The Roots Music Report's
Top Americana Country Song Chart
for the Year of 2017
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broken Halos | Chris Stapleton |
| 2 | Let's Get Drunk | The Honeycutters |
| 3 | Radio | Reckless Kelly |
| 4 | Hey Karma | Michael Gaither |
| 5 | Rattlesnake | Dolly Shine |
| 6 | Shoot the Moon | Roger Street Friedman |
| 7 | Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (Live) | Old Crow Medicine Show |
| 8 | This Changes Everything | Jim Lauderdale |
| 9 | Bottom of the Sea | Sean McConnell |
| 10 | Promise the World | Son Volt |
| 11 | Deeper Down | Gurf Morlix |
| 12 | A Place in Your Heart | Ray Davies |
| 13 | Lucky Penny | JD McPherson |
| 14 | Short Hair Woman | Justin Townes Earle |
| 15 | Worth the Fight | Austin Hanks |
| 16 | Bluebonnet Highway | Vandoliers |
| 17 | Back Against the Wall | Son Volt |
| 18 | Better Than You Found It | Tyller Gummersall |
| 19 | Already Gone | Slaid Cleaves |
| 20 | Desperate Love | JD McPherson |
| 21 | Ghost of Myself | The Steel Wheels |
| 22 | Lucky I Am | Jared Tyler |
| 23 | Fight for Love | Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors |
| 24 | Solving Problems | Brent Cobb |
| 25 | Old Motel | Jack Ingram |
| 26 | So You Wannabe an Outlaw | Steve Earle |
| 27 | If I Can't Resist | Jim Lauderdale |
| 28 | One Last Time | Sara Watkins |
| 29 | Hard to Please | The Black Lillies |
| 30 | Circuit Rider | Jim Chesnut |
| 31 | Fishbowl | Driftwood |
| 32 | The Angel Mary and the Rounder Jim | Rick Shea & The Losin' End |
| 33 | Lookin' for a Woman | Steve Earle |
| 34 | Paid My Dues (feat. Jack Ingram) | Bruce Robison & The Back Porch Band |
| 35 | Wrote You off | No Good Sister |
| 36 | Elmore James | Tim Easton |
| 37 | The Town Where I Live | Rick Shea & The Losin' End |
| 38 | Way Back | Coral Creek |
| 39 | Must Be a Reason | Pokey LaFarge |
| 40 | Second One to Know | Chris Stapleton |
| 41 | It Takes What It Takes | Lauren Adams |
| 42 | Reckless Heart | Bap Kennedy |
| 43 | Sea of Lights | Boo Ray |
| 44 | You Are So Wonderful | Jim Chesnut |
| 45 | Traveller | Chris Stapleton |
| 46 | California | Robert Ellis |
| 47 | The Year We Tried to Kill the Pain | Bob Woodruff |
| 48 | California Callin' | Bill Wence |
| 49 | Diamond in the Rough | Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters |
| 50 | Up to No Good Livin' | Chris Stapleton |
| 51 | Old Machine | Fred Eaglesmith |
| 52 | Heck Yeah, Dang Right | Big State |
| 53 | Cabin in the Sky | Roy Schneider |
| 54 | Champagne Corolla | Justin Townes Earle |
| 55 | 8 Degrees in Reno | Ron Christopher |
| 56 | Either Way | Chris Stapleton |
| 57 | Kamikaze Heart | Paul Nipper |
| 58 | The Blackest Cloud | Amy Black |
| 59 | Me Oh My | Greg Wickham |
| 60 | Young As We Will Ever Be | Will Hoge |
| 61 | Different Kind of Groove Some Time | Jim Lauderdale |
| 62 | Same Kind of Blue | Sam Baker |
| 63 | Always Turn Around | Sera Cahoone |
| 64 | Thorn | Kelly's Lot |
| 65 | Still Crazy After All These Years | Robert Ellis |
| 66 | Eden | Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters |
