Top 29, August 2010, Festival Radio

The Top 29 tracks as rated by listeners of Festival Radio.  Why 29?  Why not?  Oh, by the way crimestoppers, you can have a say in the list every month by rating songs using the live365 player.  On the new player, hover over the album cover graphic and then choose thumbs up or down from the track options.

Artist – Track – Album

  1. R.E.M. – Wall of Death – Beat The Retreat (Songs by Richard Thompson)
  2. Old Blind Dogs – Bogie’s Bonny Belle – The Gab o Mey
  3. Jonathan Rundman – Librarian – Public Library
  4. Robert Earl Keen – Mariano – The Party Never Ends – Songs You Know From The Tunes You Can’t Remember
  5. Hey Mavis – Sister Mary – Red Wine
  6. Pierce Pettis – Tip of My Tongue – Everything Matter
  7. Loreena Mckennitt – The Gates Of Istanbul – From Istanbul To Athens
  8. Dan Pelletier – Credit Report – Wild Heart Rodeo
  9. Black Prairie – Across The Black Prairie – Feast of the Hunters’ Moon
  10. Noah Earle – The Sky’s On Fire – This is the Jubilee
  11. Mick McAuley and Winifred Horan – To Make You Feel My Love – Serenade
  12. The Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir – I Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody – Jubilation III
  13. The Twangtown Paramours – Might As Well Be You – The Twangtown Paramours
  14. Kathryn Williams – 50 White Lines – The Quickening
  15. Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues – Live From Austin, TX
  16. Catherine MacLellan – Isabel’s Song – Water in the Ground
  17. Doug Folkins – King Henry’s Good Times – Another Last Call
  18. Dolly Parton – Linda Ronstadt – Emmylou Harris – Lover’s Return – Trio II
  19. Cry Cry Cry – Fall On Me – Cry Cry Cry
  20. Red Molly – Lookin’ For Trouble – James
  21. Lost Dogs – You Gotta Move – Scenic Routes
  22. The Literary Greats – Show Me the Coast – Ocean, Meet the Valley
  23. Fairport Convention – Tam Lin – Meet on the Ledge – The Classic Years 1967-75
  24. Deirdre Flint – 1-900-Score a Date – Then Again
  25. Daniel Christian – California Song – Hold Your Breath
  26. Angel Band – Same Boat – Hope Is On The Way
  27. The Pentangle – House Carpenter – Basket of Light
  28. Kate & Anna McGarrigle – I Eat Dinner – Heartbeats Accelerating
  29. Eddi Reader – Silent Bells – Love Is The Way
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Why You Might Subscribe to My Twitter Feed

I know, I know, it’s shameless self-promotion, but if I don’t do it, nobody else will, right?

So – here’s what I’m trying to accomplish with my Festival Radio Twitter feed:

  • I post when I update the playlist, generally listing the new music I’m adding
  • I post when I find a news article about a folk artist that interests me
  • I post when I find something interesting to listen to that might interest the people who listen to my station (new artists, interesting podcasts, etc.)
  • I auto-post when I update the blog (like, for instance, now).

I won’t bore you with what I’m having for lunch.  At least not on the FestivalRadio feed.

I have created a separate feed where I talk about other things that interest me (Cleveland sports, politics, snarky observations on life, the universe and everything, etc. ) and I have been doing a better job keeping them separate lately, at least since the LeBron James leaving Cleveland debacle.  Sorry about that – it still hurts but I’m recovering.

In case you’re wondering why I include the weekly Twitter updates on my blog, I think blog readers are interested in the articles and news I find about folk musicians as well as the updates on what I’m previewing for the station.  I could be wrong.

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So Long, Myspace

I’ve canceled my myspace.com account.  The signal to noise ratio was way, way, way too high and has been for quite some time.  I just don’t have the time or inclination to give it much effort and read all the comments, spam, and messages from bands to check out their music.

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New Adds, Festival Radio, August 22, 2010

New adds to Festival Radio since July 31, 2010

Artist Album
Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand All The Good Summers
Anne McCue Broken Promise Land
Blabbermouth Me and the Metronome
Carrie Rodriguez Love and Circumstance
Chris Ricketts and Mark Willshire Simple Folk
Cindy Bullens Howling Trains and Barking Dogs
David Gray Foundling
Hey Mavis Red Wine
Kim Beggs Blue Bones
Kim Taylor Little Miracle
McCabe & Mrs. Miller Time For Leaving
Pete Seeger Tomorrow’s Children
Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band Legacy
Rob McHale Company Town
Sarah Harmer Oh Little Fire
Suzanne Vega Close-Up Vol 1, Love Songs
Swan Dive Mayfair
Terence Martin The Last Black and White TV
Zeptepi Stormclouds
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Complete Playlist – Festival Radio – July 31, 2010

Here it is, crimestoppers: the complete playlist for Festival Radio as of July 31, 2010.  After the break, of course.

