Red House recording artist Lucy Kaplansky, a popular New York-based contemporary folk singer-songwriter, reportedly had the most played album on folk radio during October 2012. Reunion, her latest release, also featured four of the ten most-played songs, 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. Boston-based new acoustic folk quartet Annalivia had the month’s #1 most-played song, “False Sir John.” Kaplansky’s new CD also has topped the Roots Music Report folk radio chart for the past several weeks.

The October 2012 FOLKDJ-L charts are based on 12,109 airplays from 144 different DJs. The number of spins (airplays) is shown in parentheses.

Top Albums of October 2012

1: “Reunion,” Lucy Kaplansky [Red House, 9/12] (101)
“Reunion”
“Beauty Way”
“I’m Looking Through You”
“Scavenger”
“This Morning I Am Born Again”
2: “The Stray Birds,” The Stray Birds [thestraybirds.com, 9/12] (81)
“Dream In Blue”
“Wind And Rain”
“25 To Life”
“Harlem”
“No Part Of Nothin”
3: “Our Lady Of The Tall Trees,” Cahalen Morrison And Eli West [cahalenandeli.com, new] (75)
“Stone To Sand”
“Our Lady Of The Tall Trees”
“Loretta”
“Church Street Blues”
4: “Pete Remembers Woody,” Pete Seeger And Friends [Appleseed, 9/12] (71)
“66 Highway Blues”
“New York Town,” Woody Guthrie And Cisco Houston
“Pete Meets Woody”
5: “What We Lost,” Ben Bedford [Waterbug, 9/12] (69)
“John The Baptist”
“Fallen”
“Cahokia”
“What We Lost”
6: “American Hornpipe,” Dana And Susan Robinson [Threshold, 6/12] (63)
“When This Old Hat Was New”
“Will The Circle Be Unbroken”
“Lazy John”
“Invitation”
7: “The Same Way Down,” Annalivia [annaliviamusic.bandcamp.com, new] (56)
“False Sir John”
“Bright Sunny South”
“Turtle Dove”
8: “Outshine The Sun,” The Foghorn String Band [foghornstringband.com, 9/12] (55)
“Be Kind To A Man While He’s Down”
“Gospel Ship”
“Humpback Mule”
9: “Red Apples And Gold,” Gathering Time [gatheringtimetrio.com, 5/12] (54)
“Red Apples And Gold”
“Sweet Cider”
“Old Crows”
10: “Beneath Some Lucky Star,” Bill Staines [Red House, new] (53)
“Along The Road”
“Shady Grove”
“French Girl”
10: “Brambles And Thorns,” John Wort Hannam [Borealis, 10/12] (53)
“Great Lakes”
“Damn Tattoo”
“Poor Man”
“Radiant Land”
12: “Delta Time,” Hans Theessink & Terry Evans [Blue Groove, 9/12] (46)
“Delta Time”
“Heaven’s Airplane”
“Build Myself A Home”
12: “Rise,” Annabelle Chvostek [Borealis, 9/12] (46)
“Equal Rights”
“All Have Some”
“G20 Song”
14: “Sing The Delta,” Iris DeMent [Flariella, 10/12] (45)
“Go On Ahead And Go Home”
“Night I Learned How Not To Pray”
“There’s A Whole Lotta Heaven”
15: “Walls That Talk,” Roy Schneider [Shiny Gnu, 9/12] (40)
“Signs”
“Dancin’ On The Mountain”
“Cedar Ridge”
16: “When We Get To Shore,” Coty Hogue [Perpetual Hoedown, 8/12] (39)
“I’m On Fire”
“Blue And Lonesome”
“Going To The West”
17: “Heartstrings,” Suzie Brown [suziebrownsongs.com, 5/11] (35)
“Long Monday”
“Urge For Going”
17: “Silver Lining,” The Honey Dewdrops [thehoneydewdrops.com, 6/12] (35)
“One Kind Word”
“Hills Of My Home”
“It’s Hard To Pray”
19: “Depending On The Distance,” Jimmy LaFave [Music Road, 9/12] (34)
“Land Of Hope And Dreams”
“Red Dirt Night”
“Tomorrow Is A Long Time”
19: “Tempest,” Bob Dylan [Columbia, 9/12] (34)
“Duquesne Whistle”
“Tempest”
“Scarlet Town”
21: “Heart Of The Country,” Chris Brashear [Dog Boy, new] (33)
“Old Pueblo”
“Time The Perfect Stranger”
“Mama’s Opry”
21: “Letters From The Road,” Neptune’s Car [neptunescar.com, 7/12] (33)
“Boxcar Betty”
“Black Cat Cafe”
“Flashing In The Dark”
23: “A More Perfect Union,” Pete Seeger And Lorre Wyatt [Appleseed, 9/12] (32)
“God’s Counting On Me. . . God’s Counting On You”
“Old Apples”
“My Neighbor’s Needs”
24: “King Fisher King,” Sons Of The Never Wrong [Waterbug, new] (31)
“Arkansas”
“Over There”
“Great Unknown”
25: “Calling Me Home,” Kathy Mattea [Sugar Hill, 9/12] (30)
“Black Waters”
“Agate Hill”
“Gone, Gonna Rise Again”
25: “Trouble I Wrought,” Bobtown [bobtownmusic.com, 8/12] (30)
“Don’t Fear The Reaper”
“Battle Creek”
27: “These Old Dark Hills,” Robin And Linda Williams [Red House, 8/12] (29)
“Lonesome”
“Storms Never Last”
“My Lucky Day”
28: “Camilla,” Caroline Herring [Signature, 8/12] (27)
“Traveling Shoes”
“Camilla”
“Fireflies”
28: “Circus Heart,” Rebecca Loebe [Black Wolf, 9/12] (27)
“Chicago Kid”
“Circus Heart”
“High And Lonesome”
