Folk Music Radio Airplay Chart
August 2025, Week 5

Compiled by Richard Gillmann
From Playlists Submitted to FOLKDJ-L

TOP ALBUMS of August 2025, Week 5
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2061 plays from 61 playlists from 48 Folk DJs

  1: "Kentucky Queen," Carla Gover [Redbird, 8/2025] (16)
        "Pretty Little Snake" (3)
        "Mornin' Dove" (2)
        "Kentucky Queen" (2)
        "Hug More Necks" (2)
        "Pine Mountain High" (2)
  2: "Time Out #3," The Accidentals [Self, 8/2025] (13)
        "Fly Away" (4)
        "Someday We Won't Live Here Anymore" (3)
  3: "Drum School Dropout," Christine Lavin [Self, 8/2025] (12)
        "The Best Summer" (9)
        "Sins" (2)
  3: "Gold & Coal," Cassie & Maggie [Self, 5/2025] (12)
        "Nancy" (4)
        "The Gold Rush is Over and I'm Moving On" (3)
        "Robert Frost" (2)
  3: "Long Journey Home: A Century After the 1925 Mountain City Fiddlers Convention," Various Artists [Appalseed] (12)
        "Cuckoo," John McCutcheon (3)
        "Rocky Road to Dinah's House," Becky Buller (2)
  6: "Dark Ages," Eliza Gilkyson [Realiza Records, 5/2025] (10)
        "Dark Night of the Soul" (4)
        "Times Like These" (2)
  7: "Connected," Darryl Purpose [Self, 8/2025] (9)
        "The Day I Forgot Your Birthday" (2)
        "Feel What Our Hearts Feel" (2)
  7: "Wild & Clear & Blue," I'm With Her [Rounder, 4/2025] (9)
        "Ancient Light" (2)
        "Wild and Clear and Blue" (2)
        "Find My Way to You" (2)
  9: "The America Chronicles," Kemp Harris [Righteous Mischief, 8/2025] (8)
        "This Is America Right" (1)
  9: "Personal History," Mary Chapin Carpenter [Thirty Tigers, 6/2025] (8)
        "New Religion" (2)
        "Girl And Her Dog" (2)
  9: "Songs That Sing Me," Becky Buller [Dark Shadow, 8/2025] (8)
        "Millworker" (3)
        "Ride On By" (2)
  9: "Squirrels," Jubal Lee Young [Tellico, 8/2025] (8)
        "Kind All the Time" (3)
  9: "Wide Open Spaces," Connie Kaldor [Coyote, 8/2025] (8)
        "Wide Open Spaces" (3)
        "If I Could Figure Out Love" (2)
        "Cowboys Still Live in Saskatchewan" (2)
 14: "Arcadia," Alison Krauss & Union Station [Down The Road, 3/2025] (7/9)
        "Forever" (2)
        "The Wrong Way" (2)
 14: "Fire & Honey," Wild Mountain Mystics [Blackbird, 8/2025] (7)
        "Fire & Honey" (2)
 14: "Stay Put," Elexa Dawson [Moon Flower Sounds/Turns Out, 8/2025] (7)
        "Baling Hay" (3)
 17: "Cruel Joke," Ken Pomeroy [Rounder, 7/2025] (6)
        "Cicadas" (2)
 17: "Hummingbird Highway," Dar Williams [Righteous Babe, 8/2025] (6)
        "Hummingbird Highway" (3)
        "Tu Sais Le Printemps" (2)
 17: "In the West," The Horsenecks [Tiki Parlour, 6/2025] (6)
        "Trouble on the Mainline" (2)
 17: "Mother Mind," Tekla Waterfield & Jeff Fielder [Oliver Blue, 8/2025] (6)
        "Slow Boat" (3)
 17: "Rituals," Watchhouse [Thirty Tigers, 5/2025] (6)
        "Patterns" (2)
 17: "The Shape of a Sway," Eli West [Tender and Mild, 5/2025] (6)
        "Away Out on the Sea" (2)
 17: "The Woods Have Shown Us," Ponyfolk [Hestehus, 7/2025] (6)
        "Sommer" (3)
 17: "Woody At Home - Vol 1 + 2," Woody Guthrie [Shamus, 8/2025] (6)
        "This Land is Your Land" (2)
 25: "Classic Labor Songs," Various Artists [Smithsonian/Folkways, 2006] (5/11)
        "Bread and Roses," Bobbie McGee (2)
        "Union Maid," New Harmony Sisterhood Band (2)
 25: "Alice Howe & Freebo Live," Alice Howe & Freebo [Know Howe, 2/2025] (5/6)
        "Angel From Montgomery" (2)
        "Twilight" (2)
 25: "Reverie," Amble [Warner, 7/2025] (5/6)
        "Schoolyard Days" (2)
 25: "All I Got & Gone," Chris Walz [Self, 3/2025] (5)
        "Been All Around This World" (1)
 25: "Been All Around This World," Special Consensus [Compass, 7/2025] (5)
        "Been All Around This World" (2)
 25: "The Black Dog & the Wandering Boy," James McMurtry [New West, 7/2025] (5)
        "Annie" (2)
 25: "Look to the Moon," Patty & Craig [Larrea, 8/2025] (5)
        "Love, Surround Me" (2)
 25: "The Lucy Story - Unreleased & Rare Tracks," Lucy Kaplansky [Lucyricky, 1/2025] (5)
        "Last Days Of Summer" (2)
 25: "Now Then," Robbie Fulks [Compass, 8/2025] (5)
        "Poor and Sharp Witted" (3)
 25: "So Long Little Miss Sunshine," Molly Tuttle [Nonesuch, 8/2025] (5)
        "Everything Burns" (2)

