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“Barton Hollow” by The Civil Wars
From the album Barton Hollow (2011)
“Barton Hollow” by The Civil Wars appears on 16 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 2011 and 2024. It was first released in 2011 on the album Barton Hollow. Its best result is #6 on the WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2012. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #20 indie & aaa song of 2011, #2,494 indie & aaa song of all time and #46 of the '10s.
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The title track of The Civil Wars' debut album, "Barton Hollow" arrived as its second single in January 2011, a dark, stomping piece of country and indie folk written by Joy Williams and John Paul White. The name points to Barton, Alabama, a small community a few miles from White's hometown of Muscle Shoals.
Charlie Peacock produced, and the credits read like a back-porch band that plugged in: White on resonator guitar, bass and electric guitar, JT Corenflos and Jerry McPherson adding more electric, Andy Leftwich on fiddle, Tim Lauer on organ and Ken Lewis on percussion, with Richie Biggs engineering and mixing. It came out on a limited seven-inch with "You Are My Sunshine" on the flip, topped Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100, and won Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 29 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2011 | 104 |
| 2011 | 62 | WRSI 93.9 The River Northampton / Pioneer Valley, MA | WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2011 | 93 |
| 2011 | 50 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011 | 89 |
| 2011 | 28 | KFOG San Francisco Bay Area, CA | KFOG Foghead Favorites of 2011 | 50 |
| 2011 | 11 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Best of 2011 | 50 |
| 2011 | 26 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2011 | 107 |
| 2011 | 23 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011 | 100 |
| 2011 | 34 | 106.1 The Corner Charlottesville, VA | 106.1 The Corner Top 107 of 2011 | 105 |
| 2011 | 62 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2011 | 90 |
| 2011 | 58 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2011 | 97 |
| 2012 | 6 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2012 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 112 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2018 | 264 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
| 2022 | 309 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 372 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
| 2024 | 673 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
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