TOP ALBUMS AND SONGS FOR JANUARY 1998
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L radio playlists
Based on 11115 airplays.

  1: "Voices Of Winter," Herdman, Hills And Mangsen (47)
        "Frozen Logger/Proper Cup Of Coffee" (13)
        "More Wood" (6)
        "Hot Buttered Rum" (4)
        "Serving Girls Holiday" (3)
        "Voices Of Winter/Red And Green" (3)
        "Mister Santa" (3)
        "A'roving On A Winter's Night" (2)
        "Joy Health Love And Peace/The Wren" (2)
        "Raise The Dead Of Wintertime," (2)
        "Snow In The Street" (2)
        "Witch Hazel" (2)
        "Chickadee"
        "Hanerot Halalu"
        "Lo How A Rose"
        "Proper Cup Of Coffee"
        "Wintergrace"
  2: "Gabby Road," Four Bitchin' Babes (38)
        "Cyberspace" (9)
        "These Boots Are Made For The Tap Dancing Wild Thing" (9)
        "Dyslexic" (5)
        "Intertwined" (3)
        "Nervous Wreck Of Edna Fitzgerald" (3)
        "Wild Berries" (3)
        "Zen Song" (2)
        "Breakfast Dishes"
        "Chevy Impala"
        "Crazy"
        "L. A. F. F"
  3: "Reunion Hill," Richard Shindell (34)
        "I Saw My Youth Today" (9)
        "Next Best Western" (7)
        "Weather" (5)
        "Darkness, Darkness" (3)
        "I'll Be Here In The Morning" (3)
        "Beyond The Iron Gate" (2)
        "Easy Street"
        "May"
        "Money For Floods"
        "Sing Me Back Home"
        "Smiling"
  4: "Catie Curtis," Catie Curtis (32)
        "Falling Silent In The Dark" (5)
        "I Still Want To" (5)
        "Soulfully" (5)
        "Forgiveness" (4)
        "Memphis" (4)
        "Do Unto Others" (3)
        "River Winding" (3)
        "Heroes"
        "I Don't Cry Anymore"
        "Larry"
  4: "Ride," Louise Taylor (32)
        "Blue Norther" (6)
        "Run The Wild Country" (5)
        "Too Tired To Leave" (4)
        "Maria" (3)
        "Shiny Dime" (3)
        "Your Face" (3)
        "Angelee" (2)
        "Deep Dark River" (2)
        "Roll Away Car" (2)
        "Islamorada"
        "Ride The Wild Country"
  6: "Bluegrass Rules!," Ricky Skaggs (30)
        "Get Up John" (8)
        "If I Lose" (4)
        "Amanda Jewell" (3)
        "Drunken Driver" (3)
        "Ridin' That Midnight Train" (3)
        "I Hope You've Learned" (2)
        "Little Maggie" (2)
        "Rank Stranger" (2)
        "Rawhide" (2)
        "Think Of What You've Done"
  7: "Fiddle Patch," Bobby Hicks (28)
        "We're Steppin' Out Tonight" (6)
        "Katy Hill" (4)
        "Oh What A Silent Night" (4)
        "Prosperity Special" (3)
        "Lily Dale" (2)
        "Twinkle Little Star" (2)
        "Whiskey Before Breakfast" (2)
        "Commanche Hit And Run"
        "Estrellita"
        "Faded Love"
        "Fiddle Patch"
        "Gardenia Waltz"
  7: "Lipstick Lies And Gasoline," Fred Eaglesmith (28)
        "7 Shells" (4)
        "Alcohol And Pills" (4)
        "Thinking" (4)
        "Angel Of The Lord" (3)
        "Drinking Too Much" (3)
        "Time To Get A Gun" (3)
        "105" (2)
        "Spookin' The Horses" (2)
        "Bell"
        "Pontiac"
        "Water In The Fuel"
  7: "Ninety Miles Out," Debbie Diedrich (28)
        "Don't Call Me Honey" (6)
        "Ninety Miles Out" (5)
        "Road From Me To You" (5)
        "Auf Wedersehen Hamburg" (2)
        "Blackberry Vine" (2)
        "Corrugated Cardboard Boxes" (2)
        "I Can Still Taste The Wine" (2)
