The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Bluegrass Song Chart
for the Year of 2017
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who You Want Me to Be | Chris Jones & the Night Drivers |
| 2 | Let Me Know | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 3 | Here She Comes Again | Chris Hillman |
| 4 | Highway | The Gibson Brothers |
| 5 | Life to My Days | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
| 6 | In the Ground | The Gibson Brothers |
| 7 | Hilbilly Heroes | Hammertowne |
| 8 | Still Small Voice | Nu-Blu |
| 9 | Someday Soon | Darin & Brooke Aldridge |
| 10 | Keep It Between the Lines | Sturgill Simpson |
| 11 | Kingdom Come | Darin & Brooke Aldridge |
| 12 | A Fool and Her Heart | Nu-Blu |
| 13 | Daniel | Audie Blaylock and Redline |
| 14 | Kentucky Blue | Billy Droze |
| 15 | Wildflowers | Chris Hillman |
| 16 | They Call the Wind Maria (feat. Alison Brown, Sierra Hull & Stuart Duncan) | Bobby Osborne |
| 17 | The Road’s Salvation | The Lonely Heartstring Band |
| 18 | Going Through Carolina | Curtis Wright |
| 19 | Something About a Train | Valerie Smith |
| 20 | It's Worth Believin' (with Jerry Douglas) | Claire Lynch |
| 21 | Gimme All the Love You Got | Dailey & Vincent |
| 22 | Age (feat. Greg Blake) | The Savage Hearts |
| 23 | Who Will You Be (Acoustic Version) | Summer Brooke & Mountain Faith |
| 24 | Raining in Baltimore | Kim Robins |
| 25 | All Grassed Up | Eddy Raven |
| 26 | Bible and a Bus Ticket | Wildfire |
| 27 | Steamboat Whistle Blues (feat. Sam Bush) | Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper |
| 28 | Delia | The Grascals |
| 29 | I Like Trains | The Grascals |
| 30 | The Night Flatt & Scruggs Played Carnegie Hall | Jerry Salley |
| 31 | Rambling, Gambling Willie | The Lonely Heartstring Band |
| 32 | Two of Us | John Reischman & The Jaybirds |
| 33 | The More I Learn | Bryan Sutton |
| 34 | Long I Ride | Special Consensus |
| 35 | Sleepin' with the Reaper | The Grascals |
| 36 | Thunder and Lightning | The Lonesome River Band |
| 37 | Good Imitation of the Blues | The Cox Family |
| 38 | That Feel Good Music | Dailey & Vincent |
| 39 | Southern Memories | Dale Ann Bradley |
| 40 | Where I Stand | Old Salt Union |
| 41 | Always Do | O'Connor Band |
| 42 | Without Trouble Please | Donna Ulisse |
| 43 | Road of Life | The Grascals |
| 44 | Caroline | Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers |
| 45 | Coming Home | O'Connor Band |
| 46 | Rural Route | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet |
| 47 | Friend and a Friend | Molly Tuttle |
| 48 | Going Back to Bristol (feat. Shawn Camp) | Mac Wiseman |
| 49 | Good Enough | Molly Tuttle |
| 50 | Midnight 402 | Amanda Cook |
| 51 | Ain't Life Sweet | Rebekah Long |
| 52 | Nightbird | The Bankesters |
| 53 | Listen (feat. Joan Osborne) | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 54 | Life Stories | Special Consensus |
| 55 | Unholy Water | Sister Sadie |
| 56 | Fiddler's Dream | Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper |
| 57 | What Am I Gonna Do with This Broken Heart | Lawson & Williams |
| 58 | No Rhyme or Reason | Amanda Cook |
| 59 | Office Supplies | Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers |
| 60 | To Whom It May Concern | Billy Droze |
| 61 | I'll Still Write Your Name in the Sand | Lawson & Williams |
| 62 | I'm Going Home | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet |
| 63 | Showing My Age | The Lonesome River Band |
| 64 | Cold Rain | Breaking Grass |
| 65 | The Road That Winds | Audie Blaylock and Redline |
| 66 | The Bridges That You've Burned | Nu-Blu |
| 67 | Speakin' to That Mountain | Becky Buller |
| 68 | Just in Case | Bobby Osborne |
