I’m constantly amazed by the ability of Online Folk Festival listeners to catch on to all the great indies and lesser-known artists by selecting them into the Top 40 (well, this month the Top 42)
Artist – “Song” – Album
1. Robin Flower and Libby McLaren – “Andrei’s First Waltz in America” – Steelhead in the Riffles
2. Radio Tarifa – “Conductus” – Temporal
3. Tom Prasada-Rao – “Ashes of Love” – The Way of the World
4. Iris Dement – “That’s The Way Love Goes” – NPR Studio Cuts vol 1
5. Runrig – “Loch Lomond [Live]” – Beat the Drum
6. Bill Jones – “A Brisk Young Sailor” – Turn To Me
7. Ashley Maher – “Seven” – Flying Over Bridges
8. Annie Gallup – “Red Hair” – Swerve
9. Carol Noonan – “Emma” – Somebody’s Darling: Songs of War, Loss and Remembrance
10. No Fixed Abode – “Sunne Days” – Clearwater
11. Greg Trooper With The Flatirons – “Ireland” – Everywhere
12. Gillian Welch – “Look At Miss Ohio” – Soul Journey
13. Billy Bragg & Wilco – “California Stars” – Mermaid Avenue
14. Pat Wictor – “I Will Walk With You” – Heaven Is So High
15. Lucy Kaplansky – “Amelia” – Over the Hills
16. Jack Williams – “Lay Down By the Water” – Laughing in the Face of the Blues
17. Simon & Garfunkel – “El Condor Pasa” – Old Friends Live On Stage
18. Mary Fahl – “The Dawning of the Day” – The Other Side of Time
19. Ernie Hawkins – “Make Believe Stunt” – Rags & Bones
20. Carrie Newcomer – “Bowling Baby” – Betty’s Diner: The Best of Carrie Newcomer
21. Jeff Black – “Dark as a Dungeon” – The Appalachians: Companion to the Public Television Series
22. Emmylou Harris – “Bang the Drum Slowly” – Red Dirt Girl
23. Tim Harrison – “Prayer Watching” – Sara And The Sea
24. David Mallett – “Dulcimer” – Midnight on the Water (Live)
25. Chris Stuart – “Angels of Mineral Springs” – Angels of Mineral Springs
26. Bruce Cockburn – “All The Diamonds In The World” – Circles In The Stream
27. Donal Clancy – “Garrett Barry’s/The Rumours of Trim” – Close to Home
28. Hem – “The Fire Thief” – Eveningland
29. Wes Weddell – “Hills That I Call Home” – Songs To Get You From Here To There
30. David Bromberg – “Trying to get home” – Try me one more time
31. Christine Lavin – “Good Thing He Can’t Read My Mind” – Good Thing He Can’t Read My Mind
32. Richard Thompson – “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” – Austin City Limits: Live From Austin, TX: Richard Thompson
33. Emily Smith – “Fly We to Some Desert Isle” – The Complete Songs of Robert Tannahill
34. Dry Branch Fire Squad – “Going Up Home to Live in Green Pastures” – Live at the Newburyport Firehouse
35. Chanticleer – “My Soul Is A Witness” – How Sweet The Sound
36. Boiled in Lead – “Robin’s Complaint” – Antler Dance
37. Andy M. Stewart / Manus Lunny – “If I Never Spend a Morning Without You” – At It Again
38. Steve Brooks – “What Would Molly Do? (Molly Ivins Tribute)” – www.stevebrooks.com
39. Chuck Brodsky – “Bonehead Merkle” – The Baseball Ballads
40. Cathie Ryan – “As the Evening Declines” – The Farthest Wave
40. Aoife Clancy – “Banks of Sweet Primroses” – Silvery Moon
40. Andrew Calhoun – “A Hoosier in Paris” – Shadow of a Wing
