Top Folk Song Chart for the Year of 2024

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Song Chart
for the Year of 2024

Rank	Song Title	Band/Artist Name	Sub Genre
1	Alibi	Hurray for the Riff Raff	Alternative Folk
2	Jealous Moon	Sarah Jarosz	Contemporary Folk
3	Ahead of the Game	Mark Knopfler	Contemporary Folk
4	The Returner	Allison Russell	Contemporary Folk
5	Boombox	Charlie Parr	Contemporary Folk
6	While I'm Down (feat. TK & the Holy Know-Nothings)	John Craigie	Alternative Folk
7	Hawkmoon	Hurray for the Riff Raff	Alternative Folk
8	Brown's Ferry Blues (feat. Billy Strings)	Tony Trischka	Alternative Folk
9	Let's Get Happy Together (feat. Maria Muldaur)	Jim Kweskin	Traditional Folk
10	Somewhere South	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
11	River Gonna Talk	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
12	Let's Take Our Time and Do It Right	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
13	When I Was Younger	Bonny Light Horseman	Alternative Folk
14	Weight You Carry	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
15	I Wanna Go out	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
16	Hold Me	The Strumbellas	Contemporary Folk
17	Step into Your Power	Ray LaMontagne	Folk Rock
18	Nothing else Matters	Lindsay Lou	Folk
19	American Boys	Don McLean	Folk Rock
20	Hurricane	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
21	All the Ways	The Secret Sisters	Contemporary Folk
22	From a Dying Rose	Todd Snider	Folk Rock
23	Love of a Girl	The Avett Brothers	Folk Rock
24	Hold on Tight	Amos Lee	Folk Rock
25	Lagunita	Lizzie No	Alternative Folk
26	Just a Little Ways Down the Road	Laurie Lewis	Alternative Folk
27	Weepin' Willow Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
28	Orion's Belt	The Avett Brothers	Folk Rock
29	Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
30	Snake Plant (The Past is Still Alive)	Hurray for the Riff Raff	Alternative Folk
31	Bird on a Wire	Michael Powers	Folk
32	Frost on the South Side	Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz	Alternative Folk
33	Out of Time (feat. LeAnn Rimes)	Trampled by Turtles	Contemporary Folk
34	Lemon's Jump	Stefan Grossman	Contemporary Folk
35	We Don't Talk About It	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
36	City Slickers	Rainbow Girls	Alternative Folk
37	Atlanta Blues	Stephen Bennett	Contemporary Folk
38	None of Em Dead	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
39	Witness Trees	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
40	Women Are Not Equal	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
41	Sinners and Saints	Karney	Folk Rock
42	Rainbow in the Dark	Karney	Folk Rock
43	Across the Planet (remix)	Karney	Folk Rock
44	Devil Rail	John Zipperer	Contemporary Folk
45	Sound Existence	Steve Forbert	Contemporary Folk
46	Buddy Roe	Billy Jeter	Contemporary Folk
47	This Bluesy Thing We Do	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
48	Win or Lose	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
49	Oola	John Zipperer	Contemporary Folk
50	Lexi Dance	John Zipperer	Contemporary Folk
51	Runaway	James Maddock	Traditional Folk
52	Be Ready	Larry Rice	Traditional Folk
53	Push on Through	Larry Rice	Traditional Folk
54	Welcome the Stranger	Larry Rice	Traditional Folk
55	Rickie Lee	Arielle Silver	Contemporary Folk
56	Asteroids and Chaos	Arielle Silver	Contemporary Folk
57	Best Laid Plans	The B. Christopher Band	Folk
58	Don't Let It Rain	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
59	Homeless Blues (Live)	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
60	Alabama Bound (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
61	Soft on the Shoulder	Arielle Silver	Contemporary Folk
62	900 Miles (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
63	Feel the Way I Feel	Wolf Jett	Contemporary Folk
64	Went to a Party	Nick Lowe	Folk Rock
65	World Keeps on Singing	Eliza Gilkyson	Contemporary Folk
66	Dig a Hole in the Meadow (Darlin Cory)	Morningbird	Contemporary Folk
67	Peace is More	Karney	Folk Rock
68	Your Love	Pressing Strings	Folk Rock
69	The Living Kind	John Smith	Contemporary Folk
70	Pretty Lights of Denver	Weary Ramblers	Contemporary Folk
71	Already Gone	Willie Watson	Traditional Folk
72	Birds and Bees	Morningbird	Contemporary Folk
73	Time for a Change	Morningbird	Contemporary Folk
74	Just Doesn't Work Anymore	Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus	Contemporary Folk
75	Harbortowne	Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus	Contemporary Folk
76	Lottery	Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus	Contemporary Folk