| 69 | Where I Came from | Nothin' Fancy |
| 70 | Fishin' on the Cumberland | Rebekah Long |
| 71 | Foggy Mountain Top | Corrina Rose Logston |
| 72 | Kentucky Borderline | Rhonda Vincent |
| 73 | I Found a Church Today | The Gibson Brothers |
| 74 | My Blue Hula Girl | Peter Rowan |
| 75 | Crossing over Black Mountain | Thomm Jutz |
| 76 | Sing a Bluegrass Song | The Garrett Newton Band |
| 77 | She Don’t Care About Time | Chris Hillman |
| 78 | Jimmy, J.D. & Paul | Junior Sisk |
| 79 | Somewhere Bound (feat. Buddy Melton, Milan Miller & Andrea Zohn) | Mac Wiseman |
| 80 | Unwanted Love (feat. Jeff White & Vince Gill) | Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper |
| 81 | Highway of Heartache | Darin & Brooke Aldridge |
| 82 | Making Good Time | The Gibson Brothers |
| 83 | Back Home Feelin' Again | Donna Ulisse |
| 84 | Hobo on a Train | Lou Reid & Carolina |
| 85 | Annie | Breaking Grass |
| 86 | Get Up John | The Price Sisters |
| 87 | Tall Pines | Volume Five |
| 88 | I'm Sorry I Caused You to Cry | Lawson & Williams |
| 89 | House of Cards | Breaking Grass |
| 90 | The Guitar (feat. Sierra Hull & Justin Moses) | Mac Wiseman |
| 91 | Stone Cold Blue | Kim Robins |
| 92 | All I Can Do | Sister Sadie |
| 93 | When I Get a Little Money | Chris Hillman |
| 94 | Santa Fe | Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers |
| 95 | As Lonesome As I Am | The Lonesome River Band |
| 96 | Ain't No Grave | Wilson Banjo Co. |
| 97 | Moody Blue | Holly Norman |
| 98 | Foxhounds | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 99 | Your Train Don't Stop Here Anymore | Kristy Cox |
| 100 | Bluegrass Dollars | Valerie Smith |
| 101 | Upper Big Branch Mine (feat. Becky Webb Monk, Chris Monk, Wesley Wolfe, Evan Maynard & Cody Bauer) | Bluegrass Outlaws |
| 102 | On the Water | Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers |
| 103 | Calamity Jane | Becky Buller |
| 104 | Friend of Mine | The Gibson Brothers |
| 105 | I've Gotta Get a Message to You (feat. Alison Brown, Claire Lynch, Rob Ickes, Sierra Hull, Stuart Duncan & Trey Hensley) | Bobby Osborne |
| 106 | White Water Train | Thomm Jutz |
| 107 | Hammer Down | Feller & Hill |
| 108 | Cousin Sally Brown | Audie Blaylock and Redline |
| 109 | Red Grass | Ilya Toshinskiy |
| 110 | The Heart You've Been Tending | NewTown |
| 111 | You're Still to Blame | Flashback |
| 112 | I Took Mama to the Opry | Valerie Smith |
| 113 | Black Flowers | Claire Lynch |
| 114 | Boston Town | Della Mae |
| 115 | Simple Math (feat. Jim Lauderdale) | Mac Wiseman |
| 116 | Old Swinging Bridge | The Lonesome River Band |
| 117 | You're the One | Flatt Lonesome |
| 118 | Three Cows & Two Horses (feat. Buddy Melton, Milan Miller & Andrea Zohn) | Mac Wiseman |
| 119 | Mountains in Mississippi | Darin & Brooke Aldridge |
| 120 | Train of Trouble | Lou Reid & Carolina |
| 121 | Lightning in a Jar | Molly Tuttle |
| 122 | Over the Divide | Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn |
| 123 | Let It Rain | Donna Ulisse |
| 124 | No Regrets | Bluegrass Outlaws |
| 125 | All About the Banjo | Rhonda Vincent |
| 126 | Our Last Goodbye | Dale Ann Bradley |
| 127 | Gravity | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 128 | Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man? | O'Connor Band |
| 129 | Walking in the Blueridge | Junior Sisk |
| 130 | Goodbye Wheeling (feat. Del McCoury, Josh Williams & Ronnie McCoury) | Bobby Osborne |
| 131 | You Didn't Call My Name | Molly Tuttle |
| 132 | Remember Who You Are | The Gibson Brothers |
| 133 | Made for Each Other | Donna Ulisse |
| 134 | You Light My Way | Zoe & Cloyd |
| 135 | Banks of Big Bend | Amanda Cook |
| 136 | Hard Line | Old Salt Union |
