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TOP ALBUMS AND SONGS OF SEPTEMBER 2009
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L radio playlists
Based on 13843 airplays from 144 different DJs
1: “No Worries Now,” Joel Mabus [Fossil, 8/09] (81)
“Am I Right”
“2 Cents Plain”
“Alligator Ate Her Poodle”
“How Can I Keep From Singing”
2: “Live At The Mauch Chunk Opera House,” The Wailin’ Jennys [Red
House, 8/09] (69)
“Deeper Well”
“Racing With The Sun”
“Motherless Child”
“Driving”
3: “Links In A Chain,” Joe Jencks [Turtle Bear, 8/09] (68)
“Links In A Chain”
“Joe Hill”
“Bracero”
“Get Together”
4: “My Dusty Road,” Woody Guthrie [Rounder, 8/09] (62)
“Hard Travelin”
“Train Breakdown”
“You Can Hear My Whistle Blow”
5: “Hello, Stranger,” Catie Curtis [Compass, 8/09] (61)
“100 Miles”
“Hello Stranger”
“Tuesday’s Dead”
6: “Across The Troubled Wave,” David Ferrard [Alter Road, new] (59)
“Hard Times Come Again No More”
“Peg And Awl”
“Jute Mill Song”
“Jackaro”
7: “Blood And Candle Smoke,” Tom Russell [Shout Factory, 9/09] (56)
“East Of Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam”
“Nina Simone”
“Santa Ana Wind”
“Criminology”
8: “500 Miles: The Blue Rock Sessions,” Cliff Eberhardt [Red House, new] (52)
“500 Miles”
“When The Leaves Begin To Fall”
“Long Road”
9: “Between Trains,” Bop Ensemble [Cordova Bay, 8/09] (51)
“Buckets Of Rain”
“Peace Like A River”
“Flash Around The Globe”
10: “Cold Pizza For Breakfast,” Christine Lavin [Yellow Tail, new] (43)
“Good Thing She Can’t Read My Mind”
“Cold Pizza For Breakfast Redux”
“Kind Of Love You Never Recover From”
11: “Rollin’ Along,” Jonathan Edwards [Strictly Country, 7/08] (42)
“Red Light, Green Light”
“4 Strong Winds”
“7 Daffodils”
12: “Let The Bad Times Roll,” Tom Chapin [Sundance, 6/09] (41)
“We Will Adjust”
“Boys In The Choir”
“Water Is Wide”
12: “Time Stands Still,” Chris Smither [Signature, new] (41)
“Surprise, Surprise”
“Don’t Call Me Stranger”
“Time Stands Still”
14: “Live From Outer Space,” Carla Ulbrich [Romantic Devil, new] (39)
“Duet With A Klingon”
“It’s Never Polite To Ask A Girl How Old She Is”
“Scrambled Eggs”
14: “My Blue Garden,” Annie And Rod Capps [Yellow Room, 6/09] (39)
“Honey, Sugar, Baby, Mine”
“Crocodile Man”
“My Blue Garden”
14: “Song Up In Her Head,” Sarah Jarosz [Sugar Hill, 6/09] (39)
“Tell Me True”
“Come On Up To The House”
“Song Up In Her Head”
17: “Speak,” Kat Eggleston [Paperboat, new] (38)
“Birken Tree”
“Everybody Knows”
“Road To Ruin”
18: “Pointing At The Sun,” Cheryl Wheeler [Dias, 5/09] (36)
“Pointing At The Sun”
“Underbrush”
“One Step At A Time”
19: “Peter, Paul And Mary,” Peter, Paul And Mary [Warner, 1962] (35)
“If I Had A Hammer”
“500 Miles”
20: “Everyone Is Someone,” Dala [Campus, 6/09] (34)
“Northern Lights”
“Alive”
“Horses”
21: “High Wide And Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project,” Loudon
Wainwright III [Proper, new] (33)
“High Wide And Handsome”
“Deal”
22: “Hill Of Thieves,” Cara Dillon [Charcoal, 1/09] (32)
“Spencer The Rover”
“Hill Of Thieves”
“Parting Glass”
23: “Fishing Music II,” Various Artists [Snake River, 7/09] (30)
“Gone Fishin,” Tim And Mollie O’Brien
“Little Miss Cutthroat,” Ben Winship
23: “Letters From A Flying Machine,” Peter Mulvey [Signature, 8/09] (30)
“On A Wing And A Prayer”
“Dynamite Bill”
23: “Steelwork,” Angelo M [Self, 6/09] (30)
“Every Kind Of Blues”
“Steelwork”
23: “Storm,” Liz Meyer [Strictly Country, 2005] (30)
“Keep Your Heart Away From Me”
“My Favorite Time Of The Year”
23: “Tremolo,” The Pines [Red House, 8/09] (30)
“Pray Tell”
“Shine On Moon”
“Spike Driver Blues”
28: “The Longing,” Smithfield Fair [Stevenson, 8/09] (29)
“The Longing”
“Radio”
29: “Crooked,” Jaime Michaels [Frumdahart, new] (27)
“One Spectacular Moon”
“Minnesota”
29: “Everything’s Easy,” Girlyman [Self, new] (27)
“Somewhere Different Now”
“Could Have Guessed”
29: “Somewhere Beyond The Roses,” Kieran Kane [Compass, 7/09] (27)
“Anybody’s Game”
“Way Down Below”
“Somewhere Beyond The Roses”
29: “Somewhere In The Middle,” Liz Longley [Self, 7/09] (27)
“People Get Ready”
“Ain’t Too Good To Be True”
33: “Gauntlet,” Nathan Rogers [Borealis, 8/09] (26)
“Willie O’ Winsbury”
“Jewel Of Paris”
“Land Of The Living Skies”
33: “Some Assembly Required,” Mark Stepakoff [Self, new] (26)
“Liquor Don’t Lie”
“When Vernon Moved From Tupelo”
“Huevos Rancheros”
33: “Unraveling Heart,” Chuck Suchy [Little Bluestem, 9/08] (26)
“Burma Shave Boogie”
“Down In The Water”
“Faces Of Main Street”
36: “The Essential Janis Ian,” Janis Ian [Columbia, new] (25)
“At Seventeen”
“Hair Of Spun Gold”
36: “Gravity Of Grace,” Johnsmith [Blue Pine, 6/09] (25)
“Safe Home”
“Ring That Bell”
36: “The Loving Kind,” Nanci Griffith [Rounder, 6/09] (25)
“Cotton’s All We Got”
“Still Life”
“Money Changes Everything”
