Top Folk Song Chart for the Year of 2024

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Song Chart
for the Year of 2024

Rank	Song Title	Band/Artist Name	Sub Genre
1	Alibi	Hurray for the Riff Raff	Alternative Folk
2	Jealous Moon	Sarah Jarosz	Contemporary Folk
3	Ahead of the Game	Mark Knopfler	Contemporary Folk
4	The Returner	Allison Russell	Contemporary Folk
5	Boombox	Charlie Parr	Contemporary Folk
6	While I'm Down (feat. TK & the Holy Know-Nothings)	John Craigie	Alternative Folk
7	Hawkmoon	Hurray for the Riff Raff	Alternative Folk
8	Brown's Ferry Blues (feat. Billy Strings)	Tony Trischka	Alternative Folk
9	Let's Get Happy Together (feat. Maria Muldaur)	Jim Kweskin	Traditional Folk
10	Somewhere South	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
11	River Gonna Talk	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
12	Let's Take Our Time and Do It Right	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
13	When I Was Younger	Bonny Light Horseman	Alternative Folk
14	Weight You Carry	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
15	I Wanna Go out	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
16	Hold Me	The Strumbellas	Contemporary Folk
17	Step into Your Power	Ray LaMontagne	Folk Rock
18	Nothing else Matters	Lindsay Lou	Folk
19	American Boys	Don McLean	Folk Rock
20	Hurricane	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
21	All the Ways	The Secret Sisters	Contemporary Folk
22	From a Dying Rose	Todd Snider	Folk Rock
23	Love of a Girl	The Avett Brothers	Folk Rock
24	Hold on Tight	Amos Lee	Folk Rock
25	Lagunita	Lizzie No	Alternative Folk
26	Just a Little Ways Down the Road	Laurie Lewis	Alternative Folk
27	Weepin' Willow Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
28	Orion's Belt	The Avett Brothers	Folk Rock
29	Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
30	Snake Plant (The Past is Still Alive)	Hurray for the Riff Raff	Alternative Folk
31	Bird on a Wire	Michael Powers	Folk
32	Frost on the South Side	Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz	Alternative Folk
33	Out of Time (feat. LeAnn Rimes)	Trampled by Turtles	Contemporary Folk
34	Lemon's Jump	Stefan Grossman	Contemporary Folk
35	We Don't Talk About It	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
36	City Slickers	Rainbow Girls	Alternative Folk
37	Atlanta Blues	Stephen Bennett	Contemporary Folk
38	Rainbow in the Dark	Karney	Folk Rock
39	Sinners and Saints	Karney	Folk Rock
40	Across the Planet	Karney	Folk Rock
41	None of Em Dead	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
42	Witness Trees	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
43	Women Are Not Equal	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
44	Devil Rail	John Zipperer	Contemporary Folk
45	Sound Existence	Steve Forbert	Contemporary Folk
46	Buddy Roe	Billy Jeter	Contemporary Folk
47	This Bluesy Thing We Do	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
48	Win or Lose	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
49	Oola	John Zipperer	Contemporary Folk
50	Lexi Dance	John Zipperer	Contemporary Folk
51	Runaway	James Maddock	Traditional Folk
52	Be Ready	Larry Rice	Traditional Folk
53	Push on Through	Larry Rice	Traditional Folk
54	Welcome the Stranger	Larry Rice	Traditional Folk
55	Rickie Lee	Arielle Silver	Contemporary Folk
56	Asteroids and Chaos	Arielle Silver	Contemporary Folk
57	Best Laid Plans	The B. Christopher Band	Folk
58	Don't Let It Rain	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
59	Homeless Blues (Live)	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
60	Alabama Bound (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
61	Soft on the Shoulder	Arielle Silver	Contemporary Folk
62	900 Miles (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
63	Feel the Way I Feel	Wolf Jett	Contemporary Folk
64	Went to a Party	Nick Lowe	Folk Rock
65	World Keeps on Singing	Eliza Gilkyson	Contemporary Folk
66	Dig a Hole in the Meadow (Darlin Cory)	Morningbird	Contemporary Folk
67	Peace is More	Karney	Folk Rock
68	Your Love	Pressing Strings	Folk Rock
69	The Living Kind	John Smith	Contemporary Folk
70	Pretty Lights of Denver	Weary Ramblers	Contemporary Folk
71	Already Gone	Willie Watson	Traditional Folk
72	Birds and Bees	Morningbird	Contemporary Folk
73	Time for a Change	Morningbird	Contemporary Folk
74	Just Doesn't Work Anymore	Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus	Contemporary Folk
75	Harbortowne	Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus	Contemporary Folk
76	Lottery	Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus	Contemporary Folk
77	Letter to a Savior	Good Morning Bedlam	Contemporary Folk
78	Hard Playing Hard to Get	Sons Of The East	Folk Rock
79	Senses (Thanks JSB)	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
80	Hold on (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
81	Sweet Hazel Green	Weary Ramblers	Contemporary Folk
82	Medicine Creek	Weary Ramblers	Contemporary Folk
83	Yonder Come the Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
84	Thinking of Her	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
85	WTF	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
86	Done with Love	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
87	Nazareth	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
88	Too Lazy	Joe Holt	Contemporary Folk
89	It All Comes Down to Love	Tom Rush	Contemporary Folk
90	Spruce & Pine	SLPSTRM	Alternative Folk
91	The Ballad of Elon Musk	Michael Johnathon	Contemporary Folk
92	The Car Song	Nina Gerber	Folk
93	Glacier	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
94	Wherever You Go	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
95	Jack O' Diamonds (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
96	What a Little Love Can Do	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
97	Sticky and Sweet	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
98	Bop Bop New Orleans	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
99	Kismet	Raveis Kole	Folk Rock
100	Walking in the Valley of the Shadow	Will Kimbrough	Folk Rock
101	Make Good Trouble	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
102	Midnight Wine	Shannon & The Clams	Alternative Folk