77	Letter to a Savior	Good Morning Bedlam	Contemporary Folk
78	Hard Playing Hard to Get	Sons Of The East	Folk Rock
79	Senses (Thanks JSB)	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
80	Hold on (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
81	Sweet Hazel Green	Weary Ramblers	Contemporary Folk
82	Medicine Creek	Weary Ramblers	Contemporary Folk
83	Yonder Come the Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
84	Done with Love	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
85	Thinking of Her	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
86	Nazareth	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
87	WTF	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
88	Too Lazy	Joe Holt	Contemporary Folk
89	It All Comes Down to Love	Tom Rush	Contemporary Folk
90	Spruce & Pine	SLPSTRM	Alternative Folk
91	The Ballad of Elon Musk	Michael Johnathon	Contemporary Folk
92	The Car Song	Nina Gerber	Folk
93	Glacier	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
94	Wherever You Go	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
95	Jack O' Diamonds (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
96	What a Little Love Can Do	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
97	Bop Bop New Orleans	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
98	Kismet	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
99	Sticky and Sweet	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
100	Walking in the Valley of the Shadow	Will Kimbrough	Folk Rock
101	Make Good Trouble	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
102	Midnight Wine	Shannon & The Clams	Alternative Folk
103	Unfinished Business	Megan Burtt	Folk Rock
104	Two Pairs of Hands	Mark Knopfler	Contemporary Folk
105	Stand	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
106	Friends	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
107	I Was Wrong	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
108	Jim Crow Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
109	Keep on Movin' It on (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
110	Sweet Beginnings	Kathryn Severing Fox	Contemporary Folk
111	White Lines & Headlights	Kathryn Severing Fox	Contemporary Folk
112	Secret	Kathryn Severing Fox	Contemporary Folk
113	Far Cry	T Sisters	Alternative Folk
114	Beautiful Day	Amos Lee	Folk Rock
115	You Louisiana Man	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
116	20 Years and a Nickel	Hiss Golden Messenger	Alternative Folk
117	Special Delivery Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
118	On and on	Grace Cummings	Folk Rock
119	You're the One	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
120	Freedom Trilogy (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
121	Worry B Gone	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
122	Little Speck of Dust	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
123	Crawl	Shannon & The Clams	Alternative Folk
124	And They Called Her California	Ray LaMontagne	Folk Rock
125	Closer to Fine	Indigo Girls	Contemporary Folk
126	Go Down Sunshine (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
127	All That Makes Me Happy is the Blues	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
128	Good Friends	Max Gomez	Traditional Folk
129	I Wouldn't Change a Thing	Ray LaMontagne	Folk Rock
130	Season of the Witch	Donovan	Folk
131	The Truth About a Lie	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
132	Katie's Got a Locket	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
133	Broken Truth	Tim Grimm	Alternative Folk
134	Backwater Voodoo	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
135	Old Radio	Robby Hecht	Folk Rock
136	I Want to Tell You	Katie Knipp	Alternative Folk
137	Lights of Change	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
138	Remember Dorothy	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
139	Unknowh	Dom Flemons	Contemporary Folk
140	Slim and the Devil	Willie Watson	Traditional Folk
141	I Wanna Fly	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
142	Colossus of Roads	Hurray for the Riff Raff	Alternative Folk
143	The Sound of Falling Snow	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
144	Follow the Money	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
145	Give Us Free	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
146	Glory Glory (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
147	Take This Hammer (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
148	Hit or Miss (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
149	Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
