The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Folk Song Chart
for the Year of 2024
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jealous Moon | Sarah Jarosz |
| 2 | Ahead of the Game | Mark Knopfler |
| 3 | The Returner | Allison Russell |
| 4 | Boombox | Charlie Parr |
| 5 | Hold Me | The Strumbellas |
| 6 | All the Ways | The Secret Sisters |
| 7 | Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad | Rhiannon Giddens |
| 8 | Out of Time (feat. LeAnn Rimes) | Trampled by Turtles |
| 9 | Lemon's Jump | Stefan Grossman |
| 10 | Atlanta Blues | Stephen Bennett |
| 11 | Devil Rail | John Zipperer |
| 12 | Sound Existence | Steve Forbert |
| 13 | Buddy Roe | Billy Jeter |
| 14 | Oola | John Zipperer |
| 15 | Lexi Dance | John Zipperer |
| 16 | Rickie Lee | Arielle Silver |
| 17 | Asteroids and Chaos | Arielle Silver |
| 18 | Soft on the Shoulder | Arielle Silver |
| 19 | Feel the Way I Feel | Wolf Jett |
| 20 | World Keeps on Singing | Eliza Gilkyson |
| 21 | Dig a Hole in the Meadow (Darlin Cory) | Morningbird |
| 22 | The Living Kind | John Smith |
| 23 | Pretty Lights of Denver | Weary Ramblers |
| 24 | Birds and Bees | Morningbird |
| 25 | Time for a Change | Morningbird |
| 26 | Just Doesn't Work Anymore | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus |
| 27 | Harbortowne | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus |
| 28 | Lottery | Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus |
| 29 | Letter to a Savior | Good Morning Bedlam |
| 30 | Sweet Hazel Green | Weary Ramblers |
| 31 | Medicine Creek | Weary Ramblers |
| 32 | Too Lazy | Joe Holt |
| 33 | It All Comes Down to Love | Tom Rush |
| 34 | The Ballad of Elon Musk | Michael Johnathon |
| 35 | Two Pairs of Hands | Mark Knopfler |
| 36 | Sweet Beginnings | Kathryn Severing Fox |
| 37 | White Lines & Headlights | Kathryn Severing Fox |
| 38 | Secret | Kathryn Severing Fox |
| 39 | You Louisiana Man | Rhiannon Giddens |
| 40 | You're the One | Rhiannon Giddens |
| 41 | Closer to Fine | Indigo Girls |
| 42 | When the Lights Go out | Sarah Jarosz |
| 43 | Things We Contemplate | Larry Robbins |
| 44 | Procrastination (I'll Do It Later) | Larry Robbins |
| 45 | Everlasting | Larry Robbins |
| 46 | Hands on | Larry Robbins |
| 47 | What You've Shown Me | Parker Millsap |
| 48 | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 49 | After the Revolution | Carsie Blanton |
| 50 | Hen in the Foxhouse | Rhiannon Giddens |
| 51 | Rosemary | Donovan Woods |
| 52 | Columbus & 89th | Sarah Jarosz |
| 53 | Runaway Train | Sarah Jarosz |
| 54 | Pulling Weeds | Scott Sean White |
| 55 | Lone Rooster Blues | Marques Morel |
| 56 | Scavengers Yard | Mark Knopfler |
| 57 | Fifty States of Freedom | Brewer & Shipley |
| 58 | More Than Friends (feat. Lainey Wilson) | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 59 | Now Tell Me That You've Got the Blues | Sylvia Tyson |
| 60 | Down Home Blues (Walkin' After Midnight) | Eva Cassidy |
| 61 | Take the High Road | Sarah Jarosz |
| 62 | Dying Ember | Sarah Jarosz |
| 63 | Days Can Turn Around | Sarah Jarosz |
| 64 | Paperweight | The Secret Sisters |
| 65 | 12 Notes and 26 Letters (feat. Susan Gibson) | Scott Sean White |
