New Adds, February 17, 2007

New Adds to the Online Folk Festival, February 17, 2007

  • Patty Griffin – Children Running Through
  • Matthew Temple – The Journey
  • Darcy Lynne Ward – What Else is New
  • Mare Wakefield – Take Me Home
  • Anais Mitchell - The Brightness
  • David Bromberg - Try Me One More Time

New Adds, February 5, 2007

Songs from the following albums have been added to the Online Folk Festival:

  • Eddi Reader – Peacetime
  • Po’ Girl – Home To You
  • Nathan – Key Principles
  • John Parkes – Faithlessnessless
  • Switchback – Falling Water River
  • Fred Gillen – Gone Gone Gone
  • Various Artists – Azalea Sampler 2
  • Bruce Piephoff – Sogni D’Oro
  • Various Artists – The Complete Songs of Robert Tannehill, Volume 1
  • Check E. Costa – Where the Songs Come From
  • Jim Bruno – Alright Alright
  • Heather Greene – Five Dollar Dress

I’m making a conscious effort to clear out the piles of CDs sitting in my office at work, some of which have been here for quite some time buried under other CDs. The John Parkes, Switchback and Songs of Robert Tannehill CDs are CDs that have been buried in my office for awhile but are now seeing the light of day.

Top 41, Online Folk Festival, January 2007

Top 41 Tracks for Janaury 2007, as determined by the listeners of the Online Folk Festival:

Position – Artist – Track – Album

1. Davy Cowan – Moving On – Fragile People
2. Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh – Seoithin Seotho – daybreak: fainne an lae
3. Bruce Cockburn – This Is Baghdad – Life Short Call Now
4. Mary Fahl – In the Great Unknown – The Other Side of Time
5. Christine Lavin – Chicken Soup – FolkZinger
6. Tracy Grammer – Preston Miller – Flower of Avalon
7. The Be Good Tanyas – What Are They Doing in Heaven Today – Hello Love
8. Enter the Haggis – Down With the Ships – Live From Studio A Volume 10 (WCBE-FM)
9. Dervish – Boots of Spanish Leather – Spirit
10. Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer – Old Friends Live On Stage
11. David Mallett – Somewhere in Time – Midnight on the Water (Live)
12. Clive Batkin and Joel McDermott – Dolly Got Out the Catflap/The Humours of Glanedart – G-Force Trousers
13. Ruthie Foster – Hole in My Pocket – Runaway Soul
14. Kim Harris & Reggie – Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep – Get on Board! Underground Railroad & Civil Rights Freedom Songs, Vol. 2
15. Kate Rusby – Jolly Plough Boys – Hourglass
16. Amy White and Al Petteway – If I Were a Blackbird – Golden Wing
17. The Innocence Mission – What A Wonderful World – Now The Day Is Over
18. Solas – Nil Na La – Reunion: A Decade of Solas
19. Nickel Creek – Sabra Girl – This Side
20. Eddi Reader – My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose – Live at Newcastle UK 24.05.03
21. Luka Bloom – The Shape Of Love To Come – Salty Heaven
22. Junction Pool – The Big Wellie Set – Junction Pool
23. Darryl Purpose – Victory in the Struggle – Right Side of Zero
24. Danny Carthy – Just You And Me – Stand Look Around You
25. The American Wake – Greenland Whale Fisheries – Tell No Tales
26. Liz Carroll & John Doyle – Fremont Center, The “Vornado”, Minutemen (reels) – In Play
27. Garnet Rogers – Small Victory – All That Is
28. Emmylou Harris – Prayer In Open D – Spyboy
29. Mason Jennings – Lemon Grove Avenue – Use Your Voice
30. The Jayhawks – Save It For A Rainy Day – Rainy Day Music
31. Fiamma Fumanda – Angiolina – Onda
32. Tiller’s Folly – The Ghost of Kitty O’Reilly – A Ripple In Time
33. Smithfield Fair – Walking Through This World – Walking Through This World
34. Loreena McKennitt – Kecharitomene – An Ancient Muse
35. Kasey Chambers – Nothing At All – Carnival
36. Joni Mitchell – Chelsea Morning – Hits
37. Rodrigo Y Gabriela – Diablo Rojo – Rodrigo Y Gabriela
38. Rick Lee – The Merry Golden Tree – Look What Thoughts Will Do
39. Carrie Newcomer – Alice and Roy – Regulars and Refugees
40. The Byrds – My Back Pages – Greatest Hits
40. Cheryl Wheeler – On the Plane – Defying Gravity

