The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2023
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You're the One | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
| 2 | Wilderness Within You | Parker Millsap | Okrahoma |
| 3 | Home | Eliza Gilkyson | Self-Release |
| 4 | You Never Can Tell | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band | Self-Release |
| 5 | Sticks and Stones | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | 6 Ace |
| 6 | Celebrants | Nickel Creek | Thirty Tigers |
| 7 | 1988 | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers |
| 8 | Sanctuary | Rebecca Folsom | Sunshine Productions |
| 9 | Flesh and Bone | Cynthia Marchant | Self-Release |
| 10 | Larry Robbins: the Singles | Larry Robbins | Mazelations |
| 11 | Cup of Sugar | Tim O'Brien | Howdy Skies |
| 12 | The Returner | Allison Russell | Birds of Chicago |
| 13 | I Only See the Moon | The Milk Carton Kids | Far Cry |
| 14 | Traveling Wildfire | Dom Flemons | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 15 | North Georgia Rounder | Pony Bradshaw | Black Mountain |
| 16 | Beautiful Thing | Peach & Quiet | Self-Release |
| 17 | Anarchist Gospel | Sunny War | New West |
| 18 | Lover's Game | The War and Treaty | Mercury |
| 19 | You Only Get a Few | Upstate | Royal Potato Family |
| 20 | Filament | Buddy Mondlock | Self-Release |
| 21 | Tape | Patty Griffin | PGM |
| 22 | Bits & Pieces | Malcolm Holcombe | Singular |
| 23 | Meat Bird in Beigeville | Judy Nazemetz | Smokey Lady |
| 24 | Upstate Crossroads | Tim Ball | Irelandville |
| 25 | Sanctity of Silence | Noah Derksen | Self-Release |
| 26 | Cover to Cover | The Brother Brothers | Compass |
| 27 | Cosmos | Darling West | Jansen |
| 28 | World Record | Neil Young | The Other Shoe |
| 29 | So Many Wows | Lucie Blue Tremblay | Self-Release |
| 30 | The Liar | John Fullbright | Blue Dirt |
| 31 | Folkocracy | Rufus Wainwright | BMG |
| 32 | A Few Stars Apart | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Fantasy |
| 33 | Appaloosa Bones | Gregory Alan Isakov | Dualtone |
| 34 | The Little In-Between | Tim Grimm | Vault |
| 35 | The Price We Pay for Love | Julie Christensen | Wierbird |
| 36 | Book of Life | Brian Blake | Self-Release |
| 37 | The Ballad of Aesop Fin | Barrett Davis | Self-Release |
| 38 | Sweet Beginnings | Kathryn Severing Fox | Self-Release |
| 39 | 1977 | Michelle Malone | BFD |
| 40 | Common Nation of Sorrow | Rachel Baiman | Signature Sounds |
| 41 | 55 | Ellis Paul | Rosella |
| 42 | From Where I Stand | Wyatt Easterling | Self-Release |
| 43 | Hysteria | Billy Jeter | Shine Eye |
| 44 | Hold That Spirit | Raye Zaragoza | Rebel River |
| 45 | Close Enough to Hear | Mile Twelve | Self-Release |
| 46 | York's Lament & Other Stories | Reggie Garrett | WonderDog |
| 47 | Songs from the River Wind | Eliza Gilkyson | Howlin' Dog |
| 48 | The Resonant Rogues | The Resonant Rogues | Sassafrass Sounds |
| 49 | Time Will Finally Come | Wolf Jett | Hill House |
| 50 | Center of the Universe | Sofia Talvik | Makaki |
| 51 | The Waiting Room | Alex Mabey | Self-Release |
| 52 | I Draw Slow | I Draw Slow | Compass |
| 53 | All the Eye Can See | Joe Henry | Worksong |
| 54 | In These Silent Days | Brandi Carlile | Low Country Sound |
| 55 | Time is Funny That Way | Nina Gerber | Goatscape |
| 56 | Watchhouse | Watchhouse | Thirty Tigers |
| 57 | Brady Street | Dead Horses | Vos & Wolff |
| 58 | Tired of Trying | Joe Holt | Self-Release |
| 59 | Passages and Partings | April Verch | Slab Town |
| 60 | The New Faith | Jake Blount | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 61 | Sisters of White Chapel | Annie Bartholomew | Muskeg Collective |
| 62 | In the Summertime | Tattletale Saints | Self-Release |
| 63 | Uranium Maiden | Kate MacLeod | Self-Release |
| 64 | Roscoe's Dream | Mapache | Innovative Leisure |
| 65 | Landmarks | Helene Cronin | Self-Release |
| 66 | Nine Apples of Gold | Karan Casey | Crow Valley |
| 67 | Tiny Beautiful Things | May Erlewine | Tone City Music |
| 68 | The More I Give | Paula Standing | Self-Release |
| 69 | Reimagining | Claudia Schmidt | Self-Release |
| 70 | Another End of a Year | Connor Garvey | Self-Release |
| 71 | Reckonings | Eric Kilburn | Self-Release |
| 72 | Coming Home: a Collection of Songs | Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb | Magnolia |
| 73 | Last Days of Summer | Lucy Kaplansky | Self-Release |
| 74 | Pizza Tickets | Taylor Ashton | Signature Sounds |
| 75 | Moon Calendar | Travis McNamara | Self-Release |
| 76 | Long Day's Journey into Light | Payson Lyon | Earwig |