Continue reading Complete Playlist – Festival Radio – July 31, 2010

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New Adds, Festival Radio – July 31, 2010

New album adds to Festival Radio since the last time:

Artist Album
Great Big Sea Safe Upon The Shore
Joe LoStritto Good Company
John McVey Unpredictable
Mark Olson Many Colored Kite
The Twangtown Paramours The Twangtown Paramours
LJ Booth The Road That Leads Me Home
Lynn Hollyfield Layers
Marshall Artz Key
Chris Kokesh October Valentine
David Sinclair No Words
Angel Band Bless My Sole
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Top 30, Festival Radio, July 2010

Top 30 for Festival Radio as determined by listener feedback for Festival Radio for July 2010

Artist – Track – Album

  1. Robert Rolfe Feddersen – “Pearls To Swine” – Milkman
  2. Great Big Sea – “Dear Home Town” – Safe Upon The Shore
  3. Tin Bird Choir – “Treat You Right” – Barn Rock
  4. Robinella and the CC Stringband – “No Saint, No Prize” – Robinella and the CC Stringband
  5. Ben Winship & David Thompson – “Old Bamboo (with John Lowell)” – Fishing Music II
  6. Adler & Hearne – “How Can We Be Friends” – To The Heart
  7. Wendy Wall – “Fool’s Gold” – The Road to Paradise
  8. Scott and Michelle Dalziel – “Gravel Roads” – Thinking Out Loud
  9. Stephanie Bettman and Luke Halpin – “Buttonwillow” – It All Comes Back to Love
  10. The Lowlands – “Pack of Seeds” – Bark and Twine
  11. Smithfield Fair – “The Mist Covered Mountains of Home” – Scotland, Fair Scotland
  12. Dave Bordewey and Dave Young – “Lord Franklin” – A New Day
  13. The Stringbusters – “Me, Myself and I” - Rhapsody in Uke
  14. Tom Granata – “Black Day In July” – Left Foot Lightfoot
  15. John Whelan – “Skimming the Surface” – Celtic Crossroads
  16. Gordie Tentrees – “Mercy or Sin” – Mercy or Sin
  17. Joe Crookston – “Wandering Shepherd” – Able Baker Charlie and Dog
  18. Catherine MacLellan – “Isabel’s Song” – Water in the Ground
  19. Patty Larkin – “Open Arms” – 25
  20. Moody Bluegrass – “Your Wildest Dreams” – Moody Bluegrass
  21. Melina Gerges – “Salam” – CD Single
  22. Great Lake Swimmers – “Stealing Tomorrow” – Lost Channels
  23. Buddy and Julie Miller – “What You Gonna Do Leroy” – Written in Chalk
  24. The Infamous Stringdusters – “The Way I See You Now” – The Infamous Stringdusters
  25. Chuck Brodsky – “Seven Miles Upwind” – Color Came One Day
  26. Paul Kamm & Eleanore MacDonald – “To Let The Light In” – From The Fire
  27. Louise Mosrie – “I Love This World” – Home
  28. Johnny Flynn – “The Box” – A Larum
  29. Simon & Garfunkel – “The Boxer” – Bridge Over Troubled Water
  30. Julie Clark – “Growin’ Up” – Change Your Mind
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New Adds, Festival Radio, July 5, 2010

New adds to Festival Radio since June 4, 2010:

Artist Album
3 Penny Acre Highway 71
Ashley Wells Mama’s Skirt
Black Prairie Feast of the Hunters’ Moon
Cathal Clohessy and Eamonn Costello Bosca Ceoil and Fiddle
Cowboy Junkies Renmin Park
Daniel Christian Hold Your Breath
David Goldman Light in the Tunnel
Eilen Jewell Butcher Holler: A Tribute To Loretta Lynn
Ernest Troost Resurrection Blues
Ernie Halter Franklin & Vermont
Friction Farm Every Mile Is A Memory
George Mann Songs For Jules and Bruce
Greg Alexander Sky It Shall Be
J Shogren Bird Bones and Muscle
John Mellencamp No Better Than This
Kathryn Williams The Quickening
Paul Kamm & Eleanore MacDonald From The Fire
Rich LaPierre Alive At (Almost) 45
Ronnie King Free Of Guilt
Sarah Harmer Oh Little Fire
Special Consensus 35
Stephanie Bettman and Luke Halpin It All Comes Back to Love
Steve Kahn Lookout
Tin Bird Choir Barn Rock
Tony Lucca Rendezvous With the Angels
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New Adds, Festival Radio, June 4, 2010

New adds to Festival Radio since April 9, 2010. Sorry it’s been so long. Been back at work full time. I’ll come back and do another post with videos some time soon.


