The Roots Music Report's
Top Americana Country Album Chart
for the Year of 2024
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bad for Each Other | Tom Faia & Kate Miller | Lazy Tom |
| 2 | American Primitive | Old 97's | ATO |
| 3 | Southern Star | Brent Cobb | Ol' Buddy |
| 4 | $10 Cowboy | Charley Crockett | Son of Davy |
| 5 | Rumble Strip | John Leventhal | Self-Release |
| 6 | Day of the Doug | Son Volt | Transmit Sound |
| 7 | Visitor | John Moreland | Old Omens |
| 8 | Moon & Stars | The Mavericks | Thirty Tigers |
| 9 | Hayes & the Heathens | Hayes & The Heathens | BOH |
| 10 | Down at the Palomino | Mustangs of the West | Blue Elan |
| 11 | Last Leaf on the Tree | Willie Nelson | Sony |
| 12 | The January Album | The Brother Brothers | Stumbling Rose |
| 13 | El Viejo | Corb Lund | New West |
| 14 | Kentucky Bluegrassed | Brit Taylor | Cut A Shine |
| 15 | Passage Du Desir | Johnny Blue Skies | High Top Mountain |
| 16 | Sideways | The Steel Wheels | Big Ring |
| 17 | Thin Places | Jason Hawk Harris | Bloodshot |
| 18 | A Cat in the Rain | Turnpike Troubadours | Bossier City |
| 19 | Risk It All for Love | Tom Faia & Kate Miller | Self-Release |
| 20 | A Love Thing | Chris Gardner | Self-Release |
| 21 | My Favorite Place | Jim Lauderdale | Sky Crunch |
| 22 | In the Throes | Buddy & Julie Miller | New West |
| 23 | Other Voices | Gerry Spehar & Friends | Self-Release |
| 24 | Jubilee | Old Crow Medicine Show | ATO |
| 25 | Big Red Gibson | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus | Berkalin |
| 26 | The Last Frontier | Reckless Kelly | No Big Deal |
| 27 | For Eden | Boy Golden | Six Shooter |
| 28 | Backbone | Kasey Chambers | Groove Merchants |
| 29 | Roll It out | The Deslondes | New West |
| 30 | Visions of Dallas | Charley Crockett | Son of Davy |
| 31 | My Heart Plays These Songs | Effron White | Sticker Freak |
| 32 | Motel Breakfast | Mac Leaphart | Self-Release |
| 33 | Silverada | Silverada | Prairie Rose |
| 34 | Down to the Letter | Grace Pettis | MPress |
| 35 | The Long and Lonesome Letting Go | Jim Lauderdale and The Po' Ramblin' Boys | Sky Crunch |
| 36 | Somewhere in West Texas | Al Staehely | Quarto Valley |
| 37 | Borned in Ya | Melissa Carper | MAE Music |
| 38 | For Jimmy | Boy Golden | Six Shooter |
| 39 | Weather the Storm | Taylor Nauta | Red Stick |
| 40 | Dark Black Coal | Logan Halstead | ORCHARD |
| 41 | All This Time | Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams | Royal Potato Family |
| 42 | Hard As Steel | Jus' Kyle | Catbone |
| 43 | Prairie Fire | Tim Isberg | Self-Release |
| 44 | Here | Rowdy McCarran | Red Lips |
| 45 | With You | Chris St. John | Halo |
| 46 | Hiyo | Chatham County Line | Yep Roc |
| 47 | The Set | Jerry Douglas | Self-Release |
| 48 | Flash-A-Magic | Luke Winslow-King | Bloodshot |
| 49 | Life After Life | Mark & Maggie O'Connor | Self-Release |
| 50 | Positano Songs | Will Ackerman | West River |
| 51 | Zero Gravity | The HawtThorns | Red Parlor |
| 52 | Where Do We Go from Here | Thomas Hinds | Hindsight Musings |
| 53 | Healing Happens | Robin Ruddy | Parlor |
| 54 | Have Harmony, Will Travel 3 | Carla Olson | Self-Release |
| 55 | Stampede | Orville Peck | Warner |
| 56 | Feel Good | Jaime Wyatt | New West |
| 57 | Bend And Break | Toria Richings | Self-Release |
| 58 | Dream Wreckers | Shoebox Letters | Self-Release |
| 59 | Do You Recall | Dori Freeman | Blue Hens |
| 60 | Thank Goodness | Robert Bidney | Self-Release |
| 61 | Lessons | David Luning | Self-Release |
| 62 | The Perfect Answer | Cabela and Schmitt | Self-Release |
| 63 | California Son | Ted Russell Kamp | Blue Elan |
