Top Albums and Songs of March 2014 (FOLKDJ-L)

One Evening in May, recorded live at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, California last May by bluegrass and Americana artist Laurie Lewis with friends Tom Rozum and Nina Gerber, was the most-played album on folk radio during March 2014, 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. Closely following Lewis’ album was singer-songwriter John Gorka’s Bright Side of Down, which topped February’s chart and reportedly sported March’s most-played song, “Really Spring.”

The March 2014 FOLKDJ-L charts are based on 13,159 airplays from 140 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 March 2014

1: “One Evening In May,” Laurie Lewis [Spruce And Maple, 1/14] (81)
“Ring Of Fire”
“Garden Grow”
“Sailing Boat”
“Crooked Miles”
2: “Bright Side Of Down,” John Gorka [Red House, 3/14] (75)
“Really Spring”
“Holed Up In Mason City”
“Bright Side Of Down”
“Procrastination Blues”
3: “I’ll Swing My Hammer With Both My Hands,” Cahalen Morrison And Eli West [cahalenandeli.com, 2/14] (66)
“Livin’ In America”
“Fiddlehead Fern”
“Green Pastures”
“Natural Thing To Do”
4: “How Red Is The Blood,” Tattletale Saints [Old Oak, 3/13] (53)
“Kathleen”
“Hank”
“Fell Upon The Fields”
“Traces Of You”
5: “Looking Into You: A Tribute To Jackson Browne,” Various Artists [Music Road, new] (51)
“Rock Me On The Water,” Keb’ Mo’
“Before The Deluge,” Eliza Gilkyson
“Doctor My Eyes,” Paul Thorn
6: “Punishing The Myth,” Grant Peeples And The Peeples Republik [Gatorbone, 3/14] (49)
“Who Woulda Thunk It?”
“Hanging”
“Aunt Lou”
“New American Dream”
7: “Something Worth Having,” Molasses Creek [molassescreek.com, 1/14] (48)
“Galway Girl”
“Ehringhaus Blues”
“Tennessee Stud”
8: “Words And Music,” Byrd & Street [byrdandstreet.com, 1/14] (46)
“Higher Ground”
“I’m Gonna Swim”
“I Need A Small Town”
“Old Out Of Tune Guitar”
9: “Everywhere I Go,” Shari Ulrich [Borealis, new] (42)
“Everywhere I Go”
“Rain, Rain, Rain”
“One Sky”
“This Life”
9: “The Turning Point,” Tim Grimm [Cavalier, 9/13] (42)
“King Of The Folksingers”
“Lake”
“Anne In Amsterdam”
11: “Robby Hecht,” Robby Hecht [Old Man Henry, 3/14] (39)
“Feeling It Now”
“Sea And The Shore”
“Barrio Moon”
11: “The Waymores,” The Waymores [waymores.net, 2012] (39)
“Singing Like A Byrd”
“Sweet Companion”
“Way More”
13: “Bad Dog Buffet,” Vance Gilbert [Disismye, new] (35)
“God Bless Everyone”
“First Ring”
“Out The Way We Came In”
14: “Diner In The Sky,” The Amigos [theamigosband.bandcamp.com, 1/14] (33)
“Cabin On The Hill”
“Hey Joe”
“Any Way You Want Me To”
14: “The River And The Thread,” Rosanne Cash [Blue Note, 1/14] (33)
“Etta’s Tune”
“Sunken Lands”
16: “Out Among The Stars,” Johnny Cash [Columbia, new] (32)
“I’m Movin’ On”
“Baby Ride Easy”
“Don’t You Think It’s Come Our Time”
17: “Four Good Days,” Jack Williams [Wind River, 11/13] (31)
“4 Good Days”
“Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”
“Them Things”
17: “Gathering,” Poor Angus [Borealis, 1/14] (31)
“Never Come Back”
“Shores Of The Bay”
“Silver Islet”
17: “Old Mill Sessions,” The Blushin’ Roulettes [blushinroulettes.com, 2/14] (31)
“Sadness Thief”
“Tall Tall Grass”
“Wind And The Sand”
17: “Poet On The Moon,” Mare Wakefield & Nomad [marewakefield.com, new] (31)
“Clementine”
“Rattlesnake”
“First Poet On The Moon”
21: “Down To The Roots,” Lowell Levinger [Grandpa Raccoon, 1/14] (29)
“I’ll Do Anything But Work”
“Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me”
“Love Is A 5 Letter Word”
21: “Love We Are We Love,” The Sea The Sea [Hudson Harding, 2/14] (29)
“Guess It Was”
“Love We Are We Love”
“Re: Blah”
23: “22 Days,” John McCutcheon [Appalseed, 10/13] (28)
“Forgotten”
“Night That Dan Ryan Got Locked In The Pub”
“Heaven’s Kitchen”
23: “The Nocturne Diaries,” Eliza Gilkyson [Red House, new] (28)
“Eliza Jane”
“Where No Monument Stands”
25: “Future Pilot,” We’re About 9 [circanine.com, 1/14] (27)
“Prime Of My Life”
“Hardest Thing To Prove”
“Starting Over”
25: “New Whirled Order,” Claudia Schmidt [Red House, 3/14] (27)
“Already”
“Strong Woman Has A Bad Day Polka”
27: “Cut To The Chase,” Kathy Kallick [Live Oak, new] (26)
“Once Upon”
“Time Traveler’s Wife”
28: “Inside Llewyn Davis,” Various Artists [Nonesuch, 11/13] (25)
“Fare Thee Well,” Oscar Isaac
“500 Miles,” Carey Mulligan, Stark Sands, And Justin Timberlake
28: “Life On Fire,” Scott Wolfson And Other Heroes [scottwolfson.com, 1/14] (25)
“Backseat And Me”
“You Can’t Break Me Again”
“Brooklyn Mermaids”
