Top Folk Song Chart for the Year of 2023

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Song Chart
for the Year of 2023

Rank	Song Title	Band/Artist Name	Sub Genre
1	You're the One	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
2	12th of June	Lyle Lovett	Alternative Folk
3	Sticks and Stones	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Contemporary Folk
4	Running on Time	Parker Millsap	Contemporary Folk
5	Through the Dark	Slaid Cleaves	Folk
6	Break in the Clouds	Mark Erelli	Alternative Folk
7	Yellow Peril	Nat Myers	Alternative Folk
8	Runaway	James Maddock	Traditional Folk
9	Masterpiece	Ben Harper	Alternative Folk
10	Weight You Carry	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
11	I Wanna Go out	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
12	The Returner	Allison Russell	Contemporary Folk
13	River Gonna Talk	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
14	Church Street Blues (feat. Molly Tuttle)	Dan Tyminski	Traditional Folk
15	World Keeps on Singing	Eliza Gilkyson	Contemporary Folk
16	Front Porchin'	Parker Millsap	Contemporary Folk
17	I'll Be There for You	Steve Free	Alternative Folk
18	Talk About That	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
19	Strangers	Nickel Creek	Contemporary Folk
20	Throwin’ Away Your Love	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Contemporary Folk
21	Brilliantly Boldly Alive	Rebecca Folsom	Contemporary Folk
22	Brothers	Rebecca Folsom	Contemporary Folk
23	Sanctuary	Rebecca Folsom	Contemporary Folk
24	Things We Contemplate	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
25	Procrastination (I'll Do It Later)	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
26	Everlasting	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
27	Hands on	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
28	Safety Zone	Eliza Gilkyson	Contemporary Folk
29	What's a Dog Think?	Steve Forbert	Contemporary Folk
30	Your Love	Pressing Strings	Folk Rock
31	None of Em Dead	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
32	Let's Take Our Time and Do It Right	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
33	Stone Throat	Glen Phillips	Alternative Folk
34	Hard Playing Hard to Get	Sons Of The East	Folk Rock
35	Witness Trees	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
36	What You've Shown Me	Parker Millsap	Contemporary Folk
37	Count Me Down	John Craigie	Alternative Folk
38	Make Myself Me Again	Cristina Vane	Alternative Folk
39	I Remember Everything	John Prine	Contemporary Folk
40	Dust Bowl Man	Michelle Malone	Contemporary Folk
41	You Get It All	Hayes Carll	Contemporary Folk
42	Here We Go Again	The Waterboys	Alternative Folk
43	Love Earth	Neil Young	Contemporary Folk
44	Albuquerque	Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band	Contemporary Folk
45	Stand for Myself	Yola	Folk Rock
46	Broken Horses	Brandi Carlile	Contemporary Folk
47	Trouble with My Lover	Robert Plant & Allison Kraus	Contemporary Folk
48	The Liar	John Fullbright	Contemporary Folk
49	Glacier	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
50	Bop Bop New Orleans	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
51	Nervous	Tim O'Brien	Contemporary Folk
52	Home	Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band	Contemporary Folk
53	No Reason	Sunny War	Contemporary Folk
54	Senses (Thanks JSB)	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
55	Holler Rose	Pony Bradshaw	Contemporary Folk
56	Kismet	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
57	From Where I Stand	Wyatt Easterling	Contemporary Folk
58	Light Ahead	Darling West	Contemporary Folk
59	Spruce & Pine	SLPSTRM	Alternative Folk
60	The Town in Your Heart	Lori McKenna	Contemporary Folk
61	Too Lazy	Joe Holt	Contemporary Folk
62	You Louisiana Man	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
63	The Sound of Guitars	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
64	Wanderin'	Eliza Gilkyson	Folk
65	Wondrous Love	Watchhouse	Contemporary Folk
66	Again	Pixie and The Partygrass Boys	Alternative Folk
67	Rising	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
