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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

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

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