The Roots Music Report's
Top Americana Country Song Chart
for the Year of 2016
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Train in the Distance | Don Henley |
| 2 | Let's Get Drunk | The Honeycutters |
| 3 | Traveller | Chris Stapleton |
| 4 | Hard to Please | The Black Lillies |
| 5 | Wonderin' Where | Joe Ely |
| 6 | One Last Time | Sara Watkins |
| 7 | The Year We Tried to Kill the Pain | Bob Woodruff |
| 8 | The Traveling Kind | Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell |
| 9 | Nobody to Blame | Chris Stapleton |
| 10 | Cabin in the Sky | Roy Schneider |
| 11 | Way Back | Coral Creek |
| 12 | Walkin' Shoes Blues | Lew Card |
| 13 | Those Diamonds | Freddy Jones Band |
| 14 | Z | Carrie Rodriguez |
| 15 | Parachute | Chris Stapleton |
| 16 | Take off My Dress | Ana Egge & The Sentimentals |
| 17 | Let's Rock | Bill Kirchen & Austin de Lone |
| 18 | Alabama at Night | Robbie Fulks |
| 19 | Something Left to Say | Jared Rabin |
| 20 | Just Someone I Used to Know (with Nikki Lane) | Buddy Miller |
| 21 | Weight of the Gun | Corb Lund |
| 22 | Shirley Jean | Kiefer Sutherland |
| 23 | Better Than You Found It | Tyller Gummersall |
| 24 | Scarecrow | Counting Crows |
| 25 | Girl Next Door | Brandy Clark |
| 26 | Glory Bound | The Grahams |
| 27 | Bottom of the Sea | Sean McConnell |
| 28 | Ease My Mind | Michaela Anne |
| 29 | Treasure | Edge Of The West |
| 30 | Ode to Thinking | Bobby Long |
| 31 | On the Ropes | The Honeycutters |
| 32 | Radio | Reckless Kelly |
| 33 | Sea of Lights | Boo Ray |
| 34 | Rattlesnake | Dolly Shine |
| 35 | Surrender to Love | Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams |
| 36 | Like It Used to Be | Allison Moorer |
| 37 | I Hear Ya Talkin' (with Amos Lee) | Asleep At The Wheel |
| 38 | Double or Nothing | Western Centuries |
| 39 | Something in the Water | Pokey LaFarge |
| 40 | I'm Going Inside | Charlie Greene |
| 41 | How Much Time | No Fuss and Feathers |
| 42 | Mama's Radio | C. Daniel Boling |
| 43 | Love is Our Cross to Bear | John Gorka |
| 44 | (When I Know) I'm Not the Only One | Terry Winchell |
| 45 | Drivin' | Robert Ellis |
| 46 | Still a Child | Dori Freeman |
| 47 | Dog | The Bottle Rockets |
| 48 | Everything I Can't Have | Rob Heath |
| 49 | Living Without You | Michaela Anne |
| 50 | It Takes What It Takes | Lauren Adams |
| 51 | They Can't Take That Away from Me | Willie Nelson |
| 52 | They'll Never Find Me | Blood on the Harp |
| 53 | Brand New Road | Kenny Davin Fine & The Tennessee Texans |
| 54 | Fading Tailights | Dave Murphy |
| 55 | Under My Skin | Vicky Emerson |
| 56 | Lost and Found Love | Jim Chesnut |
| 57 | That Guy | J. Micheal Laferty |
| 58 | Midnight Highway | Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams |
| 59 | Hallelujah | The Honeycutters |
| 60 | S Lazy H | Corb Lund |
| 61 | Bad Luck and Moonshine | Dan Whitaker & The Shinebenders |
| 62 | Rock in the River | Chatham County Line |
| 63 | Love Can Go to Hell | Brandy Clark |
| 64 | Lopsided Moon | Nancy Cassidy |
| 65 | Leave | Alice Wallace |
| 66 | The Wild One | The Grahams |
| 67 | Walk (Back to Your Arms) | Tami Neilson |
| 68 | A Hundred Miles | THE RIFTERS |
