Top Played Songs on Jim & Sherry’s Jukebox 2006-2010

 

	Top 20 2006
1	Damaged Goods	Scrappy Jud Newcomb
2	Crashboombang	The Ginn Sisters
3	Waves	Sam Baker
4	Waiting	Ron Flynt
5	Wrong Foot	Michael Fracasso
6	I Don’t Feel That Way	Jon Dee Graham
7	By Eleven	Caitlin Cary
8	If I Needed Someone	Roger McGuinn
9	What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, & Understanding	Steve Earle
10	I Ain’t Got Nothin’	The New York Dolls
11	Down to My Soul	Paul Kelly
12	Things We Said Today	The Beatles
13	Something Wonderful	Jon Dee Graham
14	Howlin’ Down the Cumberland	John Hiatt
15	Every Day I Have to Cry Some	Arthur Alexander
16	Fisherman	Leo Kottke
17	Soul of Constant Sorrow	Patty Loveless
18	Midnight Moonlight	Jerry Garcia Band
19	Lie To Myself	David Glaser
20	Still Got My Faith	Graham Parker
	Top 21 2007
1	Like A Wheel	Little Pink/Mary Battiata
2	Star Motel	Charlie Roth
3	Wrecking Ball	John Wort Hannam
4	1962	Michael Fracasso
5	I Knew It All	Bill Wence
6	Rocking Horse	Little Pink/Mary Battiata
7	You Tore Me Down	Sid Griffin
8	Old Rock And Roller	Bill Wence
9	The Rest Is History	Graham Parker
10	Read ’em ‘n’ Weep	Ian Hunter
11	You Won’t Talk About Love	Charlie Roth
12	Stolen Flowers	Little Pink/Mary Battiata
13	Cloudy Head	Cindy Woolf
14	Need You Now	Gurf Morlix
15	Soul of America	Ian Hunter
16	White Cross	Jeff Talmadge
17	Infantryman	John Wort Hannam
18	I Hate Christmas	Jon Dee Graham
19	You’re Just Drunk	Matt Harlan
20	because	Ron Flynt
21	Picasso’s Mom (live a cappella)	Paul Sanchez
	Top 20 2008
1	Always Tomorrow	Elizabeth Cook
2	Gonna Be	Elizabeth Cook
3	Goin Down De Ocean	David A. Alberding
4	Down Girl	Elizabeth Cook
5	Losing It	Elliott Murphy
6	Sometimes It Takes Balls to Be a Woman	Elizabeth Cook
7	The Mountain	Levon Helm
8	Longest Days	John Mellencamp
9	Wide River To Cross	Levon Helm
10	Let’s Take Some Drugs and Drive Around	The Silos
11	All Along the Watchtower	Tom Landa & the Paperboys
12	Fingerprints	Joe Grushecky
13	Pretty World	Sam Baker
14	The Rain Won’t Help You When It’s Over	Javier Escovedo
15	Carl Perkins’ Cadillac	Drive-By Truckers
16	Heart Breaks Like the Dawn	Chuck Prophet
17	Nothing But the Wheel	Peter Wolf
18	The Other Side Of The Reservoir	Graham Parker
19	The Last Star Of The Night	Elliott Murphy
20	I Will Not Let My Spirit Fall	Joe Grushecky
	Top 20 2009
1	Sunny Day	Mary Cutrufello
2	All Good Things	Jackson Browne
3	Rock and Roll	Jerry Lee Lewis
4	Run	Willie Nile
5	Lonesome Whistle	BettySoo
6	My Stunning Mystery Companion	Jackson Browne
7	American Rain	Mary Cutrufello
8	(I’ll Still) Love You Forever	Mary Cutrufello
9	God Bless This Mess	Sheryl Crow
10	Good Rock From Bad	Tim Carroll
11	The Midnight Rose	Willie Nile
12	Dreamers Walk Alone	Mary Cutrufello
13	Elizabethtown	Matt Harlan
14	Things We Said Today	The Beatles
15	I Still Believe In Love	Jon T Howard
16	House Of A Thousand Guitars	Willie Nile
17	Still Small Voice	BettySoo
18	Casey, Illinois	Bill Morrissey
19	Nothing To Lose	Effron White
20	Down To Faith	Byrd and Street
	Top 21 2010
1	Broken Things	K.C. Clifford
2	Broken	Dirk Hamilton
3	Songbird	K.C. Clifford
4	Another Million	Michael Fracasso
5	A Momentary Thing	Jaime Michaels
6	Freedom	Rex Foster
7	Working Class Hero	Michael Fracasso
8	Generous Friends	K.C. Clifford
9	Tore Up	John Lilly
10	Windmill Hills	Dirk Hamilton
11	Driving To Blissville (live)	Jeff Talmadge
12	Nothing To Lose	Effron White
13	Elizabethtown	Matt Harlan
14	One Spectacular Moon	Jaime Michaels
15	(I’ll Still) Love You Forever	Mary Cutrufello
16	Beautifully Broken	Jon Dee Graham & The Fighting Cocks
17	California Beach Boy	The Dollyrots
18	Still Small Voice	BettySoo
19	For No One	The Beatles
20	Aint That Just Like a Woman	Chuck Berry
21	A Soldier’s Christmas	Jeff Talmadge

