Up Like the Clouds, the debut album from Dubl Handi, an old-time acoustic roots duo that is a major player in the popular revival of Appalachian old-time music in Brooklyn, New York, was the most-played album on folk radio during February 2013. Named after a washboard company from the 1800s, Dubl Handi features banjo player Hillary Hawke and mult-instrumental percussionist Brian Geltner. “Everything We Had Was Good,” sung by Dublin-born and New York-based singer-songwriter and folksinger Susan McKeown, was the top song, according to charts compiled by Richard Gillmann from radio playlists submitted to FOLKDJ-L, an electronic discussion group for DJs and others interested in all folk-based music on the radio.

The February 2013 FOLKDJ-L charts are based on 13,046 airplays from 147 different DJs. The number of reported spins (airplays) is shown in parentheses, while label and release dates appear in brackets. They are posted, with permission, on AcousticMusicScene.com.

Top Albums of February 2013

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1: “Up Like The Clouds,” Dubl Handi [dublhandi.bandcamp.com, 1/13] (58)
“Cluck Old Hen”
“Shout Little Lula”
“New River Train”
“Shortnin’ Bread”
2: “Things Are Coming My Way,” Marcy Marxer [Community, 1/13] (57)
“Kissing In The Dark”
“Angeline The Baker”
“Fool’s Gold”
“Girl Django”
3: “Live At Blue Rock,” Mary Gauthier [Proper, 10/12] (50)
“Your Sister Cried”
“Sugar Cane”
“Wheel Inside The Wheel”
4: “Give Me All You Got,” Carrie Rodriguez [Ninth Street Opus, 1/13] (45)
“Devil In Mind”
“Sad Joy”
“I Cry For Love”
4: “Wild Bill Jones,” The Quiet American [quietamericanmusic.com, new] (45)
“Apple In The Fall”
“Gallows Pole”
“Come Walkin’ With Me”
6: “Jewels And Harmony,” Mara Levine [maralevine.com, 1/13] (44)
“The Dutchman”
“River”
“Killing The Blues”
6: “Long Gone Out West Blues,” Pharis And Jason Romero [Lula, new] (44)
“Wild Bill Jones”
“Long Gone Out West Blues”
“Waiting For The Evening Mail”
8: “Electric,” Richard Thompson [New West, 2/13] (42)
“Snow Goose”
“Saving The Good Stuff For You”
“Salford Sunday”
9: “Spiorad,” Talitha MacKenzie [Shanachie, 1996] (41)
“Changerais-Tu?”
“Fionnaghuala”
“Fear A’ Bhata”
“Hopa!”
10: “Next Time Around,” Darryl Purpose [Blue Rock, 10/12] (40)
“Dreams Of Life”
“Girl From Golden”
“Ghost Of Crazy Horse”
11: “Belong,” Susan McKeown [Hibernian, 11/12] (39)
“Everything We Had Was Good”
“On The Bridge To Williamsburg”
11: “Hammer Down,” The Steeldrivers [Rounder, 2/13] (39)
“Shallow Grave”
“Wearin’ A Hole”
“Burnin’ The Woodshed Down”
11: “Rise,” Elaine Mahon [Gatorbone, new] (39)
“Rise Up Singing”
“Dust Tracks In The Road”
“6 Pelicans”
14: “Coyote’s Calling,” James Gordon [Borealis, 1/13] (31)
“We’re The Ninety-9”
“Coyote’s Calling”
“Silence Of The Snow”
14: “The Last Day Of Winter,” Chris Vallillo [Gin Ridge, 11/12] (31)
“Bonaparte’s Retreat”
“Old Joe Clark”
“Tequila”
16: “Angels Without Wings,” Heidi Talbot [Compass, 1/13] (29)
“Dearest Johnny”
“Button Up”
“Wine And Roses”
16: “Coyote Wings,” Zoe Mulford [Azalea City, new] (29)
“Sister, Sail”
“Storm Damage”
“Coyote Wings”
16: “Tune Tramp,” Erynn Marshall And Friends [Hickoryjack, 12/12] (29)
“Milwaukee Blues”
“Poor Hobo”
“Rambler’s Blues”
