New Show Airs Today

Tune in to wgwg this afternoon at 5pm. We've got a news show for you. Every Friday at 5pm (just after the news) I'll set down with Noel and we will count down the top 10 CDs of the week. Listen in and see who made it to number one!!!!

The Top 10 List

Thanks for sending in your Top 10 lists. We have crunched the numbers and here at the results.
Listener Top Ten for 2007
1. Patty Griffen - Children Running Through
2. Lucinda Williams - West
3. Emmylou Harris - Songbird
4. Sons of Bill - A Far Cry From Freedom
5. Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer
6. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Rising Sand
7. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
8. Kelly Willis - Translated From Love
9. Tater - Where the Metal Meets the Grass
10. Son Volt - The Search

Playlist 01-03-08 and Top 10

6am
Later Today I'll Post on this Blog the Listener Top 10 for 2007. The List will also be posted to the WGWG web page. Eventually I'll get around to posting the top 100 on the website. Hope you caught the top 10 show Helen and I did on the air Yesterday. We recorded it and I'll get around placing a link on the show later.
Micheal Reno Harrell - Hy Annie
Little Big Town - As Good as Gone
Jonathan Byrd - Ash County
Levon Helm - False Hearted Lover Blues
John Mellencamp - The Americans
The Beatles - Only a Northern Song
Emmylou Harris - A Love That Will Never Grow Cold
Deana Carter and Shooter Jennings - Good Hearted Woman
The Mavericks - Would You Believe
J. J. Cale - Ooh La La
Old School Freight Train - C Tune (request)
King Wilkie - Wrecking Ball (Request)
Pete Drodge - All Lite Up
Dwight Yoakam - My Heart Skips a Beat
Larry Keel - Durham's Bull
Larry Cordle - Ice Cream Man
7am
Emmylou Harris and the Band - Evangeline (request)
Neil Young - Ever After
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham - Memphis Women and Chicken
Elizabeth Cook - Times are Tough in Rock N Roll
The Allman Brother's Band - Don't Keep Me Wondering
Pieta Brown - In My Mind I Was Talking to Loretta
Loretta Lynn - I Miss Being Mrs.
Norah Jones - Loretta
Townes Van Zandt - To Live's to Fly
Guy Clark - Hangin' Your Life on the Wall
John Prine - Souvenirs
Lucinda Williams - People Talkin'
Steve Earle - Jericho Road
Malcolm Holcombe - Evelyn
8am
Nanci Griffth - Drive In Movies and Dashboard Light
Mike Strauss - Lesser of the Two
Gram Parsons and Flying Burrito Bros. - Dark End of the Street
Michelle Malone - Winter Muscadine
Yarn - Don't Break My Heart Again
Luka Bloom - Exploring the Blue
Beth Orton with Ryan Adams - Concrete Sky
Hackensaw Boys - Lookout Dog
Dar Williams - Spring Street
Jack Ingram - We're All In This Together
Iris DeMent - Mama's Opry
Last Train Home - Last Good Kiss
Kasey Chambers - If I Were You

back to regular programing and top 10 lists

Well Christmas is over and we are back to regular programing. Hope you enjoyed the special music we presented for the Hoilday. We are still taking your top 10 lists and we will have the numbers crunched next week so we can give you the listeners top 10 list.
Just email your list to info@wgwg.org.

Playlist 12-07-07 Sunny Sweeney's Birthday and Steven King's top CDs of the Year

Happy Birthday to Sunny Sweeney, she turns 31 today.

Steven King has picked his top seven CDs of the year (said he could not find ten) His No. 1 pick is Steve Earle’s “Washington Square Serenade,” followed by Wilco’s “Sky Blue Sky,” . There is some stuff in his list that I’ve not heard of or if I’ve heard of it, it does not apply to this blog but he does pick Lyle Lovett and His Large Band’s “It’s Not Big It’s Large” ,John Fogerty’s “Revival” and Southern Culture on the Skids’ “Countrypolitan Favorites.”

6am
Will Hoge - Those Were the Days
Jump - Midnight
Rick Spritzer - Back to Blue
JJ Cale - Waymore's Blues
Zero 7 - Home
Bob Dylan - The Times They are a Changing
John Brown's Body - Picking Up
Levon Helm - Feelin' Good
Diana Krall - White Christmas
Will Kimbrough - Eden Prarie
Van Morrison - What Am I Living For
Pieta Brown - Rollin' Down the Track
Trey Anastasio - Sweet Dreams Melinda
Mountain Heart - Heart Like a Road Sign (request)
7am
Richard Thompson - Bad Monkey (request)
Bob Dylan - I Shall Be Released (request)
Two Dollar Pistols - I Still Need Her
Kelly Willis - Stone's Throw Away (request)
Kelly Willis - Losing You
Ricky Scaggs - Uncle Pen
Sunny Sweeney - If I Could
Mindy Smith - My Holiday

Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez - Maybellene

Billy Joe Shaver and Flaco Jimenez - Feliz Navidad

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Please Read the Letter

Steve Earle - Tennessee Blues (Steven King's pick for #1 CD of 2007)

David Gray - Babylon (request)

8am

John Fogerty - Somebody Help Me

Emmylou Harris - Speed of Sound (I Love Emmylou !!!)

