Top Folk Song Chart for the Year of 2021

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Song Chart
for the Year of 2021

Rank	Song Title	Band/Artist Name	Sub Genre
1	The Real Thing	Parker Millsap	Alternative Folk
2	Can't Let Go	Robert Plant & Allison Kraus	Contemporary Folk
3	Cat Man Do	Brigitte DeMeyer	Contemporary Folk
4	On the Road Again	The Brother Brothers	Contemporary Folk
5	You Get It All	Hayes Carll	Contemporary Folk
6	Bluebird	Jamestown Revival	Contemporary Folk
7	Part Wolf	John Craigie	Alternative Folk
8	People Get Ready	John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen	Contemporary Folk
9	Talk About That	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
10	Throwin’ Away Your Love	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Contemporary Folk
11	Magic of the Music	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
12	Perennial Bloom (Back to You)	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Contemporary Folk
13	The Mountain	Alec Lytle & Them Rounders	Contemporary Folk
14	Right on Time	Brandi Carlile	Contemporary Folk
15	I Remember Everything	John Prine	Contemporary Folk
16	Have Purpose Live Long	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
17	Send You My Love	Liz Longley	Contemporary Folk
18	Party with the Saints	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
19	I Bleed Human	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
20	Make It Last	Darling West	Contemporary Folk
21	Eve	Sarah Jarosz	Contemporary Folk
22	Madness	Giriffin Swank	Contemporary Folk
23	All It Takes is Time	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
24	Little Boy Blue	The War and Treaty	Contemporary Folk
25	Till the Wheels Fall off	Strung Like a Horse	Alternative Folk
26	Waterbound (with Francesco Turrisi)	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
27	Crutch	Band Of Horses	Alternative Folk
28	Diamond Studded Shoes	Yola	Folk Rock
29	Can I Believe You	Fleet Foxes	Alternative Folk
30	A Quiet Place	Nick Lowe	Folk Rock
31	He Was a Friend of Mine	Max Gomez	Traditional Folk
32	Goin' Home	Mark O'Connor	Traditional Folk
33	Just Hanging on	Peter Case	Contemporary Folk
34	Hole in My Life	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
35	Nervous	Tim O'Brien	Contemporary Folk
36	Spruce & Pine	SLPSTRM	Alternative Folk
37	Stand for Myself	Yola	Folk Rock
38	Nine Foot Problem	Otis Gibbs	Alternative Folk
39	The Cure	Watkins Family Hour	Alternative Folk
40	Hickory Wind	John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen	Contemporary Folk
41	Land of Milk and Honey	Pete Bernhard	Traditional Folk
42	I Shall Not Be Moved (with Francesco Turrisi)	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
43	Friend of the Sky	Cej	Alternative Folk
44	Honey on the Mind	Cej	Alternative Folk
45	Creature's Blues	Cej	Alternative Folk
46	Crazy Bee (Abeja Loca)	Cej	Alternative Folk
47	Fly Away	Cej	Alternative Folk
48	Enemy	The Dustbowl Revival	Contemporary Folk
49	Everyone's Welcome Here	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
50	Billie Jean	Alexandr Misko	Alternative Folk
51	Olympia, WA	Molly Tuttle	Alternative Folk
52	You Matter	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
53	Sugar Babe (Highway Troubadour Version)	Jesse Colin Young	Alternative Folk
54	See the World	Brett Dennen	Contemporary Folk
55	Sanctuary	Hiss Golden Messenger	Alternative Folk
56	Down the Trail	Amy Speace	Contemporary Folk
57	Eye of the Storm	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
58	The Walls Come Tumbling Down	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
59	In the Mood	Mark Stoffel	Traditional Folk
60	Broken Horses	Brandi Carlile	Contemporary Folk
61	Howl at the Moon	Indigo Girls	Contemporary Folk
62	Jackpot	Mark Erelli	Contemporary Folk
63	Garden of Pain	Wolf Jett	Contemporary Folk
