Folk Music Radio Airplay Chart
September 2025, Week 2

Compiled by Richard Gillmann
From Playlists Submitted to FOLKDJ-L

TOP ALBUMS of September 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 1977 plays from 68 playlists from 58 Folk DJs

  1: "Long Journey Home," Various Artists [Appalsongs, 9/2025] (28)
        "I've Always Been a Rambler," Molly Tuttle w/ Ketch Secor (6)
  2: "Wide Open Spaces," Connie Kaldor [Coyote, 9/2025] (20)
        "This Car" (4)
        "Wide Open Spaces" (3)
        "Outlaw" (3)
  3: "Song of the Bricoleur," Rags Rosenberg [Coyote Gulch, 9/2025] (14)
        "Bullfrogs" (4)
        "Catherine's Song" (2)
        "True Believer" (2)
        "California Bound" (2)
  4: "Connected," Darryl Purpose [Self, 8/2025] (13)
        "Feel What Our Hearts Feel" (3)
        "Me & Robbie Erenberg" (2)
        "St Catherine of Sienna" (2)
  4: "Look to the Moon," Patty & Craig [Larrea, 9/2025] (13)
        "Love Surround Me" (5)
        "Night Full Of Promise" (2)
  6: "Mother Mind," Tekla Waterfield & Jeff Fielder [Oliver Blue, 9/2025] (11)
        "Something My Own" (3)
        "Visions of a Life" (2)
        "I'm Alive" (2)
  6: "The Last Bough," Kyle Carey [Americelta, 9/2025] (11)
        "Eden's Grief" (3)
        "Latha Bha An Ridire Ag Òl" (2)
        "The Sere Wind" (2)
        "For Your Journey" (2)
  8: "Stay Put," Elexa Dawson [Moon Flower Sounds/Turns Out, 8/2025] (10)
        "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" (2)
        "Man Mountain" (2)
        "Roots Grow" (2)
        "Stay Put" (2)
  8: "Stone by Stone," Friction Farm [Self, 9/2025] (10)
        "Louder Than Guns" (4)
        "Everything Will Be All Right" (2)
 10: "The Way the West Was Won," Dallas Burrow [Forty Below, 9/2025] (9)
        "Black Rock Desert Blues" (2)
 11: "So Long Little Miss Sunshine," Molly Tuttle [Nonesuch, 8/2025] (8)
        "Story Of My So-Called Life" (2)
        "Everything Burns" (2)
 12: "Hummingbird Highway," Dar Williams [Righteous Babe, 8/2025] (7)
        "Olive Tree" (2)
 12: "Kentucky Queen," Carla Gover [Redbird, 8/2025] (7)
        "Pine Mountain High" (2)
 14: "The America Chronicles," Kemp Harris [Righteous Mischief, 8/2025] (6)
        "Goodnight America" (3)
        "Tulsa" (2)
 14: "The Ghost of Sis Draper," Shawn Camp [Skeeter Bit, 9/2025] (6)
        "The Checkered Shirt Band" (1)
 14: "Heavy on the Blues," Rory Block [M.C. Records, 8/2025] (6)
        "The Wind Crise Mary" (1)
 14: "New Skin," Judy Kass [Self, 7/2025] (6)
        "At Our Best" (5)
 14: "Seeds of Dreaming," Diyet & the Love Soldiers [Self, 9/2025] (6)
        "Running Through the Great Divide" (2)
        "When You Were King" (2)
 14: "Squirrels," Jubal Lee Young [Tellico, 8/2025] (6)
        "Squirrels" (2)
 14: "Sweet Resilience," Jane Fallon [Self, 9/2025] (6)
        "Mendocino Girl" (2)
 14: "The Way I Tell the Story," David Wilcox [Freshly Baked, 8/2025] (6)
        "Disappearing Man" (1)

TOP SONGS of September 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 1977 plays from 68 playlists from 58 Folk DJs

1. "The Bravest" (6)
     from "Looking For The Moon" (Tom Paxton)
1. "I've Always Been a Rambler" (6)
     from "Long Journey Home: a Century After the 1925 Mountain City Fiddlers Convention" (Molly Tuttle w/ Ketch Secor)
3. "At Our Best" (5)
     from "New Skin" (Judy Kass)
3. "It Ain't Gonna Go Away" (5)
     from "It Ain't Gonna Go Away - single" (Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer)
3. "Love Surround Me" (5)
     from "Look to the Moon" (Patty & Craig)
6. "Bullfrogs" (4)
     from "Song of the Bricoleur" (Rags Rosenberg)
6. "This Car" (4)
     from "Wide Open Spaces" (Connie Kaldor)
6. "Ghosts" (4)
     from "Who We Are" (Dan & Faith)
6. "Louder Than Guns" (4)
     from "Stone by Stone" (Friction Farm)

TOP ARTISTS of September 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 1977 plays from 68 playlists from 58 Folk DJs

