The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Bluegrass Song Chart
for the Year of 2016
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who You Want Me to Be | Chris Jones & the Night Drivers |
| 2 | Good Imitation of the Blues | The Cox Family |
| 3 | So Familiar | Steve Martin & Edie Brickell |
| 4 | Listen (feat. Joan Osborne) | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 5 | Carolina Wind | Irene Kelley |
| 6 | You're the One | Flatt Lonesome |
| 7 | Unholy Water | Sister Sadie |
| 8 | Long I Ride | Special Consensus |
| 9 | I Would | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet |
| 10 | I Know Better | The Grascals |
| 11 | The Sweet Ones | O'Connor Band |
| 12 | Age (feat. Greg Blake) | The Savage Hearts |
| 13 | When Someone Wants to Leave | Stuart Wyrick |
| 14 | Longneck Blues | Junior Sisk |
| 15 | Here Comes a Broken Heart Again | Band Of Ruhks |
| 16 | The Only Star I See | The Lucky Sisters |
| 17 | I Am a Drifter | Volume Five |
| 18 | Dig in the Dirt | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet |
| 19 | Longest Day of the Year | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 20 | Foxhounds | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 21 | I Still Miss Someone (with Teresa Michel) | Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen |
| 22 | He's Never Coming Back Again | Rebekah Long |
| 23 | Brace for Impact (Live a Little) | Sturgill Simpson |
| 24 | The Road’s Salvation | The Lonely Heartstring Band |
| 25 | Don't Let Me Cross over | Sister Sadie |
| 26 | My Kentucky Home | Edgar Loudermilk Band |
| 27 | Pretty Woman | Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen |
| 28 | Rambling, Gambling Willie | The Lonely Heartstring Band |
| 29 | Rock and Roll (feat. Abigail Washburn) | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 30 | I Like Trains | The Grascals |
| 31 | Showing My Age | The Lonesome River Band |
| 32 | Going Through Carolina | Curtis Wright |
| 33 | Let It Roll | The Cox Family |
| 34 | Been There Done That | Mountain Faith |
| 35 | Won't Be Long (feat. Sarah Jarosz) | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 36 | I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew | Rebekah Long |
| 37 | Road of Life | The Grascals |
| 38 | Coming Back to You (feat. Mary Chapin Carpenter) | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 39 | Emily (It's Love) | Mountain Faith |
| 40 | Run to Heaven (feat. Aoife O'Donovan) | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 41 | Gone Like the Cotton | The Cox Family |
| 42 | All I Can Do | Sister Sadie |
| 43 | Blue Skies | Mountain Heart |
| 44 | Still the One (feat. Nicki Bluhm) | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 45 | Coming Home | O'Connor Band |
| 46 | Still Feeling Blue | Flatt Lonesome |
| 47 | See How Far You've Come (feat. Sara Watkins) | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 48 | Always Do | O'Connor Band |
| 49 | Can't Get over You | Band Of Ruhks |
| 50 | Thunder and Lightning | The Lonesome River Band |
| 51 | The More I Learn | Bryan Sutton |
| 52 | The Road That Winds | Audie Blaylock and Redline |
| 53 | Another Round | Steve Martin & Edie Brickell |
| 54 | When the Bluegrass is Covered with Snow | The Boxcars |
| 55 | Life Stories | Special Consensus |
| 56 | Don't Tell Me Stories | Sister Sadie |
| 57 | Jesus is My Rock | Special Consensus |
| 58 | Red Grass | Ilya Toshinskiy |
| 59 | Bible and a Bus Ticket | Wildfire |
| 60 | Don't Want Half | Paper Bird |
| 61 | Ain't Life Sweet | Rebekah Long |
| 62 | Clovis Johnson's Old Red | Shotgun Holler |
| 63 | Fiddler's Dream | Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper |
| 64 | Sally Ann | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 65 | Time Has Come | Bryan Sutton |
| 66 | Play Me a Record | Bryan Sutton |