Kane Welch Kaplin - Highland Mary

Toni Price - Ninety-Nine Pounds

David Grisman and Jerry Garcia - Louis Collins

Earl Scruggs and Hylo Brown - Cumberland Gap (request)

Mary Gauthiier - Please

Lyle Lovett - Up in Indiana

Shooter Jennings - The Last Time I'll Let You Down

Dwight Yoakam - Close Up the Honkey Tonks

Playlist 11-30-07 Top 10 List

Go to wgwg.org to look at a listing of some of the great releases of 2007. Then send in your top 10 list for the year. Just email it to info@wgwg.org. We will added the numbers all up and come up with the listeners top 10 list of the year. I've got mine done and will post it here after Christmas.
6am
Burrito Deluxe - Disciples of the Truth
Ari Hest - Strangers Again
Al Dunkleman - Quittin' Time
Johnny Irion - She Cast Fire
Pete Francis - Stones
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Santana and Citizen Cope - Sideways
Levon Helm - The Mountain
Flatt and Scruggs - Down the Road (request)
King Wilkie - Wrecking Ball (request)
Pam Tillis - Have Yourself a Mary Little Christmas
Rhonda Vincent - Christmas Times a Coming
Gov't Mule - Soulshine
Jim Lauderdale - This is the last time
Kelly Willis - Sweet Little One
7am
Tres Chicas - Drop Me Down
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Alison Krauss - Shimmy Down the Chimney
The Marshall Tucker Band - Blue Ridge Mountain Sky
The Hackensaw Boys - Look Out Dog Slow Down Train
The Gibson Brothers - Ophilia
Sons of Bill - Roll on Jordon (request)
The Del McCurry Band - Nothing Special
Ryan Shope and the Rubberband - Simplify
Josh Ritter - Rumors
Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers - We've Got to Get Ourselves Together
Eagles - Guilty of the Crime
8am
James Taylor - Have Yourself A Marry Little Christmas
Sarena Ryder - Just Another Day
Mike Farris - Change is Gonna Come
Marc Cohn - Listening to Levon
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
Adrienne Young - River and a Dirt Road
Will Kimbrough - Moves Me Deeply
Eilen Jewell - Heartache Boulavard
Deana Carter - The Weight
Levon Helm - The Mountain
The Gourds - How Will You Shine
Mindy Smith - Santa Will Find You
Old 97s - Question
Robin and Linda Williams - 50,000 Names

playlist 11-29-07 And Top 10 Lists

Its that time again to talk about year end top 10 lists. Email us your top 10 CDs of the year and after Christmas we will compile a top 10 list of your responses. Just send to info@wgwg.org and will take care of the rest! I'm working on mine!!!

6am
Will Kimbrough - Hill Country Girl
Wiley Hunt - Shotgun Shack
Acoustic Syndicate - Dancing to the Requiem
Grace Potter - Mr. Columbus
U2 - Staring at the Sun
Grateful Dead - It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Sister Hazel - All For You (request)
Mountain Heart - Dance the Night Away (request)
Kevin Gordon - 24 Diamonds
Charlie Poole - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues (request)
Mike Farris - Sit Down Servant
Red Stick Ramblers - Les Oiseaux Vont Chanter (request)
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Kick in the Head
7am
John Fogerty - Somebody Help Me
Emmylou Harris - Waltz Across Texes Tonight
Bonnie Raitt - Love Letter
Malcolm Holcombe - Kiss Me When I'm Sleeping
Michael Reno Harrell - The Family Christmas Tree
JJ Cale - Waymore's Blues
John Starling and Carolina Star - Riverboat Song
Bellville Outfit / DesChamps Band - Goin' to New Orleans
John Hiatt - Missing Pieces
Bob Dylan - Rollin and Tumblin
Buddy and Julie Miller - Away in a Manger
Josh Ritter - Right Moves
Railroad Earth - Mighty River
8am
Lucinda Williams - Like a Rose
Marc Higgins Band - Wyoming Echo
Steve Earle - Down Here Below
Johnny Cash - Hey Porter
Tim Easton - Back to the Pain
Adrienne Young - Natural Bridge
Allman Brothers Band - Old Before My Time
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Ramones - Mary Christmas I don't want to fight tonight
Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Peace Rag
Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See