The Roots Music Report's
Top Traditional Bluegrass Song Chart
for the Year of 2020
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goin' to Bring Her Back | Appalachian Road Show |
| 2 | Both Ends of the Train | Blue Highway |
| 3 | I Don't Mind | Sturgill Simpson |
| 4 | Digging My Own Grave | Sideline |
| 5 | Return to Windy Mountain | Sideline |
| 6 | Somewhere Far Away | Blue Highway |
| 7 | River of Tears | Trinity River Band |
| 8 | Richest Man | Balsam Range |
| 9 | A Lot Like the Whippoorwill | Deer Creek Boys |
| 10 | Earthman | The Dillards |
| 11 | Too Wet to Plow | Carolina Blue |
| 12 | Hooked on Bluegrass | Junior Sisk |
| 13 | When I Go All Bluegrass on You | Donna Ulisse |
| 14 | Sweet Companion (feat. Herb Pedersen) | The Dillards |
| 15 | Hitchhiking to California | Alan Bibey & Grasstowne |
| 16 | Grown Cold | Carolina Blue |
| 17 | Hello Sunshine | Tim Raybon Band |
| 18 | Next Train South | The Po' Ramblin' Boys |
| 19 | Roll on Blues | Sideline |
| 20 | Movin' on | Tim Raybon Band |
| 21 | Mend This Heart of Mine | Junior Sisk |
| 22 | Me and Lonesome Again | Blue Moon Rising |
| 23 | Dixieland for Me | Mikayla Burrows |
| 24 | Down in Union County | Larry Sparks |
| 25 | Lily Dale | Junior Sisk |
| 26 | Last Train (feat. Sarah Jarosz) | Bronwyn Keith-Hynes |
| 27 | Take Me Back to West Virginia | Larry Sparks |
| 28 | Whippoorwill | Tim Raybon Band |
| 29 | Just Load the Wagon | Junior Sisk |
| 30 | The Guitar Song (feat. Del McCoury) | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers |
| 31 | Heart of Rosine | Donna Ulisse |
| 32 | Widow Mae | The Po' Ramblin' Boys |
| 33 | Bacon in My Beans | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers |
| 34 | I Want to Know More About My Lord | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers |
| 35 | Get in Line Buddy | Junior Sisk |
| 36 | Hickory, Walnut & Pine | The Po' Ramblin' Boys |
| 37 | West Virginia Rail | Joe Hott |
| 38 | When Jesus Swings the Wrecking Ball | Alan Bibey & Grasstowne |
| 39 | I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me | Carolina Blue |
| 40 | Heart of Gold | Crowe Brothers |
| 41 | Lover's Farewell | Junior Sisk |
| 42 | Love is an Awful Thing | Audie Blaylock and Redline |
| 43 | New Life | Alan Bibey & Grasstowne |
| 44 | Later in the Evening | Serene Green |
| 45 | Toil, Tears & Trouble | The Po' Ramblin' Boys |
| 46 | Don't Want to Die in the Storm | Appalachian Road Show |
| 47 | Hello Trouble (feat. James Kee & Tim O'Brien) | Bronwyn Keith-Hynes |
| 48 | Old New Borrowed and Blue | The Po' Ramblin' Boys |
| 49 | I'm Going There | Junior Sisk |
| 50 | Ice on the Timber | The Po' Ramblin' Boys |
| 51 | There's a Record Book | The Chigger Hill Boys & Terri |
| 52 | In Texas Tonight | Blue Highway |
| 53 | Square Dance Town | Sideline |
| 54 | Cabbage Head | Irene Kelley |
| 55 | World of Lies | Joe Hott |
| 56 | No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus | The Gospel Plowboys |
| 57 | The Bluegrass Auctioneer | The Kody Norris Show |
| 58 | The Girl Who Invented the Wheel | Balsam Range |
| 59 | Hop Bottom | Serene Green |
| 60 | Key of Love | The Family Sowell |
| 61 | I Can't Think of One | Blue Highway |
| 62 | That Old Wheel | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers |
| 63 | Deep Dark Hollow Road | Del McCoury Band |
| 64 | There's a New Moon over My Shoulder | Larry Sparks |
| 65 | Salty Dog Blues (Live) | The Earls of Leicester |