| 67 | A Little More You and a Little Less Me | Jim Chesnut |
| 68 | Trouble | Sam Outlaw |
| 69 | Savage on the Downhill | Amber Cross |
| 70 | Yellow Rose of Santa Fe | Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors |
| 71 | Birthday Song | Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters |
| 72 | It Don't Feel Like Leaving | Surrender Hill |
| 73 | The Long, Long Road | Allan Frank |
| 74 | Always Wrong from the Start | Eileen Kozloff |
| 75 | Rock 'N' Roll Cowboys | Ray Davies |
| 76 | Forever on My Mind | Randy Thompson |
| 77 | Rodeo Queen | Mike Younger |
| 78 | I Got a Song | Allan Frank |
| 79 | San Francisco Angel | Silver Lake 66 |
| 80 | Home | JJ McGuigan |
| 81 | What's She Crying for | Justin Townes Earle |
| 82 | Mental Cruelty (feat. Kacey Musgraves) | John Prine |
| 83 | Into the West | Ron Christopher |
| 84 | Red Clay Halo (Revival Outtake) | Gillian Welch |
| 85 | Heart of Love | Phoebe Legere |
| 86 | The Woman in the Wings | Andy May |
| 87 | Just Wait and See | Mark Heyes |
| 88 | Sparrows | Matt Patershuk |
| 89 | Riot in the Streets | Pokey LaFarge |
| 90 | Reasons | Mike Amabile |
| 91 | Cowboy's Blessing | Adam Mitchell |
| 92 | Me Time | Grant Maloy Smith |
| 93 | On the Ropes | The Honeycutters |
| 94 | What's the Matter with Me | Moot Davis |
| 95 | The Only Game in Town | Gill Landry |
| 96 | Train in the Distance | Don Henley |
| 97 | Give It Away Again | MJ Bishop |
| 98 | Paper Wings (Alternate Mix) | Gillian Welch |
| 99 | What I Wanna Be | Jacob Davis |
| 100 | Quick to Fire | Vandoliers |
| 101 | I'm Gone | Matt Urmy |
| 102 | Miss Edie | Ryan Koenig |
| 103 | Perfect Strangers | Robert Ellis |
| 104 | Puffs of Smoke | Roger Street Friedman |
| 105 | Spin Me Round | Mipso |
| 106 | Mr. & Mrs. Used to Be (feat. Iris DeMent) | John Prine |
| 107 | Tomorrow | Roger Street Friedman |
| 108 | Pretty Flowers | The Texas Gentlemen |
| 109 | The Rocky Road | Chris Gardner |
| 110 | Everyday | Roger Street Friedman |
| 111 | The Words | Nora Jane Struthers |
| 112 | All I Need is You | Eddy Mann |
| 113 | Falling in Love Again (feat. Alison Krauss) | John Prine |
| 114 | Drivin' | Robert Ellis |
| 115 | Watching from a Distance | David Ramirez |
| 116 | Absolutely Sweet Marie (Live) | Old Crow Medicine Show |
| 117 | Real Love | Claudia Gibson |
| 118 | Seven Years | Mike Amabile |
| 119 | Never Say Never | Mike Laureanno |
| 120 | House of Broken Dreams | Amy Speace |
| 121 | Hideaway | Roger Street Friedman |
| 122 | She's Gone | MJ Bishop |
| 123 | Country in the City | Lesley Kernochan |
| 124 | I Come from America | Grant Maloy Smith |
| 125 | Honky Tonk Baby | Bap Kennedy |
| 126 | No Daylight | Born n' Bred |
| 127 | Dry Town (Demo) | Gillian Welch |
| 128 | I Wish You Were Beer | Kevin Fisher |
| 129 | Barroom Girls (Live Radio) | Gillian Welch |
| 130 | Graceland on the Line | Marty Rhone |
| 131 | Parachute | Chris Stapleton |
| 132 | Polka Dots and Moonbeams | Bob Dylan |
| 133 | They Can't Take That Away from Me | Willie Nelson |
| 134 | Zombie | Langhorne Slim |
| 135 | Somewhere else | Lauren Adams |
