The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2019

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What It is
by: Hayes Carll

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Label: Dualtone
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3
by: Todd Snider

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Label: Aimless
Sub Genre: Folk Rock
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Patty Griffin
by: Patty Griffin

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Label: Thirty Tigers
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Assiniboine & the Red
by: The Small Glories

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Label: Red House
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Songs of Our Native Daughters
by: Our Native Daughters

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Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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What Will We Do
by: Lula Wiles

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Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Leylines
by: Rising Appalachia

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Traditional Folk
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Honest
by: Ordinary Elephant

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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The Storyteller's Suitcase
by: Ellis Paul

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Label: Rosella
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Front Porch
by: Joy Williams

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Label: Sensibility
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Standard Deviation
by: Danny Schmidt

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Label: Live Once
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Stay Human, Vol. 2
by: Michael Franti & Spearhead

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Label: Boo Boo Wax
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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13
Adobe Road
by: Cej

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Label: Gnosong
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Mint Condition
by: Caroline Spence

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Label: Rounder
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Heart Land Again
by: Tim Grimm

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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There is No Other (with Francesco Turrisi)
by: Rhiannon Giddens

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Label: Nonesuch
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Up Against the Sky
by: Dave Gunning

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Label: Wee House of Music
Sub Genre: Traditional Folk
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Words of Love
by: Allison Lupton

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Traditional Folk
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Better by Now
by: Benjamin Dakota Rogers

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Label: Trespass Music
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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The Question
by: Anna Tivel

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Label: Fluff And Gravy
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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This Little Town
by: The W Lovers

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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Easy Money
by: Old Man Luedecke

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Label: True North
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Ten: the Errant Night
by: Runa

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Celtic
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The Hurting Kind
by: John Paul White

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Label: Single Lock
Sub Genre: Folk Rock
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25
Hummingbird
by: John Smith

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Label: Commoner
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Everything's Shifting
by: Madison Violet

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Label: Passenger Sounds
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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I Like It Down Here
by: Will Kimbrough

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Label: Daphne
Sub Genre: Folk Rock
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Charlie Parr
by: Charlie Parr

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Label: Red House
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Visions
by: Alice Howe

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Getaway
by: Abigail Lapell

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Label: Coax
Sub Genre: Folk Rock
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31
Moonshine Blue
by: Jack Broadbent

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Label: Crow's Feet
Sub Genre: Folk Rock
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How We Want to Live
by: Lisa Bastoni

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Label: Sweet Ondine
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Adaptations
by: Maya De Vitry

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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The Only Ones
by: The Milk Carton Kids

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Label: Thirty Tigers
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Dreams on Hold
by: Sarah Eide

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Label: Sugarbird
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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36
To Everyone in All the World: a Celebration of Pete Seeger
by: John McCutcheon

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Label: Appalseed
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Between the Country
by: Ian Noe

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Label: Thirty Tigers
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Chasing the Sun
by: Bobtown

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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Last Surviving Son
by: David Gelman

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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Soil in the Sky
by: Heather Maloney

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Label: Signature Sounds
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Paws of a Bear
by: Sofia Talvik

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Label: Makaki
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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42
The Great Irish Songbook
by: Dervish

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Label: Rounder
Sub Genre: Traditional Folk
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Pass It on Down
by: Linda Sussman

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Riverland
by: Eric Brace, Peter Cooper & Thomm Jutz

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Label: Red Beet
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Coyote
by: Catherine MacLellan

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Cold
by: Mean Mary

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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This Side of the Glass
by: The Currys

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Folk Rock
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Seneca
by: Charles Wesley Godwin

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Is It the Kiss
by: Ana Egge

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Label: StorySound
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Going to the Well
by: Linda McRae

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Label: 42RPM
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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Caravan of Dawn
by: The Levins

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Crowing Ignites
by: Bruce Cockburn

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Label: True North
Sub Genre: Folk Rock
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Rearrange My Heart
by: Che Apalache

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Label: Free Dirt
Sub Genre: Traditional Folk
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All That's Real
by: Gathering Sparks

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Label: Borealis
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Back to Shore
by: Shari Ulrich

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Label: Borealis
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Die Happy
by: Them Coulee Boys

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Label: LoHi
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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The Maes
by: The Maes

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Traditional Folk
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Casey Joe Lambert
by: Casey Joe Lambert

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Label: Hill Country Artists
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Heroin and Helicopters
by: Citizen Cope

