The Roots Music Report's
Top Roots Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2017
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Nashville Sound | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Sotheastern |
| 2 | Prick of the Litter | Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men | Hot Shot |
| 3 | Blue & Lonesome | The Rolling Stones | Universal |
| 4 | Duende | The Band of Heathens | BOH |
| 5 | Belle of the West | Samantha Fish | Ruf |
| 6 | Black Irish | Shannon McNally | Compass |
| 7 | Revolution Come...Revolution Go | Gov't Mule | Concord |
| 8 | I Got Your Medicine | Shinyribs | Mustard Lid |
| 9 | Lay It on Down | Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band | Concord |
| 10 | Restless | David Luning | Blue Rose Music |
| 11 | Pretty Little Troubles | Malcolm Holcombe | Gypsy Eyes |
| 12 | Songs of Bob Dylan | Joan Osborne | Womanly Hips |
| 13 | The Best of Paul Thorn | Paul Thorn | Perpetual Obscurity |
| 14 | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Fantasy |
| 15 | What if | Jerry Douglas | Rounder |
| 16 | Peach | Larkin Poe | Tricki-Woo |
| 17 | Dr. Feelgood's Traveling Medicine Show | Great American Taxi | Self-Release |
| 18 | A Cure for Loneliness | Peter Wolf | Concord |
| 19 | Savage on the Downhill | Amber Cross | Self-Release |
| 20 | Transient Lullaby | The Mastersons | Red House |
| 21 | Long Hot Summer Days | Jim Byrnes | Black Hen Music |
| 22 | Purgatory | Tyler Childers | Hickman Holler |
| 23 | Burn Something Beautiful | Alejandro Escovedo | Concord |
| 24 | Standard | Fred Eaglesmith | Self-Release |
| 25 | Forever and then Some | Lillie Mae | Third Man |
| 26 | 2 | Mudcrutch | Reprise |
| 27 | True Sadness | The Avett Brothers | Republic |
| 28 | Run Skeleton Run | David Childers | Ramseur |
| 29 | Peace Trail | Neil Young | Reprise |
| 30 | The Modern Lives, Vol. 1 | Jackie Greene | Blue Rose Music |
| 31 | Road Less Traveled | Sara Petite | Self-Release |
| 32 | Love and Hate | Michael Kiwanuka | Self-Release |
| 33 | Red Arrow | Christian Lopez Band | Blaster |
| 34 | Ladies Auxiliary | Scott Miller | F.A.Y. |
| 35 | Dust to Gold | Cris Jacobs | American Showplase |
| 36 | Men Amongst Mountains | The Revivalists | Wind Up |
| 37 | Just Like Medicine | A.J. Croce | Compass |
| 38 | Didn't It Rain | Amy Helm | eOne |
| 39 | Felony Blues | Jaime Wyatt | Forty Below |
| 40 | Postcard Town | The Two Tracks | Self-Release |
| 41 | High-Dollar Gospel | Eli Cook | C.R. 8 |
| 42 | Don't Try to Fight It | David Olney | Red Parlor |
| 43 | Wildflower Blues | Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton | Cinquefoil |
| 44 | Like an Arrow | Blackberry Smoke | 3 Legged |
| 45 | Country Hustle | Jeb Loy Nichols | City Country City |
| 46 | This Tall to Ride | Robyn Ludwick | Self-Release |
| 47 | Let the Good Times Roll | JD McPherson | Rounder Records |
| 48 | Colter Wall | Colter Wall | Thirty Tigers |
| 49 | Colvin & Earle | Colvin & Earle | Concord |
| 50 | Thirteen | BoDeans | Shy Dog Music |
| 51 | Roll with It | The Coffis Brothers | Self-Release |
| 52 | The Very Last Day | Parker Millsap | Okrahoma |
| 53 | A Face Like Mine | Peter Bradley Adams | Tone Tree Music |
| 54 | Songs of a Renegade | Greg Sover | Self-Release |
| 55 | Lorene | Left Arm Tan | Left Arm Tan |