| 136 | Never Seen the Rain | Grant Maloy Smith |
| 137 | Drunken Barber's Hand | Slaid Cleaves |
| 138 | Deep in the Everglades | Allan Frank |
| 139 | Storms | Merlot Embargo |
| 140 | Chalk It Up | Steve Hussey |
| 141 | Shirley Jean | Kiefer Sutherland |
| 142 | Wonderin' Where | Joe Ely |
| 143 | Penny | Elise Davis |
| 144 | A Night in Buffalo | Allan Frank |
| 145 | Lift Me Up | Allan Frank |
| 146 | A Little Pain | Margo Price |
| 147 | Barricade | Elijah Ocean |
| 148 | Shadows in the Sun | Ellie Zwart |
| 149 | Mojo | Robert Cline Jr. |
| 150 | Treasure | Edge Of The West |
| 151 | Boss of Bad Decisions | Shoebox Letters |
| 152 | T for Texas (with Lyle Lovett) | Robert Earl Keen |
| 153 | My Town | Michael Reno Harrell |
| 154 | I Feel Nothing | Surrender Hill |
| 155 | Lonely Women Make Good Lovers | The Revelers |
| 156 | Old Time Religion (Revival Outtake) | Gillian Welch |
| 157 | What We've Got | Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters |
| 158 | Hot Knuckle Blues | Matt Patershuk |
| 159 | Let's Rock | Bill Kirchen & Austin de Lone |
| 160 | Somewhere I Went Right | Michael Gaither |
| 161 | Light Turns to Day | Steven Graves |
| 162 | Staying Away from Joe | The Hooten Hallers |
| 163 | Black Crow | Brent Cobb |
| 164 | Sing Along | Robert Ellis |
| 165 | Fallin Rain | Karl Blau |
| 166 | My Town | Lee Palmer |
| 167 | On Saturday and Sunday | Michael Gaither |
| 168 | Lies I Chose to Believe | John Moreland |
| 169 | Maybe a Moment | Justin Townes Earle |
| 170 | Ease My Mind | Michaela Anne |
| 171 | Little Angels Everywhere | Michael Gaither |
| 172 | Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Loud, Loud Music (feat. Amanda Shires) | John Prine |
| 173 | That's How I Got to Memphis | Karl Blau |
| 174 | Ladybug | Sera Cahoone |
| 175 | It's Nothing Personal (The Layoff Song) | Michael Gaither |
| 176 | Seminole Wind | Lauren Adams |
| 177 | Troubled Man | Simon Kinny-Lewis |
| 178 | Find It in the Next Town | Simon Kinny-Lewis |
| 179 | Same Old Face | Simon Kinny-Lewis |
| 180 | Only Love | Simon Kinny-Lewis |
| 181 | I Don't Want to Go Downtown (Revival Outtake) | Gillian Welch |
| 182 | The Ghost for You | Lines West |
| 183 | Something in the Water | Pokey LaFarge |
| 184 | News from Colorado | Steve Earle |
| 185 | Still a Child | Dori Freeman |
| 186 | I Wanna Find out | Mike Beck |
| 187 | A Long Way Home | The Good Intentions |
| 188 | In All Honesty (feat. Scott Spriggs) | JJ McGuigan |
| 189 | Pledging My Time (Live) | Old Crow Medicine Show |
| 190 | Churches and Honkytonks | KasCie Page |
| 191 | Love Remains Unbroken | Gurf Morlix |
| 192 | We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This | Jim Lauderdale |
| 193 | Benghazi | Rowdy House |
| 194 | Tears for 2 | Shoebox Letters |
| 195 | I'm Old (Amy's Song) | Judy Nazemetz |
| 196 | Dirt Road | Tim Hassler |
| 197 | She Darked the Sun | John McEuen |
| 198 | He Called Me Baby | Lee Ann Womack |
| 199 | Move Someone | Gurf Morlix |
| 200 | If I Was a Wheel | Mike Younger |
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