Top Artists of March 2025<\/strong> <\/p>\n1. Lucy Kaplansky (99)
\n2. Chris Walz (78)
\n3. Helene Cronin (77)
\n4. Alice Howe and Freebo (74)
\n5. John McCutcheon (63)
\n6. Sierra Hull (59)
\n7. Sam Robbins (58)
\n8. The Seldom Scene (55)
\n9. Jason Isbell (52)
\n10. Crys Matthews (51)
\n11. Deborah Holland (47)
\n12. Bob Dylan (45)
\n13. HuDost (44)
\n14. Amelia Hogan (38)
\n14. Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwert (38)
\n16. Max Wareham (37)
\n16. Chatham Rabbits (37)
\n18. Kim Beggs (36)
\n19. Alison Krauss and Union Station (34)
\n20. Rob Siegel (31)
\n21. Artists for Action (30)
\n22. Jesse Colin Young (29)
\n23. The Twangtown Paramours (27)
\n23. Tim Grimm (27)
\n25. Chuck Brodsky (26)
\n26. Guy Clark (25)
\n26. Joni Mitchell (25)
\n26. The Wildwoods (25)
\n29. Barry Oreck and Friends (24)
\n29. Joan Baez (24)
\n31. Eliza Gilkyson (23)
\n31. The Boy From Bluegrass (23)
\n31. Annie Gallup (23)
\n31. The Devil Makes Three (23)
\n31. John Prine (23)
\n36. Emma’s Revolution (22)
\n37. Heather Maloney (21)
\n37. Colleen Kattau (21)
\n37. Gary Louris (21)
\n37. Karan Casey (21) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lucy Kaplansky had the top album (The Lucy Story: Unreleased and Rare Tracks 1976-2023) and was the most-played artist on folk radio during March 2025, while \u201cWhich Side Are You On?\u201d by Artists for Action was the month\u2019s top song. So say charts compiled by Folk Alliance International based on radio playlists submitted to FOLKDJ-L, an electronic discussion group for DJs and others interested in folk-based music on the radio.<\/p>\n
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Hailed as \u201cThe songwriter laureate of modern city folk\u201d (The Boston Globe), Lucy Kaplansky is a New York City-based contemporary folk singer-songwriter with a luminous voice whose recordings frequently topped folk and Americana radio charts. The Lucy Story, her 10th album, is a collection of mostly unreleased tracks that form a retrospective \/history of her musical life. It features songs performed in a variety of musical styles — both self-penned and ones by Richard Shindell, Robbie Robertson, Townes Van Zandt, John Lennon, Lyle Lovett and Jack Hardy, as well as demos and album outtakes, and live recordings with some of her favorite collaborators (Shawn Colvin, Shindell, and Dar Williams among them).<\/p>\n