The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Song Chart
for the Year of 2022
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | You Get It All | Hayes Carll |
| 2 | Can't Let Go | Robert Plant & Allison Kraus |
| 3 | Throwin’ Away Your Love | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 4 | PIERCED ARROWS | Hurray for the Riff Raff |
| 5 | Trouble with My Lover | Robert Plant & Allison Kraus |
| 6 | I Remember Everything | John Prine |
| 7 | Nervous | Tim O'Brien |
| 8 | Wondrous Love | Watchhouse |
| 9 | Broken Horses | Brandi Carlile |
| 10 | Hickory Wind | John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen |
| 11 | What's a Dog Think? | Steve Forbert |
| 12 | Right on Time | Brandi Carlile |
| 13 | Coming Home | Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb |
| 14 | Heading West | Neil Young |
| 15 | On the Road Again | The Brother Brothers |
| 16 | See the World | Brett Dennen |
| 17 | Flyin' and Cryin' (feat. Rodney Crowell) | Lisa Morales |
| 18 | The Sound of Guitars | Josie Bello |
| 19 | Get Lucky | Patty Griffin |
| 20 | Rising | Josie Bello |
| 21 | I Am Empty | Josie Bello |
| 22 | Resilience | Josie Bello |
| 23 | Love That 's Real | Josie Bello |
| 24 | Storm on the Desert | Kate MacLeod |
| 25 | High and Lonesome | Robert Plant & Allison Kraus |
| 26 | Coffee Shop Open Mic | Josie Bello |
| 27 | Time Zone | Kate MacLeod |
| 28 | Now is the Time to Be Alive | Kate MacLeod |
| 29 | Calling Card | Josie Bello |
| 30 | The Price of Love | Robert Plant & Allison Kraus |
| 31 | Another Page | Eric Selby |
| 32 | The Liar | John Fullbright |
| 33 | Meat Bird in Beigeville | Judy Nazemetz |
| 34 | I'm Just Sayin' | Judy Nazemetz |
| 35 | Too Many Changes | Josie Bello |
| 36 | Diggin' a Hole (Dave's Song) | Judy Nazemetz |
| 37 | Til I Make It to You | Suzie Brown |
| 38 | All In! | Ray Wyatt |
| 39 | Lullaby | Ray Wyatt |
| 40 | The Possum | Ray Wyatt |
| 41 | The Shadow of the Bird | Judy Nazemetz |
| 42 | Killing Time | Josie Bello |
| 43 | Going the Distance | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus |
| 44 | Alton Air | Darrell Scott |
| 45 | America | Michael Johnathon |
| 46 | Shady Grove | Michael Johnathon |
| 47 | Dust Bowl Man | Michelle Malone |
| 48 | Techno-Folk | Michael Johnathon |
| 49 | I Love My Dog | Mapache |
| 50 | If It Wasn't Broken | Sunny War |
| 51 | Desperately | Lisa Morales |
| 52 | Everyone's Welcome Here | Kerry Patrick Clark |
| 53 | You Matter | Kerry Patrick Clark |
| 54 | The Walls Come Tumbling Down | Kerry Patrick Clark |
| 55 | Cat Man Do | Brigitte DeMeyer |
| 56 | True is Beautiful | Raveis Kole |
| 57 | Forget Jeanette | Judy Nazemetz |
| 58 | If You Ain't Got Love | The Brother Brothers |
| 59 | To Keep from Being Found | Hayes Carll |
| 60 | Searching for My Love | Robert Plant & Allison Kraus |
| 61 | Bright Star | Anais Mitchell |
| 62 | From Where I Stand | Wyatt Easterling |
| 63 | Seven Daffodils | Peach & Quiet |
| 64 | For My Love | Peach & Quiet |
| 65 | California Way | Peach & Quiet |
| 66 | New Star | Watchhouse |
| 67 | Long Lonesome Road | The Lied To's |
| 68 | It's Not Who You Love | The Lied To's |
| 69 | Grace | Marcus Mumford |
| 70 | Empty to Fill | Peach & Quiet |
| 71 | Shoreline After a Storm | Peach & Quiet |
| 72 | Apocalachia | Valorie Miller |
| 73 | A Father's Love | Kerry Patrick Clark |
| 74 | The Lullaby (My Oldest Love) | Rose Cousins |
| 75 | Backroads | Johnsmith |
| 76 | Built on Bones (feat. Alisa Amador & Violet Bell) | Emily Scott Robinson |
| 77 | Only the Killer | Valorie Miller |
| 78 | She Ought to Be King | Lisa Morales |
| 79 | What's Gone is Gone | Ever More Nest |
| 80 | Ain’t No Stopping Us Now | Kerry Patrick Clark |
| 81 | Perch-less Bird | Heather Maloney |
| 82 | Warranty | Keller Williams |
| 83 | Shape of You | Neil Young |
| 84 | Forever Shall Be | Patty Griffin |
| 85 | Taking Control | Birdtalker |
| 86 | Just Hanging on | Peter Case |
| 87 | Somebody Was Watching over Me | Robert Plant & Allison Kraus |
| 88 | Junk Life | Brett Dennen |
| 89 | Midnight Kiss | The Lied To's |
| 90 | Home of the Brave | Valorie Miller |
| 91 | Broke Again | Joshua Hedley |
| 92 | Strip of Light | Patty Griffin |
| 93 | Call It Home | Paula Standing |
| 94 | How Many Miles (feat. the Accidentals) | HuDost |
| 95 | Outsiders | Anna Tivel |
| 96 | I Give You the Morning | Buffalo Rose & Tom Paxton |
| 97 | Take Your Mind off It | Luke LeBlanc |
