The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Year of 2024
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polaroid Lovers | Sarah Jarosz | Rounder |
| 2 | One Deep River | Mark Knopfler | Blue Note |
| 3 | Little Sun | Charlie Parr | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 4 | Mind, Man, Medicine | The Secret Sisters | New West |
| 5 | The Returner | Allison Russell | Birds of Chicago |
| 6 | You're the One | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
| 7 | Wilderness Within You | Parker Millsap | Okrahoma |
| 8 | Sticks and Stones | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | 6 Ace |
| 9 | Hysteria | Billy Jeter | Shine Eye |
| 10 | So Many Wows | Lucie Blue Tremblay | Self-Release |
| 11 | Flesh and Bone | Cynthia Marchant | Self-Release |
| 12 | 1988 | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers |
| 13 | Devil Rail | John Zipperer | Self-Release |
| 14 | Gardens Old, Flowers New | Tom Rush | Appleseed |
| 15 | I Only See the Moon | The Milk Carton Kids | Far Cry |
| 16 | Beautiful Thing | Peach & Quiet | Self-Release |
| 17 | You Never Can Tell | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band | Self-Release |
| 18 | Delta Traces | Billy Jeter | House on Fire |
| 19 | Watershed | Arielle Silver | Self-Release |
| 20 | Harbortowne | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus | Berkalin Records |
| 21 | Dark Harvest | Malcolm MacWatt | Singular |
| 22 | Weary Ramblers | Weary Ramblers | Self-Release |
| 23 | Daylight Savings Time | Steve Forbert | Blue Rose |
| 24 | Echoes in the Meadow | Morningbird | Self-Release |
| 25 | Resilience | Josie Bello | Guitar One |
| 26 | Always Here | Trampled by Turtles | Banjodad |
| 27 | Part Time Believer | The Strumbellas | Glassnote |
| 28 | Home | Eliza Gilkyson | Self-Release |
| 29 | Ever-Changing | The Ruta Beggars | Self-Release |
| 30 | The Resonant Rogues | The Resonant Rogues | Sassafrass Sounds |
| 31 | The Living Kind | John Smith | Commoner |
| 32 | Sweet Beginnings | Kathryn Severing Fox | Self-Release |
| 33 | Even Better on the Bad Days | Scott Sean White | Self-Release |
| 34 | Lonesome Highway | Rainy Eyes | Royal Potato |
| 35 | Heart of the Artichoke | Bloomsday | Bayonet |
| 36 | Love Unfettered | Marie-Rose | Self-Release |
| 37 | Wanderer | Ruth Moody | Blue Muse |
| 38 | Back to the Light | Heather Pierson | Vessel |
| 39 | Sharing in the Spirit | Ana Egge | StorySound |
| 40 | After the Revolution | Carsie Blanton | Self-Release |
| 41 | Proxy Music | Linda Thompson | StorySound |
| 42 | Walkin' After Midnight | Eva Cassidy | Blix Street |
| 43 | Lost in a Dream | Cassandra Lewis | A Low Country Sound |
| 44 | Strange Medicine | Kaia Kater | Free Dirt |
| 45 | At the End of the Day | Sylvia Tyson | Stony Plain |
| 46 | Larry Robbins: the Singles | Larry Robbins | Mazelations |
| 47 | A Great Wild Mercy | Carrie Newcomer | Available Light |
| 48 | Time Will Finally Come | Wolf Jett | Hill House |
| 49 | The Only Moment | Maya De Vitry | Mad Maker |
| 50 | Things Were Never Good if They’re Not Good Now | Donovan Woods | Times |
| 51 | Family Ties | Charles Wesley Godwin | Big Loud |
| 52 | Dear Day Dear Darling | Good Morning Bedlam | Good Morning Bedlam |
| 53 | Wanderlust | Elexa Dawson | Turns Out |
| 54 | Searching for a Home | David Hobbes | Self-Release |
| 55 | Tired of Trying | Joe Holt | Self-Release |
| 56 | Time is Funny That Way | Nina Gerber | Goatscape |
| 57 | Tales and Tellings | Marques Morel | Edgewater |
| 58 | Listen to the World Spin | Paper Wings | Self-Release |
| 59 | The Great American Bar Scene | Zach Bryan | Belting Bronco |
| 60 | Signal Fire | Eddie Berman | Nettwerk |
| 61 | Phone Orphans | Laura Veirs | Raven Marching Band |
| 62 | Let All Who Will | Chris Pierce | Friends at Work |
| 63 | Smithereens | Dan Reeder | Oh Boy |
| 64 | Starting over | Dan Bern With Jane's Great Dane | Grand Phony |
| 65 | Another Heart | Ann Savoy | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 66 | Filament | Buddy Mondlock | Self-Release |
| 67 | Ever Onward | Bob and Sarah Amos | Self-Relese |
| 68 | Better Days Ahead | Kate Weekes | Self-Release |
| 69 | The Little In-Between | Tim Grimm | Vault |
| 70 | The Liberated Woman's Songbook | Dawn Landes | FunMachine |
| 71 | All is Song | Misner & Smith | Self-Release |
| 72 | Love (and Other Mysteries) | Tipps and Obermiller | Self-Release |
| 73 | Playing Pretend | Della | Self-Release |
