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