Besides several jam-packed days and nights of music showcases, song swaps/in-the-rounds, open mics and informal jam sessions, the NERFA conference will also feature, informative panel discussions and workshops, one-on-one mentoring and peer & affinity group sessions, communal meals, awards presentations, an exhibit hall, a very special film screening, a reception, communal meals, a community meeting with NERFA’s volunteer board of directors, and lots of opportunities for schmoozing and networking. Singer-songwriters Flamy Grant and Janis Ian (best known for her early hits “Society’s Child” and “At 17”) will keynote the conference on Friday and Saturday nights, respectively.

Booking gigs may be the primary objective of some performers who attend the conference; and many presenters and folk DJs do scout out new artists and those whom they have not previously heard and seen in live performance. However, the conference experience is much more than that; it’s really about forging connections, building community, and taking advantage of learning opportunities that can help enhance and enrich your professional and personal lives.

The conference’s programming committee, under the leadership of Ron Olesko, a NERFA board member and the creator and director of Folk Music Notebook (a 24/7 online radio station and community hub), has arranged a diverse array of workshops, panel discussions and special events.

“We are excited to present a special pre-release screening of a new film You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine,“ said Olesko. Filmed during a star-studded two-night tribute to the legendary songwriter at Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium in October 2022, its national theatrical release is slated for later in November. Prine’s widow, Fiona Whelan Prine, president of Oh Boy! Records and a producer of the film will engage in a Q & A session following the screening. Anna Canoni, president of Woody Guthrie Publications, will give a presentation about her grandfather and the newly released Woody at Home: Woody Guthrie’s Home Recordings, 1951-1952. Buskin & Batteau, Christine Lavin, John Forster, and Carla Ulbrich — who occasionally perform together as the April Fools –will share some very funny folk songs. Also slated is a Friday morning production of Ms. Music: The Jackie Alper Story, a folk musical written and directed by Andy Spence and Sarah Dillon, that honors the late folk music legend in the New York Capital Region and an influential figure in the folk revival.

Also on the conference schedule are the ever-popular On the Griddle instant critique session during which a panel of folk DJs listen to the first 60 seconds of a number of songs and provides snap feedback. Sonny Ochs, a longtime folk DJ and sister of the late troubadour and activist Phil Ochs, will again host a Wisdom of the Elders session. It will feature acclaimed singer-songwriters Janis Ian and Tom Chapin a, along with Terry Thai (Bob Dylan’s first manager and former wife of Dave Van Ronk). Olesko joins Ochs in posing questions to them in a conversational format. A number of workshops and panel discussions designed to help artists and presenters as they try to navigate the challenges currently faced by the folk community are also on the agenda.

Juried Showcases Slated for Friday and Saturday Nights      

Taking center stage during the conference will be 14 artists/acts selected by a panel of judges from among more than 160 submissions – with each to perform a 15-minute formal showcase set on Friday and Saturday nights – the most coveted performance opportunity at the conference. Showcasing their talents on Friday night will be Phil Henry, Judy Kass, Weary Ramblers, Connie Kaldor, Taylor Abrahamse, Elise Leavy, and Cassie and Maggie. Saturday night’s featured artists include The Levins, Sadie Gustafson-Zook, Beecharmer, Louie Lou Louis, Mystery Loves Company, Paul Colombino, and The Honey Badgers.

Judges for this year’s official juried showcases were Richard Cuccaro (publisher of Acoustic Live! in New York City & Beyond), Aaron Nathans (singer-songwriter and recording artist), and Mary Stewart (artistic director of Hugh’s Room Live in Toronto, Ontario)

On Thursday evening, the conference’s opening night, a Presenters Showcase will feature short performances by 14 artists/acts chosen by select folk DJs and concert & festival presenters. Listed in order of appearance, they are Haunted Like Human, Nico Padden, Christine Baillargeon, Nora Meier, Selena Tibbert, Halley Neal, Mirabelle Skipworth, Marc Apostoides, Sam Edelston, Ben Diamond (AKA Son Stone), Allison Strong, Francesca Panetta, Sam Berquist, and Mark & Jill.

Following the juried and curator’s showcases each evening, a number of presenters, performers and others will host private showcases in first floor hotel rooms that extend from 10:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. AcousticMusicScene.com will host a series of song swaps in place of its longtime popular Midnight Hoot on Thursday overnight.

Here’s the AcousticMusicScene.com Showcase lineup:

10:30 p.m             Songs of Social Justice: Dan & Faith, Hank Stone

11:00 p.m.            Reggie Harris & Pat Wictor

11:30 p.m.            Long Island Sounds: James O’Malley, Roger Street Friedman

12:00 a.m.             Americana Folk: Lynn Crossett, Susan Kane, Carolann Solebello

12:30 a.m.             Mixed Bag: Miles & Mafale, Arielle Silver

1:00 a.m.                Funny Folk: Mark Allen Berube, Barry Rabin, Carla Ulbrich

1:30 a.m.                Tunes from Texas: Claudia Gibson, Mystery Loves Company

2:00 a.m.              Doug Mishkin, Stuart Markus

NERFA Leaders Share Their Thoughts on the Conference

“We are thrilled about our new location, nore central to our region in a beautiful and spacious hotel that offers ample opportunity for gathering on a single floor, which will encourage interaction and socializing,” Olesko told AcousticMusicScene.com. “It’s perfect for encouraging collaborations and sharing of best practices.”

Echoing his sentiments, Cheryl Prashker, president of NERFA’s board of directors, said:

“I am excited that we have brought the conference to Albany, New York for the first time. The Desmond Hotel is a perfect space for our community that gathers each year to share their music, their knowledge, and their passion for giving to each other. I cannot think of a more important thing at this time.” Expressing gratitude for a music community of which she’s been a part for more than 25 years, she said: “It has shaped who I am as a musician and a person. All I hope to be able to do is offer the young musicians coming up some love and support as they navigate the business of folk music.”

NERFA is one of five North American regional affiliates of Folk Alliance International (folk.org), a nonprofit organization that aims to serve, strengthen and engage the global folk music community through preservation, presentation and promotion. Although folks from throughout North America attend its annual conference, NERFA’s geographic boundaries extend from the eastern provinces of Canada south to the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. More extensive information on the organization and its annual conference may be found online at www.nerfa.org and www.nerfaconference.org. The four other North American regions – Folk Alliance Region Midwest (FARM), Folk Alliance Region – West (FAR-West), Southeast Regional Folk Alliance (SERFA), and Southwest Regional Folk Alliance (SWRFA) already held their 2025 conferences. Folk Alliance International’s next conference is set for January — — in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Editor’s Note: Besides hosting a late-night song swap-style artist showcase during the conference, as I have under the banner of AcousticMusicScene.com most years since the online publication’s inception in 2007, I will be assisting two of my artist PR clients (Lynn Crossett and James O’Malley) and offering some one-on-one mentoring sessions on artist bios and one-sheets, EPKS, social media promotion, and various other aspects of public relations and strategic communications. As president of the Folk Music Society of Huntington (a nonprofit presenting organization on Long Island, NY), I also curated and will co-host a private showcase under its banner on Friday overnight. As a past president and former 15-year board member of NERFA who was not at last year’s conference, I really look forward to this one.

Nurture the Future is this year’s conference theme. “It was something we felt needed to be communicated as our world is changing every second of the day,” says Jill Kettles, SERFA’s board president. “We aim to uphold the past, mold the present, and project it for future generations; this is not just important but vital.”

SERFA is a regional affiliate of Folk Alliance International (folk.org), a nonprofit organization that aims to serve, strengthen and engage the global folk music community through preservation, presentation and promotion. SERFA (serfa.org) exists to promote, develop and celebrate the diverse heritage of roots and indigenous music, dance, storytelling and related arts in the southeastern United States. It has produced an annual conference since 2008. This is SERFA’s third consecutive year at the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina.

The official showcases take place Friday and Saturday evenings, with each artist/act performing a 15-minute set. Unplugged private showcases follow from 10:40 p.m. to 2 a.m. Also on the agenda are daytime panel discussions and workshops, a Wisdom of the Elders session, a few thematic song circles, open mics, mentoring sessions, an awards presentation, an exhibit hall, communal meals, and plenty of other opportunities to learn, share and network –- including during built-in afternoon breaks in the programming. Informal jams and song circles also are apt to break out in the lobby and outside (weather permitting).

Rachael Sage, Award-Winning, Prolific Singer-Songwriter and Boutique Label Owner to Deliver Keynote Address

Daytime Programming Includes Workshops, Song Circles, Think Tanks, and Mentoring Sessions

Besides the workshops and panel discussions, there will be moderated, interactive “think tanks” on House Concerts and Small Venues and Hey, What’s Your Problem, one-on-one mentoring sessions, several thematic song circles, several thematic song circles, and a Wisdom of the Elders session during the daytime hours.

Wisdom of the Elders and SERFA Awards are Among Conference Highlights

The Wisdom of the Elders conversational panel session provides a structured opportunity for conference attendees to learn from and about veteran leaders in the folk community and for the elders to talk among themselves as well. Participants this year are Scott Berwick, Wayne Erbsen and Taylor Pie.

Berwick has long been active in American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 1000 (the traveling musicians union), has been attending SERFA conferences for the past decade, and has also been involved with the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, the Hudson Valley Folk Guild, and the Ashokan Center, as well as an informal, weekly song circle near his home in upstate New York.

Erbsen has been engaged in traditional American music for more than 50 years as a musician, recording artist (with nearly 20 albums to his credit), professor at Warren Wilson College and the University of North Carolina at Asheville, author and publisher (who has written and published 40 books), and a public radio DJ.

A Tennessee-based traveling folk minstrel and Americana artist, Taylor Pie (Susan Taylor) helped form the Pozo Seco Singers with Don Williams in the early 1960s and has been a solo singer-songwriter and musician since the folk group disbanded. Many notable artists have covered her songs, while Pie was inducted into the Old-Time Country Music Hall of Fame in 2015. Along with her friend Kathryn Harrison, she launched PuffBunny Records in 2007 to share her music and that of other artists she admires. Taylor Pie, who now handles A &R for the label, also stars in Nobody Famous, an award-winning music documentary that was screened during the 2022 SERFA conference.

Menius, who currently hosts “The Revolution Starts Now” on Hillsborough, NC-based WHUP, has hosted radio shows on four stations since 2007. The first executive director of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), from 1985-1990, Menius also served as Folk Alliance International’s initial board president in 1990 and manager from 1991-1996, prior to serving as associate director of MerleFest for a decade and then as executive director of Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky and The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC. He’s also produced concerts, festivals and conferences and worked as a fundraiser, marketing director, emcee, stage manager, and writer.

Dom Flemons, an Arizona native and Chicago area-based musician who has earned the moniker “The American Songster” since his repertoire covers more than 100 years of American roots music, records for Smithsonian Folkways. He is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist (banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife, and rhythm bones), music scholar, actor, slam poet, record collector, and the creator, host and producer of American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee. Earlier this year, he was named the grand-prize winner as well as first place honors for Best Folk/Americana Roots Album (for American Wildfire) in the International Acoustic Music Awards. In 2020, he received the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship Award in the Traditional Arts category. Two years later, he received a degree as Doctor of Humane Letters from his alma mater Northern Arizona University and was the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony or the Class of 2022. Flemons was a founding member of Carolina Chocolate Drops, a Grammy Award-winning African-American old-time string band.

Junior Appalachian Musicians, Inc. (jamkids.org) is the nonprofit parent organization for more than 50 afterschool programs for children ages six and up. JAM provides communities with the requisite tools and support to teach children to play and dance to traditional old time and bluegrass music. Its program model introduces music through small group instruction on instruments common to the Appalachian region and provides youth with opportunities to learn traditional music with their peers from local teaching artists and to perform in their communities and regionally.

Taylor Caffery, the longtime host of “Hootenanny Power” on WRKF in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is the recipient of this year’s Kari Estrin Founding President’s Award. His weekly radio show incorporates musical styles and cultural influences from Caffery’s five decades on radio that began when he hosted his first show while in the U.S. Navy and continued with his college radio station KCSL. To that musical gumbo, he mixes in new discoveries from Folk Alliance International and SERFA conferences.

Dozens of Artists to be Featured in Official and Guerilla Showcases

Slated to present official showcases on Friday evening, May 10 are (in order of appearance) Sue Horowitz, Chris Haddox, Ron Fetner, A Tale of Two, Dustin Gaspard, Nicholas Edward Williams, Helene Cronin, and Admiral Radio. Saturday’s official showcase lineup features Jess Klein, Wes Collins, Bett Padgett, Cast Iron Bluegrass, Ruth and Max Bloomquist, Stone & Snow, Couldn’t Be Happiers, and Ordinary Elephant.

Here’s a link to a Spotify playlist that features one song from each of the official showcase artists.

Following the official showcases on Friday and Saturday, as well as an open mic on Thursday, late-night guerilla showcases will take place in various meeting rooms for several hours. AcousticMusicScene.com, which has had a presence at SERFA conferences since 2011, will host a couple of late-night song swaps and a midnight hoot (featuring more than two-dozen artists/acts – each performing one song) on Thursday, May 9, overnight. The AcousticMusicScene.com Midnight Hoot is a pre-arranged round-robin song swap that is intended to provide concert and festival presenters, folk DJs and others with an opportunity to get a small sampling of the music of a lot of artists in a short period of time on the conference’s opening night. It also enables artists to enjoy and each other’s company and music before the conference really gets into full swing on Friday.

Here’s the AcousticMusicScene.com Showcase schedule:

10:40 Brooklyn in the House: Carolann Solebello and Pat Wictor

11:00 Long Island Sound: Hank Stone and Jim Whiteman

11:30 Midnight Hoot, Part 1 (one song each):

Antonio Andrade, Max & Ruth Bloomquist, Dan & Faith, Katie Dahl, Annie Stokes

12:00 Midnight Hoot, Part 2 (one song each, not necessarily in this order)

Taylor Pie, The Farmer & The Crow, Amy Speace, Annie & Rod Capps, Marc Douglas Berardo, Karyn Oliver, Lindsay Whiteman, Miles & Mafale, Rachael Sage, Emma Frances, Nicholas Edward Williams, Noah Zacharin

1:00 Midnight Hoot, Part 3 (one song each, not necessarily in this order)

Jon Shain & FJ Ventre, Erin Ash Sullivan, Robert Bidney, Rob Lytle, Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus, Meg Braun, Alice Hasen, Brian Ashley Jones & Melanie Jean, Couldn’t Be Happiers, Reckless Saints, Siena Christie

The October 2022 Top Albums, Songs and Artists charts are based on 14,476 airplays reported on 493 playlists submitted by 128 different folk DJs. The number of reported spins is shown below in parentheses.

Folk Alliance International (folk.org) is a nonprofit organization that aims to serve, strengthen, and engage the global folk music community through preservation, presentation and promotion.

Top Albums of October 2022

1. Flare by Pat Wictor (105)
2. Leap! by John McCutcheon (91)
3. Chasing the Light by Jared Rabin (83)
4. Second-Hand by James Keelaghan (81)
5. Hold Our Ground by Tom Chapin (66)
6. The New Faith by Jake Blount (63)
7. Small Towns by Stillhouse Junkies (60)
8. There’s a Bright Side Somewhere by Happy Traum (59)
8. Listen to the Red Rock by Various Artists (59)
10. The Best of Mary McCaslin: Things We Said Today by Mary McCaslin (50)
11. Tell ‘Em You Were Gold by Pharis and Jason Romero (48)
12. Ain’t Nobody Worried by Rory Block (47)
13. Heal the Heart by The Deer’s Cry (46)
14. Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson by
Various Artists (42)
14. The Coming of the Years by Joe Jencks (42)
16. Witness by Angela Easterling (41)
17. Love Is the Only Thing by Peter Mulvey and Sistastrings (40)
18. Last Days of Summer by Lucy Kaplansky (39)
19. Still by David LaMotte (37)
20. Man With the Muse by Bryce Ernest Taylor (36)
21. All Those Days of Drinking Dust by Tiffany Williams (35)
21. Fountain Pen by Nick Carter (35)
23. While I’m Here by Tina Ross (30)
24. Still Woman Enough by Loretta Lynn (29)
25. Love Lies ‘n’ Leaving by Helen Townsend (27)
26. Radio John: Songs of John Hartford by Sam Bush (26)
27. Watchhouse by Watchhouse (25)
27. Driving Home by Cheryl Wheeler (25)
27. Lift the World by Curtis and Loretta (25)
27. Reimagining by Claudia Schmidt (25)
31. Apple and Setser by Apple and Setser (24)
32. Calling You From My Mountain by Peter Rowan (23)
33. I’m Going Home by Nick Hutson (22)
34. Horizon Line by Dan Navarro (21)
35. Dark Enough to See the Stars by Mary Gauthier (20)
35. Of Hard Times and Harmony by Windborne (20)
37. The Liar by John Fullbright (19)
37. Stolen Time by Abigail Lapell (19)
37. Ripples in the Wake by Kirby Heard (19)
37. Rolling Golden Holy by Bonny Light Horseman (19)
37. Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2 by
Various Artists (19)
37. Full Circle by Loretta Lynn (19)
37. Endless Grace by Deidre McCalla (19)
37. Unexpected by Phoebe White (19)
37. Hold On by Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen (19)
46. Cover to Cover by The Brother Brothers (18)
46. Bluegrass 1959-1969 by Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys (18)
46. Mary Bragg by Mary Bragg (18)
46. Lifetime Achievement by Loudon Wainwright III (18)
46. Old Friends by Mary McCaslin (18)
46. Happy Fish (And Other Delights) by Diane Coll (18)
46. The Bramble and the Rose by Mary McCaslin and Jim Ringer (18)

Top Songs of October 2022

[Click on the link to listen to Pat Wictor’s song “How Will They Tell It?”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUhQnRXGO8E]

1. “How Will They Tell It?” by Pat Wictor (23)
2. “The Ride” by John McCutcheon (22)
3. “Coal Miner’s Daughter” by Loretta Lynn (18)
4. “Walk On” by James Keelaghan (16)
4. “Tunnel’s End” by Jared Rabin (16)
4. “When Fall Comes to New England” by Cheryl Wheeler (16)
7. “Didn’t It Rain” by Jake Blount (15)
7. “Which Side Are You On?” by Artists for Action (15)
7. “Old Friends” by Mary McCaslin (15)
10. “Girl From the North Country” by Jared Rabin (14)
10. “Gathering Storm” by James Keelaghan (14)
10. “Radio” by Emily White (14)
10. “Woody Guthrie’s Dream” by Tom Chapin (14)
10. “Listen Close” by Tom Chapin (14)
15. “The Bramble and the Rose” by Mary McCaslin and Jim Ringer (13)
16. “The Way of the World” by Pat Wictor (12)
16. “Information War” by Pat Wictor (12)
16. “Grow Your Own” by Jared Rabin (12)
16. “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” by Angela Easterling (12)
16. “Hold Our Ground Forever” by Tom Chapin (12)
16. “Second-Hand” by James Keelaghan (12)
16. “While I’m Here” by Tina Ross (12)
23. “River of the Lost Souls” by Stillhouse Junkies (11)
23. “The Great Backslide” by Tret Fure (11)
23. “Red Rock” by Kate Macleod (11)
23. “Morning Train” by Mother Banjo (11)
23. “Alberta” by James Keelaghan (11)

Top Artists of October 2022

1. Loretta Lynn (143)
2. Mary McCaslin (122)
3. John McCutcheon (114)
4. Pat Wictor (107)
5. James Keelaghan (87)
6. Jared Rabin (83)
7. Tom Chapin (70)
8. Cheryl Wheeler (68)
9. Jake Blount (66)
10. Happy Traum (65)
11. John Prine (64)
12. Stillhouse Junkies (60)
13. Pharis and Jason Romero (55)
14. Rory Block (51)
15. Bob Dylan (48)
16. The Deer’s Cry (46)
16. Lucy Kaplansky (46)
18. Joe Jencks (45)
19. Angela Easterling (42)
20. Peter Mulvey and Sistastrings (40)
21. Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys (39)
22. David LaMotte (38)
23. Sam Bush (37)
23. Bryce Ernest Taylor (37)
25. Nick Carter (35)
25. Tiffany Williams (35)
27. Peter Rowan (33)
27. Susan Werner (33)
29. Tina Ross (31)
29. Watkins Family Hour (31)
31. Nanci Griffith (29)
32. Eva Cassidy (28)
32. Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (28)
32. Claudia Schmidt (28)
35. Billy Strings (27)
35. Tom Paxton (27)
35. Helen Townsend (27)
35. Curtis and Loretta (27)
39. Watchhouse (26)
39. Carrie Newcomer (26)

Back by popular demand, after a much lamented one-year absence, two open mics are again on the schedule; Rob Hinkal of IlyAIMY hosts the Friday and Saturday afternoon sessions.

