The Roots Music Report's
Top Roots Rock Song Chart
for the Year of 2025
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bury Me | Jason Isbell |
| 2 | Everybody's Song | Robert Plant |
| 3 | Wake the Dead | Chuck Prophet |
| 4 | Let Things Go | Caamp |
| 5 | Elderberry Wine | Wednesday |
| 6 | The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy | James McMurtry |
| 7 | Voodoo Charm | Christone "Kingfish" Ingram |
| 8 | Tough Times Don't Last | Paul Thorn |
| 9 | Fire Sign | S.G. Goodman |
| 10 | Spirits | The Devil Makes Three |
| 11 | Feeling | Billie Marten |
| 12 | Mockingbird | Larkin Poe |
| 13 | Sweet Southern Sounds | Samantha Fish |
| 14 | Big Dark Town | Roberta Faceplant |
| 15 | Mistakes | Caamp |
| 16 | Gonna Need Someone | Ringo Starr |
| 17 | Top of the World | JJ Grey & Mofro |
| 18 | Woman's Woman | Reckoners |
| 19 | Bluephoria | Larkin Poe |
| 20 | American Dreaming | Sierra Ferrell |
| 21 | Witness | The Wood Brothers |
| 22 | Cryin’ Shame (feat. Sonny Landreth) | Dion |
| 23 | I Got a Feeling | A.J. Croce |
| 24 | Wish You Would | Los Lonely Boys |
| 25 | I Will Not Go Down (feat. Billy Strings) | Amythyst Kiah |
| 26 | Bad Information | Frankie V and the Lonely Club |
| 27 | This Life As We Know It | Warren Haynes |
| 28 | Joy, Joy! | Valerie June |
| 29 | Gotta Get Back to New Orleans | Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones |
| 30 | When It Snows in Texas | Sierra Ferrell |
| 31 | Good While It Lasted | Jason Isbell |
| 32 | Little Bit | Larkin Poe |
| 33 | Wildflower | Babaux and The Peacemakers |
| 34 | Easy Love, Pt. 1 | Larkin Poe |
| 35 | Pleasure Point | Frankie V and the Lonely Club |
| 36 | Born Runnin' Outta Time | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 37 | That and $20 | Shinyribs |
| 38 | I'm Done Runnin' | Samantha Fish |
| 39 | Lose You | Samantha Fish |
| 40 | First Came the Thunder (feat. Qiensave) | Chuck Prophet |
| 41 | Nothing Above You | Frankie V and the Lonely Club |
| 42 | Incomprehensible | Big Thief |
| 43 | Green Light | Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors |
| 44 | It's a Good Day to Be Alive | Chuck Prophet |
| 45 | Life Behind Bars | Vandoliers |
| 46 | Wyoming Bound | 3 Twins |
| 47 | Ride to Robert's | Jason Isbell |
| 48 | Another Life | Alabama Shakes |
| 49 | Not Gonna Miss You | Sandy Atkinson |
| 50 | Junkies and Hookers | Sandy Atkinson |
| 51 | Mama Bear | Sandy Atkinson |
| 52 | Cause of It All | Sandy Atkinson |
| 53 | Do You Want to | The Coffis Brothers |
| 54 | Road Trip | Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones |
| 55 | Steal Your Love | Babaux and The Peacemakers |
| 56 | Almost Home | Ed Rawlings |
| 57 | Pearls | Larkin Poe |
| 58 | Face the Music | The Coffis Brothers |
| 59 | Paper Doll | Samantha Fish |
| 60 | Solo Modelo | Jeffrey Foucault |
| 61 | Hard to Love | Christone "Kingfish" Ingram |
| 62 | Blue and Gray | Dulcie Taylor |
| 63 | Standing on Business | Christone "Kingfish" Ingram |
| 64 | Empty Trainload of Sky | Gillian Welch and David Rawlings |
| 65 | Rooster | JJ Grey & Mofro |
| 66 | Thunderhead | Ed Rawlings |
| 67 | If Our Love is Dead | Royel Otis |
| 68 | Life is Just a Vapor | Paul Thorn |