64	Ain’t No Stopping Us Now	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
65	Best Bad Thing	Kathy Forste	Folk Rock
66	A Good Chord on a Bad Guitar	Kathy Forste	Folk Rock
67	These Walls	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
68	Nightflyer	Allison Russell	Contemporary Folk
69	The Sun Always Shines in Mexico	ThorNton Creek	Contemporary Folk
70	Catch Me if I Fall	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
71	Another Page	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
72	Cannonball Road	Kathy Forste	Folk Rock
73	No Time for Love Songs	The Mastersons	Contemporary Folk
74	Walkin' on the Water	Kathy Forste	Folk Rock
75	God, Guns, and Guitars	Kathy Forste	Folk Rock
76	The Shape I'm in	Keith Rayburn	Alternative Folk
77	Call Me Home (feat. Heidi Matthews)	ThorNton Creek	Contemporary Folk
78	Whassit Matter to You? (feat. Craig Edwards, Roger Ferguson & Randy Rush)	ThorNton Creek	Contemporary Folk
79	My Baby	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
80	Angel from Montgomery	Raveis Kole	Contemporary Folk
81	Greatest Enemy	The Strumbellas	Contemporary Folk
82	I'll Be There for You	Steve Free	Alternative Folk
83	Won't Abandon Ship	Gracious Me	Contemporary Folk
84	5 Minutes to Spare	The Hellecasters	Folk
85	What You're Made of	Gracious Me	Contemporary Folk
86	(Under The) Heavy Sun	Daniel Lanois	Folk
87	Revolutionary Love	Ani DiFranco	Alternative Folk
88	Song to a Refugee	Diana Jones	Contemporary Folk
89	One Life to Live	Steve Free	Alternative Folk
90	We'll Be Singing	Steve Free	Alternative Folk
91	Transatlantic	Aoife O'Donovan	Folk
92	Aerial Boundaries	Michael Hedges	Folk
93	Andy's Song	Jackdaw	Alternative Folk
94	Second Sight	Buck Meek	Contemporary Folk
95	Perfect Girls of Pop	Elizabeth Cook	Folk Rock
96	The Printer's Devil	James Kahn	Alternative Folk
97	Rio Allie	James Kahn	Alternative Folk
98	Gypsy Moth	James Kahn	Alternative Folk
99	Teddy Two-Worlds	James Kahn	Alternative Folk
100	The Night That John Prine Died	John McCutcheon	Alternative Folk
101	Throwing Rocks at the Moon	Carrie Newcomer	Contemporary Folk
102	Visions	Jose Gonzalez	Contemporary Folk
103	Not the America of My Dreams	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
104	Conversational Snow	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
105	Shrinking Violet	Ani DiFranco	Alternative Folk
106	Twenty-Five Years	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
107	Stairway to Heaven	Lucas Imbiriba	Alternative Folk
108	Santiago	Diana Jones	Contemporary Folk
109	Without Water	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
110	I Won't Remember You	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
111	Right Amount of Wrong	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
112	Ragamuffin	Michael Hedges	Folk
113	Singing a Mountain Song	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
114	Wildfire	The Accidentals	Alternative Folk
115	Careless Whisper	Alexandr Misko	Alternative Folk
116	A Father's Love	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
117	It Ain't Workin'	EllaHarp	Contemporary Folk
118	What in the World...	Michael McDermott	Alternative Folk
119	Now and the Evermore	Colin Hay	Alternative Folk
120	Mama's Old Hickory Stick	Hot Tamale	Contemporary Folk
121	Sailing to Philadelphia	Mark Knopfler	Folk
122	Will You	Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno	Contemporary Folk
123	Who Cares	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
124	Shadows by My Side	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
125	Low Lonesome	Duke Levine	Folk
126	Season of the Witch	Donovan	Folk
127	Night Train	The Accidentals	Alternative Folk
128	Long Violent History	Tyler Childers	Traditional Folk
129	The Realist	Derek Bodkin	Alternative Folk
130	Join Hands	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
131	California Way	Peach & Quiet	Contemporary Folk
