Festsival Radio Top 42, September 2009

Top 42 tracks as rated by Festival Radio listeners for September 2009.  Why 42?  Becuase it’s the answer to the ultimate question, of course.

Rank – Artist – Track – Album

  1. Over the Rhine – Born – Drunkard’s Prayer
  2. Peter, Paul And Mary – Blowin’ In The Wind – The Very Best Of Peter, Paul And Mary
  3. Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus – American IV: The Man Comes Around
  4. Diana Jones – Ballad of the Poor Child – Better Times Will Come
  5. Mark Heard – Everything Is Alright – Dry Bones Dance
  6. Deirdre Flint – Food – Then Again
  7. Judy Collins – Mountain Girl – Philadelphia Folk Festival – Celebration Highlights From The 40th Anniversary Festival
  8. Christine Lavin – Attractive Stupid People – Cold Pizza for Breakfast
  9. Kris Delmhorst – To The Wire – Shotgun Singer
  10. Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg – Heart’s Blood – Saints & Tzadiks
  11. Gibson Brothers – Bottomland – Ring The Bell
  12. Chuck Brodsky – The Come Heres & The Been Heres – Two Sets
  13. David Stoddard – River of Love – Get Off My Lawn
  14. Cry Cry Cry – Shades of Gray – Cry Cry Cry
  15. Caroline Herring – The Dozens – Golden Apples Of The Sun
  16. Red Molly – Beaumont Rest Stop - Love and Other Tragedies
  17. Lisa Biales – Where the Buckwheat Blooms – Chasing Away the Blues
  18. Doop and the Inside Outlaws – Prove It All Night – Everett Belcher
  19. Dogan Mehmet – Wraggle Taggle Gypsies – Gypsyhead
  20. Byrd & Street – My Airplane in the Backyard – Love Broke the Fall
  21. Alison Krauss & Union Station – When You Say Nothing At All – Alison Krauss + Union Station Live
  22. Tom Russell – Santa Ana Wind – Blood & Candle Smoke
  23. Tom Prasada-Rao – Star In Her Crown – The Way of the World
  24. Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg – Buenos Aires – Saints & Tzadiks
  25. Sarah Siskind – Reasons to Love – Say It Louder
  26. Joni Mitchell – Both Sides, Now – Hits
  27. Sandy Denny – Learning the Game – No More Sad Refrains: The Anthology
  28. Rhythm Angels – Until It Comes Around Again – Girls Like Us
  29. Paul Brady – Nobody Knows – Nobody Knows
  30. Patty Larkin – Good Thing – Angels Running
  31. Nick Humphrey – Logging Katahdin Stream – A Few of Mine
  32. Maddy Prior – Dives and Lazarus – Seven For Old England
  33. John Gorka – I Know – I Know
  34. John Flynn – Reggie’s Question ( What’s in a Name) - America’s Waiting
  35. Eastmountainsouth – Show Me the River – Eastmountainsouth
  36. Doug Folkins – Calico Girl – Another Last Call
  37. Christina Stewart – Dean Ba ba mo Leanabh – Kist O Dreams
  38. Chris Vallillo – Hard Times Come Again No More – Abraham Lincoln in Song
  39. Carrie Newcomer – The Rooms My Mother Made – My Father’s Only Son
  40. Bruce Springsteen – You’re Missing – The Rising
  41. Atwater – Donnelly – Sweet Fern – The Blackest Crow
  42. Arlo Guthrie – Hurry to Me - Tales of ’69
  • http://levilandis.blogspot.com Levi Landis

    I like #7. We had Judy back to the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 2008, and it was a great return! Thanks for using the track from that CD!

    Always the music…
    Levi Landis
    Executive Director
    Philadelphia Folksong Society
    Presenting the Philadelphia Folk Festival

  • http://www.dougfolkins.com Doug Folkins

    Sweet! So happy to be included on this list. Calico Girl sitting nicely at #36!

    Thanks for playing and thank you to the listeners for rating.

  • http://www.byrdandstreet.com Byrd & Street

    We appreciate your playing MY AIRPLANE IN THE BACKYARD IN THE SKY, which is actually a true story. #20 is a fine place to be!!!

    Kathy & Tommy

  • http://www.byrdandstreet.com Byrd & Street

    Thanks for including MY AIRPLANE IN THE BACKYARD IN THE SKY!! We appreciate it.

    Kathy & Tommy

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