The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Song Chart
for the Year of 2024
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name | Sub Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alibi | Hurray for the Riff Raff | Alternative Folk |
| 2 | Jealous Moon | Sarah Jarosz | Contemporary Folk |
| 3 | Ahead of the Game | Mark Knopfler | Contemporary Folk |
| 4 | The Returner | Allison Russell | Contemporary Folk |
| 5 | Boombox | Charlie Parr | Contemporary Folk |
| 6 | While I'm Down (feat. TK & the Holy Know-Nothings) | John Craigie | Alternative Folk |
| 7 | Hawkmoon | Hurray for the Riff Raff | Alternative Folk |
| 8 | Brown's Ferry Blues (feat. Billy Strings) | Tony Trischka | Alternative Folk |
| 9 | Let's Get Happy Together (feat. Maria Muldaur) | Jim Kweskin | Traditional Folk |
| 10 | Somewhere South | The High Hawks | Folk Rock |
| 11 | River Gonna Talk | David G Smith | Alternative Folk |
| 12 | Let's Take Our Time and Do It Right | David G Smith | Alternative Folk |
| 13 | When I Was Younger | Bonny Light Horseman | Alternative Folk |
| 14 | Weight You Carry | David G Smith | Alternative Folk |
| 15 | I Wanna Go out | David G Smith | Alternative Folk |
| 16 | Hold Me | The Strumbellas | Contemporary Folk |
| 17 | Step into Your Power | Ray LaMontagne | Folk Rock |
| 18 | American Boys | Don McLean | Folk Rock |
| 19 | Hurricane | Jeff Talmadge | Alternative Folk |
| 20 | All the Ways | The Secret Sisters | Contemporary Folk |
| 21 | From a Dying Rose | Todd Snider | Folk Rock |
| 22 | Love of a Girl | The Avett Brothers | Folk Rock |
| 23 | Lagunita | Lizzie No | Alternative Folk |
| 24 | Just a Little Ways Down the Road | Laurie Lewis | Alternative Folk |
| 25 | Weepin' Willow Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 26 | Orion's Belt | The Avett Brothers | Folk Rock |
| 27 | Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad | Rhiannon Giddens | Contemporary Folk |
| 28 | Snake Plant (The Past is Still Alive) | Hurray for the Riff Raff | Alternative Folk |
| 29 | Frost on the South Side | Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz | Alternative Folk |
| 30 | Out of Time (feat. LeAnn Rimes) | Trampled by Turtles | Contemporary Folk |
| 31 | Lemon's Jump | Stefan Grossman | Contemporary Folk |
| 32 | We Don't Talk About It | Gary Nicholson | Alternative Folk |
| 33 | City Slickers | Rainbow Girls | Alternative Folk |
| 34 | Atlanta Blues | Stephen Bennett | Contemporary Folk |
| 35 | None of Em Dead | David G Smith | Alternative Folk |
| 36 | Witness Trees | David G Smith | Alternative Folk |
| 37 | Women Are Not Equal | David G Smith | Alternative Folk |
| 38 | Sinners and Saints | Karney | Folk Rock |
| 39 | Rainbow in the Dark | Karney | Folk Rock |
| 40 | Across the Planet (remix) | Karney | Folk Rock |
| 41 | Devil Rail | John Zipperer | Contemporary Folk |
| 42 | Sound Existence | Steve Forbert | Contemporary Folk |
| 43 | Buddy Roe | Billy Jeter | Contemporary Folk |
| 44 | This Bluesy Thing We Do | Linda Sussman | Alternative Folk |
| 45 | Win or Lose | Linda Sussman | Alternative Folk |
| 46 | Oola | John Zipperer | Contemporary Folk |
| 47 | Lexi Dance | John Zipperer | Contemporary Folk |
| 48 | Runaway | James Maddock | Traditional Folk |
| 49 | Be Ready | Larry Rice | Traditional Folk |
| 50 | Push on Through | Larry Rice | Traditional Folk |
| 51 | Welcome the Stranger | Larry Rice | Traditional Folk |
| 52 | Rickie Lee | Arielle Silver | Contemporary Folk |
| 53 | Asteroids and Chaos | Arielle Silver | Contemporary Folk |
| 54 | Don't Let It Rain | Linda Sussman | Alternative Folk |
