The Roots Music Report's
Top Americana Country Song Chart
for the Year of 2024
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Illinois River Song | The Brother Brothers |
| 2 | Down at the Palomino | Mustangs of the West |
| 3 | Nobody Dies from Weed | Hayes & The Heathens |
| 4 | I'm Getting by | Jason Hawk Harris |
| 5 | Ballad of Jubilee Jones | Old Crow Medicine Show |
| 6 | When Country Came Back to Town | Brent Cobb |
| 7 | Gentle Violence | John Moreland |
| 8 | Mint Tea | Johnny Blue Skies |
| 9 | Where the Road Goes | Old 97's |
| 10 | Mountain Road | Boy Golden |
| 11 | Rich Little Girls | Brit Taylor |
| 12 | Bad for Each Other | Tom Faia & Kate Miller |
| 13 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Charley Crockett |
| 14 | That's All I Know About Arkansas (feat. Rosanne Cash) | John Leventhal |
| 15 | Mean Old Sun | Turnpike Troubadours |
| 16 | Backbone (The Desert Child) | Kasey Chambers |
| 17 | Hero | The Steel Wheels |
| 18 | Nothing but a Shadow | The HawtThorns |
| 19 | Radio Wave | Silverada |
| 20 | You're My Thrill | Buddy & Julie Miller |
| 21 | $10 Cowboy | Charley Crockett |
| 22 | A Love Thing | Chris Gardner |
| 23 | Lost Inside America | Chris Gardner |
| 24 | The Way You Make Me Feel | Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams |
| 25 | Shadow of a Doubt | Chris Gardner |
| 26 | Sometimes You've Got to Stop Chasing Rainbows | Son Volt |
| 27 | The Card Player | Corb Lund |
| 28 | I Take Care of Me Now | Grace Pettis |
| 29 | Northwest | Brandy Clark |
| 30 | Take Me Back | The Deslondes |
| 31 | Big Red Gibson | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus |
| 32 | Devil's Highway | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus |
| 33 | Gone Fishing’ | Jus' Kyle |
| 34 | Worried Blues | John Fahey |
| 35 | Spice of Life | Mark & Maggie O'Connor |
| 36 | Dead End Town | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus |
| 37 | Dog Leg | John Williams |
| 38 | Southern Star | Brent Cobb |
| 39 | T-Shirt from California | Mustangs of the West |
| 40 | Keep on Tryin' | Mustangs of the West |
| 41 | Police Dog Blues | Etta Baker |
| 42 | Arizona Sunset Skies | Mamma Coal |
| 43 | Black is the Color | Rhiannon Giddens |
| 44 | Every Day I Am | David Luning |
| 45 | John Henry | Etta Baker |
| 46 | St. Louis Blues | John Fahey |
| 47 | Dusty Porch | John Williams |
| 48 | Hangin' Blues | Paul Lenart |
| 49 | Sunrise | Sonny Landreth |
| 50 | Shrimp Boots | Taylor Nauta |
| 51 | Two Timin' | Taylor Nauta |
| 52 | I Drink | Rowdy McCarran |
| 53 | A Sign of Hard Times | Rowdy McCarran |
| 54 | Little Bit of Love | Rowdy McCarran |
| 55 | Don't Ask Me | Chris St. John |
| 56 | With You | Chris St. John |
| 57 | Over Me | Chris St. John |
| 58 | I Wouldn't Wish Me on You (feat. Ashton Brooke Gill) | Taylor Nauta |
| 59 | I'm Never Where I Am | Chris St. John |
| 60 | Folsom Prison Blues | Effron White |
| 61 | Something You Got | Jerry Douglas |
| 62 | Way Down Yonder | Chatham County Line |
| 63 | My Favorite Place | Jim Lauderdale |
| 64 | Big L Love | Effron White |