| 67 | Hazosphere (feat. Jennifer Hartswick) [Bonus Track] | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 68 | Highway of Sorrow | The Grascals |
| 69 | How I Love You | Claybank |
| 70 | I'm Dreaming of You | The Boxcars |
| 71 | Have a Little Faith (feat. Joss Stone) | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 72 | Empty Train (with Jerry Douglas) | Claire Lynch |
| 73 | Up on Claybank | Claybank |
| 74 | So Danged Lonesome | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 75 | Backwater Blues | Bryan Sutton |
| 76 | Don't Let Your Deal Go Down | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 77 | Good Time Mountain Man | Band Of Ruhks |
| 78 | I Took Mama to the Opry | Valerie Smith |
| 79 | Harlan Road | NewTown |
| 80 | Runaway Train | Flatt Lonesome |
| 81 | Rock Bottom | The Lonesome River Band |
| 82 | Anything to Make Her Mine | The Lonesome River Band |
| 83 | You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome when You Go | Bryan Sutton |
| 84 | Everywhere I Go is a Long Way from Home (with Aubrey Haynie, Shawn Lane & Ron Block) | Rob Ickes |
| 85 | Tall Pines (feat. Becky Webb Monk, Chris Monk, Wesley Wolfe, Evan Maynard & Cody Bauer) | Bluegrass Outlaws |
| 86 | Won't Go Back | Steve Martin & Edie Brickell |
| 87 | Muleskinner Blues | Rhonda Vincent |
| 88 | Miss Me when I'm Gone | Mountain Heart |
| 89 | I'm No Stranger to This Lonesome Road | Kristy Cox |
| 90 | Something About a Train | Valerie Smith |
| 91 | Comin' Back to You | Town Mountain |
| 92 | Brown Hill | The Boxcars |
| 93 | Your Train Don't Stop Here Anymore | Kristy Cox |
| 94 | It'll Getcha Where You're Goin' | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet |
| 95 | Cazenovia Casenova | Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen |
| 96 | What About Me Lord | Junior Sisk |
| 97 | All That I Can Take | NewTown |
| 98 | Now Forever's Gone | Sister Sadie |
| 99 | Homefolks | The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet |
| 100 | Hobo on a Train | Lou Reid & Carolina |
| 101 | Daniel | Audie Blaylock and Redline |
| 102 | Pick It | Tyler Grant |
| 103 | Mine All Mine | Steve Martin & Edie Brickell |
| 104 | I Hear Kentucky Callin' Me | Mike Bentley & Cumberland Gap Connection |
| 105 | Walkin’ Across This Land | Bryan Sutton |
| 106 | Way Back in the Day | Steve Martin & Edie Brickell |
| 107 | I Can't Get over You | Mountain Heart |
| 108 | I'm Not Your Honey-Baby Now | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 109 | Land on Our Feet | Junior Sisk |
| 110 | Smartville | Ron Block |
| 111 | The Spotted Pony (feat. Stuart Duncan & Alison Krauss) | Ron Block |
| 112 | Banjo Pickin' Girl | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 113 | I Should Have Started Yesterday | Shotgun Holler |
| 114 | Paddy on the Turnpike | Section House |
| 115 | I Miss the Night | Town Mountain |
| 116 | Daddy Would Sing | Claybank |
| 117 | Back when the Bluegrass Was Green (feat. Wayne Taylor) | Jeff Brown and Still Lonesome |
| 118 | Truck Drivin' | Mike Bentley & Cumberland Gap Connection |
| 119 | I'll Forgive You | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 120 | Never Ending Song of Love | Kyle Perkins |
| 121 | Not This Time | Sister Sadie |
| 122 | I'll See You in My Dreams | Edgar Loudermilk Band |
| 123 | Dancin' in the Dirt | Melvin Goins |
| 124 | Bluegrass Dollars | Valerie Smith |
| 125 | Blues for Bill | Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper |
| 126 | Little Cabin Home on the Hill (feat. Terry Blackwood & the Imperials) | Holly Norman |
| 127 | Red Horizon | The Misty Mountain String Band |
| 128 | One Mule Plow | Unspoken Tradition |
| 129 | Weary River | Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass |
| 130 | Call to Arms | Sturgill Simpson |
| 131 | Mixed Up Mess of a Heart | Flatt Lonesome |
| 132 | Sweet Little Mountain Girl | The Grascals |