| 69 | Without the Medicine | Babaux and The Peacemakers |
| 70 | Arrival | Ed Rawlings |
| 71 | Departure | Ed Rawlings |
| 72 | Early Grave | Babaux and The Peacemakers |
| 73 | Courage My Love | Paul Thorn |
| 74 | King of Oklahoma (Live) | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit |
| 75 | Puff of Smoke | The Wood Brothers |
| 76 | Betty's Song (feat. Qiensave) | Chuck Prophet |
| 77 | Half As High | The Devil Makes Three |
| 78 | Riff Raft | Ed Rawlings |
| 79 | Walk This Road (feat. Mavis Staples) | The Doobie Brothers |
| 80 | Rolling in Again | Roger Street Friedman |
| 81 | Fallen Champions | The Devil Makes Three |
| 82 | I Can See the Devil | S.G. Goodman |
| 83 | Blame It on Me | Babaux and The Peacemakers |
| 84 | Let the Rains Fall | Babaux and The Peacemakers |
| 85 | Test of Time | Babaux and The Peacemakers |
| 86 | Hillbilly Speedball | Webb Wilder |
| 87 | Foxes in the Snow | Jason Isbell |
| 88 | Kick Me when I'm Down | Webb Wilder |
| 89 | Soul of a Man | Robert Plant |
| 90 | Off in the Blue | Samantha Fish |
| 91 | Delilah | Marcus King |
| 92 | The Sea | JJ Grey & Mofro |
| 93 | Bewildered | Anders Osborne |
| 94 | She Will | Paul Thorn |
| 95 | Seven Bridges Road | Jubal Lee Young |
| 96 | Kick in the Head | New Riders Of The Purple Sage |
| 97 | I Think We Know | Roger Street Friedman |
| 98 | Hardly Living | Babaux and The Peacemakers |
| 99 | Beautiful Delilah | Webb Wilder |
| 100 | Memphis is a Calling | Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones |
| 101 | Allergic to Love | Webb Wilder |
| 102 | Bloom Again | Larkin Poe |
| 103 | Hard Times | The Devil Makes Three |
| 104 | Little Bit Crazy | Blackberry Smoke |
| 105 | The Perfect Time | The Subdudes |
| 106 | Crimson and Clay | Jason Isbell |
| 107 | The Long Con | The Revivalists |
| 108 | She Was Crying | Mark Adams Band |
| 109 | Freeze | Richard Thompson |
| 110 | Crossing Muddy Waters | John Hiatt |
| 111 | If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll (feat. Eric Clapton) | Dion |
| 112 | Moving Up to the City | Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones |
| 113 | The Only One | Steven Troch Band |
| 114 | The Color of Night | James McMurtry |
| 115 | The Forks of Cypress (feat. Waxahatchee) | Patterson Hood |
| 116 | Pretty Much | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 117 | All My Friends | Katie Pruitt |
| 118 | Promised Land | Ward Hayden & the Outliers |
| 119 | Waiting for Something | Ed Rawlings |
| 120 | Joy | Lucinda Williams |
| 121 | Kid | The Revivalists |
| 122 | Porchswing | Caamp |
| 123 | Laredo (Small Dark Something) | James McMurtry |
| 124 | Look at the Day | 3 Twins |
| 125 | Dare to Dream (feat. Graham Nash) | Mike Campbell & Dirty Knobs |
| 126 | What We Had | Gillian Welch and David Rawlings |
| 127 | Lights on Me | The Devil Makes Three |
| 128 | Hammer and the Nail | Blackberry Smoke |
| 129 | Broken Freedom Song | James McMurtry |
| 130 | You Ain't Above Me | Warren Haynes |
| 131 | Heartless | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats |
| 132 | Who You Gonna Love | Sir Woman |
| 133 | Baby Blues | JD McPherson |
