Top Roots Rock Songs
Rank All Time Artist Song Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
90
 The Band The Weight Country Rock 1968
2
120
 Creedence Clearwater Revival Fortunate Son Swamp Rock 1969
3
124
 Creedence Clearwater Revival Proud Mary Swamp Rock Country Rock 1969
4
254
 Ritchie Valens La Bamba Tex-Mex Rock & Roll 1958
5
337
 The Rolling Stones You Can't Always Get What You Want Folk Rock 1969
6
367
 Dire Straits Sultans of Swing Pub Rock 1978
7
424
 Creedence Clearwater Revival Bad Moon Rising Swamp Rock Country Rock 1969
8
565
 The Band The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Country Rock, Folk Rock 1969
9
576
 Creedence Clearwater Revival Who'll Stop the Rain Swamp Rock Folk Rock 1970
10
944
 Creedence Clearwater Revival Have You Ever Seen the Rain Swamp Rock Folk Rock 1970
11
1212
 The Band Up on Cripple Creek Country Rock 1969
12
1497
 Dale Hawkins Susie-Q Swamp Rock Rock & Roll 1957
13
1521
 Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River Swamp Rock 1969
14
1860
 Grateful Dead Box of Rain Country Rock, Folk Rock 1970
15
2095
 The Rolling Stones Moonlight Mile 1971
16
2260
 Creedence Clearwater Revival Up Around the Bend Swamp Rock Country Rock 1970
17
2318
 Dr. John I Walk on Guilded Splinters Swamp Rock Psychedelic Rock 1968
18
2585
 Rod Stewart You Wear It Well Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter 1972
19
2829
 Ritchie Valens Donna Tex-Mex Rock & Roll 1958
20
2838
 Creedence Clearwater Revival Lookin' Out My Back Door Swamp Rock Country Rock 1970
21
2881
 Bob Dylan & The Band I Shall Be Released Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter 1971
22
2949
 Grateful Dead Touch of Grey Pop Rock 1987
23
3096
 Creedence Clearwater Revival Born on the Bayou Swamp Rock 1969
24
3353
 The Doobie Brothers Black Water Folk Rock 1974
25
3581
 The Rolling Stones Salt of the Earth 1968
26
3659
 Dave Matthews Band Ants Marching Pop Rock 1994
27
3723
 Los Lobos Will the Wolf Survive? Tex-Mex Alternative Rock, Americana 1984
28
3840
 The Band I Shall Be Released 1968
29
3973
 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Breakdown Blues Rock, Heartland Rock 1976
30
4236
 Tony Joe White Polk Salad Annie Swamp Rock 1968
31
4333
 Wilco Misunderstood Alt-Country, Country Rock 1996
32
4433
 Creedence Clearwater Revival Suzie Q Swamp Rock Blues Rock 1968
33
4546
 The Rolling Stones Stray Cat Blues 1968
34
4558
 John Fogerty Rockin' All Over the World Heartland Rock 1975
35
4617
 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Don't Do Me Like That Heartland Rock, Pop Rock 1979
36
4748
 Creedence Clearwater Revival Down on the Corner Swamp Rock 1969
37
4828
 The Band Tears of Rage 1968
38
5209
 Creedence Clearwater Revival Run Through the Jungle Swamp Rock 1970
39
5258
 The Rolling Stones Sweet Virginia Country Rock 1972
40
5766
 Rod Stewart Mandolin Wind Pop Rock 1971
41
5785
 Bob Dylan & The Band This Wheel's on Fire Folk Rock 1975
42
6122
 Crazy Horse I Don't Want to Talk About It 1971
43
6285
 Canned Heat Going Up the Country Blues Rock, Folk Rock 1968
44
6323
 John Fogerty The Old Man Down the Road Swamp Rock 1984
45
6426
 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers The Waiting Heartland Rock 1981
46
6441
 Bob Dylan Thunder on the Mountain Americana 2006
47
6653
 Bob Dylan Changing of the Guards Singer/Songwriter 1978
48
6882
 Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story 1971
49
6921
 Chris Isaak Blue Hotel Pop Rock, Surf Rock 1987
50
6945
 The Band Rag Mama Rag Country Rock, Folk Rock 1969
51
7506
 Creedence Clearwater Revival Long As I Can See the Light Swamp Rock Southern Soul 1970
52
8121
 The Rolling Stones Factory Girl 1968
53
8202
 The Band Whispering Pines Folk Rock 1969
54
8387
 The Band The Unfaithful Servant Blues Rock, Folk Rock 1969
55
8459
 John Hiatt Memphis in the Meantime Singer/Songwriter 1987
56
8507
 The Band Acadian Driftwood 1975
57
8568
 The Band Chest Fever 1968
58
8765
 John Hiatt Thing Called Love Singer/Songwriter 1987
59
9386
 Bob Dylan & The Band Million Dollar Bash Folk Rock 1975
60
9585
 The Rolling Stones Jigsaw Puzzle 1968

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
The Band King Harvest (Has Surely Come) 1969
The Band Across the Great Divide 1969
Robbie Robertson Somewhere Down the Crazy River 1987
Leon Russell Tight Rope Piano Rock 1972
Creedence Clearwater Revival Sweet Hitch-Hiker Swamp Rock Country Rock 1971
Bob Dylan & The Band Tears of Rage Folk Rock 1975
Calexico Ballad of Cable Hogue Tex-Mex Alt-Country, Americana 2000
Dire Straits Calling Elvis Pop Rock 1991
The Hollies Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) Swamp Rock 1971
Creedence Clearwater Revival Ramble Tamble Swamp Rock 1970
The Band Don't Do It 1972
Tony Joe White Roosevelt and Ira Lee (Night of the Mossacin) Swamp Rock 1969
John Fogerty Almost Saturday Night Heartland Rock 1975
John Cougar Hurts So Good Heartland Rock 1982
Bruce Springsteen Drive All Night Singer/Songwriter 1980
Sir Douglas Quintet At the Crossroads Tex-Mex Country Rock 1969
Bob Dylan The Man in Me Singer/Songwriter 1970
The Band This Wheel's on Fire 1968
The Traveling Wilburys End of the Line Pop Rock 1988
Creedence Clearwater Revival I Heard It Through the Grapevine Swamp Rock 1970
Tom Petty Runnin' Down a Dream Heartland Rock, Pop Rock 1989
Jerry Garcia Sugaree Folk Rock 1972
Bob Dylan Went to See the Gypsy Singer/Songwriter 1970
The Band Life Is a Carnival Country Rock, Folk Rock, Funk Rock 1971
Sir Douglas Quintet Mendocino Tex-Mex Sunshine Pop 1968
Creedence Clearwater Revival Hey Tonight Country Rock 1970
Lynyrd Skynyrd The Ballad of Curtis Loew Country Rock, Southern Rock 1974
Creedence Clearwater Revival Lodi Swamp Rock 1969
Tom Petty A Face in the Crowd Acoustic Rock, Americana, Heartland Rock 1989
Ry Cooder Little Sister Tex-Mex 1979
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers You Got Lucky 1982
John Fogerty Big Train (From Memphis) Rockabilly 1984
Tony Joe White Rainy Night in Georgia Swamp Rock Singer/Songwriter 1969
The Band It Makes No Difference Folk Rock 1975
Dire Straits Down to the Waterline 1978
Roky Erickson & The Aliens Don't Shake Me Lucifer Hard Rock, Rock & Roll 1980
Joe Cocker She Came in Through the Bathroom Window 1969
The Band The Shape I'm In Blues Rock, Folk Rock 1970
The Long Ryders Looking for Lewis and Clark Cowpunk 1985