TOP SONGS of August 2025, Week 5
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2061 plays from 61 playlists from 48 Folk DJs

1. "The Best Summer" (9)
     from "Drum School Dropout" (Christine Lavin)
2. "Someday We Won't Live Here Anymore" (5)
     from "Time Out #3" (The Accidentals)
3. "Dark Night of the Soul" (4)
     from "Dark Ages" (Eliza Gilkyson)
3. "Fly Away" (4)
     from "Time Out #3" (The Accidentals)
3. "Nancy" (4)
     from "Gold & Coal" (Cassie & Maggie)
6. "Baling Hay" (3)
     from "Stay Put" (Elexa Dawson)
6. "Cuckoo" (3)
     from "Long Journey Home: a Century After the 1925 Mountain City Fiddlers Convention" (John McCutcheon)
6. "The Gold Rush is Over and I'm Moving On" (3)
     from "Gold & Coal" (Cassie & Maggie)
6. "Hummingbird Highway" (3)
     from "Hummingbird Highway" (Dar Williams)
6. "Kind All the Time" (3)
     from "Squirrels" (Jubal Lee Young)
6. "Last Days of Summer" (3)
     from "The Lucy Story - Unreleased & Rare Tracks" (Lucy Kaplansky)

TOP ARTISTS of August 2025, Week 5
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2061 plays from 61 playlists from 48 Folk DJs

1. Carla Gover (16)
        "Kentucky Queen" (16)
2. The Accidentals (14)
        "Time Out #3" (14)
2. Becky Buller (14)
        "Songs That Sing Me" (8)
        "Jubilee" (3)
        "Long Journey Home: A Century After the 1925 Mountain City Fiddlers Convention" (3)
4. Eliza Gilkyson (13)
        "Dark Ages" (10)
5. Cassie & Maggie (12)
        "Gold & Coal" (12)
5. Christine Lavin (12)
        "Drum School Dropout" (12)
5. Mary Chapin Carpenter (12)
        "Personal History" (8)
        "The Calling" (3)
8. Alison Krauss & Union Station (11)
        "Arcadia" (9)
8. John McCutcheon (11)
        "Field of Stars" (3)
        "Long Journey Home" (3)
8. Woody Guthrie (11)
        "Woody at Home Vol. 1 & 2" (3)
        "Woody At Home - Vol 1 + 2" (3)
11. Nanci Griffith (9/18)
        "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (8)
11. Connie Kaldor (9)
        "Wide Open Spaces" (8)
11. Darryl Purpose (9)
        "Connected" (9)
11. I'm With Her (9)
        "Wild & Clear & Blue" (9)
15. Dar Williams (8)
        "Hummingbird Highway" (6)
15. Jubal Lee Young (8)
        "Squirrels" (8)
15. Kemp Harris (8)
        "The America Chronicles" (8)
15. Lucy Kaplansky (8)
        "The Lucy Story - Unreleased & Rare Tracks" (5)
15. Molly Tuttle (8)
        "So Long Little Miss Sunshine" (5)
20. Special Consensus (7/9)
        "Been All Around This World" (5)
20. Sons of the Never Wrong (7/8)
        "Undertaker's Songbook" (4)
        "On A Good Day. . .I Am" (3)
20. Asleep at the Wheel (7)
        "Riding High in Texas" (4)
20. Elexa Dawson (7)
        "Stay Put" (7)
20. Guy Clark (7)
        "Truly Handmade, Vol. 1" (2)
20. Joe Jencks (7)
        "Rise As One" (3)
20. John Prine (7)
        "The Tree Of Forgiveness" (3)
20. Ken Pomeroy (7)
        "Cruel Joke" (6)
20. Wild Mountain Mystics (7)
        "Fire & Honey" (7)

