The Roots Music Report's
Top Bluegrass Album Chart
for the Year of 2024
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Highway Prayers | Billy Strings | Reprise | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 2 | City of Gold | Molly Tuttle | Nonesuch | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 3 | Highlander | Missy Raines & Allegheny | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 4 | Memory Lane | Wilson Banjo Co. | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 5 | No Fear | Sister Sadie | Mountain Home Music Company | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 6 | City of Glass | AJ Lee & Blue Summit | Signature Sounds | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 7 | Chains & Stakes | The Dead South | Six Shooter | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 8 | Dan Tyminski: Live from the Ryman | Dan Tyminski | 8 Track Entertainment | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 9 | Into the Wild | Molly Tuttle | Nonesuch | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 10 | The Winning Hand | The Lonesome River Band | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 11 | Book of Fools | Mipso | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 12 | I Built a World | Bronwyn Keith-Hynes | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 13 | Fiction | John Cowan | True Lonesome | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 14 | A Life Well Lived | Daryl Mosley | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 15 | Wanderers Like Me | The Po' Ramblin' Boys | Smithsonian Folkways | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 16 | Heroes & Friends | Daniel Grindstaff | Bonfire | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 17 | So Much for Forever | Authentic Unlimited | Billy Blue | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 18 | Jubilee | Becky Buller | Dark Shadow | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 19 | Lead and Iron | Henhouse Prowlers | Dark Shadow | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 20 | 20 | The Grascals | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 21 | Appalachian Rust | Marty Falle | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 22 | Happy Valley | Wyatt Ellis | Knee High | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 23 | Destinations and Fun Places | Rhonda Vincent | Upper Management | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 24 | Cambium | Full Cord | Dark Shadow | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 25 | Morning Shift | Steep Canyon Rangers | Yep Roc | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 26 | Talk of the Town | Darin & Brooke Aldridge | Billy Blue | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 27 | Kinetic Tone | Balsam Range | Mountain Home | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 28 | Mountain Lily | Donna Ulisse | Billy Blue | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 29 | Let It Burn | Kristy Cox | Billy Blue | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 30 | Born to Fly | Eddie Sanders | True Lonesome | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 31 | Songs of Love and Life | Del McCoury Band | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 32 | God Fearing Heathen | Dan Tyminski | 8 Track Ent. | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 33 | Between the Lines | The Price Sisters | McCoury | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 34 | What I'm for | Dave Adkins | Billy Blue | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 35 | The Iceland Sessions (feat. Holly Bowling) | Greensky Bluegrass | Big Blue Zoo | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 36 | Boarding Windows in Paradise | Rebecca Frazier | Amtoco | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 37 | Colors | Carley Arrowood | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 38 | Lonesome Chronicles | Kathy Kallick Band | Live Oak | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 39 | Nowhere Next | Yonder Mountain String Band | Frog Pad | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 40 | Kentucky for Me | Dale Ann Bradley | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 41 | Yellow Line | Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 42 | Live at Greenfield Lake | Steep Canyon Rangers | Yep Roc | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 43 | Missin' That Drawl | The Grass Daddies | Prairie Grass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 44 | If There's a Will, There's a Way | Junior Sisk | Mountain Fever | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 45 | Lonesome State of Mind | Blue Highway | Down The Road | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 46 | Last Chance to Win | East Nash Grass | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 47 | School Project | Cory Walker | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 48 | Radio John: Songs of John Hartford | Sam Bush | Smithsonian Folkways | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 49 | I Could Get Used to This | Tim Raybon Band | Pinecastle | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 50 | Uncommon Sky | Rick Faris | Dark Shadow | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 51 | The Gospel Sessions, Vol. 2 | Authentic Unlimited | Billy Blue | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 52 | Born Again Bluegrass | Marty Falle | Country Cool | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 53 | Cicada | Wood Belly | Americana Vibes | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 54 | The Fretliners | The Fretliners | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 55 | Far Away with You | Woody Platt | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 56 | To Willie from Billy | Bill and the Belles | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 57 | Tougher Than Nails | The Steeldrivers | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 58 | The Stars, if You Look Closely | The Stetson Family | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 59 | Caroline Owens | Caroline Owens | Skyline | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 60 | Great Blue North | Special Consensus | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 61 | Terra Madre | Beppe Gambetta | AMSC2024-1 | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 62 | Restless | Adam McIntosh | Billy Blue | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 63 | Salt Box | Charm City Junction | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 64 | Get Yourself Outside | Yonder Mountain String Band | Frog Pad | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 65 | Dalton Harper | Dalton Harper | Skyline | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 66 | Pages in Your Hand | Chris Jones & the Night Drivers | Mountain Home Music Company | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 67 | The Songwriter | Jerry Salley | Very Jerry | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 68 | Wanderer | Darren Nicholson | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 69 | Cast a Lonesome Shadow | Larry Stephenson Band | Whysper Dream | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 70 | Bluegrass Tracks | Andy Statman | Shefa | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 71 | Lend Me a Hand | The String Cheese Incident | SCI Fidelity | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 72 | Live Vol. 1 | Billy Strings | Reprise | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 73 | Try to Make It Fly | The Lonesome Ace Stringband | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 74 | Lowdown Hoedown | Jason Carter | Fiddleman | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 75 | Labor of Lust | Kyle Tuttle | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 76 | If You Hadn't Noticed | The Goodwin Brothers | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 77 | Accomplice Two | Tommy Emmanuel | CGP Sounds | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 78 | Fear of Falling Stars | Kristen Grainger & True North | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 79 | Every Good Path | The Chigger Hill Boys & Terri | Morning Glory | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 80 | Straight from the Heartland | Lori King & Junction 63 | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 81 | Greener Pastures | Never Come Down | Self-Release | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 82 | You Can Learn a Lot from a Song | Hammertowne | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 83 | Living in the South | Starlett & Big John | Rebel | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 84 | The Never-Ending Years | Thomas Cassell | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 85 | Mile 77 | Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve | Don Giovanni | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 86 | Rhinestone Revival | The Kody Norris Show | Rebel | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 87 | If It Wasn't for Longing | Serene Green | Patuxent | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 88 | Paper Lanterns | Hank, Pattie & the Current | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 89 | Here We Go Again | Nothin' Fancy | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 90 | Pick Your Poison | Benson | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 91 | 100 Years of Hank | Haymakers | TOPTone | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 92 | Mighty Poplar | Mighty Poplar | Free Dirt | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 93 | Bluegrass Holy Land | Marty Falle | Country Cool Music Nashville | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 94 | Greener Grass | Billy Swinson | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 95 | Six Degrees of Separation | Wilson Banjo Co. | Pinecastle | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 96 | On Banjo | Alison Brown | Compass | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 97 | Here Within My Heart | Tina Adair | Englehardt Music Group | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 98 | Unfinished Bridges | Rock Hearts | 615 Hideaway | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 99 | Let It out | The Barefoot Movement | Box Monkey Studios | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 100 | 444 | Wood Box Heroes | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 101 | My Farm, My Bluegrass | Marty Falle | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 102 | It Never Gets Old | Chosen Road | Thoroughbred | Gospel Bluegrass |
| 103 | Long Haul | Ben Sollee | sonaBLAST! | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 104 | Triple Shot | Shannon Leigh Reynolds | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 105 | Whispers in the Wind | Lindley Creek | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 106 | Excelsior | Alan Munde | Patuxent | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 107 | EZRA | EZRA | Adhyaropa | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 108 | The Cabin Sessions | Nefesh Mountain | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 109 | Greener Pastures | The Waymores | Chicken Ranch | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 110 | Old Juniper | The Down Hill Strugglers | Jalopy | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 111 | All You Can Eat | Bashed Potatoes | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 112 | Yesterday and Tomorrow | The Country Gentlemen Tribute Band | Patuxent | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 113 | Gotta Lotta Lonesome | Carson Peters & Iron Mountain | Billy Blue | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 114 | Hold Back the Dawn | Anthony Howell | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 115 | Storms on the Ocean | Daniel Crabtree | Codel | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 116 | That Old Mountain | Byron Hill | BHP Recordings | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 117 | Black Banjo | Tray Wellington | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 118 | Furious Kindness | Barnstar | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 119 | Billy the Kid | Billy Droze | RBR | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 120 | Solitary Diamond | Laura Orshaw | Dark Shadow | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 121 | Something You Didn't Count on | Jaelee Roberts | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 122 | Gambit | Ethan Setiawan | Adhyaropa | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 123 | Leaving is Believing | Ashby Frank | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 124 | The Stringhounds | The Stringhounds | Digital Boy | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 125 | Waconda Flyer | Haymakers | TOPTone | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 126 | Back Home | Troy Engle | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 127 | Pay Your Dues | Songs From The Road Band | Charles Humphrey III | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 128 | One Step Away | Casey Penn | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 129 | Welcome | The Arcadian Wild | Self-Release | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 130 | Instant Lonesome & Twinkle Brigade | Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve | Don Giovanni | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 131 | Roses | Jackson Hollow | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 132 | A Little Bit of Bluegrass | Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road | Pinecastle | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 133 | Round Feet, Chrome Smile | Ragged Union | Shining Castle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 134 | Twisted Sage | Kenny Kosek | Shefa | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 135 | Great Big Skies | Wood Belly | Americana Vibes | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 136 | Railroad Town | Jr Williams | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 137 | Darkest Hour | The Gibson Brothers | Bull Run | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 138 | No Finish Line | Forest Sun | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 139 | Tryin' to Have a Good Time | Tyler Grant | Americana Vibes | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 140 | The Blackest Thing on the Menu | Gangstagrass | Rench Audio | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 141 | Up All Night | The Grascals | Mountain Home | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 142 | Long Days and Short Stories | Daryl Mosley | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 143 | IV | Fast Track | Engelhardt Music Group | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 144 | Blues Around My Cabin | Flashback | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 145 | Back to the Country | Tim Raybon Band | Pinecastle | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 146 | Up the Hill and Through the Fog | The Slocan Ramblers | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 147 | From Sulphur Springs to Rising Fawn : the Songs of Norman Blake | Bob Minner | Engelhardt | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 148 | We're All Crazy | Dave Adkins | Mountain Fever | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 149 | Bobby & Teddi Cyrus | Bobby & Teddi Cyrus | Pinecastle | Gospel Bluegrass |
| 150 | Beacons | Nefesh Mountain | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 151 | Distance and Time | Becky Buller | Dark Shadow | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 152 | Backroads | Chain Station | Self-Release | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 153 | Ain't Love Somethin' | Crandall Creek | Copper Mountain | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 154 | Just Believe | Route 3 | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 155 | Maria with a "J" | Marija Droze | RBR Ent | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 156 | People, Places, and Songs | Greg Blake | Turnberry | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 157 | Classy. Sassy. Bluegrassy. | Williamson Branch | Pinecastle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 158 | Arrows | Bowregard | Bowregard | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 159 | Brand New Good Old Days | Leftover Salmon | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 160 | All for the Song | Railroad Earth | Bag O' Seed | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 161 | Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 2 (Cowboy Arms Sessions) | Sturgill Simpson | High Top Mountain | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 162 | Sixty | John Cowan | Compass | Derailed |
| 163 | Pictures | Hammertowne | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 164 | Hindsight | Full Cord | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 165 | Jesse Smathers | Jesse Smathers | Self-Release | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 166 | Let Time Ride | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers | Billy Blue | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 167 | Me / and / Dad | Billy Strings | Rounder | Progressive Bluegrass |
| 168 | East Nash Grass | East Nash Grass | Lamb Lyfe | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 169 | Zach Top | Zach Top | RBR Ent. | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 170 | Changes | Amanda Cook | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 171 | Heartache and Trouble | Fast Track | Engelhardt Music | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 172 | Live & Local Vol. 1 | The JackTown Ramblers | Self-Release | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 173 | Ministry in Song | Larry Sparks | Rebel | Gospel Bluegrass |
| 174 | Walking in Those Shoes | Eddie Sanders | Engelhardt Music Group | Gospel Bluegrass |
| 175 | Equality | The Sweet Lillies | Americana Vibes | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 176 | Timeless | Wood Family Tradition | Turnberry | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 177 | Apple & Setser | Apple & Setser | Bell Buckle | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 178 | New Horizons | Mason Via | Mountain Fever | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 179 | Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions) | Sturgill Simpson | High Top Mountain | Traditional Bluegrass |
| 180 | Fast Track | Fast Track | Engelhardt Music Group | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 181 | Details | Nick Dumas | Skyline | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 182 | Wanderlust | Rock Hearts | The 615 Hideaway | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 183 | Lovin' of the Game | Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper | Compass | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 184 | If Not Now, Who? | Joe K. Walsh | Adhyâropa | Contemporary Bluegrass |
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