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	Magic of the Music	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
11	Perennial Bloom (Back to You)	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Contemporary Folk
12	The Mountain	Alec Lytle & Them Rounders	Contemporary Folk
13	Right on Time	Brandi Carlile	Contemporary Folk
14	I Remember Everything	John Prine	Contemporary Folk
15	Have Purpose Live Long	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
16	Send You My Love	Liz Longley	Contemporary Folk
17	Party with the Saints	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
18	I Bleed Human	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
19	Make It Last	Darling West	Contemporary Folk
20	Eve	Sarah Jarosz	Contemporary Folk
21	Madness	Giriffin Swank	Contemporary Folk
22	All It Takes is Time	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
23	Little Boy Blue	The War and Treaty	Contemporary Folk
24	Till the Wheels Fall off	Strung Like a Horse	Alternative Folk
25	Waterbound (with Francesco Turrisi)	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
26	Diamond Studded Shoes	Yola	Folk Rock
27	Crutch	Band Of Horses	Alternative Folk
28	Can I Believe You	Fleet Foxes	Alternative Folk
29	A Quiet Place	Nick Lowe	Folk Rock
30	He Was a Friend of Mine	Max Gomez	Traditional Folk
31	Goin' Home	Mark O'Connor	Traditional Folk
32	Just Hanging on	Peter Case	Contemporary Folk
33	Hole in My Life	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
34	Nervous	Tim O'Brien	Contemporary Folk
35	Spruce & Pine	SLPSTRM	Alternative Folk
36	Stand for Myself	Yola	Folk Rock
37	Nine Foot Problem	Otis Gibbs	Alternative Folk
38	The Cure	Watkins Family Hour	Alternative Folk
39	Hickory Wind	John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen	Contemporary Folk
40	I Shall Not Be Moved (with Francesco Turrisi)	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
41	Land of Milk and Honey	Pete Bernhard	Traditional Folk
42	Friend of the Sky	Cej	Alternative Folk
43	Honey on the Mind	Cej	Alternative Folk
44	Creature's Blues	Cej	Alternative Folk
45	Crazy Bee (Abeja Loca)	Cej	Alternative Folk
46	Fly Away	Cej	Alternative Folk
47	Everyone's Welcome Here	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
48	Enemy	The Dustbowl Revival	Contemporary Folk
49	Billie Jean	Alexandr Misko	Alternative Folk
50	Olympia, WA	Molly Tuttle	Alternative Folk
51	You Matter	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
52	Sugar Babe (Highway Troubadour Version)	Jesse Colin Young	Alternative Folk
53	See the World	Brett Dennen	Contemporary Folk
54	Sanctuary	Hiss Golden Messenger	Alternative Folk
55	Down the Trail	Amy Speace	Contemporary Folk
56	Eye of the Storm	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
57	The Walls Come Tumbling Down	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
58	Broken Horses	Brandi Carlile	Contemporary Folk
59	Howl at the Moon	Indigo Girls	Contemporary Folk
60	In the Mood	Mark Stoffel	Traditional Folk
61	Best Bad Thing	Kathy Forste	Folk Rock
62	Ain’t No Stopping Us Now	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
63	A Good Chord on a Bad Guitar	Kathy Forste	Folk Rock
64	Garden of Pain	Wolf Jett	Contemporary Folk
65	These Walls	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
66	Catch Me if I Fall	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
67	Nightflyer	Allison Russell	Contemporary Folk
68	Cannonball Road	Kathy Forste	Folk Rock
69	The Sun Always Shines in Mexico	ThorNton Creek	Contemporary Folk
70	Walkin' on the Water	Kathy Forste	Folk Rock
71	God, Guns, and Guitars	Kathy Forste	Folk Rock
72	Another Page	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
73	No Time for Love Songs	The Mastersons	Contemporary Folk
74	My Baby	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
75	Angel from Montgomery	Raveis Kole	Contemporary Folk
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	I'll Be There for You	Steve Free	Alternative Folk
80	Won't Abandon Ship	Gracious Me	Contemporary Folk
81	Revolutionary Love	Ani DiFranco	Alternative Folk
82	What You're Made of	Gracious Me	Contemporary Folk
83	(Under The) Heavy Sun	Daniel Lanois	Folk
84	Song to a Refugee	Diana Jones	Contemporary Folk
85	Aerial Boundaries	Michael Hedges	Folk
86	One Life to Live	Steve Free	Alternative Folk
87	We'll Be Singing	Steve Free	Alternative Folk
88	Transatlantic	Aoife O'Donovan	Folk
89	Conversational Snow	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
90	Andy's Song	Jackdaw	Alternative Folk
91	The Printer's Devil	James Kahn	Alternative Folk
92	Rio Allie	James Kahn	Alternative Folk
93	Gypsy Moth	James Kahn	Alternative Folk
94	Teddy Two-Worlds	James Kahn	Alternative Folk
95	Second Sight	Buck Meek	Contemporary Folk
96	The Night That John Prine Died	John McCutcheon	Alternative Folk
97	Perfect Girls of Pop	Elizabeth Cook	Folk Rock
98	Not the America of My Dreams	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
99	Stairway to Heaven	Lucas Imbiriba	Alternative Folk
100	Throwing Rocks at the Moon	Carrie Newcomer	Contemporary Folk
101	Visions	Jose Gonzalez	Chamber Folk
102	Twenty-Five Years	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
103	Ragamuffin	Michael Hedges	Folk
104	Shrinking Violet	Ani DiFranco	Alternative Folk