Booking gigs may be the primary objective of some performers who attend the conference; and many presenters and folk DJs do scout out new artists and those whom they have not previously heard and seen in live performance. However, the conference experience is much more than that; it’s really about forging connections, building community, and attending workshops and seminars to learn about options to further careers, promote the music, attract audiences and listeners, ad enrich our lives.

Among some 40 scheduled workshops and panel discussions are several focusing on social media and websites. Sonny Ochs, a longtime folk DJ and sister of the late troubadour and activist Phil Ochs, will moderate “Singing The Truth: Activism and 35 Years of Phil Ochs Song Nights,” featuring performing panelists Greg Greenway, Reggie Harris, Joe Jencks, Colleen Kattau, and Pat Wictor. Among the artist-centric offerings are the popular “On the Griddle” instant critique session and ones on crowd-funding, DIY video, financial planning for artists, “Making the Most of Your Release,” “Mental Health Survival Kit for Musicians,” “Navigating Social Issues with Music and Story,” “Step-By-Step Streaming Success,” and “Womenfolk: Fostering Equity, Safety and Success.” Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt will conduct a vocal harmony how-to session. For presenters, there will be sessions on finding the funds for your venue and sound reinforcement, as well as one entitled “Keep the Fire Bright: Preventing Burnout in Presenting Organizations. “

Morning yoga sessions will again be led by singer-songwriter Caroline Cotter, while MusiCares will be on site again to fit folks for custom earplugs.

Juried Showcases Slated for Friday and Saturday Nights

Following the formal showcases, attendees will shuffle between three rooms in close proximity to one another to catch short sets by 30 additional artists/acts who were selected by a different set of judges. Performing in these semi-formal showcases on Friday night are (in alphabetical order) Asaran Earth Trio, Quentin Callewaert, Noah Derksen, Josh Harty, House of Hamill, Rachael Kilgour, Low Lily, Kipyn Martin, Nathans & Ronstadt, Next Generation Leahy, Kerri Powers, Monica Rizzio, Annie Sumi, and UPSTATE. Saturday’s semi-formal showcase artists include Rod Abernethy, Big Little Lions, C. Daniel Boling, Ellen Bukstel, Susan Cattaneo Band, Emerald Rae, Roger Street Friedman, Cassandra House, Joe Jencks, Kolonien, Moonfruits, Diane Perry, The Promise is Hope, Quarter Horse, and Suzie Vinnick. Like the formal showcases that immediately precede them, nothing else is allowed to compete with the semi-formal showcases during the conference.

On Thursday evening, the conference’s opening night, the Suzi Wollenberg Folk DJ Showcase will feature short performances by 15 artists/acts chosen by DJs. Listed in order of appearance, they are Sweet Corn & Sunflower (Annie Sumi & Tannis Slimmon), Bruce Foley & Mary Coogan, Bill Baker, Letitita VanSant, All Types of Kinds, Katie Dahl, Grace Morrison, Eric Lee, Sam Steffen, Susan Shann, Marian Halliday, Sue Horowitz, Belle of the Fall, and Plywood Cowboy.

Following the juried and folk DJ showcases each evening, AcousticMusicScene.com will join dozens of presenters, performers and others in hosting guerilla showcases in their hotel rooms that extend through the early morning hours. Some guerilla showcases also are slated for Friday and Saturday afternoons. Musicians may well stake out other areas of the hotel and jam until 4 or 5 a.m.


AcousticMusicScene.com Midnight Hoot Features Artists, Singing Folk DJs


An overflow crowd will likely descend on the AcousticMusicScene.com suite (2031) on Thursday overnight for its popular Midnight Hoot. Extending from 11 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., this hoot is a pre-arranged, round robin song swap featuring several singing folk DJs (Jim Colbert, Barbara and Graham Dean, and Jon Stein) and some three-dozen artists/acts – each performing one song.

Now in its 12th year, the Midnight Hoot is intended to shine a spotlight on several folk DJs who also enjoy singing, while providing them, presenters and others with an opportunity to get a small sampling of the music of a lot of artists in a short period of time. A house band comprised of Mark Dann (bass), Jagoda (percussion), and Eric Lee (fiddle/violin) will be there for anyone who desires accompaniment.

While Michael Kornfeld, AcousticMusicScene.com’s editor & publisher, hosts the Thursday-Saturday overnight showcases, his friends Mira Shapiro and Hank Stone will serve as guest hosts on Friday afternoon. Closing out the afternoon will be performance of Si Kahn’s Mother Jones in Heaven, a musical play about the legendary labor organizer (starring Viv Nesbitt, with John Dillon on guitar).More information and a short video about the musical play may be found online at www.motherjonesinheaven.com.

As in recent years, the musical festivities in the AcousticMusicScene.com room will wrap up on Saturday overnight with an extended “O Canada” song swap. Carrying their instruments and the maple leaf, a number of talented Canadian artists and acts will march into the room at 2 a.m. singing their national anthem.

Schedules for the AcousticMusicScene.com showcases appear below.

AcousticMusicScene.com Midnight Hoot (Room 2031)

Thursday Night 11 p.m. – 2:30 a.m.

(One song per artist/act and folk DJ, not listed in order of appearance.)

Host: Michael Kornfeld

Folk DJs: Jim Colbert, Graham & Barbara Dean, Jon Stein

Artists:

Rod Abernethy, Mike Agranoff, Antonio Andrade, Lisa Bastoni, Belle of the Fall, Shawna Caspi, Crowes Pasture, Alyssa Dann, Diamonds in the Rust, Neale Eckstein, Kala Farnham, Roger Street Friedman, Gathering Time, Gina Holsopple, Joe Iadanza, ilyAIMY, Joe Jencks, Stuart Kabak, Brian Kalinec, Rachael Kilgour, Eric Lee, Mara Levine, Pete Mancini , Kirsten Maxwell, Hugh O’Doherty, Andrea Randa, Monica Rizzio, Mike P. Ryan, Susan Shann, Carolann Solebello, Hank Stone, Linda Sussman, Jesse Terry, The Royal Yard, and Letitita VanSant

House Band: Mark Dann, Jagoda, Eric Lee

Friday Afternoon Hosts: Mira Shapiro, Hank Stone, John Dillon and Viv Nesbitt

2:00 Mass. Appeal: Amy Kucharik, Eric Lee, Rob Lytle
2:30 Marylanders: Heather Aubrey Lloyd, Kipyn Martin, Letitita Van Sant
3:00 Fab Folk: Sophie Buskin, Rachael Kilgour, Nathans & Ronstadt
3:30 More Fab Folk: Gina Holsopple, Mike Laureanno, Hank Stone
4:00 Si Kahn’s Mother Jones in Heaven, a musical play about the legendary labor organizer (starring Viv Nesbitt, with John Dillon on guitar): 55 minutes.

Friday Night Host: Michael Kornfeld

Saturday Night Host: Michael Kornfeld

11:45 Long Island Sounds: Gathering Time, Joe Iadanza, Rorie Kelly & Nico Padden,
and Hank Stone
12:30 Blues & Roots: Jon Shain & FJ Ventre and Pat Wictor
1:00 Two Duos & A Trio: Gathering Sparks, Deeper Than The Skin: Reggie Harris & Greg Greenway, and The Malvinas
1:30 Celtic Set: Emerald Rae and House of Hamill
2:00 O Canada: Big Little Lions, Melanie Brulee, Shawna Caspi, Scott Cook, Ken Dunn, Gathering Sparks, Piper Hayes, Moonfruits, Gillian Nicola, Cheryl Prashker (percussion), Corin Raymond, Benjamin Dakota Rogers, Tannis Slimmon, Annie Sumi, and Lucie Blue Tremblay

“I hope that attendees will share a meal and/or a song with new friends they don’t yet know, embrace the spirit of community that NERFA represents, and have a great conference experience,” said Michael Kornfeld, president of NERFA’s board of directors and editor and publisher of AcousticMusicScene.com. He expressed thanks to Dianne Tankle, NERFA’s founder and conference director since its inception, and her team of volunteers for all of their efforts in arranging the event. Tankle will be stepping down from her leadership role following this year’s conference.

Here’s a link to a video montage that Neale Eckstein created following the 2016 NERFA Conference: https://www.facebook.com/neale.eckstein/videos/10154271098733893/

NERFA is a regional affiliate of Folk Alliance International (www.folk.org), a nonprofit organization that aims to nurture, engage and empower the international folk music community — traditional and contemporary, amateur and professional — through education, advocacy and performance. NERFA’s geographic boundaries extend from the eastern provinces of Canada south to the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. More extensive information on the organization and its annual conference may be found online at www.nerfa.org.

Editor’s Note: My thanks to Hank Stone for his assistance in setting up the AcousticMusicScene.com showcase room and for guest-hosting Friday afternoon song swaps– along with Mira Shapiro, Viv Nesbitt and John Dillon — to Amy Blake, Arpie Maros and Sybil Moser for the loan of folding chairs, and to Stuart Kabak for the loan of stage and decorative lights that help to create a listening room ambiance in the suite.

In addition to hosting the AcousticMusicScene.com Midnight Hoot and other showcases and leading a community meeting with the NERFA board of directors as its president, I will moderate a panel discussion on artists ‘website and social media and offer mentoring sessions on strategic communications and public relations topics during the conference.

The April 2016 FOLKDJ-L charts are based on 14,169 airplays from 144 different DJs. Label and release date appear in brackets below, while the number of reported spins is shown in parentheses. The charts are posted on AcousticMusicScene.com, with permission.

Top Albums of April 2016

1: Weights & Wings, Brother Sun [brothersun.com, 4/16] (113)
2: Old Songs For Modern Folk, Vincent Cross [Rescue Dog, 4/16] (72)
3: The Deep Hollow, The Deep Hollow [thedeephollow.com, 4/16] (63)
4: I Love Hamburgers, Joe Giacoio [Romantic Devil, 10/15] (61)
5: Restless Moon, Meg Braun [megbraun.com, 4/15] (57)
6: Charismo, Hackensaw Boys [Free Dirt, 4/16] (56)
7: Empty Train, David Francey [Laker, 2/16] (48)
8: Excellent Day, Lizanne Knott [Proper, 4/16] (45)
8: Sometimes I Feel Too Much, Cosy Sheridan [cosysheridan.com, new] (45)
10: Keepsake, Gathering Time [Treble-G, 3/16] (44)
11: All These Years, Solas [THL, 2/16] (43)
12: Full Circle, Loretta Lynn [Legacy, 3/16] (39)
13: Dark Horse Days, Donal Hinely [Atom, 2/16] (38)
13: More Alive, Don White [donwhite.net, 11/15] (38)
15: Ladies And Gentlemen, Infamous Stringdusters [Compass, 1/16] (36)
16: Freedom Blues, Ken Whiteley [Borealis, 4/16] (34)
16: Grain By Grain, Mark Mandeville And Raianne Richards [Nobody’s Favorite, 4/16] (34)
16: Totally Average Woman, Carla Ulbrich [Romantic Devil, 8/15] (34)
16: Washashore Cowgirl, Monica Rizzio [monicarizzio.com, 2/16] (34)
20: For A Song, Mark Erelli [markerelli.com, 4/16] (32)
21: Blue Skies, Mountain Heart [Compass, new] (31)
21: Electricity, Victor And Penny [Overtone, 3/16] (31)
23: At Home And In Nashville, Andy Ferrell [andyferrellmusic.com, 3/16] (30)
23: The Both, Eli West [elidoes.bandcamp.com, 2/16] (30)
23: The K.O.A. Tapes (Vol. 1), Kate Campbell [Large River, 1/16] (30)
23: Trail Of Tales, The Bills [Borealis, new] (30)
23: Worth The Wait, Goodbye Blue [Wondermore, 3/16] (30)
28: Family, Friends And Heroes, Frank Solivan [Compass, 3/16] (28)
28: I Was So Fond Of You, Matt Patershuk [Black Hen, 2/16] (28)
30: The Hazel And Alice Sessions, Laurie Lewis And The Right Hands [Spruce And Maple, 1/16] (27)
31: Folk Art, The Robert Bobby Duo [I Likemike, 2/16] (26)
32: The Buck Stops Here, The Buck Stops Here Band [Self, new] (25)
32: Del And Woody, Del McCoury Band [Self, new] (25)
32: These Are The Days, Burning Bridget Cleary [burningbridgetcleary.com, 11/15] (25)
32: A Tribute To Jack Hardy, Various Artists [Smithsonian/Folkways, 3/16] (25)
36: Calla’s Waltz, Jed Marum [Boston Road, 3/16] (24)
36: Django And Jimmie, Willie Nelson And Merle Haggard [Legacy, 6/15] (24)
38: Beyond The Ash And Steel, Judy Kass [judykassmusic.com, 1/16] (23)
38: The Complete ’60s Capitol Singles, Merle Haggard [Omnivore, 2013] (23)
38: Echoes, Jason Wilber [Self, new] (23)
38: Jump The Fire, Evie Ladin Band [Evil Diane, new] (23)
42: Didn’t We Waltz, Amy White with Al Petteway [Fairewood, 1/16] (21)
42: Dori Freeman, Dori Freeman [Free Dirt, 2/16] (21)
42: Lambert And Walz, Lambert And Walz [Self, 3/16] (21)
42: Traveling Circus, No Fuss And Feathers [Roadshow, 1/16] (21)
46: Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams, Corin Raymond [Local Rascal, 3/16] (20)
46: Real Midnight, Birds Of Chicago [5 Head, 2/16] (20)
48: Extraordinary Days, Rebecca Folsom [rebeccafolsom.com, 1/16] (19)
48: Live From Blue Rock, Moors And McCumber [moorsandmccumber.bandcamp.com, 2/16] (19)
50: Foxhounds, Kathy Kallick Band [Live Oak, 11/15] (18)
50: God Don’t Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson, Various Artists [Alligator, 2/16] (18)
50: Just For The Love Of It, Happy Traum [happytraum.com, 7/15] (18)
50: Orchids And Violence, Michael Daves [Nonesuch, 2/16] (18)
50: Still The Birds, Darryl Purpose [Blue Rock, new] (18)
50: Welcoming The Flood, Scott Wolfson And Other Heroes [scottwolfson.com, 1/16] (18)
56: Cajun Fandango, Michael Doucet And Tom Rigney [Parhelion, new] (17)
56: In The Magic Hour, Aoife O’Donovan [Yep Roc, 1/16] (17)
56: Paths That Wind, The Paul McKenna Band [paulmckennaband.com, 4/16] (17)
56: Resilience, Robinlee Garber [Joygirl, 3/16] (17)
56: Upland Stories, Robbie Fulks [Bloodshot, 4/16] (17)
56: Weighted Mind, Sierra Hull [Rounder, 1/16] (17)
56: Wondrous Traveler, The Small Glories [Self, 2/16] (17)
63: Beyond The Bog Road, Eileen Ivers [Eone, 3/16] (16)
63: Lovers And Leavers, Hayes Carll [Hwy 87, new] (16)
63: Traveling Roots, Matt Flinner Trio [Compass, 1/16] (16)
63: Tulare Dust: A Songwrters’ Tribute To Merle Haggard, Various Artists [Hightone, 1994] (16)
67: Are You Serious, Andrew Bird [Loma Vista, new] (15)
67: Fine Bloom, Free The Honey [freethehoney.com, 9/15] (15)
67: The Fretless, The Fretless [Self, 2014] (15)
67: What’s That I Hear?: The Songs of Phil Ochs, Various Artists [Sliced Bread, 1998] (15)

Top Songs of April 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9a9yFSceNw
(“Mary Don’t You Weep And Moan,” recorded by Brother Sun)

1. “Mary Don’t You Weep and Moan” (23)
by Brother Sun
from Weights & Wings
2. “Storms Are On The Ocean” (20)
by Meg Braun
from Restless Moon
2. “When I’m Gone” (20)
by Brother Sun
from Weights & Wings
4. “I Love Hamburgers” (18)
by Joe Giacoio
from I Love Hamburgers
5. “Mama Tried” (16)
by Merle Haggard
from Complete ’60s Capitol Singles
6. “Good Thing She Can’t Read My Mind” (15)
by Don White
from More Alive
7. “Lay My Burden Down” (14)
by Lizanne Knott
from Excellent Day
7. “Straight To You” (14)
by The Deep Hollow
from The Deep Hollow
7. “Woody Guthrie Watch Over Me” (14)
by Cosy Sheridan
from Sometimes I Feel Too Much
10. “Michael Brown” (13)
by Vincent Cross
from Old Songs For Modern Folk
11. “Mighty Long Way” (12)
by Brother Sun
from Weights & Wings
11. “Where Are You Moses” (12)
by Brother Sun
from Weights & Wings
13. “Content Not Seeking Thrills” (11)
by Hackensaw Boys
from Charismo
13. “Freeport Town” (11)
by Vincent Cross
from Old Songs For Modern Folk
13. “Gypsy Moon” (11)
by Meg Braun
from Restless Moon
13. “Last Dime Blues” (11)
by Andy Ferrell
from At Home And In Nashville
13. “Lonesome Valley” (11)
by Eli West
from The Both
13. “When Doves Cry” (11)
by The Be Good Tanyas
from Hello Love
19. “Barn Wood” (10)
by Donal Hinely
from Dark Horse Days
19. “Maggie’s Farm” (10)
by Mountain Heart
from Blue Skies
19. “Okie From Muskogee” (10)
by Merle Haggard
from Essential Merle Haggard – The Epic Years
19. “Pigs” (10)
by Joe Giacoio
from I Love Hamburgers
19. “Totally Average Woman” (10)
by Carla Ulbrich
from Totally Average Woman
24. “Beginning And The End” (9)
by The Deep Hollow
from The Deep Hollow
24. “Devil” (9)
by The Deep Hollow
from The Deep Hollow
24. “Empty Train” (9)
by David Francey
from Empty Train
24. “Garments Of Shame” (9)
by Vincent Cross
from Old Songs For Modern Folk
24. “Grain By Grain” (9)
by Mark Mandeville And Raianne Richards
from Grain By Grain
24. “Holy Ground” (9)
by David Francey
from Empty Train
24. “I Ain’t Marching Anymore” (9)
by Phil Ochs
from I Ain’t Marching Anymore
24. “Keep On Going” (9)
by Brother Sun
from Weights & Wings
24. “Paradise” (9)
by Jason Wilber
from Echoes
24. “Silver Wings” (9)
by Merle Haggard
from The Complete ’60s Capitol Singles
24. “Who Knows Where The Time Goes” (9)
by Gathering Time
from Keepsake

Members of Brother Sun also backed Mara Levine on Jewels and Harmony, 2013’s third most-played album. Pharis and Jason Romero’s Long Gone Out West Blues was the #2 album, while its title track was the #3 song on folk radio. The Stray Birds’ “Dream in Blue” was the #2 song.

