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Current Top 39 Songs on the Online Folk Christmas based on listener ratings of the last 30 days:

Artist - "Song" - Album
1. The Original Five Blind Boys - "White Christmas" - It's A Gospel Christmas
2. Steve Bell - "Magnificat (Holy is His Name)" - The Feast
3. The Blind Boys of Alabama - "In The Bleak Midwinter" (featuring Chrissie Hynde with Richard Thompson) - Go Tell It On The Mountain
4. The Irish Tenors - "O Holy Night" - Home For Christmas
5. Skaggs Family - "Go Thee Down" - A Skaggs Family Christmas
6. Linda Ronstadt - "Xicochi, Xicochi"- Merry Little Christmas
7. Emmylou Harris - "Beutiful Star of Bethlehem" - Light of the Stable
8. Over the Rhine - "Greensleeves" - The Darkest Night of the Year
9. Caedmon's Call - "Babe In The Straw" - It's Christmas Time
10. The McKrells - "Angels We Have Heard on High" - Merry Christmas
11. Skaggs Family - "The Christmas Guest" - A Skaggs Family Christmas
12. Flaco Jimenez with Freddy Fender - "Frosty The Snowman" - A Tejano Country Christmas
13. Emmylou Harris - "Christmas Times a Coming" - Light of the Stable
14. Skaggs Family - "Deck the Halls" - A Skaggs Family Christmas
15. Sheila Walsh - "Light Of The World" - Peace - A Celtic Christmas
16. Ruben Romero And Robert Notkoff - "Jingle Bell Rhumba" - Christmas In Santa Fe
17. Stephen Murray & Jenny Gullen - "o holy night" - Noel
18. Harry Connick, Jr. - "Winter Wonderland" - Acoustic Christmas
19. Skaggs Family - "Hangin' Round the Mistletoe" - A Skaggs Family Christmas
20. Asylum Street Spankers - "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" - Christmas Spanking
21. Sheila Walsh - "Gloria" - Peace - A Celtic Christmas
22. Shawn Colvin - "Little Road to Bethlehem" - Holiday Songs and Lullabies
23. Sam Bush - "Sleigh Ride" - Tinsel Tunes : more holiday treats from Sugar Hill
24. Mannheim Steamroller - "Stille Nacht (Franz Gruber 1818) - Christmas
25. Riki Michelle, Jerry Chamberlain, Sharon McCall - "o come, O Come, emmanuel" - Noel
26. October Project - "Silent Night" - Silent Night
27. Steve Bell - "Come Thou Long Expected Jesus" - The Feast
28. Kathy Mattea - "Brightest and Best" - Good News
29. Patty Loveless - "Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem" - Bluegrass & White Snow
30. Beausoleil - "Christmas Bayou" - Alligator Stomp, Volume 4: Cajun Christmas
31. Hazel Dickens and Dudley Connell - "Blue Christmas" - Creme de la Creme: A Holiday Feast
32. Emmylou Harris - "Light of the Stable" - Light of the Stable
33. Carol Noonan - "I Wonder as I Wander" - Carol Noonan Christmas
34. Mannheim Steamroller - "Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella"- Christmas
35. John Fahey - Good Christian Men Rejoice - Christmas Guitar
36. Harvey Reid and Joyce Anderson - Merry Christmas Baby - Christmas Morning
37. Christine Lavin and the Mistletones - The All Purpose Carol - The Runaway Christmas Tree: favorite holiday songs and bedtime stories
38. Emmylou Harris - The First Noel - Light of the Stable
39. Kelly Joe Phelps - It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Hear the Angels Sing: Holiday Greetings from Rykodisk

Labels: Online Folk Christmas, Top 40

This list of weblogs was posted by Back Porch News - you might them interesting:

http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2006/10/big-list-of-folk-music-weblogs/

Labels: Folk News

Recent Adds to the Online Folk Festival:

Ana Moura - Aconteceu
Bob Baxter - Lucky Me
Donal Clancy - Close to Home
Kelly McRae - Never Be
Kenny White - Never Like This
Lynne Hanson - Things I Miss
Patrick Fitzsimmons - Live: The Birthday Shows
Roy Zimmerman - Faulty Intelligence
Shawn Colvin - These Four Walls
Teada - Inne Amarach

Labels: New Adds

It's the number after one: the number that one does not count unless proceeding directly to three. It's also the number of trick or treaters at the Online Folk Festival world headquarters last night. It was our first Halloween in our new condominium, and I figured that lots of kids would come through the community - we're reasonably close to a single-family neighborhood, and an enterprising trick or treater could hit the entire community in a relatively short period of time without doing much walking. I'd lived in an apartment with an interior corridor and locked doors for the last ten years, so I haven't given out any candy in a long time.