TOP LABELS of August 2025, Week 5
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2061 plays from 61 playlists from 48 Folk DJs

1. Rounder (51)
2. Compass (41)
3. Smithsonian/Folkways (28)
4. Nonesuch (24)
4. Thirty Tigers (24)
6. Signature Sounds (23)
7. Columbia (21)
8. Elektra (19)
9. Dark Shadow (14)
10. Red House (13)
11. Redbird (12)
12. Philo (11)
12. Reprise (11)
12. Vanguard (11)
15. Appalseed (10)
15. New West (10)
15. Realiza (10)
15. Sugar Hill (10)
15. Warner (10)
20. Righteous Babe (9)

FOLK DJs - August 2025, Week 5
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2061 plays from 61 playlists from 48 Folk DJs

Al Kniola (WVPE-FM, IN)
Allen Larman (KPFK-FM, CA)
Angela Page (WJFF-FM & folkmusicnotebook.com, NY)
Annie Keville (WVBR-FM, NY)
Art Menius (WHUP-LP, NC)
Bill "Rusty" Crowell & Jan Alba (WPPM-FM & mixcloud.com, PA)
Bob McWilliams (Kansas Public Radio)
Bruce Swan (WSFM-LP, NC)
Bud Johnson (KNBA-FM & syndicated, AK)
Carolyn VandeWiele (WFHB-FM, IN)
Charlie Backfish (WUSB-FM, NY)
Chris Kocher (WHRW-FM, NY)
Craig Huegel (WMNF-FM, FL)
Dan Alloway (KTEP-FM, TX)
Dan Shramek (KBOO-FM, OR)
Dick Hermans (WKZE-FM, NY)
Don Jacobson (KBOO-FM, OR)
Doug Tucker (KWVA-FM, OR)
Ellen Stanley (KFAI-FM, MN)
Gordon Nash (folkmusicnotebook.com, NY)
Harlon Joye (WRFG-FM, GA)
Jack Dugan (WIOX-FM, NY)
Jim Canales (WWSP-FM, WI)
Jim Gilliland (WRUW-FM, OH)
Joe McMahon & Peter Fraissinet (WVBR-FM, NY)
Joe Pszonek (folkmusicnotebook.com, SC)
Karen Rakos (KEUL-FM, AK)
Kevin Vance (KALW-FM & KPFA-FM, CA)
Larry Berger (WRCT-FM & syndicated, PA)
Len Holton (KUAR-FM & mixcloud.com, AR)
Lilli Kuzma (WDCB-FM, IL)
Marc Albert (KMUZ-FM & mixcloud.com, OR)
Mark Michaelis (WGDR/WGDH-FM, VT)
Mary Katherine Aldin (KPFK-FM, CA)
Mary Sue Twohy (SiriusXM, DC)
Mitch Park (CANG-FM, Radio Hawke's Bay)
Nick Noble (WICN-FM, MA)
Paul Hartman (WTMD-FM, MD)
Paul Porzio (Cox Cable, VA)
Pete Thomas (WAER-FM, NY)
Ron Cooke (KTAL-LP, NM)
Stu Weaver (WFCF-FM, FL)
Sue Kessell (WNUR-FM, IL)
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)