| 134 | Far from Any Road | The Ripcords |
| 135 | Just How It Feels | Roger Street Friedman |
| 136 | Dance to the Rhythm | Ana Popovic |
| 137 | Back to LA | Christone "Kingfish" Ingram |
| 138 | I Misunderstood | Richard Thompson |
| 139 | Fat Dad | Charlie Mars |
| 140 | Love Doesn't Come from the Barrel of a Gun | Chuck Prophet |
| 141 | Stone's Throw | The Red Clay Strays |
| 142 | Night Shift | Jeffrey Foucault |
| 143 | Millions | Caamp |
| 144 | Grab Ahold | Oliver Wood |
| 145 | Crosses | Christone "Kingfish" Ingram |
| 146 | Sunshine Getaway | JD McPherson |
| 147 | Friend of the Devil | Grateful Dead |
| 148 | Get Still | Alan Sparhawk & Trampled By Turtles |
| 149 | Universal Fire | Jeffrey Foucault |
| 150 | God Pulls the Strings | Steven Troch Band |
| 151 | So Much to Say | Dave Matthews Band |
| 152 | On a Roll | A.J. Croce |
| 153 | Sugar Magnolia | Grateful Dead |
| 154 | This is What I'm Here for (feat. Taylor Hawkins, Joe Elliott & Waddy Wachtel) | Ian Hunter |
| 155 | You Wreck Me (Live at the Fillmore, 1997) | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers |
| 156 | Pickin' Up the Pieces | Poco |
| 157 | Sleepy Time Time | Cream |
| 158 | Bootleg (Live) | John Fogerty |
| 159 | Green River | John Fogerty |
| 160 | Keep Myself Clean | Robert Jon & The Wreck |
| 161 | Old Man | Robert Jon & The Wreck |
| 162 | Run Through the Jungle (John's Version) | John Fogerty |
| 163 | This Ain't Rock and Roll (feat. Phil Collen) | Ian Hunter |
| 164 | Motorfy (Unreleased Live Track) | The Blues Project |
| 165 | Wake Me Shake Me (Unreleased Live Track) | The Blues Project |
| 166 | Sanctuary | The Wild Feathers |
| 167 | Fallin' into You | Gurf Morlix |
| 168 | Western Hero | Neil Young |
| 169 | Local Hero | Bruce Springsteen |
| 170 | Sweet Potato | Shinyribs |
| 171 | Slow Rise (to the Middle) | The Wood Brothers |
| 172 | How Long | The Gravel Project |
| 173 | Stormy Weather | The Band of Heathens |
| 174 | Ridin' with Lady Luck (feat. Walter Trout) | Eric Corne |
| 175 | The Good Doctor | The Band of Heathens |
| 176 | On the Road Again | Steven Troch Band |
| 177 | The Lottery | Steven Troch Band |
| 178 | Gone Hungry | Reckoners |
| 179 | Gimme Some Lovin' | Grant Lyle |
| 180 | The Mountain | Steven Troch Band |
| 181 | Disaster | The Red Clay Strays |
| 182 | Yes We Can Can | Davis Coen |
| 183 | Eileen | Jason Isbell |
| 184 | The Finest Line (feat. Margo Price) | A.J. Croce |
| 185 | Homemade Blues | Cody Dickinson |
| 186 | Deleted Scene | Steven Troch Band |
| 187 | Dying Star | The Suitcase Junket |
| 188 | Sweet Misery | Will Hoge |
| 189 | Throw My Cane Away | Randall Bramblett |
| 190 | Truth | Christone "Kingfish" Ingram |
| 191 | Buckriders | Steven Troch Band |
| 192 | U-Haul Blues | Tami Neilson |
| 193 | Bad Like Me | Christone "Kingfish" Ingram |
| 194 | Little Men | Grant Lee Phillips |
| 195 | Do Right | The Commonheart |
| 196 | Keep Both Hands on the Wheel | Babaux and The Peacemakers |
| 197 | Deux Hurry | Nick Shoulders |
| 198 | Hill Folk | Nick Shoulders |
| 199 | The Next Man in Line | Rod Picott |
| 200 | The Depths of the Blues | Gurf Morlix |
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