The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2024
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polaroid Lovers | Sarah Jarosz | Rounder |
| 2 | One Deep River | Mark Knopfler | Blue Note |
| 3 | Little Sun | Charlie Parr | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 4 | Mind, Man, Medicine | The Secret Sisters | New West |
| 5 | The Returner | Allison Russell | Birds of Chicago |
| 6 | You're the One | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
| 7 | Wilderness Within You | Parker Millsap | Okrahoma |
| 8 | Hysteria | Billy Jeter | Shine Eye |
| 9 | So Many Wows | Lucie Blue Tremblay | Self-Release |
| 10 | Flesh and Bone | Cynthia Marchant | Self-Release |
| 11 | 1988 | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers |
| 12 | Devil Rail | John Zipperer | Self-Release |
| 13 | Gardens Old, Flowers New | Tom Rush | Appleseed |
| 14 | I Only See the Moon | The Milk Carton Kids | Far Cry |
| 15 | Beautiful Thing | Peach & Quiet | Self-Release |
| 16 | You Never Can Tell | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band | Self-Release |
| 17 | Delta Traces | Billy Jeter | House on Fire |
| 18 | Watershed | Arielle Silver | Self-Release |
| 19 | Harbortowne | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus | Berkalin Records |
| 20 | Daylight Savings Time | Steve Forbert | Blue Rose |
| 21 | Dark Harvest | Malcolm MacWatt | Singular |
| 22 | Weary Ramblers | Weary Ramblers | Self-Release |
| 23 | Echoes in the Meadow | Morningbird | Self-Release |
| 24 | Resilience | Josie Bello | Guitar One |
| 25 | Always Here | Trampled by Turtles | Banjodad |
| 26 | Part Time Believer | The Strumbellas | Glassnote |
| 27 | Home | Eliza Gilkyson | Self-Release |
| 28 | Ever-Changing | The Ruta Beggars | Self-Release |
| 29 | The Resonant Rogues | The Resonant Rogues | Sassafrass Sounds |
| 30 | The Living Kind | John Smith | Commoner |
| 31 | Sweet Beginnings | Kathryn Severing Fox | Self-Release |
| 32 | Even Better on the Bad Days | Scott Sean White | Self-Release |
| 33 | Lonesome Highway | Rainy Eyes | Royal Potato |
| 34 | Heart of the Artichoke | Bloomsday | Bayonet |
| 35 | Wanderer | Ruth Moody | Blue Muse |
| 36 | Love Unfettered | Marie-Rose | Self-Release |
| 37 | Sharing in the Spirit | Ana Egge | StorySound |
| 38 | After the Revolution | Carsie Blanton | Self-Release |
| 39 | Proxy Music | Linda Thompson | StorySound |
| 40 | Lost in a Dream | Cassandra Lewis | A Low Country Sound |
| 41 | Strange Medicine | Kaia Kater | Free Dirt |
| 42 | At the End of the Day | Sylvia Tyson | Stony Plain |
| 43 | Larry Robbins: the Singles | Larry Robbins | Mazelations |
| 44 | A Great Wild Mercy | Carrie Newcomer | Available Light |
| 45 | Wanderlust | Elexa Dawson | Turns Out |
| 46 | Walkin' After Midnight | Eva Cassidy | Blix Street |
| 47 | Time Will Finally Come | Wolf Jett | Hill House |
| 48 | Things Were Never Good if They’re Not Good Now | Donovan Woods | Times |
| 49 | The Only Moment | Maya De Vitry | Mad Maker |
| 50 | The Great American Bar Scene | Zach Bryan | Belting Bronco |
| 51 | Dear Day Dear Darling | Good Morning Bedlam | Good Morning Bedlam |
| 52 | Searching for a Home | David Hobbes | Self-Release |
| 53 | Tired of Trying | Joe Holt | Self-Release |
| 54 | Tales and Tellings | Marques Morel | Edgewater |
| 55 | Listen to the World Spin | Paper Wings | Self-Release |
| 56 | Signal Fire | Eddie Berman | Nettwerk |
| 57 | Phone Orphans | Laura Veirs | Raven Marching Band |
| 58 | Let All Who Will | Chris Pierce | Friends at Work |
| 59 | Smithereens | Dan Reeder | Oh Boy |
| 60 | Ever Onward | Bob and Sarah Amos | Self-Relese |
| 61 | Another Heart | Ann Savoy | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 62 | Filament | Buddy Mondlock | Self-Release |
| 63 | Better Days Ahead | Kate Weekes | Self-Release |
| 64 | The Liberated Woman's Songbook | Dawn Landes | FunMachine |
| 65 | All is Song | Misner & Smith | Self-Release |
| 66 | Love (and Other Mysteries) | Tipps and Obermiller | Self-Release |
| 67 | Playing Pretend | Della | Self-Release |
| 68 | Right on | Humbird | Nettwerk |
| 69 | Butcher Holler | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sounds |
| 70 | Traveling Wildfire | Dom Flemons | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 71 | Avalanche | Jenny Owen Youngs | Yep Roc |
| 72 | You Are Here | Myles Cochran | 9Ball |