| 55 | Homeless Blues (Live) | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 56 | Alabama Bound (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 57 | Soft on the Shoulder | Arielle Silver | Contemporary Folk |
| 58 | 900 Miles (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 59 | Feel the Way I Feel | Wolf Jett | Contemporary Folk |
| 60 | Went to a Party | Nick Lowe | Folk Rock |
| 61 | World Keeps on Singing | Eliza Gilkyson | Contemporary Folk |
| 62 | Dig a Hole in the Meadow (Darlin Cory) | Morningbird | Contemporary Folk |
| 63 | Peace is More | Karney | Folk Rock |
| 64 | Your Love | Pressing Strings | Folk Rock |
| 65 | The Living Kind | John Smith | Contemporary Folk |
| 66 | Pretty Lights of Denver | Weary Ramblers | Contemporary Folk |
| 67 | Already Gone | Willie Watson | Traditional Folk |
| 68 | Birds and Bees | Morningbird | Contemporary Folk |
| 69 | Time for a Change | Morningbird | Contemporary Folk |
| 70 | Just Doesn't Work Anymore | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus | Contemporary Folk |
| 71 | Harbortowne | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus | Contemporary Folk |
| 72 | Lottery | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus | Contemporary Folk |
| 73 | Letter to a Savior | Good Morning Bedlam | Contemporary Folk |
| 74 | Hard Playing Hard to Get | Sons Of The East | Folk Rock |
| 75 | Senses (Thanks JSB) | Aarythmers | Folk Rock |
| 76 | Hold on (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 77 | Sweet Hazel Green | Weary Ramblers | Contemporary Folk |
| 78 | Medicine Creek | Weary Ramblers | Contemporary Folk |
| 79 | Yonder Come the Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 80 | Done with Love | Aarythmers | Folk Rock |
| 81 | Thinking of Her | Aarythmers | Folk Rock |
| 82 | Nazareth | Aarythmers | Folk Rock |
| 83 | WTF | Aarythmers | Folk Rock |
| 84 | Too Lazy | Joe Holt | Contemporary Folk |
| 85 | It All Comes Down to Love | Tom Rush | Contemporary Folk |
| 86 | Spruce & Pine | SLPSTRM | Alternative Folk |
| 87 | The Ballad of Elon Musk | Michael Johnathon | Contemporary Folk |
| 88 | Glacier | Raveis Kole | Folk Rock |
| 89 | Wherever You Go | Raveis Kole | Folk Rock |
| 90 | Jack O' Diamonds (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 91 | What a Little Love Can Do | Gary Nicholson | Alternative Folk |
| 92 | Bop Bop New Orleans | Raveis Kole | Folk Rock |
| 93 | Kismet | Raveis Kole | Folk Rock |
| 94 | Sticky and Sweet | Raveis Kole | Folk Rock |
| 95 | Walking in the Valley of the Shadow | Will Kimbrough | Folk Rock |
| 96 | Make Good Trouble | Gary Nicholson | Alternative Folk |
| 97 | Midnight Wine | Shannon & The Clams | Alternative Folk |
| 98 | Unfinished Business | Megan Burtt | Folk Rock |
| 99 | Two Pairs of Hands | Mark Knopfler | Contemporary Folk |
| 100 | Stand | Aarythmers | Folk Rock |
| 101 | Friends | Aarythmers | Folk Rock |
| 102 | I Was Wrong | Aarythmers | Folk Rock |
| 103 | Jim Crow Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 104 | Keep on Movin' It on (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 105 | Sweet Beginnings | Kathryn Severing Fox | Contemporary Folk |
| 106 | White Lines & Headlights | Kathryn Severing Fox | Contemporary Folk |
| 107 | Secret | Kathryn Severing Fox | Contemporary Folk |
| 108 | Far Cry | T Sisters | Alternative Folk |
| 109 | You Louisiana Man | Rhiannon Giddens | Contemporary Folk |
| 110 | 20 Years and a Nickel | Hiss Golden Messenger | Alternative Folk |
| 111 | Special Delivery Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 112 | On and on | Grace Cummings | Folk Rock |
| 113 | You're the One | Rhiannon Giddens | Contemporary Folk |
