Online Folk Festival

Top 40 of the last 30 days, May 15, 2006

Top 40 Tracks of the Last 30 Days on the Online Folk Festival, as voted by the listeners.

Artist – “Track” – Album

1. Bruce Cockburn – “King Kong Comes to Tallahassee” – Speechless
2. Bill Jones – “The Two Brothers” – Two Year Winter
3. Zoe Mulford – “The American Wake” – Roadside Saints
4. Richard Shindell – “Fishing” – Courier
5. Bert Jansch – “Rambleway” – Dazzling Stranger
6. Van Morrison – “The Beauty of the Days Gone By” – Down the Road
7. Thea Gilmore – “Brother Can You Spare A Dime?” – Loft Music
8. Anne Hills – “I Come and Stand at Every Door” – Where Have All the Flowers Gone
9. Pierce Pettis – “Alabama 1959″ – Great Big World
10. Peasall Sisters – “Fair and Tender Ladies” – Home to You
11. Hannah Blaylock & Edens Edge – “California” – Lights of Home
12. Emmylou Harris – “Cup of Kindness” – stumble into grace
13. Lynn Miles – “Unravel” – Unravel
14. Blind Boys Of Alabama – “Talk About Suffering” – Atom Bomb
15. The Mad Maggies – “Luna Marie” – Oasis World Sampler
16. Al Stewart – “The Immelman Turn” – A Beach Full Of Shells
17. Mark Heard – “We Have Let Freedom Ring” – Hammers & Nails
18. Emmylou Harris – “Plaisir d’Amour” – stumble into grace
19. Buddy Miller – “100 Million Little Bombs” – Poison Love
20. Old Crow Medicine Show – “Wagon Wheel” – O.C.M.S.
21. Railroad Earth – “The Hunting Song” – Elko
22. Bob Dylan – “Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (Alternate Take)” – No Direction Home (Bootleg Series Vol 7)
23. Levellers – “Wake the World” – Green Blade Rising
24. Kate Rusby – “The Unquiet Grave” – Sleepless
25. Johnny Cash – “Streets Of Laredo” – American IV: The Man Comes Around
26. Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham – “The Jig Runrig, The Swedish Jig” – The Best of Aly & Phil 27. Tracy Grammer – “Hey Ho” – Flower of Avalon
28. Toni Price – “Cats and Dogs – Sol Power
29. Lucy Kaplansky – “Land of the Living” – These Times We’re Living In
30. Uncle Earl – “Take These Chains” – She Waits For Night
31. Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum – “Quiet Hills” – Guest House
32. Victoria Parks – “Ballad of Uncle Davey” – Wild English Rose
33. The Pentangle – “Sally Go Round The Roses” – Basket of Light
34. Solas – “Lament For Frankie” – Solas
35. Peter Mulvey – “Brady Street Stroll” – The Knuckleball Suite
36. Michael Johnathon and the Folkboy Orchestra – “Wings of Change” – Live!
37. Ladysmith Black Mambazo – “Hello My Baby – 2000″ – Live at Montreux, 1987, 1989, 2000
38. Jerry Douglas – “From Ankara to Izmir” – Skip, Hop & Wobble
39. Lost Dogs – “Up In The Morning” – The Green Room Serenade, Part One
40. Karen Mal – “I Courted A Sailor” – Dark-Eyed Sailor

Top Ten of the Last 30 Days

Top Ten tracks as voted by the listeners of the Online Folk Festival

Artist – “Song” – Album
1. Dave Sharp – “It Ain’t Long for the Day” – Hard Travellin
2. Hannah Blaylock & Edens Edge – “California” – Lights of Home
3. Mark Heard – “We Have Let Freedom Ring” – Hammers & Nails
4. Cathie Ryan – “Oro Mo Bhaidin” – Cathie Ryan
5. Jerry Douglas – “From Ankara to Izmir” – Skip, Hop & Wobble
6. Greg Brown – “Downtown” – If I Had Known
7. Lynn Miles – “Unravel” – Unravel
8. Toni Price – “Cats and Dogs” – Sol Power
9. The Pentangle – “Sally Go Round The Roses” – Basket of Light
10 (tie). Silly Wizard – “The Queen of Argyll” – The Best Of Silly Wizard
10 (tie). Friction Farm – “Whole Heart Broken” – Believe
10 (tie). Dolly Parton – Travelin’ Thru – TransAmerica Soundtrack
10 (tie). Cheryl Wheeler – Alice – Defying Gravity

How can you participate in determining the top tracks? Listen to the Online Folk Festival with any of the Live365 players and click thumbs up or thumbs down on the tunes you like and don’t like. It’s that simple – Live365 tallies all the votes.