30: “Berrymania,” Steve Gillette And Cindy Mangsen [Compass Rose, 12/13] (24)
“Your State’s Name Here”
“It’s Better Than That”
31: “Great Big World,” Tony Trischka [Rounder, 2/14] (23)
“Wild Bill Hickok”
“Do Re Mi”
31: “A Permeable Life,” Carrie Newcomer [Available Light, new] (23)
“Every Little Bit Of It”
“Light In The Window”
33: “Better Things,” Judy Kass [Self, 1/14] (22)
“Green Lined Coat”
“River”
33: “Kerri Powers,” Kerri Powers [kerripowers.com, 1/14] (22)
“To Love Somebody”
“Buttercup”
35: “Carter Girl,” Carlene Carter [Rounder, new] (21)
“Little Black Train”
“Me And The Wildwood Rose”
35: “Flat Earth Diary,” Krista Detor [Tightrope, 1/14] (21)
“Flat Earth Diary”
“Ferryman’s Dream”
35: “Full Head Of Steam,” Roosevelt Dime [rooseveltdimemusic.com, 3/14] (21)
“I Want Mo!”
“Oh To Be”
35: “No More Rain,” The Steel Wheels [thesteelwheels.com, 4/13] (21)
“Walk Away”
“Go Up To That Mountain”
35: “Summer’s End,” Garnet Rogers [Snow Goose, new] (21)
“Shadows On The Water”
“Fireside Chat”
35: “Where The Rust Meets The Rise,” Ryan Taylor Band [Self, new] (21)
“House Of The Rising Sun”
“Unstruck”
41: “Some Part Of The Truth,” Brother Sun [brothersunmusic.com, 2/13] (20)
“Lady Of The Harbor”
“I Ain’t Got No Home”
42: “Echo Sessions,” The Stray Birds [thestraybirds.com, 11/13] (19)
“Loretta”
“Blue Yodel #7”
“I Wish It Would Rain”
42: “Naomi Wachira,” Naomi Wachira [Doreli, 1/14] (19)
“Sacred Love”
“I Am A Woman”
42: “Tell You In Earnest,” Matt And Shannon Heaton [Self, new] (19)
“Mantle Of Green”
45: “Hang Your Hopes On A Crooked Nail,” Rod Picott [Welding Rod, 2/14] (18)
“Mobile Home”
45: “Legends & Legacies,” Flaco & Max [Smithsonian/Folkways, new] (18)
“Ay Te Gaucho Cucaracho”
“El Parrandero”
45: “Small Town Heroes,” Hurray For The Riff Raff [ATO, 2/14] (18)
“Crash On The Highway”
“End Of The Line”
48: “The Game,” Blue Highway [Rounder, 1/14] (17)
“Dogtown”
“Talk Is Cheap”
48: “Live,” Steve Martin And The Steep Canyon Rangers Featuring Edie Brickell [Rounder, new] (17)
“Love Has Come For You”
48: “Sleepwalker In Paradise,” Cej [Gnosong, 6/13] (17)
“New Old Friend”
“My Baby Knows”
51: “Voice Of Ages,” The Chieftains [Hear, 2012] (16)
“Carolina Rua,” Chieftains And Imelda May
“Frost Is All Over”
51: “Two Billion Acres Of Salt,” Hezekiah Goode [Self, 4/13] (16)
“Good Old Mountain Dew”
“Get That Fiddle Fired Up”
51: “Hangtown Dancehall,” Eric Brace And Karl Straub [Red Beet, 1/14] (16)
“Pretty Girl In Missouri”
51: “Robt Sarazin Blake,” Robert Sarazin Blake [Same Room, 2/14] (16)
“Our Winter In New York”
“Dingle To Tralee”
51: “Sleeping Dogs,” C. Daniel Boling [Berkalin, 11/13] (16)
“Pontificating Paradox”
“Unraveled”
56: “Woodstock,” Heather Maloney And Darlingside [Signature, new] (15)
“Woodstock”
57: “Back 40,” Robin & Linda Williams [Red House, 10/13] (14)
“On And On”
57: “Bad Self Portraits,” Lake Street Dive [Signature, new] (14)
“Bad Self Portraits”
“Better Than”
57: “Blood Like A River,” Nathan Bell [Stone Barn, 1/14] (14)
“Names”
57: “Housewarming,” The Mae Trio [Self, new] (14)
“Caroline”
“Lately”
57: “Let It Go,” The Infamous Stringdusters [High Country, new] (14)
“Where The Rivers Run Cold”
“By My Side”
57: “Lucky,” Suzy Bogguss [Loyal Dutchess, 2/14] (14)
“Silver Wings”
57: “Pennsylvania Coal,” Irene Kelley [Patio, 2/14] (14)
“Pennsylvania Coal”
“Rattlesnake Rattler”
57: “Silver Ladder,” Peter Mulvey [Signature, new] (14)
“Remember The Milkman”
“You Don’t Have To Tell Me”
57: “When One Door Closes,” Gathering Time [Treble-G, 9/13] (14)
“If It Would Only Rain”
66: “Child Ballads,” Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer [Wilderland, 3/13] (13)
“Riddles Wisely Expounded”
“Sir Patrick Spens”
66: “Dream A Little Dream,” Katie Glassman & Snapshot [Self, new] (13)
“Liza Jane”
“My Window Faces The South”
66: “Louder Than Words,” The Henry Girls [Self, 1/14] (13)
“Light In The Window”
66: “Prairieography,” Del Barber [True North, new] (13)
“Living With A Long Way To Go”
66: “Pressed For Time,” Burning Bridget Cleary [burningbridgetcleary.com, 6/13] (13)
“2 Sisters”
66: “Somewhere Near Paterson,” Richard Shindell [Signature, 2000] (13)
“Spring”
66: “Tether My Heart,” Hannah Shira Naiman [Merriweather, 10/13] (13)
“Married Soldier”
“Looking For My Own”
66: “There Used To Be A Train,” James Curley [Sidewalking Crab, 10/13] (13)
“Townes Van Zandt Song”
“There Used To Be A Train”
66: “Yes, I Believe I Will,” Steve Howell And The Mighty Men [Out Of The Past, 10/13] (13)
“Walk On Boy”