| 64 | The Man from Waco | Charley Crockett | Son of Davy |
| 65 | Empirical Truth | Mark Newman | Danal Music/WBA |
| 66 | The One's That Stay | Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters | Mule Kick |
| 67 | Dance Hall Crush | Mamma Coal | Self-Release |
| 68 | Back in Business | Dave Goddess Group | Emotional |
| 69 | Not Alone | Nick Taylor | Self-Release |
| 70 | Brandy Clark | Brandy Clark | Warner |
| 71 | Born Blessed Grateful & Alive | Yarn | 333 Ent. |
| 72 | Fractured Fiddle Tunes | Don Julin | Self-Release |
| 73 | Willis, Carper, Leigh | Wonder Women of Country | Bismeaux |
| 74 | Drive & Cry | Emily Nenni | New West |
| 75 | Bright Skyline | Matt Hillyer | State Fair |
| 76 | When I'm Called | Jake Xerxes Fussell | Fat Possum |
| 77 | All Bad | Nick Shoulders | Gar Hole |
| 78 | Deep Feeler | Liv Greene | Free Dirt |
| 79 | Traffic Fiction | Tre Burt | Oh Boy |
| 80 | Quiet Town | Mindy Smith | Compass |
| 81 | Where the Flowers Meet the Dew | Zach Russell | Carlboro |
| 82 | Heat Comes Down | John R. Miller | Rounder |
| 83 | Take Me with You | Blue Mother Tupelo | JukeTonk |
| 84 | Black on Black | Paul Cauthen | Atlantic |
| 85 | Reflector | Daniel Donato | Retrace |
| 86 | Piano in the Field | Ruthie Purves Smith | Self-Release |
| 87 | Masquerade | Vincent Poag | Danal |
| 88 | JP Harris is a Trash Fire | JP Harris | Bloodshot |
| 89 | Mellow War | Taylor McCall | Black Powder Soul |
| 90 | Madam Mystic | Shelley King | Lemonade |
| 91 | See the Big Man Cry | Robert Rex Waller Jr. | Self-Release |
| 92 | Silently, the Mind Breaks | William Elliott Whitmore | Self-Release |
| 93 | The Alders & the Ashes | The Hello Darlins | RTC |
| 94 | North Wind | Spencer Burton | Dine Alone |
| 95 | Gold Town Rush | Joel Hofmann | Self-Release |
| 96 | Songs Before They Write Themselves | Holler Choir | Self-Release |
| 97 | Survived | Lost Dog Street Band | Thirty Tigers |
| 98 | My Stupid Life | Brittney Spencer | Elektra |
| 99 | Devil Talking | David Myles | Turtlemusik |
| 100 | Strays II | Margo Price | Concord |
| 101 | Valley of Abandoned Songs | The Felice Brothers | Million Stars |
| 102 | The Confluence | Cole Gallagher | Raggy & Balls |
| 103 | Punch-Drunk Life | Rose's Pawn Shop | KZZ Music |
| 104 | The Enchanted World | THE RIFTERS | North River Road |
| 105 | Bad Days Better | Adam Hood | Southern Songs |
| 106 | Born Strangers | The Montvales | Self-Release |
| 107 | Goodtime Charlie | Mick Flannery | Self-Release |
| 108 | Promised Land | Danny Burns | Bonfire |
| 109 | Find Your Way | Tim Easton | Black Mesa |
| 110 | Lost at Sea | Chris Shiflett | Blue Elan |
| 111 | Sea of Heartbreak | Mustangs of the West | Blue Elan |
| 112 | What Love Can Do | Jeanne McKirchy | Full Net Media |
| 113 | Down and out | Sour Bridges | Self-Release |
| 114 | Live from the Devil's Backbone | Mike and the Moonpies | Prairie Rose |
| 115 | Alone Again... Live | Steve Earle | Howe Sound |
| 116 | Love Ain't Pretty | Charles Esten | Self-Release |
| 117 | Change the Game | Cody Jinks | Late August |
| 118 | Country | Elliott Brood | Six Shooter |
| 119 | Scruffy Love Songs | Dave Mininberg | Self-Release |
| 120 | Halfway to Houston | Susan Werner | Sleeve Dog |
| 121 | Swim a While | ThorNton Creek | Self-Release |
| 122 | You Only Live Always | Noel McKay | Self-Release |
| 123 | Ain't Through Honky Tonkin' Yet | Brennen Leigh | Signature |
| 124 | Baptized by the Blaze | India Ramey | Mule Kick |
| 125 | Strays | Margo Price | Loma Vista |
| 126 | Purple Gas | Noeline Hofmann | La Honda |
| 127 | Wandering Star | Flatland Cavalry | Interscope |
| 128 | Thank You for Listening | Joshua Ray Walker | Soundly |
