The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Song Chart
for the Year of 2023
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | You're the One | Rhiannon Giddens |
| 2 | Sticks and Stones | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 3 | Running on Time | Parker Millsap |
| 4 | The Returner | Allison Russell |
| 5 | World Keeps on Singing | Eliza Gilkyson |
| 6 | Front Porchin' | Parker Millsap |
| 7 | Strangers | Nickel Creek |
| 8 | Throwin’ Away Your Love | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 9 | Brilliantly Boldly Alive | Rebecca Folsom |
| 10 | Brothers | Rebecca Folsom |
| 11 | Sanctuary | Rebecca Folsom |
| 12 | Things We Contemplate | Larry Robbins |
| 13 | Procrastination (I'll Do It Later) | Larry Robbins |
| 14 | Everlasting | Larry Robbins |
| 15 | Hands on | Larry Robbins |
| 16 | Safety Zone | Eliza Gilkyson |
| 17 | What's a Dog Think? | Steve Forbert |
| 18 | What You've Shown Me | Parker Millsap |
| 19 | I Remember Everything | John Prine |
| 20 | Dust Bowl Man | Michelle Malone |
| 21 | You Get It All | Hayes Carll |
| 22 | Love Earth | Neil Young |
| 23 | Albuquerque | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band |
| 24 | Broken Horses | Brandi Carlile |
| 25 | Trouble with My Lover | Robert Plant & Allison Kraus |
| 26 | The Liar | John Fullbright |
| 27 | Nervous | Tim O'Brien |
| 28 | Home | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band |
| 29 | No Reason | Sunny War |
| 30 | Holler Rose | Pony Bradshaw |
| 31 | From Where I Stand | Wyatt Easterling |
| 32 | Light Ahead | Darling West |
| 33 | The Town in Your Heart | Lori McKenna |
| 34 | Perfectly Absurd | Larry Robbins |
| 35 | Too Lazy | Joe Holt |
| 36 | You Louisiana Man | Rhiannon Giddens |
| 37 | The Sound of Guitars | Josie Bello |
| 38 | Wondrous Love | Watchhouse |
| 39 | Rising | Josie Bello |
| 40 | Louisiana 1927 (feat. Albert Lee) | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band |
| 41 | Coffee Shop Open Mic | Josie Bello |
| 42 | Love That 's Real | Josie Bello |
| 43 | Resilience | Josie Bello |
| 44 | You Never Can Tell (feat. Albert Lee) | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band |
| 45 | See the World | Brett Dennen |
| 46 | Coming Home | Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb |
| 47 | Another Page | Eric Selby |
| 48 | Get Lucky | Patty Griffin |
| 49 | If You Ain't Got Love | The Brother Brothers |
| 50 | Sweet Revival (feat. Jason Crosby) | Wolf Jett |
| 51 | Flyin' and Cryin' (feat. Rodney Crowell) | Lisa Morales |
| 52 | Diggin' a Hole (Dave's Song) | Judy Nazemetz |
| 53 | Broken (feat. Laura T Lewis) | Wolf Jett |
| 54 | All of the Time in the World to Kill | The Milk Carton Kids |
| 55 | Baton Rouge (feat. Albert Lee) | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band |
| 56 | Sweet Beginnings | Kathryn Severing Fox |
| 57 | White Lines & Headlights | Kathryn Severing Fox |
| 58 | Secret | Kathryn Severing Fox |
| 59 | Atlanta Blues | Stephen Bennett |
| 60 | Lemon's Jump | Stefan Grossman |
| 61 | Heading West | Neil Young |
| 62 | Forget Jeanette | Judy Nazemetz |
| 63 | Meat Bird in Beigeville | Judy Nazemetz |
| 64 | Lover's Game | The War and Treaty |
| 65 | The Old Woman in Me | Lori McKenna |
| 66 | Save Your Love for Me | Julie Christensen |
| 67 | Letter to a Savior | Good Morning Bedlam |
| 68 | Annie (feat. Erin Rae) | Rachel Baiman |
| 69 | Highway 64 | Barrett Davis |
| 70 | Carolina Still | Barrett Davis |
| 71 | The Ballad of Aesop Fin | Barrett Davis |
| 72 | More Than Friends (feat. Lainey Wilson) | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 73 | I'm Just Sayin' | Judy Nazemetz |
| 74 | The Shadow of the Bird | Judy Nazemetz |
| 75 | Bear | Tim O'Brien |
| 76 | Hand in My Pocket | Taylor Ashton |
| 77 | Light of Angels | Mile Twelve |
| 78 | The Fall | Gregory Alan Isakov |
| 79 | Alton Air | Darrell Scott |
| 80 | Don't Hold the Hurt to Make It Easy | Sheila K. Cameron |
| 81 | Gold in California | Ellis Paul |
| 82 | Another End of a Year | Connor Garvey |
| 83 | Headwater | Salt House |
| 84 | Alcohallelujah | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 85 | The Return (Love Comes Back) | Rose Cousins |
| 86 | Stone's Throw | Nickel Creek |
| 87 | Way over Yonder | The Small Glories |
| 88 | White Chapel Woman | Annie Bartholomew |
| 89 | Maria | Frances Luke Accord |
| 90 | New Light | Claire Coupland |
| 91 | Dead Horse Trail | Annie Bartholomew |
| 92 | Hard Luck City | Malcolm Holcombe |
| 93 | Everyone's Welcome Here | Kerry Patrick Clark |
| 94 | A Father's Love | Kerry Patrick Clark |
| 95 | Ain’t No Stopping Us Now | Kerry Patrick Clark |
| 96 | The Walls Come Tumbling Down | Kerry Patrick Clark |
| 97 | You Matter | Kerry Patrick Clark |
| 98 | Paranoid Heart | John Fullbright |
| 99 | Big Money Blues | Dom Flemons |
| 100 | Dance on | Sheila K. Cameron |
| 101 | If We Would Let It | Parker Millsap |
