The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2021
1 | A Few Stars Apart by: Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Buy Now: | Label: Fantasy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
2 | Seeker by: Brigitte DeMeyer Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
3 | Calla Lily by: The Brother Brothers Buy Now: | Label: Compass Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
4 | They're Calling Me Home by: Rhiannon Giddens Buy Now: | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
5 | Have Purpose Live Long by: Josie Bello Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
6 | The River Flows by: John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen Buy Now: | Label: Culture Factory Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
7 | Just Beyond the Shine by: Peach & Quiet Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
8 | Outside Child by: Allison Russell Buy Now: | Label: Fantasy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
9 | In These Silent Days by: Brandi Carlile Buy Now: | Label: Low Country Sound Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
10 | Woman in Color by: Raye Zaragoza Buy Now: | Label: Art Menius Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
11 | Come Around by: Rob Lutes Buy Now: | Label: Lucky Bear Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
12 | Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno by: Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno Buy Now: | Label: Free Dirt Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
13 | Calico Jim by: Pony Bradshaw Buy Now: | Label: Black Mountain Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
14 | Hearts Town by: The War and Treaty Buy Now: | Label: Rounder Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
15 | Watchhouse by: Watchhouse Buy Now: | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
16 | Song to a Refugee by: Diana Jones Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
17 | Ghost Tattoo by: Kristen Grainger & True North Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
18 | A Field Guide to Loneliness by: Jamestown Revival Buy Now: | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
19 | Over That Road I'm Bound by: Joachim Cooder Buy Now: | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
20 | The Remains of Sunday by: Alec Lytle & Them Rounders Buy Now: | Label: Four Acre Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
21 | Desert Ghosts by: Jaspar Lepak Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
22 | All This Time Running by: Craig Cardiff Buy Now: | Label: True North Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
23 | Flyover Country by: Chicago Farmer Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
24 | Last of the Better Days Ahead by: Charlie Parr Buy Now: | Label: Smithsonian Folkways Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
25 | Another Sky by: Kelly's Lot Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
26 | Shame and Sedition by: Lula Wiles Buy Now: | Label: Smithsonian Folkways Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
27 | Annamania by: Anna Elizabeth Laube Buy Now: | Label: Ahh...Pockets! Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
28 | The River Flows, Vol. 2 by: John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen Buy Now: | Label: Fur Peace Ranch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
29 | Joyful Banner Blazing by: Maria Dunn Buy Now: | Label: Distant Whisper Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
30 | Funeral for My Past by: Liz Longley Buy Now: | Label: Tone Tree Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
31 | All About the Timing by: Roland Roberts Buy Now: | Label: Happy Life Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
32 | Poets by: Liz Simmons Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
33 | Love & Rage by: Carsie Blanton Buy Now: | Label: So Ferocious Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
34 | No Summer by: Cinder Well Buy Now: | Label: Free Dirt Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
35 | There Used to Be Horses Here by: Amy Speace Buy Now: | Label: Windbone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
36 | Covers by: Mo Kenney Buy Now: | Label: turtlemusik Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
37 | The Midnight Broadcast by: Peter Case Buy Now: | Label: Bandaloop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
38 | We'll Never Know Unless We Try by: Darling West Buy Now: | Label: Jansen Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
39 | Between Here and There by: Sarah Morris Buy Now: | Label: AW Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
40 | Maybe Key Lime Pie by: ThorNton Creek Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
41 | Nowhere Sounds Lovely by: Cristina Vane Buy Now: | Label: Red Parlor Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
42 | Bravado by: Rose Cousins Buy Now: | Label: Outside Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
43 | Queen of the in Between by: K.C. Jones Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
44 | Do, Baby. by: Eric Selby Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
45 | The Martin Gilmore Trio by: The Martin Gilmore Trio Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
46 | Hands and Knees by: Two Bird Stone Buy Now: | Label: Wondermore Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
47 | Hubble Space Parade by: Giriffin Swank Buy Now: | Label: Infirst Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
48 | Only Human by: Luke LeBlanc Buy Now: | Label: 145 Entertainment LLC Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
49 | I'm Still Here by: Travis Linville Buy Now: | Label: Black Mesa Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
50 | This Storm by: Tara MacLean & Catherine MacLellan Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
51 | Where the Heart Wants to Go by: Buffalo Gals Band Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
52 | The Ridge by: Julian Taylor Buy Now: | Label: Howling Turtle Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
53 | See the World Deluxe by: Brett Dennen Buy Now: | Label: Mick Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
54 | Last Birds by: Last Birds Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
55 | Live at the Hotel Cafe by: Kris Angelis Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
56 | Is It You, is It Me by: The Dustbowl Revival Buy Now: | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
