The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2021
1 |  | Seeker by: Brigitte DeMeyer   | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:    |
2 |  | Calla Lily by: The Brother Brothers | Label: Compass Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
3 |  | The River Flows by: John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen | Label: Culture Factory Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
4 |  | A Few Stars Apart by: Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Label: Fantasy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
5 |  | Just Beyond the Shine by: Peach & Quiet | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
6 |  | Outside Child by: Allison Russell | Label: Fantasy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
7 |  | Come Around by: Rob Lutes | Label: Lucky Bear Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
8 |  | Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno by: Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno | Label: Free Dirt Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
9 |  | Calico Jim by: Pony Bradshaw | Label: Black Mountain Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
10 |  | What a Show by: Kerry Patrick Clark | Label: Studio 234 Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:  |
11 |  | Watchhouse by: Watchhouse | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
12 |  | Until Now by: Carrie Newcomer | Label: Available Light Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:   |
13 |  | Over That Road I'm Bound by: Joachim Cooder | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
14 |  | Song to a Refugee by: Diana Jones | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
15 |  | Hearts Town by: The War and Treaty | Label: Rounder Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
16 |  | In These Silent Days by: Brandi Carlile | Label: Low Country Sound Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
17 |  | Ghost Tattoo by: Kristen Grainger & True North | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
18 |  | The Remains of Sunday by: Alec Lytle & Them Rounders | Label: Four Acre Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
19 |  | Desert Ghosts by: Jaspar Lepak | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
20 |  | All This Time Running by: Craig Cardiff | Label: True North Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
21 |  | Flyover Country by: Chicago Farmer | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
22 |  | Another Sky by: Kelly's Lot | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
23 |  | Last of the Better Days Ahead by: Charlie Parr | Label: Smithsonian Folkways Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
24 |  | Shame and Sedition by: Lula Wiles | Label: Smithsonian Folkways Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
25 |  | Annamania by: Anna Elizabeth Laube | Label: Ahh...Pockets! Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
26 |  | The River Flows, Vol. 2 by: John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen | Label: Fur Peace Ranch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
27 |  | There Used to Be Horses Here by: Amy Speace | Label: Windbone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
28 |  | Cascade by: Wes Corbett | Label: Padiddle Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
29 |  | Joyful Banner Blazing by: Maria Dunn | Label: Distant Whisper Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
30 |  | Funeral for My Past by: Liz Longley | Label: Tone Tree Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
31 |  | Love & Rage by: Carsie Blanton | Label: So Ferocious Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
32 |  | Poets by: Liz Simmons | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
33 |  | No Summer by: Cinder Well | Label: Free Dirt Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
34 |  | Covers by: Mo Kenney | Label: turtlemusik Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
35 |  | We'll Look for Stars by: Lynn Miles | Label: Must Have Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
36 |  | The Midnight Broadcast by: Peter Case | Label: Bandaloop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
37 |  | Maybe Key Lime Pie by: ThorNton Creek | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
38 |  | Bravado by: Rose Cousins | Label: Outside Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
39 |  | Nowhere Sounds Lovely by: Cristina Vane | Label: Red Parlor Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
40 |  | Queen of the in Between by: K.C. Jones | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
41 |  | Do, Baby. by: Eric Selby | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
42 |  | The Martin Gilmore Trio by: The Martin Gilmore Trio | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
43 |  | Hands and Knees by: Two Bird Stone | Label: Wondermore Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
44 |  | Hubble Space Parade by: Giriffin Swank | Label: Infirst Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
45 |  | Mipso by: Mipso | Label: Rounder Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
46 |  | Only Human by: Luke LeBlanc | Label: 145 Entertainment LLC Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
47 |  | I'm Still Here by: Travis Linville | Label: Black Mesa Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
48 |  | This Storm by: Tara MacLean & Catherine MacLellan | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
49 |  | Where the Heart Wants to Go by: Buffalo Gals Band | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
50 |  | The Ridge by: Julian Taylor | Label: Howling Turtle Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
51 |  | Last Birds by: Last Birds | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
52 |  | Where You Born At? by: Eric Selby | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
53 |  | Is It You, is It Me by: The Dustbowl Revival | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
54 |  | Ledgers and Stones by: Thomas Hine | Label: THM Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