| 114 | Freedom Trilogy (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 115 | Worry B Gone | Gary Nicholson | Alternative Folk |
| 116 | Little Speck of Dust | Jeff Talmadge | Alternative Folk |
| 117 | Crawl | Shannon & The Clams | Alternative Folk |
| 118 | And They Called Her California | Ray LaMontagne | Folk Rock |
| 119 | Closer to Fine | Indigo Girls | Contemporary Folk |
| 120 | Go Down Sunshine (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 121 | All That Makes Me Happy is the Blues | Gary Nicholson | Alternative Folk |
| 122 | Good Friends | Max Gomez | Traditional Folk |
| 123 | I Wouldn't Change a Thing | Ray LaMontagne | Folk Rock |
| 124 | Season of the Witch | Donovan | Folk |
| 125 | The Truth About a Lie | Gary Nicholson | Alternative Folk |
| 126 | Katie's Got a Locket | Jeff Talmadge | Alternative Folk |
| 127 | Broken Truth | Tim Grimm | Alternative Folk |
| 128 | Backwater Voodoo | The High Hawks | Folk Rock |
| 129 | Old Radio | Robby Hecht | Folk Rock |
| 130 | I Want to Tell You | Katie Knipp | Alternative Folk |
| 131 | Lights of Change | Linda Sussman | Alternative Folk |
| 132 | Remember Dorothy | Linda Sussman | Alternative Folk |
| 133 | Slim and the Devil | Willie Watson | Traditional Folk |
| 134 | I Wanna Fly | Linda Sussman | Alternative Folk |
| 135 | Colossus of Roads | Hurray for the Riff Raff | Alternative Folk |
| 136 | The Sound of Falling Snow | Jeff Talmadge | Alternative Folk |
| 137 | Follow the Money | Gary Nicholson | Alternative Folk |
| 138 | Give Us Free | David G Smith | Alternative Folk |
| 139 | Glory Glory (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 140 | Take This Hammer (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 141 | Hit or Miss (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 142 | Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 143 | Dink's Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 144 | Easy Rider (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 145 | Midnight Special | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 146 | This Little Light of Mine (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 147 | What We Wanna Be | Indigo Girls | Folk Rock |
| 148 | Whole Lotta Livin' (feat. Vince Gill) | The Imaginaries | Folk Rock |
| 149 | Thunderstorm Girl | Don McLean | Folk Rock |
| 150 | Halfsies | Lizzie No | Alternative Folk |
| 151 | If I Was a Sparrow | Jeff Talmadge | Alternative Folk |
| 152 | East Runs out of West | Winterlark | Alternative Folk |
| 153 | How Long Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 154 | Wildfire | Karney | Folk Rock |
| 155 | Shell Shock Girl (acoustic) | Karney | Folk Rock |
| 156 | A Power You'll Never Know - Remastered | Linda Sussman | Alternative Folk |
| 157 | Jonah's Song | Rainbow Girls | Alternative Folk |
| 158 | Bob Dylan Whiskey | Gary Nicholson | Alternative Folk |
| 159 | Sugaree | Alice DiMicele | Alternative Folk |
| 160 | My Lady Fair | Ray LaMontagne | Folk Rock |
| 161 | Ozarker | Israel Nash | Folk Rock |
| 162 | Shine Your Blues | The High Hawks | Folk Rock |
| 163 | Time and Space | Katie Knipp | Alternative Folk |
| 164 | When the Lights Go out | Sarah Jarosz | Contemporary Folk |
| 165 | Things We Contemplate | Larry Robbins | Contemporary Folk |
| 166 | Procrastination (I'll Do It Later) | Larry Robbins | Contemporary Folk |
| 167 | Everlasting | Larry Robbins | Contemporary Folk |
| 168 | Hands on | Larry Robbins | Contemporary Folk |
| 169 | Forgiveness | Jeff Talmadge | Alternative Folk |
| 170 | What You've Shown Me | Parker Millsap | Contemporary Folk |
