Roots Music Report Folk & Roots Country Radio Charts, 10-28-11

Pieta Brown's album Mercury continues to top the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while albums by The Civil Wars, Abigail Washburn, Eliza Gilkyson , Madison Violet and Colin Hay retain the next five positions, respectively. Gillian Welch's The Harrow & the Harvest retakes the #1 position on the #1 position on the roots country chart,followed by albums by Catherine MacLellan, Robert Earl Keen, Kasey Chambers, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Joe Ely. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 charts, click on the headline.]

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Roots Music Report Folk & Roots Country Radio Charts, 10-21-11

Pieta Brown's album Mercury continues to top the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while Kasey Chambers' Little Bird returns to the #1 position on the roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 charts, click on the headline.]

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Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 10-07-11

Pieta Brown's recently released album Mercury tops this week's Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart, while Kasey Chambers' Little Bird moves into the #1 position on RMR's Roots Country Radio Chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 charts, click on the headline.]

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Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 09-30-11

Pieta Brown's just-released new album Mercury tops this week's Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart, while Gillian Welch's The Harrow & the Harvest continues in the #1 position on RMR's Roots Country Radio Chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 charts, click on the headline.]

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Roots Music Report Folk & Roots Country Radio Charts, 09-23-11

The Civil Wars' debut album Barton Hollow continues to top the Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart this week, while Gillian Welch's The Harrow and the Harvest remains #1 on RMR's Roots Country Chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]

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Roots Music Report Folk & Roots Country Radio Charts, 09-16-11

Albums by The Civil Wars, Paul Simon, Eliza Gilkyson, David Bromberg and Abigail Washburn continue to retain the top five positions in the Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart this week, although the order has changed. Meanwhile, albums by Gillian Welch and Kasey Chambers remain #1 and #2 on RMR's Roots Country chart, followed by releases from Catherine MacLellan, Blackie & the Rodeo Kings and EmmyLou Harris. {To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]

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Roots Music Report Folk & Roots Country Radio Charts, 09-02-11

The Civil Wars' debut album Barton Hollow continues to top the Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart this week, while Gillian Welch's The Harrow & the Harvest (the most played album during August on the FOLKDJ-Listserv), is #1 on RMR's Roots Country chart. [To view this week's Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]

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Top Albums and Songs of August 2011 (FolkDJ-L)

AcousticMusicScene.com is pleased to publish the monthly Top Albums and Songs charts compiled by Richard Gillmann of KBCS-FM in Bellevue/Seattle, Washington, from radio playlists submitted to FOLKDJ-L, an electronic discussion group for DJs and others interested in all folk-based music on the radio. In August 2011, Gillian Welch's The Harrow and the Harvest continued to top the albums chart, while a few of its tracks were among the most played songs on folk radio for the month. SONiA & disappear fear's Get Your Phil (the songs of Phil Ochs), a new release featuring the recorded vocal harmonies of sisters Sonia Rutstein and Cindy Frank for the first time in 15 years, moved into the #2 position on the albums chart and also included several of the month's top songs. [To view the top albums and songs charts for August 2011, click on the headline.]

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Top Albums and Songs of July 2011 (FOLKDJ-L)

Beginning this month, AcousticMusicScene.com is pleased to publish the monthly Top Albums and Songs charts compiled by Richard Gillmann of KBCS-FM in Bellevue/Seattle, Washington, from radio playlists submitted to FOLKDJ-L, an electronic discussion group for DJs and others interested in all folk-based music on the radio. In July 2011, Gillian Welch had both the top album and top two songs for the month, while the debut album by Brother Sun (the trio comprised of Greg Greenway, Joe Jencks and Pat Wictor) was #2 on the the albums chart. Scotland's Battlefield Band had both the #3 album and song for July. [To view the top albums and songs charts for July 2011, click on the headline.]

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