| 65 | My Heart Plays These Songs | Effron White |
| 66 | Burnout | Thomas Hinds |
| 67 | Bonfire Brigade | Thomas Hinds |
| 68 | Cumberland Stars | Thomas Hinds |
| 69 | Keep Lookin' Down the Road | Reckless Kelly |
| 70 | For You Love | Toria Richings |
| 71 | Burn It Down | Jason Eady |
| 72 | Live Close by (Visit Often) | The Mavericks |
| 73 | Prairie Fire | Tim Isberg |
| 74 | The Man from Waco Finale | Charley Crockett |
| 75 | Bend and Break | Toria Richings |
| 76 | Cowboy's Ain't the Dancing Kind | Toria Richings |
| 77 | Scattered Bones | Tim Isberg |
| 78 | Chasing Memories | Tim Isberg |
| 79 | Forever | Tom Faia & Kate Miller |
| 80 | Pocket Song | Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters |
| 81 | Don't You Wanna Know | Tom Faia & Kate Miller |
| 82 | By the End of the Night | Old 97's |
| 83 | Dogs | Nick Taylor |
| 84 | Healing Light | Robin Ruddy |
| 85 | I'm Gonna Be Fine | Robin Ruddy |
| 86 | Healing Happens | Robin Ruddy |
| 87 | Bad Days Better | Adam Hood |
| 88 | California King | Shoebox Letters |
| 89 | Thank Goodness for the Giving People | Robert Bidney |
| 90 | Is the World a Better Place | Robert Bidney |
| 91 | A Message | Robert Bidney |
| 92 | White Picket Fence | Effron White |
| 93 | World Worth Keeping | Jaime Wyatt |
| 94 | Good Love Goes Bad | Tom Faia & Kate Miller |
| 95 | Overnight Success | The Mavericks |
| 96 | Out Comes the Sun | Tom Faia & Kate Miller |
| 97 | Waking Up (From the American Dream) | Taylor Nauta |
| 98 | Nobody Loves You for Free | Tom Faia & Kate Miller |
| 99 | Something I'm Working on | Silverada |
| 100 | Death Valley High | Orville Peck |
| 101 | Can’t You Hear My Heart Crying | Jus' Kyle |
| 102 | Pound My Heart Against the Wall | Tom Faia & Kate Miller |
| 103 | Grandpa's Daisies (feat. Teresa James) | Gerry Spehar & Friends |
| 104 | Joanne (feat. Dale Watson) | Gerry Spehar & Friends |
| 105 | Rockin' on a Country Dance Floor (feat. Teresa James) | Gerry Spehar & Friends |
| 106 | Another Broken Heart | Wonder Women of Country |
| 107 | Driving Down from Detroit | Jomo and the Possum Posse |
| 108 | Get Down with the Music | Jus' Kyle |
| 109 | Love, Devils and the Blues | Stefan Grossman |
| 110 | Gonna Woo My Baby Tonight | Tom Faia & Kate Miller |
| 111 | Jericho | Mindy Smith |
| 112 | Scapegoat | Mark Newman |
| 113 | Life Without You | Mark Newman |
| 114 | Midnight Sun | Jeff Lake |
| 115 | Bring It on | Gina Jones |
| 116 | Here to Stay | Boy Golden |
| 117 | Farm Girl | Mark Brine |
| 118 | Stumbling in the Dark | Cole Gallagher |
| 119 | The Great Divide | Elisabeth Carlisle |
| 120 | Any Other Way | Hayes & The Heathens |
| 121 | Mr. Blues on the Run | Robert Earl Keen |
| 122 | Happy | Blue Mother Tupelo |
| 123 | My Soul | Blue Mother Tupelo |
| 124 | Right Side of Wrong | Blue Mother Tupelo |
| 125 | I Had It All | Corb Lund |
| 126 | Hot Damn | Paul Cauthen |
| 127 | Where My Wild Things Are | Ryan Bingham |
| 128 | Never Forever | Shoebox Letters |
| 129 | Live Close by (Visit Often) [with Nicole Atkins] | The Mavericks |
| 130 | Call an Angel | Ruthie Purves Smith |
