loves the Sea | Joan Shelley | No Quarter |
| ▼ | 47 | 21 | Coyote | Catherine MacLellan | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 48 | 42 | Acres of Elbow Room | John Wort Hannam | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 49 | 48 | Live at Tiny Telephone | T Sisters | Three Headed Sounds |
| ▼ | 50 | 45 | Time Travel | Lennie Gallant | Self-Release |
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