These Wilder Things, the latest album by Canadian singer-songwriter Ruth Moody, returned to the #1 position on the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week. Blind, Crippled and Crazy, the first duo release by singer-songwriters Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark in 40 years, continues to top the Americana/roots country chart.

Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk and Roots Country charts are posted here with permission.

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Folk Top 50 Albums

Ruth Moody These Wilder Things CD cover

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 2 RUTH MOODY THESE WILDER THINGS RED HOUSE
2 1 PATTY GRIFFIN AMERICAN KID NEW WEST
3 4 TIM O’BRIEN & DARRELL SCOTT MEMORIES AND MOMENTS FULL SKIES
4 3 DAVID FRANCEY SO SAY WE ALL RED HOUSE
5 6 THE DEEP DARK WOODS JUBILEE SIX SHOOTER
6 7 MANDOLIN ORANGE THIS SIDE OF JORDAN YEP ROC
7 8 MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY RED RIVER DRIFTER RED RIVER ENTERTAINMENT
8 5 AOIFE O’DONOVAN FOSSILS YEP ROC
9 10 LYNN MILES DOWNPOUR SELF
10 9 LAURA MARLING ONCE I WAS AN EAGLE RIBBON MUSIC
11 12 THE SKYDIGGERS NO. 1 NORTHERN LATENT
12 13 PHARIS & JASON ROMERO LONG GONE OUT WEST BLUES SELF
13 11 JOY KILLS SORROW WIDE AWAKE SIGNATURE SOUNDS
14 14 BROTHER SUN SOME PART OF TRUTH SELF
15 16 AMY SPEACE HOW TO SLEEP IN A STORMY BOAT WINDBONE
16 15 SALLY BARRIS WILDER GIRL SELF
17 17 APRIL VERCH BRIGHT LIKE GOLD SLAB TOWN
18 18 SOLAS SHAMROCK CITY SELF
19 19 ASHLEY CONDON THIS GREAT COMPROMISE LAKER MUSIC
20 20 GURF MORLIX FINDS THE PRESENT TENSE SELF
21 21 SUTTON, HOLT & COLEMAN READY FOR THE TIMES HIGH WINDY
22 22 KEITH GLASS BAD DOG SELF
23 23 JADEA KELLY CLOVER DIVERGENT / TRUE NORTH
24 24 ANAIS MITCHELL & JEFFERSON HAMER CHILD BALLADS WILDERLAND
25 43 THE WOOD BROTHERS THE MUSE SOUTHERN GROUND ARTIST
26 26 HEIDI TALBOT ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS COMPASS
27 27 BELLA HARDY BATTLEPLAN NOE RECORDS
28 30 SI KAHN AND THE LOOPING BROTHERS ARAGON MILL – THE BLUEGRASS SESSIONS STRICTLY COUNTRY
29 25 BURNING BRIDGET CLEARY PRESSED FOR TIME SELF
30 28 DARRYL PURPOSE NEXT TIME AROUND BLUE ROCK
31 29 LYDIA BROWNFIELD WANTING’S FOR SINNERS SELF
32 31 STEPHEN FEARING BETWEEN HURRICANES LOWDENPROUD
33 36 EMERALD RAE IF ONLY I COULD FLY SELF
34 32 FRUITION JUST ONE OF THEM NIGHTS SELF
35 35 ENTER THE HAGGIS THE MODEST REVOLUTION FIREBRAND
36 34 MARK KNOPFLER PRIVATEERING UNIVERSAL
37 33 LORI BURKE HOLD ON SELF
38 37 THE BILLS YES PLEASE INDIE
39 38 JOSIENNE CLARKE & BEN WALKER FIRE & FORTUNE NAVIGATOR / COMPASS
40 39 LORI REID TEMPERANCE HOTEL SELF
41 40 SUSAN MCKEOWN BELONG HIBERNIAN MUSIC
42 42 ELEPHANT REVIVAL THESE CHANGING SKIES THIRTY TIGERS
43 46 MEAN MARY YEAR OF THE SPARROW WOODROCK
44 41 LAUREN LAPOINTE SUPERHERO SELF
45 0 YARN SHINE THE LIGHT ON YARNMUSIC
46 0 SPUYTEN DUYVIL TEMPTATION SELF
47 47 WHITEHORSE THE ROAD TO MASSEY HALL SIX SHOOTER
48 0 THE BOXCAR LILIES SUGAR SHACK SELF
49 49 THE FUGATIVES BIGGER THAN LUCK LIGHT ORGAN RECORDS
50 0 MUMFORD & SONS BABEL GLASSNOTE RECORDS
For the Week of October 04, 2013

