Top 40 Tracks as rated by listeners to Festival Radio for November 2009:
Artist – Track – Album
- Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Blue Moon Waltz – After Awhile
- Julie Miller – All my Tears – Broken Things
- Norman & Nancy Blake – Happy Little Home In Arkansas – Back Home In Sulphur Springs
- Kris Drever – Braw Sailin’ On the Sea – Black Water
- David Bromberg – Wee Midnight Hour Blues - Live New York City 1982
- Pamela Ward and Paul Cherrington – Sail On By – Sail on By
- The Notting Hillbillies – Railroad Worksong – Missing… presumed having a good time
- Leadbelly – Goodnight Irene – Genius of Folk
- Buffy Sainte-Marie – To the Ends of the World – Running For The Drum
- Peter, Paul And Mary – Leaving On A Jet Plane – The Very Best Of Peter, Paul And Mary
- Peter Case – Blue Distance – Who’s Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile?
- Arlo Guthrie – If You Would Just Drop By - Tales of ‘69
- Molly’s Revenge – The Long Drive – The Western Shore
- Mark Stepakoff – Little Black Dress – Some Assembly Required
- Jon Brooks – The Crying of The Times – Moth Nor Rust
- Buskin & Batteau – Red Shoes and Golden Hearts – Red Shoes and Golden Hearts
- Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah – The Essential Leonard Cohen
- The High Kings – The Rocky Road To Dublin – The High Kings
- Mavis Staples – Waiting for My Child – Live: Hope at the Hideout
- Maura O’Connell – There’s No Good Day For Dying – Don’t I Know
- The Innocence Mission – Follow Me – Birds of My Neighborhood
- The Foremen – Godzilla Has a Midlife Crisis – The Best of the Foremen
- Woody Guthrie – Jesus Christ – Classic Protest Songs From Smithsonian Folkways
- Tom Russell – The Eyes of Roberto Duran – The Long Way Around
- Steve Goodman – The Dutchman – Anthology: No Big Surprise
- Smithfield Fair – Radio - The Longing
- Loudon Wainwright III – Daughter - Strange Weirdos
- Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams – Everyone Has A Broken Heart – The Great Unravel
- David Bromberg – Levee Camp Moan – Try Me One More Time
- Woody Guthrie – This Land is Your Land (extra verse) – The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 – This Land is Your Land
- The Waybacks – The River – Loaded
- Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg – Heart’s Blood – Saints & Tzadiks
- Paul Simon – Kodachrome – Concert In The Park
- Nia Morgan – Silent Times - Nia Morgan
- Michael Stanley Band – Falling In Love Again – Right Back at Ya (1971-1983)
- Lara Herskovitch – Here Comes the Sun – Through a Frozen Midnight Sky
- The Kennedys – Chimes of Freedom – Half A Million Miles
- Josh Ritter – Leaving – Golden Age of Radio
- Eddie From Ohio – Imagine Me – Portable EFO Show
- The Byrds – Positively 4Th Street (Live) – There Is A Season
This month listeners seemed to really like some of the older tunes, so I have marked the recent releases with red type to distinguish them from the herd. I appreciate that they are digging on Woody Guthrie, Leonard Cohen, Mavis Staples and The Byrds. I also like the love for the Michael Stanley Band, one of the favorite bands of my youth.
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I agree Greg… MSB (Michael Stanley Band) is awesome. Kind of a midwest Springsteen only better IMHO and should have been as big. Seeing Mr. Stanley on this list has brought back great memories. I think I’ll go downstairs and dig out “North Coast” (on vinyl of course!!) and give it a spin.
MSB’s early material is really vintage country rock and the later midwest-Springsteenish material represents a bit of an evolution from where they started. I’m particularly fond of Stanley’s second solo CD, Friends and Legends, which was recorded with most of the Eagles playing in the studio with him, where he does an awesome slow-tempo cover of “Help” featuring weeping steel guitar that gives a whole new dimension to the song.
Anyway, I grew up in Northeast Ohio, where Michael Stanley was the hometown hero, and always was disappointed that he never seemed to achieve the success that I thought he deserved. I like to sneak some of his more country/rock and acoustic tunes into rotation every once in a while, really just for me.
MSB deserves another comment…You’re right, there’s that early solo period, then the Jonah Koslen country rock stuff and then the full blown corn-fed rock and roll which I like the best. But it was all good. “Cabin Fever” was darn near heavy metal! “Seventeen and caught in between what I was and what I wanted to be. I was listening to no one and nobody was listening to me”(Somewhere In The Night). Awesome lyrics no matter what the genre!