The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2019
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What It is | Hayes Carll | Dualtone |
| 2 | Patty Griffin | Patty Griffin | Thirty Tigers |
| 3 | Assiniboine & the Red | The Small Glories | Red House |
| 4 | What Will We Do | Lula Wiles | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 5 | The Storyteller's Suitcase | Ellis Paul | Rosella |
| 6 | Front Porch | Joy Williams | Sensibility |
| 7 | Standard Deviation | Danny Schmidt | Live Once |
| 8 | Stay Human, Vol. 2 | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Boo Boo Wax |
| 9 | Adobe Road | Cej | Gnosong |
| 10 | Mint Condition | Caroline Spence | Rounder |
| 11 | Heart Land Again | Tim Grimm | Self-Release |
| 12 | There is No Other (with Francesco Turrisi) | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
| 13 | Better by Now | Benjamin Dakota Rogers | Trespass Music |
| 14 | The Question | Anna Tivel | Fluff And Gravy |
| 15 | Easy Money | Old Man Luedecke | True North |
| 16 | Hummingbird | John Smith | Commoner |
| 17 | Everything's Shifting | Madison Violet | Passenger Sounds |
| 18 | Charlie Parr | Charlie Parr | Red House |
| 19 | Visions | Alice Howe | Self-Release |
| 20 | How We Want to Live | Lisa Bastoni | Sweet Ondine |
| 21 | Adaptations | Maya De Vitry | Self-Release |
| 22 | The Only Ones | The Milk Carton Kids | Thirty Tigers |
| 23 | Dreams on Hold | Sarah Eide | Sugarbird |
| 24 | To Everyone in All the World: a Celebration of Pete Seeger | John McCutcheon | Appalseed |
| 25 | Between the Country | Ian Noe | Thirty Tigers |
| 26 | Soil in the Sky | Heather Maloney | Signature Sounds |
| 27 | Paws of a Bear | Sofia Talvik | Makaki |
| 28 | Pass It on Down | Linda Sussman | Self-Release |
| 29 | Riverland | Eric Brace, Peter Cooper & Thomm Jutz | Red Beet |
| 30 | Coyote | Catherine MacLellan | Self-Release |
| 31 | Cold | Mean Mary | Self-Release |
| 32 | Seneca | Charles Wesley Godwin | Self-Release |
| 33 | Is It the Kiss | Ana Egge | StorySound |
| 34 | Caravan of Dawn | The Levins | Self-Release |
| 35 | All That's Real | Gathering Sparks | Borealis |
| 36 | Back to Shore | Shari Ulrich | Borealis |
| 37 | Casey Joe Lambert | Casey Joe Lambert | Hill Country Artists |
| 38 | Come on Up to the House - Women Sing Waits | Dualtone | Dualtone |
| 39 | Medicine for Living | Alexa Rose | Big Legal Mess |
| 40 | Straight to Marrow | Clint Alphin | Self-Release |
| 41 | MWI | Jadea Kelly | Tone Tree |
| 42 | Conspirators | Guy Forsyth | Small and Nimble |
| 43 | PseudoMyopia | Rachael Sage | MPress |
| 44 | Tree of Shade | Driftwood | Self-Release |
| 45 | Acorns | Ben Winship | Snake River |
| 46 | Talk to a Human | Terri Hendrix | Wilory |
| 47 | Many a Moon | James Hill & Anne Janelle | Borealis |
| 48 | To the Girl | Joy Zimmerman | Self-Release |
| 49 | Like the River Loves the Sea | Joan Shelley | No Quarter |
| 50 | Wildwood | Katie Dahl | Leaky Boat |
| 51 | Making Life Sweet | The Early Risers | Itchy Sabot |
| 52 | Common Man | Joe Iadanza | Self-Release |
| 53 | In My Pocket | Brooksie Wells | Down Home Diva |
| 54 | Wooh Dang | Daniel Norgren | Superpuma |
| 55 | A Bigger Fire | Joe Holt | Self-Release |
| 56 | Winter Stories (feat. Chatham County Line) | Judy Collins | Cleopatra |
| 57 | Live in L.A. | Ken Dunn | Self-Release |
| 58 | The Hard Stuff | Susan Gibson | Fortherecords |
| 59 | Pharmakon | Humbird | Green Thumb |
| 60 | Phoenix | JigJam | Self-Release |
| 61 | The Iron Trios | Laurel Premo | Self-Release |
| 62 | Encore | Greg Jacobs | Self-Release |
| 63 | Valley of the Bones | Jane Kramer | Self-Release |
| 64 | What if This is All There is | RJ Cowdery | Goosepie Music |
| 65 | Home | Laura Berman | Self-Release |
| 66 | When the Sun Goes Down | Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert | Dead Reckoning |
| 67 | Somewhere in the Middle | Wes Weddell | Self-Release |
| 68 | Second Sight | May Erlewine | Self-Release |
| 69 | The Climb | Grady Shawver | Self-Release |
| 70 | Stay the Course | Same Latitude As Rome | Peter C. Boyer |
| 71 | American Darkness | Dan Tedesco | Self-Release |
| 72 | Rose Avenue | Joel Rafael | Inside |
| 73 | Everything's Fine | Jamie Drake | AntiFragile |
| 74 | Frontiers | Eddie Berman | Nettwerk |
| 75 | Healing | Upstate | Royal Potato Family |
| 76 | Finch | Penny & Sparrow | Thirty Tigers |
| 77 | The Point of Arrival | Carrie Newcomer | Available Light |
| 78 | Noise | The Pairs | Independent |
| 79 | Heart is a Tower | Genevieve Charbonneau | Self-Release |
| 80 | When They Fall | Annie & Rod Capps | Self-Release |
| 81 | It is As if | Jake Troth | Atlantic |
| 82 | Father's Son | Pierce Pettis | Compass |
| 83 | The Blackest Crow | Anna Nalick | Chesky |
| 84 | The Botox | Jamie McDell | Metropolitan Groove Merchants |
| 85 | Citizen Alien | Leaf Rapids | Coax |
| 86 | Reliever | William Prince | Six Shooter |
| 87 | Give Up Your Ghosts | Rebecca Loebe | Blue Corn |
| 88 | In Sevens | Kora Feder | Self-Release |
| 89 | Speed | Keller Williams | Freeky Disc |
| 90 | 2 | The Lark and the Loon | Self-Release |
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