Tag: Ryan Adams

Guy Clark tribute, Charlie Faye, Imelda May enter Americana charts

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The Americana Music Association Radio Chart is back after a month-long hiatus, and Ryan Adams’ Ashes & Fire (PAX-AM/Capitol) remains at the top. Taking the holidays off is an odd call for an association promoting a genre that still needs to build its brand and visibility. And it’s not as though all those Americana stations just played Christmas music over the past month.

On to 2012: The outstanding Guy Clark tribute This One’s For Him debuts at number six on the chart, with 16 new stations adding it in the last week. The double-CD set features classic material by some of Americana music’s most prominent artists (Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, John Prine and Jerry Jeff Walker among them). Expect a long chart run.

Other chart debuts: Charlie Faye’s Travels with Charlie (Wine & Nut) enters the chart at #22, Danny Barnes’ Rocket (ATO) comes in at  #33 and Imelda May’s Mayhem (Decca) is at #35.

After the Guy Clark project, these albums were the most added: The Little Willies’ For the Good Times (Milking Bull/EMI), Reckless Kelly’s Good Luck and True Love (No Big Deal Records) and Orbo and the Longshots’ Prairie Sun (Blue Mood.)

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Americana music 2011: No Depression’s 50 favorites

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No Depression has released its list of the Top 50 favorite albums of 2011, as voted by its fan community. It’s an interesting mix, with Gillian Welch’s The Harrow and the Harvest at the top, followed by a remarkable range of artists, genres, styles and ages.

Some have complained that it’s a surprisingingly mainstream list for an alt-country site, but that’s the nature of a “favorites” list. Name recognition goes a long way, although we don’t see any names on the list that you can’t make a case for.

Here are the top 25. You’ll find the full list here.

Gillian Welch – The Harrow & the Harvest

The Decemberists – The King Is dead

Wilco – The Whole Love

Lucinda Williams – Blessed

Steve Cropper – Dedicated

Tom Waits – Bad as Me

Dave Alvin – Eleven Eleven

Zoe Muth & The Lost High Rollers – Starlight Hotel

Jason Isbell – Here We Rest

Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire

Hayes Carll – KMAG YOYO

Eilen Jewell – Queen of the Minor Key

Drive By Truckers – Go-Go Boots

The Deep Dark Woods – The Place I Left Behind

Jayhawks – Mockingbird

Tedeschi Trucks Band – Revelator

Civil Wars – Barton Hollow

Gregg Allman – Low Country Blues

Buddy Miller – Majestic Silver Strings

Paul Simon – So Beautiful or So What

Sarah Jarosz – Follow Me Down

Nick Lowe – The Old Magic

Ry Cooder – Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down

Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Kings & Queens

Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues

Damn Quails, Willie Nelson enter Americana airplay chart

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There’s little change in this week’s Americana music chart, with Ryan Adams’ Ashes & Fire once again in the top position, followed by Robert Earl Keen and the Jayhawks. At long last, Will Hoge’s Number Seven settles in at #7.

The only new albums on the airplay chart are Damn Quails’ Down the Hatch at #26 and Willie Nelson’s Remember Me Vol. 1 at #27.

The most added new albums include Mark O’Connor’s An Appalachian Christmas, the Little Willies’ For the Good Times and the Nelson album.

The Guy Clark tribute album This One’s For Him was picked up by six new stations this week.

Kathleen Edwards’ “Voyageuer” rising fast; Danny Barnes, Little WiIllies enter chart

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Kathleen Edwards’ Voyageur is the hottest album on Americana music radio this week, moving from #13 into the top four, right behind Ryan Adams, the Jayhawks and Robert Earl Keen.

New to the chart this week: The Little Willies’ For the Good Times (#26), Etta James’ The Dreamer (#34) and Danny Barnes’ Rocket (#40.)

Primed to enter the charts soon is the Guy Clark tribute album This One’s For Him, (reviewed here) which was added by ten stations this week.

New to Americana chart: Deep Dark Woods, Carolyn Wonderland

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Ryan Adams’ Ashes & Fire holds on to first place on the Americana Music Chart for a second week, with Robert Earl Keen remaining in second with Ready for Confetti.
New to the chart this week: Deep Dark Woods’ The Place I Left Behind (Sugar Hill) at #36 and Carolyn Wonderland’s Peace Meal (Bismeaux Productions) breaking in at #37.
The most added album this week is Etta James’ The Dreamer (Verve Forecast) with 16 stations picking it up.

Ryan Adams’ “Ashes & Fire” is top chart debut

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The top three slots in this week’s Americana Music Association Chart carry overfrom last week, with the Jayhawks’ “Mocking Bird Time” at number one, followed by Robert Earl Keen’s “Ready for Confetti” and John Hiatt’s “Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns.”
The top entry on the Americana chart is Ryan Adams’ just-released “Ashes & Fire,” breaking in at number 16, with 178 spins.
Among most added albums this week: Crooked Still’s “Friends Of Fall” and Merle Haggard’s “Working In Tennessee.”

Will Hoge, Wilco surge on Americana Music Chart

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The top five spots in this week’s Americana Music Association Chart remain unchanged, with the Jayhawks, Robert Earl Keen, John Hiatt, Gillian Welch and Guy Clark ranked one through five. Will Hoge’s “Number Seven” jumps from #26 to #13.

Fresh off two triumphant nights at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Wilco enters the chart at #21 with “The Whole Love.” (Pictured.) Other Americana music chart debuts include Jason Boland and the Stragglers’ “Rancho Alto” at #30, Pieta Brown’s “Mercury” at #35,Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three’s “Middle of Everywhere” at #37 and Lydia Loveless’ “Indestructible Machine” at #39. The most added album of the week is Ryan Adams’ “Ashes and Fire.”