28: “Election Special,” Ry Cooder [Nonesuch, 8/12] (27)
“90 And The 9”
“Going To Tampa”
“Mutt Romney Blues”
28: “Scrimshaw,” Nels Andrews [nelsandrews.com, 4/12] (27)
“Starboard”
“Barroom Bards”
“Houdini”
32: “Shel,” Shel [Moraine, 8/12] (26)
“Battle Of Evermore”
“Freckles”
“Like Minded Fool”
33: “Home,” Shawn Taylor [Trespass, new] (25)
“Blackwater”
“Swing Low Sweet Liberty”
33: “Road To Red Point,” Hat Check Girl [Waterbug, new] (25)
“Just Think Back”
“Texas Burning”
“Cape Rouge”
35: “America Come Home,” Joel Rafael [Inside, 7/12] (23)
“America Come Home”
“Dance Around My Atom Fire”
“Singing In The Streets”
35: “Little Pilgrim,” Jory Nash [Thin Man, new] (23)
“Best Of Your Heart”
“Song About Love”
35: “Seinn,” Mary Jane Lamond And Wendy MacIsaac [Factor, new] (23)
“Yellow Coat”
“Angus Blaise”
35: “We’re Usually A Lot Better Than This,” Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott [Full Light, 10/12] (23)
“House Of Gold”
“Long Time Gone”
39: “Integration Of The Awkward,” Mamuse [mamuse.org, 7/12] (21)
“Constellations”
“Calling All Angels”
40: “End Of The World,” David Greenberg And Harpeth Rising [Grimm Rising, 7/12] (20)
“Nowhereland”
“Truck Stop Mama”
40: “Vicksburg Blues,” Butch Thompson And Pat Donohue [Red House, 8/12] (20)
“2:19 Blues Midnight Hour Blues”
42: “Babel,” Mumford And Sons [Glassnote, new] (19)
“Babel”
42: “Empty Seat On A Plane,” Jesse Terry [jesseterrymusic.com, 7/12] (19)
“Let The Blue Skies Go To Your Head”
“Empty Seat On A Plane”
“Grace On A Train”
42: “Folk Remedies,” Steve Spurgin [Blue Night, 7/12] (19)
“Whiskey Town”
“Carolina In The Fall”
42: “Mid Life Vices,” The Four Bitchin’ Babes [Hem And Haw, 9/12] (19)
“Facebook”
“History Of Cheese”
42: “New Siberia,” Antje Duvekot [antjeduvekot.com, 4/12] (19)
“Phoenix”
“Sleepy Sea Of Indigo And Blue”
42: “Small Braveries,” Carey Creed [Azalea City, new] (19)
“You Plant Your Fields”
“Holdin’ Down The Couch”
48: “Music To My Ears,” Ricky Skaggs [Skaggs Family, 9/12] (18)
“Blue Night”
“You Can’t Hurt Ham”
48: “Shiver Into Spark,” Otter Creek [ottercreekduo.com, 9/12] (18)
“Ashokan Farewell”
“Shiver Into Spark”
48: “Wilderness Songs And Bad Man Ballads,” Tim Grimm [Vault, 8/11] (18)
“China”
“Frostbite On The Soul”
51: “Satellite,” Anna Dagmar [annadagmar.com, 6/12] (17)
“Down The Road”
“So I Chased The Setting Sun”
51: “Voices From The Other Side,” Sandy Cash [Self, 8/12] (17)
“Gilad’s Guitar”
51: “Waves,” Milkdrive [milkdrive.com, 6/12] (17)
“Dear Prudence”
54: “Brother Sun,” Brother Sun [World Wide, 2/11] (16)
“Come With Me”
“All I Want Is A Garden”
54: “Caravan,” Burns And Kristy [Trespass, 6/12] (16)
“Runaway Train”
54: “The Hills Of Ithaca,” The Burns Sisters [Sisters, 7/12] (16)
“The Hills Of Ithaca”
“Lehigh”
54: “A Hundred Years From Now,” Neal And Leandra [Uncle Gus, 2/12] (16)
“One”
“A Hundred Years From Now”
54: “Mercy For The Dispossessed,” Geoff Bartley [Magic Crow, 7/12] (16)
“God Bless The Child”
“I’ve Endured”
59: “In The Time Of Gods,” Dar Williams [Razor & Tie, 4/12] (15)
“I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything”
“Light And The Sea”
59: “Some Bright Morning,” Rani Arbo And Daisy Mayhem [Signature, 4/12] (15)
“Bridges”
“I’ll Fly Away”
61: “Promised Land,” Gina Forsyth [Waterbug, 2/12] (14)
“Promised Land”
61: “Ashes And Roses,” Mary Chapin Carpenter [Zoe, 6/12] (14)
“Chasing What’s Already Gone”
“I Tried Going West”
61: “Between The Breaks…Live!,” Stan Rogers [Fogarty’s Cove, 1979] (14)
“Witch Of The Westmorland”
“Harris And The Mare”
61: “Building Characters,” Todd Burge [Bunj Jam, 4/12] (14)
“Blue Monday”
“Grow Up”
61: “Catz Of The Colosseum,” Jon Vezner [Self, new] (14)
“I’ve Got An App For That”
“Catz Of The Colosseum”
61: “Cigarettes & Truckstops,” Lindi Ortega [Last Gang, new] (14)
“Day You Die”
“Demons Don’t Get Me Down”
61: “Golden Hour,” Caitlin Canty [Self, 10/12] (14)
“Go”
“Southern Man”
61: “Hundred Dollar Valentine,” Chris Smither [Signature, 6/12] (14)
“What They Say”
61: “Old Gold,” Zoe Muth And The Lost High Rollers [Signature, 7/12] (14)
“Get It While You Can”
“Walking The Line”
61: “Ride,” Marc Berger [Real, 6/11] (14)
“Ride”
61: “Tender Is The Night,” Old Man Luedecke [True North, new] (14)
“I’m Fine”
“Jonah And The Whale”
61: “Wilder Girl,” Sally Barris [Self, 8/12] (14)
“Wilder Girl”
“Angel Of The North”