19: “Child Ballads,” Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer [Wilderland, new] (28)
“Geordie”
“Riddles Wisely Expounded”
“Clyde Waters”
19: “Our Lady Of The Tall Trees,” Cahalen Morrison And Eli West [cahalenandeli.com, 9/12] (28)
“Church Street Blues”
“Lady Does Not Often Falter”
“Loretta”
21: “Jack Of All Trades,” Steve Chizmadia [Jack Of All Trades, new] (27)
“Song For Pete”
“Wall Street Fat-Cat Tax-Payer Bail-Out Blues”
“Memphis Girl”
22: “Spring And Fall,” Paul Kelly [Gawd, 11/12] (26)
“New Found Year”
“Time And Tide”
23: “Sorry, Stella,” Stella! [Detroit Radio, 2011] (25)
“Down In The Cellar”
“Unbreak My Heart”
23: “Wilder Girl,” Sally Barris [sallybarris.com, 8/12] (25)
“Wilder Girl”
“Too Many Ghosts”
23: “World Of Possibility,” Arlon Bennett [Red Sea, 1/13] (25)
“Sal”
“Question For Einstein”
“World Of Possibility”
26: “Feeling Mortal,” Kris Kristofferson [KK, new] (24)
“Feeling Mortal”
“Ramblin’ Jack”
27: “Reunion,” Lucy Kaplansky [Red House, 9/12] (23)
“Beauty Way”
“I’m Looking Through You”
“Reunion”
27: “The Stray Birds,” The Stray Birds [thestraybirds.com, 9/12] (23)
“Dream In Blue”
“Heavy Hands”
29: “El Rancho Azul,” Dale Watson And His Lonestars [Red House, 1/13] (22)
“I Lie When I Drink”
“We’re Gonna Get Married”
29: “Tender Is The Night,” Old Man Luedecke [True North, 11/12] (22)
“Kingdom Come”
“I’m Fine”
31: “Grandma’s Rules For Drinking,” Annie Lou [annielou.ca, 6/12] (21)
“Take Your Leg Off Mine”
“Grandma’s Rules For Drinking”
31: “Nobody Knows You,” Steep Canyon Rangers [Rounder, 4/12] (21)
“Nobody Knows You”
“Natural Disaster”
31: “Time,” Kathy Kallick Band [Live Oak, 8/12] (21)
“Time”
“Fare Thee Well”
34: “Brambles And Thorns,” John Wort Hannam [Borealis, 10/12] (20)
“Great Lakes”
34: “Flight,” Trout Steak Revival [troutsteak.com, 10/12] (20)
“Greasy Coat”
“Blackjack Supper Club”
34: “Greetings From Cheryl Wheeler Live,” Cheryl Wheeler [Dias, 9/12] (20)
“Gandhi/Buddha”
“Pop Tarts And Spam”
34: “The Weather Inside,” Beth Wood [Blue Rock, 2011] (20)
“Doing This Dance”
“Backroads”
38: “The Bravest Birds,” Rob Lutes [Lucky Bear, 1/13] (19)
“Take It Nice”
“Ship That Sails Today”
38: “Lay Down, Lay Low,” The Steel Wheels [thesteelwheels.com, 1/12] (19)
“Halfway To Heaven”
“Breaking Like The Sun”
38: “Ordinary Cats,” Jon Shain [Flyin’, new] (19)
“Ordinary Cats”
“Cut Out Bin”
38: “The Things I Notice Now: Anne Hills Sings the Songs of Tom Paxton,” Anne Hills [Appleseed, 11/12] (19)
“Early Snow”
“Hold On To Me, Babe”
38: “A Word Child,” Susan Kane [susankane.com, 11/12] (19)
“Loser”
“New York Winter”
43: “Calling Me Home,” Kathy Mattea [Sugar Hill, 9/12] (18)
“Gone, Gonna Rise Again”
“West Virginia Mine Disaster”
43: “Finds The Present Tense,” Gurf Morlix [Rootball, new] (18)
“Gasoline”
“My Life’s Been Taken”
43: “Hundred Dollar Valentine,” Chris Smither [Signature, 6/12] (18)
“Hundred Dollar Valentine”
“What They Say”
46: “Heart Of The Country,” Chris Brashear [Dog Boy, 9/12] (17)
“Listen To Me Mother”
47: “Down The Line,” Brad Cole [bradcolemusic.com, 7/12] (16)
“Pilgrimage”
“Something About Goodbye”
47: “The Goat Rodeo Sessions,” Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile [Sony, 2011] (16)
“Here And Heaven”
“Where’s My Bow?”