Top Ten Tracks

One of the cool features of the Online Folk Festival is that listeners have the ability to rate their favorite tracks. Based entirely on listener feedback, here are the current Top Ten tracks, as rated by Online Folk Festival listeners over the last 30 days:

Artist – “Song” – Album
1. Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg & Edgar Meyer – “From Ankara to Izmir” – Skip, Hop & Wobble
2. Magnolia Sisters – “Dedans le Sude de la Louisiane” – Chers Amis
3. Friction Farm – “Whole Heart Broken” – Believe
4. Fairground Attraction – “Don’t Be A Stranger” – KAWASAKI Live In Japan
5. Dolly Parton – “Travelin’ Thru” – TransAmerica Soundtrack
6. Joel Rafael Band – “Your Sandal Strings” – Woodyboye: Songs of Woody Guthrie (And Tales Worth Telling) Volume II
7. Jan Krist – “Decapitated Society” – Decapitated Society
8. Railroad Earth – “Elko” – Elko
9. KT Tunstall – “Black Horse and The Cherry Tree” – Eye To The Telescope
10. Kieran Kane and Kevin Welch – “Jersey Devil” – You Can’t Save Everybody

Help select the next Top Ten by rating songs you like and don’t like using the Live365 players when you listen to the Online Folk Festival.

Recent Adds 3/29/2006

Following are my most recent adds to the Online Folk Festival. I hope I’ll be back to review some of them.

Artist: Album

Birdie Busch: The Ways We Try
Breadfoot (featuring Anna Phoebe) : Tea With Leo
Brooks Williams: Blues and Ballads
Dale Nikkel: Passages
Danielle Howle: Thank You Mark
Dave Crossland: Pearl
Diana Jones: My Remembrance of You
Johnsmith: break me open
Kat Eggleston: First Warm Wind
Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Live at Montreux, 1987, 1989, 2000
Lui Collins: Closer
Mick Maloney: McNally’s Row of Flats
Mission Street Project: Liberty Tree: Songs From the American Kitchen Table, Volume 1
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh: daybreak: fainne an lae
Peter Mulvey: The Knuckleball Suite
Peter Verity: Sometimes a Journey
Russ Rentler: Scarecrow’s Lament
The Queensberry Rules: The Black Dog and Other Stories
The Weepies: Say I Am You
The Yellow Room Gang: Volume 1

A Worldwide Folk Phenomenon

Just thought it was worthwhile once again to share some statistics that indicate that the Online Folk Festival is a worldwide phenomenon. According to statistics provided to me by Live365.com, in the last 30 days the station had listenership of at least one hour from the following countries:

United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Australia
Germany
Spain
France
Korea, Republic of
Netherlands
Italy
Ireland
Japan
Brazil
Venezuela
Poland
Hungary
Czech Republic
Switzerland
Norway
Russia
Israel
Finland
Turkey
Congo, Democratic People’s Republic
Mexico
Bulgaria
Singapore
China, People’s Republic of
Belgium

I hope I am not alone in finding this pretty darn cool. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Celtapalooza 2006 Smashes Listenership Records!

We are back to regular folk mix programming, and as I continue to switch out the Celtic music, I thought that a thank you was in order to all who listened on St. Patrick’s Day. The Online Folk Festival set a single-day listener hour record of 1007, with a simultaneous listener record of 115. So, hey, thanks for listening.

I will also be adding new music over the next few days from Brooks Williams, Peter Mulvey, Diana Jones, and The Mission Street Project, so stay tuned.

Celtapalooza 2006!

The annual Online Folk Festival St. Patrick’s salute to Celtic music has begun. Nonstop traditional, Celtic rock, Celtic punk, TechnoCeltic all week through Sunday 3/19/06. It’s a regular Celtapalooza!

Stop by and hoist a few!

Myspace Group and New URL

I got an offer in my email at work today to good to refuse, so I’ve registered a separate URL for the Folk Blog: http://www.folk-blog.com. How easy is that! It may take awhile to propagate through the web to your domain name server of choice, but, trust me, it will. If you like the old standbys (http://www.onlinefolkfestival.com/folkblog/) and http://folkblog.onlinefolkfestival.com – well don’t worry, because they still work, too. So many web addresses, so little time!

I’ve also created a group on Myspace for Online Folk Festival listeners. Some of the artists I play have already joined. I hope this can become a useful community for folk music announcements and discussion. This group is at http://groups.myspace.com/onlinefolkfestival

Hem, The Cottars and More

Time for some more new adds:

Joyce Andersen: Love and Thirst
Anonymous 4: Gloryland (pre-release sampler)
Austin and Elliott: 13 Songs Plus
Marc Douglas Berardo: Harbor
Laura Cortese: Even the Lost Creek
The Cottars: Forerunner
Mark Dvorak: Every Step of the Way
Flook: Haven
Brianna Lane: Radiator
Lunasa: SÃ©
Hem: No Word From Tom
Michael McGoldrick: Wired
Susan McKeown: Blackthron: Irish Love Songs
Sharon Shannon: The Sharon Shannon Collection 1990-2005
John Stewart: The Day the River Sang
Jeff Talmadge: Blissville
Various Artists: These Times We’re Living In – A Red House Anthology
Various Artists: TransAmerica Sountrack
John Williams and Dean Magraw: Raven