Singer-songwriter Caroline Herring's Camilla (Signature Sounds) returns to the top spot on the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while Kin - Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell (Vanguard) tops the roots country chart. [To view the Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]
Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem's Some Bright Morning (Signature Sounds) tops this week's Roots Music Report folk radio chart, while Mary Chapin Carpenter's Ashes and Roses is the #1 album on roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]
Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter and guitarist Geoff Bartley's Mercy for the Dispossessed was the top album of the month on folk radio, 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. Two of the album's tracks -- "Long Way Down to Harlan" and "I've Endured" -- were reportedly among the the five most-played songs on folk radio during August 2012. [To view the month''s top albums and songs charts, click on the headline.] Photo: Susan Wilson.
Shawn Colvin's All Fall Down retains the #1 position on the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart this week, while Kin - Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell, a collection of songs penned by The New York Times' best-selling author and the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, continues to top the roots country chart. [To view the Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian/Folkways) continued to top the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week, while Old Gold, the new release from Signature Sounds' recording artists Zoe Muth & The Lost High Rollers moved into the #1 position on the roots country chart. [To view the latest Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.] Editor's Note: These charts are being posted several days later than usual since I was at the Philadelphia Folk Festival over the weekend. Included on last week's charts are albums by several artists who appeared at the festival: Carsie Blanton, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three.
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian/Folkways), last month's most-played album on folk radio according to FOLKDJ-L, also continues to top the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week. Sun Midnight Sun (Nonesuch), the sophomore release by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek, returns to the #1 position on the roots country chart. [To view the latest Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]
The music of Woody Guthrie dominated the folk radio airplay charts in July, as we marked the centennial of the birth of America's "Dust Bowl Troubadour." Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian/Folkways)was the top album of the month on folk radio, 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. Four of the collection's songs were reportedly among the five most-played by folk DJs during July, while Bob Dylan's "Song to Woody" was #2. [To view the top albums and songs charts for July 2012, click on the headline.]
Shawn Colvin's All Fall Down returned to the #1 position on the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week, while Sun Midnight Sun, the sophomore release by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek tops the Roots Country chart. [To view the latest Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]
Fittingly, as we celebrate his birthday, Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways), a 150-page large-format book with three CDs containing 57 tracks (including 21 previously unreleased performances), topped the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week. Willie Nelson's Heroes continued in the #1 position on the roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]
Shawn Colvin's All Fall Down tops the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart for a second week, while Willie Nelson's Heroes remains #1 on the roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]
AcousticMusicScene.com is pleased to publish the monthly Top Albums and Songs 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. The Honey Dewdrops, a duo that hails from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, top the albums chart for June 2012 with Silver Lining. The duo's third album also sports several of the month's most-played songs on folk radio. {To view the top folk albums and songs for June 2012, click on the headline.]
Carolina Chocolate Drops' Leaving Eden --a collection of original compositions, covers and traditional tunes -- tops the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while Texas-based singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo's June release Big Station moves into the #1 position on the roots country chart. [To view the latest Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]