| 66 | The Nightjar's Fall from Grace | Malcolm MacWatt |
| 67 | Same Street | Scott Sean White |
| 68 | Bible | Dan Bern With Jane's Great Dane |
| 69 | Silence of the Sun | Misner & Smith |
| 70 | Start with a Stone | Carrie Newcomer |
| 71 | Hambone Stomp (feat. Bobby Rush) | Billy Jeter |
| 72 | Just Not Today (feat. Helene Cronin) | Scott Sean White |
| 73 | People (feat. Helene Cronin) | Scott Sean White |
| 74 | Memphis; the Blues (feat. John Moreland) | Zach Bryan |
| 75 | Overpass | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 76 | Sweet Sisters | Elexa Dawson |
| 77 | If We Would Let It | Parker Millsap |
| 78 | All Four Winds | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 79 | Go in Peace | Sam Baker |
| 80 | I Used to Be So Pretty | Linda Thompson |
| 81 | Skyline Blues | Charles Wesley Godwin |
| 82 | Strong is the North Wind | Malcolm MacWatt |
| 83 | At the End of the Day | Sylvia Tyson |
| 84 | Joyland | Billy Jeter |
| 85 | I've Got the Blues (even Though Nothing is Wrong) Fun Version | Dan Reeder |
| 86 | Perfectly Absurd | Larry Robbins |
| 87 | I Did It (Hey Doubters) | Larry Robbins |
| 88 | Before My Train Comes | Mark Knopfler |
| 89 | Alton Air | Darrell Scott |
| 90 | Cotton Mill Girls (1930) | Dawn Landes |
| 91 | I Want to Love You | Trampled by Turtles |
| 92 | Sticks and Stones | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 93 | Ticket Taker Blues | Buddy Mondlock |
| 94 | Every Time I Drink | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 95 | Rosie Blue | Kerri Powers |
| 96 | Shady Grove | Billy Jeter |
| 97 | Bonnie Lass | Linda Thompson |
| 98 | That's the Way the Polka Goes | Linda Thompson |
| 99 | Imaginary Lover | Laurel Lewis |
| 100 | Won't Be Long (Walkin' After Midnight) | Eva Cassidy |
| 101 | Deep As Your Pocket | Eilen Jewell |
| 102 | Millworker | Becky Buller |
| 103 | Blessed by the West | Sarah Pierce |
| 104 | Yet to Be (feat. Jason Isbell) | Rhiannon Giddens |
| 105 | Purple Toyota | Steve Forbert |
| 106 | The Pill | Eilen Jewell |
| 107 | Happy Children | Lori McKenna |
| 108 | The Town in Your Heart | Lori McKenna |
| 109 | Killing Me (feat. Hillary Lindsey) | Lori McKenna |
| 110 | Days Are Honey | Lori McKenna |
| 111 | Growing Up | Lori McKenna |
| 112 | Letting People Down | Lori McKenna |
| 113 | Take More Time, Cover Less Ground | Carrie Newcomer |
| 114 | Toy Boat Song | Tom Rush |
| 115 | Please Come to Boston | Dave Loggins |
| 116 | The Tunnel | Lori McKenna |
| 117 | Icarus | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 118 | Wrong House | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 119 | If I Didn't Love You | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 120 | Stay Right Here | Allison Russell |
| 121 | Snakelife | Allison Russell |
| 122 | The Way It is Now | Sarah Jarosz |
| 123 | Already Free | Ruth Moody |
| 124 | Gonna Sing | Billy Jeter |
| 125 | Storyville Shooting Star | Billy Jeter |
| 126 | Cactus Blues | Marques Morel |
| 127 | Matthew's in Love | Della |
| 128 | I'm in | Dan Bern With Jane's Great Dane |
| 129 | Grapevine | Della |
| 130 | We Are Wild | David Hobbes |
| 131 | Measure of Degree | David Hobbes |
| 132 | Lulu Left Town | David Hobbes |