| 171 | Blues Everywhere I Go (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman] | Misty Blues | Traditional Folk |
| 172 | Top of the Hour | Jeff Talmadge | Alternative Folk |
| 173 | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | Gordon Lightfoot | Contemporary Folk |
| 174 | After the Revolution | Carsie Blanton | Contemporary Folk |
| 175 | Sing to Me About Tomorrow | Winterlark | Alternative Folk |
| 176 | Ending with Heart Heart Heart | Winterlark | Alternative Folk |
| 177 | Devil's Highway | Jeff Talmadge | Alternative Folk |
| 178 | Hen in the Foxhouse | Rhiannon Giddens | Contemporary Folk |
| 179 | Woody's Dream | Gary Nicholson | Alternative Folk |
| 180 | Rosemary | Donovan Woods | Contemporary Folk |
| 181 | Columbus & 89th | Sarah Jarosz | Contemporary Folk |
| 182 | Never Apart (w/ Vocal Prelude) | The Avett Brothers | Folk Rock |
| 183 | Runaway Train | Sarah Jarosz | Contemporary Folk |
| 184 | Long Gone | Laurie Lewis | Alternative Folk |
| 185 | Pulling Weeds | Scott Sean White | Contemporary Folk |
| 186 | Rocket out of Here | John Stowers | Folk Rock |
| 187 | Lone Rooster Blues | Marques Morel | Contemporary Folk |
| 188 | Scavengers Yard | Mark Knopfler | Contemporary Folk |
| 189 | Night Train from Milan | Jeff Talmadge | Alternative Folk |
| 190 | Everybody | Gary Nicholson | Alternative Folk |
| 191 | Common Sense | Gary Nicholson | Alternative Folk |
| 192 | Radio Loud | The High Hawks | Folk Rock |
| 193 | Bible | Dan Bern & Jane's Great Dane | Contemporary Folk |
| 194 | Holding on to Heaven (feat. Jocelyn & Chris Arndt) | Harlem Hayfieldd | Folk Rock |
| 195 | Pledging My Time | Bob Dylan | Traditional Folk |
| 196 | Leaving Home (Frankie and Johnny) [feat. Meredith Axelrod] | Jim Kweskin | Traditional Folk |
| 197 | The Sheik of Araby | Jim Kweskin | Traditional Folk |
| 198 | Fifty States of Freedom | Brewer & Shipley | Contemporary Folk |
| 199 | More Than Friends (feat. Lainey Wilson) | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Contemporary Folk |
| 200 | Now Tell Me That You've Got the Blues | Sylvia Tyson | Contemporary Folk |
| 201 | Lovely Rainy Day | John Stowers | Folk Rock |
| 202 | Even when I'm High | John Stowers | Folk Rock |
| 203 | Over the Wall | John Stowers | Folk Rock |
| 204 | Run from the Lightning | Linda Sussman | Alternative Folk |
| 205 | Down Home Blues (Walkin' After Midnight) | Eva Cassidy | Contemporary Folk |
| 206 | Jukebox Johnny | Diane Birch | Folk Rock |
| 207 | Temperature is Rising | The High Hawks | Folk Rock |
| 208 | Shade | Diane Birch | Folk Rock |
| 209 | Slim Chance is Still a Chance (Doomed Version) | Todd Snider | Folk Rock |
| 210 | Someone Else's Prayer | Kerri Powers | Alternative Folk |
| 211 | Take the High Road | Sarah Jarosz | Contemporary Folk |
| 212 | Dying Ember | Sarah Jarosz | Contemporary Folk |
| 213 | Tumblin Down | Bonny Light Horseman | Alternative Folk |
| 214 | Undertaker Blues | Nat Myers | Alternative Folk |
| 215 | Take You Back | Sussex | Alternative Folk |
| 216 | Days Can Turn Around | Sarah Jarosz | Contemporary Folk |
| 217 | Howard Hughes Blues (feat. Jamie Hartford) | Norman Blake | Traditional Folk |
| 218 | Paperweight | The Secret Sisters | Contemporary Folk |
| 219 | Alameda | Amy Helm | Alternative Folk |
| 220 | Let Common Sense Prevail - Remastered | Linda Sussman | Alternative Folk |
| 221 | The Nightjar's Fall from Grace | Malcolm MacWatt | Contemporary Folk |
| 222 | Same Street | Scott Sean White | Contemporary Folk |
| 223 | 12 Notes and 26 Letters (feat. Susan Gibson) | Scott Sean White | Contemporary Folk |
| 224 | Death Don't Have No Mercy | Alice DiMicele | Alternative Folk |
