The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Bluegrass Song Chart
for the Year of 2018
| 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 | Way Down the River Road | Special Consensus |
| 5 | Losing You Blues | Sister Sadie |
| 6 | Calamity Jane | Becky Buller |
| 7 | Friend and a Friend | Molly Tuttle |
| 8 | My Blue Hula Girl | Peter Rowan |
| 9 | Dark Side of the Mountain | Unspoken Tradition |
| 10 | Back Home Feelin' Again | Donna Ulisse |
| 11 | Delia | The Grascals |
| 12 | She Took the Tennessee River (feat. Bobby Osborne) | Special Consensus |
| 13 | Queen of Carolina | Claybank |
| 14 | Sleepin' with the Reaper | The Grascals |
| 15 | Wildflowers | Chris Hillman |
| 16 | Steam | Deeper Shade Of Blue |
| 17 | Kingpin | Wood & Wire |
| 18 | Annie | Breaking Grass |
| 19 | Ricochet | Kristy Cox |
| 20 | To Whom It May Concern | Billy Droze |
| 21 | Life to My Days | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
| 22 | Mayhayley's House | The Lonesome River Band |
| 23 | Speakin' to That Mountain | Becky Buller |
| 24 | Bend in the Road | Chris Jones & the Night Drivers |
| 25 | Wreck of My Heart | The Lonesome River Band |
| 26 | Fly Away | NewTown |
| 27 | South to North Carolina | Kristy Cox |
| 28 | Lawrence County Seat | Larry Cordle |
| 29 | Three | Wildfire |
| 30 | The Night Flatt & Scruggs Played Carnegie Hall | Jerry Salley |
| 31 | Yardbird | Larry Cordle |
| 32 | Something to Lose | Sister Sadie |
| 33 | Such is the World That We Live in | Chris Hillman |
| 34 | Lightning Rod | Nightflyer |
| 35 | Where's a Train when You Need One | Claybank |
| 36 | Midnight 402 | Amanda Cook |
| 37 | Something About a Train Sound | Irene Kelley |
| 38 | Papa Wants to Go Back | Nothin' Fancy |
| 39 | Speak Love | The Family Sowell |
| 40 | Hurting Sure (feat. Molly Tuttle) | Special Consensus |
| 41 | Stoney Mae (feat. Ronnie Bowman) | Deanie Richardson |
| 42 | Hilbilly Heroes | Hammertowne |
| 43 | We've Got the Love Thing Figured out | Donna Ulisse |
| 44 | She Don’t Care About Time | Chris Hillman |
| 45 | Umbrella (Acoustic Version) | Summer Brooke & Mountain Faith |
| 46 | Southern Memories | Dale Ann Bradley |
| 47 | Calling Elvis | The Lonesome River Band |
| 48 | Whole Lotta Laying Around | Chris Roberts |
| 49 | Happy Together | The Grascals |
| 50 | Swept Away (feat. Alison Brown, Becky Buller, Molly Tuttle & Sierra Hull) | Missy Raines |
| 51 | Can't Get Home | Steep Canyon Rangers |
| 52 | Another Love Gone Wrong | Becky Buller |
| 53 | Going Back to Kentucky | Dale Ann Bradley |
| 54 | Feelin' Bad Blues | Ry Cooder |
| 55 | Looks Like Losing You | Volume Five |
| 56 | I Can Almost Smell the Smoke | Kristy Cox |
| 57 | Good Enough | Molly Tuttle |
| 58 | That Feel Good Music | Dailey & Vincent |
| 59 | Caroline | Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers |
| 60 | Where I Stand | Old Salt Union |
| 61 | Bluegrass Junction | Larry Cordle |
| 62 | Coal Fed Train | Billy Droze |
| 63 | I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow | High Fidelity |
| 64 | I See a Heartbreak Comin' | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
| 65 | We Might Get a Little Loud | Flashback |
| 66 | Baby | The Cleverlys |
| 67 | Two of Us | John Reischman & The Jaybirds |
| 68 | Just Me Leaving | Kristy Cox |
| 69 | Coon Dog Cemetery | Milan Miller |
| 70 | Naomi Wise | NewTown |
