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	Perfectly Absurd	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
62	Too Lazy	Joe Holt	Contemporary Folk
63	Crawl	Shannon & The Clams	Alternative Folk
64	You Louisiana Man	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
65	The Sound of Guitars	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
66	Wanderin'	Eliza Gilkyson	Folk
67	Wondrous Love	Watchhouse	Contemporary Folk
68	Again	Pixie and The Partygrass Boys	Alternative Folk
69	Rising	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
70	Ozarker	Israel Nash	Folk Rock
71	Louisiana 1927 (feat. Albert Lee)	Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band	Contemporary Folk
72	20 Years and a Nickel	Hiss Golden Messenger	Alternative Folk
73	Done with Love	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
74	Coffee Shop Open Mic	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
75	Love That 's Real	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
76	Resilience	Josie Bello	Contemporary Folk
77	Wherever You Go	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
78	You Never Can Tell (feat. Albert Lee)	Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band	Contemporary Folk
79	Thinking of Her	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
80	See the World	Brett Dennen	Contemporary Folk
81	Sanctuary	Hiss Golden Messenger	Alternative Folk
82	Sticky and Sweet	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
83	Coming Home	Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb	Contemporary Folk
84	Another Page	Eric Selby	Contemporary Folk
85	Nazareth	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
86	Get Lucky	Patty Griffin	Contemporary Folk
87	WTF	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
88	If You Ain't Got Love	The Brother Brothers	Contemporary Folk
89	Fall Apart World	Mary Gauthier	Alternative Folk
90	These Goodbyes	T Sisters	Alternative Folk
91	Never Be Alone	T Sisters	Alternative Folk
92	Sweet Revival (feat. Jason Crosby)	Wolf Jett	Contemporary Folk
93	Flyin' and Cryin' (feat. Rodney Crowell)	Lisa Morales	Contemporary Folk
94	Diggin' a Hole (Dave's Song)	Judy Nazemetz	Contemporary Folk
95	Be Together	Karney	Folk Rock
96	Heart of Gold	Karney	Folk Rock
97	Gonna Be Beautiful	Karney	Folk Rock
98	Love & Respect (revised)	Karney	Folk Rock
99	Trust (acoustic)	Karney	Folk Rock
100	Women Are Not Equal	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
101	Forgiving Ties	Deer Tick	Alternative Folk
102	Blues Everywhere I Go (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
103	Broken (feat. Laura T Lewis)	Wolf Jett	Contemporary Folk
104	Out of My Head	First Aid Kit	Folk
105	All of the Time in the World to Kill	The Milk Carton Kids	Contemporary Folk
106	Baton Rouge (feat. Albert Lee)	Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band	Contemporary Folk
107	Sweet Beginnings	Kathryn Severing Fox	Contemporary Folk
108	White Lines & Headlights	Kathryn Severing Fox	Contemporary Folk
109	Secret	Kathryn Severing Fox	Contemporary Folk
110	Sinker, Sinking	Will Johnson	Folk Rock
111	How Long Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
112	Take This Hammer (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
113	Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
114	Dink's Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
115	Atlanta Blues	Stephen Bennett	Contemporary Folk
116	Lemon's Jump	Stefan Grossman	Contemporary Folk
117	Nu-Grape	Hiss Golden Messenger	Alternative Folk
118	Mirant La Lluna	Biel Martí	Folk
119	Heading West	Neil Young	Contemporary Folk
120	Easy Rider (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
121	This Little Light of Mine (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
122	Forget Jeanette	Judy Nazemetz	Contemporary Folk
123	Meat Bird in Beigeville	Judy Nazemetz	Contemporary Folk
124	Lover's Game	The War and Treaty	Contemporary Folk
125	The Old Woman in Me	Lori McKenna	Contemporary Folk
126	Midnight Special	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
127	Save Your Love for Me	Julie Christensen	Contemporary Folk