| 98 | Horizon Line | Dan Navarro |
| 99 | Long Haul | Anthony D'Amato |
| 100 | Not Satisfying | Joe Holt |
| 101 | They Shut the Greyhound Down | Kim Beggs |
| 102 | Cottonwood Leaves | Megan Bee |
| 103 | Backroads | Anais Mitchell |
| 104 | Nice Things | Hayes Carll |
| 105 | The More I Give | Paula Standing |
| 106 | I'd Go Back Again | Paula Standing |
| 107 | Like the Thunder | Joan Shelley |
| 108 | Wide Open | The Accidentals |
| 109 | Twine | South for Winter |
| 110 | No Bottom | Tiffany Williams |
| 111 | Better off High | Marcus Mumford |
| 112 | The Downward Road (feat. Demeanor) | Jake Blount |
| 113 | Tumblin' Thru the Years | Neil Young |
| 114 | Too Lazy | Joe Holt |
| 115 | Lover's Game | The War and Treaty |
| 116 | The Stars over Kinvara | Declan O'Rourke |
| 117 | Albert 1-5 | Heather Maloney |
| 118 | Crosses | I Draw Slow |
| 119 | Remain the Same | The Accidentals |
| 120 | Anxious Zen | Eric Selby |
| 121 | The Boat | Connor Garvey |
| 122 | Another End of a Year | Connor Garvey |
| 123 | Sundown | Patty Griffin |
| 124 | You and Me on the Rock | Brandi Carlile |
| 125 | River of Wind | Adler & Hearne |
| 126 | Only a Friend Like You | Big Little Lions |
| 127 | One Foot | Deidre McCalla |
| 128 | Used to Be | Megan Bee |
| 129 | Scale These Walls | Caroline Spence |
| 130 | River Fool | Ian Noe |
| 131 | No Reason | Sunny War |
| 132 | Orbit | Eric Selby |
| 133 | Whiskeytown | Kim Beggs |
| 134 | Burning Down the Prairie | Ian Noe |
| 135 | It Ain't Workin' | EllaHarp |
| 136 | Love Earth | Neil Young |
| 137 | The Waiting | Tiffany Williams |
| 138 | We Are Made of Stars | Martyn Joseph |
| 139 | I Was Born to Love You (feat. Sierra Ferrell) | Ray LaMontagne |
| 140 | Madness | Giriffin Swank |
| 141 | Shy Desert Morning | Eli Lev |
| 142 | Oklahoma Skies | Dan Navarro |
| 143 | Now You Know | Anais Mitchell |
| 144 | This Old House | Wyatt Easterling |
| 145 | The Sea | Tiffany Williams |
| 146 | Damn Good Cry | Johnsmith |
| 147 | Mama Werewolf | Brandi Carlile |
| 148 | Virgil's Sweet Six String | Johnsmith |
| 149 | Little Big Girl | Anais Mitchell |
| 150 | Cottonwood | Amy Speace |
| 151 | You Can Close Your Eyes (feat. Sarah Jarosz) | The Brother Brothers |
| 152 | Kiss of a Man | Patty Griffin |
| 153 | Going Where the Lonely Go | Robert Plant & Allison Kraus |
| 154 | Paranoid Heart | John Fullbright |
| 155 | Human Race | Neil Young |
| 156 | In Painters' Light | Declan O'Rourke |
| 157 | Beautiful Flowers | Watchhouse |
| 158 | If You Fall | Amy Speace |
| 159 | That's How I Got to Memphis | The Brother Brothers |
| 160 | Not Who I Used to Be | Michelle Malone |
| 161 | Chinook Waltz | Over the Moon |
| 162 | Eastern Standard Time | The Accidentals |
| 163 | Back Seat | Chastity Brown |
| 164 | Little Yellow House | Patty Griffin |
| 165 | POW Blues | Ian Noe |
| 166 | Lonesome | Mary Scholz |
| 167 | Go in Peace | Sam Baker |
| 168 | Coming Along | Ever More Nest |
| 169 | Brooklyn Bridge | Anais Mitchell |
| 170 | Just a Town | The Accidentals |
| 171 | Born Too Late | Martyn Joseph |
| 172 | 100 Proof | Julian Taylor |
| 173 | From the Storm | Big Little Lions |
| 174 | Better Way | Watchhouse |
| 175 | Like Molly Brown | Carrie Newcomer |
| 176 | Deliverance | HuDost |
| 177 | Why I Wake Early | Amy Speace |
| 178 | All Those Days of Drinking Dust | Tiffany Williams |
| 179 | Taurus | Eddie Berman |
| 180 | She'll Come Back to Me | Hayes Carll |
| 181 | It Don't Bother Me | Robert Plant & Allison Kraus |
| 182 | Trempealeau | Johnsmith |
| 183 | Extraordinary | Big Little Lions |
| 184 | Sing Him to the Shore | Johnsmith |
| 185 | Canerican | Neil Young |
| 186 | My Name is America | Johnsmith |
| 187 | Song of Crows | Darryl Purpose |
| 188 | Love Like There's No Tomorrow | The War and Treaty |
| 189 | She Dreams in Music | Dan Navarro |
| 190 | Double Double (feat. Alisa Amador & Violet Bell) | Emily Scott Robinson |
| 191 | Land of Plenty | Abigail Lapell |
| 192 | River Song | Michelle Malone |
| 193 | Spellbound | Judy Collins |
| 194 | More Than We Can Handle | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 195 | The Old Me | Edie Carey |
| 196 | On Your Way (Felix Song) | Anais Mitchell |
| 197 | 817 Oakland Avenue | Charlie Parr |
| 198 | Mèsi Bondye | Leyla McCalla |
| 199 | Waterfall | Abigail Lapell |
| 200 | Whiskey Garden | EllaHarp |
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