Nova Scotia-based singer-songwriter Rose Cousins' We Have Made A Spark moves into the top spot on the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while Darrell Scott's album Long Ride Home remains #1 on the roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]
Pieta Brown's Mercury continues to top the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while Darrell Scott's Long Ride Home retains the #1 spot 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. In February 2012, Little Blue Egg , a collection of archived home and studio recordings that Tracy Grammer and her late partner Dave Carter made between 1997 and 2002, topped the albums chart and also sported nine of the month's top songs. [To view the charts, click on the headline.]
Pieta Brown's Mercury continues to top the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while Darrell Scott's Long Ride Home retains the #1 spot on the roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]
Pieta Brown's Mercury tops the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart this week, while Darrell Scott's Long Ride home climbs into the top spot on the roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]
Pieta Brown's Mercury continues to hold the #1 position of the Roots Music Report folk radio chart, while The Little Willies' For The Good Times moves into the top spot on the roots country radio 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. In January 2012, Light In The Sky by the female Americana-roots trio Red Molly topped the albums chart and sported six of the top 25 songs. "Promised Land," the title track from the new album by Gina Forsyth, a singer-songwriter, violinist and guitarist from New Orleans, was reportedly the most-played song on folk radio during the month. [To see the top albums and songs charts for January 2012, click on the headline.]
Albums by Pieta Brown Red Molly and Sarah MacDougall retain the top three spots on the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while albums by Robert Earl Keen, Gillian Welch and Joe Ely continue to hold the top three spots on the roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 charts, click on the headline.]
Albums by Pieta Brown Red Molly and Sarah MacDougall retain the top three spots on the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while albums by Robert Earl Keen, Gillian Welch and Joe Ely continue to hold the top three spots on the roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 charts, click on the headline.]
Albums by Pieta Brown Red Molly, Sarah MacDougall, The Deep Dark Woods and Madison Violet are in the top five spots on the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while albums by Robert Earl Keen, Gillian Welch, Joe Ely, Ryan Adams and Blackie & the Rodeo Kings hold the top five spots on the roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 charts, click on the headline.]
Alison Krauss and Union Station's Paper Airplane is the top album of the year and "Scarlet Town" from Gillian Welch's The Harrow and the Harvest, the #2 album, is the top song of 2011, based on radio playlists submitted to FOLKDJ-L, an electronic discussion group for DJs and others interested in all folk-based music on the radio. [To view the Top Albums and Songs charts compiled by Richard Gillmann, click on the headline.]
Albums by Pieta Brown, Abigail Washburn, Madison Violet, June Tabor and Gene & Gayla Mills retain the top five spots on the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while albums by Robert Earl Keen, Joe Ely, Gillian Welch, Blackie & the Rodeo Kings and Greg Brown (Pieta's dad) continue in the top five spots on the roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 charts, click on the headline.]