| 131 | Chelsea | Ruthie Purves Smith |
| 132 | Captain Kirk | Ruthie Purves Smith |
| 133 | Barcelona | Vincent Poag |
| 134 | America | Vincent Poag |
| 135 | Here Here Beer! | Vincent Poag |
| 136 | What Love Can Do | Jeanne McKirchy |
| 137 | I Believe Anything | David Myles |
| 138 | Bunker Built for Two | William Elliott Whitmore |
| 139 | Gold Rush Town | Joel Hofmann Band |
| 140 | Daughters | Joel Hofmann Band |
| 141 | Pecos Jane | Joel Hofmann Band |
| 142 | Desert Island Dreams | Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams |
| 143 | Whole Lotta Livin' | The Imaginaries |
| 144 | Damn It | Tom Faia & Kate Miller |
| 145 | B S R | Chatham County Line |
| 146 | Hamlet Blues | Holler Choir |
| 147 | We'll See the Light | Tom Faia & Kate Miller |
| 148 | Tullamore Blues, No. 2 | John Leventhal |
| 149 | Althea | Jaime Wyatt |
| 150 | Big Brother | Tom Faia & Kate Miller |
| 151 | Amarillo Highway | Emily Nenni |
| 152 | Everything You Know | Mark Newman |
| 153 | How Could I Forget | Luke Winslow-King |
| 154 | Dynamite Woman | Son Volt |
| 155 | Reap | Blue Elan |
| 156 | The Good Old Days | Blue Elan |
| 157 | Wanted Man | Blue Elan |
| 158 | Long and Lonesome Letting Go (feat. Del McCoury) | Jim Lauderdale and The Po' Ramblin' Boys |
| 159 | The Only Ghost | John Leventhal |
| 160 | I Don't Have You | Shoebox Letters |
| 161 | Scooter Blues | Johnny Blue Skies |
| 162 | TRAFFIC FICTION | Tre Burt |
| 163 | Feel Good | Jaime Wyatt |
| 164 | Insomnia Blues | John R. Miller |
| 165 | Float Away | Son Volt |
| 166 | Morning Before Long | The Steel Wheels |
| 167 | Backbone(The Desert Child) | Kasey Chambers |
| 168 | America | Charley Crockett |
| 169 | Black Wolf Blues | Margo Price |
| 170 | Big Top | Frankie V and the Lonely Club |
| 171 | Give an Inch and They'll Take a Mile | Tom Faia & Kate Miller |
| 172 | Borned in Ya | Melissa Carper |
| 173 | Out of Time | Elliott Brood |
| 174 | You're Gonna Get Lonely | Whitney Rose |
| 175 | Suicide of Town | Ben de la Cour |
| 176 | Out of Business Blues | Gerry Spehar & Friends |
| 177 | Let's Get Away | Tom Faia & Kate Miller |
| 178 | Dishwasher's Blues | Tim Easton |
| 179 | Rumble Strip | John Leventhal |
| 180 | Mountain Queen | Logan Halstead |
| 181 | Going Fishing | Spencer Burton |
| 182 | Rotten | India Ramey |
| 183 | Adeline | Hayes & The Heathens |
| 184 | This Ain't My First Rodeo | India Ramey |
| 185 | Mercy Dover | Torgeir Waldemar |
| 186 | Peaches | Luke Winslow-King |
| 187 | Without a Word | The Mavericks |
| 188 | Black Eyed Gypsy | Luke Winslow-King |
| 189 | Dead and Gone | Chris Shiflett |
| 190 | Saturday Night Sinner | Gina Jones |
| 191 | Can You Save Me | Gina Jones |
| 192 | Arkansas Twisted Heart | Tim Easton |
| 193 | Seguin | Son Volt |
| 194 | Coal | Dylan Gossett |
| 195 | Drinking on an Empty Heart | Cliff Waddell |
| 196 | Have a Good Night | Addison Lea Thompson |
| 197 | Good Morning | Luke Winslow-King |
| 198 | Make You | Shoebox Letters |
| 199 | Hero | Greg Strawn |
| 200 | Down in Alabama | Drew Moreland |
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