| 129 | A Hundred Highways | Moonsville Collective | Rock Ridge |
| 130 | Rugged Elegance | Helen Rose | Clover |
| 131 | Love and Other Strange Emotions | Travis Book | Americana Vibes |
| 132 | Love Your Mind | Twisted Pine | Signature Sounds |
| 133 | The American Dream | Amy Speace | Self-Release |
| 134 | Leavin This Holler | 49 Winchester | New West |
| 135 | Dusty Passports and Empty Beds | Keegan McInroe | Self-Release |
| 136 | American Son | Colby Acuff | Sony |
| 137 | Gamblin Man | Ty Stonehawker | Self-Release |
| 138 | Keystone of the Heart | The Roseline | Self-Release |
| 139 | Sweet Anhedonia | Ben de la Cour | Jullian |
| 140 | Living in a Song | Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley | Compass |
| 141 | Josh Morningstar | Josh Morningstar | Late August |
| 142 | Down Home | Teddy & The Rough Riders | Appalachia |
| 143 | No Better Time | Dylan Gossett | Republic |
| 144 | Lightning Heart | Ross Cooper | Self-Release |
| 145 | The Rose of Aces | Cordovas | ATO |
| 146 | Cold Beer & Country Music | Zach Top | Leo33 |
| 147 | Doing My Time | Gracie Lane | Self-Release |
| 148 | Altitude | Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives | Superlatone Creative |
| 149 | In the Woods | Bruce Robison | The Next Waltz |
| 150 | This Old World | Shannon Clark & the Sugar | Self-Release |
| 151 | Starvation Box | Dale Watson | Cleopatra |
| 152 | Dreamers | Wild Ponies | No Evil |
| 153 | Get Outta Your Mind | Donavon Frankenreiter | Liquid Tambourine |
| 154 | Just for a Night | Ave Gart | Self-Release |
| 155 | You Got the Magic | Jenny Shawhan | Costal Bend |
| 156 | Forevermore | Robert LaRoche | Omad |
| 157 | Restless Mind | Sam Barber | Atlantic |
| 158 | Look Up | Ringo Starr | UMG |
| 159 | Tastes Like Sin | Josh Langston | Dusty Road |
| 160 | Road Trip | Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones | Self-Release |
| 161 | The Ghost of Tucumcari | Dana Cooper | Dana Cooper |
| 162 | Flatland Forever | Flatland Cavalry | Interscope |
| 163 | The Biggest Life | Summer Dean | The Next Waltz |
| 164 | Desert Dreaming | Dustin Kensrue | Vagrant |
| 165 | The Chicago Sessions | Rodney Crowell | New West |
| 166 | Rodney Rice | Rodney Rice | Edgewater |
| 167 | Workin' on a World | Iris Dement | FlariElla |
| 168 | Dandelion Breeze | The Clements Brothers | Plow Man |
| 169 | Truly Handmade, Vol. 1 | Guy Clark | Truly Handmade |
| 170 | Border Radio | John Baumann | Terlingua Spring |
| 171 | Songs My Friends Wrote | Corb Lund | New West |
| 172 | Obsessed with the West | Brennen Leigh | Signature Sounds |
| 173 | Ways & Means | The Deslondes | New West |
| 174 | Heaven Can Wait | Jake Wildhorn | Powerline Ent. |
| 175 | Rosie | Whitney Rose | MCG |
| 176 | First Light | Alysia Kraft | sonaBLAST! |
| 177 | Car Crash Life | Shoebox Letters | Self-Release |
| 178 | Drink the River | Gabe Lee | Torrez |
| 179 | Starting over | Chris Stapleton | Mercury Nashville |
| 180 | Helping Hand | Clare Cunningham | Self-Release |
| 181 | Second Chances | Abby Posner | Blackbird |
| 182 | Psychopath | Morgan Wade | Sony |
| 183 | Enjoy the Ride | Vince Herman | LoHi |
| 184 | Life on the Flip Side | Jimmy Buffett | Mailboat |
| 185 | What is It Even? | Joshua Ray Walker | Soundly |
| 186 | My Love of Country | Teddy Thompson | Chalky Sounds |
| 187 | How to Say Goodbye | Martin & the Fall | Self-Release |
| 188 | Wild Man | Joe Stamm Band | Joe Stamm |
| 189 | Won't Die This Way | Erin Viancourt | Late August |
| 190 | Peaks and Valleys | Megan and Shane | Self-Release |
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