Tag: Little Willies

New on chart: Carolina Chocolate Drops, Joan Osborne,Sugar + the High-Lows

 in Americana Music, Reviews

The top three positions on the Americana music airplay chart remain steady this week, with Darrell Scott’s Long Ride Home, the Guy Clark tribute This One’s For Him and the Little Willies’ For the Good Times remaining first through third.

Lyle Lovett’s Release Me jumps into #4 in just its second week. It’s also one of the three most-added albums, with 15 stations picking it up this week.

New to the chart this week: The Carolina Chocolate Drops Leaving Eden at #27 (also the most added), Sugar + the High-Lows’s self-titled album at #31, Joan Osborne’s Shake Your Hips at #35, Otis Gibbs’ Harder Than Hammered Hell at #37 and Tommy Womack’s Now What! at #40.

Charting: Amos Lee, Elliott Brood, Punch Brothers, Chuck Mead and Dunwells

 in Americana Music

They don’t make elections this close: The top 3 slots on this week’s Americana Music radio airplay chart include the Little Willies’ For the Good Times with 389 spins, Darrell Scott’s Long Ride Home, also with 389 spins, This One’s For Him, the Guy Clark tribute with 388.

New to the chart this week: Amos Lee’s As the Crow Flies at #28, Elliott Brood’s Days Into Years at #31, the Punch Brothers’ Who’s Feeling Young Now? at #35, Chuck Mead and the Grassy Knoll Boys’ Back at the Quonset Hut at #37 and the Dunwells’ Blind Sighted Faith at #39.

Chuck Mead told us about the Quonset Hut project in December.

You’ll find the audio interview here.

Ben Kweller, Kevin Gordon enter Americana music chart

 in Americana Music

There are just two new albums on this week’s Americana music airplay chart, as the Little Willies continue to hold onto the number one slot with For the Good Times.

New to the chart:

–          Ben Kweller’s Go Fly A Kite at #34

–          Kevin Gordon’s Gloryland at #37

(Gordon’s Gloryland album release party is scheduled for Feb. 17 at the Family Wash in Nashville.)

Most added albums this week include Amos Lee’s As the Crow Flies, Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer’s Little Blue Egg and the self-titled release by Sugar + the Hi-Lows.

Little Willies at #1; Gretchen Peters, Cash Box Kings, Elders enter chart

 in Americana Music

The Little Willies’ For the Good Times moves into the top spot on the Americana Music Association Airplay Chart this week, and the hottest album may be Nashville singer-songwriter Darrell Scott’s Long Ride Home (Full Light), which entered the chart last week at at #21 and moves up to #5.

Gretchen Peters, another talented Nashville songwriter (whose Twitter feed we highly recommend) has the top debut of the week at #32 with Hello Cruel World (Scarlet Letter Records.)

Also new to the chart: The Cash Box Kings’ Holler and Stomp (Blind Pig) at #34 and the Elders’ Wanderin’ Life & Times (Independent) at  #36.

You’ll find the full chart here.

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Americana chart: Kathleen Edwards’ “Voyageur” at #1

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On the day of its release, Kathleen Edwards’ Voyageur is at the top of the Americana Music Association Chart. The Little Willies’ For the Good Times is at the number three position, just one week after release.

Both albums are new to the market, but have been played for weeks on Americana radio. The release of albums to radio weeks or even months in advance helps build a foundation that pays off when the CD is actually available to consumers. There was a one-month lead time on Robert Earl Keen’s Ready for Confetti, and that album has been in the top five for months, with almost 7,000 spins to date.

This week’s Americana music chart debuts include Darrell Scott’s Long Ride Home (Full Light) at #21, Reckless Kelly’s Good Luck and True Love at #27 (No Big Deal Records), the Wood Brothers’ Smoke Ring Halo (Southern Ground Artists) at #32 and Ruthie Foster’s Let It Burn (Blue Corn) at #37.

Scott, Foster and the Wood Brothers also show up on the list of most added albums, along with Gretchen Peters’ Hello Cruel World (Scarlet Letter Records) and the Guy Clark tribute This One’s For Him.