55 |  | Without People by: Donovan Woods | Label: Meant Well Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
56 |  | Mike O'Brien by: Mike O'Brien | Label: Chouchou Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
57 |  | Chasing Echoes by: Phil Henry | Label: Board By Board Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
58 |  | Voyageur in Song by: David Leask | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
59 |  | True to Life by: Gracious Me | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
60 |  | Autonomy by: Stephanie Lambring | Label: Tone Tree Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
61 |  | The Balladeer by: Lori McKenna | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
62 |  | Ashes in the Morning by: Ken Dunn | Label: Trespass Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
63 |  | Blue on Blue by: Sylvie Simmons | Label: Compass Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
64 |  | Let Love Be Your Guide by: Dan + Claudia Zanes | Label: Smithsonian Folkways Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
65 |  | Local Valley by: Jose Gonzalez | Label: Mute Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
66 |  | The Skies We Look to by: Kris Angelis | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
67 |  | Calm in the Eye of the Storm by: Ken Whiteley | Label: Borealis Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
68 |  | Becalmyounglovers by: Bowerbirds | Label: Psychic Hotline Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
69 |  | When We Wander by: Jesse Terry | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
70 |  | Elisabeth by: Zach Bryan | Label: Warner Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
71 |  | I Can Still Hear You by: Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche | Label: StorySound Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
72 |  | No Time for Love Songs by: The Mastersons | Label: Compass Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
73 |  | The More I Give by: Paula Standing | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
74 |  | Light & Dark by: Chris Ronald | Label: Borealis Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
75 |  | Golden Loam by: Laurel Premo | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
76 |  | Red, White & I Love You Too by: The Mastersons | Label: Red House Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
77 |  | Sober Again by: Jackson Grimm | Label: Vault Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
78 |  | At the Edge of the World by: Mike McKenna Jr. | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
79 |  | Birdtalker by: Birdtalker | Label: AntiFragile Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
80 |  | Art of Motion by: Andy McKee | Label: Candy Rat Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
81 |  | Evening Machines by: Gregory Alan Isakov | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
82 |  | Scatter & Gather by: Shay Martin Lovette | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
83 |  | The Ghost and the Wall by: Joshua Radin | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
84 |  | Why Wait! by: Kate Taylor | Label: Red House Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
85 |  | Ballad of a Bad Girl by: Kate McDonnell | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
86 |  | One Sky by: Philip Scott Poli | Label: Trespass Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
87 |  | Quiet Talkers by: Ken Yates | Label: Tone Tree Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
88 |  | Chinook Waltz by: Over the Moon | Label: Borealis Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
89 |  | Time Travel by: Lennie Gallant | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
90 |  | All Mine by: Sarah Morris | Label: AW Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
91 |  | Timber by: Bryan Rahija | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
92 |  | What If? by: Luca Stricagnoli | Label: Candyrat Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
93 |  | Motivational Speaking by: Old Sea Brigade | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
94 |  | Vari-Colored Songs: a Tribute to Langston Hughes by: Leyla McCalla | Label: Dixiefrog Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
95 |  | After the Great Storm by: Ane Brun | Label: Balloon Ranger Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
96 |  | Under the Pepper Tree by: Sara Watkins | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
97 |  | Every Road by: Linda Sussman | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
98 |  | The Romantic by: Taylor Ashton | Label: Signature Sounds Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
99 |  | Who Asked You Back by: EllaHarp | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
100 |  | Uppity by: Laura Love | Label: Octoroon Biography Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
101 |  | Somewhere by: McKain Lakey | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
102 |  | A Field Guide to Loneliness by: Jamestown Revival | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
103 |  | Pass It on Down by: Linda Sussman | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
104 |  | Into the Ground by: Beth Whitney | Label: Tone Tree Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
105 |  | Character by: Rachael Sage | Label: MPress Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
106 |  | Blue World by: Anna Tivel | Label: Fluff & Gravy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
107 |  | Through the Deep, Dark Valley by: The Oh Hellos | Label: Elektra Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
108 |  | Down the Way by: Angus & Julia Stone | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
109 |  | Desires Shape by: Stoll Vaughan | Label: Commonwealth Artist Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
110 |  | Paws of a Bear by: Sofia Talvik | Label: Makaki Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