        "In A Heartbeat" (2)
        "Antonio"
        "Un Canadien Errant"
 10: "Heritage," Eileen Mcgann (27)
        "There'll Be More Joy" (8)
        "Lowlands" (4)
        "Peggy Gordon" (4)
        "Rolling Of The Stones" (4)
        "As I Walked Out/Etc" (2)
        "Female Drummer" (2)
        "Little Musgrave" (2)
        "Blackwaterside"
 10: "Next," Kate Mcdonnell (27)
        "If I Knew" (5)
        "Time And Time Again" (5)
        "I Just Assumed" (4)
        "Enola Gay" (3)
        "Tangerine Shirt" (3)
        "Looking Down For Looking Up" (2)
        "Baltimore"
        "Dog Odyssey"
        "Don't Fix My Faucet"
        "Just How Long"
        "Lines"
 10: "Slant 6 Mind," Greg Brown (27)
        "Whatever It Was" (6)
        "Billy From The Hills" (5)
        "Vivid" (5)
        "Down At The Mill" (3)
        "Loneliness House" (2)
        "Mose Allison Played Here" (2)
        "Why Don't You Just Go Home?" (2)
        "Hurt So Nice"
        "Wild Like Sonny Boy"
 13: "American Stranger," Julie Henigan (26)
        "Adieu My Lovely Nancy" (5)
        "Cowboy's Girl" (4)
        "American Stranger" (3)
        "Blue Eyed Boy/Clinch Mt Backstep" (3)
        "The Hare's Dream" (3)
        "Streets Of Derry" (2)
        "Farewell Song"
        "Goin' Across The Sea"
        "Hanover"
        "Jessica's Polka / The Procrastination Polka"
        "Pretty Polly"
        "Tettenahall Allotment"
 13: "Rhyme Schemes," Joel Mabus (26)
        "The Druggist" (9)
        "Bubba's 3 B's" (6)
        "Crooked November-The Fiddler's Reply-Tight Old Arkansas" (3)
        "Doo Dah Ditty" (3)
        "Chairman Of The Bored" (2)
        "Fiddler's Reply"
        "Say Cheese"
        "What My Doin' Wrong"
 13: "Sand In Your Shoes," Ralph Mctell (26)
        "Tous Les Animaux Sont Tristes" (6)
        "Sand In Your Shoes" (4)
        "Fear Of Flying" (3)
        "Irish Blessing" (3)
        "Jesus Wept" (3)
        "Peppers And Tomatoes" (2)
        "After Rain"
        "Care In The Community"
        "Enemy Within"
        "I Don't Think About You"
        "Islands"
 16: "End Of The Summer," Dar Williams (25)
        "If I Wrote You" (6)
        "Are You Out There" (4)
        "What Do You Hear In These Sounds" (4)
        "End Of The Summer" (3)
        "My Friends" (3)
        "Better Things" (2)
        "Bought And Sold" (2)
        "Party Generation"
 17: "7 Sisters," Brooks Williams (24)
        "Winter Moon" (4)
        "7 Sisters" (3)
        "Hello Heartbreak" (3)
        "Mother Earth" (3)
        "Threadbare Soul" (3)
        "Nothing At All" (2)
        "Rich Tonight" (2)
        "Some Fine Day" (2)
        "Maybe Minor"
        "Miles Away"
 17: "Silver And Gold," Claire Lynch (24)
        "Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring" (6)
        "Hitchcock Railway" (5)
        "If Wishes Were Horses" (3)
        "Silver And Gold" (3)
        "El Delcolte," Judy Frankel
        "Fair Shake"
        "Hey Lonesome"
        "I'm Goin' Up"
        "Out Amoung The Stars"
        "Sweetheart, Darlin' Of Mine"
        "Wednesday's Child"
 17: "So Long So Wrong," Alison Krauss And Union Station (24)
        "So Long, So Wrong" (7)
        "Little Liza Jane" (3)
        "No Place To Hide" (3)
        "Find My Way Back To My Heart" (2)
        "I Can Let Go Now" (2)
        "It Doesn't Matter" (2)
        "Looking In The Eyes Of Love" (2)
        "Deeper Than Crying"
