FolkVote '97
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FolkVote '96 ||  FolkVote '95 ||  FolkVote '94



FolkVote '96

Top Twenty-Five Folk-Related Releases

1. Dar Williams "Mortal City" Razor & Tie
2. Ellis Paul "A Carnival of Voices" Rounder
3. Lucy Kaplansky "Flesh and Bone"
4. Shawn Colvin "A Few Small Repairs" Columbia
5. Martin Sexton "Black Sheep" Eastern Front
6. Greg Brown "Further In" Red House
7. John Gorka "Between Five and Seven" High Street
8. Lynn Miles "Slightly Haunted"
9. Patti Griffin "Living With Ghosts"
10. Catie Curtis "Truth From Lies" Guardian
11. Gillian Welch "Revival"
12. Carrie Newcomer "Carrie Newcomer"
13. Iris Dement "The Way I Should"
14. Ani DiFranco "Dilate" Righteous Babe
15. Bill Morrissey "Bill Morrissey"
16. The Nields "Gotta Get Over Greta"
17. Barbara Kessler "Notion"
18. Erica Wheeler "The Harvest"
19. Various "Women's Work"
20. Rosanne Cash "10 Song Demo" Columbia
21. Mary Chapin Carpenter "A Place In The World" Columbia
22. Kate & Anna McGarrigle "Matapedia"
23. Lyle Lovett "The Road to Ensenada"
24. Suzanne Vega "Nine Objects of Desire"
25. Peter Mulvey "Rapture" Eastern Front

Favorite Folk Album of All Time

1. Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms  
2. Dar Williams Mortal City  
3. Joni Mitchell Blue  
  Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series, v.1-3  
  Greg Brown Down In There Red House
  Carrie Newcomer My Father's Only Son  

Favorite Folk Performer of All Time

1. Dar Williams    
2. Greg Brown    
3. Indigo Girls    
  Carrie Newcomer    
5. Janis Ian    
  Joni Mitchell    
  Tom Paxton    

Favorite Folk Festival

1. Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Hillsdale, NY

Favorite New Folk Discovery

1. Martin Sexton    
2. Dar Williams    

Favorite Performer You'd Like To Have Heard From in 1996

1. Susan Werner    
2. Indigo Girls    
3. Nanci Griffith    
  Richard Shindell    



FolkVote '95

Top Twenty-Five Folk-Related Releases

1. Cheryl Wheeler "Mrs. Pinocci's Guitar" Philo
2. Susan Werner "Last of the Good Straight Girls" Private Music
3. Pete & Maura Kennedy "River of Fallen Stars" Green Linnet
4. Ani DiFranco "Not A Pretty Girl" Righteous Babe
Greg Greenway "Singing for the Landlord" Eastern Front
Patty Larkin "Stranger's World" High Street
7. Joan Baez "Ring Them Bells" Guardian
Greg Brown "The Live One" Red House
9. Chris Smither "Up on the Lowdown" Hightone
10. Leslie Smith "These Things Wrapped" Waterbug
11. Jonatha Brooke "Plumb" Blue Thumb
Indigo Girls "1,200 Curfews" Epic
Various "This Is Boston, Not Austin" Black Wolf
14. Steve Earle "Train A'Comin'" Independent
Carrie Newcomer "The Bird or The Wing" Philo
Maura O'Connell "Stories" Hannibal
Ellis Paul "Stories" Rounder
Bruce Springsteen "The Ghost of Tom Joad" Columbia
Diane Ziegler "Sting of the Honeybee" Philo
20. Shawn Colvin "Live '88" Plump
Brooks Williams "Knife Edge" Green Linnet
Dar Williams "Christians & The Pagans (EP)" Razor & Tie
23. Cliff Eberhardt "Mona Lisa Café" Independent
Alison Krauss "Now That I've Found You" Rounder
David Massengill "The Return" Independent



FolkVote '94

Top Twenty Folk-Related Releases

1. Nanci Griffith "Flyer" Elektra
Dar Williams "The Honesty Room" Waterbug
3. Mary Chapin Carpenter "Stones in the Road" Columbia
Various "Follow That Road" Philo
5. David Wilcox "Big Horizon" A&M
6. Greg Brown "The Poet Game" Red House
Shawn Colvin "Cover Girl" Columbia
Lucy Kaplansky "The Tide" Red House
Richard Shindell "Blue Divide" Shanachie
10. Iris Dement "My Life" Warner Brothers
11. John Gorka "Out of the Valley" High Street
Ellis Paul "Stories" Black Wolf
13. Ani DiFranco "Out of Range" Righteous Babe
Indigo Girls "Swamp Ophelia" Epic
15. Cliff Eberhardt "Now You Are My Home" Shanachie
Barbara Kessler "Stranger To This Land" Independent
The Nields "Bob on the Ceiling" Peter Quince Prod.
Tom Prasada-Rao "The Way of the World" Ahimsa
Cosy Sheridan "Saturn Return" Waterbug
20. Dave Alvin "King of California" HighTone
Johnny Cash "The American Recordings" American
disappear fear "disappear fear" Philo/Rounder
Ferron "Driver" Cherry Tree
Tish Hinojosa "Destiny's Gate"
Robert Earl Keene "Gringo Honeymoon" Sugar Hill
Loreena McKennitt "The Mask and The Mirror"
Joni Mitchell "Turbulent Indigo"
Shawn Mullins "Big Blue Sky" SMG
The New St. George "High Tea" Folk Era
Tom Paxton "Wearing The Times" Sugar Hill
Cheryl Wheeler "Driving Home" Philo/Rounder