The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2022
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Songs from the River Wind | Eliza Gilkyson | Howlin' Dog |
| 2 | A Few Stars Apart | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Fantasy |
| 3 | Time out Session #2 | The Accidentals | Self-Release |
| 4 | Resilience | Josie Bello | Guitar One |
| 5 | Anaïs Mitchell | Anais Mitchell | BMG |
| 6 | Tape | Patty Griffin | PGM |
| 7 | Watchhouse | Watchhouse | Thirty Tigers |
| 8 | Life on Earth | Hurray for the Riff Raff | Nonesuch |
| 9 | River Fools & Mountain Saints | Ian Noe | Lock 13 |
| 10 | Just Beyond the Shine | Peach & Quiet | Self-Release |
| 11 | Rain in the Desert | Lisa Morales | Self-Release |
| 12 | Coming Home: a Collection of Songs | Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb | Magnolia |
| 13 | In These Silent Days | Brandi Carlile | Low Country Sound |
| 14 | Barn | Neil Young | The Other Shoe |
| 15 | Uranium Maiden | Kate MacLeod | Self-Release |
| 16 | Calla Lily | The Brother Brothers | Compass |
| 17 | Meat Bird in Beigeville | Judy Nazemetz | Smokey Lady |
| 18 | Last Days of Summer | Lucy Kaplansky | Self-Release |
| 19 | Last of the Better Days Ahead | Charlie Parr | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 20 | Lulu | Good Morning Bedlam | Self-Release |
| 21 | Awake | Mala Oreen | Self-Release |
| 22 | Moving Through America | Steve Forbert | Blue Rose |
| 23 | Outside Child | Allison Russell | Fantasy |
| 24 | True North | Caroline Spence | Rounder |
| 25 | Gone, Long Gone | Steve Dawson | Black Hen |
| 26 | Chinook Waltz | Over the Moon | Borealis |
| 27 | Cover to Cover | The Brother Brothers | Compass |
| 28 | Neon Blue | Joshua Hedley | New West |
| 29 | Backroads | Johnsmith | Self-Release |
| 30 | 1960 | Martyn Joseph | Pipe |
| 31 | Tucson | Amy Speace | WindBone |
| 32 | Spell Songs II: Let the Light in | The Lost Words: Spell Songs | Quercus/Thirty Tigers |
| 33 | Come Around | Rob Lutes | Lucky Bear |
| 34 | Open House | The Fretless | Birthday Cake |
| 35 | See the World Deluxe | Brett Dennen | Mick |
| 36 | Let Love Be Your Guide | Dan + Claudia Zanes | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 37 | Afterburn: Folk at Arena Level | Michael Johnathon | PoetMan |
| 38 | Some See the Flowers | Suzie Brown | Mule Kick |
| 39 | The River Flows, Vol. 2 | John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen | Fur Peace Ranch |
| 40 | Coyote Red | Bailey Bigger | Madjack |
| 41 | All In! - Single | Ray Wyatt | Self-Release |
| 42 | Bravado | Rose Cousins | Outside Music |
| 43 | Desert Ghosts | Jaspar Lepak | Self-Release |
| 44 | Muscle Shoals Metaphysical | Firekid | Lucky Bird Media |
| 45 | Covers | Mo Kenney | turtlemusik |
| 46 | Poets | Liz Simmons | Self-Release |
| 47 | Joyful Banner Blazing | Maria Dunn | Distant Whisper |
| 48 | Broken English | Eddie Berman | Nettwerk |
| 49 | The Liar | John Fullbright | Blue Dirt |
| 50 | Horizon Line | Dan Navarro | Red Hen |
| 51 | The Worst Kind of New | The Lied To's | Self-Release |
| 52 | Blue Heron Suite | Sarah Jarosz | Rounder |
| 53 | Only the Killer Would Know | Valorie Miller | Blackbird |
