Folk Music Radio Airplay Chart
August 2024, Week 1

Compiled by Richard Gillmann
From Playlists Submitted to FOLKDJ-L

TOP ALBUMS of August 2024, Week 1
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2752 plays from 97 playlists from 74 Folk DJs

  1: "Wildfire," House of Hamill [Self, 7/2024] (24)
        "The Highwayman" (6)
        "Smokejumper" (4)
        "Banks of the Brandywine" (3)
        "Into the Golden" (3)
  2: "Boarding Windows in Paradise," Rebecca Frazier [Compass, 8/2024] (16)
        "It's Over" (3)
        "High Country Road Trip" (3)
        "Saro Jane" (3)
        "Available" (3)
  3: "Points of Light," Noah Zacharin [Self, 8/2024] (14)
        "Ten Tons of Road" (3)
        "Something Like A River" (2)
        "Red Red Bird" (2)
        "Done Gone Gone" (2)
  4: "Alone Again... Live," Steve Earle [Howe, 8/2024] (13)
        "Yer So Bad" (1)
  4: "The Two of Us," Janie Rothfield & Allan Carr [Allan And Janie, 7/2024] (13)
        "Chilly Winds" (5)
        "Idlewild Jig" (3)
        "The Candlelight" (3)
        "Love is Teasing" (2)
  6: "Bloom Where You Fall," Hana Zara [Self, 8/2024] (12)
        "Our Work Here Is Not Done" (6)
        "Little Fires" (3)
  7: "Signposts and Marks," Erin Ash Sullivan [Willoughby, 6/2024] (11/14)
        "Goat on a Stone Wall" (3)
        "Eat the Pie" (2)
        "Baltimore" (2)
        "Rest Stopm Bird" (2)
  7: "From China to Appalachia," Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian [Community, 7/2024] (11)
        "High On A Mountain" (4)
        "The White Snake Song" (2)
  7: "The Light Years," The Magnolia Janes [Be A Jane, 7/2024] (11)
        "Speed of Life" (3)
        "Five More Minutes" (2)
        "The Sun In My Backyard" (2)
        "The Light Years" (2)
  7: "Wasted Luck," Tiffany Williams & Dalton Mills [Williams & Mills, 8/2024] (11)
        "Worst of Both Worlds" (5)
        "Gold Watch and Chain" (3)
        "I Remember You" (3)
 11: "Starting Over," Dan Bern [Grand Phony, 8/2024] (10)
        "Clay County" (2)
        "Starting Over" (2)
 12: "Proxy Music," Linda Thompson [Story, 6/2024] (9/12)
        "Mudlark" (2)
        "Or Nothing At All" (2)
        "Shores Of America" (2)
        "Those Damn Roches" (2)
 12: "The Legend of Sugarbelly," Guy Davis [MC, 8/2024] (9)
        "Sugarbelly" (2)
        "In the Evening Time" (2)
 12: "There's a Bright Side Somewhere," Happy Traum [Self, 2022] (9)
        "Santa Cruz Blues" (2)
 12: "Trees," Laurie Lewis [Spruce & Maple, 5/2024] (9)
        "Down on the Levee" (2)
        "The Day Is Mine" (2)
 16: "Banjo Jubilations," Benny Bleu [Self, 5/2024] (8)
        "Buffalo Gals" (2)
 16: "Earl Jam," Tony Trischka [Down The Road, 6/2024] (8)
        "Brown's Ferry Blues" (2)
 16: "Holding the Threads," Beth DeSombre [Self, 5/2024] (8)
        "Listen to the Radio" (4)
 19: "Plastic Flowers," Nichole Wagner [Self, 6/2024] (7/12)
        "Plastic Flowers" (2)
        "Raised by Wolves" (2)
 19: "Broken Homes & Hearts of Gold," The Lucky Nows [Reed Recording, 7/2024] (7)
        "Evaporate" (2)
 19: "Terra Madre," Beppe Gambetta [Self, 6/2024] (7)
        "Sit and Pick with You" (3)
        "Terra Madre" (2)
 19: "Trail of Flowers," Sierra Ferrell [Rounder, 4/2024] (7)
        "Lighthouse" (2)
        "Fox Hunt" (2)
 23: "Hanging at the Luna Star," Lou Dominguez [Self, 8/2024] (6)
        "For Steve Earle" (2)
 23: "The Only Moment," Maya De Vitry [Self, 7/2024] (6)
        "Odds of Getting Even" (2)
 23: "The Price of Happiness," Miranda Hardy [Great Divide, 6/2024] (6)
        "Strawberry Moon" (1)
 23: "Resurrection," Los Lonely Boys [BMG, 8/2024] (6)
        "Send More Love" (2)
 27: "Singing To The Moon," Jillian Mattundan [Keezamonkee] (5/11)
        "Gone" (3)
 27: "After The Party," Leslie Mendelson [Mad Maker] (5/6)
        "After The Party" (1)
 27: "Hymn of Wild Things," Natalie Spears [Self, 6/2024] (5/6)
        "He Still Knows" (2)
 27: "The First Day of December," Ivan Strunin [Self, 8/2024] (5)
        "Zydeco Minor Swing" (1)
 27: "As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again," The Decemberists [Self, 7/2024] (5)
        "Burial Ground" (2)
 27: "Born Blessed Grateful & Alive," Yarn [Self] (5)
        "Traveling Kind" (2)
 27: "The Ghost of Tucumcari," Dana Cooper [Self, 5/2024] (5)
        "Start the World Again" (2)
 27: "Jubilee," Various Artists [Dark Shadow] (5)
        "Ballad of Jubilee Jones," Old Crow Medicine Show (1)
 27: "Just For The Love Of It," Happy Traum [happytraum.com, 2015] (5)
        "Careless Love Blues" (3)
 27: "Listen to the World Spin," Paper Wings [Self, 5/2024] (5)
        "Listen to the World Spin" (1)
 27: "Mind, Man, Medicine," The Secret Sisters [New West] (5)
        "Planted" (1)
 27: "Other Voices, Other Rooms," Nanci Griffith [Elektra, 1993] (5)
        "Tecumseh Valley" (2)
 27: "Two Birds to Kill a Stone," Son Stone [Self, 7/2024] (5)
        "Nothing Works the Way It Should" (3)
 27: "When I'm Called," Jake Xerxes Fussell [Fat Possum] (5)
        "Gone To Hilo" (2)
 27: "Wild Birds Warble," Jubal Lee Young [Self, 6/2024] (5)
        "Deeper Well" (2)