Artist Album
Adler & Hearne To The Heart
Ana Egge Lazy Days
Andrew Queen Too Tall
Andyblue Key To the Highway
Chapman The Amplification of Mr. Ballad
Connor Garvey Constancy of Stars
Craig Werth The Spokes Man
Dana Edelman Blue Roses
Darrell Scott A Crooked Road
Fred Gillen Jr. Match Against a New Moon
Gordie Tentrees Mercy or Sin
Hand Picked Bluegrass Sweet Virginia
James May A Thousand Shining Pieces
Jeni & Billy Longing for Heaven
Jenny Whiteley Forgive or Forget
Jill King Rain on Fire
Kajsa Vala Your Train
Kathy Boyd and Phoenix Rising Walk Humbly
Kenny White Comfort in the Static
Mad Maggies Flashbacks
Maria Dunn The Peddler
Mary Chapin Carpenter The Age Of Miracles
Michael Johnathan Ravenwood
Mumford & Sons Sigh No More
Natalie Merchant Leave Your Sleep
Neptune’s Car Strawberry Moon
Peter Ostroushko Coming Down From Red Lodge
Pieta Brown One and All
Robert Poe Robert Poe
Robert Rolfe Feddersen Milkman
Ruth Moody The Garden
Second Wind Bandits A Gift of Love
Shelley Miller When It’s All Gone, You Come Back
Si Kahn Courage
Steve Meckfessel Under Beautiful Skies
Storyhill Shade of the Trees
Stu Weaver Seconds
The Grascals The Famous Lefty Flynn’s
Tim O’Brien String Nation
Tom Fisch October Boy
Tom Granata Left Foot Lightfoot
Trampled by Turtles Palomino
Two Worlds One Still The Moon
Various Artists East Nashville Volume 3: Music From the Other Side
Various Artists The Complete Songs Of Robert Tannahill Volume II
Various Artists String Nation
Wes Weddell By the Side of the Lake
Will Branch Fog of War
Will Kimbrough Wings
Willie Nelson country music
Zeptepi The Ballad of John Green
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Festival Radio Top 33, April 2010

Top tracks as voted by listeners to Festival Radio.  Why 33?  Why not?

Artist – Track – Album

  1. Martin Simpson – Greystones – True Stories
  2. Chris Stuart – Springhill Mine - Angels of Mineral Springs
  3. Shayna Zaid & The Catch – Bonita - Shayna Zaid & the Catch
  4. Lynn Marie and the Boxhounds – Rainy day Waltz – Party Dress
  5. Sarah McQuaid – West Virginia Boys – I Won’t Go Home ’til Morning
  6. Kasey Chambers – Pony – Wayward Angel
  7. Jon Shain – Yadkin River Blues – Times Right Now
  8. Maria Dunn – Katie Comes a-Callin’ – The Peddler
  9. Gillian Welch – Acony Bell – Revival
  10. Iain Campbell Smith – Maryanne – Ballads and Barsongs
  11. Traveling Wilburys – Handle With Care – Vol 1
  12. Guy Clark – Soldier’s Joy 1864 – The Dark
  13. Chris Vallillo – Darling Nellie Gray – Abraham Lincoln in Song
  14. Samuel James – the waters always changing but the river… – for rosa,maeve, and noreen
  15. The Elders – Moore St. Girls – American Wake
  16. Dry Branch Fire Squad – Miner’s Refrain – Live at the Newburyport Firehouse
  17. Catherine MacLellan – Everything’ll be alright – Water in the Ground
  18. Carolyn Currie – Hot For a House – Waves Of Silence
  19. Wild Carrot and the Roots Band – What Have You Done to Lift Somebody Up – Crowd Around the Mic
  20. Truckstop Souvenir – Stardust Motel – Under a Big Blue Sky
  21. Jill King – Beautiful World – Rain on Fire
  22. Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer – Tillman Co. – Drum Hat Buddha
  23. Smithfield Fair – The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond – Scotland, Fair Scotland
  24. Mavis Staples – Down In Mississippi – We’ll Never Turn Back
  25. Dave Bordewey and Dave Young – Last Train and Ride – A New Day
  26. Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards – Ranger’s Command – 32 cents Postage Due
  27. The Wayfaring Strangers – When You Go Walking After Midnight – This Train
  28. Trillium – Staten Island/Red-Haired Boy/Liberty – Crossing the Stream
  29. The Mad Maggies – Il y a Un Bal - Skull and Magpies
  30. Christine Lavin – What Was I Thinking (1993-2007) – I Don’t Make This Stuff Up, I Just Make it Rhyme
  31. The Brombies – Midnight Blues – Live! at the Spitting Llamas Bluegrass Bar
  32. Tim O’Brien – Subterranean Homesick Blues – Red On Blonde
  33. Salamander Crossing – Fire in the Sky - Salamander Crossing
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