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Saturday January 9, 2010:
Top album plays of 2009 folk dj list
Folk Plus is a blend of contemporary and older singer songwriters with perhaps spoken word or Broadway tunes, or whatever may be relevant to the theme. The station's website and stream are online at WWW.WJFFRADIO.ORG
Angela thanks the staff of WJFF for making
it possioble for her to volunteer Saturday mornings by
accommodating her health issues and maintaining a
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TOP ALBUMS AND SONGS OF 2009
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L radio playlists
Based on 166046 airplays from 195 different international DJs. Some of
those Djs are included doing station IDs.
"River Song"
2: "Instead The Forest Rose To Sing," Danny Schmidt [Red House, 3/09] (370)
"Better Off Broke"
2: "River Of Time," Jorma Kaukonen [Red House, 2/09] (370)
"There's A Bright Side Somewhere"
4: "Land Of The Shadows," Ben Bedford [Hopeful Sky, 1/09] (334)
"Twenty One"
5: "The Crow," Steve Martin [Rounder, 1/09] (312)
"Daddy Played The Banjo" Release featuresTim O'Brien, Vince Gill, Earl Scruggs, Dolly Parton, Tony Trischka, Mary Black, and more, Steve has created what he calls "the most expensive banjo recording in the entire universe." His liner notes are, you guessed it, funny.
"Steamboat Captain"
7: "Pointing At The Sun," Cheryl Wheeler [Dias, 5/09] (301)
"Holding On"- not listed as top played cut, just what I played
Wanda Fischer or WAMC doing station ID
Gene Shay from Philadelphia doing station ID
8: "Song Up In Her Head," Sarah Jarosz [Sugar Hill, 6/09] (294)
"Come On Up To The House"
9: "Singing Through The Hard Times: A
Tribute To Utah Phillips,"
Various Artists [Righteous Babe, 2/09] (291)
"Green Rolling Hills Of West Virginia,"
Emmylou Harris And Mary Black
10: "Live At The Mauch Chunk Opera House," The Wailin' Jennys [Red
House, 8/09] (266)
"Deeper Well"
11: "Gravity Of Grace," Johnsmith [Blue Pine, 6/09] (264)
"Scotch Pine"
John Platt ID from WFUV Fordham University
tied for 11: "No Worries Now," Joel Mabus
[Fossil, 8/09] (264)
"Am I Right"
Mary Cliff ID from WAMU - Washington
13: "The Loving Kind," Nanci Griffith
[Rounder, 6/09] (262)
"The Loving Kind"
Rich Warren of WFMT Chicago - Station ID.
14: "Classics," Susan Werner [Self, 2/09]
(256)
"Hazy Shade Of Winter"
15: "You Don't Have To Like Them Both," Eric Brace And Peter Cooper
[Red Beet, 11/08] (254)
"I Know A Bird"
16: "So Dark You See," John Gorka [Red
House, 10/09] (245)
"I Think Of You"
Mary Sue Twohy of XM radio Station ID
17: "The Near Demise of the High Wire
Dancer," Antje Duvekot [Black
Wolf, 3/09] (235)
"Long Way"
18: "That Kind Of Love," Pierce Pettis [Compass, 1/09] (230)
"Hallelujah Song"
19: "Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away," Slaid Cleaves [Music
Road, 4/09] (225)
"Cry"
Mark Corso of WRSU New Brunswick NJ
20: "Double Play," Liz Carroll And John Doyle [Compass, 3/09] (224)
"Pound A Week Rise"
Sonny Ochs of WRPI station Id
22: "Open Hand," David Wilcox [What Are, 4/09] (222)
"Modern World"
23: "Hello, Stranger," Catie Curtis [Compass, 8/09] (221)
"Hello Stranger"
24: "The Company You Keep," Alison Brown [Compass, 4/09] (218)
"Forky On The Water"
25: "Able Baker Charlie And Dog," Joe Crookston [Self, 2/08] (213)
"Bird By Bird"
tied for spot 25: but I didnt have it to play ["Sea Of Tears,"
Eilen Jewell [Signature, 4/09] (213)]
27: "Old Jawbone," Euphonia [Self, 2/09] (212)
"Angeline The Baker's Gone"
28: "Dusty Road To Beulah Land," Drew Nelson [Waterbug, 4/09]
(210)
"Grandmother Moon"
29: "Townes," Steve Earle [New West, 5/09] (207)
"Pancho And Lefty"
"Bless Your Foolish Heart"