| 71 | Walk Right Back | Chris Hillman |
| 72 | It's a Good Feeling | Nothin' Fancy |
| 73 | Kids These Days | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
| 74 | Laura Lee | NewTown |
| 75 | New Cut Road | McKay & Leigh |
| 76 | That Old County Road | Shannon Slaughter |
| 77 | Written in the Back of the Book | Becky Buller |
| 78 | Heartbreak Hall of Fame | The Grascals |
| 79 | Come See About Me | The Mountain Home Family |
| 80 | No Smoky Mountains | Sister Sadie |
| 81 | She Loved Sunflowers | Becky Buller |
| 82 | Boeing Boeing 707 | Chris Roberts |
| 83 | Moonshine | Flashback |
| 84 | Front Porch Philosophy | Jerry Salley |
| 85 | Lessons I've Learned | The Railsplitters |
| 86 | Bitter Springs to Big Trees | Becky Buller |
| 87 | All Grassed Up | Eddy Raven |
| 88 | Life of a Hard Workin' Man | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
| 89 | Raining in Baltimore | Kim Robins |
| 90 | I'll Just Go Away (feat. Vince Gill) | Dale Ann Bradley |
| 91 | Love's Raining Down | Deer Creek Boys |
| 92 | Raven Tresses | Kristi Stanley |
| 93 | Fall at Your Feet | Trout Steak Revival |
| 94 | The Hills and Home | High Fidelity |
| 95 | Free | Williamson Branch |
| 96 | Kids | The Hillbenders |
| 97 | Over & over | Nothin' Fancy |
| 98 | Timepiece | Milan Miller |
| 99 | Cumberland Plateau | Darin & Brooke Aldridge |
| 100 | Derailed | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
| 101 | Without Trouble Please | Donna Ulisse |
| 102 | I Can't Breathe Deep Yet | The Gibson Brothers |
| 103 | Country Boy (feat. Alison Brown, Sierra Hull & Stuart Duncan) | Bobby Osborne |
| 104 | You Can't Outrun the River | Shannon Slaughter |
| 105 | A New Spin on an Old Heartache | Jerry Salley |
| 106 | Midnight & Dawn | Deer Creek Boys |
| 107 | Raging Rivers (feat. Marija Droze) | Billy Droze |
| 108 | Rain Won't Quit (feat. Ronnie Bowman) | Billy Droze |
| 109 | Hillbilly Graham | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet |
| 110 | Nightbird | The Bankesters |
| 111 | The Girl I Love | Shannon Slaughter |
| 112 | Thin Blue Line | Jerry Salley |
| 113 | Glory Bound | The Wooks |
| 114 | The Lonesome Cry of the Whipporwill | Volume Five |
| 115 | Bluegrass Blues | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
| 116 | Milwaukee Blues | David Davis & The Warrior River Boys |
| 117 | A Little Past Lonely | Donna Ulisse |
| 118 | She's Not the One | Nothin' Fancy |
| 119 | Demons | The Grascals |
| 120 | Paralyzed | Deer Creek Boys |
| 121 | Gotta Get You Near Me Blues | High Fidelity |
| 122 | Bluegrass State of Mind | Backline |
| 123 | Drive This Cold out of Me | Donna Ulisse |
| 124 | Every Time You Leave | Darin & Brooke Aldridge |
| 125 | This is My Year for Mexico | Dale Ann Bradley |
| 126 | Don't Leave Him Hangin' | Crowe Brothers |
| 127 | Crossing over Black Mountain | Thomm Jutz |
| 128 | Baton Rouge | Dailey & Vincent |
| 129 | Santa Fe | Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers |
| 130 | Nobody Knows | Breaking Grass |
| 131 | Little Girl | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
| 132 | Driving Nails | Wildfire |
| 133 | Fiddler's Dream | Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper |
| 134 | Blackberry Summer | Dale Ann Bradley |
| 135 | My Quiet Mind | The Gibson Brothers |
| 136 | If That's the Way You Feel | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 137 | Tell Me You're Not Leaving | Volume Five |
