Grammy Award for Best Folk Album
Grammy Awards · 123 nominations across 37 ceremonies · 37 wins
68th Grammys · 2026
- Winner Wild and Clear and Blue · I'm With Her
- Nominee Foxes in the Snow · Jason Isbell
- Nominee Crown of Roses · Patty Griffin
- Nominee Under the Powerlines April 24 – September 24 · Jesse Welles
- Nominee What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow · Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson
67th Grammys · 2025
- Winner Empty Trainload of Sky · Gillian Welch, David Rawlings
- Nominee American Patchwork Quartet
- Nominee All My Friends · Aoife O'Donovan
- Nominee Bright Future · Adrianne Lenker
- Nominee Don't Do Me Good · Madi Diaz
66th Grammys · 2024
- Winner Joni Mitchell at Newport · Joni Mitchell
- Nominee Celebrants · Nickel Creek
- Nominee Folkocracy · Rufus Wainwright
- Nominee Traveling Wildfire · Dom Flemons
- Nominee Jubilee · Old Crow Medicine Show
- Nominee I Only See the Moon · The Milk Carton Kids
- Nominee Seven Psalms · Paul Simon
65th Grammys · 2023
- Winner Revealer · Madison Cunningham
- Nominee Spellbound · Judy Collins
- Nominee The Light at the End of the Line · Janis Ian
- Nominee Hell on Church Street · Punch Brothers
- Nominee Age of Apathy · Aoife O'Donovan
64th Grammys · 2022
- Winner They're Calling Me Home · Rhiannon Giddens
- Nominee Long Violent History · Tyler Childers
- Nominee Wednesday (Extended Edition) · Madison Cunningham
- Nominee Blue Heron Suite · Sarah Jarosz
- Nominee One Night Lonely (Live) · Mary Chapin Carpenter
63rd Grammys · 2021
- Winner All the Good Times · Gillian Welch, David Rawlings
- Nominee Saturn Return · The Secret Sisters
- Nominee Song for Our Daughter · Laura Marling
- Nominee Bonny Light Horseman · Bonny Light Horseman
- Nominee Thanks for the Dance · Leonard Cohen
62nd Grammys · 2020
- Winner Patty Griffin · Patty Griffin
- Nominee Evening Machines · Gregory Alan Isakov
- Nominee Rearrange My Heart · Che Apalache
- Nominee My Finest Work Yet · Andrew Bird
- Nominee Front Porch · Joy Williams
61st Grammys · 2019
- Winner All Ashore · Punch Brothers
- Nominee Whistle Down the Wind · Joan Baez
- Nominee Rifles & Rosary Beads · Mary Gauthier
- Nominee Black Cowboys · Dom Flemons
- Nominee Weed Garden · Iron & Wine
60th Grammys · 2018
- Winner Mental Illness · Aimee Mann
- Nominee The Laughing Apple · Yusuf / Cat Stevens
- Nominee The Queen of Hearts · Olivia Chaney, The Decemberists
- Nominee You Don't Own Me Anymore · The Secret Sisters
- Nominee Semper Femina · Laura Marling
59th Grammys · 2017
- Winner Undercurrent · Sarah Jarosz
- Nominee Silver Skies Blue · Judy Collins, Ari Hest
- Nominee Upland Stories · Robbie Fulks
- Nominee Weighted Mind · Sierra Hull
- Nominee Factory Girl · Rhiannon Giddens
58th Grammys · 2016
- Winner Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn · Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn
- Nominee Didn't He Ramble · Glen Hansard
- Nominee Servant of Love · Patty Griffin
- Nominee Wood, Wire & Words · Norman Blake
- Nominee Tomorrow Is My Turn · Rhiannon Giddens
57th Grammys · 2015
- Winner Remedy · Old Crow Medicine Show
- Nominee Follow the Music · Alice Gerrard
- Nominee The Nocturne Diaries · Eliza Gilkyson
- Nominee Three Bells · Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas, Rob Ickes
- Nominee A Reasonable Amount of Trouble · Jesse Winchester
56th Grammys · 2014
- Winner My Favorite Picture of You · Guy Clark