| 66 | March Around Jericho | Carolina Blue |
| 67 | Beautiful Hills of Home | Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys |
| 68 | Rusty Rails | Carolina Blue |
| 69 | Best Female Actress | Junior Sisk |
| 70 | J. D.'s Words of Wisdom | Ricky Skaggs |
| 71 | Get Up John | Ricky Skaggs |
| 72 | Good Conversation | Serene Green |
| 73 | Coal Minin' Man | The Kody Norris Show |
| 74 | Good 'Cause I'm Gone | Backline |
| 75 | Bitterweeds | Larry Sparks |
| 76 | Cryin Holy Unto the Lord | The Gospel Plowboys |
| 77 | The Spirit of Appalachia | Appalachian Road Show |
| 78 | True Grass | Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road |
| 79 | Leave Me to Cry | Audie Blaylock and Redline |
| 80 | I'll Talk It All over with Him | John Bowman |
| 81 | Grandma's Piano | The Family Sowell |
| 82 | I'll Follow You | Tim Raybon Band |
| 83 | He Will Roll You over the Tide | Tim Raybon Band |
| 84 | Are You Tired of Me My Darling | Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out |
| 85 | Longing for the Ozarks | The Po' Ramblin' Boys |
| 86 | Hello Heartache | Balsam Range |
| 87 | Hit the Highway | Pam Gadd |
| 88 | I'm Really Leaving | Larry Sparks |
| 89 | Silverthorn Mountain | John Bowman |
| 90 | There's a Higher Power | Eddie Sanders |
| 91 | Ophelia | Bill Emerson |
| 92 | Between a Rock and a Hard Place | Tugalo Holler |
| 93 | Wish the Wars Were All over | Appalachian Road Show |
| 94 | Something 'Bout That Suitcase | Balsam Range |
| 95 | Dear Kentucky | Blue Highway |
| 96 | Blessed City | Tim Raybon Band |
| 97 | This Town | Tim Raybon Band |
| 98 | Fiddler's Pastime (feat. Laura Orshaw) | Bronwyn Keith-Hynes |
| 99 | Wabash Blues | Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves |
| 100 | Same Kind of Different | The Family Sowell |
| 101 | Here and Now | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers |
| 102 | Huckleberry’s Hope | Audie Blaylock and Redline |
| 103 | Things Can Only Get Better | Love Canon |
| 104 | Haywood | Serene Green |
| 105 | My Whole World is Standing Still | Donna Ulisse |
| 106 | The Hills of Home | Irene Kelley |
| 107 | Far Apart | Serene Green |
| 108 | Drowned in Sorrow | Steve Gulley |
| 109 | When We've Got Time for Love | Donna Ulisse |
| 110 | Love Please Come Home | Jeff Scroggins & Colorado |
| 111 | That Sounds More Like Heaven to Me | Blue Highway |
| 112 | I Was Wrong | Larry Sparks |
| 113 | I Can't Run off with You Darling | Gary Brewer & The Kentucky Ramblers |
| 114 | I'm Gonna Wait on Jesus | Carolina Blue |
| 115 | The Story of Simon Lowe | Volume Five |
| 116 | Not Now | Steve Gulley |
| 117 | Red Top Mountain Road | Donna Ulisse |
| 118 | Don’t Know Why | Audie Blaylock and Redline |
| 119 | He Died a Rounder at 21 | Junior Sisk |
| 120 | Louisville Rambler | Blue Moon Rising |
| 121 | This Old Guitar and Me | Alan Bibey & Grasstowne |
| 122 | Tumbleweed Town | Balsam Range |
| 123 | Loving You Too Well | Larry Sparks |
| 124 | If Teardrops Were Pennies | Lynn Morris |
| 125 | Lord of All Men | Sideline |
| 126 | We Live in Two Different Worlds | Mark Kuykendall & Bobby Hicks |
| 127 | They Call Me Trouble | Terry Baucom |
| 128 | Gonna Rise and Shine | Alan Bibey & Grasstowne |
| 129 | Let My Life Be a Light | Balsam Range |
| 130 | Dreamers Hill | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers |
| 131 | Lonliness and Time | Volume Five |