| 133 | When You Need a Hand | David Hobbes |
| 134 | Demons | Allison Russell |
| 135 | Listen to the World Spin | Paper Wings |
| 136 | You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive | Darrell Scott |
| 137 | Rebecca | Rachael Sage |
| 138 | Ballad of a Bad Girl | Kate McDonnell |
| 139 | My Birmingham | Adam Karch |
| 140 | Something's Got a Hold on Me | Ann Savoy |
| 141 | In Montreal (feat. Allison Russell) | Kaia Kater |
| 142 | So Bad | Cassandra Lewis |
| 143 | The Blues | Steve Forbert |
| 144 | Front Porchin' | Parker Millsap |
| 145 | Running on Sweet Smile | The Milk Carton Kids |
| 146 | Oklahoma or Arkansas | Peach & Quiet |
| 147 | Song from a Tree | Peach & Quiet |
| 148 | You Ain't Goin' Nowhere | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band |
| 149 | In My Reign | Romen Buffalo and The Loyal Order |
| 150 | I Only See the Moon | The Milk Carton Kids |
| 151 | More Than I Dare Say | Krista Detor |
| 152 | Sam Stone | John Prine |
| 153 | San Luis | Gregory Alan Isakov |
| 154 | Urge for Going | Katherine Rondeau |
| 155 | Running on Time | Parker Millsap |
| 156 | Wilderness Within You (feat. Gillian Welch) | Parker Millsap |
| 157 | All of the Time in the World to Kill | The Milk Carton Kids |
| 158 | Star Shine | The Milk Carton Kids |
| 159 | Before the Sun | Gregory Alan Isakov |
| 160 | The Old Woman in Me | Lori McKenna |
| 161 | 1988 | Lori McKenna |
| 162 | The View | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 163 | Alcohallelujah | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real |
| 164 | Tell the Mailman | The Resonant Rogues |
| 165 | Buffalo Thunder | Malcolm MacWatt |
| 166 | God is Good | Scott Sean White |
| 167 | Keeper | Scott Sean White |
| 168 | Hope You Never Do (feat. Radney Foster) | Scott Sean White |
| 169 | Nine Hundred Miles | Paper Wings |
| 170 | My Good Friends | Carsie Blanton |
| 171 | Don't Talk to Her at Night | Donovan Woods |
| 172 | Haywood House | Billy Jeter |
| 173 | Rose's Shack | Billy Jeter |
| 174 | Bowler Man | Billy Jeter |
| 175 | On the Sunny Side of Life | Bob and Sarah Amos |
| 176 | Little Sun | Charlie Parr |
| 177 | Floodlights | Kaia Kater |
| 178 | Living Well | Donovan Woods |
| 179 | Too Much | Cassandra Lewis |
| 180 | Holding out | Beware Wolves |
| 181 | Starting over | Dan Bern With Jane's Great Dane |
| 182 | Clay County | Dan Bern With Jane's Great Dane |
| 183 | Beautiful Bee | David Hobbes |
| 184 | Water Gone by | David Hobbes |
| 185 | Forever | Trampled by Turtles |
| 186 | I'm a Honky Tonk Girl (Live) | Eilen Jewell |
| 187 | Black Denim Blues | Another Glory |
| 188 | Born Too Late | Martyn Joseph |
| 189 | Earth Town Square | Peter Mayer |
| 190 | Middle Time | Johnsmith |
| 191 | Eyes Open Wide | The Mastersons |
| 192 | We Are Almost Down to the Shore | Dom Flemons |
| 193 | Left Hand Lane | Paper Wings |
| 194 | Pick, Pick Apples | Kate MacLeod |
| 195 | We Walk Together | John Zipperer |
| 196 | Spaghetti Junction | Justin Roth |
| 197 | Across the Great Divide | Nanci Griffith |
| 198 | The Nazarene | Joe Crookston |
| 199 | Lady of the Harbor | Brother Sun |
| 200 | Boomtown Ghosts | Pint & a Half |
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