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TOP 20 Most Played Songs, TOP 10 CDs, TOP 30 Most Played Artists on Jim & Sherry’s Jukebox 2011

Your questions preemptively answered:

1. q. Why 20 songs? a. Fits on one CD.

2. q. I’m an artist on your playlist. Where are my royalties? a. You have our heartfelt thanks.

3. q. How do you know these were last year’s most played songs? a. ITunes does all the work for us. It’s a play count, not an arbitrary favorites list.  We added up my office ITunes (13000 songs and counting), my IPhone, Sherry’s IPhone, our netbook, and our living room Jukebox (with our 3000 favorite songs and another 700 or so worthy of consideration). These are the songs we played the most.

4. q. It’s almost the middle of 2012, why is this so late? a. As you can see, some of us are inconsistent bloggers.

5. q. What’s 2012 look like? a. John Lilly’s Cold Comfort has pretty much dominated the airwaves at Jim & Sherry’s so far but real good albums like Rj Cowdery’s In This Light and Brian Kalinec’s The Fence  have gotten a lot of play too. Not to mention Bill Wence’s Analog Man in a Digital World, which we would have loved even if it didn’t have Fortunate Man on it. And while we always knew Paul Edward Sanchez was a good songwriter, a conversation with Jeff Talmadge in upstate New York convinced us that he was a great one, and we’ve been studying his collected works ever since.

 6. q. Why is there only one song from Michael Fracasso’s great Saint Monday on your list. a. Because we had an advance copy in the Fall of 2010, which meant his play was split over two years.

If you don’t have any of these incredible songs or CDs, we’ll be glad to point you in the right direction. Obviously we can listen them over and over.

	song	artist	album
1	Fireworks	The Fabulous Ginn Sisters	You Can’t Take A Bad Girl Home
2	eyes front	Jaime Michaels	the man with the time machine
3	haunted	Jaime Michaels	the man with the time machine
4	Hey Doll	The Fabulous Ginn Sisters	You Can’t Take A Bad Girl Home
5	Dreams	The Fabulous Ginn Sisters	You Can’t Take A Bad Girl Home
6	Driving To Blissville	Jeff Talmadge	Ein Abend Unter Freunden
7	Bad Connection	Jules Shear	Dreams Don’t Count
8	(I’ll Still) Love You Forever	Mary Cutrufello	35
9	California	Eric Hisaw	Ghost Stories
10	Used To It	Jules Shear	Dreams Don’t Count
11	Black Rose Of Texas	Dave Alvin	Eleven Eleven
12	Ghost Stories	Eric Hisaw	Ghost Stories
13	Lie To Me	BettySoo	Across the Borderline: Lie To Me
14	It’ll Sure Be Cold Tonight	Jeff Talmadge	Kind Of Everything
15	Don’t Live There Anymore	Eric Hisaw	Ghost Stories
16	Dreams Don’t Count	Jules Shear	Dreams Don’t Count
17	Gary, Indiana 1959	Dave Alvin	Eleven Eleven
18	High Atmosphere	Diana Jones	High Atmosphere
19	The Time of Your Life	Little Steven	Nine Months
20	Eloise	Michael Fracasso	Saint Monday

 Our Top 10 Most Played CDs of 2011:

	album	artist
1	You Can’t Take A Bad Girl Home	The Fabulous Ginn Sisters
2	Ein Abend Unter Freunden	Jeff Talmadge
3	the man with the time machine	Jaime Michaels
4	Dreams Don’t Count	Jules Shear
5	Ghost Stories	Eric Hisaw
6	Mr. Lucky	Chris Isaak
7	Eleven Eleven	Dave Alvin
8	Saint Monday	Michael Fracasso
9	Live At The Blue Door	John Fullbright
10	Gladly Would We Anchor	Little Pink;Mary Battiata

