The Roots Music Report's
Top True Country Song Chart
for the Year of 2016
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Better Place | Richard Lynch |
| 2 | There's No End to the Sky | Jim Lauderdale |
| 3 | Uncle Joe | Lee Sims |
| 4 | Coming out of Clouds | Scott Sparks |
| 5 | Rag Top Baby | Lee Sims |
| 6 | Walking into Walls | Eddie Beavers |
| 7 | Tonight We Ride | Lee Sims |
| 8 | Doing the Best | Tony Watson |
| 9 | My Texas Dance Hall Girl | Doctor G and the Mudcats |
| 10 | Mountain Songbird | Stella Parton |
| 11 | Lonesome Ol Guitar | John Riggins |
| 12 | Holding Up the Sun | Danny Click |
| 13 | Living in the Country | Michael Hall |
| 14 | Last Dance | Bourbon Express |
| 15 | The River | TJ Leonard |
| 16 | Summer Winds | James Marvell |
| 17 | Thirty-Nine Years | Michael Stosic |
| 18 | Someone Like You | Chad Reinert |
| 19 | Hot Road out of Arkansas | Scott Sparks |
| 20 | Spy Drone Bounty | Rowdy House |
| 21 | Saturday Night | Sam Austin |
| 22 | Texas Swing | RONNY COLLINS |
| 23 | Dime Store Cowgirl | Kacey Musgraves |
| 24 | Purple Rain | Dwight Yoakam |
| 25 | Up on That Hill | TJ Leonard |
| 26 | Cup of Tea | Kacey Musgraves |
| 27 | Listen | Dwight Yoakam |
| 28 | The Last Lie | Wyley Randall |
| 29 | Texas Girl | Lee Sims |
| 30 | Summer Fall | Lee Sims |
| 31 | Two April Fools | Tom Cunningham |
| 32 | Kayla Ann | Josh Christina |
| 33 | The Cloth | Irlene Mandrell |
| 34 | Real Heroes | Leverton Brothers |
| 35 | A Day of Reckoning | Joyce Shaffer |
| 36 | My Marie | Bobby G Rice |
| 37 | Did You Say That You're from Texas | MICHAEL B ROWE |
| 38 | I've Got Lovin on My Mind | MICHAEL B ROWE |
| 39 | She's Giving Him the Best Years of My Life | Dennis Ledbetter |
| 40 | Honkytonk Savings Time | Eddie Beavers |
| 41 | I Remember | Chris Bellamy |
| 42 | Fade Away | Eddie Beavers |
| 43 | Take Me High | Eddie Beavers |
| 44 | After All the Good is Gone | Jim Russ |
| 45 | My Field of Dreams | Joe Schmidt |
| 46 | I Love You More when You're Not at Home Feat. Mack Jackson and Larry Robinson | Dennis Ledbetter |
| 47 | Honkytonk Girl | Eddie Beavers |
| 48 | I've Got to Change | Stonewall Jackson |
| 49 | Amos Moses | Chris Bellamy |
| 50 | Texas in Another Life | Lonnie Spiker |
| 51 | What I Don't Know | Dwight Yoakam |
| 52 | Cherokee Rose | Dolly Dunn |
| 53 | Second Hand Heart | Dwight Yoakam |
| 54 | Which Wine Goes with My Heartache | Bourbon Express |
| 55 | Wine Country | Andy Joe Stewart |
| 56 | Dreams of Clay | Dwight Yoakam |
| 57 | Y'all Girls (Templeton Rye Whiskey) | Jake McVey |
| 58 | I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink (Re-Recorded) | Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard |
| 59 | Tarzan Houdini | Jim Lauderdale |
| 60 | All Around You | Sturgill Simpson |
| 61 | All Blue | Luke Bell |
| 62 | Kentucky Rain | Chad Reinert |
| 63 | In Bloom | Sturgill Simpson |
| 64 | Heaven's Gonna Have a Honky Tonk | Dale Watson |
| 65 | Are You Sure (feat. Willie Nelson) [Hidden Track] | Kacey Musgraves |
| 66 | Your Man | Josh Turner |
| 67 | Timing is Everything | Jim Lauderdale |
| 68 | One Big Company | Jim Lauderdale |
| 69 | Texas Honky Tonk | Larry M Clark |
| 70 | Bubbafied | Chris Bellamy |
| 71 | Don't Be So Gone | Jim Lauderdale |
| 72 | Soul Searching | Jim Lauderdale |
| 73 | Guitars, Cadillacs | Dwight Yoakam |
| 74 | Reflections of a Fool | Shavonne |
| 75 | I Don't Hurt As Much As I Used to | Jerry Schmitt |
| 76 | I Like It Here | Don Vigo |
| 77 | Give Me Everything He Doesn't Want | J. K. Coltrain |
| 78 | Troubadour (feat. Kerry Wallace) | J. K. Coltrain |
