Folk Music Radio Airplay Chart
April 2025, Week 2

Compiled by Richard Gillmann
From Playlists Submitted to FOLKDJ-L

TOP ALBUMS of April 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2379 plays from 88 playlists from 72 Folk DJs

  1: "Bones of Trees," Tim Grimm [Vault, 4/2025] (34)
        "Woody's Landlord Revisited" (6)
        "Barbed Wire Boys" (6)
  2: "Porcelain Angel," Rees Shad [Shadville, 4/2025] (22)
        "Ain't That the Way" (7)
        "Isn't It A Lovely Day" (4)
        "Porcelain Angel" (3)
        "Thumbing the Scales" (3)
  3: "Burnished," Amelia Hogan [Self, 4/2025] (21)
        "Rolling in the Gold" (7)
        "The Snow Hare" (3)
        "Home by Bearna" (3)
  4: "Foxes in the Snow," Jason Isbell [Thirty Tigers, 3/2025] (14)
        "Crimson and Clay" (5)
        "Bury Me" (2)
        "Gravelweed" (2)
  5: "Suzy Sings Siebel, Volume One," Suzy Thompson [Self, 4/2025] (13)
        "Bride 1945" (5)
        "Lose My Blues" (3)
        "Louise" (2)
        "You Don't Need A Gun" (2)
  6: "All I Got & Gone," Chris Walz [Self, 3/2025] (12)
        "Been All Around This World" (3)
        "Spanish Fandango" (2)
        "Alabama Bound" (2)
        "Delia" (2)
  6: "Here We Go!," Antonio Andrade [Lifeshakes, 4/2025] (12)
        "Looney Tunes Medley: This Is It!" (4)
        "Downtown Train" (3)
  6: "Maybe New Mexico," Helene Cronin [Self, 3/2025] (12)
        "Not the Year" (3)
        "Copperhill" (2)
  9: "Arcadia," Alison Krauss & Union Station [Down The Road, 3/2025] (11)
        "Richmond On The James" (3)
        "The Wrong Way" (2)
        "Looks Like The End Of The Road" (2)
        "Forever" (2)
  9: "Some Kind of Truth," Kora Feder [Self, 3/2025] (11)
        "Orange Tree" (3)
        "In a Young Person's Body" (2)
        "Elementary Queen" (2)
        "Rambling Man" (2)
 11: "Backstage Balladeer," Jefferson Ross [Self, 4/2025] (10)
        "Power" (2)
        "Let's Start A Cult" (2)
        "Lion In Zion" (2)
 12: "The Lucy Story - Unreleased & Rare Tracks," Lucy Kaplansky [Lucyricky, 1/2025] (9)
        "God Will" (2)
        "Raleigh and Spencer" (2)
 12: "So Much I Still Don't See," Sam Robbins [Nine Athens, 3/2025] (9)
        "Piles of Sand" (3)
        "What A Little Love Can Do" (3)
 12: "A Tip Toe High Wire," Sierra Hull [Self, 3/2025] (9)
        "Lord, That's A Long Way" (2)
        "Come Out Of My Blues" (2)
        "Redbird" (2)
 12: "Wait for the Night," Eric Schmitt [Self, 4/2025] (9)
        "One of These Days" (3)
        "Buckets" (2)
        "Louisiana" (2)
 16: "It Matters," C. Daniel Boling [Berkalin, 4/2025] (8)
        "Hidey-Ho" (2)
 16: "Oh What a Beautiful World," Willie Nelson [Legacy, 4/2025] (8)
        "Oh What a Beautiful World" (3)
        "Banks Of The Old Bandera" (2)
        "Stuff That Works" (2)
 16: "Songs That Made Charlene Cry," The Dillards [DillardSong, 4/2025] (8)