| 77 | Time out Session #2 | The Accidentals | Self-Release |
| 78 | With You in My Life | Sheila K. Cameron | Glalell |
| 79 | Avalanche | Jenny Owen Youngs | Yep Roc |
| 80 | Party Lines | Romen Buffalo and The Loyal Order | Self-Release |
| 81 | Let All Who Will | Chris Pierce | Friends at Work |
| 82 | Family Ties | Charles Wesley Godwin | Big Loud |
| 83 | Constellations | Meredith Moon | True North |
| 84 | Barn | Neil Young | The Other Shoe |
| 85 | Better Days Ahead | Kate Weekes | Self-Release |
| 86 | Timeless Space | The Heart Collectors | Self-Release |
| 87 | See the World Deluxe | Brett Dennen | Mick |
| 88 | Rain in the Desert | Lisa Morales | Self-Release |
| 89 | Onliness | Josienne Clarke | Self-Release |
| 90 | Gently As I Go | Caroline Cotter | Self-Release |
| 91 | Ever Onward | Bob and Sarah Amos | Self-Relese |
| 92 | Dear Day Dear Darling | Good Morning Bedlam | Good Morning Bedlam |
| 93 | Only This Far | The Rough & Tumble | Self-Release |
| 94 | So Much Time, So Much Love | Shelton & Williams | Grass Tank Music |
| 95 | Ceremony | Tiny Ruins | Marathon Artists |
| 96 | Seven Stones | Katie Dahl | Leaky Boat |
| 97 | A Great Wild Mercy | Carrie Newcomer | Available Light |
| 98 | Fugue State | Luke LeBlanc | Self-Release |
| 99 | Spellbound | Judy Collins | Cleopatra |
| 100 | Bloom | Sprig of That | Self-Release |
| 101 | River Fools & Mountain Saints | Ian Noe | Lock 13 |
| 102 | TumbleWeedyWorld | Lynn Miles | True North |
| 103 | Lila | Marketa Irglova | Overcoat |
| 104 | Love (and Other Mysteries) | Tipps and Obermiller | Self-Release |
| 105 | Highway Islands | Strangebyrds | Gulch Groove |
| 106 | Riverwoods | Salt House | Hudson |
| 107 | The Local Honeys | The Local Honeys | La Honda |
| 108 | The Other Side | Rachael Sage | MPress |
| 109 | Life on Earth | Hurray for the Riff Raff | Nonesuch |
| 110 | The Coming of the Years | Joe Jencks | Turtle Bear |
| 111 | So Said Life | Doug Kolmar | Self-Release |
| 112 | Bigger Than in Between | Sam Robbins | Self-Release |
| 113 | Leave the Light on | Terry Klein | Self-Release |
| 114 | Bravado | Rose Cousins | Outside Music |
| 115 | Safe in Sound | Frances Luke Accord | Two-Dale |
| 116 | New Light | Claire Coupland | Self-Release |
| 117 | Cover Crop | Amber Rubarth | Cambium |
| 118 | All the Time in the World | The Nocturnal Adoration Society | Jimmy Ryan |
| 119 | Second Hand | James Keelaghan | Borealis |
| 120 | At the End of the Day | Sylvia Tyson | Stony Plain |
| 121 | (self-titled) | Marcus Mumford | Capitol |
| 122 | Don't You Dare Make Me Jaded | Olive Klug | Nettwerk |
| 123 | Modern Cowboy | Two Runner | Self-Release |
| 124 | Coyote | Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs | Big Slippery |
| 125 | Golden Loam | Laurel Premo | Self-Release |
| 126 | Hold Our Ground | Tom Chapin | Sundance |
| 127 | Made for the Road | Wyatt Edmondson | Self-Release |
| 128 | The Legend of Sam Davis | Aaron Smith & The Coal Biters | Brown Corolla |
| 129 | Macguffin | Phil Henry | Self-Release |
| 130 | Over That Road I'm Bound | Joachim Cooder | Nonesuch |
| 131 | Vignettes | Wesley Schultz | Dualtone |
| 132 | Get Together | Frank Swift | Self-Release |
| 133 | We'll Never Know Unless We Try | Darling West | Jansen |
| 134 | Brand New Distance | Cimarron 615 | Blue Elan |
| 135 | Nothing but Green Willow: the Songs of Mary Sands and Jane Gentry | Martin Simpson & Thomm Jutz | Topic |
| 136 | All Those Days of Drinking Dust | Tiffany Williams | Blue Redbird Music |
| 137 | The Beauty of It All | Brian Kalinec | Berkalin Wood |
| 138 | Horizon Line | Dan Navarro | Red Hen |
| 139 | Solo | Gordon Lightfoot | Warner |
| 140 | Grit | Keller Williams | Self-Release |
| 141 | Woman on the Moon | Giulia Millanta | Ugly Cat |
| 142 | Cherchez La Femme | Karyn Oliver | Buxom County |
| 143 | Back to Cast Iron | Nora Jane Struthers | Blue Pig |
| 144 | Charlie Stevens | Charlie Stevens | Charlie Stevens |
| 145 | Phone Orphans | Laura Veirs | Raven Marching Band |
| 146 | At First There Was Nothing | Anthony D'Amato | Self-Release |
| 147 | Tarwater | Colin Cutler | Self-Release |
| 148 | Xo, 1945 | Ryland Moranz | Tonic |
| 149 | DanSando | Luísa Sobral | Locomotiva Azul |
| 150 | The Ties That Bind Us | Adler & Hearne | Howlin' Dog |
| 151 | Water Tower Live @ Skip the Record | Water Tower | Self-Release |
| 152 | Desires Shape | Stoll Vaughan | Commonwealth Artist |
| 153 | Loose Future | Courtney Marie Andrews | Fat Possum |
| 154 | Some See the Flowers | Suzie Brown | Mule Kick |
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