The FOLKDJ-L charts are based on 157,864 airplays from 187 different DJs. The number of reported spins (airplays) is shown in parentheses, while label and release dates appear in brackets. They are posted, with permission, on AcousticMusicScene.com.

Top Albums of 2013

1: “Some Part Of The Truth,” Brother Sun [brothersunmusic.com, 2/13] (435)
“Lady Of The Harbor”
“In The Name Of Love”
“These Hands”
“Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy”
“I Ain’t Got No Home”
“Pushing Stones”
“House That Jack Built”
“Jericho Road”
“Willow”
“Sad”
“There’s Enough Love”
2: “Long Gone Out West Blues,” Pharis And Jason Romero [Lula, 2/13] (320)
“Long Gone Out West Blues”
“Wild Bill Jones”
“Come On Home”
“Waiting For The Evening Mail”
“Truck Driver’s Blues”
“Sad Old Song”
“I Want To Be Lucky”
“Lost Lula”
“Sally Goodin”
“Lonely Home Blues”
3: “Jewels And Harmony,” Mara Levine [maralevine.com, 1/13] (314)
“The Dutchman”
“River”
“Leaves That Are Green”
“When I Sing With You”
“April Come She Will”
“Immigrant Dream”
“Blackberry Time”
“I Will Walk With You”
4: “So Say We All,” David Francey [Red House, 5/13] (305)
“Rain”
“Long Long Road”
“Cheap Motel”
“Pandora’s Box”
“Blue Skies”
“Satellite”
“Ordinary Man”
“American Blues”
5: “The Stray Birds,” The Stray Birds [thestraybirds.com, 9/12] (269)
“Dream In Blue”
“Railroad Man”
“25 To Life”
“Harlem”
“Just Sayin”
“Heavy Hands”
“My Brother’s Hill”
“No Part Of Nothin”
“Wind And Rain”
6: “Bristol Bay,” Si Kahn [Strictly Country, 6/13] (266)
“Beauty Of Alaska”
“Dead Man’s Sand”
“Bristol Bay”
“Upstream”
“Once I Was Young”
“Pebble Mine”
“Everything Is Bigger In Alaska”
“Sailing To Alaska”
7: “Next Time Around,” Darryl Purpose [Blue Rock, 10/12] (250)
“Dreams Of Life”
“Girl From Golden”
“Next Time Around”
“Ghost Of Crazy Horse”
“Race The Wind”
“Stories That We Tell”
“Orange Raincoat”
“Fourth Chair”
7: “No More Rain,” The Steel Wheels [thesteelwheels.com, 4/13] (250)
“Go Up To That Mountain”
“Walk Away”
“Whistle Blows”
“Race”
“Waters Edge”
“Corrine”
“I Will Love You”
9: “Love Has Come For You,” Steve Martin And Edie Brickell [Rounder,
4/13] (249)
“When You Get To Asheville”
“Sun’s Gonna Shine”
“Sarah Jane And The Iron Mountain Baby”
“Get Along Stray Dog”
“Love Has Come For You”
“Friend Of Mine”
“Remember Me This Way”
“Siamese Cat”
10: “Live At Blue Rock,” Mary Gauthier [Proper, 10/12] (238)
“I Drink”
“Sugar Cane”
“Our Lady Of The Shooting Stars”
“Your Sister Cried”
“Last Of The Hobo Kings”
“Wheel Inside The Wheel”
“Rocket”
“Drag Queens In Limousines”
11: “Sugar Shack,” The Boxcar Lilies [boxcarlillies.com, 5/13] (235)
“If I Needed You”
“Lightnin”
“Sugar Shack”
“6 Ways To Sunday”
“That Lonesome Road”
“Don’t Send Me Up To Heaven”
“Good Fortune”
“In This Valley”
12: “These Wilder Things,” Ruth Moody [Red House, 5/13] (232)
“Dancing In The Dark”
“Trouble And Woe”
“One Light Shining”
“Trees For Skies”
“These Wilder Things”
“Life Is Long”
“Pockets”
13: “Pressed For Time,” Burning Bridget Cleary
[burningbridgetcleary.com, 6/13] (224)
“On A Sea Of Fleur De Lis”
“2 Sisters”
“Oh My Little Darling”
“Pressed For Time”
“Ballad Of Tim Evans”
“Stor Mo Chroi / Eddie Kelly’s”
“Ashokan Farewell”
14: “Woody Guthrie At 100! Live At The Kennedy Center,” Various
Artists [Legacy, 6/13] (220)
“Deportee,” Ani Difranco
“Hard Travelin,” Jimmy Lafave
“Pastures Of Plenty,” Judy Collins
“Union Maid,” Old Crow Medicine Show
“So Long, It’s Been Good To Know Yuh,” Del McCoury Band With Tim O’Brien
“I Ain’t Got No Home,” Rosanne Cash
“Pretty Boy Floyd,” Rosanne Cash
15: “Banjo Babes,” Various Artists [Wepecket Island, 10/12] (213)
“Rappin’ Shady Grove,” Kaia Kater
“When I Go To West Virginia,” Aubrey Atwater
“Precious Days,” Evie Ladin
“Boatman,” Dale Robin Goodman
“I Love My Honey,” Evie Ladin
“See That My Grave Is Kept Clean,” Aubrey Atwater
“Little Orchid,” Hilary Hawke
“High On A Mountain,” Dale Robin Goodman
16: “Still Fighting The War,” Slaid Cleaves [Music Road, 6/13] (212)
“Still Fighting The War”
“Rust Belt Fields”
“Texas Love Song”
“In The Rain”
“Welding Burns”
“Hometown Usa”
“God’s Own Yodeler”
17: “Child Ballads,” Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer [Wilderland, 3/13] (211)
“Geordie”
“Riddles Wisely Expounded”
“Willie Of Winsbury”
“Clyde Waters”
“Willie’s Lady”
“Sir Patrick Spens”
“Tam Lin”
18: “22 Days,” John McCutcheon [Appalseed, 10/13] (203)
“Heaven’s Kitchen”
“Forgotten”
“Orion’s Belt”
“Of An Age”
“Dry Land Fish”
“Nothing Like You”
“Adagio In A Minor”
19: “Things Are Coming My Way,” Marcy Marxer [Community, 1/13] (200)
“Things Are Coming My Way”
“Angeline The Baker”
“Kissing In The Dark”
“Fool’s Gold”
“Girl Django”
“I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free”
“It’s The Girl”
19: “This World Oft Can Be,” Della Mae [Rounder, 5/13] (200)
“Letter From Down The Road”
“Empire”
“This World Oft Can Be”
“Turtle Dove”
“Ain’t No Ash Will Burn”
“Hounds”
“Pine Tree”
21: “Memories And Moments,” Tim O’Brien And Darrell Scott [Full
Skies, 9/13] (195)
“Keep Your Dirty Lights On”
“Paradise”
“Memories And Moments”
“Time To Talk To Joseph”
“Brother Wind”
“It All Comes Down To Love”
22: “American Kid,” Patty Griffin [New West, 5/13] (193)
“Go Wherever You Wanna Go”
“Ohio”
“Don’t Let Me Die In Florida”
“Mom And Dad’s Waltz”
“Faithful Son”
“Wild Old Dog”
22: “Darlingford,” Cara Luft [Blue Case, 6/12] (193)
“Only Love Can Save Me”
“Portland Town”
“Idaho”
“Ploughboy And The Cockney”
“He Moved Through The Fair”
“Bring ’em All In”
“Bye Bye Love”
24: “Into The Dark,” Laura Cortese [lauracortese.net, 4/13] (192)
“For Catherine”
“Into The Dark”
“Heel To Toe”
“Life Is Good Blues”
“I Am The House”
“Lay Me Low”
“Village Green”
24: “The Light Still Burns,” Lauren Sheehan [Wilson River, 4/13] (192)
“Hard Times”
“I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate”
“Bearcat Blues”
“My Baby’s So Sweet”
“C Medley”
“In The Sweet Bye And Bye-Keep On The Sunny Side”
“Old Folks At Home”
26: “Bittersweet,” Alice Gerrard [Spruce And Maple, 7/13] (191)
“Sweet South Anna River”
“Bittersweet”
“Payday At The Mill”
“Borderland”
“Lonely Night”
“Play Me A Song I Can Cry To”
“Tell Me Their Story”
26: “Up Like The Clouds,” Dubl Handi [dublhandi.bandcamp.com, 1/13] (191)
“Shout Little Lula”
“New River Train”
“Cluck Old Hen”
“Katie Cruel”
“Undone In Sorrow”
“Single Girl”
28: “How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat,” Amy Speace [Windbone, 4/13] (189)
“Fortunate Ones”
“Sea And The Shore”
“How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat”
“Left Me Hanging”
“Feathers And Wishbones”
“Hunter Moon”
28: “Walk Along John,” John Reischman [Corvus, 4/13] (189)
“Itzbin Reel”
“Walk Along John To Kansas”
“Deadly Fox”
“Joe Ahr’s Dream”
“Side By Each”
“Salt River”
30: “Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions,” Si Kahn And The Looping
Brothers [Strictly Country, 8/13] (186)
“Aragon Mill”
“To Hear Doc Watson Play”
“Wild Rose Of The Mountain”
“Gone, Gonna Rise Again”
“5 Days A Week”
“Tarpaper Shacks”
31: “Carnival,” Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line [Blue Pig, 4/13] (185)
“Baker’s Boy”
“Jack Of Diamonds”
“Carnival”
“Travelin’ On”
“Bike Ride”
“Barn Dance”
“Listen With Your Heart”
“Party Line”
31: “Little Boat,” Rita Hosking [ritahosking.com, 2/13] (185)
“Parting Glass”
“5 Star Location”
“Sierra Bound”
“Blow Northwest Wind”
“Where Time Is Reigning”
“Clean”
“Nothing Left Of Me”
33: “The Heart’s Swift Foot,” Red Tail Ring [Earthwork, 4/13] (184)
“Ohio Turnpike”
“My Heart’s Own Love”
“Body Like A Bell”
“Queen Of The West And Other Stories”
“Dirt Triangle”
“Katy Came Breezing”
“The Heart’s Swift Foot”
34: “Memory Wall,” Buddy Mondlock [Sparking Gap, 5/13] (182)
“Canary’s Song”
“What Do I Know”
“Holes You Leave”
“Stone In My Pocket”
“Stay Up All Night”
“Quoddy Point”
“Ugly One”
35: “Hayseed,” Susan Werner [30 Tigers, 6/13] (178)
“City Kids”
“Something To Be Said”
“Back To The Land”
“Iowa”
“Plant The Stars”
“Egg Money”
35: “In The Time Of Gods,” Dar Williams [Razor & Tie, 4/12] (178)
“I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything”
“Storm King”
“I Have Been Around The World”
“Light And The Sea”
“Summer Child”
“Write This Number Down”
“This Earth”
37: “Everything Is Great,” Erik Balkey [Hudson Harding, 2012] (177)
“Baseball In My Blood”
“Singer’s Lament”
“My America”
“Born In The Usa”
“Love, It Ain’t Easy”
“Everything Is Great”
“Hard Times”
38: “The Barn Birds,” Jonathan Byrd & Chris Kokesh [Waterbug, 7/13] (174)
“We Used To Be Birds”
“One Night At A Time”
“Paint The Town Blue”
“In The Light Of Day”
“Sundays Loving You”
“Desert Rose”
“Lay Your Hands On The Highway”
39: “Endless Ocean,” The Tuttles With A. J. Lee [Back Studio, 6/13] (172)
“Hickory Wind”
“My Window Faces The South”
“Columbus Stockade Blues”
“Cotton Eyed Joe”
“Oh, Mandolin”
“Beaumont Rag”
“Few Old Memories”
40: “The Old School,” Peter Rowan [Compass, 4/13] (170)
“Keepin’ It Between The Lines”
“Doc Watson Morning”
“That’s All She Wrote”
“O Freedom”
“Mountain Man’s Dream”
“True Love To Last”
41: “Old Yellow Moon,” Emmylou Harris And Rodney Crowell [Nonesuch, 2/13] (168)
“Hanging Up My Heart”
“Invitation To The Blues”
“Black Caffeine”
“Spanish Dancer”
“Bluebird Wine”
“Dreaming My Dreams”
“Back When We Were Beautiful”
41: “Ring Them Bells,” The Copper Ponies [Hudson Harding, 6/13] (168)
“Ring Them Bells”
“Last Train”
“Why Worry”
“If I Go”
43: “Give Me All You Got,” Carrie Rodriguez [Ninth Street Opus, 1/13] (167)
“Devil In Mind”
“Sad Joy”
“Lake Harriet”
“Whiskey Runs Thicker Than Blood”
“I Cry For Love”
“I Don’t Mind Waiting”
43: “Live At Caffe Lena,” Various Artists [Tompkins Square, 9/13] (167)
“Green Rolling Hills Of West Virginia,” Utah Phillips
“Mr. Bojangles,” Jerry Jeff Walker
“City Of New Orleans,” Arlo Guthrie
“Gaslight Rag,” Dave Van Ronk
43: “Vancouver,” Deborah Holland [RageOn, 6/13] (167)
“I Wanna Be A Canadian”
“Norwegian Wood”
“Vancouver”
“Home”
“Money”
46: “Our Lady Of The Tall Trees,” Cahalen Morrison And Eli West
[cahalenandeli.com, 9/12] (164)
“Lady Does Not Often Falter”
“Church Street Blues”
“Our Lady Of The Tall Trees”
“Stone To Sand”
“Loretta”
“Red Prairie Dawn”
46: “Yes Please,” The Bills [Red House, 8/12] (164)
“Plant Song”
“Shining Face”
“Blackberry Ivy And Broom”
“Hallowed Hall”
“Not The End”
“Pandora’s In Flames”
48: “As The Crow Flies,” Childsplay [childsplay.org, 7/13] (160)
“Hawk And Crow / As The Crow Flies”
“Leave No Millionaire Behind”
“Dear Companion”
“Katrina”
“Last Alleluia”
49: “The Good Book,” Roy Book Binder [Peg Leg, 5/13] (158)
“The Good Book”
“It Coulda Been Worse”
“Step Right Up”
“Electric Cigarette Blues”
“Poker Playin’ Papa”
“What You Gonna Do”
“Full Go Around”
50: “Bright Like Gold,” April Verch [Slab Town, 4/13] (155)
“Sandy River Belle”
“Broken”
“No Other Would Do”
“Only One”
“Raven In The Hemlock”
51: “Coyote Wings,” Zoe Mulford [Azalea City, 1/13] (154)
“Sister, Sail”
“Pocket Fulla Quarters”
“Coyote Wings”
“Storm Damage”
“When The Coffee’s All Gone”
“Sunrise Susquehanna”
51: “They Called It Music,” The Gibson Brothers [Compass, 3/13] (154)
“They Called It Music”
“Darker The Night, The Better I See”
“Buy A Ring, Find A Preacher”
“Daddy’s Gone To Knoxville”
“Songbird’s Song”
“Home On The River”
53: “Time,” Kathy Kallick Band [Live Oak, 8/12] (153)
“Time”
“Long Time Travelin”
“Lord Protect My Soul”
“Old Black Choo Choo”
“Thinkin’ Of Home”
“Dark Hollow”
54: “Greetings From Cheryl Wheeler Live,” Cheryl Wheeler [Dias, 9/12] (152)
“Gandhi/Buddha”
“Where’s All The Money”
“Arrow”
“Lady Gaga’s Singing Program”
“Little Kids”
55: “New Everything,” Brooks Williams [Red Guitar Blue, 7/13] (150)
“Deep River Blues”
“Carry On”
“Mercury Blues”
“King Of California”
“Prosperity”
“One Step”
56: “Electric,” Richard Thompson [New West, 2/13] (148)
“Saving The Good Stuff For You”
“Salford Sunday”
“Snow Goose”
“Where’s Home?”
“Good Things Happen To Bad People”
56: “Goodnight Moonshine,” Molly Venter And Eben Pariser
[myspace.com/mollyventer, 2/13] (148)
“Willow Tree”
“Work I Done”
“Walking After Midnight”
“Dark Side Of The Rainbow”
“End Of The World Blues”
“Goodnight Moonshine”
“All Our Friends”
56: “Hammer Down,” The Steeldrivers [Rounder, 2/13] (148)
“Shallow Grave”
“Burnin’ The Woodshed Down”
“I’ll Be There”
“Wearin’ A Hole”
“When I’m Gone”
“When You Don’t Come Home”
“Lonesome Goodbye”
56: “Say Grace,” Sam Baker [sambakermusic.com, 8/13] (148)
“Isn’t Love Great”
“Road Crew”
“Say Grace”
“Panhandle Winter”
“Go In Peace”
“Migrants”
56: “Christine Lavin Presents: Just One Angel v2.0,” Various Artists
[Yellow Tail, 12/13] (148)
“These Ornaments,” Craig Werth
“Snow Day,” Honor Finnegan
“Light The Lamp,” Emily Kurn
“Pass The Fruitcake,” Claudia Russell And Bruce Kaplan
“I Want An Old Fashioned Christmas,” Amy Speace
61: “Reunion,” Lucy Kaplansky [Red House, 9/12] (147)
“This Morning I Am Born Again”
“I’m Looking Through You”
“Reunion”
“Scavenger”
“Beauty Way”
“I’ll See You Again”
62: “Inside Llewyn Davis,” Various Artists [Nonesuch, 11/13] (145)
“Green, Green Rocky Road,” Oscar Isaac
“500 Miles,” Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan And Stark Sands
“Fare Thee Well,” Oscar Isaac And Marcus Mumford
“Last Thing On My Mind,” Stark Sands With The Punch Brothers
“Death Of Queen Jane,” Oscar Isaac
“Hang Me, Oh Hang Me,” Oscar Isaac
63: “Kitchen, Love,” Putnam Smith [Itchy Sabot, 6/13] (144)
“Succotash”
“Country Girl”
“Emily Dickinson”
“New Shoes”
“Cast Iron Pan”
64: “Brothers Of The Highway,” Dailey And Vincent [Rounder, 5/13] (142)
“Brothers Of The Highway”
“Hills Of Caroline”
“Steel Drivin’ Man”
“Back To Jackson County”
“Close By”
“Howdy Neighbor Howdy”
65: “Love Calling,” Darden Smith [Compass, 7/13] (141)
“Angel Flight”
“Love Calling”
“Medicine Wheel”
“Mine Till Morning”
“7 Wonders”
“Better Now”
66: “Sing The Delta,” Iris DeMent [Flariella, 10/12] (140)
“Go On Ahead And Go Home”
“Night I Learned How Not To Pray”
“Mama Was Always Tellin’ Her Truth”
“There’s A Whole Lotta Heaven”
“Sing The Delta”
67: “The Ash & Clay,” The Milk Carton Kids [Anti-, 3/13] (139)
“Hope Of A Lifetime”
“Honey, Honey”
“Heaven”
“Ash And Clay”
“Jewel Of June”
67: “Dear Sister,” Claire Lynch [Compass, 5/13] (139)
“Dear Sister”
“Buttermilk Road/The Arbours”
“How Many Moons”
