Our editors' picks for the best Folk & Americana songs this year. Cover: Jessica Pratt

Roots Rising Presents: Best Folk & Americana Songs of 2024

Waxahatchee

Tigers Blood

MJ Lenderman

Right Back to It

Haley Heynderickx

Seed of a Seed

Foxglove

Laura Marling

Patterns in Repeat

Patterns

Jessica Pratt

Life Is

Hermanos Gutiérrez

Sonido Cósmico

Low Sun

Bon Iver

SABLE,

S P E Y S I D E

Adrianne Lenker

Bright Future

Real House

Sierra Ferrell

American Dreaming

Gigi Perez

Sailor Song

Tom Odell

Black Friday

Sarah Jarosz

Polaroid Lovers (Deluxe Edition)

Columbus & 89th

Billy Strings

Highway Prayers

Gild the Lily

Hurray For The Riff Raff

The Past Is Still Alive

Hawkmoon

Manning Fireworks

Joker Lips

Cassandra Jenkins

My Light, My Destroyer

Only One

Lizzy McAlpine

Older

Come Down Soon

Mustafa

Dunya

Imaan

Beth Gibbons

Lives Outgrown

Floating On A Moment

Kacey Musgraves

Deeper Well

Cardinal

Bonny Light Horseman

Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free

Eric D. Johnson

Josh Kaufman

Anaïs Mitchell

I Know You Know

Gillian Welch

David Rawlings

Woodland

Hashtag

Aoife O'Donovan

All My Friends

Someone to Follow

Iron & Wine

Light Verse

Fiona Apple

All in Good Time

Medium Build

Country

Crying Over U

hey, nothing

Timeline

Maine

Tiny Habits

All For Something

Mudroom

Florist

Riding Around In The Dark

Madi Diaz

Weird Faith

For Months Now

Chance Peña

Ever-Shifting, Continual Blossoming

Suddenly

Mt. Joy

Highway Queen

Michael Marcagi

Scared To Start

Zach Bryan

The Great American Bar Scene

Novo Amor

Collapse List

Years On

Katie Gavin

What A Relief

Mitski

As Good As It Gets

Johnny Blue Skies

Sturgill Simpson

Passage Du Desir

Mint Tea

Paris Paloma

Cacophony

the warmth

Searows

flush

martingale

Babehoven

Birdseye

Gregory Alan Isakov

Appaloosa Bones

The Fall

Noah Kahan

Live From Fenway Park

Pain Is Cold Water - Live From Fenway Park

Infinity Song

Metamorphosis Complete

Sinking Boat

Noeline Hofmann

Purple Gas

August

Charley Crockett

Visions of Dallas

The Red Clay Strays

Wanna Be Loved

Joy Oladokun

OBSERVATIONS FROM A CROWDED ROOM

LETTER FROM A BLACKBIRD

Max McNown

Wandering (Love Me Back)

A Lot More Free

Marcus King

Mood Swings

Britti

Lullaby

Angie McMahon

Light Sides

Beginner

Kate Bollinger

Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind

To Your Own Devices

The Secret Sisters

Mind, Man, Medicine

Ray LaMontagne

All the Ways (feat. Ray LaMontagne)

RY X

You (feat. Hermanos Gutiérrez)

Hovvdy

Forever

Jensen McRae

Massachusetts

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

Heartless

Dylan Gossett

Songs in the Gravel

Bitter Winds

Andrew Bird

Madison Cunningham

Cunningham Bird

Without A Leg To Stand On

Leif Vollebekk

Revelation

Moondog

Hozier

Unreal Unearth: Unaired

Allison Russell

Wildflower and Barley (feat. Allison Russell)

Tasha

All This and So Much More

Love's Changing

Dora Jar

No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire

Debbie Darling

Jonah Yano

Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop

Clairo

Snowpath

Yasmin Williams

Acadia

Dawning (feat. Aoife O'Donovan)

Marika Hackman

Big Sigh

Blood

Wild Rivers

Never Better

Anyways, I Love You

ROLE MODEL

Kansas Anymore

Look At That Woman

Allegra Krieger

Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine

Never Arriving

Julien Baker

Yoke (with Julien Baker)

Odie Leigh

Either Way

Adam Ratzman

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