| 56 | In Times Like These | Rev. Sekou | Zent |
| 57 | Odyssey | The Accidentals | Sony |
| 58 | I Hold Gravity | Gerry Spehar & Friends | Self-Release |
| 59 | Live at Red Rocks | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Concord |
| 60 | The Warm Covers | JD McPherson | Concord |
| 61 | The Marcus King Band | The Marcus King Band | Concord |
| 62 | Call It What It is | Ben Harper | Concord |
| 63 | Gates of Gold | Los Lobos | SLG |
| 64 | Something More Than Free | Jason Isbell | Southeastern |
| 65 | Psychotic Melancholia | Hayley Thompson-King | Hard To Kill |
| 66 | War Surplus | Becky Warren | Self Release |
| 67 | Capacity | Big Thief | Saddle Creek |
| 68 | New World Arisin' | Big Head Todd & The Monsters | Big |
| 69 | Panther in the Dollhouse | Whitehorse | Six Shooter |
| 70 | A Kind Revolution | Paul Weller | Warner Bros |
| 71 | Introducing Karl Blau | Karl Blau | Bella Union |
| 72 | 14 Steps to Harlem | Garland Jeffreys | Luna Park |
| 73 | Pile Driver | The Suitcase Junket | Signature Sounds |
| 74 | Wade Waist Deep | Thomas Wynn & the Believers | Mascot |
| 75 | Live at Hillbilly Haiku | Jefferson Ross | Deep Fried Discs |
| 76 | Devil Music | Randall Bramblett | New West |
| 77 | No Wolves | Eric Morrison & The Mysteries | Self-Release |
| 78 | Dirty Wonder | K. Phillips | Rock Ridge |
| 79 | Peaceful Easy Feeling: the Songs of Jack Tempchin | Jack Tempchin | Blue Elan |
| 80 | Last of the Old Dogs | Tim Flannery | Whalebone |
| 81 | Any Way, Shape or Form | Ben Miller Band | New West |
| 82 | The Head and Heart | David Starr | Cedar Edge |
| 83 | Paradise | The Wood Brothers | Honey Jar |
| 84 | Halo | Juana Molina | Crammed Discs |
| 85 | Gasoline | Dale Boyle | Self-Release |
| 86 | Gin and Rosewater | Chuck McDermott | Self-Release |
| 87 | Boy Crazy and Single(s) | Lydia Loveless | Bloodshot |
| 88 | Tumbleweed | Big Something | Middle of Nowhere |
| 89 | Acoustic Classics II | Richard Thompson | Beeswing |
| 90 | Passion | Buzz Cason | ArenA Recordings |
| 91 | Barefoot in the Head | Chris Robinson Brotherhood | Silver Arrow |
| 92 | Versatile | Van Morrison | Sony |
| 93 | Any Way You Love We Know How You Feel | Chris Robinson Brotherhood | Silver Arrow Records |
| 94 | Back to Birth | Jackie Greene | Yep Roc |
| 95 | The Cross Eyed Sessions | Don Pedigo | Work With Me |
| 96 | Glass of '75 (Teetering on the Brink of Extinction) - Single | The Rogues Gallery | Local |
| 97 | St. Mojo | Sweet Spirit | Nine Mile |
| 98 | The Sound of Letting Go | Swear And Shake | Pots And Pans |
| 99 | Soul Insight | The Marcus King Band | Self-Release |
| 100 | The Bad Testament | Scott H. Biram | Bloodshot |
| 101 | Delilah | Anderson East | Elektra Records |
| 102 | And the War Came | Shakey Graves | Dualtone |
| 103 | Good Luck and Good Night | JD & The Straight Shot | New West |
| 104 | Ron Pope & the Nighthawks | Ron Pope And The Nighthawks | Self-Release |
| 105 | Good and Dirty | Sarah Borges | Dry Lightning |
| 106 | Street Dogs | Widespread Panic | Concord |
| 107 | My Stupid Heart | Shawn Mullins | Sugar Hill |
| 108 | Out of the Bird Cage | The Damn Quails | Self-Release |
| 109 | Five Miles Gone | The Nickel Slots | Self-Release |
| 110 | Blood from a Stone | Eric Krasno | Feel Music |
| 111 | The Ghosts of Highway 20 | Lucinda Williams | Highway 20 |