| 73 | Leave the Light on | Terry Klein | Self-Release |
| 74 | Heart on a Wire | Carolyn Shulman | Self-Release |
| 75 | Laurel Lewis | Laurel Lewis | RC1 |
| 76 | Beware Wolves Volume 4 | Beware Wolves | Aqualamb |
| 77 | Party Lines | Romen Buffalo and The Loyal Order | Self-Release |
| 78 | Blessed by the West | Sarah Pierce | Berkalin |
| 79 | Have Purpose Live Long | Josie Bello | Self-Release |
| 80 | All In! | Ray Wyatt | Self-Release |
| 81 | TumbleWeedyWorld | Lynn Miles | True North |
| 82 | Cup of Sugar | Tim O'Brien | Howdy Skies |
| 83 | The Real Thing | May Erlewine | 10 Good Songs |
| 84 | Appaloosa Bones | Gregory Alan Isakov | Dualtone |
| 85 | Time out Session #2 | The Accidentals | Self-Release |
| 86 | All the Eye Can See | Joe Henry | Worksong |
| 87 | The King's Dream | paul benoit | Self-Release |
| 88 | The Space Between | The Heart Collectors | Spins The Gold |
| 89 | Dance Me Down Easy: the Woodstock Sessions | Town Mountain | New West |
| 90 | Sonora | Lisa Morales | Self-Release |
| 91 | Vignettes | Wesley Schultz | Dualtone |
| 92 | Over That Road I'm Bound | Joachim Cooder | Nonesuch |
| 93 | Have Songs-Have Traveled | RB Stone | Middle Mountain Music |
| 94 | Lonesome Road | Joel Mabus | Fossil |
| 95 | Passages and Partings | April Verch | Slab Town |
| 96 | Bits & Pieces | Malcolm Holcombe | Singular |
| 97 | The Other Side | Rachael Sage | MPress |
| 98 | The Legend of Sam Davis | Aaron Smith & The Coal Biters | Brown Corolla |
| 99 | 55 | Ellis Paul | Rosella |
| 100 | Another Glory | Another Glory | Jealous Butcher |
| 101 | Hold That Spirit | Raye Zaragoza | Rebel River |
| 102 | Celebrants | Nickel Creek | Thirty Tigers |
| 103 | Gently As I Go | Caroline Cotter | Self-Release |
| 104 | Center of the Universe | Sofia Talvik | Makaki |
| 105 | Charlie Stevens | Charlie Stevens | Charlie Stevens |
| 106 | Bethlehem | Storyhill | Story Hills |
| 107 | Meat Bird in Beigeville | Judy Nazemetz | Smokey Lady |
| 108 | Highway Islands | Strangebyrds | Gulch Groove |
| 109 | Rhizomes | The Squirrel Hillbillies | Self-Release |
| 110 | In These Silent Days | Brandi Carlile | Low Country Sound |
| 111 | Love, Dan | C. Daniel Boling | Perfectly Stable |
| 112 | Don't You Dare Make Me Jaded | Olive Klug | Nettwerk |
| 113 | The Beauty of It All | Brian Kalinec | Berkalin Wood |
| 114 | The Martin Gilmore Trio | The Martin Gilmore Trio | Self-Release |
| 115 | Light in the Lowlands | Kelly Augustine | Orchard Music |
| 116 | Sanctuary | Rebecca Folsom | Sunshine Productions |
| 117 | Backroads | Johnsmith | Self-Release |
| 118 | A Few Stars Apart | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Fantasy |
| 119 | Last of the Better Days Ahead | Charlie Parr | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 120 | World Record | Neil Young | The Other Shoe |
| 121 | Long Day's Journey into Light | Payson Lyon | Earwig |
| 122 | Seeker | Brigitte DeMeyer | Self-Release |
| 123 | Straight to Marrow | Clint Alphin | Self-Release |
| 124 | In the Darkness of My Light | Elise Wunder | Self-Release |
| 125 | The Local Honeys | The Local Honeys | La Honda |
| 126 | There is No Other (with Francesco Turrisi) | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
| 127 | Moving Through America | Steve Forbert | Blue Rose |
| 128 | A Small Death | Samantha Crain | Ramseur |
| 129 | A Beginner's Guide to Bravery | David Keenan | Rubyworks |
| 130 | No Time for Love Songs | The Mastersons | Compass |
| 131 | Songs for a Winter's Night | Reid Jamieson | Self-Release |
| 132 | Cosmos | Darling West | Jansen |
| 133 | 1960 | Martyn Joseph | Pipe |
| 134 | River Fools & Mountain Saints | Ian Noe | Lock 13 |
| 135 | Loose Future | Courtney Marie Andrews | Fat Possum |
| 136 | 1977 | Michelle Malone | BFD |
| 137 | Tape | Patty Griffin | PGM |
| 138 | Some Awkward Country Ahead | Adam Karch | Self-Release |
| 139 | Uranium Maiden | Kate MacLeod | Self-Release |
| 140 | Love & Rage | Carsie Blanton | So Ferocious |
| 141 | Stolen Time | Abigail Lapell | Outside |
| 142 | Annamania | Anna Elizabeth Laube | Ahh...Pockets! |
| 143 | No Summer | Cinder Well | Free Dirt |
| 144 | Golden Loam | Laurel Premo | Self-Release |
| 145 | Last Birds | Last Birds | Self-Release |
| 146 | Hold Our Ground | Tom Chapin | Sundance |
| 147 | Outside Child | Allison Russell | Fantasy |
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