“I’ll Be Alright Tomorrow”
“Doin’ Time”
“Once The Teardrops Start To Fall”
67: “Only Slightly Mad,” David Bromberg Band [Appleseed, 9/13] (139)
“Nobody’s Fault But Mine”
“Keep On Drinkin”
“I’ll Rise Again”
“Drivin’ Wheel”
“Fields Have Turned Brown”
“Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Mornin”
70: “Back 40,” Robin & Linda Williams [Red House, 10/13] (138)
“Boots Of Spanish Leather”
“Urge For Going”
“My Sweet Love Ain’t Around”
“On And On”
“Pine County”
70: “High Moon Order,” Betse Ellis [Free Dirt, 6/13] (138)
“Long Time To Get There”
“Elk River Blues”
“Twilight Is Stealing”
“Straight To Hell”
“Dry And Dusty”
“Stamper”
72: “Fossils,” Aoife O’Donovan [Yep Roc, 6/13] (137)
“Lay My Burden Down”
“Red And White And Blue And Gold”
“Thursday’s Child”
“Beekeeper”
“Briar Rose”
“Fire Engine”
72: “Wild Bill Jones,” The Quiet American [quietamericanmusic.com, 1/13] (137)
“Apple In The Fall”
“Gallows Pole”
“Come Walkin’ With Me”
“Wild Bill Jones”
“True Love Will Find You In The End”
74: “Down in Washington Square,” Dave Van Ronk [Smithsonian/Folkways,
10/13] (136)
“Duncan And Brady”
“Another Time And Place”
“Gambler’s Blues”
“Buckets Of Rain”
74: “My Favorite Picture Of You,” Guy Clark [Dualtone, 7/13] (136)
“My Favorite Picture Of You”
“Rain In Durango”
“Cornmeal Waltz”
“El Coyote”
“Hell Bent On A Heartache”
“Heroes”
76: “The Comeback Album,” Eric Brace And Peter Cooper [Red Beet, 4/13] (135)
“Ancient History”
“Boxcars”
“Mad”
“Ponzi Scheme”
“Nobody Knows”
“Rain Just Falls”
77: “Won’t Be Long Now,” Linda Thompson [Pettifer, 10/13] (134)
“As Fast As My Feet”
“Love’s For Babies And Fools”
“Never Put To Sea Boys”
“If I Were A Bluebird”
“Father Son Ballad”
78: “Tom Rush Celebrates 50 Years Of Music,” Tom Rush [Appleseed, 8/13] (133)
“Urge For Going”
“No Regrets/Rockport Sunday”
“Hot Tonight”
“What I Know”
“Drivin’ Wheel”
79: “Build Me Up From Bones,” Sarah Jarosz [Sugar Hill, 9/13] (132)
“Fuel The Fire”
“Over The Edge”
“Build Me Up From Bones”
“Dark Road”
“Mile On The Moon”
“Simple Twist Of Fate”
79: “Gravity Pulls,” Hounds Of Finn [New Folk, 6/13] (132)
“Wild Mountain Thyme”
“Gravity Pulls”
“Ocean”
“Golden Ticket”
“My Father’s Coat”
79: “Silver Lining,” The Honey Dewdrops [thehoneydewdrops.com, 6/12] (132)
“One Kind Word”
“Hills Of My Home”
“Silver Lining”
“Let Me Sing”
“No More Trouble”
79: “Skipping Rocks,” Ken & Brad Kolodner [Fenchurch, 9/13] (132)
“Down On My Knees”
“Orchard”
“Skipping Rocks”
“Billy In The Lowground”
“Red Rocking Chair”
79: “Threshold,” Karine Polwart [Borealis, 2/13] (132)
“Rivers Run”
“Follow The Heron”
“Take Its Own Time”
“Better Things”
“Sorry”
84: “Jack Of All Trades,” Steve Chizmadia [Jack Of All Trades, 2/13] (131)
“Song For Pete”
“Wall Street Fat-Cat Tax-Payer Bail-Out Blues”
“Memphis Girl”
“I’m Alright”
“Nashville Star”
84: “The Weather Inside,” Beth Wood [Blue Rock, 2011] (131)
“Coyote Prayer”
“New Kid”
“Close Your Eyes, Here We Go”
“Backroads”
“Calico”
“The Weather Inside”
86: “We Made It Home,” Melody Walker & Jacob Groopman [Maker/Mender,
10/13] (130)
“We Made It Home”
“Graceland”
“Little Blue Caboose”
“Retinue”
“Betelgeuse”
87: “Flash Company,” Outside Track [Lorimer, 9/12] (127)
“Transatlantic”
“Mountain Road”
“Flash Company”
“False Knight On The Road”
“Whitby Maid”
87: “Grandma’s Rules For Drinking,” Annie Lou [annielou.ca, 6/12] (127)
“Grandma’s Rules For Drinking”
“Take Your Leg Off Mine”
“Plaid Parade”
“Cluny Is So Tall”
“On The Main Drag”
“Winter Song”
89: “Broken Film,” Disappear Fear [disappearfear.com, 9/13] (126)
“Farmland And The Sky”
“Banker”
“Start”
“Perfect Shade”
“American Artist”
“Broken Film”
89: “The Low Highway,” Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) [New
West, 4/13] (126)
“Love’s Gonna Blow My Way”
“The Low Highway”
“After Mardi Gras”
“Warren Hellman’s Banjo”
91: “Temptation,” Spuyten Duyvil [spuytenduyvilmusic.com, 9/13] (125)
“I’ll Fly Away”
“Honey On My Grave”
“Bitter”
“Honey Whiskey”
“Window”
92: “Tune Tramp,” Erynn Marshall [Hickoryjack, 12/12] (124)
“Milwaukee Blues”
“Ragged But Right”
“Poor Hobo”
“Bonaparte’s Retreat”
“Rambler’s Blues”
93: “Angels Without Wings,” Heidi Talbot [Compass, 1/13] (121)
“Dearest Johnny”
“Button Up”
“When The Roses Come Again”
“Angels Without Wings”
“Wine And Roses”
93: “Carved Wood Box,” Cal Scott [Tamarack, 12/12] (121)
“Carved Wood Box”
“Paid Too Much For The Diamond”
“Smallest Act Of Kindness”
“One More River”
“Dig Down Deep”
“London Town”
93: “Take This Song With You,” Maya And The Ruins
[mayaandtheruins.bandcamp.com, 9/12] (121)
“Train Whistle Blues”
“Bootlegger’s Blues”
“Wildflowers”
“Let Me In”
“Roll Along Kentucky Moon”
“Write Me A Letter”
93: “Tender Is The Night,” Old Man Luedecke [True North, 11/12] (121)
“Kingdom Come”
“Jonah And The Whale”
“I’m Fine”
“Song For Ian Tyson”
“Tortoise And The Hare”
97: “Tales From Jackson Bridge,” Harpeth Rising [Grimm Rising, 9/13] (119)
“Sparrow”
“Wheelhouse”
“House Of The Rising Sun”
“It Don’t Really Matter”
“Burn Away Your Troubles”
98: “Almanac Trail,” Rik Palieri And George Mann [Almanac Trail, 7/13] (118)
“I’m Going Down That Road Feeling Bad”
“Union Maid”
“Which Side Are You On?”
“Harry Bridges”
“I Don’t Want Your Millions, Mister”
98: “Light In The Sky,” Red Molly [redmolly.com, 2011] (118)
“Walk Beside Me”
“Your Long Journey”
“Do I Ever Cross Your Mind”
“Come On In My Kitchen”
“It’s Too Late To Call It A Night”
100: “Walking Song,” Ron Block [Rounder, 7/13] (117)
“Walking Song”
“Nickel Tree Line”
“Devil In The Strawstack”
“Summer’s Lullaby”
“Shortnin’ Bread”
101: “Tell The Ones I Love,” Steep Canyon Rangers [Rounder, 9/13] (116)
“Tell The Ones I Love”
“Come Dance”
“Stand And Deliver”
“Boomtown”
“Bluer Words Were Never Spoken”
102: “Land On Shore,” Ari And Mia [ariandmiamusic.com, 5/13] (115)
“Glad You Came By”
“Starry Crown”
“Marble Moon”
“Land On Shore”
“Turtle”
102: “Still Green,” Patty Larkin [Signature, 9/13] (115)
“Best Of Intentions”
“Mando Drum”
“It Could Be Worse”
“Bon Vivants”
“Down Through The Wood”
102: “Transistor Corazon,” Melissa Greener [Anima, 3/13] (115)
“Ghost In The Van”
“That’s What Makes You Strong”
“With The Weather”
“If I Fell”
“Transistor Corazon”
“Mess Love Made”
105: “Hand On The Plow,” The Tillers [Muddy Roots, 7/13] (114)
“Road Neverending”
“Old Westside”
“Long Summer Day”
“Shanty Boat”
“Weary Soul”
105: “Paper Nickels,” Corin Raymond And The Sundowners [Local Rascal,
8/13] (114)
“Ol’ Fort Mac”
“9 Inch Nails”
“Lord Giveth”
“Big Truck Brought It”
105: “Tooth & Nail,” Billy Bragg [Cooking Vinyl, 3/13] (114)
“I Ain’t Got No Home”
“Handyman Blues”
“No One Knows Nothing Anymore”
“Do Unto Others”
“There Will Be A Reckoning”
“Tomorrow’s Going To Be A Better Day”
108: “Honey Man,” Hey Mavis [Stellada, 2/13] (113)
“Let The Water Do The Work”
“Say Hello To Paris”
“Honey Man”
“Midnight Train”
“Red Hot”
108: “Rise,” Elaine Mahon [Gatorbone, 1/13] (113)
“Rise Up Singing”
“Dust Tracks In The Road”
“56 Blue Chevy”
“6 Pelicans”
“Selkie Bride”
110: “December Moon,” The Henry Girls [Broken Silence, 3/13] (108)
“December Moon”
“Ol’ Cook Pot”
“Sing My Sister Down”
“Rain And Snow”
“Watching The Detectives”
111: “Heart Of The Country,” Chris Brashear [Dog Boy, 9/12] (107)
“Time The Perfect Stranger”
“Old Pueblo”
“Today I Saw The Longest Train”
“Listen To Me Mother”
“Hills Of Arkansas”
111: “Juba Dance,” Guy Davis [M. C., 9/13] (107)
“That’s No Way To Get Along”
“Lost Again”
“See That My Grave Is Kept Clean”
“My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble”
“Statesboro Blues”
111: “Oldies And Old Time,” Ivan Rosenberg [Vole-O-Tone, 6/13] (107)
“Red Rocking Chair”
“Abject Woodchuck”
“Sloth Up A Gum Stump”
“Willow Tree”
“Don’t Pity Me”
114: “Against The Grain,” Moors And McCumber [moorsandmccumber.com, 6/13] (105)
“Love And War”
“Against The Grain”
“Buried In Stone”
“Feeling In Your Belly”
“Hey Hey”
“Raining Down In Georgia”
114: “Steel And Salt,” Carolann Solebello [Elizabeth, 8/13] (105)
“Brooklyn In The Rain”
“River”
“Falling Is Easy”
“Backward”
“Put Down The Gun”
116: “Carry Me Home,” The Dustbowl Revival [Self, 4/13] (104)
“John The Revelator”
“New River Train”
“Swing Low”
“Shine”
“Soldier’s Joy”
117: “Everything Is Moving,” Laura Smith [Borealis, 4/13] (103)
“I Built A Boat”
“Lonely Waterloo”
“Magdalen McGillivray”
“Horses And Plough”
“John Keane’s Boys”
117: “Runaway Freeway Blues,” Black Lillies [North Knox, 3/13] (103)
“Fall”
“Ramblin’ Boy”
“Gold And Roses”
“Glow”
119: “To All The Girls?,” Willie Nelson [Legacy, 10/13] (102)
“Grandma’s Hands”
“From Here To The Moon And Back”
“Always On My Mind”
“Dry Lightning”
120: “Rag And Bone,” 3 Penny Acre [Second String, 7/13] (101)
“Slim Was A Teamster”
“Will And Woody”
“Gibsonville”
“Rag And Bone”
“Somewhere In The Middle”
120: “Room Enough For All,” Battlefield Band [Temple, 3/13] (101)
“Farewell To Indiana”
“Bagpipe Music”
“Hairy Angler Fish”
“Major George Morrison Dso”
120: “Wishing Well,” Hans Theessink [Blue Groove, 4/13] (101)
“Early This Morning Blues”
“Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor”
“Living With The Blues”
“Snowin’ On Raton”
“Wayfaring Stranger”
123: “Pepper’s Ghost & Other Banjo Visitations,” Joel Mabus [Fossil,
10/13] (100)
“Pepper’s Ghost”
“Leather Wing Bat”
“Panhandle Prairie”
“Fire On The Mountain”
“American Patrol”
124: “Texodus,” Dylan Sneed [myspace.com/dylansneed, 2010] (99)
“Texodus”
“Garden”
“Girls Just Want To Have Fun”
“Midnight Promenade”
“Climb This Wall”
125: “Ordinary Cats,” Jon Shain [Flyin’, 2/13] (98)
“Ordinary Cats”
“Cut Out Bin”
“Level It Out”
“Luckier Than Most”
“You Cannot Hide Your Heart From The Band”
126: “New Frontier,” Missy Raines And The New Hip [Compass, 8/13] (97)
“I Learn”
“Blackest Crow”
“Long Way Back Home”
“What’s The Callin’ For?”
“Nightingale”
126: “Spiorad,” Talitha MacKenzie [Sonas, 2/13] (97)
“Changerais-Tu?”
“Fionnaghuala”
“Hopa!”
“Fear A’ Bhata”
126: “Tin Star,” Lindi Ortega [Last Gang, 10/13] (97)
“Tin Star”
“Hard As This”
“Voodoo Mama”
“Gypsy Child”
“Waitin’ On My Luck To Change”
129: “Almost There,” Suzie Brown [suziebrownsongs.com, 9/13] (95)
“Almost There”
“I’m Gonna Be A Wheel Someday”
“Everywhere I Go”
“Fallen Down”
“Sugar Blues”
129: “Roll Me, Tumble Me,” Deadly Gentlemen [Rounder, 6/13] (95)
“I Fall Back”
“Working”
“Bored Of The Raging”
“Faded Star”
“Roll Me, Tumble Me”
131: “Elements,” Paul McKenna Band [Greentrax, 6/13] (94)
“Ruins By The Shore”
“Flying Through Flanders”
“Cold Missouri Waters”
“Mickey Dam”
“Take Your Time”
131: “Song Of The Seas,” Eagle McCall [eaglemccall.com, 10/12] (94)
“Valparaiso Suite”
“Leavin’ Of Liverpool”
“My Ireland”
“Song Of The Peter Iredale”
131: “Traces,” Karine Polwart [Borealis, 8/12] (94)
“Salters Road”
“King Of Birds”
“Don’t Worry”
“Cover Your Eyes”
“We’re All Leaving”
131: “When We Fall,” Rebecca Frazier [Compass, 5/13] (94)
“Human Highway”
“Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow”
“Better Than Staying”
“Clifftop”
“40 Blues”
135: “All Our Luck Is Changing,” Claudia Russell [Radio Rhythm, 5/13] (93)
“Pirate Girls”
“All Our Luck Is Changing”
“Follow Your Tail Lights Home”
“Hey Hey”
135: “Coyote’s Calling,” James Gordon [Borealis, 1/13] (93)
“We’re The Ninety-9”
“Jack’s Dream”
“Silence Of The Snow”
“Coyote’s Calling”
135: “The Last Day Of Winter,” Chris Vallillo [Gin Ridge, 11/12] (93)
“The Last Day Of Winter”
“Water Is Wide”
“Bonaparte’s Retreat”
“Old Joe Clark”
“Steel Guitar Rag”
“Tequila”
135: “Hudson Harding Sampler, Vol. 8: Happy Holidays,” Various Artists
[Hudson Harding, 12/13] (93)
“Give To Receive,” Jonathan Byrd And Chris Kokesh
“Santa Drank The Whole Damn Bar,” Mark Stepakoff
“One Little Partridge,” Zoe Mulford
“Taladh Chriosda,” Mara Levine With Jeff Scroggins And Colorado
139: “Belong,” Susan McKeown [Hibernian, 11/12] (92)
“Everything We Had Was Good”
“On The Bridge To Williamsburg”
“Cure For Me”
“Lullaby Of Manhattan”
139: “History: The First 25 Years,” James Keelaghan [Borealis, 10/13] (92)
“My Skies”
“Sweetgrass Moon”
“Glory Bound”
“Abraham”
139: “Lay Down, Lay Low,” The Steel Wheels [thesteelwheels.com, 1/12] (92)
“Breaking Like The Sun”
“Lay Down Lay Low”
“Halfway To Heaven”
“Rain In The Valley”
139: “Magdalene,” Karyn Oliver [Buxom County, 5/13] (92)
“Magdalene”
“Water”
“Slip Away With Me”
“Hallelujah”
“Weeping Willow Road”
139: “On The Edge,” Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen [Compass, 4/13] (92)
“Day To Day”
“Letter”
“On The Edge Of Letting Go”
“Wild Unknown”
“M80”
139: “A Very Blue Rock Christmas,” Various Artists [Blue Rock, 12/13] (92)
“Christmas In The Ashram,” Tom Prasada-Rao
“Do You Hear What I Hear?,” Terri Hendrix
“Miracle,” David Wilcox
“Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer,” Ruthie Foster
“Rudy Rap,” David Wilcox
139: “Zuzu’s Petals,” Cary Cooper [MacKinaw Harvest, 9/13] (92)
“Charlie Brown Kinda Day”
“Wildest Dreams”
“Little Things”
“Gandhi Drove A Cab”
“This Too Shall Pass”
146: “Howl,” Howlin’ Brothers [Readymade, 3/13] (91)
“Big Time”
“Gone”
“Julia Belle Swain”
“Delta Queen”
“Mama Don’t You Tell Me”
146: “Rabbits Motel,” Woody Pines [woodypines.com, 4/13] (91)
“Train That Carried My Gal From Town”
“Hobo And His Bride”
“Keep Your Hands Off Her”
“Like I Do”
146: “The Things I Notice Now: Anne Hills Sings the Songs of Tom
Paxton,” Anne Hills [Appleseed, 11/12] (91)
“Early Snow”
“Hard Times Are Here Again”
“Mother”
“Things I Notice Now”
“Hold On To Me, Babe”
146: “Unknown Blessings,” Jaime Michaels [Frumdahart, 8/13] (91)
“Good Luck John”
“True And Fine”
“Alice Dances”
“Dirty Wine”
“I Don’t Believe In Yesterday”
150: “Showin’ My Roots,” Donna Ulisse [Hadley, 10/13] (90)
“Take This Hammer”
“Showin’ My Roots”
“Fist City”
“How Mountain Girls Can Love”
“In The Good Old Days When Times Were Bad”
150: “World Of Possibility,” Arlon Bennett [Red Sea, 1/13] (90)
“World Of Possibility”
“Question For Einstein”
“Sal”
“Carry Me”
“I America”
152: “Old-Fashioned Gal,” The Carper Family [carperfamilyband.com, 5/13] (89)
“Foolish Ramblin’ Man”
“Old Fashioned Gal”
“Bad Attitude”
“Last Chance To Dance”
152: “Tether My Heart,” Hannah Shira Naiman [Merriweather, 10/13] (89)
“Little Fox”
“Same Old Song”
“Way To Go Home”
“Kentucky”
“Looking For My Own”
154: “Flourish,” Katie McNally [Self, 1/13] (88)