Top Songs of March 2014

John Gorka

1. “Really Spring” (20)
by John Gorka
from “Bright Side Of Down”
2. “Livin’ In America” (15)
by Cahalen Morrison And Eli West
from “I’ll Swing My Hammer With Both My Hands”
3. “Holed Up In Mason City” (13)
by John Gorka
from “Bright Side Of Down”
3. “Ring Of Fire” (13)
by Laurie Lewis
from “One Evening In May”
5. “Everywhere I Go” (12)
by Shari Ulrich
from “Everywhere I Go”
5. “Galway Girl” (12)
by Molasses Creek
from “Something Worth Having”
7. “Already” (11)
by Claudia Schmidt
from “New Whirled Order”
7. “Bright Side Of Down” (11)
by John Gorka
from “Bright Side Of Down”
7. “God Bless Everyone” (11)
by Vance Gilbert
from “Bad Dog Buffet”
10. “Fiddlehead Fern” (10)
by Cahalen Morrison And Eli West
from “I’ll Swing My Hammer With Both My Hands”
10. “Green Pastures” (10)
by Cahalen Morrison And Eli West
from “I’ll Swing My Hammer With Both My Hands”
10. “Lake” (10)
by Tim Grimm
from “The Turning Point”
10. “Loretta” (10)
by The Stray Birds
from “Echo Sessions”
10. “Rattlesnake” (10)
by Mare Wakefield & Nomad
from “Poet On The Moon”
10. “Singing Like A Byrd” (10)
by The Waymores
from “The Waymores”
10. “Spring” (10)
by Richard Shindell
from “Somewhere Near Paterson”
17. “Clementine” (9)
by Mare Wakefield & Nomad
from “Poet On The Moon”
17. “Eliza Jane” (9)
by Eliza Gilkyson
from “The Nocturne Diaries”
17. “Garden Grow” (9)
by Laurie Lewis
from “One Evening In May”
17. “Hanging” (9)
by Grant Peeples And The Peeples Republik
from “Punishing The Myth”
17. “Kathleen” (9)
by Tattletale Saints
from “How Red Is The Blood”
17. “King Of The Folksingers” (9)
by Tim Grimm
from “The Turning Point”
17. “Procrastination Blues” (9)
by John Gorka
from “Bright Side Of Down”
17. “Sadness Thief” (9)
by The Blushin’ Roulettes
from “Old Mill Sessions”
17. “Song For Ireland” (9)
by Mary Black
from “Collected”
17. “Who Woulda Thunk It?” (9)
by Grant Peeples And The Peeples Republik
from “Punishing The Myth”
17. “Woodstock” (9)
by Heather Maloney And Darlingside
from “Woodstock”