| 69 | T for Texas (with Lyle Lovett) | Robert Earl Keen |
| 70 | 99 Years for One Dark Day (with Peter Rowan) | Robert Earl Keen |
| 71 | Take a Picture of This | Don Henley |
| 72 | Runaway | The Hello Strangers |
| 73 | Colorado | Rebecca Folsom |
| 74 | Underground | Pokey LaFarge |
| 75 | Dirty Hound | Cicada Rhythm |
| 76 | Come on Let's Dance | Tim Hockenberry |
| 77 | Come Home to Me | Nancy Cassidy |
| 78 | Knockin' the Dust off the Rust Belt Tonight | Pokey LaFarge |
| 79 | Roll with It | Ross Kennedy |
| 80 | Smashed | Mark Brown |
| 81 | La Última Vez | Carrie Rodriguez |
| 82 | Anastasia | Jim Andralis |
| 83 | I Wanna Find out | Mike Beck |
| 84 | Long Night Moon | Reckless Kelly |
| 85 | Watch 'em Fall | The Loudermilks |
| 86 | It Ain't Necessarily So | Willie Nelson |
| 87 | That's How I Got to Memphis | Karl Blau |
| 88 | Blacktop Blues | Left Arm Tan |
| 89 | I Really Don't Miss You at All | Whistler's Father |
| 90 | Wild Horses (with Shawn Colvin) | Buddy Miller |
| 91 | But You Like Country Music | Sunny Sweeney |
| 92 | You Remind Me | Beth Lee and the Breakups |
| 93 | Merle, Hank & Johnny | Dan Bern |
| 94 | Faded Gloryville | Lindi Ortega |
| 95 | Bayview Drive | Lauren Adams |
| 96 | The Bottles on the Table | Bianca De Leon |
| 97 | Somebody Loves Me | Willie Nelson |
| 98 | I Got Rhythm | Willie Nelson |
| 99 | Everything It Takes (feat. Elvis Costello) | Loretta Lynn |
| 100 | Laugh 'Til We Cry | Lori Yates |
| 101 | Can't You Hear Them Howl | Lucero |
| 102 | Perfect Strangers | Robert Ellis |
| 103 | Something Good | The Bottle Rockets |
| 104 | I'm Old (Amy's Song) | Judy Nazemetz |
| 105 | Still Crazy After All These Years | Robert Ellis |
| 106 | I Love You a Thousand Ways | Brennen Leigh |
| 107 | Clyde and His Clippers | Lyal Strickland |
| 108 | It's Not My Fault You're Beautiful | Kenny Davin Fine & The Tennessee Texans |
| 109 | Seminole Wind | Lauren Adams |
| 110 | Old Motel | Jack Ingram |
| 111 | Empty Rooms | The Time Jumpers |
| 112 | Color of Love | Birds Of Chicago |
| 113 | Any Wonder | Dori Freeman |
| 114 | A Girl in Longview Texas | Keith Rea |
| 115 | My Town | Michael Reno Harrell |
| 116 | The Love That We Need | Hayes Carll |
| 117 | Lead Me to the Water | The Looking |
| 118 | The Woman in the Wings | Andy May |
| 119 | Wild Texas Wind | The Flyin' A's |
| 120 | The Long, Long Road | Allan Frank |
| 121 | Should Have Loved You | The Nouveaux Honkies |
| 122 | All Night Long | Pokey LaFarge |
| 123 | Outlaw | The Staves |
| 124 | Not That Kind of Girl | Susie Glaze and The Hilonesome Band |
| 125 | Polka Dots and Moonbeams | Bob Dylan |
| 126 | Lumberjack Blues | Keegan McInroe |
| 127 | Elmore James | Tim Easton |
| 128 | A Long Way Home | The Good Intentions |
| 129 | Angeleno | Sam Outlaw |
| 130 | Ghost Town | Sam Outlaw |
| 131 | Penny | Elise Davis |
| 132 | Stronger | Parsonsfield |
| 133 | Long Gone | Vicky Emerson |
| 134 | Twinkle | Jim Libby Band |
| 135 | Born with a Broken Heart | Footfall |
| 136 | My Girl & Me in '93 | Lucero |
| 137 | Mr. & Mrs. Used to Be (feat. Iris Dement) | John Prine |
| 138 | Back Row | The Honeycutters |