“In And Out / Dud’s Jig”
“Waulking Of The Fauld/Lillian’s”
“Bad Soup/Riff Raff And Widget”
“Sepal, Petal And Thorn/ The Golden Poppy”
154: “One More Time Around,” Scott Cook [Groove Revival, 8/13] (88)
“Pass It Along”
“New Grist”
“Among The Trees”
“Broke, And So Far From Home”
156: “American Hornpipe,” Dana And Susan Robinson [Threshold, 6/12] (87)
“When This Old Hat Was New”
“Lazy John”
“Raleigh And Spencer”
“Who Killed Cock Robin”
“Will The Circle Be Unbroken”
156: “My Friend Hafiz,” The Levins [thelevinsmusic.com, 2009] (87)
“Dropping Keys”
“Sun Never Says”
“Act Great”
156: “Old Buck,” Old Buck [Tin Halo, 8/13] (87)
“False Hearted Lover’s Blues”
“Chilly Winds”
“You Win Again”
“Tribulations”
156: “Some Bright Morning,” Rani Arbo And Daisy Mayhem [Signature, 4/12] (87)
“Hear Jerusalem Moan”
“East Virginia”
“I’ll Fly Away”
“Crossing The Bar”
160: “Block Out The Sirens Of This Lonely World,” Chip Taylor [Train
Wreck, 5/13] (86)
“Block Out The Sirens Of This Lonely World”
“Last Video”
“Ukrainian Girls”
“Better Put My Glasses On”
160: “Monocle Band,” Monocle Band [monocleband.com, 10/13] (86)
“Can’t Get By”
“Heart House”
“As Fast As I Can”
“Water Sky”
160: “New Primitive,” Adam Steffey [Organic, 6/13] (86)
“Johnny Don’t Get Drunk”
“Squirrel Hunters”
“Goodbye Girls I’m Going To Boston”
“Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom”
“Rock The Cradle Joe”
160: “This Land: Woody Guthrie’s America,” John McCutcheon
[Appalsongs, 2011] (86)
“Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done”
“This Land Is Your Land”
“Deportees”
“This Is Our Country Here”
164: “No Man’s Land,” Yvette Landry [yvettelandry.com, 5/13] (85)
“Dog House Blues”
“3 Chords And A Bottle”
“My Next Mr. Ex”
“Butterfly Kisses”
164: “Northern Lights,” Matt Stone [mattfolkmuse.com, 3/13] (85)
“Brown Dog”
“Simple Things”
“Spirit Of The Wolf”
“Orion”
164: “Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe,” Noam Pikelny [Compass, 10/13] (85)
“Jerusalem Ridge”
“Wheel Hoss”
“Road To Columbus”
“Ashland Breakdown”
167: “Flight,” Trout Steak Revival [troutsteak.com, 10/12] (84)
“Darling Corey”
“Blackjack Supper Club”
“Greasy Coat”
“Where Do My Bluebird Fly”
167: “House And Garden,” Nell Robinson And Jim Nunally [Self, 5/13] (84)
“Life In The Garden”
“Old Old House”
“Gardener”
“My Blue Tears”
167: “Outshine The Sun,” The Foghorn String Band
[foghornstringband.com, 9/12] (84)
“Indian Ate The Woodchuck”
“Outshine The Sun”
“Be Kind To A Man While He’s Down”
170: “A Million Stars,” Ashleigh Flynn [Home Perm, 4/13] (83)
“Dirty Hands And Dirty Feet”
“A Million Stars”
“Prove It On Me”
“Prohibition Rose”
170: “Ready For The Times,” Sutton, Holt & Coleman [High Windy, 2/13] (83)
“Travelin’ Man”
“Hotel Wall”
“Ready For The Times To Get Better”
“Solid Gone”
172: “Calling Me Home,” Kathy Mattea [Sugar Hill, 9/12] (82)
“Gone, Gonna Rise Again”
“West Virginia, My Home”
“Black Waters”
“Wood Thrush’s Song”
172: “Leaving Eden,” Carolina Chocolate Drops [Nonesuch, 2/12] (82)
“Country Girl”
“No Man’s Mama”
“Leaving Eden”
172: “Wide Awake,” Joy Kills Sorrow [Signature, 6/13] (82)
“Such Great Heights”
“Was It You”
“Gold In The Deep”
“Working For The Devil”
172: “Wilder Girl,” Sally Barris [sallybarris.com, 8/12] (82)
“Wilder Girl”
“Let The Wind Chase You”
“Just Won’t Do”
“Sinful Thoughts”
176: “We The People,” Lou Dominguez [loudominguez.com, 10/13] (81)
“Citizens United”
“Happy American Solstice”
“All The Way To Iraq”
“Record Store”
“Gun Country”
177: “Borderland,” The Stray Birds [reverbnation.com/thestraybirds, 3/12] (80)
“Birds Of The Borderland”
“Down In The Willow Garden”
“Come Sunday”
“My Horses Ain’t Hungry”
177: “New Siberia,” Antje Duvekot [antjeduvekot.com, 4/12] (80)
“Sleepy Sea Of Indigo And Blue”
“Into The City”
“New Siberia”
“Ballad Of Fred Noonan”
177: “The Same Way Down,” Annalivia [annaliviamusic.bandcamp.com, 9/12] (80)
“False Sir John”
“Bright Sunny South”
“New Mown Meadow”
“Turtle Dove”
177: “Sweetheart Of The Sun,” The Greencards [Darling Street, 8/13] (80)
“Black, Black Water”
“Forever Mine”
“Paddle The Torrens”
“Boxcar Boys”
177: “What We Lost,” Ben Bedford [Waterbug, 9/12] (80)
“John The Baptist”
“What We Lost”
“Guinevere Is Sleeping”
“Fallen”
182: “Brambles And Thorns,” John Wort Hannam [Borealis, 10/12] (79)
“Great Lakes”
“Pretty Good”
“Radiant Land”
“Beautiful Friend”
182: “Brother Sun,” Brother Sun [World Wide, 2011] (79)
“What Must Be Done”
“All I Want Is A Garden”
“Love Is The Water”
“Sister Moon”
182: “A Good Place To Be,” Mustard’s Retreat [Yellow Room, 7/13] (79)
“A Good Place To Be”
“Going Back To School”
“Wind Chimes And Trains”
“Holy Ground”
182: “Release Your Shrouds,” Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys [Earthwork, 6/12] (79)
“My Side Of The Mountain”
“Pass Me The Whiskey”
“All Day”
186: “Seinn,” Mary Jane Lamond And Wendy MacIsaac [Factor, 9/12] (78)
“If You Were Mine”
“Yellow Coat”
“Keeping Up With Calum”
“Boise Monsters”
186: “The Story Behind The Story,” Mark Stepakoff [markstepakoff.com, 7/13] (78)
“You Either Get It Or You Don’t”
“Beer View Mirror”
“Kitty Is A Cougar”
“War Movies And Westerns”
186: “We’re Not Lost,” The Show Ponies [theshowponies.com, 10/13] (78)
“Baby, I’m In Love With You”
“Whiskey And Wine”
“Gone”
“If I Die Tomorrow”
“We’re Not Lost”
189: “One & Many,” Noel Paul Stookey [Neworld, 9/12] (77)
“Not That Kind Of Music”
“In These Times”
“Big Picture”
“Every Breath You Take”
189: “This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark,” Various Artists
[Icehouse, 2011] (77)
“Texas Cookin,” Gary Nicholson, Darrell Scott And Tim O’Brien
“Dublin Blues,” Joe Ely
“Guitar,” Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
191: “Beneath Some Lucky Star,” Bill Staines [Red House, 10/12] (76)
“Along The Road”
“Salt Air”
“Shady Grove”
“Christmas Lullaby”
191: “Fists Of Violets,” Sarah Alden [Self, 10/12] (76)
“Dink’s Tune”
“Ida Red”
“Ruby, Honey Are You Mad At Your Man?”
“Come Take A Trip On My Airship”
191: “Prelude,” Ronstadt Generations [ronstadtgenerations.com, 10/12] (76)
“California Blues”
“For What It’s Worth”
“Thunder And Sadness”
“Malaguena Salerosa”
191: “Spring And Fall,” Paul Kelly [Gawd, 11/12] (76)
“New Found Year”
“Time And Tide”
“Gonna Be Good”
“None Of Your Business Now”
191: “Wood And Wire,” Wood And Wire [woodandwireband.com, 3/13] (76)
“Rambler’s Blues”
“Brand New Day”
“Mexico”
196: “Hits & Holidays,” Debi Smith [Degan, 10/13] (75)
“Pie”
“Haunted”
“Pampa Texas”
196: “This Side Of Jordan,” Mandolin Orange [Yep Roc, 8/13] (75)
“Turtle Dove And The Crow”
“House Of Stone”
“There Was A Time”
198: “Cluck Ol’ Hen,” Ricky Skaggs And Bruce Hornsby [Skaggs Family, 8/13] (74)
“How Mountain Girls Can Love”
“Gulf Of Mexico Fishing Boat Blues”
“Toy Heart”
“Way It Is”
198: “Homesteady,” Tin Bird Choir [tinbirdchoir.bandcamp.com, 6/13] (74)
“Sea Change”
“Angels”
“Cheaper, Less Painful”
“Straight Face”
198: “Kindred Spirits: A Collection,” Carrie Newcomer [Rounder, 11/12] (74)
“Breathe In Breathe Out”
“Gathering Of Spirits”
“There Is A Tree”
“Geodes”
198: “Let’s Face The Music And Dance,” Willie Nelson And Family [Sony,
4/13] (74)
“Let’s Face The Music And Dance”
“Matchbox”
“South Of The Border”
198: “Living Room,” Andrew Calhoun [Waterbug, 6/13] (74)
“Hallelujah Morning”
“Gates Of Love”
“Crawdad Song”
“Walk Easy”
203: “Royal Street,” Amanda Pearcy [Self, 2/13] (73)
“Barking Dogs”
“Bring You Home”
“No Expectations”
“Ordinary Lives”
204: “At The Heart Of It All,” Capercaillie [Compass, 8/13] (72)
“At The Heart Of It All”
“Abu Chuibhl”
“S’ Och A’ Dhomhnaill Oig Ghaolaich”
“Nighean Dubh Nighean Donn”
204: “I Read Your Book,” Friction Farm [Self, 6/13] (72)
“Let It Rain”
“These Days”
“Katie Raise Your Sails”
“You Always Bring Me Down”
204: “Opening Day,” Peter Cooper [Red Beet, 9/13] (72)
“Grandma’s Tattoo”
“Much Better Now”
“Birches”
“Great Today”
204: “Southeastern,” Jason Isbell [Southeastern, 6/13] (72)
“Traveling Alone”
“Flying Over Water”
“Stockholm”
“Different Days”
208: “Ash And Bone,” Dan Weber [8 Ball, 7/12] (71)
“Hank And Jesus”
“Wishin’s Just For Fools”
“In Her Prime”
208: “Cheater’s Game,” Kelly Willis And Bruce Robison [30 Tigers, 2/13] (71)
“Border Radio”
“9, 999, 999 Tears”
“Cheater’s Game”
208: “Greenin’ Up,” David Mallett [North Road, 11/12] (71)
“Greenin’ Up”
“Summer Of My Dreams”
“Garden Song”
“April”
208: “The Hard Work Of Living,” Heather Pierson [Sacred Vessel, 10/13] (71)
“Nothing Left”
“Let It Roll Off Your Back”
“Speak Wisely”
“Crime Most High”
208: “Little Blue Egg,” Dave Carter And Tracy Grammer [Red House, 2/12] (71)
“Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key”
“Cross Of Jesus”
“Gypsy Rose”
“Hard To Make It”
213: “From Fresh Water,” Stan Rogers [Fogarty’s Cove, 1984] (70)
“White Squall”
“Lock-Keeper”
“Nancy”
213: “Honky Tonk,” Son Volt [Rounder, 3/13] (70)
“Hearts And Minds”
“Seawall”
“Down The Highway”
213: “Isle Of Hope,” Jefferson Ross [Deep Fried, 6/13] (70)
“Take The Picture”
“2 Horses”
“Family Drama”
213: “Little Pilgrim,” Jory Nash [Thin Man, 11/12] (70)
“Best Of Your Heart”
“Song About Love”
“Never Enough For Me”
“Take Me Back To Monticello”
213: “Northwest Passage,” Stan Rogers [Fogarty’s Cove, 1981] (70)
“Northwest Passage”
“Field Behind The Plow”
“Idiot”
218: “Courage,” Si Kahn [Strictly Country, 2010] (69)
“Peace Will Rise”
“Washington Square”
“Abe Lincoln Walks Tonight”
“Otis Is Flying”
218: “If Only I Could Fly,” Emerald Rae [Green Jewel, 12/12] (69)
“If Only I Could Fly”
“Sugar Baby”
“Fire Fly”
“Summer Time Will Come”
218: “Pickin’ Like A Girl,” Daughters Of Bluegrass [Blue Circle, 1/13] (69)
“Pickin’ Like A Girl”
“Hound Dog Blues”
221: “The Beautiful Old: Turn-of-the-Century Songs,” Various Artists
[Doubloon, 6/13] (68)
“Band Played On,” Richard Thompson And Christine Collister
“Long Time Ago,” Jimmy Lafave
“Love’s Old Sweet Song,” Heidi Talbot And John McCusker
221: “The Harrow And The Harvest,” Gillian Welch [Acony, 2011] (68)
“Way It Goes”
“Scarlet Town”
“Silver Dagger”
221: “Standing In The English Rain,” Lizanne Knott [lizanneknott.com,
12/12] (68)
“Stones Throw Away”
“Be Careful With My Heart”
“I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today”
“3 Steps Shy”
221: “Tongues In Trees,” Dan Berggren [Sleeping Giant, 4/13] (68)
“Capitalist Without A Soul”
“Occupy This Moment”
“Balance”
225: “It’s Just A Road,” The Boxcars [Mountain Home, 4/13] (67)
“It’s Just A Road”
“Trouble In Mind”
“You Took All The Ramblin’ Out Of Me”
“Cornelia”
225: “Let Us In Americana: The Music of Paul McCartney,” Various
Artists [Reviver, 5/13] (67)
“I’ve Just Seen A Face,” Sam Bush
“Yellow Submarine,” Buddy Miller
“Fool On The Hill,” Bruce Cockburn
“I Will,” Steve Earle And Allison Moorer
225: “Old School Old Time,” Fiddle Whamdiddle [Owl Mountain, 12/12] (67)
“Spider Bit The Baby”
“Peekaboo Waltz”
“Sandy Boys”
228: “Another Self Portrait: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10,” Bob Dylan
[Columbia, 9/13] (66)
“When I Paint My Masterpiece”
“Thirsty Boots”
228: “Beyond That,” Meg Hutchinson [Red House, 9/13] (66)
“Let’s Go”
“Beyond That”
“Nowhere”
228: “Bright Sunny South,” Sam Amidon [Nonesuch, 5/13] (66)
“My Old Friend”
“Bright Sunny South”
“As I Roved Out”
228: “Down The Line,” Brad Cole [bradcolemusic.com, 7/12] (66)
“Cry Cry Cry”
“Pilgrimage”
“Something About Goodbye”
“Get Back On It”
228: “Drifters & Dreamers,” Naming The Twins [Duet Right, 6/13] (66)
“Huckleberry Finn”
“Lonesome Valley”
“Gullwind”
“Skippers And Mates”
228: “Feeling Mortal,” Kris Kristofferson [KK, 1/13] (66)
“Feeling Mortal”
“Ramblin’ Jack”
“Bread For The Body”
228: “O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack,” Various Artists
[Mercury, 2000] (66)
“I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow,” Soggy Bottom Boys
“Down To The River To Pray,” Alison Krauss
“In The Jailhouse Now,” Soggy Bottom Boys
228: “Same Old Heart,” Buffy Ford Stewart [Global, 1/13] (66)
“Daydream Believer”
“Snakes Of Nuevo Laredo”
“Some Kind Of Love”
228: “Spirityouall,” Bobby McFerrin [Sony, 5/13] (66)
“Joshua”
“Glory”
“I Shall Be Released”
“Everytime”
237: “Between The Breaks…Live!,” Stan Rogers [Fogarty’s Cove, 1979] (65)
“Mary Ellen Carter”
“Witch Of The Westmorland”
“White Collar Holler”
“First Christmas”
237: “Driving Toward The Sun,” Susan James [Mri, 2/13] (65)
“Wandering”
“U-Haul In The Driveway”
“Agua Dulce Tears”
237: “From Bamako To Carencro,” Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet
[Compass, 2/12] (65)
“2-Step De Port Arthur”
“Bamako”
“You Got To Move”
237: “Ghost Of Your Charms,” New Country Rehab [Kelp, 3/13] (65)
“Lizzy Dying Of A Broken Heart”
“Back In Time”
“Empty Room Blues”
“Home To You”
237: “I Don’t Want Love You Won’t Give Until I Cry,” Finnders And
Youngberg [Swingfingers, 9/13] (65)
“Hey Ramona”
“Diner”
“Lonely Too Long”
“Girl From The North Fork Valley”
237: “Wool And Grant,” Wool And Grant [Self, 6/13] (65)
“Wild Women”
“Get The Frack Outta Here”
“In America”
“Janis”
243: “Sowing The Seeds: The 10th Anniversary,” Various Artists
[Appleseed, 2007] (64)
“Waist Deep In The Big Muddy,” Ani Difranco
“Ghost Of Tom Joad,” Pete Seeger And Bruce Springsteen
“Universal Soldier,” Donovan
243: “Fine Times At Fletcher’s House,” Fletcher Bright And Bill Evans
[Native And Fine, 6/13] (64)
“Polly Put The Kettle On”
“Northern White Clouds”
“Yellow Barber”
243: “Gone Away Backward,” Robbie Fulks [Bloodshot, 8/13] (64)
“Sometimes The Grass Is Really Greener”
“That’s Where I’m From”
“When You Get To The Bottom”
“Long I Ride”
243: “No Borders,” Spinney Brothers [Mountain Fever, 5/13] (64)
“Grandpa’s Way Of Life”
“I Want My Dog Back”
“Whiskey Daniels”
247: “Drum Hat Buddha,” Dave Carter And Tracy Grammer [Signature, 2001] (63)
“Gentle Arms Of Eden”
“I Go Like The Raven”
“Ordinary Town”
“Love, The Magician”
247: “These Changing Skies,” Elephant Revival [30 Tigers, 9/13] (63)
“Grace Of A Woman”
“Remembering A Beginning”
“Rakers”
“Spinning”
247: “Walls That Talk,” Roy Schneider [Shiny Gnu, 9/12] (63)
“Signs”
“Soldier’s Joy 1864”
“Dancin’ On The Mountain”
“Walls That Talk”
247: “We Have Made A Spark,” Rose Cousins [Old Farm Pony, 2/12] (63)
“Darkness”
“If I Should Fall Behind”
“All The Stars”
“What I See”