| 137 | Today Has Been a Lonesome Day | John Reischman & The Jaybirds |
| 138 | Harlan Road | NewTown |
| 139 | Look What I'm Trading for a Mansion | Sister Sadie |
| 140 | I'm Ragged but I'm Right | Rex Wiseman |
| 141 | That Old County Road | Shannon Slaughter |
| 142 | Save This Heart | Molly Tuttle |
| 143 | Faith Moved a Mountain | Breaking Grass |
| 144 | Tis Sweet to Be Remembered (feat. Alison Krauss) | Mac Wiseman |
| 145 | Run Mississippi | Rhonda Vincent |
| 146 | Blue Skies | Mountain Heart |
| 147 | Ride and Roll | Audie Blaylock and Redline |
| 148 | Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss | The Lonesome River Band |
| 149 | Runnin' from the Law | Jenni Lyn |
| 150 | I Need to Be Heard (feat. Lisa Shaffer & Tim Stafford) | Doug Flowers |
| 151 | This Ol' Building | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 152 | Manganese Mine (feat. Shawn Camp) | Mac Wiseman |
| 153 | Til Death Do Us Part | Lawson & Williams |
| 154 | Now Forever's Gone | Sister Sadie |
| 155 | Hickory Hollow Times & County News | The Lonesome River Band |
| 156 | Fireball (feat. Rob Ickes, Trey Hensley & Alison Brown) | Special Consensus |
| 157 | This Letter | Edgar Loudermilk Band |
| 158 | When Someone Wants to Leave | Stuart Wyrick |
| 159 | Raging Storms (feat. Becky Webb Monk, Chris Monk, Wesley Wolfe, Evan Maynard & Cody Bauer) | Bluegrass Outlaws |
| 160 | Cabin on a Mountain | Becky Buller |
| 161 | Ready for the Times to Get Better | Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road |
| 162 | I See a Heartbreak Comin' | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
| 163 | A Day in the Life of the One Left Behind | Hammertowne |
| 164 | They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy Anymore | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet |
| 165 | Fast Air | Zoe & Cloyd |
| 166 | Demons | The Grascals |
| 167 | Is the Grass Any Bluer (On the Other Side) | Rhonda Vincent |
| 168 | Kiss an Angel Good Morning | Nothin' Fancy |
| 169 | I Run to You | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 170 | Mansion on Main | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet |
| 171 | I Will Someday | Curtis Wright |
| 172 | On This Winding Road | Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn |
| 173 | What Does the Deep Sea Say? | The Price Sisters |
| 174 | Barefoot Till After the Frost | Mac Wiseman |
| 175 | Hills for the Head | Bryan Sutton |
| 176 | Walk Right Back | Chris Hillman |
| 177 | On My Way Back to You | Claybank |
| 178 | Rock Bottom | The Lonesome River Band |
| 179 | Louisville Rambler | Hammertowne |
| 180 | Young Heart Old Soul | The Garrett Newton Band |
| 181 | Home Again | Wildfire |
| 182 | I'm Dreaming of You | The Boxcars |
| 183 | I Am a Drifter | Volume Five |
| 184 | Dig in the Dirt | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet |
| 185 | I Need You Like That | The Bankesters |
| 186 | It Happens | Curtis Wright |
| 187 | Abigail | Lawson & Williams |
| 188 | Journey of Faith | Cedar Hill |
| 189 | I'm Getting over You | Lawson & Williams |
| 190 | You Can Call Me Al | Old Salt Union |
| 191 | Wellesley Station | John Reischman & The Jaybirds |
| 192 | There's Absolutely Nothing My God Can't Do | Lawson & Williams |
| 193 | Ida Red | The Lonesome River Band |
| 194 | The Love That We'd Once Known | Kim Robins |
| 195 | Bells of Rhymney | Chris Hillman |
| 196 | Carolina Wind | Irene Kelley |
| 197 | Father Nelson | Tim Stafford |
| 198 | Truck Drivin' | Mike Bentley & Cumberland Gap Connection |
| 199 | Mixed Up Mess of a Heart | Flatt Lonesome |
| 200 | I'm Not Your Honey-Baby Now | Kathy Kallick Band |
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