| 74 | Traveling Wildfire | Dom Flemons | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 75 | Avalanche | Jenny Owen Youngs | Yep Roc |
| 76 | Right on | Humbird | Nettwerk |
| 77 | Leave the Light on | Terry Klein | Self-Release |
| 78 | Heart on a Wire | Carolyn Shulman | Self-Release |
| 79 | You Are Here | Myles Cochran | 9Ball |
| 80 | Laurel Lewis | Laurel Lewis | RC1 |
| 81 | Beware Wolves Volume 4 | Beware Wolves | Aqualamb |
| 82 | Tarwater | Colin Cutler | Self-Release |
| 83 | Butcher Holler | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sounds |
| 84 | Anarchist Gospel | Sunny War | New West |
| 85 | The Real Thing | May Erlewine | 10 Good Songs |
| 86 | Time out Session #2 | The Accidentals | Self-Release |
| 87 | TumbleWeedyWorld | Lynn Miles | True North |
| 88 | Cup of Sugar | Tim O'Brien | Howdy Skies |
| 89 | All the Eye Can See | Joe Henry | Worksong |
| 90 | Blessed by the West | Sarah Pierce | Berkalin |
| 91 | The King's Dream | paul benoit | Self-Release |
| 92 | Sonora | Lisa Morales | Self-Release |
| 93 | The Space Between | The Heart Collectors | Spins The Gold |
| 94 | Dance Me Down Easy: the Woodstock Sessions | Town Mountain | New West |
| 95 | Appaloosa Bones | Gregory Alan Isakov | Dualtone |
| 96 | Lonesome Road | Joel Mabus | Fossil |
| 97 | The Other Side | Rachael Sage | MPress |
| 98 | Have Songs-Have Traveled | RB Stone | Middle Mountain Music |
| 99 | The Legend of Sam Davis | Aaron Smith & The Coal Biters | Brown Corolla |
| 100 | 55 | Ellis Paul | Rosella |
| 101 | Bits & Pieces | Malcolm Holcombe | Singular |
| 102 | Vignettes | Wesley Schultz | Dualtone |
| 103 | Celebrants | Nickel Creek | Thirty Tigers |
| 104 | Gently As I Go | Caroline Cotter | Self-Release |
| 105 | Center of the Universe | Sofia Talvik | Makaki |
| 106 | Passages and Partings | April Verch | Slab Town |
| 107 | Another Glory | Another Glory | Jealous Butcher |
| 108 | Bethlehem | Storyhill | Story Hills |
| 109 | Rhizomes | The Squirrel Hillbillies | Self-Release |
| 110 | Over That Road I'm Bound | Joachim Cooder | Nonesuch |
| 111 | Don't You Dare Make Me Jaded | Olive Klug | Nettwerk |
| 112 | Meat Bird in Beigeville | Judy Nazemetz | Smokey Lady |
| 113 | The Beauty of It All | Brian Kalinec | Berkalin Wood |
| 114 | Hold That Spirit | Raye Zaragoza | Rebel River |
| 115 | Love, Dan | C. Daniel Boling | Perfectly Stable |
| 116 | Seeker | Brigitte DeMeyer | Self-Release |
| 117 | In the Darkness of My Light | Elise Wunder | Self-Release |
| 118 | Highway Islands | Strangebyrds | Gulch Groove |
| 119 | Backroads | Johnsmith | Self-Release |
| 120 | Party Lines | Romen Buffalo and The Loyal Order | Self-Release |
| 121 | There is No Other (with Francesco Turrisi) | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
| 122 | The Martin Gilmore Trio | The Martin Gilmore Trio | Self-Release |
| 123 | Charlie Stevens | Charlie Stevens | Charlie Stevens |
| 124 | Ballad of a Bad Girl | Kate McDonnell | Self-Release |
| 125 | Cosmos | Darling West | Jansen |
| 126 | Close Enough to Hear | Mile Twelve | Self-Release |
| 127 | Sisters of White Chapel | Annie Bartholomew | Muskeg Collective |
| 128 | Some Awkward Country Ahead | Adam Karch | Self-Release |
| 129 | 1960 | Martyn Joseph | Pipe |
| 130 | Uranium Maiden | Kate MacLeod | Self-Release |
| 131 | Outside Child | Allison Russell | Fantasy |
| 132 | Ceremony | Tiny Ruins | Marathon Artists |
| 133 | No Time for Love Songs | The Mastersons | Compass |
| 134 | Last of the Better Days Ahead | Charlie Parr | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 135 | Songs from the River Wind | Eliza Gilkyson | Howlin' Dog |
| 136 | Tape | Patty Griffin | PGM |
| 137 | Landmarks | Helene Cronin | Self-Release |
| 138 | Moon Calendar | Travis McNamara | Self-Release |
| 139 | Nine Apples of Gold | Karan Casey | Crow Valley |
| 140 | Common Nation of Sorrow | Rachel Baiman | Signature Sounds |
| 141 | Folkocracy | Rufus Wainwright | BMG |
| 142 | Brand New Distance | Cimarron 615 | Blue Elan |
| 143 | Cover Crop | Amber Rubarth | Cambium |
| 144 | Ghost Tattoo | Kristen Grainger & True North | Self-Release |
| 145 | Gone | Tim Grimm | Self-Release |
| 146 | Straight to Marrow | Clint Alphin | Self-Release |
| 147 | The Storyteller's Suitcase | Ellis Paul | Rosella |
| 148 | All That's Real | Gathering Sparks | Borealis |
| 149 | Light in the Lowlands | Kelly Augustine | Orchard Music |
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