Tag: The Little Willies

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

 in Americana Music

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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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.

Goat Rodeo Sessions enter Americana Music Chart

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Ryan Adams’s Ashes & Fire won’t budge from the top of the Americana Music Radio Chart, holding on to #1 for yet another week, followed by Robert Earl Keen’s Ready for Confetti and The Jayhawks’ Mocking Bird Time.

The big changes are all at the bottom of the chart, with The
Goat Rodeo Sessions featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile, entering at #37. The Infamous Stringdusters are at #38 with We’ll Do It Live and the Milk Carton Kids enter the chart at #39 with Prologue.

Among the most added albums are Willie Nelson’s Remember Me
Vol 1, with 14 new stations, and the Little Willies’ For the Good Times with 11 new stations. There’s a trend in there somewhere.