| 139 | More Goodbye | Ward Davis |
| 140 | Picture of a Life | Province of Thieves |
| 141 | Color of the Blues (feat. Susan Tedeschi) | John Prine |
| 142 | Second Best | Natasha James |
| 143 | Tenderhearted | Sara Watkins |
| 144 | I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me) [feat. the Time Jumpers] | Willie Nelson |
| 145 | Coming Home to You | Shalo Lee |
| 146 | No One else but Lonely | Max Stalling |
| 147 | Get the Angle Right | Dennis Dougherty |
| 148 | The Last Laugh | Blood on the Harp |
| 149 | Estrella Goodbye | Birds Of Chicago |
| 150 | One More Hell | Hailey Whitters |
| 151 | I Got Trouble | Keegan McInroe |
| 152 | Somewhere else | Lauren Adams |
| 153 | Only Tears | Tami Neilson |
| 154 | Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas (with Robert Earl Keen & Ray Benson) | Asleep At The Wheel |
| 155 | You Used to | Osborne Jones |
| 156 | Sing Along | Robert Ellis |
| 157 | You Say | Dori Freeman |
| 158 | 500 Pieces | The Honeycutters |
| 159 | Enough About Hard Times | Caitlin Canty |
| 160 | Blue Besides | The Honeycutters |
| 161 | Short Walk to Hell | Rodney Rice |
| 162 | Count on Me | The Statesboro Revue |
| 163 | Country Music Outlaws | Keegan McInroe |
| 164 | Night's Pay in My Boot | Max Stalling |
| 165 | Fishbowl | Driftwood |
| 166 | I'm in Love with a Girl | Lucero |
| 167 | Dens of Yarrow | Susie Glaze and The Hilonesome Band |
| 168 | Cry Cry | Grant Lee Phillips |
| 169 | Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning | Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams |
| 170 | Fallin Rain | Karl Blau |
| 171 | Black is the Color | Rhiannon Giddens |
| 172 | The Truth Won't Set Us Free | Sara Watkins |
| 173 | I Got a Song | Allan Frank |
| 174 | Useless Memories | The Honeycutters |
| 175 | Rock'em Sock'em Cowboys | Bennett Jackson and the Ranch Hands |
| 176 | Coming Home | Blood on the Harp |
| 177 | Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Loud, Loud Music (feat. Amanda Shires) | John Prine |
| 178 | Left by One | Blood on the Harp |
| 179 | Truth in Your Eyes | Kiefer Sutherland |
| 180 | Time and Times | Birds Of Chicago |
| 181 | Ornaments in Translation | Blood on the Harp |
| 182 | Smoke and Sparks | Grant Lee Phillips |
| 183 | To the Bottom of Lake Buford | Blood on the Harp |
| 184 | Southern Railroad Blues | Lew Card |
| 185 | Wedding Song | The Honeycutters |
| 186 | Falling in Love Again (feat. Allison Krauss) | John Prine |
| 187 | You, You Make Me Feel | Eddy Mann |
| 188 | Move Me | Sara Watkins |
| 189 | I Just Wanted to See You So Bad | Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell |
| 190 | Jukebox | The Honeycutters |
| 191 | Long Come to Jesus | Hailey Whitters |
| 192 | Le Danse De La Joie | Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell |
| 193 | Blue Jeans and Heels | Ross Kennedy |
| 194 | The Empty Page | Kevin Brown |
| 195 | Lullaby | Dori Freeman |
| 196 | Llano Estacado | Carrie Rodriguez |
| 197 | Hoochie Woman | Tony Joe White |
| 198 | Letter | JJ McGuigan |
| 199 | Lift Me Up | Allan Frank |
| 200 | Deep in the Everglades | Allan Frank |
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