| 102 | Art of Motion | Andy McKee |
| 103 | Bartender's Blues | Tattletale Saints |
| 104 | Beautiful Thing | Peach & Quiet |
| 105 | Throw Caution to the Wind | Wyatt Easterling |
| 106 | Overpass | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 107 | To the Light | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band |
| 108 | Pockets Empty | Peach & Quiet |
| 109 | Welcome Poor Paddy Home | Tim Ball |
| 110 | Happy Children | Lori McKenna |
| 111 | Better off High | Marcus Mumford |
| 112 | Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad | Rhiannon Giddens |
| 113 | Can't Help It | Darling West |
| 114 | The Blues is My Business | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band |
| 115 | Ticket Taker Blues | Buddy Mondlock |
| 116 | You Ain't Goin' Nowhere | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band |
| 117 | In My Reign | Romen Buffalo and The Loyal Order |
| 118 | That is for Sure | Peach & Quiet |
| 119 | Center of the Universe | Sofia Talvik |
| 120 | This Lonely Christmas Night | Josie Bello |
| 121 | Where We Belong | John Fullbright |
| 122 | Wilson | Brian Blake |
| 123 | Nothing Gold Can Stay | Brian Blake |
| 124 | Horse and Saddle | Peach & Quiet |
| 125 | Love Stayed with Me | Marketa Irglova |
| 126 | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 127 | The Ott Hotel | Brian Blake |
| 128 | When You're Gone | Peach & Quiet |
| 129 | All Four Winds | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 130 | Yet to Be (feat. Jason Isbell) | Rhiannon Giddens |
| 131 | I Did It (Hey Doubters) | Larry Robbins |
| 132 | Buddy Roe | Billy Jeter |
| 133 | Oklahoma or Arkansas | Peach & Quiet |
| 134 | Song from a Tree | Peach & Quiet |
| 135 | I Only See the Moon | The Milk Carton Kids |
| 136 | So Far Apart | Parker Millsap |
| 137 | Half a World Away | Parker Millsap |
| 138 | Growing Up | Lori McKenna |
| 139 | Feelin' Good Again | The Brother Brothers |
| 140 | Fill the Space | Doug Kolmar |
| 141 | Now You Know | Doug Kolmar |
| 142 | All I Know | Sam Robbins |
| 143 | Bigger Than in Between (feat. Halley Neal) | Sam Robbins |
| 144 | Letting People Down | Lori McKenna |
| 145 | Go in Peace | Sam Baker |
| 146 | One True Love | The Milk Carton Kids |
| 147 | Days Are Honey | Lori McKenna |
| 148 | Every Time I Drink | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 149 | Millworker | Becky Buller |
| 150 | Fill Those Shoes | Malcolm Holcombe |
| 151 | Killing Me (feat. Hillary Lindsey) | Lori McKenna |
| 152 | Running on Sweet Smile | The Milk Carton Kids |
| 153 | This Time | Peach & Quiet |
| 154 | Sanctity of Silence | Noah Derksen |
| 155 | Wonder Drug | Lori McKenna |
| 156 | Icarus | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 157 | When You're Gone | The Milk Carton Kids |
| 158 | Test Dummy | Sunny War |
| 159 | Too Many Churches | Sofia Talvik |
| 160 | Geese Fly North | Tom Paxton |
| 161 | Metaxy | Upstate |
| 162 | Start with a Stone | Carrie Newcomer |
| 163 | 1988 | Lori McKenna |
| 164 | Ain't No Harmin' Me | The War and Treaty |
| 165 | Alchemy of Love | Marketa Irglova |
| 166 | November Blues | Tom Houston |
| 167 | 20 Years of Shadows | Tim Grimm |
| 168 | Bootstraps | Malcolm Holcombe |
| 169 | Body & Soul | The Milk Carton Kids |
| 170 | Miles from Nowhere | Cat Stevens |
| 171 | Cutting Down the Pines | Tim Ball |
| 172 | Dancing with My Shadow | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band |
| 173 | Calgary Skyline | Peach & Quiet |
| 174 | Lying | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 175 | Save Me Tonight | Peach & Quiet |
| 176 | Mercy Now | Mary Gauthier |
| 177 | Entertained | Stoll Vaughan |
| 178 | Fare Thee Well (feat. AJ Lee) | Wolf Jett |
| 179 | Tidal Wave | Strangebyrds |
| 180 | Oh Love | Darling West |
| 181 | In the Summertime | Tattletale Saints |
| 182 | Fix-It Man | Brian Kalinec |
| 183 | Slow Burn | The Resonant Rogues |
| 184 | Stirrin' Up Trouble | Tim Grimm |
| 185 | Sugar in the Gourd | Tim Ball |
| 186 | Maybe Next Year | Noah Derksen |
| 187 | Wilderness Within You (feat. Gillian Welch) | Parker Millsap |
| 188 | Magic | Parker Millsap |
| 189 | At the End of the Day | Sylvia Tyson |
| 190 | New Day | Sunny War |
| 191 | Greetings and Thanks (Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address) | Parker Millsap |
| 192 | Keeping the Love Alive | Parker Millsap |
| 193 | The View | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 194 | Ladder of Love | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 195 | If I Didn't Love You | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 196 | Still Here | Darling West |
| 197 | Down in the Willow Garden (feat. Brandi Carlile) | Rufus Wainwright |
| 198 | Live Free or Die | Charlie Stevens |
| 199 | Here Comes the Night | Eliza Gilkyson |
| 200 | Highway 105 | Lynn Miles |
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