150	Dink's Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
151	Easy Rider (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
152	Midnight Special	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
153	This Little Light of Mine (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
154	What We Wanna Be	Indigo Girls	Folk Rock
155	Whole Lotta Livin' (feat. Vince Gill)	The Imaginaries	Folk Rock
156	Thunderstorm Girl	Don McLean	Folk Rock
157	Halfsies	Lizzie No	Alternative Folk
158	If I Was a Sparrow	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
159	East Runs out of West	Winterlark	Alternative Folk
160	How Long Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
161	Wildfire	Karney	Folk Rock
162	Shell Shock Girl (acoustic)	Karney	Folk Rock
163	Sundown	Gordon Lightfoot	Folk
164	Jonah's Song	Rainbow Girls	Alternative Folk
165	Bob Dylan Whiskey	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
166	Sugaree	Alice DiMicele	Alternative Folk
167	My Lady Fair	Ray LaMontagne	Folk Rock
168	Ozarker	Israel Nash	Folk Rock
169	Shine Your Blues	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
170	Time and Space	Katie Knipp	Alternative Folk
171	When the Lights Go out	Sarah Jarosz	Contemporary Folk
172	Things We Contemplate	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
173	Procrastination (I'll Do It Later)	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
174	Everlasting	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
175	Hands on	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
176	Forgiveness	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
177	Lonely Train	Keith Rayburn	Alternative Folk
178	Hambone Stomp Feat. Bobby Rush	Billy Jeter	Contemporary Folk
179	What You've Shown Me	Parker Millsap	Contemporary Folk
180	Blues Everywhere I Go (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
181	Top of the Hour	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
182	The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald	Gordon Lightfoot	Contemporary Folk
183	After the Revolution	Carsie Blanton	Contemporary Folk
184	Sing to Me About Tomorrow	Winterlark	Alternative Folk
185	Ending with Heart Heart Heart	Winterlark	Alternative Folk
186	Devil's Highway	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
187	A Power You'll Never Know	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
188	Hen in the Foxhouse	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
189	Woody's Dream	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
190	Rosemary	Donovan Woods	Contemporary Folk
191	Columbus & 89th	Sarah Jarosz	Contemporary Folk
192	Never Apart (w/ Vocal Prelude)	The Avett Brothers	Folk Rock
193	Runaway Train	Sarah Jarosz	Contemporary Folk
194	Long Gone	Laurie Lewis	Alternative Folk
195	Pulling Weeds	Scott Sean White	Contemporary Folk
196	Rocket out of Here	John Stowers	Folk Rock
197	Lone Rooster Blues	Marques Morel	Contemporary Folk
198	Scavengers Yard	Mark Knopfler	Contemporary Folk
199	The Ballad of Sally Anne	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
200	Night Train from Milan	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
201	Everybody	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
202	Common Sense	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
203	Radio Loud	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
204	Holding on to Heaven (feat. Jocelyn & Chris Arndt)	Harlem Hayfieldd	Folk Rock
205	Pledging My Time	Bob Dylan	Traditional Folk
206	Leaving Home (Frankie and Johnny) [feat. Meredith Axelrod]	Jim Kweskin	Traditional Folk
207	The Sheik of Araby	Jim Kweskin	Traditional Folk
208	Fifty States of Freedom	Brewer & Shipley	Contemporary Folk
209	More Than Friends (feat. Lainey Wilson)	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Contemporary Folk
210	Now Tell Me That You've Got the Blues	Sylvia Tyson	Contemporary Folk
211	Lovely Rainy Day	John Stowers	Folk Rock
212	Even when I'm High	John Stowers	Folk Rock
213	Over the Wall	John Stowers	Folk Rock
214	Run from the Lightning	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
215	Down Home Blues (Walkin' After Midnight)	Eva Cassidy	Contemporary Folk
216	Unkonwn	Cassandra Lewis	Contemporary Folk
217	Jukebox Johnny	Diane Birch	Folk Rock
218	Harvest Moon	Neil Young	Contemporary Folk
219	Temperature is Rising	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
220	Shade	Diane Birch	Folk Rock
221	Slim Chance is Still a Chance (Doomed Version)	Todd Snider	Folk Rock
222	Carolina in My Mind	James Taylor	Contemporary Folk
223	Someone Else's Prayer	Kerri Powers	Alternative Folk
224	Take the High Road	Sarah Jarosz	Contemporary Folk