TOP SONGS of August 2024, Week 1
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2752 plays from 97 playlists from 74 Folk DJs

1. "Put No Walls Around Your Garden" (7)
     from "Put No Walls Around Your Garden - single" (New Dangerfield)
2. "Empty Trainload of Sky" (6)
     from "Woodland" (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
2. "The Highwayman" (6)
     from "Wildfire" (House of Hamill)
2. "Our Work Here Is Not Done" (6)
     from "Bloom Where You Fall" (Hana Zara)
5. "Chilly Winds" (5)
     from "The Two of Us" (Janie Rothfield & Allan Carr)
5. "Listen to the Radio" (5)
     from "Holding the Threads" (Beth DeSombre)
5. "Worst of Both Worlds" (5)
     from "Wasted Luck" (Tiffany Williams & Dalton Mills)
8. "Everybody Wants Something" (4)
     from "South of Here" (Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats)
8. "High On A Mountain" (4)
     from "From China to Appalachia" (Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian)
8. "Into The Wild" (4)
     from "Into the Wild" (Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway)
8. "Leadfoot" (4)
     from "Highway Prayers" (Billy Strings)
8. "Linger" (4)
     from "Linger - single" (Aine Burns)
8. "Smokejumper" (4)
     from "Wildfire" (House of Hamill)
14. "Ten Tons of Road" (3)
     from "Points of Light" (Noah Zacharin)