| 132 | Lost and Lonely | Carolina Blue |
| 133 | All the Way to the Bottom | Volume Five |
| 134 | Dance in Old Kentucky | Dede Wyland |
| 135 | Music on the Wind | Dede Wyland |
| 136 | Born Again | Alan Bibey & Grasstowne |
| 137 | Have at It | Serene Green |
| 138 | Your Selfish Heart | Sideline |
| 139 | The Whiskey & the Guitar | Junior Sisk |
| 140 | Ain't Nothin' Wrong with That | Junior Sisk |
| 141 | God is | The Chigger Hill Boys & Terri |
| 142 | Southern Wind | Sideline |
| 143 | What Goes Around | Junior Sisk |
| 144 | Fried Taters and Onions | Carolina Blue |
| 145 | Raining in Roanoke | Carolina Blue |
| 146 | Sweet Mary of the Mountains | Blue Mafia |
| 147 | I'm Not Afraid | Donna Ulisse |
| 148 | Good Place | The Family Sowell |
| 149 | The 15th of October | Volume Five |
| 150 | Talk is Cheap | Blue Highway |
| 151 | Wicked Path of Sin | Blue Highway |
| 152 | Old Time Way | Sideline |
| 153 | Do You Ever Think of Me | Highland Travelers |
| 154 | No Mountain Girl | Dewey & Leslie Brown and The Carolina Gentlemen |
| 155 | Love Letters in the Sand | Jerry Wicentowski |
| 156 | Could You Love Me One More Time | Dede Wyland |
| 157 | Let It Be Me | Dede Wyland |
| 158 | Walk with Me Today | Irene Kelley |
| 159 | Dad | Tim Raybon Band |
| 160 | Heavenly Train | The Gospel Plowboys |
| 161 | I'm Lonesome and Blue | Junior Sisk |
| 162 | Matthew 24 | Eddie Sanders |
| 163 | The Man You Know | Blue Mafia |
| 164 | Glory Bound Train | Carolina Blue |
| 165 | Tell Me True | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers |
| 166 | Will You Be Satisfied That Way | Larry Sparks |
| 167 | The Boy from Valdese | Buddy Melton & Milan Miller |
| 168 | Letter from My Darling | Larry Sparks |
| 169 | Angeline | Blue Moon Rising |
| 170 | You'll Be a Lost Ball | The Chapmans |
| 171 | Lonesome Old Homesick Blues | Matt Wallace |
| 172 | Drivin' Nails | Rhonda Vincent |
| 173 | Don't You Call My Name | Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers |
| 174 | Silver and Gold | Claire Lynch |
| 175 | Shadows of My Mind | James King |
| 176 | Little Mountain Home | Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers |
| 177 | Five More Days of Rain | Blue Moon Rising |
| 178 | All American Bluegrass Girl | Rhonda Vincent |
| 179 | Forever Ain't That Long Anymore | Rhonda Vincent |
| 180 | Jolene | Rhonda Vincent |
| 181 | Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring | Claire Lynch |
| 182 | When It Comes to You | Kristy Cox |
| 183 | Old Brown County Barn | Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers |
| 184 | Tennessee Hound Dog | Pam Gadd |
| 185 | I Know What I Know | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers |
| 186 | Pick the Banjo | The Spinney Brothers |
| 187 | Living | Steve Gulley |
| 188 | Good Road | Steve Gulley |
| 189 | Closer to the Shore | Steve Gulley |
| 190 | Common Man's Train of Thought | Steve Gulley |
| 191 | Foggy Mountain Top | Kristin Scott Benson |
| 192 | When I Get the Money Made | The Kody Norris Show |
| 193 | John Henry | Ralph Stanley |
| 194 | West Virginia My Home | Angelica Grim |
| 195 | Little Maggie | Ricky Skaggs |
| 196 | Lonesome Road Blues | Brennen Ernst |
| 197 | The Traveling Kind | Junior Sisk |
| 198 | Are You Coming Back to Me | Jerry Wicentowski |
| 199 | West Virginia Songbird | Ray Edwards |
| 200 | Why Baby Why | Nathan Stanley |
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