Top Songs of October 2012

Annalivia

1. “False Sir John” (23)
by Annalivia
from “The Same Way Down”
2. “Dream In Blue” (22)
by The Stray Birds
from “The Stray Birds”
3. “Red Apples And Gold” (20)
by Gathering Time
from “Red Apples And Gold”
4. “John The Baptist” (18)
by Ben Bedford
from “What We Lost”
4. “Reunion” (18)
by Lucy Kaplansky
from “Reunion”
6. “Beauty Way” (17)
by Lucy Kaplansky
from “Reunion”
6. “I’m Looking Through You” (17)
by Lucy Kaplansky
from “Reunion”
8. “Long Monday” (15)
by Suzie Brown
from “Heartstrings”
8. “Scavenger” (15)
by Lucy Kaplansky
from “Reunion”
10. “Along The Road” (14)
by Bill Staines
from “Beneath Some Lucky Star”
10. “Our Lady Of The Tall Trees” (14)
by Cahalen Morrison And Eli West
from “Our Lady Of The Tall Trees”
12. “Stone To Sand” (13)
by Cahalen Morrison And Eli West
from “Our Lady Of The Tall Trees”
13. “This Morning I Am Born Again” (12)
by Lucy Kaplansky
from “Reunion”
13. “When This Old Hat Was New” (12)
by Dana And Susan Robinson
from “American Hornpipe”
15. “Be Kind To A Man While He’s Down” (11)
by The Foghorn String Band
from “Outshine The Sun”
15. “Bright Sunny South” (11)
by Annalivia
from “The Same Way Down”
15. “Duquesne Whistle” (11)
by Bob Dylan
from “Tempest”
15. “Go On Ahead And Go Home” (11)
by Iris DeMent
from “Sing The Delta”
15. “Great Lakes” (11)
by John Wort Hannam
from “Brambles And Thorns”
15. “I’ve Got An App For That” (11)
by Jon Vezner
from “Catz Of The Colosseum”
15. “Loretta” (11)
by Cahalen Morrison And Eli West
from “Our Lady Of The Tall Trees”
15. “Sweet Cider” (11)
by Gathering Time
from “Red Apples And Gold”
15. “When Fall Comes To New England” (11)
by Cheryl Wheeler
from “Driving Home”
24. “Church Street Blues” (10)
by Cahalen Morrison And Eli West
from “Our Lady Of The Tall Trees”
24. “Dear Prudence” (10)
by Milkdrive
from “Waves”
24. “Delta Time” (10)
by Hans Theessink & Terry Evans
from “Delta Time”
24. “Equal Rights” (10)
by Annabelle Chvostek
from “Rise”
24. “Night I Learned How Not To Pray” (10)
by Iris DeMent
from “Sing The Delta”
24. “There’s A Whole Lotta Heaven” (10)
by Iris DeMent
from “Sing The Delta”
24. “Wind And Rain” (10)
by The Stray Birds
from “The Stray Birds”