We went out the night before to Marc's and got three bags of suckers. We stopped at my wife's parents' home because the Trick or Treat bowl with the hand sticking up through it was still there. We slogged through ridiculous traffic, got home later than we wanted and bolted some pizza to be ready in time. And then -- a whole lot of nothing but leftover Halloween candy. Next year, one bag of suckers will probably be enough. Especially since I'm diabetic.

Why a top 36? Because listeners at the Online Folk Festival only rated 36 songs in the last month. Local Celtic band Knot Fibb'n comes in with the top slot - another #1 rating for a Central Ohio team. Recent releases are highlighted in red - it's been a slow month for new releases at the top of the charts - most of these tunes are from albums which have been out awhile.

Artist - "Song" - Album

1. Knot Fibb'n - "The Catholic Boy/Fiddler's Green" - Knot Loitering
2. Ernie Hawkins - "Singin' the Blues" - Rags & Bones
3. Greg Greenway - "I Love Everybody" - Weightless
4. Gillian Welch - "Wayside/Back In Time" - Soul Journey
5. Chuck Brodsky - "Death Row All-Stars" - Tulips For Lunch
6. Jules Shear - "Dreams Don't Count" - Dreams Don't Count
7. Old Crow Medicine Show - "Down Home Girl" - Big Iron World
8. James Durst - "Song From Slovenia" - Internationally Unknown
9. Grace Griffith - "Summertime" - Grace
10. Natalie MacMaster - "The Drunken Piper" - No Boundaries
11. James Keelaghan - "Somewhere Ahead" - Then Again 8
12. Dale Nikkel - "Everybody Knows How to Pet a Dog" - Passages
13. Kate Campbell with Spooner Oldham - "Jesus Christ" - For the Living of These Days
14. John Prine and Fiona Prine with Dermot Byrne - "'Til a Tear Becomes a Rose" - Hands Across the Water: A Benefit For the Children of the Tsunami
15. The Carter Family - "Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow" - Anchored in Love: Their Complete Victor Recordings 1927-1928
16. Lisa Richards - "Bloom" - Mad Mad Love
17. Chuck Brodsky - "Dangerous Times" - Color Came One Day
18. Christine Lavin - "Mysterious Woman" - Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind
19. Chris and Siobhan Nelson - "The Bold Dragoon" - Day Has Dawned
20. Sandy Denny - "I'm A Dreamer" - No More Sad Refrains: The Anthology
21. Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul - "Parting of Friends: Air" - Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul
22. Amos Lee - "Freedom" - Supply and Demand
23. Tom Rush - "Urge for Going" - Live at Symphony Hall, Boston
24. Red Molly - "Caleb Meyer" - Never Been to Vegas (Live)
25. Pierce Pettis - "Moontown" - State of Grace
26. Boiled in Lead - "The Town of Ballybay" - Orb
27. Steve Forbert - "Train Whistle Blues" - Any Old Time: Songs of Jimmie Rodgers
28. Brett Dennen - "I Asked When" - So Much More
29. Chris de Burgh - "Last Night" - Live in Dortmund
30. Leadbelly - "Goodnight Irene" - Genius of Folk
31. Tom Russell - "Gallo del Cielo" - The Long Way Around
32. Malcolm Holcombe - "Your Eyes Will Shine" - Not Forgotten
33. Bruce Hornsby & The Range - "The Way It Is" - The Way It Is
34. Bobby Bridger - "Heal in the Wisdom" - Heal In The Wisdom
35. James Bryan - "Chicken in the Snowbank" - Come to the Mountain: Old-Time Music For Modern Times
36. Bob Dylan - "Workingman's Blues #2" - Modern Times

Labels: Online Folk Festival, Top 40