| 54 | Song to a Refugee | Diana Jones | Self-Release |
| 55 | Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno | Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno | Free Dirt |
| 56 | Sing to the Walls | Chastity Brown | Red House |
| 57 | The New Faith | Jake Blount | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 58 | Roscoe's Dream | Mapache | Innovative Leisure |
| 59 | Seeker | Brigitte DeMeyer | Self-Release |
| 60 | Nowhere Sounds Lovely | Cristina Vane | Red Parlor |
| 61 | All This Time Running | Craig Cardiff | True North |
| 62 | Wish for You | Allison Moorer | Autotelic |
| 63 | Sidelines | Wild Rivers | Nettwerk |
| 64 | Steel and Wool | Kim Beggs | Self-Release |
| 65 | This Storm | Tara MacLean & Catherine MacLellan | Self-Release |
| 66 | (self-titled) | Marcus Mumford | Capitol |
| 67 | Hold Our Ground | Tom Chapin | Sundance |
| 68 | Biggest Moments | Rob Heath | Self-Release |
| 69 | Long Haul | John Wort Hannam | Black Hen |
| 70 | Spellbound | Judy Collins | Cleopatra |
| 71 | An Honest Effort | Matt Patershuk | Black Hen |
| 72 | Fugue State | Luke LeBlanc | Self-Release |
| 73 | Cosmic Dreamer | Barney Bentall | True North |
| 74 | Rabbit | Buffalo Rose & Tom Paxton | Misra |
| 75 | Tired of Trying | Joe Holt | Self-Release |
| 76 | Light & Dark | Chris Ronald | Borealis |
| 77 | From Where I Stand | Wyatt Easterling | Self-Release |
| 78 | All About the Timing | Roland Roberts | Happy Life |
| 79 | All Those Days of Drinking Dust | Tiffany Williams | Blue Redbird Music |
| 80 | Tiny Beautiful Things | May Erlewine | Tone City Music |
| 81 | Calico Jim | Pony Bradshaw | Black Mountain |
| 82 | Hands and Knees | Two Bird Stone | Wondermore |
| 83 | Everything at the Same Time | Caroline Marie Brooks | Outside Music |
| 84 | Cerulean | Ken Yates | Soundly |
| 85 | The More I Give | Paula Standing | Self-Release |
| 86 | Arrivals | Declan O'Rourke | Maiesta Musix |
| 87 | The Local Honeys | The Local Honeys | La Honda |
| 88 | 1977 | Michelle Malone | BFD |
| 89 | Found Light | Laura Veirs | Bella Union |
| 90 | Kitchen Days | Braden Gates | Borealis |
| 91 | Golden Loam | Laurel Premo | Self-Release |
| 92 | So Much Time, So Much Love | Shelton & Williams | Grass Tank Music |
| 93 | Anthems of Home | HuDost | Open Sesame |
| 94 | I Draw Slow | I Draw Slow | Compass |
| 95 | Voyageur in Song | David Leask | Self-Release |
| 96 | The Ties That Bind Us | Adler & Hearne | Howlin' Dog |
| 97 | The Veil | Edie Carey | Self-Release |
| 98 | Loose Future | Courtney Marie Andrews | Fat Possum |
| 99 | Watchhouse (Duo) | Watchhouse | Tiptoe Tiger |
| 100 | Only Human | Luke LeBlanc | 145 Entertainment LLC |
| 101 | Calm in the Eye of the Storm | Ken Whiteley | Borealis |
| 102 | Brady Street | Dead Horses | Vos & Wolff |
| 103 | Stolen Time | Abigail Lapell | Outside |
| 104 | Something Green | Kate Klim | Self-Release |
| 105 | Love and Leave You | 100 Mile House | Fallen Tree |
| 106 | Trains, Rivers & Trails | Monica Taylor | Horton |
| 107 | The Ridge | Julian Taylor | Howling Turtle |
| 108 | Last Birds | Last Birds | Self-Release |
| 109 | Afraid of Love | Beta Radio | Nettwerk |