Top Songs of 2013

1. “Lady Of The Harbor” (75)
by Brother Sun
from “Some Part Of The Truth”
2. “Dream In Blue” (70)
by The Stray Birds
from “The Stray Birds”
3. “Long Gone Out West Blues” (63)
by Pharis And Jason Romero
from “Long Gone Out West Blues”
4. “Devil In Mind” (58)
by Carrie Rodriguez
from “Give Me All You Got”
5. “In The Name Of Love” (56)
by Brother Sun
from “Some Part Of The Truth”
5. “Rain” (56)
by David Francey
from “So Say We All”
7. “Gandhi/Buddha” (55)
by Cheryl Wheeler
from “Greetings From Cheryl Wheeler Live”
7. “Ring Them Bells” (55)
by The Copper Ponies
from “Ring Them Bells”
7. “When You Get To Asheville” (55)
by Steve Martin And Edie Brickell
from “Love Has Come For You”
10. “Dancing In The Dark” (54)
by Ruth Moody
from “These Wilder Things”
11. “Last Train” (53)
by The Copper Ponies
from “Ring Them Bells”
12. “Geordie” (51)
by Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
from “Child Ballads”
12. “Go Up To That Mountain” (51)
by The Steel Wheels
from “No More Rain”
14. “Dreams Of Life” (50)
by Darryl Purpose
from “Next Time Around”
14. “Parting Glass” (50)
by Rita Hosking
from “Little Boat”
14. “Trouble And Woe” (50)
by Ruth Moody
from “These Wilder Things”
14. “Walk Away” (50)
by The Steel Wheels
from “No More Rain”
14. “Wild Bill Jones” (50)
by Pharis And Jason Romero
from “Long Gone Out West Blues”
19. “Fortunate Ones” (48)
by Amy Speace
from “How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat”
20. “Still Fighting The War” (47)
by Slaid Cleaves
from “Still Fighting The War”
20. “The Dutchman” (47)
by Mara Levine
from “Jewels And Harmony”
20. “These Hands” (47)
by Brother Sun
from “Some Part Of The Truth”
20. “Why Worry” (47)
by The Copper Ponies
from “Ring Them Bells”
24. “Girl From Golden” (46)
by Darryl Purpose
from “Next Time Around”
24. “One Light Shining” (46)
by Ruth Moody
from “These Wilder Things”
24. “Sea And The Shore” (46)
by Amy Speace
from “How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat”
27. “I Wanna Be A Canadian” (45)
by Deborah Holland
from “Vancouver”
28. “Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy” (44)
by Brother Sun
from “Some Part Of The Truth”
29. “I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything” (43)
by Dar Williams
from “In The Time Of Gods”
29. “I’ll Fly Away” (43)
by Spuyten Duyvil
from “Temptation”
29. “Rivers Run” (43)
by Karine Polwart
from “Threshold”
32. “Baseball In My Blood” (42)
by Erik Balkey
from “Everything Is Great”
32. “Ohio Turnpike” (42)
by Red Tail Ring
from “The Heart’s Swift Foot”
34. “Hope Of A Lifetime” (41)
by The Milk Carton Kids
from “The Ash & Clay”
34. “If I Needed You” (41)
by The Boxcar Lilies
from “Sugar Shack”
34. “On A Sea Of Fleur De Lis” (41)
by Burning Bridget Cleary
from “Pressed For Time”
37. “Letter From Down The Road” (40)
by Della Mae
from “This World Oft Can Be”
38. “I Ain’t Got No Home” (39)
by Brother Sun
from “Some Part Of The Truth”
38. “Lightnin” (39)
by The Boxcar Lilies
from “Sugar Shack”
38. “Succotash” (39)
by Putnam Smith
from “Kitchen, Love”
38. “Willie Of Winsbury” (39)
by Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
from “Child Ballads”
42. “Long Long Road” (38)
by David Francey
from “So Say We All”
42. “Pandora’s Box” (38)
by David Francey
from “So Say We All”
42. “Riddles Wisely Expounded” (38)
by Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
from “Child Ballads”
45. “Aragon Mill” (37)
by Si Kahn And The Looping Brothers
from “Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions”
45. “I Drink” (37)
by Mary Gauthier
from “Live At Blue Rock”
45. “Lay My Burden Down” (37)
by Aoife O’Donovan
from “Fossils”
45. “Pushing Stones” (37)
by Brother Sun
from “Some Part Of The Truth”
45. “They Called It Music” (37)
by The Gibson Brothers
from “They Called It Music”
50. “5 Star Location” (36)
by Rita Hosking
from “Little Boat”
50. “For Catherine” (36)
by Laura Cortese
from “Into The Dark”
50. “Go Wherever You Wanna Go” (36)
by Patty Griffin
from “American Kid”
50. “Itzbin Reel” (36)
by John Reischman
from “Walk Along John”
50. “Sun’s Gonna Shine” (36)
by Steve Martin And Edie Brickell
from “Love Has Come For You”
50. “Urge For Going” (36)
by Tom Rush
from “Tom Rush Celebrates 50 Years Of Music”
50. “We Used To Be Birds” (36)
by Jonathan Byrd & Chris Kokesh
from “The Barn Birds”
57. “Carved Wood Box” (35)
by Cal Scott
from “Carved Wood Box”
57. “Cheap Motel” (35)
by David Francey
from “So Say We All”
57. “One Kind Word” (35)
by The Honey Dewdrops
from “Silver Lining”
57. “Sarah Jane And The Iron Mountain Baby” (35)
by Steve Martin And Edie Brickell
from “Love Has Come For You”
57. “Time” (35)
by Kathy Kallick Band
from “Time”
57. “We Made It Home” (35)
by Melody Walker & Jacob Groopman
from “We Made It Home”
63. “Carnival” (34)
by Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line
from “Carnival”
63. “City Kids” (34)
by Susan Werner
from “Hayseed”
63. “Honey, Honey” (34)
by The Milk Carton Kids
from “The Ash & Clay”
63. “Into The Dark” (34)
by Laura Cortese
from “Into The Dark”
63. “Keepin’ It Between The Lines” (34)
by Peter Rowan
from “The Old School”
63. “Northwest Passage” (34)
by Stan Rogers
from “Northwest Passage”
63. “Wild Mountain Thyme” (34)
by Hounds Of Finn
from “Gravity Pulls”
70. “Hanging Up My Heart” (33)
by Emmylou Harris And Rodney Crowell
from “Old Yellow Moon”
70. “Love’s Gonna Blow My Way” (33)
by Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses)
from “The Low Highway”
70. “My Side Of The Mountain” (33)
by Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys
from “Release Your Shrouds”
70. “Next Time Around” (33)
by Darryl Purpose
from “Next Time Around”
70. “River” (33)
by Mara Levine
from “Jewels And Harmony”
70. “Saving The Good Stuff For You” (33)
by Richard Thompson
from “Electric”
70. “Sugar Cane” (33)
by Mary Gauthier
from “Live At Blue Rock”
70. “Things Are Coming My Way” (33)
by Marcy Marxer
from “Things Are Coming My Way”
70. “Train That Carried My Gal From Town” (33)
by Woody Pines
from “Rabbits Motel”
70. “When I Sing With You” (33)
by Mara Levine
from “Jewels And Harmony”
80. “Come On Home” (32)
by Pharis And Jason Romero
from “Long Gone Out West Blues”
80. “Deportee” (32)
by Ani Difranco
from “Woody Guthrie At 100! Live At The Kennedy Center”
80. “Dropping Keys” (32)
by The Levins
from “My Friend Hafiz”
80. “Everything We Had Was Good” (32)
by Susan McKeown
from “Belong”
80. “Jericho Road” (32)
by Brother Sun
from “Some Part Of The Truth”
80. “Leaves That Are Green” (32)
by Mara Levine
from “Jewels And Harmony”
80. “My Favorite Picture Of You” (32)
by Guy Clark
from “My Favorite Picture Of You”
80. “Pass It Along” (32)
by Scott Cook
from “One More Time Around”
80. “Rust Belt Fields” (32)
by Slaid Cleaves
from “Still Fighting The War”
80. “Shout Little Lula” (32)
by Dubl Handi
from “Up Like The Clouds”
80. “This Morning I Am Born Again” (32)
by Lucy Kaplansky
from “Reunion”
80. “We’re The Ninety-9” (32)
by James Gordon
from “Coyote’s Calling”
92. “Angel Flight” (31)
by Darden Smith
from “Love Calling”
92. “Deep River Blues” (31)
by Brooks Williams
from “New Everything”
92. “Fall” (31)
by Black Lillies
from “Runaway Freeway Blues”
92. “Heaven’s Kitchen” (31)
by John McCutcheon
from “22 Days”
92. “Heel To Toe” (31)
by Laura Cortese
from “Into The Dark”
92. “Lady Does Not Often Falter” (31)
by Cahalen Morrison And Eli West
from “Our Lady Of The Tall Trees”
92. “Our Lady Of The Tall Trees” (31)
by Cahalen Morrison And Eli West
from “Our Lady Of The Tall Trees”
92. “Salford Sunday” (31)
by Richard Thompson
from “Electric”
92. “Sierra Bound” (31)
by Rita Hosking
from “Little Boat”
92. “Sister, Sail” (31)
by Zoe Mulford
from “Coyote Wings”
92. “Sweet South Anna River” (31)
by Alice Gerrard
from “Bittersweet”
92. “Texas Love Song” (31)
by Slaid Cleaves
from “Still Fighting The War”
92. “Wheel Inside The Wheel” (31)
by Mary Gauthier
from “Live At Blue Rock”
105. “Empire” (30)
by Della Mae
from “This World Oft Can Be”
105. “House That Jack Built” (30)
by Brother Sun
from “Some Part Of The Truth”
105. “Last Of The Hobo Kings” (30)
by Mary Gauthier
from “Live At Blue Rock”
105. “Love Has Come For You” (30)
by Steve Martin And Edie Brickell
from “Love Has Come For You”
105. “My Heart’s Own Love” (30)
by Red Tail Ring
from “The Heart’s Swift Foot”
105. “Only Love Can Save Me” (30)
by Cara Luft
from “Darlingford”
105. “Sugar Shack” (30)
by The Boxcar Lilies
from “Sugar Shack”
105. “Tell The Ones I Love” (30)
by Steep Canyon Rangers
from “Tell The Ones I Love”
105. “Waiting For The Evening Mail” (30)
by Pharis And Jason Romero
from “Long Gone Out West Blues”
105. “Walk Along John To Kansas” (30)
by John Reischman
from “Walk Along John”
105. “Whistle Blows” (30)
by The Steel Wheels
from “No More Rain”
105. “Your Sister Cried” (30)
by Mary Gauthier
from “Live At Blue Rock”
117. “Beauty Of Alaska” (29)
by Si Kahn
from “Bristol Bay”
117. “Christmas In The Trenches” (29)
by John McCutcheon
from “Live At Wolf Trap”
117. “Clyde Waters” (29)
by Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
from “Child Ballads”
117. “Doc Watson Morning” (29)
by Peter Rowan
from “The Old School”
117. “The Good Book” (29)
by Roy Book Binder
from “The Good Book”
117. “Hawk And Crow / As The Crow Flies” (29)
by Childsplay
from “As The Crow Flies”
117. “Hills Of My Home” (29)
by The Honey Dewdrops
from “Silver Lining”
117. “Lake Harriet” (29)
by Carrie Rodriguez
from “Give Me All You Got”
117. “Let The Water Do The Work” (29)
by Hey Mavis
from “Honey Man”
117. “New River Train” (29)
by The Dustbowl Revival
from “Carry Me Home”
117. “One Night At A Time” (29)
by Jonathan Byrd & Chris Kokesh
from “The Barn Birds”
117. “Singer’s Lament” (29)
by Erik Balkey
from “Everything Is Great”
117. “Something To Be Said” (29)
by Susan Werner
from “Hayseed”
117. “Song For Pete” (29)
by Steve Chizmadia
from “Jack Of All Trades”
117. “Storm King” (29)
by Dar Williams
from “In The Time Of Gods”
117. “Such Great Heights” (29)
by Joy Kills Sorrow
from “Wide Awake”
117. “Willow Tree” (29)
by Molly Venter and Eben Pariser
from “Goodnight Moonshine”

The March 2013 FOLKDJ-L charts are based on 13,337 airplays from 146 different DJs. The number of reported spins (airplays) is shown in parentheses, while label and release dates appear in brackets. They are posted, with permission, on AcousticMusicScene.com.