105	Without Water	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
106	I Won't Remember You	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
107	Right Amount of Wrong	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
108	Careless Whisper	Alexandr Misko	Alternative Folk
109	A Father's Love	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
110	Santiago	Diana Jones	Contemporary Folk
111	Sailing to Philadelphia	Mark Knopfler	Folk
112	Low Lonesome	Duke Levine	Folk
113	Throw It All Away	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
114	Singing a Mountain Song	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
115	Season of the Witch	Donovan	Folk
116	Wildfire	The Accidentals	Alternative Folk
117	Who Cares	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
118	Will You	Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno	Contemporary Folk
119	The First Taste	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
120	What in the World...	Michael McDermott	Alternative Folk
121	Shadows by My Side	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
122	Join Hands	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
123	Now and the Evermore	Colin Hay	Alternative Folk
124	It Ain't Workin'	EllaHarp	Contemporary Folk
125	Diamonds on the Inside	Ben Harper	Folk
126	Mama's Old Hickory Stick	Hot Tamale	Contemporary Folk
127	Snorkel	Leo Kottke	Folk
128	Art of Motion	Andy McKee	Contemporary Folk
129	Long Violent History	Tyler Childers	Traditional Folk
130	Night Train	The Accidentals	Alternative Folk
131	You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to	The Duke Robillard Jazz Trio	Folk
132	The Realist	Derek Bodkin	Alternative Folk
133	California Way	Peach & Quiet	Contemporary Folk
134	Part of It	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
135	New Country	Martha Renaud	Alternative Folk
136	Young and Free	Severin Browne	Folk Rock
137	Sunrise	Larry Carlton	Folk
138	Barton Hollow	The Civil Wars	Folk
139	Anxious Zen	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
140	Coast Starlight	Cej	Alternative Folk
141	Cocoon	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
142	G-Man	Los Straitjackets	Folk
143	On My Way to Play	Severin Browne	Folk Rock
144	Mountain of Fire	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
145	The Devil in Me	Garrison Starr	Alternative Folk
146	Sounds	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
147	Take Me Home	Nick Justice	Folk Rock
148	Judgment Day	Nick Justice	Folk Rock
149	Down Country	Nick Justice	Folk Rock
150	The Road Not Taken	Nick Justice	Folk Rock
151	You Didn't Love Me Anyway	Nick Justice	Folk Rock
152	Empty to Fill	Peach & Quiet	Contemporary Folk
153	Round Thing	Luca Stricagnoli	Contemporary Folk
154	Just for You (feat. Dan Kassel)	Gordon Thomas Ward	Alternative Folk
155	Patiently	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
156	Times a Getting Hard Boys	Partington & Sweeney	Traditional Folk
157	Let Her Go	Passenger	Folk Rock
158	Sweet Boy from Minnesota	Anna Elizabeth Laube	Contemporary Folk
159	Deer Island	Partington & Sweeney	Traditional Folk
160	Mr. John	Duke Levine	Folk
161	For My Love	Peach & Quiet	Contemporary Folk
162	Call It Home	Paula Standing	Contemporary Folk
163	Don't Give Up	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
164	Overdue	Severin Browne	Folk Rock
165	Heart of Gold	Neil Young	Folk Rock
166	El Chaparral	Diana Jones	Contemporary Folk
167	Nice Things	Hayes Carll	Contemporary Folk
168	Dinner for Two	Magic Red	Folk
169	Orbit	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
170	Into Me You See (Here & Now)	Raveis Kole	Contemporary Folk
171	I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself	Colin Hay	Alternative Folk
172	My Friends Are All Around Me	Severin Browne	Folk Rock
173	Every Highway	James Lee Stanley	Alternative Folk
174	Water Flowing Downward	Andrea von Kampen	Alternative Folk
175	Tomorrow Blues	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
176	Run	Garrison Starr	Alternative Folk
177	I Am and I Will	Severin Browne	Folk Rock
178	Just to Feel the Wind	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
179	The More I Give	Paula Standing	Contemporary Folk
180	All Shall Be Well	The Accidentals	Alternative Folk
181	Sing You Mine	Jackdaw	Alternative Folk
182	Shoreline After a Storm	Peach & Quiet	Contemporary Folk
183	One More Time	Jackdaw	Alternative Folk
184	The Very Last Cowboy in Paris	Jackdaw	Alternative Folk
185	Wonderland	Martha Renaud	Alternative Folk
186	Peace Train	Cat Stevens	Folk Rock
187	The River	Citizen Cope	Folk Rock
188	All My Runnin'	Anna Elizabeth Laube	Contemporary Folk
189	Good Times	Jeremy Garrett	Contemporary Folk
190	Leader of the Band	Dan Fogelberg	Folk Rock
191	Alton Air	Darrell Scott	Contemporary Folk
192	Trouble with My Lover	Robert Plant & Allison Kraus	Contemporary Folk
193	Shed a Little Light	Joy Zimmerman	Contemporary Folk
194	Vagabond Wind	Jackdaw	Alternative Folk
195	Walking Through	Thomas Hine	Contemporary Folk
196	Atlantic City	Bruce Springsteen	Folk Rock
197	Simultaneously	Ani DiFranco	Alternative Folk
198	Nebraska	Bruce Springsteen	Folk Rock
199	Cemented	Thomas Hine	Contemporary Folk
200	Of Him I Love Both Day and Night	Andrea von Kampen	Alternative 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