Roots Music Report Folk & Roots Country Radio Charts, 11-25-11

Pieta Brown's Mercury continued to top the Roots Music Report folk radio chart last week, while Red Molly's Light in the Sky moved into the #2 position. Robert Earl Keen's Ready for Confetti retained the #1 position on the roots country chart for the fourth week in a row, while Ryan Adams' Ashes & Fire rocketed into the #2 spot based on reported radio airplay. [To view the latest Folk and Roots County Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]

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Roots Music Report Folk & Roots Country Radio Charts, 11-18-11

Pieta Brown's Mercury continues to top the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while Robert Earl Keen's Ready for Confetti retains the #1 position on the roots country chart for the third week in a row. [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, 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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Top Folk Albums and Songs of September 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 September 2011, Pharis and Jason Romero's A Passing Glimpse, the British Columbia-based duo's debut collection of old-time music, topped the albums chart. Lucy Kaplansky's "Land of the Living," a post-9-11 New York song, received more reported folk radio airplay than any other song during the month. [To view the top folk albums and songs charts for September 2011, 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, 09-16-11

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, 09-09-11

Paul Simon's So Beautiful or So What returns to the #1 position on the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while Gillian Welch's The Harrow & The Harvest continues to top the 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, 09-02-11

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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