Top Albums of March 2013

1: “Some Part Of The Truth,” Brother Sun [brothersunmusic.com, 2/13] (115)
“Lady Of The Harbor”
“In The Name Of Love”
“Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy”
“Pushing Stones”
“House That Jack Built”
2: “Long Gone Out West Blues,” Pharis And Jason Romero [Lula, 2/13] (77)
“Wild Bill Jones”
“Long Gone Out West Blues”
“Come On Home”
“Lonely Home Blues”
3: “Child Ballads,” Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer [Wilderland, 3/13] (60)
“Willie Of Winsbury”
“Willie’s Lady”
“Geordie”
“Riddles Wisely Expounded”
4: “The Weather Inside,” Beth Wood [Blue Rock, 2011] (59)
“Coyote Prayer”
“Calico”
“Close Your Eyes, Here We Go”
“New Kid”
5: “Live At Blue Rock,” Mary Gauthier [Proper, 10/12] (50)
“Sugar Cane”
“I Drink”
“Last Of The Hobo Kings”
“Our Lady Of The Shooting Stars”
5: “Threshold,” Karine Polwart [Borealis, 2/13] (50)
“Rivers Run”
“Follow The Heron”
“Sorry”
7: “Little Boat,” Rita Hosking [ritahosking.com, new] (49)
“Parting Glass”
“5 Star Location”
“Where Time Is Reigning”
“Blow Northwest Wind”
8: “Old Yellow Moon,” Emmylou Harris And Rodney Crowell [Nonesuch, new] (47)
“Spanish Dancer”
“Hanging Up My Heart”
“Black Caffeine”
“Invitation To The Blues”
8: “Take This Song With You,” Maya And The Ruins [mayaandtheruins.bandcamp.com, 9/12] (47)
“Wildflowers”
“Train Whistle Blues”
“Bootlegger’s Blues”
“I Saw A Man At The Close Of Day”
10: “Jack Of All Trades,” Steve Chizmadia [Jack Of All Trades, 2/13] (46)
“I’m Alright”
“Song For Pete”
“Memphis Girl”
“Wall Street Fat-Cat Tax-Payer Bail-Out Blues”
11: “Things Are Coming My Way,” Marcy Marxer [Community, 1/13] (43)
“Angeline The Baker”
“Kissing In The Dark”
“Things Are Coming My Way”
12: “Coyote Wings,” Zoe Mulford [Azalea City, 1/13] (41)
“Sister, Sail”
“Storm Damage”
“Pocket Fulla Quarters”
13: “Jewels And Harmony,” Mara Levine [maralevine.com, 1/13] (37)
“April Come She Will”
“Immigrant Dream”
“The Dutchman”
13: “Transistor Corazon,” Melissa Greener [Anima, new] (37)
“If I Fell”
“Ghost In The Van”
“With The Weather”
15: “Belong,” Susan McKeown [Hibernian, 11/12] (35)
“On The Bridge To Williamsburg”
“Cure For Me”
“Everything We Had Was Good”
15: “Ordinary Cats,” Jon Shain [Flyin’, 2/13] (35)
“Ordinary Cats”
“Level It Out”
“Cut Out Bin”
17: “My Friend Hafiz,” The Levins [thelevinsmusic.com, 2009] (33)
“Dropping Keys”
“Sun Never Says”
“Your Mother And My Mother”
17: “Time,” Kathy Kallick Band [Live Oak, 8/12] (33)
“Time”
“Long Time Travelin”
19: “Honey Man,” Hey Mavis [Stellada, new] (32)
“Say Hello To Paris”
“Midnight Train”
“Let The Water Do The Work”
19: “The Last Day Of Winter,” Chris Vallillo [Gin Ridge, 11/12] (32)
“The Last Day Of Winter”
“Old Joe Clark”
“Steel Guitar Rag”
21: “Wild Bill Jones,” The Quiet American [quietamericanmusic.com, 1/13] (31)
“Apple In The Fall”
“Gallows Pole”
“Wild Bill Jones”
22: “Next Time Around,” Darryl Purpose [Blue Rock, 10/12] (30)
“Next Time Around”
“Race The Wind”
“Dreams Of Life”
23: “Give Me All You Got,” Carrie Rodriguez [Ninth Street Opus, 1/13] (29)
“Devil In Mind”
“I Cry For Love”
“Sad Joy”
23: “Room Enough For All,” Battlefield Band [Temple, new] (29)
“Farewell To Indiana”
“Bagpipe Music”
“Tynes In Overtime!”
25: “Electric,” Richard Thompson [New West, 2/13] (28)
“Saving The Good Stuff For You”
“Snow Goose”
26: “Driving Toward The Sun,” Susan James [Mri, new] (27)
“Wandering”
“Mission Bells”
26: “Hammer Down,” The Steeldrivers [Rounder, 2/13] (27)
“I’ll Be There”
“Burnin’ The Woodshed Down”
“When I’m Gone”
26: “Howl,” Howlin’ Brothers [Readymade, new] (27)
“Big Time”
“Delta Queen”
“Take This Hammer”
26: “No Man’s Land,” Yvette Landry [yvettelandry.com, new] (27)
“3 Chords And A Bottle”
“Dog House Blues”
“Yeah You Right”
26: “Rise,” Elaine Mahon [Gatorbone, 1/13] (27)
“Rise Up Singing”
“Dust Tracks In The Road”
26: “Tooth & Nail,” Billy Bragg [Cooking Vinyl, new] (27)
“I Ain’t Got No Home”
“No One Knows Nothing Anymore”
32: “Greetings From Cheryl Wheeler Live,” Cheryl Wheeler [Dias, 9/12] (26)
“Gandhi/Buddha”
32: “The Stray Birds,” The Stray Birds [thestraybirds.com, 9/12] (26)
“Dream In Blue”
“Harlem”
34: “Honky Tonk,” Son Volt [Rounder, new] (24)
“Hearts And Minds”
“Down The Highway”
34: “Up Like The Clouds,” Dubl Handi [dublhandi.bandcamp.com, 1/13] (24)
“Shout Little Lula”
“Katie Cruel”
36: “From Bamako To Carencro,” Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet [Compass, 2/12] (23)
“2-Step De Port Arthur”
“Bamako”
“Les Barres De La Prison”
36: “In The Time Of Gods,” Dar Williams [Razor & Tie, 4/12] (23)
“I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything”
“I Have Been Around This World”
“This Earth”
36: “Standing In The English Rain,” Lizanne Knott [lizanneknott.com, 12/12] (23)
“3 Steps Shy”
“Be Careful With My Heart”
39: “Angels Without Wings,” Heidi Talbot [Compass, 1/13] (22)
“When The Roses Come Again”
“Dearest Johnny”
39: “The Ash & Clay,” The Milk Carton Kids [Anti, new] (22)
“Heaven”
“Hope Of A Lifetime”
41: “Farmless,” The Harkenbacks [theharkenbacks.com, 12/12] (21)
“Long Black Train”
“Daily Papers”
41: “Seinn,” Mary Jane Lamond And Wendy MacIsaac [Factor, 9/12] (21)
“If You Were Mine”
“Boise Monsters”
41: “Spiorad,” Talitha MacKenzie [Sonas, 2/13] (21)
“Changerais-Tu?”
“Fhleasgaich Oig”
44: “Flash Company,” Outside Track [Lorimer, 9/12] (20)
“Transatlantic”
“Flash Company”
44: “Greenin’ Up,” David Mallett [North Road, 11/12] (20)
“Greenin’ Up”
“Summer Of My Dreams”
44: “Tune Tramp,” Erynn Marshall And Friends [Hickoryjack, 12/12] (20)
“Ragged But Right”
“Milwaukee Blues”
47: “Carnival,” Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line [Blue Pig, new] (19)
“Jack Of Diamonds”
“Baker’s Boy”
47: “Cheater’s Game,” Kelly Willis And Bruce Robison [30 Tigers, new] (19)
“9, 999, 999 Tears”
“Border Radio”
47: “Song Of The Seas,” Eagle McCall [eaglemccall.com, 10/12] (19)
“My Ireland”
“Valparaiso Suite”
“Leavin’ Of Liverpool”
50: “Our Lady Of The Tall Trees,” Cahalen Morrison And Eli West [cahalenandeli.com, 9/12] (18)
“Lady Does Not Often Falter”
“Our Lady Of The Tall Trees”
50: “Voice Of Ages,” The Chieftains [Hear, 2/12] (18)
“Frost Is All Over”
“School Days Over,” Chieftains W/The Low Anthem
50: “World Of Possibility,” Arlon Bennett [Red Sea, 1/13] (18)
“World Of Possibility”
“Questions For Einstein”
53: “Sing The Delta,” Iris DeMent [Flariella, 10/12] (17)
“Night I Learned How Not To Pray”
“There’s A Whole Lotta Heaven”
53: “Wood And Wire,” Wood And Wire [woodandwireband.com, new] (17)
“Mexico”
“Overblown”
55: “Ready For The Times,” Sutton, Holt & Coleman [High Windy, new] (16)
“Hotel Wall”
“Travelin’ Man”
55: “Ride,” Wayne Hancock [Bloodshot, new] (16)
“Ride”
“Get The Blues Low Down”
57: “Grandma’s Rules For Drinking,” Annie Lou [annielou.ca, 6/12] (15)
“Take Your Leg Off Mine”
57: “The Low Highway,” Steve Earle & The Dukes [New West, new] (15)
“Love’s Gonna Blow My Way”
“After Mardi Gras”
59: “Christ Church Cathedral,” Clannad [Arc, 2/13] (14)
“Crann Ull”
“Buachaill On Eirne”
59: “Shamrock City,” Solas [Thl, new] (14)
“Far Americay”
“Tell God And The Devil”
59: “Silver Lining,” The Honey Dewdrops [thehoneydewdrops.com, 6/12] (14)
“Hills Of My Home”
“One Kind Word”
62: “Ash And Bone,” Dan Weber [8 Ball, 7/12] (13)
“Hank And Jesus”
62: “Heather Maloney,” Heather Maloney [Signature, 3/13] (13)
“Dirt And Stardust”
“Hey Broken”
62: “Live In Los Angeles,” Stephanie Bettman And Luke Halpin [Self, new] (13)
“Get Close To Me”
62: “Love Has Come For You,” Steve Martin And Edie Brickell [Rounder, new] (13)
“Sarah Jane And The Iron Mountain Baby”
“When You Get To Asheville”
62: “Reunion,” Lucy Kaplansky [Red House, 9/12] (13)
“Reunion”
62: “They Called It Music,” The Gibson Brothers [Compass, new] (13)
“Daddy’s Gone To Knoxville”
“Darker The Night, The Better I See”
68: “The Mandolin Chronicles,” Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson [Pinecastle, new] (12)
“Another Night”
68: “The Same Way Down,” Annalivia [annaliviamusic.bandcamp.com, 9/12] (12)
“Bright Sunny South”
68: “Alternate Routes,” Long Time Courting [longtimecourting.com, 2011] (12)
“Maggie Dean”
68: “Collateral,” Cormac McCarthy [Self, 12/12] (12)
“Gotta Keep Movin”
“Working Poor”
68: “Down The Line,” Brad Cole [bradcolemusic.com, 7/12] (12)
“Fall”
“Pilgrimage”
68: “Everything Is Great,” Erik Balkey [Hudson Harding, 2012] (12)
“Singer’s Lament”
“Baseball In My Blood”
68: “Exiles Return,” Karan Casey And John Doyle [Compass, 2010] (12)
“Exiles Return”
68: “Feeling Mortal,” Kris Kristofferson [KK, 1/13] (12)
“Feeling Mortal”
“Stairway To The Bottom”
68: “Finds The Present Tense,” Gurf Morlix [Rootball, 3/13] (12)
“Bang Bang Bang”
68: “Flight,” Trout Steak Revival [troutsteak.com, 10/12] (12)
“Darling Corey”
68: “Home,” Bob Bradshaw [Fluke, 11/12] (12)
“Home”
68: “In Time,” The Mavericks [Valory, new] (12)
“Back In Your Arms Again”
“Lies”
68: “It’s Alive,” Elephant Revival [Self, 11/12] (12)
“Part Of A Song”
68: “Just Begun,” Forest Sun [Painted Sun, 10/12] (12)
“Just Begun”
68: “Old School Old Time,” Fiddle Whamdiddle [Owl Mountain, 12/12] (12)
“Ragtime Annie”
68: “Unsung Hero. A Tribute To The Music Of Ron Davies,” Various Artists [Little Chickadee, new] (12)
“You Stayed Away Too Long,” John Prine

1: “Some Part Of The Truth,” Brother Sun [brothersunmusic.com, 2/13] (115)
“Lady Of The Harbor”
“In The Name Of Love”
“Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy”
“Pushing Stones”
“House That Jack Built”
2: “Long Gone Out West Blues,” Pharis And Jason Romero [Lula, 2/13] (77)
“Wild Bill Jones”
“Long Gone Out West Blues”
“Come On Home”
“Lonely Home Blues”
3: “Child Ballads,” Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer [Wilderland, 3/13] (60)
“Willie Of Winsbury”
“Willie’s Lady”
“Geordie”
“Riddles Wisely Expounded”
4: “The Weather Inside,” Beth Wood [Blue Rock, 2011] (59)
“Coyote Prayer”
“Calico”
“Close Your Eyes, Here We Go”
“New Kid”
5: “Live At Blue Rock,” Mary Gauthier [Proper, 10/12] (50)
“Sugar Cane”
“I Drink”
“Last Of The Hobo Kings”
“Our Lady Of The Shooting Stars”
5: “Threshold,” Karine Polwart [Borealis, 2/13] (50)
“Rivers Run”
“Follow The Heron”
“Sorry”
7: “Little Boat,” Rita Hosking [ritahosking.com, new] (49)
“Parting Glass”
“5 Star Location”
“Where Time Is Reigning”
“Blow Northwest Wind”
8: “Old Yellow Moon,” Emmylou Harris And Rodney Crowell [Nonesuch, new] (47)
“Spanish Dancer”
“Hanging Up My Heart”
“Black Caffeine”
“Invitation To The Blues”
8: “Take This Song With You,” Maya And The Ruins [mayaandtheruins.bandcamp.com, 9/12] (47)
“Wildflowers”
“Train Whistle Blues”
“Bootlegger’s Blues”
“I Saw A Man At The Close Of Day”
10: “Jack Of All Trades,” Steve Chizmadia [Jack Of All Trades, 2/13] (46)
“I’m Alright”
“Song For Pete”
“Memphis Girl”
“Wall Street Fat-Cat Tax-Payer Bail-Out Blues”
11: “Things Are Coming My Way,” Marcy Marxer [Community, 1/13] (43)
“Angeline The Baker”
“Kissing In The Dark”
“Things Are Coming My Way”
12: “Coyote Wings,” Zoe Mulford [Azalea City, 1/13] (41)
“Sister, Sail”
“Storm Damage”
“Pocket Fulla Quarters”
13: “Jewels And Harmony,” Mara Levine [maralevine.com, 1/13] (37)
“April Come She Will”
“Immigrant Dream”
“The Dutchman”
13: “Transistor Corazon,” Melissa Greener [Anima, new] (37)
“If I Fell”
“Ghost In The Van”
“With The Weather”
15: “Belong,” Susan McKeown [Hibernian, 11/12] (35)
“On The Bridge To Williamsburg”
“Cure For Me”
“Everything We Had Was Good”
15: “Ordinary Cats,” Jon Shain [Flyin’, 2/13] (35)
“Ordinary Cats”
“Level It Out”
“Cut Out Bin”
17: “My Friend Hafiz,” The Levins [thelevinsmusic.com, 2009] (33)
“Dropping Keys”
“Sun Never Says”
“Your Mother And My Mother”
17: “Time,” Kathy Kallick Band [Live Oak, 8/12] (33)
“Time”
“Long Time Travelin”
19: “Honey Man,” Hey Mavis [Stellada, new] (32)
“Say Hello To Paris”
“Midnight Train”
“Let The Water Do The Work”
19: “The Last Day Of Winter,” Chris Vallillo [Gin Ridge, 11/12] (32)
“The Last Day Of Winter”
“Old Joe Clark”
“Steel Guitar Rag”
21: “Wild Bill Jones,” The Quiet American [quietamericanmusic.com, 1/13] (31)
“Apple In The Fall”
“Gallows Pole”
“Wild Bill Jones”
22: “Next Time Around,” Darryl Purpose [Blue Rock, 10/12] (30)
“Next Time Around”
“Race The Wind”
“Dreams Of Life”
23: “Give Me All You Got,” Carrie Rodriguez [Ninth Street Opus, 1/13] (29)
“Devil In Mind”
“I Cry For Love”
“Sad Joy”
23: “Room Enough For All,” Battlefield Band [Temple, new] (29)
“Farewell To Indiana”
“Bagpipe Music”
“Tynes In Overtime!”
25: “Electric,” Richard Thompson [New West, 2/13] (28)
“Saving The Good Stuff For You”
“Snow Goose”
26: “Driving Toward The Sun,” Susan James [Mri, new] (27)
“Wandering”
“Mission Bells”
26: “Hammer Down,” The Steeldrivers [Rounder, 2/13] (27)
“I’ll Be There”
“Burnin’ The Woodshed Down”
“When I’m Gone”
26: “Howl,” Howlin’ Brothers [Readymade, new] (27)
“Big Time”
“Delta Queen”
“Take This Hammer”
26: “No Man’s Land,” Yvette Landry [yvettelandry.com, new] (27)
“3 Chords And A Bottle”
“Dog House Blues”
“Yeah You Right”
26: “Rise,” Elaine Mahon [Gatorbone, 1/13] (27)
“Rise Up Singing”
“Dust Tracks In The Road”
26: “Tooth & Nail,” Billy Bragg [Cooking Vinyl, new] (27)
“I Ain’t Got No Home”
“No One Knows Nothing Anymore”
32: “Greetings From Cheryl Wheeler Live,” Cheryl Wheeler [Dias, 9/12] (26)
“Gandhi/Buddha”
32: “The Stray Birds,” The Stray Birds [thestraybirds.com, 9/12] (26)
“Dream In Blue”
“Harlem”
34: “Honky Tonk,” Son Volt [Rounder, new] (24)
“Hearts And Minds”
“Down The Highway”
34: “Up Like The Clouds,” Dubl Handi [dublhandi.bandcamp.com, 1/13] (24)
“Shout Little Lula”
“Katie Cruel”
36: “From Bamako To Carencro,” Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet [Compass, 2/12] (23)
“2-Step De Port Arthur”
“Bamako”
“Les Barres De La Prison”
36: “In The Time Of Gods,” Dar Williams [Razor & Tie, 4/12] (23)
“I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything”
“I Have Been Around This World”
“This Earth”
36: “Standing In The English Rain,” Lizanne Knott [lizanneknott.com, 12/12] (23)
“3 Steps Shy”
“Be Careful With My Heart”
39: “Angels Without Wings,” Heidi Talbot [Compass, 1/13] (22)
“When The Roses Come Again”
“Dearest Johnny”
39: “The Ash & Clay,” The Milk Carton Kids [Anti, new] (22)
“Heaven”
“Hope Of A Lifetime”
41: “Farmless,” The Harkenbacks [theharkenbacks.com, 12/12] (21)
“Long Black Train”
“Daily Papers”
41: “Seinn,” Mary Jane Lamond And Wendy MacIsaac [Factor, 9/12] (21)
“If You Were Mine”
“Boise Monsters”
41: “Spiorad,” Talitha MacKenzie [Sonas, 2/13] (21)
“Changerais-Tu?”
“Fhleasgaich Oig”
44: “Flash Company,” Outside Track [Lorimer, 9/12] (20)
“Transatlantic”
“Flash Company”
44: “Greenin’ Up,” David Mallett [North Road, 11/12] (20)
“Greenin’ Up”
“Summer Of My Dreams”
44: “Tune Tramp,” Erynn Marshall And Friends [Hickoryjack, 12/12] (20)
“Ragged But Right”
“Milwaukee Blues”
47: “Carnival,” Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line [Blue Pig, new] (19)
“Jack Of Diamonds”
“Baker’s Boy”
47: “Cheater’s Game,” Kelly Willis And Bruce Robison [30 Tigers, new] (19)
“9, 999, 999 Tears”
“Border Radio”
47: “Song Of The Seas,” Eagle McCall [eaglemccall.com, 10/12] (19)
“My Ireland”
“Valparaiso Suite”
“Leavin’ Of Liverpool”
50: “Our Lady Of The Tall Trees,” Cahalen Morrison And Eli West [cahalenandeli.com, 9/12] (18)
“Lady Does Not Often Falter”
“Our Lady Of The Tall Trees”
50: “Voice Of Ages,” The Chieftains [Hear, 2/12] (18)
“Frost Is All Over”
“School Days Over,” Chieftains W/The Low Anthem
50: “World Of Possibility,” Arlon Bennett [Red Sea, 1/13] (18)
“World Of Possibility”
“Questions For Einstein”
53: “Sing The Delta,” Iris DeMent [Flariella, 10/12] (17)
“Night I Learned How Not To Pray”
“There’s A Whole Lotta Heaven”
53: “Wood And Wire,” Wood And Wire [woodandwireband.com, new] (17)
“Mexico”
“Overblown”
55: “Ready For The Times,” Sutton, Holt & Coleman [High Windy, new] (16)
“Hotel Wall”
“Travelin’ Man”
55: “Ride,” Wayne Hancock [Bloodshot, new] (16)
“Ride”
“Get The Blues Low Down”
57: “Grandma’s Rules For Drinking,” Annie Lou [annielou.ca, 6/12] (15)
“Take Your Leg Off Mine”
57: “The Low Highway,” Steve Earle & The Dukes [New West, new] (15)
“Love’s Gonna Blow My Way”
“After Mardi Gras”
59: “Christ Church Cathedral,” Clannad [Arc, 2/13] (14)
“Crann Ull”
“Buachaill On Eirne”
59: “Shamrock City,” Solas [Thl, new] (14)
“Far Americay”
“Tell God And The Devil”
59: “Silver Lining,” The Honey Dewdrops [thehoneydewdrops.com, 6/12] (14)
“Hills Of My Home”
“One Kind Word”
62: “Ash And Bone,” Dan Weber [8 Ball, 7/12] (13)
“Hank And Jesus”
62: “Heather Maloney,” Heather Maloney [Signature, 3/13] (13)
“Dirt And Stardust”
“Hey Broken”
62: “Live In Los Angeles,” Stephanie Bettman And Luke Halpin [Self, new] (13)
“Get Close To Me”
62: “Love Has Come For You,” Steve Martin And Edie Brickell [Rounder, new] (13)
“Sarah Jane And The Iron Mountain Baby”
“When You Get To Asheville”
62: “Reunion,” Lucy Kaplansky [Red House, 9/12] (13)
“Reunion”
62: “They Called It Music,” The Gibson Brothers [Compass, new] (13)
“Daddy’s Gone To Knoxville”
“Darker The Night, The Better I See”
68: “The Mandolin Chronicles,” Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson [Pinecastle, new] (12)
“Another Night”
68: “The Same Way Down,” Annalivia [annaliviamusic.bandcamp.com, 9/12] (12)
“Bright Sunny South”
68: “Alternate Routes,” Long Time Courting [longtimecourting.com, 2011] (12)
“Maggie Dean”
68: “Collateral,” Cormac McCarthy [Self, 12/12] (12)
“Gotta Keep Movin”
“Working Poor”
68: “Down The Line,” Brad Cole [bradcolemusic.com, 7/12] (12)
“Fall”
“Pilgrimage”
68: “Everything Is Great,” Erik Balkey [Hudson Harding, 2012] (12)
“Singer’s Lament”
“Baseball In My Blood”
68: “Exiles Return,” Karan Casey And John Doyle [Compass, 2010] (12)
“Exiles Return”
68: “Feeling Mortal,” Kris Kristofferson [KK, 1/13] (12)
“Feeling Mortal”
“Stairway To The Bottom”
68: “Finds The Present Tense,” Gurf Morlix [Rootball, 3/13] (12)
“Bang Bang Bang”
68: “Flight,” Trout Steak Revival [troutsteak.com, 10/12] (12)
“Darling Corey”
68: “Home,” Bob Bradshaw [Fluke, 11/12] (12)
“Home”
68: “In Time,” The Mavericks [Valory, new] (12)
“Back In Your Arms Again”
“Lies”
68: “It’s Alive,” Elephant Revival [Self, 11/12] (12)
“Part Of A Song”
68: “Just Begun,” Forest Sun [Painted Sun, 10/12] (12)
“Just Begun”
68: “Old School Old Time,” Fiddle Whamdiddle [Owl Mountain, 12/12] (12)
“Ragtime Annie”
68: “Unsung Hero. A Tribute To The Music Of Ron Davies,” Various Artists [Little Chickadee, new] (12)
“You Stayed Away Too Long,” John Prine