        "Pain Of A Troubled Life"
        "Road Is A Lover"
 20: "What Do You Hear In These Sounds," Dar Williams (23)
        "Wilder Than Her" (9)
        "Are You Out There" (6)
        "As Cool As I Am" (3)
        "Christians And The Pagans" (2)
        "What Do You Hear In These Sounds?" (2)
        "Cool As I Am"
 21: "Blanket," Terry Kitchen (22)
        "Kid Who Looks Like Me" (5)
        "Everything Makes Me Cry These Days Except The Rolling Stones" (3)
        "Michael" (3)
        "Big Sister" (2)
        "I Can't Remember Life Before I Got Here" (2)
        "Lightning Strikes" (2)
        "Love Is Possible" (2)
        "3 If By Air"
        "German Violin"
        "If Wishes Were Rivers"
 21: "Darryl Purpose," Darryl Purpose (22)
        "If I Were A Betting Man" (5)
        "Mr. Schwinn" (5)
        "Dangerous Game" (4)
        "Halfway Home" (2)
        "Last Great Kiss Of The 20th Century" (2)
        "Same River Twice" (2)
        "Can't Outrun My Heart"
        "Singer/Songwriter Heaven"
 21: "Devil Of A Dream," Robin And Linda Williams (22)
        "Things I've Learned" (4)
        "At The Crossroads Again" (3)
        "Rolling And Rambling" (3)
        "Genius" (2)
        "Green Summertime" (2)
        "Letter That I Wrote" (2)
        "5 Rooms"
        "Fall From The Sky"
        "I Wonder If I Care As Much"
        "Men With Guns"
        "Walking Like A Man"
        "While Im Waiting For You"
 21: "Gone From Danger," Joan Baez (22)
        "Reunion Hill" (5)
        "Crack In The Mirror" (3)
        "If I Wrote You" (3)
        "Money For Floods" (3)
        "Who Do You Think I Am" (3)
        "February" (2)
        "Fishing" (2)
        "Mercy Bound"
 21: "Longview," Longview (22)
        "Southern Moon" (3)
        "Brighter Mansion" (2)
        "Hemlocks And Primroses" (2)
        "I've Never Been So Lonesome" (2)
        "It's Goodbye And So Long To You" (2)
        "Lonesome Old Home" (2)
        "Only Time Can Mend A Broken Heart" (2)
        "Touch Of God's Hand" (2)
        "Train That Carried My Girl From Town" (2)
        "7 Year Blues"
        "River Underground"
        "So Long And Goodbye To You"
 26: "Almost Chocolate," Sonia Rutstein (21)
        "2 Eggs Over Easy" (5)
        "Fallin'" (4)
        "Clothesline" (3)
        "13" (2)
        "Is This Evolution" (2)
        "Play The Fool" (2)
        "November Or Nothing"
        "On Your Side"
        "Tattoo"
 26: "Book Of Secrets," Loreena Mckennitt (21)
        "Mummer's Dance" (6)
        "Highwayman" (3)
        "Marco Polo" (3)
        "Skellig" (3)
        "Dante's Prayer" (2)
        "La Serenissima" (2)
        "Night Ride Across The Caucasus" (2)
 26: "Old Time String Band," Volo Bogtrotters (21)
        "Tanner's Farm" (4)
        "Fort Smith" (3)
        "Feller That Looked Like Me" (2)
        "L'ville" (2)
        "8th Of January," Fox Chasers
        "Bonaparte's March"
        "Cindy-The Whiskey Medley"
        "Dying Hobo/Hickman Rag"
        "I Truly Understand"
        "Let Me Fall," Camp Creek Boys
        "Lost Indian"
        "Riley's Hen House"
        "Suzanna Gal," Camp Creek Boys
        "Third Of July"
 26: "Outside Eden," Kat Eggleston (21)
        "Go To The Water" (6)
        "Dreaming In Color" (3)
        "Meeting Stuckey At The Gas Station" (2)
        "No Laughing Matter" (2)
        "Outside Eden" (2)
        "Pastures Of Plenty/Kitchen Girl" (2)
        "Again, Again"