68	Ozarker	Israel Nash	Folk Rock
69	20 Years and a Nickel	Hiss Golden Messenger	Alternative Folk
70	Done with Love	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
71	Coffee Shop Open Mic	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
72	Love That 's Real	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
73	Resilience	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
74	Perfectly Absurd	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
75	Wherever You Go	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
76	Louisiana 1927 (feat. Albert Lee)	Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band	Contemporary Folk
77	Thinking of Her	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
78	See the World	Brett Dennen	Contemporary Folk
79	Sanctuary	Hiss Golden Messenger	Alternative Folk
80	Sticky and Sweet	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
81	Another Page	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
82	Coming Home	Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb	Contemporary Folk
83	Nazareth	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
84	You Never Can Tell (feat. Albert Lee)	Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band	Contemporary Folk
85	Get Lucky	Patty Griffin	Contemporary Folk
86	WTF	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
87	If You Ain't Got Love	The Brother Brothers	Contemporary Folk
88	Fall Apart World	Mary Gauthier	Alternative Folk
89	Sweet Revival (feat. Jason Crosby)	Wolf Jett	Contemporary Folk
90	Flyin' and Cryin' (feat. Rodney Crowell)	Lisa Morales	Contemporary Folk
91	Diggin' a Hole (Dave's Song)	Judy Nazemetz	Contemporary Folk
92	Be Together	Karney	Folk Rock
93	Heart of Gold	Karney	Folk Rock
94	Gonna Be Beautiful	Karney	Folk Rock
95	Love & Respect (revised)	Karney	Folk Rock
96	Trust (acoustic)	Karney	Folk Rock
97	Women Are Not Equal	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
98	Forgiving Ties	Deer Tick	Alternative Folk
99	Blues Everywhere I Go (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
100	Broken (feat. Laura T Lewis)	Wolf Jett	Contemporary Folk
101	Out of My Head	First Aid Kit	Folk
102	All of the Time in the World to Kill	The Milk Carton Kids	Contemporary Folk
103	Sweet Beginnings	Kathryn Severing Fox	Contemporary Folk
104	White Lines & Headlights	Kathryn Severing Fox	Contemporary Folk
105	Secret	Kathryn Severing Fox	Contemporary Folk
106	Sinker, Sinking	Will Johnson	Folk Rock
107	How Long Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
108	Take This Hammer (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
109	Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
110	Dink's Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
111	Nu-Grape	Hiss Golden Messenger	Alternative Folk
112	Mirant La Lluna	Biel Martí	Folk
113	Heading West	Neil Young	Contemporary Folk
114	Easy Rider (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
115	This Little Light of Mine (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
116	Forget Jeanette	Judy Nazemetz	Contemporary Folk
117	Meat Bird in Beigeville	Judy Nazemetz	Contemporary Folk
118	Lover's Game	The War and Treaty	Contemporary Folk
119	The Old Woman in Me	Lori McKenna	Contemporary Folk
120	Baton Rouge (feat. Albert Lee)	Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band	Contemporary Folk
121	Midnight Special (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
122	Save Your Love for Me	Julie Christensen	Contemporary Folk
123	Go Down Sunshine (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
124	Letter to a Savior	Good Morning Bedlam	Contemporary Folk
125	Lagunita	Lizzie No	Alternative Folk
126	Nebraska	Bruce Springsteen	Folk Rock
127	Billie Jean	Alexandr Misko	Alternative Folk
128	Glory Glory (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
129	Hit or Miss (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
130	Annie (feat. Erin Rae)	Rachel Baiman	Contemporary Folk
131	In the Morning	The Ballroom Thieves	Alternative Folk
132	Highway 64	Barrett Davis	Contemporary Folk
