Posts tagged "roots country"
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 08-17-12

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 08-17-12

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.

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 08-10-12

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.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 07-27-12

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 07-27-12

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.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 07-20-12

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 07-20-12

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.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 07-13-12

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 07-13-12

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.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 06-29-12

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 06-29-12

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.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 06-22-12

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 06-22-12

Intersection, the new album by Grammy -winning singer-songwriter and Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award winner Nanci Griffith, climbed into the #1 position on the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week. Fellow Texan Ray Wylie Hubbard's The Grifter's Hymnal continues to top the roots country chart. [To view the latest Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 06-15-12

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 06-15-12

Carolina Chocolate Drops' Leaving Eden -- a collection of original compositions, covers and traditional tunes -- returns to the #1 position on the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while Texan Ray Wylie Hubbard's The Grifter's Hymnal continues to top the roots country chart. [To view the latest Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 05-25-12

Carolina Chocolate Drops' third full-length album, Leaving Eden, a collection of original compositions, covers and traditional tunes, moved into the #1 spot on the Roots Music Report folk radio chart last week. Justin Townes Earle's Nothing's Going to Change the Way You Feel About Me Now continues to top the roots country chart. [To view the Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 05-11-12

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 05-11-12

Canadian singer-songwriter Rose Cousins' new CD We Have Made A Spark moves into the #1 spot on the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while Justin Townes Earle's Nothing's Going to Change the Way You Feel About Me Now continues to top the roots country chart. [To view the Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 04-27-12

Albums by Carolina Chocolate Drops and Darrell Scott continue to top the Roots Music Report folk and roots country radio charts, respectively, this week. [To view the current Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 04-20-12

The Carolina Chocolate Drops' album Leaving Eden, the follow-up to its 2010 Grammy Award-winning Genuine Negro Jig, retains the #1 spot on the Roots Music Report folk radio chart for the third week in a row, while. Darrell Scott's Long Ride Home continues to top the roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]