| 110 | Where the Heart Wants to Go | Buffalo Gals Band | Self-Release |
| 111 | Cottonwood | Megan Bee | Self-Release |
| 112 | I Can Still Hear You | Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche | StorySound |
| 113 | Chasing Echoes | Phil Henry | Board By Board |
| 114 | Between Here and There | Sarah Morris | AW |
| 115 | Blue on Blue | Sylvie Simmons | Compass |
| 116 | Out Here Now | Ever More Nest | Self-Release |
| 117 | She Ought to Be King | Lisa Morales | Zaino |
| 118 | Paws of a Bear | Sofia Talvik | Makaki |
| 119 | Another End of a Year | Connor Garvey | Self-Release |
| 120 | Autonomy | Stephanie Lambring | Tone Tree |
| 121 | The Skies We Look to | Kris Angelis | Self-Release |
| 122 | A White Album | Rain Perry | Precipitous |
| 123 | Happy Accident | Big Little Lions | Fallen Tree |
| 124 | Shame and Sedition | Lula Wiles | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 125 | Birdtalker | Birdtalker | AntiFragile |
| 126 | Lady Mondegreen | Fellow Pynins | Row Boat |
| 127 | The Wheres and the Whatnots | The Brothers Reed | Self-Release |
| 128 | Woman on the Moon | Giulia Millanta | Ugly Cat |
| 129 | The Spur | Joan Shelley | No Quarter |
| 130 | Grit | Keller Williams | Self-Release |
| 131 | Mike O'Brien | Mike O'Brien | Chouchou |
| 132 | Do, Baby. | Eric Selby | Self-Release |
| 133 | Settler | Malcolm MacWatt | Singular |
| 134 | Beyond the Reservoir | Julian Taylor | Howling Turtle |
| 135 | Heavy Heart | Girl Blue | Self-Release |
| 136 | Built on Bones | Emily Scott Robinson | Oh Boy |
| 137 | Strange Flight | The Wanted | Self-Release |
| 138 | Have Purpose Live Long | Josie Bello | Self-Release |
| 139 | Get Together | Frank Swift | Self-Release |
| 140 | The Ballad of Aesop Fin | Barrett Davis | Self-Release |
| 141 | Excelsior! | Johanna Samuels | Mama Bird |
| 142 | Book of Life | Brian Blake | Self-Release |
| 143 | They're Calling Me Home | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
| 144 | Outsiders | Anna Tivel | Mama Bird |
| 145 | At First There Was Nothing | Anthony D'Amato | Self-Release |
| 146 | Endless Grace | Deidre McCalla | Self-Release |
| 147 | Wealth of Sorrow | Cahalen Morrison | Fluff and Gravy |
| 148 | The Coming of the Years | Joe Jencks | Turtle Bear |
| 149 | Coyote | Joe Purdy | Mudtown Crier |
| 150 | The Midnight Broadcast | Peter Case | Bandaloop |
| 151 | Hackensaw Boys | Hackensaw Boys | Suns Work |
| 152 | At the Edge of the World | Mike McKenna Jr. | Self-Release |
| 153 | Ghost Tattoo | Kristen Grainger & True North | Self-Release |
| 154 | Love & Rage | Carsie Blanton | So Ferocious |
| 155 | Summertime Blues | Zach Bryan | Belting Bronco |
| 156 | Second Hand | James Keelaghan | Borealis |
| 157 | Wachtraum | Michael Veitch | Self-Release |
| 158 | Strings, Wings and Curious Things | Sue Horowitz | Self-Release |
| 159 | Kisbee Ring | Abby Posner | Self-Release |
| 160 | No Shortcuts (Live at the Academy) | Heather Maloney | Signature Sounds |
| 161 | Larry Robbins: the Singles | Larry Robbins | Mazelations |
| 162 | Luxumbra | South for Winter | Self-Release |
| 163 | Four Directions | Eli Lev | Self-Release |
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