2017’s Top 25 Folk Songs

About the Show

Foolkiller Folk

The Foolkiller Folk collective explores the storytelling, cultural, and protest power of folk music from as far back as the Child Ballads through as current as released today.
"When one becomes enlightened one kills the fool within" -Jack Conroy

This Sunday, Mark & Val bring you 2017’s FOLKDJ -L top 25 folk songs (FOLKDJ -L compiles charts from radio playlists submitted by folk DJs nationwide).  You’ll be hearing:

25 ‘Sing People Sing’; Emma’s Revolution from their recording ‘Revolution Now’
24 ‘Sing me Like a Folksong’;The Steel Wheels from their recording ‘Wild as We Came Here’
23 ‘Birmingham Sunday’ and
22 ‘At the Purchaser’s Option’; Rhiannon Giddens from her recording ‘Freedom Highway’
21 ‘Three Chords and the Truth’; John McCutcheon from his recording ‘Trolling for Dreams’
20 ‘You Reap What You Sow’; Mara Levine from her album of the same name.
19 ‘Where the River Meets the Road’; Tim O’Brien from his album of the same name
18 ‘Gone’; John McCutcheon from his recording ‘Trolling for Dreams’
17 ‘By My Silence’; Mara Levine
16 ‘Wildflowers’; Chris Hillman from his recording ‘Bidin’ My Time’
15 ‘Workin’s Too Hard’; Rayna Gellert from her album of the same name
14 ‘Gentle on My Mind’; Alison Krauss from her recording ‘Windy City’
13 ‘Thirteen Years’; Tim Grimm and the Family Band; from his recording ‘A Stranger in This Time’
12 ‘Wildflowers’; The Wailin’ Jennys from their recording ‘Fifteen’
11 ‘Further Down the Line’; Scott Cook from his album of the same name
10 ‘Best of You’; Ordinary Elephant from their recording ‘Before I Go’
9 ‘Homeland Blues’; Alice Howe from her recording ‘You’ve Been Away So Long’
8 ‘Zillionaire’; Zoe Mulford from her recording ‘Small Brown Birds’
7 ‘Midnight Train’; David Rawlings from his recording ‘Poor David’s Almanack’
6 ‘Shake Sugaree’; Rhiannon Giddens from her recording ‘Tomorrow is My Turn’
5 ‘The President Sang Amazing Grace’ Zoe Mulford from her recording ‘Small Brown Birds’
4 ‘These Rolling Hills’; Tim Grimm and the Family Band; from his recording ‘A Stranger in This Time’
3 ‘Y’all Means All’; John McCutcheon from his recording ‘Trolling for Dreams’
2 ‘Let Me Sing You a Song’; Joe Jenks from his recording ‘Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers
1 ‘Gonna Be Great’; Tim Grimm and the Family Band; from his recording ‘A Stranger in This Time’
View Playlist on Spinitron
Share This Episode