| 112 | Corners | Dalton Domino | Lightning Rod |
| 113 | Sunnyside | Jake La Botz | Hi Style |
| 114 | Crosseyed Heart | Keith Richards | Republic |
| 115 | Perfectamundo | Billy Gibbons And The BFG's | Concord |
| 116 | Sound and Color | Alabama Shakes | ATO |
| 117 | Severed | Curse of Lono | Submarine Cat |
| 118 | Atomic Wilderness | Eric Westbury | Barreltown |
| 119 | Let the Devil Win | The Walcotts | Local Hero |
| 120 | Okra Candy | Shinyribs | Mustard Lid Records |
| 121 | Radio | Ian McFeron | Self-Release |
| 122 | MY WOMAN | Angel Olsen | Jagjaguwar |
| 123 | Skyline in Central Time | Andrew Leahey & Homestead | Thirty Tigers |
| 124 | Gung Ho | Freddy & Francine | Self-Release |
| 125 | Golden Days | Union Duke | Self-Release |
| 126 | Hush or Howl | Black Pistol Fire | Modern Outsider |
| 127 | City at Night | Kelly Pardekooper | Leisure Time |
| 128 | All Across This Land | Blitzen Trapper | Vagrant |
| 129 | Pushed to the Side | Coal Men | Vaskaleedez |
| 130 | Paradise | Jenn Grant | Ba Da Bing! |
| 131 | Most Messed Up | Old 97's | ATO Records |
| 132 | The Weight of Mortal Skin | Elizabeth Erin Kemler | Self-Release |
| 133 | Stay Gold | First Aid Kit | Columbia |
| 134 | Time Will Tell | Todd Adelman | One Essence Music |
| 135 | Black Pistol Fire | Black Pistol Fire | mudhutdigital.com |
| 136 | All Night Live, Vol. 1 | The Mavericks | Mono Mundo Records |
| 137 | One Drop of Truth | The Wood Brothers | Thirty Tigers |
| 138 | Mixtape of the Open Road | Martin Sexton | Kitchen Table |
| 139 | Don't Wake the Riot | Black Pistol Fire | Modern Outsider |
| 140 | Sweet Spirit | Sweet Spirit | Self-Release |
| 141 | Bright Shiny Objects | Deni Bonet | Zip |
| 142 | The Authorized Bang Collection | Van Morrison | Legacy Recordings |
| 143 | Still Got Soul | Michael Tracy | TW Music Group |
| 144 | Fresh Cream | Cream | Polydor |
| 145 | Honest Man | Matt Andersen | True North Records |
| 146 | Earth | Neil Young | Reprise |
| 147 | Wolves | American Aquarium | Last Chance |
| 148 | The Rolling Stones Singles Collection: the London Years | The Rolling Stones | ABKCO |
| 149 | The Dash Between the Dates | Maia Sharp | eOne |
| 150 | Last Man Standing | Brother Roy | Self-Release |
| 151 | Tryin' Like the Devil | James Talley | Cimarron |
| 152 | Seven Years | Matt Joe Gow | Self-Release |
| 153 | Dixie Chicken | Little Feat | Warner Bros |
| 154 | Smooth Hound Smith | Smooth Hound Smith | Self Released |
| 155 | Boys & Girls | Alabama Shakes | ATO |
| 156 | Song in My Head | The String Cheese Incident | SCI Fidelity |
| 157 | Colin James | Colin James | Virgin |
| 158 | The Bonnie Raitt Collection | Bonnie Raitt | Capitol |
| 159 | Live Cream, Vol. 2 | Cream | Universal International Music B.V. |
| 160 | The Rod Stewart Album | Rod Stewart | Mercury |
| 161 | Big Dark City | Sam Marine | Self-Release |
| 162 | American Man | The Yawpers | Bloodshot |
| 163 | Fathers and Sons | John Lester | Ambit Acoustic |
| 164 | All a Man Should Do | Lucero | ATO Records |
| 165 | Jive | Swamp Cabbage | Self-Release |
| 166 | Blooming Through the Black | Parsonsfield | Signature Sounds |
| 167 | Satisfied | Lisa Mann | Self |
| 168 | Run It Right into the Wall | Massy Ferguson | Self-Release |
| 169 | Childish Things | James McMurtry | Compadre Records |
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