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Roots Country Top 50 Albums

Delbert & Glen CD cover

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 1 DELBERT MCCLINTON AND GLEN CLARK BLIND, CRIPPLED AND CRAZY NEW WEST
2 2 SLAID CLEAVES STILL FIGHTING THE WAR MUSIC ROAD
3 3 TIM EASTON NOT COOL THIRTY TIGERS
4 5 GUY CLARK MY FAVORITE PICTURE OF YOU DUALTONE
5 4 SCOTT COOK ONE MORE TIME AROUND GROOVE REVIVAL
6 7 SHANNON MCNALLY SMALL TOWN TALK SACRED SUMAC
7 8 ROBBIE FULKS GONE AWAY BACKWARD BLOODSHOT
8 10 BILLY BRAGG TOOTH & NAIL COOKING VINYL
9 6 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (& DUCHESSES) THE LOW HIGHWAY NEW WEST
10 14 SARAH LEE GUTHRIE & JOHNNY IRION WASSAIC WAY RTE 8
11 22 VARIOUS ARTISTS THE BIG E – A SALUTE TO STEEL GUITARIST BUDDY EMMONS MPI
12 9 NEKO CASE THE WORSE THINGS GET, THE HARDER I FIGHT… ANTI
13 11 AMANDA SHIRES DOWN FELL THE DOVES LIGHTNING ROD
14 15 LORI MCKENNA MASSACHUTSETTS HOODIE SONGS
15 40 THE SADIES INTERNAL SOUNDS YEP ROC
16 17 RICHARD THOMPSON ELECTRIC NEW WEST
17 18 HOLLY WILLIAMS THE HIGHWAY GEORGIANA
18 19 VARIOUS ARTISTS YOU DON’T KNOW ME – REDISCOVERING EDDY ARNOLD PLOWBOY
19 20 THE CIVIL WARS CIVIL WARS COLUMBIA
20 16 VINCE GILL & PAUL FRANKLIN BAKERSFIELD MCA NASHVILLE
21 0 BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA I’LL FIND A WAY SONY MASTERWORKS
22 21 JUSTIN RUTLEDGE VALLEYHEART OUTSIDE MUSIC
23 12 EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL OLD YELLOW MOON WARNER
24 23 MUMFORD & SONS THE ROAD TO RED ROCKS GLASSNOTE
25 32 DEBORAH HOLLAND VANCOUVER RAGE ON
26 25 LITTLE MISS HIGGINS THE BISON RANCH RECORDING SESSIONS INDIE
27 24 AUSTIN LUCAS STAY RECKLESS NEW WEST
28 28 RED DIRT RANGERS LONE CHIMNEY RANGER RECORDS
29 13 BLACK LILLIES RUNAWAY FREEWAY BLUES ATTACK MONKEY
30 29 LINDA MCRAE ROUGH EDGES & RAGGED HEARTS 42 RECORDS
31 26 OVER THE RHINE MEET ME AT THE END OF THE WORLD GREAT SPECKLED DOG RECORDS
32 27 SCARLET LEDBETTER SCARLET LEDBETTER SELF
33 34 THE BLACK LILLIES WHISKEY ANGEL SELF
34 30 DARDEN SMITH LOVE CALLING COMPASS
35 33 LINDI ORTEGA TIN STAR LAST GANG
36 31 SARA PETITE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN SELF
37 36 NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL-STARS WORLD BOOGIE IS COMING THIRTY TIGERS
38 38 THRIFTSTORE MASTERPIECE TROUBLE IS A LONESOME TOWN SIDE ONE DUMMY
39 35 KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON CHEATER’S GAME PREMIUM
40 37 THE GOOD FAMILY THE GOOD FAMILY ALBUM LATENT
41 41 COURT YARD HOUNDS AMELITA COLUMBIA
42 39 THE GRAHAMS RIVERMAN’S DAUGHTER SELF
43 0 RECKLESS KELLY LONG NIGHT MOON NO BIG DEAL
44 44 BRENNEN LEIGH & NOEL MCKAY BEFORE THE WORLD WAS MADE B&N RECORDS
45 42 BIG SANDY AND HIS FLY-RITE BOYS WHAT A DREAM IT’S BEEN COW ISLAND
46 43 SON VOLT HONKY TONK ROUNDER
47 46 AVETT BROTHERS THE CARPENTER AMERICAN
48 45 BARNEY BENTALL FLESH AND BONE TRUE NORTH
49 47 STURGILL SIMPSON HIGH TOP MOUNTAIN THIRTY TIGERS
50 48 DOMINIQUE PRUITT DOMINIQUE PRUITT SELF
For the Week of October 04, 2013