        "Towsack Full Of Love" (2)
        "Dirty Me - Dirty Me I'm Disgusted with Myself" (2)
 19: "Ghostwriter," Annie Stokes [Ponygirl, 4/2025] (7)
        "Country Wife" (2)
        "Ghostwriter" (2)
 20: "Field of Stars," John McCutcheon [Appalseed, 1/2025] (6)
        "Ms. St. Louis" (2)
        "Blessing" (2)
 20: "Paris," Louise Coombe [Zoe Cat, 4/2025] (6)
        "I Can't Tell You Why" (3)
        "Maybe California" (2)
 20: "Volume 4," Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert [Dead Reckoning, 4/2025] (6)
        "I Can't Wait" (2)
 23: "Alice Howe & Freebo Live," Alice Howe & Freebo [Know Howe, 2/2025] (5)
        "Standing Ovation" (2)
 23: "Daggomit!," Max Wareham [Nine Athens, 3/2025] (5)
        "Hard Times Are Far Behind" (1)
 23: "The Lighthouse," Loretta Hagen [Bearfort] (5)
        "The Lighthouse" (5)
 23: "Together on a Rock," The Pairs [Self, 4/2025] (5)
        "Little Light" (2)
 23: "Spirits," The Devil Makes Three [New West, 3/2025] (5)
        "Fallen Champion" (1)
 28: "Changing Union," Chris Moore [Luminous Bloom] (4)
        "Living in Between" (2)
 28: "Cold Feet," Mark Freeman [Self] (4)
        "Heartland" (1)
 28: "Coming On Strong," Seth Mulder & Midnight Run [Mountain Fever] (4)
        "Gilgarry's Glen" (4)
 28: "The Day Today," James Lee Stanley [Beachwood, 4/2025] (4)
        "Cold Ukrainian Night" (1)
 28: "Double Takes," Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane [Self, 4/2025] (4)
        "Bygone days" (2)
 28: "Fireside," On the Lash [Self, 4/2025] (4)
        "Timmy Clifford's The Rookery" (2)
 28: "Ghosts," Mike Berman [Tanager Way, 4/2025] (4)
        "There Were People Here" (1)
 28: "Ghosts in the Garden," Kris Delmhorst [Big Bean/Domino, 4/2025] (4)
        "Age of Innocence" (1)
 28: "The Grey Album," Grey DeLisle [Hummin' Bird] (4)
        "Daddy Can You Fix A Broken Heart" (1)
 28: "Lonesome Drifter," Charley Crockett [Island, 4/2025] (4)
        "Easy Money" (1)
 28: "Mill Pond," Rich Scher [Self] (4)
        "A Song From Tennessee" (1)
 28: "The Monkey in the Crown," Hudost [Open Sesame, 3/2025] (4)
        "Child of children" (2)
 28: "Our Way," Loveseat [Reckless Pedestrian, 4/2025] (4)
        "The Old Me" (2)
 28: "Quiet Town," Mindy Smith [Compass, 9/2024] (4)
        "Something To Write In Stone" (1)
 28: "Racing Down the Valley," Sam Bergquist [Self, 3/2025] (4)
        "Earth on Fire" (3)
 28: "Remains to Be Scene," The Seldom Scene [Smithsonian/Folkways, 3/2025] (4)
        "Walking Down the Line" (2)
 28: "Transform Me Then Into A Fish," Martin Carthy [Hem Hem] (4)
        "Eighteenth Of June" (1)
 28: "Unravel," Henhouse Prowlers [Dark Shadow, 4/2025] (4)
        "Look Up To The Sky" (1)
 28: "Wild & Clear & Blue," I'm With Her [Rounder, 4/2025] (4)
        "Find My Way to You" (3)