111 |  | Spell Songs II: Let the Light in by: The Lost Words: Spell Songs | Label: Quercus/Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
112 |  | Vignettes by: Wesley Schultz | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
113 |  | Electric Blue Dandelion Nashville Sessions by: Raveis Kole | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
114 |  | Love and Leave You by: 100 Mile House | Label: Fallen Tree Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
115 |  | Off off on by: This Is the Kit | Label: Rough Trade Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
116 |  | This Too Shall Pass by: Chris Wilhelm | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
117 |  | Shadow Work by: Rorie Kelly | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
118 |  | The Desert Trilogy, Vol. 1: the Burning Heart by: Dean Owens | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
119 |  | Phoenix by: JigJam | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
120 |  | Blue Heron Suite by: Sarah Jarosz | Label: Rounder Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
121 |  | With the Sun by: Sunny War | Label: Hen House Studios Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
122 |  | Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger by: Kronos Quartet | Label: Smithsonian Folkways Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
123 |  | Screaming into the Void by: EllaHarp | Label: Silver Harp Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
124 |  | Motivational Speakeasy by: Jordan Tice | Label: Padiddle Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
125 |  | Frontiers Woman by: Angela Autumn | Label: Cacti Omen Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
126 |  | Settler by: Malcolm MacWatt | Label: Singular Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
127 |  | Pharmakon by: Humbird | Label: Green Thumb Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
128 |  | Kisbee Ring by: Abby Posner | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
129 |  | Alone by: Mean Mary | Label: WoodRock Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
130 |  | Our Turn Now by: Len Seligman | Label: Emerging Light Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
131 |  | Still Life by: Humbird | Label: Green Thumb Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
132 |  | The Unending Alteration of the Human Heart by: Gabrielle Louise | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
133 |  | The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 by: Hank Williams | Label: Omnivore Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
134 |  | These Wilder Things by: Ruth Moody | Label: Red House Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
135 |  | Solo by: Gordon Lightfoot | Label: Warner Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
136 |  | American Jukebox Fables by: Ellis Paul | Label: Philo - Rounder Records Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
137 |  | Weights & Wings by: Brother Sun  | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
138 |  | Busted Stuff by: Dave Matthews Band | Label: BMG Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
139 |  | On My Own by: Lera Lynn | Label: Ruby Range Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
140 |  | Noonday Dream by: Ben Howard | Label: Universal Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
141 |  | Assiniboine & the Red by: The Small Glories | Label: Red House Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
142 |  | If Wishes Were Horses by: Matt Patershuk | Label: Black Hen Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
143 |  | A Bigger Fire by: Joe Holt | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
144 |  | A Small Death by: Samantha Crain | Label: Ramseur Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
145 |  | Look Long by: Indigo Girls | Label: Rounder Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
146 |  | Bull Frogs Croon (And Other Songs) by: Aoife O'Donovan | Label: Yep Roc Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
147 |  | We Made It Home by: Melody Walker & Jacob Groopman | Label: Self Released Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
148 |  | My Echo by: Laura Veirs | Label: Raven Marching Band Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
149 |  | Songs for a Winter's Night by: Reid Jamieson | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
150 |  | Lonesome by: Mary Scholz | Label: KZZ Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
151 |  | Bethlehem by: Storyhill | Label: Story Hills Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
152 |  | The Way These Things Go by: FY5 | Label: Swingfingers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
153 |  | 1970 Sessions by: Will Beeley | Label: Tompkins Square Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
154 |  | Berry Hill by: Million Miles | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
155 |  | An Evening of New York Songs and Stories by: Suzanne Vega | Label: Amanuensis Productions Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
156 |  | Idaho by: David Robert King | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
157 |  | The Storyteller's Suitcase by: Ellis Paul | Label: Rosella Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
158 |  | Good Good Man by: Vance Gilbert | Label: Disismye Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
159 |  | Straight to Marrow by: Clint Alphin | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
160 |  | See You Tomorrow by: The Innocence Mission | Label: Bella Union Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
161 |  | Conspirators by: Guy Forsyth | Label: Small and Nimble Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
162 |  | Travelers Code by: Darryl Purpose | Label: Tangible Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
163 |  | Rebuild by: Zoe & Cloyd | Label: Organic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
164 |  | Reunion Hill by: Richard Shindell | Label: Shanachie Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
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