Don’t forget that, when you listen to the Online Folk Festival using the Live365 player, you can vote on the Top 40 by giving tracks a thumbs up or a thumbs down.

New Adds – January 26, 2007

More new adds for the Online Folk Festival:

  • Joe Mannix – A Town By The Sea
  • Erik Balkey – My Sacred Heart
  • Hope Machine – March
  • The Mad Maggies – Magdalena’s Revenge

More New Adds – January 21, 2007

Added tracks from 3 new albums to the Online Folk Festival over the weekend:

  • The Possum Trot Orchestra – Harbor Road
  • Junction Pool – Junction Pool
  • The Wyrd Sisters – Wholly

I’m really making an effort to get through the black hole that has become my backlog of CDs to listen to.

I’m really impressed with the Junction Pool CD. They bill themselves as Celtic Big Band, and they add some really nice jazz touches to traditional Celtic music, including a horn section and some very cool jazz chord progressions that one would not typically find in traditional music. For those that like music that fuses elements of different genres and traditions, this is a group worth checking out and following – this is their debut CD.

More New Adds + FOLKDJ-L Top 250 Albums

The FOLKDJ-L Top 250 Albums of 2006 by airplay have been released and posted to the list (although they have not yet been posted to the website).

  • Of the Top 10 albums, had you been listening to the Online Folk Festival, you would have heard 9 (90%).
  • Of the Top 50 albums, you would have heard 33 (66.0%)
  • Of the Top 102 albums (3-way tie at 99), you would have heard 64 (62.7%)
  • Of the Top 125 albums, you would have heard 78 (62.4%).
  • Of the Top 250 albums, you would have heard 128 (51.2%)

Some more new adds:
Artist – Album

  • Rodrigo y Gabriela – Rodrigo y Gabriela
  • Wes Weddell – Songs To Get You From Here to There
  • Adam Snyder – This Town Will Get Its Due
  • Kelly and David – As the Twilight Auguries
  • Johnny Cash – Live in Austin, TX
  • John Starling and Carolina Star – Slidin’ Home
  • Cadillac Sky – Blind Man Walking
  • Bert Jansch – The Black Swan

New Adds, January 11, 2007

Tracks from the following CDs were added to the Online Folk Festival last night:

Artist – Album

  • The Carter Family – The Carter Family
  • Robert Bobby – Today
  • Felonious Bosch – New Dark Ages
  • Dan Gonzalez – Public Square

More New Adds – January 10, 2007

Still working through the backlog of holiday mail. Plus, I’ve resubscribed to emusic.com. Anyway, here are some of the newest adds to the Online Folk Festival:

Artist – Album

Eamonn Coyne and Kris Drever – Honk Toot Suite
Joan Osborne – Pretty Little Stranger
Various Artists – Live From Studio A Volume 10 (WCBE-FM, Columbus Ohio)
Dave Rowe Trio – The Good Life
Kim and Reggie Harris – Get On Board: Underground Railroad and Civil Rights Freedom Songs Volume 2
The Wailin’ Jennys – Firecracker
Greg Trooper – The BackShop Live
Clive Batkin and Joel McDermott: G-Force Trousers

Top 40, Online Folk Festival, Month ending January 4

Top 40 of the last 30 days on the Online Folk Festival, as rated by the listeners:

