The Roots Music Report's
Top Traditional Bluegrass Song Chart
for the Year of 2023
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Earthman | The Dillards |
| 2 | California Earthquake | Sam Bush |
| 3 | The Traveling Song (Live) | Stoney Creek Bluegrass Band |
| 4 | Issaqueena (feat. Alan Bibey, Ethan Burkhardt & Michael Cleveland) | Wilson Banjo Co. |
| 5 | Black and White | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers |
| 6 | I'm Fallin' | Donna Ulisse |
| 7 | Nothing to Lose (feat. Lou Reid) | Olivia Jo |
| 8 | I'm Warming Up to an Old Flame | The Tennessee Bluegrass Band |
| 9 | Ballad of Kidder Cole | Appalachian Road Show |
| 10 | Radio John | Sam Bush |
| 11 | What the Years Do | Balsam Range |
| 12 | Vertigo (feat. Bryan Sutton, Edgar Meyer, Sam Bush & Stuart Duncan) | Bela Fleck |
| 13 | Can't Get Away from This Broken Heart | Tim Raybon Band |
| 14 | La La Blues | Appalachian Road Show |
| 15 | King of the Hill | Jason Carter |
| 16 | When the Crow Comes Down (feat. Deanie Richardson & Richard Bennett) | Wilson Banjo Co. |
| 17 | Fiddler's Rock | The Kody Norris Show |
| 18 | Blue Ridge Mountain Baby | Appalachian Road Show |
| 19 | Sally Johnson | Tim Raybon Band |
| 20 | The Glory Road | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers |
| 21 | Can't Live Without Love (feat. Sam Bush & Molly Tuttle) | Bronwyn Keith-Hynes |
| 22 | Rosco's Ramble (feat. Jim Nunally, Sharon Gilchrist, Patrick Sauber, Mike Witcher & Greg Spatz) | John Reischman |
| 23 | Snake Charmer | Balsam Range |
| 24 | Highway 52 | Jason Carter |
| 25 | Dixieland Delight | Dave Adkins |
| 26 | The Lonely Side of Goodbye | Junior Sisk |
| 27 | Ghost of Good Times | Full Cord |
| 28 | Traveler | Dave Adkins |
| 29 | Letters Have No Arms | The Tennessee Bluegrass Band |
| 30 | Better Angels Fly Away | Audie Blaylock and Redline |
| 31 | Otto Wood | The Kody Norris Show |
| 32 | Far from You | The Tennessee Bluegrass Band |
| 33 | One Way Track | Boone Creek |
| 34 | My Home in Virginia | The Kody Norris Show |
| 35 | I Call Her Sunshine | The Kody Norris Show |
| 36 | Midnight Flyer | Jason Carter |
| 37 | Mary Ann is a Pistol | The Lonesome River Band |
| 38 | Long Hard Day (feat. Ethan Burkhardt, Glen Crain & Tony Wray) | Wilson Banjo Co. |
| 39 | Mountain Rosalie | The Kody Norris Show |
| 40 | Bluebird | The Fretliners |
| 41 | Autumn Leaves (feat. Gena Britt) | Wilson Banjo Co. |
| 42 | Paper Angel | Jason Carter |
| 43 | Casualty of War | Nathan Stanley |
| 44 | Oreo Cookie Blues | Jeffrey Scott |
| 45 | Country Side of Heaven (Where the Bluegrass Music Flows) [Live] | Larry Stephenson Band |
| 46 | Troubled Life | Appalachian Road Show |
| 47 | Back in '29 (feat. Steve Gulley) | Barry Abernathy |
| 48 | She is a Gambler (feat. Clay Hess) | Wilson Banjo Co. |
| 49 | Old Fire | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers |
| 50 | Almost Proud | Del McCoury Band |
| 51 | Nothing So Blue | Tim Raybon Band |
| 52 | Echo Canyon | Balsam Range |
| 53 | Where the Mountain Lilies Grow | Donna Ulisse |
| 54 | I'm Still Here | Sam Bush |
| 55 | Buster | The Unseen Strangers |
| 56 | By the River | Foghorn Stringband |
| 57 | You're No Good | Mikayla Burrows |
| 58 | Downtown | Full Cord |
| 59 | Life in the Country | The Tennessee Bluegrass Band |
| 60 | Nobody Cares | Junior Sisk |
| 61 | I Know What I Know | Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers |
| 62 | Anything to Help You Say Goodbye | Irene Kelley |
| 63 | Happy Go Lucky | Alan Bibey |
| 64 | The Wake | Meadow Mountain |
| 65 | Have You Come to Say Goodbye | J.D. Crowe & Rickey Wasson |
| 66 | A Little Bit of Bluegrass | Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road |
| 67 | Hoedown for My Lowdown Rowdy Ways | Jason Carter |
| 68 | Kissimmee Kid | Jason Carter |
| 69 | The North Side | Blue Highway |
| 70 | Red River Line | Traditionally Wound |
| 71 | We're All Crazy | Dave Adkins |
| 72 | Slow Train Through Georgia | Bob Minner |
| 73 | Up There on the Hillside | Junior Sisk |
| 74 | Introduction with Jean Shepherd (Live) | Larry Stephenson Band |
| 75 | I Should've Called (Live) | Larry Stephenson Band |
| 76 | Leslie County Blues | The Tennessee Bluegrass Band |
| 77 | Remind Me of You | Blue Highway |
| 78 | Stanley Melody | Nathan Stanley |
| 79 | Looking at the World Through a Windshield | The Kody Norris Show |
| 80 | Black Mountain Aire | Mark Schatz and Friends |
| 81 | Burning Georgia Down | Balsam Range |
| 82 | Echoes of Love | Eddie Sanders |
| 83 | Mountain Flower | Carolina Blue |
| 84 | Crash Course in the Blues | Sideline |
| 85 | Rivers, Rains and Runaway Trains | Balsam Range |
| 86 | Like a Bad Outlaw | Eddie Sanders |
| 87 | That Kind of Lonesome | Eddie Sanders |
| 88 | Shuckin' the Corn | Jesse Brock |
| 89 | Restless Blue Eyed Lover (Live) | Larry Stephenson Band |
| 90 | Number One at the Bottom | Cedar Hill |
| 91 | Yesterday’s Blues | Jesse Smathers |
| 92 | Leaving Cleveland | Tim Raybon Band |
| 93 | Medicine Springs | The Tim Shelton Syndicate |
| 94 | Kentucky Sun Going Down | The Tennessee Bluegrass Band |
| 95 | Queen of the Nashville Night | Jason Carter |
| 96 | Millworker (feat. Dennis Parker, Marty Raybon & Tony Wray) [Acoustic Tribute to James Taylor] | Tony Wray |
| 97 | Just to Satisfy You | Balsam Range |
| 98 | In Tall Buildings | Sam Bush |
| 99 | Down | Sam Bush |
| 100 | The Bluegrass Auctioneer | The Kody Norris Show |
| 101 | Sweeter Than the Flowers | Foghorn Stringband |
| 102 | Barbara Allen | Mikayla Burrows |
| 103 | Right in Step | Full Cord |
| 104 | No End of Love | Sam Bush |
| 105 | Granny Wontcha You Smoke Some Marijuana | Sam Bush |
| 106 | Solsbury Hill / Icecaps of Pentatonia-medley | Love Canon |
| 107 | If You Were My Tomorrow | Nick Chandler & Delivered |
| 108 | I Shot the Sheriff | Blue Mule |
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