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Top 35 tracks as rated by listeners of Festival Radio for January 2010.  Why 35?  Why not?

Artist – Track – Album

1. Nanci Griffith – You Were On My Mind – Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful)
2. Trillium – Schule Agra (Johnny’s Gone For a Soldier) – Crossing the Stream
3. Peggy Seeger – Gonna Be An Engineer – Three Score and Ten
4. Trillium – Jenny Lind Polka/Swedish Polka – Crossing the Stream
5. The Mad Maggies – Luna Marie – Crazed and Enthused
6. Leo Kottke – Morning Is The Long Way Home – One Guitar, No Vocals
7. The Greencards – Lonesome Side Of Town – Viridian
8. Steve Martin – Calico Train – The Crow – New Songs For The Five String Banjo
9. Richard Shindell – State of the Union – Not Far Now
10. We’re About 9 – Maryland, 1987 – Paperdust :: Stardust
11. Mustard’s Retreat – Hard Times Come Again No More – Back to Back
12. Susan Werner – Misery and Happiness – New Non-fiction
13. Suzie Brown – Over & Done – Side Streets
14. Sonia and Disappear Fear – Tango – Tango
15. Kate Campbell – Trains Don’t Run From Nashville – Songs from the Levee
16. Toni Price – #1 – Sol Power
17. Susan McKeown and Lorin Sklamberg – Enniscorthy Fair – Saints and Tzadiks
18. Kathleen Edwards – Copied Keys – Back To Me
19. Rosanne Cash – Tennessee Flat Top Box – Hits 1979-1989
20. Brad Colerick – Leave It All Behind – When I’m Gone
21. Sloan Wainwright – Every Grain Of Sand – Rediscovery
22. Mick McAuley and Winifred Horan – The Cafe Milou Jigs – Serenade
23. Josh Ritter – You Don’t Make it Easy Babe – Hello Starling
24. Johnsmith – The Times They are A-Changin – Gravity of Grace
25. Ben Bedford – The Cherry Mine – Land of the Shadows
26. Jessica Fichot – Le Grenier – Accordion Babes 2010
27. 10,000 Maniacs – Stockton Gala Days – Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure & Unknown Recordings (Disc 1 – The Most Popular Recordings)
28. Kim and Reggie Harris – Done Wit’ Driver’s Dribbin’ – Get on Board: Underground Railroad and Civil Rights Freedom Songs Volume 2
29. Julie Miller – All my Tears – Broken Things
30. Jake Shimabukuro – While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Best of Woodsongs Volume Three
31. Silly Sisters (Maddy Prior and June Tabor) – Rosie Anderson – No More to the Dance
32. Bob Dylan – Most Of The Time (alternate version, Oh Mercy) – Tell Tale Signs
33. Alison Krauss & Union Station – The Lucky One – Live
34. Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band – Eyes On The Prize – Live In Dublin
35. Battlefield Band – Three Brothers – Zama Zama …try your luck…

Keep listening and rating the songs, crimestoppers.  If you use the Live365 player, use the thumbs up and thumbs down buttons to make your votes.  Songs people like really do stay in the playlist for longer, so your vote counts.  Vote early and often.

Top 40 Tracks as rated by listeners to Festival Radio for November 2009:

Artist – Track – Album

1. Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Blue Moon Waltz – After Awhile
2. Julie Miller – All my Tears – Broken Things
3. Norman & Nancy Blake – Happy Little Home In Arkansas – Back Home In Sulphur Springs
4. Kris Drever – Braw Sailin’ On the Sea – Black Water
5. David Bromberg – Wee Midnight Hour Blues - Live New York City 1982
6. Pamela Ward and Paul Cherrington – Sail On By – Sail on By
7. The Notting Hillbillies – Railroad Worksong – Missing… presumed having a good time
8. Leadbelly – Goodnight Irene – Genius of Folk
9. Buffy Sainte-Marie – To the Ends of the World – Running For The Drum
10. Peter, Paul And Mary – Leaving On A Jet Plane – The Very Best Of Peter, Paul And Mary
11. Peter Case – Blue Distance – Who’s Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile?
12. Arlo Guthrie – If You Would Just Drop By - Tales of ‘69
13. Molly’s Revenge – The Long Drive – The Western Shore
14. Mark Stepakoff – Little Black Dress – Some Assembly Required
15. Jon Brooks – The Crying of The Times – Moth Nor Rust
16. Buskin & Batteau – Red Shoes and Golden Hearts – Red Shoes and Golden Hearts
17. Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah – The Essential Leonard Cohen
18. The High Kings – The Rocky Road To Dublin – The High Kings
19. Mavis Staples – Waiting for My Child – Live: Hope at the Hideout
20. Maura O’Connell – There’s No Good Day For Dying – Don’t I Know
21. The Innocence Mission – Follow Me – Birds of My Neighborhood
22. The Foremen – Godzilla Has a Midlife Crisis – The Best of the Foremen
23. Woody Guthrie – Jesus Christ – Classic Protest Songs From Smithsonian Folkways
24. Tom Russell – The Eyes of Roberto Duran – The Long Way Around
25. Steve Goodman – The Dutchman – Anthology: No Big Surprise
26. Smithfield Fair – Radio - The Longing
27. Loudon Wainwright III – Daughter - Strange Weirdos
28. Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams – Everyone Has A Broken Heart – The Great Unravel
29. David Bromberg – Levee Camp Moan – Try Me One More Time
30. Woody Guthrie – This Land is Your Land (extra verse) – The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 – This Land is Your Land
31. The Waybacks – The River – Loaded
32. Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg – Heart’s Blood – Saints & Tzadiks
33. Paul Simon – Kodachrome – Concert In The Park
34. Nia Morgan – Silent Times - Nia Morgan
35. Michael Stanley Band – Falling In Love Again – Right Back at Ya (1971-1983)
36. Lara Herskovitch – Here Comes the Sun – Through a Frozen Midnight Sky
37. The Kennedys – Chimes of Freedom – Half A Million Miles
38. Josh Ritter – Leaving – Golden Age of Radio
39. Eddie From Ohio – Imagine Me – Portable EFO Show
40. 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.