- Nominee They All Played for Us: Arhoolie Records 50th Anniversary Celebration · Chris Strachwitz
- Nominee The Ash & Clay · The Milk Carton Kids
- Nominee Build Me Up from Bones · Sarah Jarosz
- Nominee Sweetheart of the Sun · The Greencards
55th Grammys · 2013
- Winner The Goat Rodeo Sessions · Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile
- Nominee Leaving Eden · Carolina Chocolate Drops
- Nominee Election Special · Ry Cooder
- Nominee Hambone's Meditations · The Sons Of Mudboy
- Nominee This One's for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark
54th Grammys · 2012
- Winner Barton Hollow · The Civil Wars
- Nominee The Harrow & The Harvest · Gillian Welch
- Nominee I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive · Steve Earle
- Nominee Helplessness Blues · Fleet Foxes
- Nominee Ukulele Songs · Eddie Vedder
53rd Grammys · 2011
- Winner God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise · Ray LaMontagne
- Nominee Somedays the Song Writes You · Guy Clark
- Nominee The Age of Miracles · Mary Chapin Carpenter
- Nominee Dream Attic · Richard Thompson
- Nominee Love Is Strange: En Vivo Con Tino · Jackson Browne, David Lindley
52nd Grammys · 2010
- Winner Townes · Steve Earle
- Nominee Middle Cyclone · Neko Case
- Nominee Our Bright Future · Tracy Chapman
- Nominee Secret, Profane & Sugarcane · Elvis Costello
- Nominee Live · Shawn Colvin
50th Grammys · 2008
- Winner Washington Square Serenade · Steve Earle
- Nominee My Name Is Buddy · Ry Cooder
- Nominee Children Running Through · Patty Griffin
- Nominee The Calling · Mary Chapin Carpenter
- Nominee Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards · Tom Waits
49th Grammys · 2007
- Winner Modern Times · Bob Dylan
- Nominee Workbench Songs · Guy Clark
- Nominee Black Cadillac · Rosanne Cash
- Nominee All the Roadrunning · Mark Knopfler, Emmylou Harris
- Nominee Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1 · Jackson Browne
48th Grammys · 2006
- Winner Fair & Square · John Prine
- Nominee The Outsider · Rodney Crowell
- Nominee Why Should the Fire Die? · Nickel Creek
- Nominee Devils & Dust · Bruce Springsteen
- Nominee Chávez Ravine · Ry Cooder
46th Grammys · 2004
- Winner The Wind · Warren Zevon
45th Grammys · 2003
- Winner This Side · Alison Krauss, Gary Paczosa, Nickel Creek
44th Grammys · 2002
- Winner Love and Theft · Bob Dylan
43rd Grammys · 2001
- Winner Red Dirt Girl · Emmylou Harris
- Nominee Mermaid Avenue Vol. II · Billy Bragg, Wilco
- Nominee American III: Solitary Man · Johnny Cash
- Nominee Transcendental Blues · Steve Earle
- Nominee Crossing Muddy Waters · John Hiatt
42nd Grammys · 2000
- Winner Mule Variations · Tom Waits
40th Grammys · 1998
- Winner Time Out of Mind · Bob Dylan
39th Grammys · 1997
- Winner The Ghost of Tom Joad · Bruce Springsteen
38th Grammys · 1996
- Winner Wrecking Ball · Emmylou Harris
37th Grammys · 1995
- Winner American Recordings · Johnny Cash
36th Grammys · 1994
- Winner Other Voices/Other Rooms · Nanci Griffith
35th Grammys · 1993
- Winner Another Country · The Chieftains
34th Grammys · 1992
- Winner The Missing Years · John Prine
33rd Grammys · 1991
- Winner Steady On · Shawn Colvin
32nd Grammys · 1990
- Winner Indigo Girls · Indigo Girls
31st Grammys · 1989
- Winner Tracy Chapman · Tracy Chapman
30th Grammys · 1988
- Winner Unfinished Business · Steve Goodman
29th Grammys · 1987
- Winner Tribute to Steve Goodman · Dan Einstein