Happy New Year! Back to the future I suppose and back to our ugh diets. There are some best of 2009 sprinkled throughout this list. These are not necessarily in order. Thanks for listening.
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Year | ||
| Victor Buono | Fat Man's Prayer | Heavy! | Dore | 1:03 | 3:00 | |
| Laura Love | Anyway | Rough Guide to the Yodel | Rough Guides | 2005 | 1:06 | 5:00 |
| Speedy West | Caffeine Patrol | Steel Guitar | Stetson | 1960 | 1:11 | 3:00 |
| Los Lobos | That Train Don't Stop Here Anymore | Kiko | Slash | 1992 | 1:14 | 5:00 |
| Suzi Ragsdale | Troublemaker | Best Regards | Ragsdale | 2009 | 1:19 | 4:00 |
| Louvin Brothers | My Baby's Gone | Crazy Heart | New West | 2010 | 1:23 | 3:00 |
| Elvis Costello | The Crooked Line | Secret, Profane & Sugarcane | Hear | 2009 | 1:26 | 4:00 |
| Levon Helm | Stuff you Gotta Watch | Electric Dirt | Vanguard | 2009 | 1:30 | 4:00 |
| Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers | Mabeline | The Bear | Vanguard | 2009 | 1:34 | 3:00 |
| Patty Loveless | Busted | Mountain Soul II | Saguaro` | 2009 | 1:37 | 3:00 |
| High Country | Sweet Mary and the Miles in Between | Perfect Companions | Squirty | 2010 | 1:40 | 4:00 |
| Dailey and Vincent | When I Reach That Home Up There | Brothers from Different Mothers | Rounder | 2009 | 1:44 | 3:00 |
| Johnny Cash | Folsom Prison Blues | Murder | Columbia Legacy | 2000 | 1:47 | 3:00 |
| Roger Miller | King of the Road | Smithsonian Country | Smithsonian | 1995 | 1:50 | 3:00 |
| Tim Eriksen | Bonnie Bay of Biscay | Northern Roots Live at Namest | Indies Scope | 2009 | 1:53 | 4:00 |
| Amanda Shire | I Kept Watch Like Doves | West Cross Timbers | Shires | 2008 | 1:59 | 4:00 |
| Eilen Jewell | Rain Roll In | Sea of Tears | Signature | 2009 | 2:03 | 4:00 |
| Kathy Mattea | Coming of the Roads | Coal | Thirty Tigers | 2008 | 2:07 | 4:00 |
| Caroline Herring | The Dozens | Golden Apples of the Sun | Signature | 2009 | 2:11 | 4:00 |
| Newfound Road | My Shoes Know How to Get Around | Same Old Place | Rounder | 2009 | 2:15 | 3:00 |
| Mac McAnally | If You Hang Around Long Enough | Down By The River | Show Dog | 2009 | 2:18 | 3:00 |
| Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | Tulsa Sounds liek Trouble to Me | Speed of Life | Sugar Hill | 2009 | 2:21 | 5:00 |
| Hayes Carll | She Left Me for Jesus | Trouble in Mind | Lost Highway | 2008 | 2:26 | 4:00 |
| Band of Heathens | Right Here With Me | One Foot in the Ether | BOH | 2009 | 2:30 | 5:00 |
| James Hand | Just A Heart | Shadow on the Ground | Rounder | 2009 | 2:35 | 4:00 |
| Norma Jean | Life of a Poor Boy | That's What Comes From Being Poor | Omni | 2007 | 2:39 | 4:00 |
| Mississippi John Hurt | Louis Collins | Avalon Blues 1963 | Rounder | 1991 | 2:43 | 3:00 |
