Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk and Roots Country charts are posted here with permission.

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Folk Top 50 Albums

Our Lady of the Tall Trees album cover

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 10 CAHALEN MORRISON & ELI WEST OUR LADY OF THE TALL TREES INDIE
2 3 MARY GAUTHIER LIVE AT BLUE ROCK SELF
3 18 LUCY KAPLANSKY REUNION REDHOUSE
4 1 DARRYL PURPOSE NEXT TIME AROUND BLUE ROCK
5 4 PETE SEEGER & LORRE WYATT A MORE PERFECT UNION APPLESEED
6 6 MALCOLM HOLCOMBE DOWN THE RIVER GYPSY EYES MUSIC
7 2 ANAIS MITCHELL & JEFFERSON HAMER CHILD BALLADS WILDERLAND
8 5 ANGEL SNOW ANGEL SNOW SELF
9 7 HEIDI TALBOT ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS COMPASS
10 8 KATE RUSBY 20 ISLAND
11 9 STEPHEN FEARING BETWEEN HURRICANES LOWDENPROUD
12 11 ANNALIVIA THE SAME WAY DOWN SELF
13 14 KATHY MATTEA CALLING ME HOME SUGAR HILL
14 12 PAUL KELLY SPRING AND FALL GAWD AGGIE / UNIVERSAL
15 15 SALLY BARRIS WILDER GIRL SELF
16 16 RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM SOME BRIGHT MORNING SIGNATURE SOUNDS
17 13 JOHN FULLBRIGHT FROM THE GROUND UP BLUE DIRT
18 17 DAVE GUNNING NO MORE PENNIES WEE HOUSE OF MUSIC
19 30 THE STRAY BIRDS THE STRAY BIRDS SELF
20 20 MARK KNOPFLER PRIVATEERING UNIVERSAL
21 22 THE BILLS YES PLEASE INDIE
22 21 BETTYSOO AND DOUG COX MORE LIES BORDERLINE TALENT
23 23 LORI REID TEMPERANCE HOTEL SELF
24 24 GURF MORLIX FINDS THE PRESENT TENSE SELF
25 25 OLD MAN LUEDECKE TENDER IS THE NIGHT TRUE NORTH
26 26 RAYLENE RANKIN ALL THE DIAMONDS CORVUS
27 27 ALAN DOYLE BOY ON BRIDGE UNIVERSAL
28 28 NELS ANDREWS SCRIMSHAW SELF
29 29 HEATHER MALONEY HEATHER MALONEY SIGNATURE SOUNDS
30 31 OVERMOUNTAIN MEN THE NEXT BEST THING RAMSEUR
31 33 BUSKIN & BATTEAU LOVE REMEMBERED, LOVE FORGOT BUSKIN & BATTEAU
32 34 JASON COLLETT RECKON ARTS & CRAFTS
33 35 THE UNSEEN STRANGERS FOLLOW THE SOUND SELF
34 36 GREAT BIG SEA XX WARNER MUSIC
35 37 LORI BURKE HOLD ON SELF
36 38 TRENT SEVERN TRENT SEVERN OUTSIDE MUSIC
37 39 ANNABELLE CHVOSTEK RISE BOREALIS
38 40 MARIA DUNN PIECE BY PIECE DISTANT WHISPER MUSIC
39 32 RITA HOSKING LITTLE BOAT SELF
40 41 JORY NASH LITTLE PILGRIM THIN MAN RECORDS
41 42 SUSAN MCKEOWN BELONG HIBERNIAN MUSIC
42 45 ANDREA ENGLAND HOPE & OTHER SINS LEMONADE FACTORY
43 19 STEPHEN STILLS CARRY ON ATLANTIC / RHINO
44 46 LORI MCKENNA HEART SHAPED BULLET HOLE MDM RECORDINGS
45 48 MUMFORD & SONS BABEL GLASSNOTE RECORDS
46 49 DALA BEST DAY COMPASS
47 43 WOOD & WIRE WOOD & WIRE SELF
48 44 PHARIS & JASON ROMERO LONG GONE OUT WEST BLUES SELF
49 47 ANDERS AND KENDALL WILD CHORUS NMR
50 50 CARA LUFT DARLINGFORD BLUE CASE TUNES
For the Week of April 19, 2013