133	Carolina Still	Barrett Davis	Contemporary Folk
134	The Ballad of Aesop Fin	Barrett Davis	Contemporary Folk
135	Yard Sale	Ben Harper	Alternative Folk
136	Sinners and Saints	Karney	Folk Rock
137	More Than Friends (feat. Lainey Wilson)	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Contemporary Folk
138	I'm Just Sayin'	Judy Nazemetz	Contemporary Folk
139	The Shadow of the Bird	Judy Nazemetz	Contemporary Folk
140	Crying	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
141	Trust	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
142	Never Stop	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
143	Rainbow in the Dark	Karney	Folk Rock
144	Bear	Tim O'Brien	Contemporary Folk
145	Hand in My Pocket	Taylor Ashton	Contemporary Folk
146	Light of Angels	Mile Twelve	Contemporary Folk
147	The Fall	Gregory Alan Isakov	Contemporary Folk
148	From a Dying Rose	Todd Snider	Folk Rock
149	Home Again (feat. Oliver Wood & Jano Rix)	Jarrod Dickenson	Alternative Folk
150	Alton Air	Darrell Scott	Contemporary Folk
151	Burlesque Desert Window	Trampled by Turtles	Traditional Folk
152	Once in a Lifetime	Deer Tick	Alternative Folk
153	Don't Hold the Hurt to Make It Easy	Sheila K. Cameron	Contemporary Folk
154	Gold in California	Ellis Paul	Contemporary Folk
155	Worried Man Blues	Van Morrison	Alternative Folk
156	Getting There	Mark Mulholland	Folk Rock
157	Another End of a Year	Connor Garvey	Contemporary Folk
158	Headwater	Salt House	Contemporary Folk
159	Alcohallelujah	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Contemporary Folk
160	The Return (Love Comes Back)	Rose Cousins	Contemporary Folk
161	Stone's Throw	Nickel Creek	Contemporary Folk
162	The Best of Me	Bella White	Traditional Folk
163	Way over Yonder	The Small Glories	Contemporary Folk
164	White Chapel Woman	Annie Bartholomew	Contemporary Folk
165	Maria	Frances Luke Accord	Contemporary Folk
166	New Light	Claire Coupland	Contemporary Folk
167	Dead Horse Trail	Annie Bartholomew	Contemporary Folk
168	Father's Tools	Dave Gunning	Traditional Folk
169	White Horses	Darlingside	Folk Rock
170	Full Moon Rising	Alex Krawczyk	Alternative Folk
171	Hard Luck City	Malcolm Holcombe	Contemporary Folk
172	Pure Fool	Keith Rayburn	Alternative Folk
173	Everyone's Welcome Here	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
174	A Father's Love	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
175	Ain’t No Stopping Us Now	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
176	The Walls Come Tumbling Down	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
177	You Matter	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
178	Shine	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
179	Jesse James	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
180	One More Change	Ben Harper	Alternative Folk
181	Killer Whale	Joanna Wallfisch	Folk Rock
182	Toner Från Vårt Karga Land	Kusinerna Riippa	Alternative Folk
183	Paranoid Heart	John Fullbright	Contemporary Folk
184	Growing Growing Gone	Ben Harper	Alternative Folk
185	Big Money Blues	Dom Flemons	Contemporary Folk
186	Elsie	Nickel Creek	Celtic
187	Dance on	Sheila K. Cameron	Contemporary Folk
188	Jump for Joy	Hiss Golden Messenger	Alternative Folk
189	If We Would Let It	Parker Millsap	Contemporary Folk
190	Art of Motion	Andy McKee	Contemporary Folk
191	Careless Whisper	Alexandr Misko	Alternative Folk
192	Stairway to Heaven	Lucas Imbiriba	Alternative Folk
193	Bartender's Blues	Tattletale Saints	Contemporary Folk
194	Beautiful Thing	Peach & Quiet	Contemporary Folk
195	Love After Love	Ben Harper	Alternative Folk
196	On My Way	Sons Of The East	Folk Rock
197	Throw Caution to the Wind	Wyatt Easterling	Contemporary Folk
198	Overpass	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Contemporary Folk
199	To the Light	Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band	Contemporary Folk
200	Pockets Empty	Peach & Quiet	Contemporary Folk

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The Roots Music Report's Top Folk Song Chart for the Year of 2023

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Song Chart
for the Year of 2023