TOP SONGS of April 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2379 plays from 88 playlists from 72 Folk DJs

1. "Rolling in the Gold" (7)
     from "Burnished" (Amelia Hogan)
2. "Ain't That the Way" (6)
     from "Porcelain Angel" (Rees Shad)
2. "Barbed Wire Boys" (6)
     from "Bones of Trees" (Tim Grimm)
2. "Woody's Landlord Revisited" (6)
     from "Bones of Trees" (Tim Grimm)
5. "Bride 1945" (5)
     from "Suzy Sings Siebel, Volume One" (Suzy Thompson)
5. "Crimson and Clay" (5)
     from "Foxes in the Snow" (Jason Isbell)
5. "The Lighthouse" (5)
     from "The Lighthouse" (Loretta Hagen)
8. "Broken Truth" (4)
     from "Bones of Trees" (Tim Grimm)
8. "Find My Way To You" (4)
     from "Wild & Clear & Blue" (I'm With Her)
8. "Gilgarry's Glen" (4)
     from "Coming On Strong" (Seth Mulder & Midnight Run)
8. "Isn't It A Lovely Day" (4)
     from "Porcelain Angel" (Rees Shad)
8. "Mists Of Ennistymon" (4)
     from "Bones of Trees" (Tim Grimm)
8. "Superlover" (4)
     from "Superlover - single" (Allison Russell)

TOP ARTISTS of April 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2379 plays from 88 playlists from 72 Folk DJs

1. Tim Grimm (34)
        "Bones of Trees" (34)
2. Amelia Hogan (22)
        "Burnished" (21)
3. Rees Shad (21)
        "Porcelain Angel" (21)
4. Jason Isbell (16)
        "Foxes in the Snow" (14)
5. Suzy Thompson (13)
        "Suzy Sings Siebel, Volume One" (12)
6. Antonio Andrade (12)
        "Here We Go!" (12)
6. Chris Walz (12)
        "All I Got & Gone" (12)
6. Helene Cronin (12)
        "Maybe New Mexico" (12)
6. Lucy Kaplansky (12)
        "The Lucy Story - Unreleased & Rare Tracks" (9)
10. Michael Hurley (11/17)
        "Ancestral Swamp" (3)
10. Alison Krauss & Union Station (11)
        "Arcadia" (10)
10. Jefferson Ross (11)
        "Backstage Balladeer" (10)
10. Kora Feder (11)
        "Some Kind of Truth" (11)
14. The Dillards (10)
        "Songs That Made Charlene Cry" (8)
14. Sierra Hull (10)
        "A Tip Toe High Wire" (9)
14. John Prine (10)
        "The Tree Of Forgiveness" (2)
17. Eric Schmitt (9)
        "Wait for the Night" (9)
17. John McCutcheon (9)
        "Field of Stars" (5)
17. Sam Robbins (9)
        "So Much I Still Don't See" (9)
17. Willie Nelson (9)
        "Oh What a Beautiful World" (7)
21. C. Daniel Boling (8)
        "It Matters" (7)
21. Dick Gaughan (8)
        "Kist o' Gold" (2)
21. Nanci Griffith (8)
        "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (2)
24. Annie Stokes (7)
        "Ghostwriter" (7)
24. Emmylou Harris (7)
        "Roses In the Snow" (2)
24. Pete Seeger (7)
        "American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1" (1)

TOP LABELS of April 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2379 plays from 88 playlists from 72 Folk DJs

1. Rounder (51)
2. Vault (28)
3. Smithsonian/Folkways (21)
4. Compass (20)
5. Shadville (18)
6. Legacy (17)
7. Red House (16)
8. Thirty Tigers (15)
9. Columbia (14)
10. Signature Sounds (12)
10. Sugar Hill (12)
12. New West (11)
13. Elektra (10)
13. Free Dirt (10)
13. Pinecastle (10)
16. Berkalin (9)
16. Nonesuch (9)
18. Nine Athens (8)
18. Philo (8)
18. Reprise (8)

FOLK DJs - April 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2379 plays from 88 playlists from 72 Folk DJs