128	Go Down Sunshine (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
129	Letter to a Savior	Good Morning Bedlam	Contemporary Folk
130	Lagunita	Lizzie No	Alternative Folk
131	Nebraska	Bruce Springsteen	Folk Rock
132	Billie Jean	Alexandr Misko	Alternative Folk
133	Glory Glory (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
134	Hit or Miss (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
135	Annie (feat. Erin Rae)	Rachel Baiman	Contemporary Folk
136	In the Morning	The Ballroom Thieves	Alternative Folk
137	Highway 64	Barrett Davis	Contemporary Folk
138	Carolina Still	Barrett Davis	Contemporary Folk
139	The Ballad of Aesop Fin	Barrett Davis	Contemporary Folk
140	Yard Sale	Ben Harper	Alternative Folk
141	Sinners and Saints	Karney	Folk Rock
142	If It Wasn't Broken	Sunny War	Contemporary Folk
143	More Than Friends (feat. Lainey Wilson)	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Contemporary Folk
144	I'm Just Sayin'	Judy Nazemetz	Contemporary Folk
145	The Shadow of the Bird	Judy Nazemetz	Contemporary Folk
146	Crying	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
147	Trust	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
148	Never Stop	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
149	Rainbow in the Dark	Karney	Folk Rock
150	Bear	Tim O'Brien	Contemporary Folk
151	Hand in My Pocket	Taylor Ashton	Contemporary Folk
152	Light of Angels	Mile Twelve	Contemporary Folk
153	The Fall	Gregory Alan Isakov	Contemporary Folk
154	From a Dying Rose	Todd Snider	Folk Rock
155	Home Again (feat. Oliver Wood & Jano Rix)	Jarrod Dickenson	Alternative Folk
156	Alton Air	Darrell Scott	Contemporary Folk
157	Burlesque Desert Window	Trampled by Turtles	Traditional Folk
158	Once in a Lifetime	Deer Tick	Alternative Folk
159	Don't Hold the Hurt to Make It Easy	Sheila K. Cameron	Contemporary Folk
160	Gold in California	Ellis Paul	Contemporary Folk
161	Worried Man Blues	Van Morrison	Alternative Folk
162	Getting There	Mark Mulholland	Folk Rock
163	Another End of a Year	Connor Garvey	Contemporary Folk
164	Headwater	Salt House	Contemporary Folk
165	Alcohallelujah	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Contemporary Folk
166	The Return (Love Comes Back)	Rose Cousins	Contemporary Folk
167	Stone's Throw	Nickel Creek	Contemporary Folk
168	The Best of Me	Bella White	Traditional Folk
169	Way over Yonder	The Small Glories	Contemporary Folk
170	White Chapel Woman	Annie Bartholomew	Contemporary Folk
171	Maria	Frances Luke Accord	Contemporary Folk
172	New Light	Claire Coupland	Contemporary Folk
173	Dead Horse Trail	Annie Bartholomew	Contemporary Folk
174	Father's Tools	Dave Gunning	Traditional Folk
175	White Horses	Darlingside	Folk Rock
176	Full Moon Rising	Alex Krawczyk	Alternative Folk
177	Hard Luck City	Malcolm Holcombe	Contemporary Folk
178	Pure Fool	Keith Rayburn	Alternative Folk
179	Everyone's Welcome Here	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
180	A Father's Love	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
181	Ain’t No Stopping Us Now	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
182	The Walls Come Tumbling Down	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
183	You Matter	Kerry Patrick Clark	Contemporary Folk
184	Shine	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
185	Jesse James	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
186	One More Change	Ben Harper	Alternative Folk
187	Killer Whale	Joanna Wallfisch	Folk Rock
188	Toner Från Vårt Karga Land	Kusinerna Riippa	Alternative Folk
189	Paranoid Heart	John Fullbright	Contemporary Folk
190	Growing Growing Gone	Ben Harper	Alternative Folk
191	Big Money Blues	Dom Flemons	Contemporary Folk
192	Elsie	Nickel Creek	Celtic
193	Dance on	Sheila K. Cameron	Contemporary Folk
194	Jump for Joy	Hiss Golden Messenger	Alternative Folk
195	If We Would Let It	Parker Millsap	Contemporary Folk
196	Art of Motion	Andy McKee	Contemporary Folk
197	Careless Whisper	Alexandr Misko	Alternative Folk
198	Stairway to Heaven	Lucas Imbiriba	Alternative Folk
199	Bartender's Blues	Tattletale Saints	Contemporary Folk
200	Beautiful Thing	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