Top Appalachian Folk Music Songs
Rank All Time Artist Song Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
935
 The Carter Family Wildwood Flower Traditional Country 1929
2
1067
 The Carter Family Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye) Country Gospel 1935
3
2137
 The Carter Family Keep on the Sunny Side Country Gospel 1928
4
2456
 Fiddlin' John Carson Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane Old-Time 1923
5
2511
 Blind Alfred Reed How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live Old-Time 1929
6
2646
 Eck Robertson Sally Gooden Old-Time 1922
7
4368
 Clarence "Tom" Ashley The Coo Coo Bird Old-Time 1929
8
6184
 Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman The Titanic Old-Time 1925
9
7115
 Uncle Dave Macon Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy Old-Time 1924
10
7336
 The Carter Family Single Girl, Married Girl Traditional Country 1927
11
7347
 The Carter Family Worried Man Blues Acoustic Blues, Traditional Country 1930
12
9555
 Bascom Lamar Lunsford I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground Old-Time 1928

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Frank Proffitt Tom Dooley (Dula) 1962
Bascom Lamar Lunsford (Good Old) Mountain Dew Old-Time 1928
Doc Watson Deep River Blues Contemporary Folk 1964
Dock Boggs Sugar Baby Old-Time 1927
The Carter Family I'm Thinking To-Night of My Blue Eyes Traditional Country 1929
Doc Watson Black Mountain Rag Contemporary Folk 1964