| 133 | Delta Queen | The Grascals |
| 134 | The Fishin' Song | Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen |
| 135 | Uncle Ned | Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass |
| 136 | May You Never Be Alone (with Andy Leftwich & Vince Gill) | Rob Ickes |
| 137 | Roscoe | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 138 | Old Friend of Mine | The Grascals |
| 139 | Sea Stories | Sturgill Simpson |
| 140 | Jimmy, J.D. & Paul | Junior Sisk |
| 141 | Country Morning | Ilya Toshinskiy |
| 142 | Coal Mining Man | Band Of Ruhks |
| 143 | Oh Sarah | Sturgill Simpson |
| 144 | I Won't Give Up My Train (with Aubrey Haynie, John Randall Stewart & Robinella) | Rob Ickes |
| 145 | Old Whiskey Bottle (feat. Celia Woodsmith) | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 146 | Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man? | O'Connor Band |
| 147 | If I Had a Hammer | The Lonely Heartstring Band |
| 148 | Walking in the Blueridge | Junior Sisk |
| 149 | Daniel Prayed | The Gospel Plowboys |
| 150 | Ain't Gonna Worry Me | Town Mountain |
| 151 | Georgia Maple | Edgar Loudermilk Band |
| 152 | If You Want Me to | The Grascals |
| 153 | Budded on Earth to Bloom in Heaven | The Price Sisters |
| 154 | Cold Hearted Wind (with Jerry Douglas) | Claire Lynch |
| 155 | Tear Stained Letter | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 156 | Fireball (feat. Rob Ickes, Trey Hensley & Alison Brown) | Special Consensus |
| 157 | Relatively Easy | Shotgun Holler |
| 158 | That's What Leaving's for | Rob Ickes |
| 159 | Ladders in the Sky (feat. Claire Lynch) | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 160 | Highway 40 Blues (feat. Della Mae) | Special Consensus |
| 161 | Where I Came from | Nothin' Fancy |
| 162 | You'll Pay | Flatt Lonesome |
| 163 | Molly May (with Alison Brown) | Claire Lynch |
| 164 | Friend of the Devil (with Aubrey Haynie & Shawn Lane) | Rob Ickes |
| 165 | Out in the Parking Lot | Shotgun Holler |
| 166 | Warm Wind | The Grascals |
| 167 | Rendezvous with Danger | Band Of Ruhks |
| 168 | My Montana Home | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 169 | Kentucky Mandolin | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 170 | Runnin' from the Blues | The Lonesome River Band |
| 171 | I Believe (feat. Lee Ann Womack) | The Infamous Stringdusters |
| 172 | Waiting for You | Paper Bird |
| 173 | Hole in the Earth (feat. Steve Wariner) | Phil Leadbetter and the All Stars of Bluegrass |
| 174 | Old Black Creek | O'Connor Band |
| 175 | Moody Blue | Holly Norman |
| 176 | I Got Mexico (with Carolina Road) | Eddy Raven |
| 177 | Real People | The Lonesome River Band |
| 178 | The Look in My Eye | The Lonely Heartstring Band |
| 179 | Belle Election | April Verch |
| 180 | Casting All Your Care on Him | Flatt Lonesome |
| 181 | Old Swinging Bridge | The Lonesome River Band |
| 182 | Homesick Blues | Edgar Loudermilk Band |
| 183 | I May Be a Fool | Sister Sadie |
| 184 | Gone Again (with Béla Fleck & David Grier) | Claire Lynch |
| 185 | Whiskey with Tears | Town Mountain |
| 186 | Snowflakes | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 187 | In Texas | Kathy Kallick Band |
| 188 | Let the Mystery Be | The Lucky Sisters |
| 189 | I Cant Stand Up Alone | The Lucky Sisters |
| 190 | Song of a Whippoorwill | Rhonda Vincent |
| 191 | High on the Mountain | Emily Kirsch |
| 192 | Lost Highway | Band Of Ruhks |
| 193 | Autumn Glen | The Grascals |
| 194 | Baby You Ain't Baby Anymore | Kristy Cox |
| 195 | Young Love Never Grows Old | Kristy Cox |
| 196 | Going to the West | Laura Orshaw |
| 197 | The Heart You've Been Tending | NewTown |
| 198 | Train of Trouble | Lou Reid & Carolina |
| 199 | Silver Tongue and Gold Plated Lies | The Price Sisters |
| 200 | Guitar Man | Laura Orshaw |
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