TOP ARTISTS of August 2024, Week 1
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2752 plays from 97 playlists from 74 Folk DJs

1. House of Hamill (26)
        "Wildfire" (24)
2. Erin Ash Sullivan (20)
        "Signposts and Marks" (14)
        "Erin Ash Sullivan" (6)
2. Happy Traum (20)
        "There's a Bright Side Somewhere" (9)
        "Just For The Love Of It" (5)
4. Rebecca Frazier (16)
        "Boarding Windows in Paradise" (16)
5. Noah Zacharin (14)
        "Points of Light" (14)
5. Steve Earle (14)
        "Alone Again... Live" (13)
7. Janie Rothfield & Allan Carr (13)
        "The Two of Us" (13)
7. Sweet Honey In The Rock (13)
        "Breaths" (2)
7. Tom Rush (13)
        "50th Anniversary Concert" (6)
        "Gardens Old, Flowers New" (3)
10. Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian (12)
        "From China to Appalachia" (11)
10. Hana Zara (12)
        "Bloom Where You Fall" (12)
10. The Magnolia Janes (12)
        "The Light Years" (11)
13. Laurie Lewis (11)
        "Trees" (8)
13. Tiffany Williams & Dalton Mills (11)
        "Wasted Luck" (11)
15. Benny Bleu (10)
        "Banjo Jubilations" (8)
15. Beth DeSombre (10)
        "Holding the Threads" (8)
17. Dan Bern (9)
        "Starting Over" (9)
17. Guy Davis (9)
        "The Legend of Sugarbelly" (9)
17. Tony Trischka (9)
        "Earl Jam" (8)
20. Alison Brown (8)
        "On Banjo" (4)
        "Simple Pleasures" (3)
20. Billy Strings (8)
        "Highway Prayers" (3)
        "Live, Vol. 1" (3)
20. Emmylou Harris (8)
        "All I Intended To Be" (1)
20. Johnny Cash (8)
        "Songwriter" (3)
20. The Lucky Nows (8)
        "Broken Homes & Hearts of Gold" (7)
20. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway (8)
        "Into the Wild" (4)
20. New Dangerfield (8)
        "Put No Walls Around Your Garden - single" (6)
27. Linda Thompson (7/11)
        "Proxy Music" (11)
27. Beppe Gambetta (7)
        "Terra Madre" (7)
27. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings (7)
        "Woodland" (4)
27. Maya De Vitry (7)
        "The Only Moment" (6)
27. Sierra Ferrell (7)
        "Trail of Flowers" (7)
27. Willie Nelson (7)
        "The Border" (4)

TOP LABELS of August 2024, Week 1
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2752 plays from 97 playlists from 74 Folk DJs

1. Rounder (52)
2. Compass (44)
3. Smithsonian/Folkways (35)
4. Signature Sounds (31)
5. Red House (25)
6. Sugar Hill (23)
6. Thirty Tigers (23)
8. New West (20)
9. Nonesuch (17)
9. Rhino (17)
11. Columbia (16)
12. BMG (14)
13. Storysound (13/14)
13. Elektra (13)
13. Free Dirt (13)
13. RCA (13)
17. Appleseed (12)
17. Legacy (12)
17. Pinecastle (12)
20. Community (11)
20. Down The Road (11)
20. True North (11)
20. Warner (11)

FOLK DJs - August 2024, Week 1
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2752 plays from 97 playlists from 74 Folk DJs