47: “God Didn’t Choose Sides,” Various Artists [Rural Rhythmn, new] (16)
“Old John Burns,” Rickey Wasson And Dwight McCall
“Picture Of 3 Children,” Russell Moore
47: “Never Far,” Julie Hoest [juliehoest.com, 11/12] (16)
“Aiobhinn Cronan/Will You Come Find Me”
“Since You’ve Been Gone”
47: “Song Of The Seas,” Eagle McCall [eaglemccall.com, 10/12] (16)
“Song Of The Peter Iredale”
“Valparaiso Suite”
52: “Christ Church Cathedral,” Clannad [Arc, new] (15)
“Crann Ull”
52: “From Fresh Water,” Stan Rogers [Fogarty’s Cove, 1984] (15)
“White Squall”
“Nancy”
52: “Old School Old Time,” Fiddle Whamdiddle [Owl Mountain, 12/12] (15)
“Barlow Knife”
“Sandy Boys”
52: “Outshine The Sun,” The Foghorn String Band [foghornstringband.com, 9/12] (15)
“Lovers First Quarrel”
52: “Silver Lining,” The Honey Dewdrops [thehoneydewdrops.com, 6/12] (15)
“One Kind Word”
“Hills Of My Home”
52: “Sing The Delta,” Iris DeMent [Flariella, 10/12] (15)
“Night I Learned How Not To Pray”
52: “This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark,” Various Artists [Icehouse, 2011] (15)
“All Through Throwing Good Love After Bad,” Verlon Thompson
52: “Wild Places,” Eric Bannan [Reality Check, 5/12] (15)
“Wild Places”
60: “Blue Clouds,” Elizabeth Mitchell & You Are My Flower [Smithsonian/Folkways, 10/12] (14)
“Froggie Went A-Courtin”
60: “Borderland,” The Stray Birds [reverbnation.com/thestraybirds, 3/12] (14)
“Birds Of The Borderland”
“Come Sunday”
60: “The Celtic Colours Sessions,” Barra MacNeils [Self, 10/12] (14)
“Little Bird”
“Strange Lover Is A Coalmine”
60: “Delta Time,” Hans Theessink & Terry Evans [Blue Groove, 9/12] (14)
“Birds And The Bees”
“Blues Stay Away From Me”
60: “Flash Company,” Outside Track [Lorimer, 9/12] (14)
“False Knight On The Road”
60: “Heather Maloney,” Heather Maloney [Signature, new] (14)
“Dirt And Stardust”
“Turn Yourself Around”
60: “Home,” Bob Bradshaw [Fluke, 11/12] (14)
“High Water Rising”
60: “Hymns To What Is Left,” Greg Brown [Sawdust, 10/12] (14)
“Arkansas”
60: “Let Freedom Ring,” Sparky And Rhonda Rucker [Tremont Productions, 1/13] (14)
“Marching Through Georgia”
60: “Mending,” Maria Gillard [mariagillard.com, 10/12] (14)
“Must Be I’m In Love”
“Broken World”
60: “Prelude,” Ronstadt Generations [ronstadtgenerations.com, 10/12] (14)
“California Blues”
“For What It’s Worth”
60: “The Same Way Down,” Annalivia [annaliviamusic.bandcamp.com, 9/12] (14)
“Bright Sunny South”
60: “Unruly Heart,” Ari And Mia [ariandmiafriedman.com, 2010] (14)
“Freight Train”
“Montville / Rise Up”
60: “What We Lost,” Ben Bedford [Waterbug, 9/12] (14)