| 79 | Somebody's Angel | J. K. Coltrain |
| 80 | Grandma | Don Vigo |
| 81 | Drink Until I Drop | Jerry Schmitt |
| 82 | With a Bottle and a Can | Jerry Schmitt |
| 83 | 100 Miles | Jerry Schmitt |
| 84 | A Little Light | Sturgill Simpson |
| 85 | She's Got Me Drinkin' Again (With Billy Yates) | Richard Lynch |
| 86 | Learning to Dance | Craig Wayne Boyd |
| 87 | That Guy | Colin Axxxwell |
| 88 | Daddy's Radio | Richard Lynch |
| 89 | Last One on My Mind | Jerry Schmitt |
| 90 | For the Good Times | Jim Russ |
| 91 | Grandpa's Guitar | Larry M Clark |
| 92 | I Believe in You | Kel-Anne Brandt |
| 93 | Life of Sin | Sturgill Simpson |
| 94 | I'm Turnin' 'Em Up | Wyley Randall |
| 95 | Hurtin' (On the Bottle) | Margo Price |
| 96 | Fiddles and Wine | Shavonne |
| 97 | Less of Me | Bonita Mercer |
| 98 | Stray Dog Symphony | Razzy Bailey |
| 99 | Voices | Sturgill Simpson |
| 100 | These Arms | Dwight Yoakam |
| 101 | Go Down to the Water | Tim O'Brien |
| 102 | Tried and True | Jim Ed Brown |
| 103 | Blues on Parade | Lee Sims |
| 104 | Good Time | Alan Jackson |
| 105 | Your Guitar | Chris Bellamy |
| 106 | Breakers Roar | Sturgill Simpson |
| 107 | My Own Peculiar Way | Shavonne |
| 108 | I'd Follow You | Steve Free |
| 109 | Long White Line | Sturgill Simpson |
| 110 | If You're Gonna Leave Me | Shavonne |
| 111 | Things Only a Fool Would Know | Lonnie Spiker |
| 112 | Living the Dream | Sturgill Simpson |
| 113 | 'Til I Get It Right (Single Version) | Tammy Wynette |
| 114 | Let Me off in Texas | Chuck Cusimano |
| 115 | I Still Like Bologna | Alan Jackson |
| 116 | I Can't Quit Drinking | Johnny Paycheck |
| 117 | Ice in My Glass | Shavonne |
| 118 | She Ain't Blind and You Ain't Braille | Dennis Ledbetter |
| 119 | One Pitcher Pretty | Dennis Ledbetter |
| 120 | Only Five | Joyce Shaffer |
| 121 | Three Acres of Fillies at Billys Feat. Mack Jackson | Dennis Ledbetter |
| 122 | Bluest Heartache of the Year | KENNY DALE |
| 123 | Blue Country Song | Erin Hay |
| 124 | Powder River | CHRIS LEDOUX |
| 125 | Stonewall Jackson and Super Friends | Stonewall Jackson |
| 126 | You've Got What It Takes | JACK BLANCHARD/MISTY MORGAN |
| 127 | Even when It Rains | RONNY COLLINS |
| 128 | Survivor | Johnny Paycheck |
| 129 | Never Have I Ever | BRADY REDDING |
| 130 | Texas Shines Like a Diamond | SONNY CHRISTOPHER |
| 131 | My Love for You | BUTCH HORTON |
| 132 | Green Door | Kel-Anne Brandt |
| 133 | Somebodys Angel | Erin Hay |
| 134 | Howl at the Moon | BILL DAWG |
| 135 | I Never Thought We'd Live to See the Day | Perley Curtis |
| 136 | I'll Be Waiting There for You | ALLEN OSBORNE |
| 137 | The Skys the Limit | Tom Cunningham |
| 138 | She's Coming Unwrapped | Tim Smith |
| 139 | Take It Easy Greasy | Claude Walton |
| 140 | Mommas Wall of Fame | Nikki Nelson |
| 141 | The Way You Do the Things You Do | Cheryl K Warner |
| 142 | The Very Best of | Stonewall Jackson |
| 143 | If You Drive Me to Drinking I'll Buy the Gas Feat. Mack Jackson | Dennis Ledbetter |
| 144 | Fire Flies | Richard Hall |
| 145 | More Than Enough | Tom Cunningham |
| 146 | Heres to Hank | Stonewall Jackson |
| 147 | If I Could Only Stay Asleep | Shavonne |
| 148 | What Am I Gonna Do | Dennis Ledbetter |
| 149 | Rose Garden | Shavonne |
| 150 | Lifes Reflections | Shavonne |
| 151 | I Wouldn’t Put It Past Me | Dwight Yoakam |
| 152 | Start All over Again | Mike Contoni |
| 153 | Look out Below | Richard Lynch |
| 154 | Willie I Will | Ann J Morton |
| 155 | Home for Sale | Dwight Yoakam |
| 156 | Tennessee Waltz | Bonita Mercer |
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