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Label: Rainwater
Sub Genre: Folk Rock
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Clocks Slow Down
by: Greg Jacquin

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Traditional Folk
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Come on Up to the House - Women Sing Waits
by: Dualtone

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Label: Dualtone
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Medicine for Living
by: Alexa Rose

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Label: Big Legal Mess
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Empathy and Comedy
by: Jay Brown

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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The Ocean Wide
by: Sussex

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Label: Lucky Bear
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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Straight to Marrow
by: Clint Alphin

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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MWI
by: Jadea Kelly

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Label: Tone Tree
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Cancel the Sun
by: The Rails

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Label: Psychonaut Sounds
Sub Genre: Folk Rock
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Conspirators
by: Guy Forsyth

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Label: Small and Nimble
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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PseudoMyopia
by: Rachael Sage

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Label: MPress
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Monroe Bus
by: Andy Statman

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Label: Shefa
Sub Genre: Traditional Folk
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Roots to Rise (Live)
by: We Banjo 3

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Label: We Banjo 3
Sub Genre: Celtic
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Acorns
by: Ben Winship

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Label: Snake River
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Talk to a Human
by: Terri Hendrix

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Label: Wilory
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Many a Moon
by: James Hill & Anne Janelle

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Label: Borealis
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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To the Girl
by: Joy Zimmerman

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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A Shiver in the Sky
by: The John Byrne Band

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Label: Ri-Ra
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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Canary in a Coal Mine
by: Tomato/Tomato

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Folk Rock
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Sage
by: Michelle Qureshi

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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79
North Star Calling
by: Leela Gilday

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Label: Diva Sound
Sub Genre: Folk Rock
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More Than I Should
by: Duff Ferguson

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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Noon
by: Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon

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Label: ATO
Sub Genre: Folk Rock
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82
Like the River Loves the Sea
by: Joan Shelley

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Label: No Quarter
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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83
Wildwood
by: Katie Dahl

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Label: Leaky Boat
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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84
Regent Street
by: Dan Bern

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Label: Kababa
Sub Genre: Folk Rock
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Making Life Sweet
by: The Early Risers

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Label: Itchy Sabot
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Common Man
by: Joe Iadanza

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Every Flash of Light
by: Karen Morand & The Bosco Boys

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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Land & Harbor
by: Shawn Lane

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Label: Bonfire
Sub Genre: Traditional Folk
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Without Susie
by: James Lee Stanley

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Label: Beachwood
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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In My Pocket
by: Brooksie Wells

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Label: Down Home Diva
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Wooh Dang
by: Daniel Norgren

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Label: Superpuma
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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92
A Bigger Fire
by: Joe Holt

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Winter Stories (feat. Chatham County Line)
by: Judy Collins

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Label: Cleopatra
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Live in L.A.
by: Ken Dunn

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Tempered Tantrum
by: Lucas Choi Zimbel

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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Now I'm Free
by: Bill Scorzari

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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97
Terms of Surrender
by: Hiss Golden Messenger

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Label: Merge
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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Low Flyin' Planes
by: Adam Klein

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Label: Broken Hill Songs
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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The Hard Stuff
by: Susan Gibson

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Label: Fortherecords
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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100
Old Ghosts and Lost Causes
by: Helene Cronin

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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101
Pharmakon
by: Humbird

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Label: Green Thumb
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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102
Phoenix
by: JigJam

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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103
Carrying on
by: Kacy & Clayton

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Label: New West
Sub Genre: Traditional Folk
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104
The Iron Trios
by: Laurel Premo

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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105
Encore
by: Greg Jacobs

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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106
Valley of the Bones
by: Jane Kramer

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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107
A Fireproof House of Sunshine
by: Hackensaw Boys

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Label: Free Dirt
Sub Genre: Traditional Folk
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108
Autumn of the World
by: The Resonant Rogues

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Traditional Folk
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109
What if This is All There is
by: RJ Cowdery

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Label: Goosepie Music
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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110
Home
by: Laura Berman

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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111
When the Sun Goes Down
by: Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert

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Label: Dead Reckoning
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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112
Somewhere in the Middle
by: Wes Weddell

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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113
Second Sight
by: May Erlewine

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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114
The Climb
by: Grady Shawver

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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115
Stay the Course
by: Same Latitude As Rome

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Label: Peter C. Boyer
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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116
American Darkness
by: Dan Tedesco

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Contemporary Folk
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Wrestling with the Mystery
by: Nick Nace

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Label: Self-Release
Sub Genre: Alternative Folk
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