“John The Baptist”
“What We Lost”

Top Songs of February 2013

1. “Everything We Had Was Good” (17)
by Susan McKeown
from “Belong”
2. “Devil In Mind” (16)
by Carrie Rodriguez
from “Give Me All You Got”
3. “Kissing In The Dark” (13)
by Marcy Marxer
from “Things Are Coming My Way”
4. “Snow Goose” (12)
by Richard Thompson
from “Electric”
5. “Changerais-Tu?” (11)
by Talitha MacKenzie
from “Spiorad”
5. “Wild Bill Jones” (11)
by Pharis And Jason Romero
from “Long Gone Out West Blues”
7. “Girl From Golden” (10)
by Darryl Purpose
from “Next Time Around”
7. “Long Gone Out West Blues” (10)
by Pharis And Jason Romero
from “Long Gone Out West Blues”
7. “Saving The Good Stuff For You” (10)
by Richard Thompson
from “Electric”
7. “The Dutchman” (10)
by Mara Levine
from “Jewels And Harmony”
11. “Angeline The Baker” (9)
by Marcy Marxer
from “Things Are Coming My Way”
11. “Cluck Old Hen” (9)
by Dubl Handi
from “Up Like The Clouds”
11. “Dreams Of Life” (9)
by Darryl Purpose
from “Next Time Around”
11. “Hundred Dollar Valentine” (9)
by Chris Smither
from “Hundred Dollar Valentine”
11. “Shout Little Lula” (9)
by Dubl Handi
from “Up Like The Clouds”
11. “Song For Pete” (9)
by Steve Chizmadia
from “Jack Of All Trades”
11. “Wilder Girl” (9)
by Sally Barris
from “Wilder Girl”
18. “Fionnaghuala” (8)
by Talitha MacKenzie
from “Spiorad”
18. “I Lie When I Drink” (8)
by Dale Watson And His Lonestars
from “El Rancho Azul”
18. “New River Train” (8)
by Dubl Handi
from “Up Like The Clouds”
21. “Apple In The Fall” (7)
by The Quiet American
from “Wild Bill Jones”
21. “Fool’s Gold” (7)
by Marcy Marxer
from “Things Are Coming My Way”
21. “Geordie” (7)
by Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
from “Child Ballads”
21. “Ghost Of Crazy Horse” (7)
by Darryl Purpose
from “Next Time Around”
21. “Girl Django” (7)
by Marcy Marxer
from “Things Are Coming My Way”
21. “On The Bridge To Williamsburg” (7)
by Susan McKeown
from “Belong”
21. “Ramblin’ Jack” (7)
by Kris Kristofferson
from “Feeling Mortal”
21. “Riddles Wisely Expounded” (7)
by Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
from “Child Ballads”
21. “Rise Up Singing” (7)
by Elaine Mahon
from “Rise”
21. “Shallow Grave” (7)
by The Steeldrivers
from “Hammer Down”
21. “Sugar Cane” (7)
by Mary Gauthier
from “Live At Blue Rock”
21. “Valentine Girl” (7)
by Craig Werth
from “The Spokes Man”
21. “We’re The Ninety-9” (7)
by James Gordon
from “Coyote’s Calling”
21. “Wearin’ A Hole” (7)
by The Steeldrivers
from “Hammer Down”
21. “Your Sister Cried” (7)
by Mary Gauthier
from “Live At Blue Rock”