| 225 | Over My Head | Alice DiMicele | Alternative Folk |
| 226 | Silence of the Sun | Misner & Smith | Contemporary Folk |
| 227 | Start with a Stone | Carrie Newcomer | Contemporary Folk |
| 228 | Electricity | Megan Burtt | Folk Rock |
| 229 | Top Shelf, Rock Bottom | The High Hawks | Folk Rock |
| 230 | Fox River Blues | The High Hawks | Folk Rock |
| 231 | Hambone Stomp (feat. Bobby Rush) | Billy Jeter | Contemporary Folk |
| 232 | Yard Sale | Ben Harper | Alternative Folk |
| 233 | One More Change | Ben Harper | Alternative Folk |
| 234 | Can't Stop | Israel Nash | Folk |
| 235 | People (feat. Helene Cronin) | Scott Sean White | Contemporary Folk |
| 236 | Nashville in the Morning | Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz | Alternative Folk |
| 237 | Sea Fever | Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz | Alternative Folk |
| 238 | Cold Finger Blues | Ben Gage | Alternative Folk |
| 239 | Maybe Next Year | Jeff Talmadge | Alternative Folk |
| 240 | Just a Moment | Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz | Alternative Folk |
| 241 | Just Not Today (feat. Helene Cronin) | Scott Sean White | Contemporary Folk |
| 242 | Arkansas | Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz | Alternative Folk |
| 243 | Simple Motion | Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz | Alternative Folk |
| 244 | There's No Them | Gary Nicholson | Alternative Folk |
| 245 | Memphis; the Blues (feat. John Moreland) | Zach Bryan | Contemporary Folk |
| 246 | Country Kid | The Avett Brothers | Folk Rock |
| 247 | Let Her Go | Passenger | Folk Rock |
| 248 | My Heart is Sinking - Cello Mix | Linda Sussman | Alternative Folk |
| 249 | Mercer's Folly | Todd Snider | Folk Rock |
| 250 | Mole in the Ground | Willie Watson | Traditional Folk |
| 251 | Overpass | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Contemporary Folk |
| 252 | Sweet Sisters | Elexa Dawson | Contemporary Folk |
| 253 | If We Would Let It | Parker Millsap | Contemporary Folk |
| 254 | Cave | Wild Rivers | Alternative Folk |
| 255 | Jet Pac Boomerang | Nick Lowe | Folk Rock |
| 256 | Go in Peace | Sam Baker | Contemporary Folk |
| 257 | Damn My Love (feat. TK & the Holy Know-Nothings) | John Craigie | Alternative Folk |
| 258 | I Used to Be So Pretty | Linda Thompson | Contemporary Folk |
| 259 | Lady Madonna (feat. the Gibson Brothers) | Tony Trischka | Alternative Folk |
| 260 | Leader of the Band | Dan Fogelberg | Folk Rock |
| 261 | On the Blind Side | Ray Bonneville | Alternative Folk |
| 262 | Presence of the Faithful | Kerri Powers | Alternative Folk |
| 263 | At the End of the Day | Sylvia Tyson | Contemporary Folk |
| 264 | Skyline Blues | Charles Wesley Godwin | Contemporary Folk |
| 265 | Black Tornado | Dan Bern | Folk Rock |
| 266 | Strong is the North Wind | Malcolm MacWatt | Contemporary Folk |
| 267 | Albuquerque Lullaby | Dan Bern | Folk Rock |
| 268 | Alaska Highway | Dan Bern | Alternative Folk |
| 269 | Up All Night Blues | Driftwood | Folk Rock |
| 270 | Joyland | Billy Jeter | Contemporary Folk |
| 271 | I've Got the Blues (even Though Nothing is Wrong) Fun Version | Dan Reeder | Contemporary Folk |
| 272 | Sailing into the Sunset | Tai Shan | Folk Rock |
| 273 | Front Porchin' | Parker Millsap | Contemporary Folk |
| 274 | Perfectly Absurd | Larry Robbins | Contemporary Folk |
| 275 | Peace Train | Cat Stevens | Folk Rock |
| 276 | I Did It (Hey Doubters) | Larry Robbins | Contemporary Folk |
| 277 | Before My Train Comes | Mark Knopfler | Contemporary Folk |
| 278 | Mr. Tambourine Man | Bob Dylan | Folk |
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