1. Connie Kaldor (20)
        "Wide Open Spaces" (20)
2. Darryl Purpose (15)
        "Connected" (13)
3. Molly Tuttle (14)
        "So Long Little Miss Sunshine" (8)
        "Long Journey Home" (5)
3. Rags Rosenberg (14)
        "Song of the Bricoleur" (14)
5. Patty & Craig (13)
        "Look to the Moon" (13)
6. Dar Williams (11)
        "Hummingbird Highway" (7)
6. Kyle Carey (11)
        "The Last Bough" (10)
6. Tekla Waterfield & Jeff Fielder (11)
        "Mother Mind" (11)
9. Elexa Dawson (10)
        "Stay Put" (10)
9. Friction Farm (10)
        "Stone by Stone" (10)
9. Tom Paxton (10)
        "Looking For The Moon" (5)
        "No Kings Here - Single" (4)
12. Dallas Burrow (9)
        "The Way the West Was Won" (9)
12. Guy Clark (9)
        "Old Friends" (2)
14. John McCutcheon (8)
        "Long Journey Home" (3)
15. Carla Gover (7)
        "Kentucky Queen" (7)
15. Rory Block (7)
        "Heavy on the Blues" (6)
17. David Wilcox (6)
        "The Way I Tell the Story" (6)
17. Diyet & the Love Soldiers (6)
        "Seeds of Dreaming" (6)
17. Eliza Gilkyson (6)
        "Dark Ages" (3)
17. Jane Fallon (6)
        "Sweet Resilience" (6)
17. John Prine (6)
        "The Tree Of Forgiveness" (3)
17. Jubal Lee Young (6)
        "Squirrels" (6)
17. Judy Kass (6)
        "New Skin" (6)
17. Kemp Harris (6)
        "The America Chronicles" (6)
17. Neil Young (6)
        "Big Crime - single" (2)
17. Shawn Camp (6)
        "The Ghost of Sis Draper" (6)
17. Woody Guthrie (6)
        "Woody At Home" (2)
17. I'm With Her (6)
        "Wild & Clear & Blue" (5)

TOP LABELS of September 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 1977 plays from 68 playlists from 58 Folk DJs

1. Rounder (34)
2. Appalsongs (28)
3. Columbia (19)
4. Compass (16)
5. Coyote (15)
5. Thirty Tigers (15)
7. New West (14)
7. Nonesuch (14)
7. Sugar Hill (14)
10. Red House (13)
11. Smithsonian/Folkways (12)
12. Coyote Gulch (11)
13. Americelta (10)
13. Larrea (10)
15. Vanguard (9)

FOLK DJs - September 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 1977 plays from 68 playlists from 58 Folk DJs

Al Kniola (WVPE-FM, IN)
Allen Larman (KPFK-FM, CA)
Angela Page (WJFF-FM & folkmusicnotebook.com, NY)
Art Menius (WHUP-LP, NC)
Artie Martello (folkmusicnotebook.com & mixcloud.com, 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)
Craig Huegel (WMNF-FM, FL)
Dan Shramek (KBOO-FM, OR)
Daryana Antipova (WFHB-FM, IN)
Dave Aton (WRFG-FM & mixcloud.com, GA)
David John (KAXE/KBXE-FM, MN)
David Sears (WBGU-FM, OH)
Dick Hermans (WKZE-FM, NY)
Don Jacobson (KBOO-FM, OR)
Doug Tucker (KWVA-FM, OR)
Gerry Goodfriend (CKUT-FM, QC)
Harlon Joye (WRFG-FM, GA)
Jack Dugan (WIOX-FM, NY)
Jan Vanderhorst (justusfolk.com, ON)
Jim Canales (WWSP-FM, WI)
Jim Fisher (WGCS-FM, IN)
Jim Marino (CFMU-FM, ON)
Joe Pszonek (folkmusicnotebook.com, SC)
Johnny Bazzano (KRCB-FM, CA)
Jon Stein (WTBQ-FM, NY)
Katrina Knight (mixcloud.com, WA)
Ken Batista (WRCT-FM, PA)
Kevin Elliott (WEFT-FM, IL)
Len Holton (KUAR-FM & mixcloud.com, AR)
Marilyn Rea Beyer (WFMT-FM, IL)
Mark Michaelis (WGDR/WGDH-FM, VT)
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 Kidnappers & Radio Hawke's Bay, New Zealand)
Nick Noble (WICN-FM, MA)
Paul Hartman (WTMD-FM, MD)
Pete Thomas (WAER-FM, NY)
Peter Kernast (WTSR-FM, NJ)
Richard Gordon (WRCT-FM & mixcloud.com, PA)
Richard Howard (KZMU-FM, UT)
Ron Cooke (KTAL-LP, NM)
Steve Edge (CiTR-FM, BC)
Stu Weaver (WFCF-FM, FL)
Taylor Caffery (WRKF-FM, LA)
Terry B. Moses & Naomi Soule (KCLC-FM, MO)
Tom Druckenmiller (WDIY-FM & podcast, PA)
Tom Funk (KGLP-FM, NM)
Wally Bowen (KOCF-LP, OR)