| 138 | You Didn't Call My Name | Molly Tuttle |
| 139 | Love is a Cross and Three Nails | Shannon Slaughter |
| 140 | He Rambled | David Davis & The Warrior River Boys |
| 141 | Til I'm Too Old | Amanda Cook |
| 142 | Free World | Missy Raines |
| 143 | Clear Corn Liquor | The Grascals |
| 144 | No Regrets | Bluegrass Outlaws |
| 145 | Making Good Time | The Gibson Brothers |
| 146 | Dusty Gravel Road | The Family Sowell |
| 147 | Lynchburg Chicken Run | The Grascals |
| 148 | John D. Champion | Becky Buller |
| 149 | Haunted by the Wind | Billy Droze |
| 150 | I'm in a Hurry to Go Nowhere | Donna Ulisse |
| 151 | The Lamb, Lion, and King | Volume Five |
| 152 | Straight from the Heart | Backline |
| 153 | My Honey Lou | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 154 | Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss | The Lonesome River Band |
| 155 | Put Some Bluegrass in My Ear | Deeper Shade Of Blue |
| 156 | He Moved a Mountain | Shannon Slaughter |
| 157 | The Bad Grounds | Mountain Heart |
| 158 | Queen Anne's Revenge (Acoustic Version) | Summer Brooke & Mountain Faith |
| 159 | Big River | Special Consensus |
| 160 | Now and then (Dreams Do Come True) | Dale Ann Bradley |
| 161 | Lost & Lonesome | The Grascals |
| 162 | Hammer Down | Feller & Hill |
| 163 | Girl from River Run | Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers |
| 164 | Kentucky Borderline | Rhonda Vincent |
| 165 | Muleskinner Blues | Rhonda Vincent |
| 166 | What Am I Gonna Do with This Broken Heart | Lawson & Williams |
| 167 | Our Last Goodbye | Dale Ann Bradley |
| 168 | Cry Cry Darlin' | Amanda Cook |
| 169 | Every Time I Fall Asleep | Rebekah Long |
| 170 | Little Bessie | Borrowed Tyme Band |
| 171 | Waking Up with You | Breaking Grass |
| 172 | Allegheny Town | Missy Raines |
| 173 | The Love That We'd Once Known | Kim Robins |
| 174 | On This Winding Road | Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn |
| 175 | The Bridges That You've Burned | Nu-Blu |
| 176 | We Are Strong | Donna Ulisse |
| 177 | I'll Be Loving You | Kim Robins |
| 178 | You Can Call Me Al | Old Salt Union |
| 179 | Never Say Never | Kristi Stanley |
| 180 | Catfish John | Wilson Banjo Co. |
| 181 | Banks of Big Bend | Amanda Cook |
| 182 | Caleb Meyer | Amanda Cook |
| 183 | My Saviour's Train | High Fidelity |
| 184 | I'll Turn My Back | Volume Five |
| 185 | Boston Town | Della Mae |
| 186 | Land | Unspoken Tradition |
| 187 | Mom's Old Picture Book | Lou Reid & Carolina |
| 188 | Lonesome Bone | The Lonesome River Band |
| 189 | Deep Waters | The Lonely Heartstring Band |
| 190 | By His Hands | Brandon Rickman |
| 191 | Carolina Wind | Irene Kelley |
| 192 | Young Love Never Grows Old | Kristy Cox |
| 193 | The Heart You've Been Tending | NewTown |
| 194 | All About the Banjo | Rhonda Vincent |
| 195 | You Don't Love God (If You Don't Love Your Neighbor) | Rhonda Vincent |
| 196 | Fool's Hill | The Gibson Brothers |
| 197 | I'm Sorry I Caused You to Cry | Lawson & Williams |
| 198 | Rural Route | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet |
| 199 | I've Gotta Get a Message to You (feat. Alison Brown, Claire Lynch, Rob Ickes, Sierra Hull, Stuart Duncan & Trey Hensley) | Bobby Osborne |
| 200 | Stone Cold Blue | Kim Robins |
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