Folk Alley | Listener Poll - Favorite Music of 2012

Listener Poll - Favorite Music of 2012

Folk Alley Listener Poll - Top Folk Picks of 2012

Folk Alley listeners from all over the world voted for their favorite music heard on Folk Alley in 2012.

Below is the Top 50 Listener Poll results of the year!

Congrats to the artists and thanks for voting!

Click here to see last year's Listener Poll results.

Click here to see Folk Alley host and staff picks from 2011.

	Artist	Name	Label
1	Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer	Little Blue Egg	Red House
2	Iris Dement	Sing the Delta	Flariella Records
3	Carolina Chocolate Drops	Leaving Eden	Nonesuch
4	Mumford and Sons	Babel	Glassnote Entertainment Group
5	Bonnie Raitt	Slipstream	Redwing Records
6	Mary Chapin Carpenter	Ashes and Roses	ZOE
7	Lucy Kaplansky	Reunion	Red House Records
8	Bob Dylan	Tempest
9	Nanci Griffith	Intersection	Hell No Records
10	The Lumineers	The Lumineers	Dualtone Music Group
11	Old Crow Medicine Show	Carry Me Back	ATO Records
12	The Stray Birds	The Stray Birds	self
13	Punch Brothers	Who's Feeling Young Now?	Nonesuch
14	Brandi Carlile	Bear Creek	Columbia Records
15	Jerry Douglas	Traveler	Rounder Records
16	Tim O' Brien & Darrel Scott (Live)	We're Usually A Lot Better Than This	Full Light Records
17	Robin & Linda Williams	These Dark Old Hills	Red House Records
18	Loudon Wainwright III	Older Than My Old Man Now
19	Lyle Lovett	Release Me	Curb Records
20	Shawn Colvin	All Fall Down	Nonesuch
21	Sara Watkins	Sun Midnight Sun	Nonesuch
22	Anais Mitchell	Young Man In America	Wilderland Records
23	Chris Smither	Hundred Dollar Valentine	Homunculus Music/Mighty Albert
24	The Tallest Man On Earth	There's No Leaving Now	Dead Oceans
25	Darrell Scott	Long Ride Home	Full Light Records
26	Kathy Mattea	Calling Me Home	Sugar Hill
27	The Chieftans	Voice of Ages
28	John Fullbright	From the Ground Up	Blue Dirt Records
29	Mariel Vandersteel	Hickory
30	Antje Duvekot	New Siberia	Pantjebare Publishing
31	Black Prairie	A Tear In the Eye Is A Wound In the Heart	Sugar Hill Records
32	Kathleen Edwards	Voyageur	Zoe Records
33	The Honey Dewdrops	Silver Lining
34	Dala	Best Day	Compass Records
35	Rayna Gellert	Old Light: Songs from My Childhood & Other Gone Worlds	StorySound Records
36	Le Vent Du Nord	Tromper Le Temps	Borealis
37	Tift Merritt	Traveling Alone	Yep Roc Records
38	Gretchen Peters	Hello Cruel World	Scarlet Letter Records
39	Willie Nelson	Heroes	Legacy Recordings
40	June Tabor & Oysterband	Ragged Kingdom	Topic
41	Cahalen Morrison & Eli West	Our Lady of the Tall Trees	self
42	Bill Staines	Beneath Some Lucky Star	"Red House Records, Inc."
43	Jimmy LaFave	Depending On The Distance	Music Road Records
44	Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell	KIN: Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell	Vanguard
45	Caroline Herring	Camilla	SIGNATURE SOUNDS
46	Loreena McKennitt Trio	Troubadours On The Rhine	Quinlan Road Music LTD
47	Rose Cousins	We Have Made a Spark	Old Farm Pony Records
48	Amos Lee	As the Crow Flies (EP)
49	Steep Canyon Rangers	Nobody Know You
50	Tramples By Turtles	Stars & Satellites

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I would say MilkDrive's new album WAVES. It's definitely at the top of my list, these guys are awesome!

Posted by Sarah on December 12, 2012

Mariel Vandersteel's album "Hickory" is as wonderful as she is!

Posted by Bryan on December 12, 2012

Mariel Vandersteele's "Hickory" is a great album!

Posted by Doug Oines on December 11, 2012

Listen to Mariel Vandersteele's "Hickory". It is a great blend of Irish music, the fiddle style of Norway (she plays the Hardanger fiddle) and tunes from Appalachia. She creates a soulful and exciting palate of roots music, which is so very rich in texture.

Posted by shay on December 11, 2012

Cahalen Morrison & Eli West, it's my fave of the ones I've heard.

Posted by Guy Johnson on December 11, 2012

Speaking of up and comers. Everyone should check out Out With The Crow by The Haunted Windchimes. A great CD from beginning to end. Check 'em out here: http://blanktaperecords.org/music/out-with-the-crow.html

Posted by JR on December 11, 2012

Give Cahalen Morrison & Eli West, The James Low Western Front, and Peter Mulvey careful listens and tell me that any of these don't deserve inclusion in the top ten. It seems hard to have great small-scale lesser known acts competing with the Bonnie Raitt's of the world. I'd support some sort of "major artist" "up and comer" distinction.

Posted by Marc on December 11, 2012

Great list, some real gems in there. Glad to see Phoebe Hunt made the list, her recent CD is awesome, probably why it got there.

Posted by Phil on December 11, 2012

steve forbert!

Posted by on December 11, 2012

Another wonderful album not on the list is Emy Phelps' "Look Up Look Down." Her songwriting is wonderful, and she's got an amazing list of supporting musicians, including Darol Anger, Mike Block, and Brittany Haas.

Posted by Amy on December 11, 2012

The Stringdusters 'Silver Sky' is on the list, but it's last because we just added it last week...and our form won't let us sort it with the rest of the 'The' bands)....and yes, Goat Rodeo was last year.

Posted by Linda on December 11, 2012

Missing The Infamous Stingdusters - Silver Sky and The Goat Rodeo Sessions (maybe those were 2011...?)

Posted by JJ Cale on December 11, 2012

Hi GeeRose, John Fullbright 'From the Ground Up' is on the list. He's one of our faves here at Folk Alley too!

Posted by Linda on December 03, 2012

2 more of my favs not on the list yet--From the Ground Up, by John Fullbright & Where the Darkness Goes, by Awna Teixeira

Posted by GeeRose on December 03, 2012

Hard to vote here; too many great artists! Saw the Stray Birds in person this wk; they are stupendous!

Posted by bob cole on December 03, 2012

Hard to vote here; too many great artists! Saw the Stray Birds in person this wk; they are stupendous!

Posted by bob cole on December 03, 2012

Very handy list too, for picking Holiday gifts!

Posted by Monohair on December 02, 2012

So many good ones. Hard to narrow it down to just 10!

Posted by Jeff on December 01, 2012

A great list!

Posted by Chuck on November 30, 2012

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