Top Songs of March 2013

1. “Lady Of The Harbor” (23)
by Brother Sun
from “Some Part Of The Truth”
2. “Rivers Run” (17)
by Karine Polwart
from “Threshold”
3. “In The Name Of Love” (16)
by Brother Sun
from “Some Part Of The Truth”
3. “Parting Glass” (16)
by Rita Hosking
from “Little Boat”
5. “Gandhi/Buddha” (14)
by Cheryl Wheeler
from “Greetings From Cheryl Wheeler Live”
5. “Long Gone Out West Blues” (14)
by Pharis And Jason Romero
from “Long Gone Out West Blues”
5. “Wandering” (14)
by Susan James
from “Driving Toward The Sun”
5. “Wild Bill Jones” (14)
by Pharis And Jason Romero
from “Long Gone Out West Blues”
5. “Willie Of Winsbury” (14)
by Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
from “Child Ballads”
10. “Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy” (13)
by Brother Sun
from “Some Part Of The Truth”
10. “Hearts And Minds” (13)
by Son Volt
from “Honky Tonk”
12. “Geordie” (12)
by Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
from “Child Ballads”
12. “On The Bridge To Williamsburg” (12)
by Susan McKeown
from “Belong”
12. “Pushing Stones” (12)
by Brother Sun
from “Some Part Of The Truth”
15. “Dream In Blue” (11)
by The Stray Birds
from “The Stray Birds”
15. “Heaven” (11)
by The Milk Carton Kids
from “The Ash & Clay”
15. “Willie’s Lady” (11)
by Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
from “Child Ballads”
18. “Coyote Prayer” (10)
by Beth Wood
from “The Weather Inside”
18. “Hanging Up My Heart” (10)
by Emmylou Harris And Rodney Crowell
from “Old Yellow Moon”
18. “Ordinary Cats” (10)
by Jon Shain
from “Ordinary Cats”
18. “Riddles Wisely Expounded” (10)
by Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
from “Child Ballads”
18. “Say Hello To Paris” (10)
by Hey Mavis
from “Honey Man”
18. “Spanish Dancer” (10)
by Emmylou Harris And Rodney Crowell
from “Old Yellow Moon”
24. “5 Star Location” (9)
by Rita Hosking
from “Little Boat”
24. “I Ain’t Got No Home” (9)
by Brother Sun
from “Some Part Of The Truth”
24. “Invitation To The Blues” (9)
by Emmylou Harris And Rodney Crowell
from “Old Yellow Moon”
24. “Rise Up Singing” (9)
by Elaine Mahon
from “Rise”
24. “Sugar Cane” (9)
by Mary Gauthier
from “Live At Blue Rock”

So well-respected was Martin among his peers in the folk music and singer-songwriter communities that many of them participated in benefit concerts in recent weeks to help defray his medical expenses. Such notable artists as Buskin & Batteau, Richard Shindell, Sloan Wainwright and Pat Wictor performed in benefits at Larchmont, NY’s Watercolor Café last month, while close friend Monty Delaney helped organize one in Katohnah, NY, where, in addition to many others taking turns at the mic performing songs penned by Martin, the songwriter himself, who was very touched by the outpouring of love and support, graced those of us in attendance by performing a few with his band.

“Anyone who heard Terence knew he was a world-class songwriter and poet,” wrote John Platt, host of Sunday Breakfast on New York’s WFUV-FM, in a post to the Folk DJ Listserv, sharing the sad news of Martin’s passing. “For years I couldn’t understand why he didn’t pursue national recognition more aggressively; then I realized that he chose the life of a teacher, father, and husband over the life of a traveling troubadour. Who can argue with that?,” Platt continued. As Charlie Backfish, host of Sunday Street on WUSB –FM in Stony Brook, NY has said of him: Terence Martin was “an extraordinarily skillful writer whose powerful songs are impossible to forget.”

Jim Colbert, a fellow singer-songwriter, shares his personal remembrances and reflections:

I did not know Terence Martin well, but I spent part of Monday night crying over his death from pancreatic cancer, and praying for his family and friends.

The last time I saw Terence Martin, he was in his black Jeep Wrangler headed east on Pennsylvania Route 6 as the late morning fog was burning off the hills, heading back home to Long Island. We would e-mail a couple times a year, usually initiated by me. I’d drop him a note when I played one of his songs on the Folk Show or he released a new disc; he would respond with gratitude and a genuine interest in my own music. He was gentle, supportive, intelligent and funny as hell – he had a dry acerbic wit, and was a keen observer of the world and the people in it, not unlike my wife Cynthia. More than anything, he was flat out one of the best songwriters I have ever encountered.

We spent a day and a half or so together once, hanging out and doing a songwriting workshop and evening performance together in Cloudersport, PA, along with Jud Caswell and Eve Goldberg. We shared coffee and dessert at a small restaurant on Route 6, talking about songwriting and scrapple and pie and our influences. He played his song Folding Chairs three times for me that day, trying to demystify it for me. “Folding Chairs” was my introduction to Terence’s music; “Folding Chairs,” played in my family room on an acoustic guitar by my friend Chris Cinnelli, who gave me Terence’s CD that weekend. I told Terence later how I thought this was nearly a perfect song. I said I wished I could write a song that good, just once in my life. He seemed a bit uncomfortable with the praise, and spent a long time basically telling me that the worst thing I could do was try to emulate “Folding Chairs;” that what I should concentrate on was being true to myself and my music. He was gently supportive, encouraging, motivating and challenging all at the same time. He listened to the songs I played him, and listened hard. He made me want to write better songs. I could see why his English students often revered him, and probably why some of them that maybe were wasting their potential might not have.

Terence’s guitar style solo was deceptively simple; often working out of first position formation shapes with embellishments, but not unlike Danny Schmidt, he had a gift for incorporating crisply picked flowing melody lines into the picking patterns. It served the songs perfectly. He was playing a sunburst Gibson J-45 that weekend, and the dry woody tone worked perfectly with his voice.

That evening, I played the second of two opening sets, and Terence came up to the microphone next, launching into an impromptu version of about half of my song “Mountain Laurels.” It fit his voice and style beautifully; I always hoped we would have the chance to do it together somewhere down the road. It was a magic moment, and it made me sad that Cynthia couldn’t be there to see it happen.

I left that weekend feeling validated as a performing songwriter. Make no mistake, I’m not turning diva. I’m not putting myself above the level I’m on or harboring delusions about where I fall on the folkie food chain, or implying I can’t improve, or even about whether what I do is what people want to hear. But this was the weekend I stopped apologizing for my style, for the performance and simplicity of my songs and started embracing that. To Terence, this was Jim Colbert being Jim Colbert, and I think I came to terms with that notion that weekend.

There have been a handful of performing songwriters who have really reinforced to me the merit in what I do; that have helped me with the ideas of balancing art with life, that sometimes the creation is its own reward, in being true to myself and my music. Joe Crookston is certainly one; Carolann Solebello and Marc Douglas Berardo and Kevin Dremel. Terence Martin is on that list too. Terence was probably the first performer to really challenge and question my approach that what I was doing somehow needed disclaimers and apologies. “Just play it,” he told me. “Play it like you feel it, play it like you mean it.” I’m no doubt paraphrasing a bit, but that was the point.

And so I cried, for someone I seldom saw or spoke to, who, in the strictest terms, I did not know long or well, but who left a lasting impression on who I am as a writer and performer. I cried the selfish tears of knowing I would not see Terence again, at least not in this lifetime; that my wife would never get to meet him – I think they would have gotten along quite well. That we would never again share a gig or pie or bullshit about Jeeps and philosophy and guitar pickups. But mostly, I cried knowing that, while there were likely dozens of people Terence made a similar impact on, there are no doubt dozens of people who would benefit from his low key, easy going support and validation and will never know that.

To steal one of his own lines, “It was the the way it didn’t go.”

Rest in peace, Terence, my friend.

Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 22-24, in Hillsdale, NY

Now in its 23rd year, Falcon Ridge takes place at Dodds Farm on Route 7D in Hillsdale, New York, located in the foothills of the Berkshires, near the tri-state corner of New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Among the Northeast’s most popular music festivals, it features dozens of artists performing on several stages, a dance tent, children’s music and activities, and a wide array of crafts, food and other vendors. Artists performing this year include Brother Sun (the new trio featuring Greg Greenway, Joe Jencks and Pat Wictor), Greg Brown, Buskin & Batteau, Mary Chapin Carpenter, CJ Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band, Mary Gauthier, Tracy Grammer, Jay Mankita, Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus, Dan Navarro, Professor Louie & The Crowmatix, Red Horse (featuring Eliza Gilkyson, John Gorka and Lucy Kaplansky – each of whom also will perform solo), Red Molly, Solas, Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Annie Wenz and Susan Werner.

Appearing in this year’s Falcon Ridge/Grassy Hill Emerging Artist Showcase are: Brooke Annibale, Blair Bodine, Brittany Ann, Ellen Bukstel, Lori Diamond and Fred Abatelli, Friction Farm, Bulat Gafarov, Sharon Goldman, Jason Myles Goss, ilyAIMY, Layah Jane, Devlin Miles, Louise Mosrie, My Brothers Banned, Occidental Gypsy, Karyn Oliver, Pesky J. Nixon, Grace Pettis, Paul Sachs, Putnam Smith, Split Tongue Crew, Suzie Vinnick, Gail Wade and The Whispering Tree.

The Falcon Ridge/Grassy Hill Emerging Artists Showcase is not a contest, and artists won’t be judged per se, although the audience is surveyed as to which ones they’d like to see return the following year to participate in a Most Wanted Song Swap. This year’s Most Wanted Song Swap will feature Barnaby Bright, The Folkadelics, Chris O’Brien and Spuyten Duyvil.

However, the fun doesn’t end there. One of the true highlights of Falcon Ridge — for those who opt to camp on-site and stay up through early morning hours –are the impromptu jams, after-hours song circles and mini- showcases. These late-night sessions — including the Nite Owl Song Swap hosted by singer-songwriter Terry Kitchen, those put on by the folks associated with Budgiedome, and the AcousticMusicScene.com – Tribes Hill Song Swaps — help foster a sense of “folk” community and a different kind of festival experience.

As in past years, the AcousticMusicScene.com-Tribes Hill late-night song swaps will take place under a big white canopy tent. It will be situated in the lower left/northeast section of the 10-acre field (lower meadow), rather than on the hill. Pre-arranged invitational song swaps each evening (or early a.m., depending on your vantage point) will be followed by open song circles to which folks are invited to bring their instruments, voices and ears. Some of the artists who will perform at the AcousticMusicScene.com – Tribes Hill tent also will be performing on the Main Stage and other stages during the festival. These include Brother Sun, Spuyten Duyvil (an eight-member Americana group that performs a lively and eclectic mix of roots music) and The Folkadelics (who, along with Spuyten Duyvil, performed in last year’s Falcon Ridge/Grassy Hill Emerging Artists Showcase and were chosen by festivalgoers to perform in this year’s Most Wanted Song Swap).” Several of the artists slated to perform in this year’s Emerging Artists Showcase also will be featured in the AcousticMusicScene.com-Tribes Hill song swaps, while others are expected to take part in the open song circles.

The late-night music at the AcousticMusicScene.com-Tribes Hill tent kicks off on Friday overnight, beginning about 15 minutes after the music concludes for the evening on the Main Stage (just after midnight). An hour-long song swap will feature Pesky J. Nixon (who also hosts music on the “Lounge Stage” on Thursday, prior to the official start of the festival), Putnam Smith, Tribes Hill’s own Spuyten Duyvil and The Folkadelics. Swapping songs for 45 minutes on Saturday overnight will be Brother Sun, Friction Farm (the husband & wife duo of Christine Stay and Aidan Quinn), and Tribes Hill’s own The YaYas (Jay Mafale and Catherine Miles). This will be followed by a 15-minute musical tribute to Jack Hardy. A consummate singer-songwriter, co-founder of the Musicians’ Cooperative and Fast Folk Musical Magazine, and host of weekly gatherings for songwriters in his Greenwich Village apartment, Hardy played a pivotal role in the New York folk/songwriting scene for several decades and influenced and inspired many other songwriters. His passing in March at age 63 sent shock waves through the folk community,

Open song circles will follow each night, while informal, spontaneous jams and song circles may also take place under the tent throughout the weekend.

For more information on the festival, visit www.falconridgefolk.com.

Huntington Folk Festival, Aug. 6, at Heckscher Park in Huntington, NY

AcousticMusicScene.com also will have a major presence at the Sixth Annual Huntington Folk Festival that takes place on Saturday, August 6, in-Huntington, New York. Aztec Two-Step headlines the free event that extends from 11 a.m. into the late evening at Heckscher Park, Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue.

Co-presented by the Folk Music Society of Huntington and the Huntington Arts Council, the Huntington Folk Festival is part of the 46th Annual Huntington Summer Arts Festival presented by the Town of Huntington, produced by the Huntington Arts Council, and sponsored in part by the New York State Council for the Arts and the Suffolk County Executive’s Office.

Now marking their 40th anniversary as a folk-rock duo, Aztec Two-Step (Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman) will perform two sets on the Chapin Rainbow Stage beginning at 8:30 p.m. An afternoon of unplugged showcases and song swaps featuring artists from the New York metropolitan area and New England will precede the evening concert. Hosting them near canopy tents, between 12 and 6:30 p.m., will be AcousticMusicScene.com and Richard Cuccaro’s monthly listings guide, Acoustic Live! in New York City and Beyond.

In keeping with the tradition of Folk Music Society of Huntington concerts, the festival will open with an hour-long open mic at 11 a.m. Attendees are advised to bring lawn chairs or blankets and to consider bringing a picnic supper or venturing into nearby Huntington Village for dinner.

The AcousticMusicScene.com and Acoustic Live! showcase schedules appear below. More information on the festival, including directions to Heckscher Park, can be found by visiting www.fmshny.org and clicking on the Huntington Folk Festival link.

AcousticMusicScene.com

11:00 Open Mic

12:00 Island Songwriters Showcase: Dave Anthony, Vin Crici, Tim Dillon, Suzanne Ernst,
Cathy Kreger and Denise Romas

1:00 Josh Joffen, Carolann Solebello

1:30 Arlon Bennett, Roger Silverberg, Wool & Grant

2:00 All Keyed-Up: Jeffrey Paul Bobrick, Anna Dagmar and Marci Geller

2:45 Kath Buckell

3:00 Mark Allen Berube, Honor Finnegan

3:30 Jerry DeMeo, Patti DeRosa

4:00 Meg Braun, Jason Myles Goss

4:30 Strike the Bell (Stuart Markus and Judith Zweiman)

4:45 The Whispering Tree

5:00 Mara Levine, Elaine Romanelli, The Folk Goddesses (Hillary Foxsong, Martha
Trachtenberg and Judith Zweiman)

5:45 Old-Time Jam with The Solid Citizens
(featuring members of Spuyten Duyvil and special guests)

6:25: Closing Song: Harry Chapin’s “Circle”

Acoustic Live!