57 | Ledgers and Stones by: Thomas Hine Buy Now: | Label: THM Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
58 | Without People by: Donovan Woods Buy Now: | Label: Meant Well Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
59 | Xo, 1945 by: Ryland Moranz Buy Now: | Label: Tonic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
60 | Mike O'Brien by: Mike O'Brien Buy Now: | Label: Chouchou Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
61 | Chasing Echoes by: Phil Henry Buy Now: | Label: Board By Board Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
62 | Kitchen Days by: Braden Gates Buy Now: | Label: Borealis Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
63 | Voyageur in Song by: David Leask Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
64 | True to Life by: Gracious Me Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
65 | Autonomy by: Stephanie Lambring Buy Now: | Label: Tone Tree Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
66 | The Balladeer by: Lori McKenna Buy Now: | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
67 | Ashes in the Morning by: Ken Dunn Buy Now: | Label: Trespass Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
68 | Blue on Blue by: Sylvie Simmons Buy Now: | Label: Compass Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
69 | Gone by: Tim Grimm Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
70 | Let Love Be Your Guide by: Dan + Claudia Zanes Buy Now: | Label: Smithsonian Folkways Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
71 | Local Valley by: Jose Gonzalez Buy Now: | Label: Mute Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
72 | The Skies We Look to by: Kris Angelis Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
73 | Calm in the Eye of the Storm by: Ken Whiteley Buy Now: | Label: Borealis Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
74 | Awake by: Mala Oreen Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
75 | An Honest Effort by: Matt Patershuk Buy Now: | Label: Black Hen Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
76 | Becalmyounglovers by: Bowerbirds Buy Now: | Label: Psychic Hotline Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
77 | When We Wander by: Jesse Terry Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
78 | Elisabeth by: Zach Bryan Buy Now: | Label: Warner Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
79 | I Can Still Hear You by: Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche Buy Now: | Label: StorySound Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
80 | Look Long by: Indigo Girls Buy Now: | Label: Rounder Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
81 | No Time for Love Songs by: The Mastersons Buy Now: | Label: Compass Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
82 | The More I Give by: Paula Standing Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
83 | Ghost Town by: Suzi Ragsdale Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
84 | Last Summer by: John Batdorf Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
85 | Light & Dark by: Chris Ronald Buy Now: | Label: Borealis Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
86 | Blue Heron Suite by: Sarah Jarosz Buy Now: | Label: Rounder Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
87 | Golden Loam by: Laurel Premo Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
88 | Red, White & I Love You Too by: The Mastersons Buy Now: | Label: Red House Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
89 | 2020 by: Eliza Gilkyson Buy Now: | Label: Red House Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
90 | Sober Again by: Jackson Grimm Buy Now: | Label: Vault Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
91 | At the Edge of the World by: Mike McKenna Jr. Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
92 | Wolf Jett by: Wolf Jett Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
93 | Birdtalker by: Birdtalker Buy Now: | Label: AntiFragile Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
94 | Slower by: Jules Shear Buy Now: | Label: Funzalo Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
95 | Two Saviors by: Buck Meek Buy Now: | Label: Keeled Scales Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
96 | Scatter & Gather by: Shay Martin Lovette Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
97 | Why Wait! by: Kate Taylor Buy Now: | Label: Red House Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
98 | Ballad of a Bad Girl by: Kate McDonnell Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
99 | One Sky by: Philip Scott Poli Buy Now: | Label: Trespass Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
100 | Quiet Talkers by: Ken Yates Buy Now: | Label: Tone Tree Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
101 | The Ghost and the Wall by: Joshua Radin Buy Now: | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
102 | Long Haul by: John Wort Hannam Buy Now: | Label: Black Hen Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
103 | Chinook Waltz by: Over the Moon Buy Now: | Label: Borealis Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
104 | Happy Again by: Bill and the Belles Buy Now: | Label: Ditty Boom Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
105 | Timber by: Bryan Rahija Buy Now: | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
106 | All Mine by: Sarah Morris Buy Now: | Label: AW Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
107 | Strange Flight by: The Wanted Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
108 | Soaking Wet by: River Kittens Buy Now: | Label: Create Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
109 | Motivational Speaking by: Old Sea Brigade Buy Now: | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
110 | Afraid of Love by: Beta Radio Buy Now: | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
111 | Impossible World by: Front Country Buy Now: | Label: AntiFragile Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
112 | Under the Pepper Tree by: Sara Watkins Buy Now: | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
113 | After the Great Storm by: Ane Brun Buy Now: | Label: Balloon Ranger Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
114 | The Romantic by: Taylor Ashton Buy Now: | Label: Signature Sounds Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
115 | Technicolour Blue by: Arrica Rose & the ...'s Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
116 | Through the Smoke by: Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