Our Top 30 Most Played Artists of 2011:

	artist
1	The Beatles
2	Neil Young
3	Bruce Springsteen
4	Bob Dylan
5	Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
6	The Fabulous Ginn Sisters
7	Michael Fracasso
8	The Rolling Stones
9	Chris Isaak
10	Jules Shear
11	Eric Hisaw
12	Jon Dee Graham
13	Mary Cutrufello
14	The Who
15	The Byrds
16	Van Morrison
17	Dave Alvin
18	Little Pink;Mary Battiata
19	Ron Flynt
20	Elliott Murphy
21	Matt Harlan
22	Ian Hunter
23	John Hiatt
24	Paul Kelly
25	Chuck Berry
26	John Wort Hannam
27	Warren Zevon
28	James McMurtry
29	K.C. Clifford
30	BettySoo

my current favorite songwriters, pt 2

1. James McMurtry: Stephen King says James is the best songwriter in America, and I wouldn’t argue with him. McMurtry writes about small towns, moving on, drawbridge mentalities, and some characters who are just plain mean. All are a little ‘off plumb’. I grew up in the suburbs, but everything about Levelland is familiar to me, from the marching band playing Three Dog Night’s “Joy to the World” to the changes central air and cable tv bring to a town and community, to the drive to get away. Personal favorites for your IPod: Levelland, Where’s Johnny, Childish Things, Just Us Kids, Out Here in the Middle (Live), We Can’t Make It Here Anymore, and No More Buffalo (live), But I could list 20 more songs as easily with no dropoff in quality. He’s never made a bad album, though Where’d You Hide the Body, Childish Things, and Live in ‘Aught Three particularly stand out to me.

2. Dave Alvin: Dave wrote songs for his brother Phil to sing in the Blasters, but on his own has developed his own sound that combines blues, rock, folk, country, and his voice has progressed into a warm, convincing vehicle for his hard luck stories. I probably like King of California best of his CDs, but they’re all good, including his latest, Eleven Eleven, which not only rocks harder, but contains a beautiful song for the late Amy Farris, who was the first person we recorded with in Austin. Personal favorites: California Snow, Ashgrove, From a Kitchen Table, Dry River, Bus Station, Black Rose of Texas.   Also, X’s version of Dave’s 4th of July, as well as anything by the Blasters.

3. Paul Kelly is from Australia, has 20+ albums filled with great radio ready songs, and is so eclectic that a friend (say, Geoffrey Himes) and I might love the same album and have totally different songs as favorites. Listen to the songs Deeper Water, When I First Met Your Ma, and Dumb Things, and if you don’t think they’re three of the best songs ever written, well you’re definitely reading the wrong blog. Deeper Water, Under the Sun, and his bluegrass album Foggy Highway are the CDs I go to the most, but even my least favorites of his have three or four songs that are just great.

4. Elizabeth Cook: Her Rodney Crowell produced Balls (as in “it takes balls to be a woman”) album was Sherry’s and my most played CD of 2008 and sounds like a modern day Loretta or Dolly without the Countrypolitan excess. And she covers the Velvet Underground and makes it fit. Just a gorgeous record. But her next album, Welder, while a less immediately likable album, is an artistic step forward as a songwriter, especially the brilliant Heroin Addict Sister.  Additional songs to download: Always Tomorrow (written by her husband Tim Carroll and our most played song of 2009), Balls, Down Girl, Gonna Be.  

5. Sam Baker:    Sam is a poet and all three of his albums are beautiful. Sam sings in a cracked voice, and plays lefthanded because of injuries suffered in the incident that is the basis for his first record, but every simple note is perfect. When I first played his first CD, Mercy (as in “everyone’s at the mercy of another one’s dream”), it took me an hour to get past the first song and onto song two. He writes about what happens when one half of a couple together for 50 years dies, about what happens when an accident tears your life apart, about a single Mom breaking down at a Wendy’s in Waco, about the inability to forget a loss 15 years later. I like Mercy best of his albums, but Pretty World runs a close second, and if Cotton was the only album I had of his, it would still be one of my favorite records. Except for the incredible Waves, I think of the albums as a piece (beautiful production from Tim Lorsch and Walt Wilkens) and rarely think of the songs individually, but check out Thursday, Pretty World, Sweetly Undone, or Broken Fingers if you want to hear what he sounds like. Not for everyone, but right up Jim & Sherry’s alley.