103	Unfinished Business	Megan Burtt	Folk Rock
104	Two Pairs of Hands	Mark Knopfler	Contemporary Folk
105	Stand	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
106	Friends	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
107	I Was Wrong	Aarythmers	Folk Rock
108	Jim Crow Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
109	Keep on Movin' It on (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
110	Far Cry	T Sisters	Alternative Folk
111	Sweet Beginnings	Kathryn Severing Fox	Contemporary Folk
112	White Lines & Headlights	Kathryn Severing Fox	Contemporary Folk
113	Secret	Kathryn Severing Fox	Contemporary Folk
114	Beautiful Day	Amos Lee	Folk Rock
115	You Louisiana Man	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
116	20 Years and a Nickel	Hiss Golden Messenger	Alternative Folk
117	Special Delivery Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
118	On and on	Grace Cummings	Folk Rock
119	Freedom Trilogy (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
120	You're the One	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
121	Worry B Gone	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
122	Little Speck of Dust	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
123	Crawl	Shannon & The Clams	Alternative Folk
124	And They Called Her California	Ray LaMontagne	Folk Rock
125	Closer to Fine	Indigo Girls	Contemporary Folk
126	Go Down Sunshine (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
127	All That Makes Me Happy is the Blues	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
128	Good Friends	Max Gomez	Traditional Folk
129	I Wouldn't Change a Thing	Ray LaMontagne	Folk Rock
130	Season of the Witch	Donovan	Folk
131	The Truth About a Lie	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
132	Katie's Got a Locket	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
133	Broken Truth	Tim Grimm	Contemporary Folk
134	Backwater Voodoo	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
135	Old Radio	Robby Hecht	Folk Rock
136	I Want to Tell You	Katie Knipp	Alternative Folk
137	Lights of Change	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
138	Remember Dorothy	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
139	Unknowh	Dom Flemons	Contemporary Folk
140	Slim and the Devil	Willie Watson	Traditional Folk
141	I Wanna Fly	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
142	Colossus of Roads	Hurray for the Riff Raff	Alternative Folk
143	The Sound of Falling Snow	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
144	Follow the Money	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
145	Give Us Free	David G Smith	Alternative Folk
146	Glory Glory (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
147	Take This Hammer (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
148	Hit or Miss (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
149	Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
150	Dink's Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
151	Easy Rider (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
152	Midnight Special	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
153	This Little Light of Mine (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
154	What We Wanna Be	Indigo Girls	Folk Rock
155	Whole Lotta Livin' (feat. Vince Gill)	The Imaginaries	Folk Rock
156	Thunderstorm Girl	Don McLean	Folk Rock
157	Halfsies	Lizzie No	Alternative Folk
158	East Runs out of West	Winterlark	Alternative Folk
159	If I Was a Sparrow	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
160	How Long Blues (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
161	Sundown	Gordon Lightfoot	Folk
162	Jonah's Song	Rainbow Girls	Alternative Folk
163	Bob Dylan Whiskey	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
164	Sugaree	Alice DiMicele	Alternative Folk
165	My Lady Fair	Ray LaMontagne	Folk Rock
166	Ozarker	Israel Nash	Folk Rock
167	Shine Your Blues	The High Hawks	Folk Rock
168	Time and Space	Katie Knipp	Alternative Folk
169	When the Lights Go out	Sarah Jarosz	Contemporary Folk
170	Lonely Train	Keith Rayburn	Alternative Folk
171	Things We Contemplate	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
172	Procrastination (I'll Do It Later)	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
173	Everlasting	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
174	Hands on	Larry Robbins	Contemporary Folk
175	Forgiveness	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
176	Hambone Stomp Feat. Bobby Rush	Billy Jeter	Contemporary Folk
177	What You've Shown Me	Parker Millsap	Contemporary Folk
178	Blues Everywhere I Go (Live) [feat. Gina Coleman]	Misty Blues	Traditional Folk
179	Top of the Hour	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
180	The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald	Gordon Lightfoot	Contemporary Folk
181	After the Revolution	Carsie Blanton	Contemporary Folk
182	Sing to Me About Tomorrow	Winterlark	Alternative Folk
183	Ending with Heart Heart Heart	Winterlark	Alternative Folk
184	Devil's Highway	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
185	A Power You'll Never Know	Linda Sussman	Alternative Folk
186	Hen in the Foxhouse	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
187	Woody's Dream	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
188	Rosemary	Donovan Woods	Contemporary Folk
189	Never Apart (w/ Vocal Prelude)	The Avett Brothers	Folk Rock
190	Columbus & 89th	Sarah Jarosz	Contemporary Folk
191	Runaway Train	Sarah Jarosz	Contemporary Folk
192	Long Gone	Laurie Lewis	Alternative Folk
193	Pulling Weeds	Scott Sean White	Contemporary Folk
194	Rocket out of Here	John Stowers	Folk Rock
195	Lone Rooster Blues	Marques Morel	Contemporary Folk
196	Scavengers Yard	Mark Knopfler	Contemporary Folk
197	The Ballad of Sally Anne	Rhiannon Giddens	Contemporary Folk
198	Night Train from Milan	Jeff Talmadge	Alternative Folk
199	Everybody	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk
200	Common Sense	Gary Nicholson	Alternative Folk

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The Roots Music Report's Top Folk Song Chart for the Year of 2024

The Roots Music Report's
Top Folk Song Chart
for the Year of 2024