132	Throw It All Away	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
133	Part of It	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
134	The First Taste	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
135	Diamonds on the Inside	Ben Harper	Folk
136	Young and Free	Severin Browne	Folk Rock
137	Snorkel	Leo Kottke	Folk
138	Art of Motion	Andy McKee	Contemporary Folk
139	Empty to Fill	Peach & Quiet	Contemporary Folk
140	Anxious Zen	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
141	Call It Home	Paula Standing	Contemporary Folk
142	Patiently	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
143	On My Way to Play	Severin Browne	Folk Rock
144	The Devil in Me	Garrison Starr	Alternative Folk
145	Cocoon	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
146	El Chaparral	Diana Jones	Contemporary Folk
147	Mountain of Fire	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
148	You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to	The Duke Robillard Jazz Trio	Folk
149	Nice Things	Hayes Carll	Contemporary Folk
150	Coast Starlight	Cej	Alternative Folk
151	You Speak My Language	Pat Metheny	Folk
152	I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself	Colin Hay	Alternative Folk
153	New Country	Martha Renaud	Alternative Folk
154	G-Man	Los Straitjackets	Folk
155	Sounds	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
156	Sunrise	Larry Carlton	Folk
157	For My Love	Peach & Quiet	Contemporary Folk
158	Let Her Go	Passenger	Folk Rock
159	Last Summer	John Batdorf	Contemporary Folk
160	Good Music Never Goes Away	John Batdorf	Contemporary Folk
161	Prayin'	John Batdorf	Contemporary Folk
162	I Wanna Be with You	John Batdorf	Contemporary Folk
163	Take Me Home	Nick Justice	Folk Rock
164	Judgment Day	Nick Justice	Folk Rock
165	Down Country	Nick Justice	Folk Rock
166	The Road Not Taken	Nick Justice	Folk Rock
167	You Didn't Love Me Anyway	Nick Justice	Folk Rock
168	Every Highway	James Lee Stanley	Alternative Folk
169	Barton Hollow	The Civil Wars	Folk
170	Sweet Boy from Minnesota	Anna Elizabeth Laube	Contemporary Folk
171	Overdue	Severin Browne	Folk Rock
172	Water Flowing Downward	Andrea von Kampen	Alternative Folk
173	The More I Give	Paula Standing	Contemporary Folk
174	Times a Getting Hard Boys	Partington & Sweeney	Traditional Folk
175	Orbit	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
176	Simple Song	Liz Barnez	Folk
177	My Friends Are All Around Me	Severin Browne	Folk Rock
178	Run	Garrison Starr	Alternative Folk
179	Round Thing	Luca Stricagnoli	Contemporary Folk
180	One More Time	Jackdaw	Alternative Folk
181	The Very Last Cowboy in Paris	Jackdaw	Alternative Folk
182	Sing You Mine	Jackdaw	Alternative Folk
183	All Shall Be Well	The Accidentals	Alternative Folk
184	Don't Give Up	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
185	Deer Island	Partington & Sweeney	Traditional Folk
186	Just for You (feat. Dan Kassel)	Gordon Thomas Ward	Alternative Folk
187	Into Me You See (Here & Now)	Raveis Kole	Contemporary Folk
188	The River	Citizen Cope	Folk Rock
189	Wonderland	Martha Renaud	Alternative Folk
190	Tomorrow Blues	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
191	I Am and I Will	Severin Browne	Folk Rock
192	Mr. John	Duke Levine	Folk
193	Heart of Gold	Neil Young	Folk Rock
194	Good Times	Jeremy Garrett	Contemporary Folk
195	Shoreline After a Storm	Peach & Quiet	Contemporary Folk
196	Alton Air	Darrell Scott	Contemporary Folk
197	Shed a Little Light	Joy Zimmerman	Contemporary Folk
198	Vagabond Wind	Jackdaw	Alternative Folk
199	Walking Through	Thomas Hine	Contemporary Folk
200	Trouble with My Lover	Robert Plant & Allison Kraus	Contemporary Folk

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The Roots Music Report's Top Folk Song Chart for the Year of 2021

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Song Chart
for the Year of 2021