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Roots Country Top 50 Albums

Son Volt Honky Tonk album

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 1 SON VOLT HONKY TONK ROUNDER
2 2 RICHARD THOMPSON ELECTRIC NEW WEST
3 7 GREG BROWN HYMNS TO WHAT IS LEFT SAWDUST
4 5 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (& DUCHESSES) THE LOW HIGHWAY NEW WEST
5 3 CORB LUND CABIN FEVER NEW WEST
6 18 THE MAVERICKS IN TIME THE VALORY MUSIC
7 4 CAITLIN ROSE THE STAND-IN ATO
8 23 GARRETT LEBEAU RISE TO THE GRIND MUSIC ROAD
9 6 BILLY BRAGG TOOTH & NAIL COOKING VINYL
10 13 BELLE STARR THE BURNING OF ATLANTA SONY MUSIC
11 14 AVETT BROTHERS THE CARPENTER AMERICAN
12 25 BLACK PRAIRIE A TEAR IN THE EYE IS A WOUND IN THE HEART SUGAR HILL
13 15 BOBBY BARE, SR. DARKER THAN LIGHT PLOWBOY
14 10 EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL OLD YELLOW MOON WARNER
15 9 KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON CHEATER’S GAME PREMIUM
16 12 BLACK LILLIES RUNAWAY FREEWAY BLUES SELF
17 17 JIMMY LAFAVE DEPENDING ON THE DISTANCE MUSIC ROAD
18 22 KASEY CHAMBERS STORYBOOK SUGAR HILL
19 11 KRIS KRISTOFFERSON FEELING MORTAL KK RECORDS
20 16 HOLLY WILLIAMS THE HIGHWAY GEORGIANA
21 19 SONS OF FATHERS BURNING DAYS SELF
22 47 SHANNON MCNALLY SMALL TOWN TALK SACRED SUMAC
23 21 VARIOUS ARTISTS UNSUNG HERO – A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF RON DAVIES LITTLE CHICKADEE
24 24 JOHN WORT HANNAM BRAMBLES & THORNS BOREALIS
25 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS THE MUSIC IS YOU – A TRIBUTE TO BOB DENVER ATO
26 26 LINDA MCRAE ROUGH EDGES & RAGGED HEARTS 42 RECORDS
27 30 SHANNON WHITWORTH HIGH TIDE EF RECORDS
28 27 BONNIE BISHOP FREE SELF
29 28 DALE WATSON EL RANCHO AZUL RED HOUSE
30 8 CARRIE RODRIGUEZ GIVE ME ALL YOU GOT NINTH STREET OPUS
31 20 MILK CARTON KIDS THE ASH & CLAY ANTI
32 31 THE FLATLANDERS THE ODESSA TAPES NEW WEST
33 32 ROGER KNOX AND THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS STRANGER IN MY LAND BLOODSHOT
34 36 MELISSA GREENER TRANSISTOR CORAZON ANIMA RECORDS
35 37 BETH LEE & THE BREAKUPS ONE MORE TIME AGAIN SELF
36 29 BUDDY MILLER & JIM LAUDERDALE BUDDY & JIM NEW WEST
37 35 SHOOTER JENNINGS THE OTHER LIFE EONE
38 38 KASEY CHAMBERS AND SHANE NICHOLSON WRECK & RUIN SUGAR HILL
39 41 JESSE DAYTON JESSE SINGS KINKY SWAG
40 43 SALLIE FORD AND THE SOUND OUTSIDE UNTAMED BEAST PARTISAN
41 45 JOSHUA DAVIS A MIRACLE OF BIRDS EARTH-WORK
42 0 WHEELER BROTHERS GOLD BOOTS GLITTER BISMEAUX
43 42 THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS ROUGH CARPENTER THIRLL JOCKEY
44 39 THE CIVIL WARS AND T BONE BURNETT A PLACE AT THE TABLE (OST) BMG / SENSIBILITY MUSIC
45 40 DAVID LUNING JUST DROP ON BY SELF
46 0 THE STEEL WHEELS NO MORE RAIN SELF
47 0 SID HEMPHILL THE DEVIL’S DREAM MISSISSIPPI
48 0 WILLIE NELSON AND FAMILY LET’S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE SONY LEGACY
49 0 ROSIE FLORES WORKING GIRL’S GUITAR BLOODSHOT
50 49 DALLAS MOORE BLESSED BE THE BAD ONES SOL
For the Week of April 19, 2013