Artist – Song – Album

1. The Love Hall Tryst – Jack in the Green – Songs of Misfortune
2. The Schramms – Duck Hunting in Hell – Little Apocalypse
3. Southern Rail – Caroline’s in Carolina – Cool Tattoo
4. Salamander Crossing – Color Outside the Lines – Passion Train
5. Smithfield Fair – Walking Through This World – Walking Through This World
6. Richard Shindell – Transit – Courier
7. Tim Harrison – Train Going East – Tim Harrison
8. Rig the Jig – Kathleen Hehir’s-Stick on the Hob – Passing Through
9. Tracy Grammer – Hey Ho – Flower of Avalon
10. The Waifs – Gillian – A Brief History Disc
11. Joni Mitchell – River – Hits
12. Red Molly – Oh My Sweet Carolina – Never Been To Vegas – Live
13. Old Blind Dogs – The Wisest Fool – Gab O Mey
14. Tom Paxton – I Can’t Help But Wonder – Live In The UK
15. Ricky Skaggs & Friends – Blue Moon of Kentucky with John Fogerty – Big Mon: The Songs Of Bill Monroe
16. Tom Rush – Urge for Going – Live at Symphony Hall, Boston
17. Ralph McTell – Streets of London – From Clare to Here: The Songs of Ralph McTell
18. Mason Jennings – Lemon Grove Avenue – Use Your Voice
19. The Kennedys – Gypsy Rose – Songs of the Open Road
20. 5 Chinese Brothers – If I Ain’t Falling – Singer Songwriter Beggarman Thief
21. Cheryl Wheeler – On the Plane – Defying Gravity
22. Blind Boys of Alabama – Many Rivers to Cross – Higher Ground
23. David Stoddard – My Town – Hesselville
24. Bill Mallonee – Stain Glass Soul – Friendly Fire
25. Liz Carroll & John Doyle – Fremont Center, The “Vornado”, Minutemen (reels) – In Play
26. Flogging Molly – Factory Girls (feat. Lucinda Williams) – Within A Mile Of Home
27. Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul – Paddy in Zululand – Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul
28. Chris de Burgh – Last Night – Live in Dortmund
29. The Kennedys – Namaste – Half A Million Miles
30. Jed Marum – The Locket – Miles From Home
31. Linda Thompson – No Telling – Fashionably Late
32. Robin Flower and Libby McLaren – Sue’s Delight/Patsy’s Pitchers/Steelhead in the Riffles – Steelhead in the Riffles
33. Oysterband – The Oxford Girl – From Little Rock to Leipzig
34. Chris and Siobhan Nelson – The Bold Dragoon – Day Has Dawned
35. Amy White and Al Petteway – If I Were a Blackbird – Golden Wing
36. Tracy Grammer – Preston Miller – Flower of Avalon
37. Solas – Nil Na La – Reunion: A Decade of Solas
38. John Renbourn – Willy o’Winsbury – The transaltlantic anthology
39. Jeff Talmadge – A Soldier’s Christmas – Blissville
40. Cathie Ryan – What Will You Do, Love? Duet with Sean Keane – The Farthest Wave

Sorting through the Holiday Mail

Still sorting through the holiday mail and purchases after being in Florida for a week, so if you sent me something to preview, it may be a little while yet.

I added tracks today from a few CDs received or bought over the holiday period:

  • Lynn Miles – Love Sweet Love
  • Yusuf – An Other Cup
  • JJ Cale and Eric Clapton - The Road to Escondido
  • Loreena McKennitt – An Ancient Muse

I also received the new Byrds box set for Christmas, so you’ll be hearing some tracks from that soon, as well as the new Joan Osborne and some Celtic music from Éamonn Coyne & Kris Drever. I imagine that I’ll start receiving a flurry of Celtic music in the mail over the next few weeks, as a lot of Celtic bands release in the beginning of the year in time for St. Pat’s. I also received the new 3-CD Live from Studio A Volume 10 set from WCBE, and you’ll be hearing new live tracks from The Kennedys, Chris Smither, and some other great artists. I also lucked into a 2-CD Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver retrospective CD for $3.99 while in Florida, so you’ll be hearing some tracks from that one soon, too.

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