225	Dying Ember	Sarah Jarosz	Contemporary Folk
226	Tumblin Down	Bonny Light Horseman	Alternative Folk
227	Undertaker Blues	Nat Myers	Alternative Folk
228	Take You Back	Sussex	Alternative Folk
229	Days Can Turn Around	Sarah Jarosz	Contemporary Folk
230	Howard Hughes Blues (feat. Jamie Hartford)	Norman Blake	Traditional Folk
231	Paperweight	The Secret Sisters	Contemporary Folk
232	Alameda	Amy Helm	Alternative Folk
233	The Nightjar's Fall from Grace	Malcolm MacWatt	Contemporary Folk
234	Same Street	Scott Sean White	Contemporary Folk
235	12 Notes and 26 Letters (feat. Susan Gibson)	Scott Sean White	Contemporary Folk
236	Death Don't Have No Mercy	Alice DiMicele	Alternative Folk
237	Bible	Dan Bern With Jane's Great Dane	Contemporary Folk
238	Over My Head	Alice DiMicele	Alternative Folk
239	Unkown	Jordie Lane	Folk Rock
240	Silence of the Sun	Misner & Smith	Contemporary Folk
241	Start with a Stone	Carrie Newcomer	Contemporary Folk
242	Electricity	Megan Burtt	Folk Rock
243	Top Shelf, Rock Bottom	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
244	Fox River Blues	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
245	Hambone Stomp (feat. Bobby Rush)	Billy Jeter	Contemporary Folk
246	Yard Sale	Ben Harper	Alternative Folk
247	One More Change	Ben Harper	Alternative Folk
248	Can't Stop	Israel Nash	Folk
249	People (feat. Helene Cronin)	Scott Sean White	Contemporary Folk
250	Nashville in the Morning	Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz	Alternative Folk
251	Sea Fever	Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz	Alternative Folk
252	Cold Finger Blues	Ben Gage	Alternative Folk
253	Maybe Next Year	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
254	Just a Moment	Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz	Alternative Folk
255	Just Not Today (feat. Helene Cronin)	Scott Sean White	Contemporary Folk
256	Arkansas	Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz	Alternative Folk
257	Like a Dream	Michelle Qureshi	Alternative Folk
258	Simple Motion	Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz	Alternative Folk
259	There's No Them	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
260	Memphis; the Blues (feat. John Moreland)	Zach Bryan	Contemporary Folk
261	Country Kid	The Avett Brothers	Folk Rock
262	Let Her Go	Passenger	Folk Rock
263	My Heart is Sinking - Cello Mix	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
264	Mercer's Folly	Todd Snider	Folk Rock
265	Mole in the Ground	Willie Watson	Traditional Folk
266	Overpass	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Contemporary Folk
267	Sweet Sisters	Elexa Dawson	Contemporary Folk
268	If We Would Let It	Parker Millsap	Contemporary Folk
269	All Four Winds	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Contemporary Folk
270	Cave	Wild Rivers	Alternative Folk
271	Jet Pac Boomerang	Nick Lowe	Folk Rock
272	Go in Peace	Sam Baker	Contemporary Folk
273	Crossroads	Robert Johnson	Folk
274	Damn My Love (feat. TK & the Holy Know-Nothings)	John Craigie	Alternative Folk
275	I Used to Be So Pretty	Linda Thompson	Contemporary Folk
276	Lady Madonna (feat. the Gibson Brothers)	Tony Trischka	Alternative Folk
277	Leader of the Band	Dan Fogelberg	Folk Rock
278	On the Blind Side	Ray Bonneville	Alternative Folk
279	Presence of the Faithful	Kerri Powers	Alternative Folk
280	At the End of the Day	Sylvia Tyson	Contemporary Folk
281	Skyline Blues	Charles Wesley Godwin	Contemporary Folk
282	Black Tornado	Dan Bern	Folk Rock
283	Strong is the North Wind	Malcolm MacWatt	Contemporary Folk
284	Albuquerque Lullaby	Dan Bern	Folk Rock
285	Alaska Highway	Dan Bern	Alternative Folk
286	Up All Night Blues	Driftwood	Folk Rock
287	Joyland	Billy Jeter	Contemporary Folk
288	Let's Keep Dancing	Emilíana Torrini	Folk
289	I've Got the Blues (even Though Nothing is Wrong) Fun Version	Dan Reeder	Contemporary Folk
290	Sailing into the Sunset	Tai Shan	Folk Rock
291	Over You by Birmingham	Liz Barnez	Folk Rock
292	Waiting Around to Die	Townes Van Zandt	Folk Rock
293	Perfectly Absurd	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
294	Peace Train	Cat Stevens	Folk Rock
295	I Did It (Hey Doubters)	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
296	Rodeo Clown	Lid Dixon	Folk
297	Before My Train Comes	Mark Knopfler	Contemporary Folk
298	Mr. Tambourine Man	Bob Dylan	Folk
299	Alton Air	Darrell Scott	Contemporary Folk
300	Somewhere in the Middle	The High Hawks	Folk Rock

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The Roots Music Report's Top Folk Song Chart for the Year of 2024

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Song Chart
for the Year of 2024