117 | Uppity by: Laura Love Buy Now: | Label: Octoroon Biography Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
118 | Somewhere by: McKain Lakey Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
119 | Pass It on Down by: Linda Sussman Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
120 | Everything at the Same Time by: Caroline Marie Brooks Buy Now: | Label: Outside Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
121 | Character by: Rachael Sage Buy Now: | Label: MPress Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
122 | Into the Ground by: Beth Whitney Buy Now: | Label: Tone Tree Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
123 | Some See the Flowers by: Suzie Brown Buy Now: | Label: Mule Kick Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
124 | Blue World by: Anna Tivel Buy Now: | Label: Fluff & Gravy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
125 | Paws of a Bear by: Sofia Talvik Buy Now: | Label: Makaki Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
126 | Spell Songs II: Let the Light in by: The Lost Words: Spell Songs Buy Now: | Label: Quercus/Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
127 | Vignettes by: Wesley Schultz Buy Now: | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
128 | Desires Shape by: Stoll Vaughan Buy Now: | Label: Commonwealth Artist Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
129 | Love and Leave You by: 100 Mile House Buy Now: | Label: Fallen Tree Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
130 | Open House by: The Fretless Buy Now: | Label: Birthday Cake Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
131 | Barn by: Neil Young Buy Now: | Label: The Other Shoe Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
132 | Homegrown by: Neil Young Buy Now: | Label: Silver Bow Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
133 | This Too Shall Pass by: Chris Wilhelm Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
134 | Shadow Work by: Rorie Kelly Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
135 | The Desert Trilogy, Vol. 1: the Burning Heart by: Dean Owens Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
136 | Phoenix by: JigJam Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
137 | Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger by: Kronos Quartet Buy Now: | Label: Smithsonian Folkways Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
138 | Off off on by: This Is the Kit Buy Now: | Label: Rough Trade Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
139 | Screaming into the Void by: EllaHarp Buy Now: | Label: Silver Harp Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
140 | Motivational Speakeasy by: Jordan Tice Buy Now: | Label: Padiddle Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
141 | Arrivals by: Declan O'Rourke Buy Now: | Label: Maiesta Musix Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
142 | Settler by: Malcolm MacWatt Buy Now: | Label: Singular Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
143 | Frontiers Woman by: Angela Autumn Buy Now: | Label: Cacti Omen Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
144 | Kisbee Ring by: Abby Posner Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
145 | Alone by: Mean Mary Buy Now: | Label: WoodRock Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
146 | Still Life by: Humbird Buy Now: | Label: Green Thumb Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
147 | Our Turn Now by: Len Seligman Buy Now: | Label: Emerging Light Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
148 | The Unending Alteration of the Human Heart by: Gabrielle Louise Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
149 | Solo by: Gordon Lightfoot Buy Now: | Label: Warner Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
150 | Pharmakon by: Humbird Buy Now: | Label: Green Thumb Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
151 | On My Own by: Lera Lynn Buy Now: | Label: Ruby Range Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
152 | Assiniboine & the Red by: The Small Glories Buy Now: | Label: Red House Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
153 | Excelsior! by: Johanna Samuels Buy Now: | Label: Mama Bird Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
154 | A Bigger Fire by: Joe Holt Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
155 | A Small Death by: Samantha Crain Buy Now: | Label: Ramseur Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
156 | Anaïs Mitchell by: Anais Mitchell Buy Now: | Label: BMG Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
157 | Beyond the Reservoir by: Julian Taylor Buy Now: | Label: Howling Turtle Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
158 | Americana by: Lilli Lewis Buy Now: | Label: Louisian Red Hot Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
159 | Bull Frogs Croon (And Other Songs) by: Aoife O'Donovan Buy Now: | Label: Yep Roc Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
160 | That Kind of Girl by: Amy Speace Buy Now: | Label: Wind Bone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
161 | Bethlehem by: Storyhill Buy Now: | Label: Story Hills Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
162 | Lonesome by: Mary Scholz Buy Now: | Label: KZZ Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
163 | What It is by: Hayes Carll Buy Now: | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
164 | My Echo by: Laura Veirs Buy Now: | Label: Raven Marching Band Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
165 | An Evening of New York Songs and Stories by: Suzanne Vega Buy Now: | Label: Amanuensis Productions Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
166 | The Storyteller's Suitcase by: Ellis Paul Buy Now: | Label: Rosella Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
167 | Straight to Marrow by: Clint Alphin Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
168 | Good Good Man by: Vance Gilbert Buy Now: | Label: Disismye Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
169 | 1970 Sessions by: Will Beeley Buy Now: | Label: Tompkins Square Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
170 | Rebuild by: Zoe & Cloyd Buy Now: | Label: Organic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
171 | Naked Garden by: Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Buy Now: | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: | |
172 | Gold by: LVDY Buy Now: | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
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