Allen Larman (KPFK-FM, CA)
Angela Page (WJFF-FM, NY)
Art Menius (WHUP-LP, NC)
Artie Martello (folkmusicnotebook.com & podcast, NY)
Bill "Rusty" Crowell & Jan Alba (WPPM-FM & mixcloud.com, PA)
Bill Wagman (KDRT-FM, CA)
Bob Heyer (WEJP-LP & WWOV-LP, WV)
Bob McWilliams (Kansas Public Radio)
Bruce Cameron (2MCE-FM, Australia)
Carolyn VandeWiele (WFHB-FM, IN)
Chris Kocher (WHRW-FM, NY)
Colin Fielding (3INR-FM, Australia)
Cosmic Charlie (WERU-FM, ME)
Dan Maher (mixcloud.com, WA)
Dan Shramek (KBOO-FM, OR)
Denis McGilvray (KPBX-FM, OK)
Dennis Brunnenmeyer (KVMR-FM, CA)
Diane Hunt (KBOO-FM, OR)
Diane Karl (KBOO-FM, OR)
Dick Hermans (WKZE-FM, NY)
Don Jacobson (KBOO-FM, OR)
Ellen Stanley (KFAI-FM, MN)
Gerry Goodfriend (CKUT-FM, QC)
Graham & Barbara Dean (WBCR-LP, MA)
Greg Priddy & Tom Mazzone (WJCU-FM, OH)
Harlon Joye (WRFG-FM, GA)
Helen Leicht (folkmusicnotebook.com, PA)
Jack Dugan (WIOX-FM, NY)
James Sereda (WUSB-FM, NY)
Jan Vanderhorst (justusfolk.com, ON)
Jean Geiger (KSER-FM & mixcloud.com, WA)
Jim Fisher (WGCS-FM, IN)
Jim Gilliland (WRUW-FM, OH)
Jim Marino (CFMU-FM, ON)
Joe Pszonek (folkmusicnotebook.com, SC)
Johnny Bazzano (KRCB-FM, CA)
Jon Colcord (Syndicated, NH)
Jon Stein (WTBQ-AM & podcast, NY)
Karen Rakos (KEUL-FM, AK)
Kelly Walker (WTSU-FM & podcast, AL)
Ken Batista (WRCT-FM, PA)
Kevin Elliott (WEFT-FM, IL)
Len Holton (KUAR-FM & mixcloud.com, AR)
Marc Albert (KMUZ-FM & mixcloud.com, OR)
Marilyn Rea Beyer (WFMT-FM, IL)
Mark Michaelis (WGDR-FM & WGDH-FM, VT)
Matt Watroba (WKAR-FM, MI)
Matthew Baya (WERU-FM, ME)
Menachem Vinegrad (Radio Upper Galilee & folkmusicnotebook.com, Israel)
Michael Alzo (WSLU-FM, NY)
Michael Benson (WESU-FM, CT)
Michael Kane (WBRS-FM, MA)
Michael S. Stock (WLRN-FM, FL)
Mike Regenstreif (CKCU-FM, ON)
Mitch Park (Radio Hawke's Bay & Radio Kidnappers, New Zealand)
Nick Noble (WICN-FM, MA)
Norm Mast (WVPE-FM, IN)
Paul Hartman (WTMD-FM, MD)
Pete Thomas (WAER-FM, NY)
Peter Fraissinet (WVBR-FM, NY)
Peter Kernast (WTSR-FM, NJ)
Richard Gordon (WRCT-FM & mixcloud.com, PA)
Robert Resnik (Vermont Public Radio)
Ron Cooke (KTAL-LP, NM)
Steve Brockway & Justin Roth (KFRC-FM)
Steve Edge (CiTR-FM, BC)
Stu Weaver (WFCF-FM, FL)
Susan Forbes Hansen (WWUH-FM & WHUS-FM, CT)
Taylor Caffery (WRKF-FM, LA)
Terry B. Moses & Naomi Soule (KCLC-FM, MO)
Tim Forsman (WMHB-FM, ME)
Tom Druckenmiller (WDIY-FM & podcast, PA)
Tom Funk (KGLP-FM, NM)
Wally Bowen (KOCF-LP, OR)