        "Brian"
        "Mirror, Mirror"
        "Powerless"
 26: "Passing," Jack Hardy (21)
        "20th Century" (7)
        "Passing" (6)
        "Black-Eyed Susans" (2)
        "Dachau" (2)
        "Willie Goggin's Hat" (2)
        "Twentieth Century"
        "You Only Leave Your Heart Once"
 31: "Octoroon," Laura Love (20)
        "All The Pushin'" (3)
        "Amazing Grace" (3)
        "I Am Wondering" (3)
        "Can't Understand" (2)
        "Come As You Are" (2)
        "Simple" (2)
        "Bad Feeling"
        "Blind Bartimus"
        "I Can Bring It Over"
        "If I Knew"
        "June 4th Foundation"
 31: "Parallel Lives," David Mallett (20)
        "Summer Of My Dreams" (4)
        "I Hate To See This Town Go Down" (3)
        "After The Fall" (2)
        "Closer To The Truth" (2)
        "Daddy's Oldsmobile" (2)
        "Garden Song" (2)
        "Snowbound," David Mallet (2)
        "I Picture You," David Mallet
        "Intro/Phil Brown"
        "Phil Brown"
 31: "Perishable Fruit," Patty Larkin (20)
        "Book I'm Not Reading" (5)
        "Angels Wings" (4)
        "Heart" (2)
        "Red Accordian" (2)
        "Road" (2)
        "Wolf At The Door" (2)
        "Brazil"
        "Coming Up For Air"
        "Rear View Mirror"
 34: "Beaupre's Home," Hart Rouge (19)
        "Grain De Mil" (6)
        "I Go Out Walking" (2)
        "La Belle S'est Endormie" (2)
        "Lifting My Heart" (2)
        "Love At The 5 And Dime" (2)
        "Peine" (2)
        "Ramona" (2)
        "Destination"
 34: "Dixie Kitchen," Mary Gauthier (19)
        "Ways Of The World" (7)
        "You're All I Wanna Do" (3)
        "Ever Easy" (2)
        "Goddamn HIV" (2)
        "I Don't Know Nothin About Love" (2)
        "Mama Louisianna"
        "Other Side Of Free"
        "Rock And Roll Lies"
 34: "John Flynn," John Flynn (19)
        "Emily" (3)
        "Old Paint" (3)
        "Who's Whose" (3)
        "2 Letters" (2)
        "I Want You To Want Me" (2)
        "Origami Roses" (2)
        "As She Goes"
        "Thin Air"
        "When The Angels Aren't There"
        "Whoa Nellie"
 34: "Long Roads, Short Visits," Bob Franke (19)
        "For Real" (7)
        "Roads Are Long In Canada" (3)
        "Inland Sea" (2)
        "Je T' Adore" (2)
        "I Won't Feel Lucky"
        "In The Place Of Trust"
        "Slow Down"
        "There's A Last Time For Everything"
        "William The Streak"
 34: "Midnight Salvage," Dana Robinson (19)
        "Goodbye Mary Jane" (4)
        "Shady Grove" (4)
        "Sadie" (3)
        "Midnight Salvage" (2)
        "Stalk Your Calling" (2)
        "Heaven"
        "Mary Jane"
        "Redpoll"
        "Sweet Dream"
 34: "Panorama," David Grier (19)
        "Impulsive" (4)
        "Ticklebelly Hill" (4)
        "King Wilkies Run" (3)
        "Forked Deer" (2)
        "Peartree-Double File" (2)
        "Skeleton" (2)
        "Dead End"
        "Jeff Davis"
 34: "Who Knows Where The Time Goes," Fairport Convention (19)
        "John Gaudie" (5)
        "Here's To Tom Paine" (3)
        "Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" (2)
        "Bowman's Retreat"
        "Convention," Fairport
        "Golden Glove"
        "Heard It Through The Grapevine"
        "I Heard It Through The Grapevine-Who Knows Where The Time Goes"
        "Sailing Boat"
        "Slipology," Fairport
        "Spanish Main"
        "Story Of Isaac," Judy Collins