Allen Larman (KPFK-FM, CA)
Art Menius (WHUP-LP, NC)
Arthur Berman (CiTR-FM & podcast, BC)
Artie Martello (mostlyfolk.org & podcast, NY)
Bill "Rusty" Crowell & Jan Alba (WPPM-FM & mixcloud.com, PA)
Bill Revill (WESU-FM, CT)
Bob Weiser (WOMR-FM & WFMR-FM, MA)
Bruce Cameron (2MCE-FM, Australia)
Bruce Swan (WSFM-LP, NC)
Carolyn VandeWiele (WFHB-FM, IN)
Chris Kocher (WHRW-FM, NY)
Chris McGill (WSPN-FM, NY)
Colin Fielding (3INR-FM, Australia)
Dan Maher (mixcloud.com, WA)
Dan Shramek (KBOO-FM, OR)
Daryana Antipova (WFHB-FM, IN)
David John (KAXE/KBXE-FM, MN)
David Sears (WBGU-FM, OH)
Dick Hermans (WKZE-FM, NY)
Doug Tucker (KWVA-FM, OR)
Gerry Goodfriend (CKUT-FM, QC)
Gordon Nash (folkmusicnotebook.com, NY)
Graham Dean & Barbara Dean (WBCR-LP, MA)
Helen Leicht (folkmusicnotebook.com, PA)
Jack Dugan (WIOX-FM, NY)
Jan Vanderhorst (justusfolk.com, ON)
Jeannie Holton & Tom Elligett (WMNF-FM, FL)
Jeff Zolitor (KZYX-FM, CA)
Jenny Flux (2BBB-FM, Australia)
Jeremy Butler (Alabama Public Radio)
Jim Canales (WWSP-FM, WI)
Jim Gilliland (WRUW-FM, OH)
Joe Pszonek (folkmusicnotebook.com, SC)
John Weingart (WPRB-FM, NJ)
Johnny Bazzano (KRCB-FM, CA)
Jon Stein (WTBQ-FM, NY)
Kai Schafft (WVBR-FM, NY)
Karen Rakos (KEUL-FM, AK)
Kate McNally (New Hampshire Public Radio)
Kevin Elliott (WEFT-FM, IL)
Laurie DesJardins (KVMR-FM, CA)
Len Holton (KUAR-FM & mixcloud.com, AR)
Marc Albert (KMUZ-FM & mixcloud.com, OR)
Marilyn Rea Beyer (WFMT-FM, IL)
Mark Michaelis (WGDR/WGDH-FM, VT)
Matt Watroba (WKAR-FM, MI)
Menachem Vinegrad (Radio Upper Galilee & folkmusicnotebook.com, Israel)
Michael Alzo (WSLU-FM, NY)
Michael Benson (WESU-FM, CT)
Michael Park (mixcloud.com & PRX, NY)
Michael S. Stock (WLRN-FM, FL)
Mike Regenstreif (CKCU-FM, ON)
Mitch Park (Radio Hawke's Bay & folktunefinder.com, New Zealand)
Nick Noble (WICN-FM, MA)
Norm Mast (WVPE-FM, IN)
Paul Hartman (WTMD-FM, MD)
Pete Thomas (WAER-FM, NY)
Peter Kernast (WTSR-FM, NJ)
Richard Gillmann (KBCS-FM & mixcloud.com, WA)
Richard Gordon (WRCT-FM & mixcloud.com, PA)
Ron Cooke (KTAL-LP, NM)
Ron Olesko (WFDU-FM & folkmusicnotebook.com, NJ)
Steve Edge (CiTR-FM, BC)
Stu Weaver (WFCF-FM, FL)
Susan Forbes Hansen (WHUS-FM & WWUH-FM, CT)
Taylor Caffery (WRKF-FM, LA)
Terry B. Moses & Naomi Soule (KCLC-FM, MO)
Tom Coxworth (CKUA-FM, AB)
Tom Druckenmiller (WDIY-FM & podcast, PA)
Tom Funk (KGLP-FM, NM)
Wally Bowen (KOCF-LP, OR)
Wayne Greene (KEOS-FM, TX)