Adds denoted in Red.

 

Rank Artist / Album Spins
1 The Minus 5
Scott the Hoople in the Dungeon of Horror 33
2 Peter Case
On The Way Downtown: Recorded Live on Folkscene 19
Tie 2 Arthur Alexander
Arthur Alexander (expanded reissue) 19
4 Dori Freeman
Letters Never Read 17
Tie 4 Mavis Staples
If All I Was Was Black 17
6 The Weather Station
The Weather Station 16
Tie 6 Various: Twelve String High Vol 2
Twelve String High Vol 2 16
Tie 6 King Leg
Meet King Leg 16
9 Scott Miller
The Ladies Auxiliary 15
Tie 9 AJ Croce
Just Like Medicine 15
Tie 9 Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile
Lotta Sea Lice 15
Tie 9 Eilen Jewell
Down Hearted Blues 15
Tie 9 Billy Bragg
Bridges Not Walls 15
Tie 9 Josh Ritter
Gathering 15
Tie 9 Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings
Soul Of A Woman 15
Tie 9 Kacy and Clayton
The Siren’s Song 15
Tie 9 Margo Price
All American Made 15
Tie 9 Actual Wolf
Faded Days 15
19 Dan Auerbach
Waiting on a Song 14
Tie 19 The Morning Line
Smoke 14
Tie 19 Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer
Not Dark Yet 14
Tie 19 Joseph Childress
Joseph Childress 14
Tie 19 Lilly Hiatt
Trinity Lane 14
Tie 19 Hayley Thompson King
Psychotic Melancholia 14
Tie 19 Whitney Rose
Rule 62 14
Tie 19 Mike Adams At His Honest Weight
Steals the Hits Off Country Beauties 14
Tie 19 Blitzen Trapper
Wild and Reckless 14
Tie 19 Nicole Atkins
Goodnight Rhonda Lee 14
Tie 19 The Texas Gentlemen
TX Jelly 14
Tie 19 JD McPherson
Undivided Heart and Soul 14
Tie 19 Van Morrison
Roll With The Punches 14
Tie 19 Ryan Koenig
Two Different Worlds 14
Tie 19 Wynntown Marshals
After All These Years 14
Tie 19 Kim Wilson
Blues and Boogie Vol. 1 14
Tie 19 Lucinda Williams
This Sweet Old World 14
36 The Rubs
Impossible Dream 13
Tie 36 The Feelies
In Between 13
Tie 36 Gun Outfit
Out of Range 13
Tie 36 Los Straitjackets
Sing Along With (reissue) 13
Tie 36 The On and Ons
Welcome Aboard 13
Tie 36 Dead Rock West
More Love 13
Tie 36 Together Pangea
Bulls and Roosters 13
Tie 36 Dreaming Spires Present Paisley Overground
Paisley Overground 13
Tie 36 Squeeze
The Knowledge 13
Tie 36 Michael Head and The Red Elastic Band
Adiós Señor Pussycat 13
Tie 36 The Hanging Stars
Over the Silvery Lake 13
Tie 36 NHD
And the Devil Went up to Portland 13
Tie 36 The Red Button
Now It’s All This! 13
Tie 36 El Goodo
By Order of the Moose 13
Tie 36 The Strypes
Spitting Image 13
Tie 36 Groovy Movies
Groovy Movies 13
Tie 36 Wilco
A.M. and Being There – Deluxe 13
Tie 36 Robyn Gibson
Free!  Bob of the Pops Vol. 2 13
Tie 36 Shilpa Ray
Door Girl 13
55 The Margraves
Primitive Beat 12
Tie 55 Langhorne Slim
Lost at Last Vol. 1 12
Tie 55 The Primary 5
Go 12
Tie 55 Danny Dodge
Baby, Let Me Be Your Mess 12
Tie 55 Jon Langford
Four Lost Souls 12
Tie 55 The Carousels
Sail Me Home, St. Clair 12
Tie 55 Jessica Lea Mayfield
Sorry Is Gone 12
Tie 55 The Dials
That Was the Future 12
Tie 55 NRBQ
Happy Talk 12
Tie 55 Chris Difford
Let’s Be Combe Avenue (Demos, 1972) 12
Tie 55 Jim Lauderdale
London Southern 12
Tie 55 The Flamin Groovies
Fantastic Plastic 12
Tie 55 Daniel Wylie Cosmic Rough Riders
Scenery for Dreamers 12
Tie 55 Samantha Fish
Belle Of The West 12
69 Lee Ann Womack
The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone 11
Tie 69 Cory Chisel and Adriel Denae
Tell Me True 11
Tie 69 Timmy The Teeth
Ain’t That Bad 11
Tie 69 Chris Hillman
Bidin’ My Time 11
Tie 69 Blind Boys of Alabama
Almost Home 11
Tie 69 Willie Watson
Folksinger Vol. 2 11
Tie 69 Steve Earle and The Dukes
So You Wannabe an Outlaw 11
Tie 69 Christian Lopez
Red Arrow 11
Tie 69 Charley Crockett
Lil GL’s Honky Tonk Jubilee 11
Tie 69 Nora Jane Struthers
Champion 11
Tie 69 Various: This Is Rock n Roll Radio
This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio, Vol. 4 11
Tie 69 Jeff Rymes
Even if the Sun Dont Shine 11
Tie 69 Casey James
Strip It Down 11
Tie 69 Dan Mills
Something Good 11
Tie 69 Sammy Brue
I Am Nice 11
Tie 69 Jenny Dont and The Spurs
Call of the Road 11
Tie 69 Zephaniah OHora
This Highway 11
Tie 69 Lydia Loveless
Boy Crazy and Single(s) 11
87 Tommy Castro and The Painkillers
Stompin’ Ground 10
Tie 87 Leon Russell
On A Distant Shore 10
Tie 87 Jack Cooper
Sandgrown 10
Tie 87 Dan Reeder
Nobody wants to be you 10
Tie 87 The Vulgar Boatmen
Wide Awake 10
Tie 87 Randy Newman
Dark Matter 10
Tie 87 Various: Songs of Steve Forbert
An American Troubadour The Songs Of Steve Forbert 10
Tie 87 Rick Estrin and The Nightcats
Groovin’ In Greaseland 10
Tie 87 Legendary Shack Shakers
After You’ve Gone 10
Tie 87 Daniele Luppi and Parquet Courts
MILANO 10
Tie 87 The Sweetback Sisters
King Of Killing Time 10
Tie 87 Bette Smith
Jetlagger 10
Tie 87 The Yellow Melodies
Life 10
Tie 87 David Rawlings
Poor David’s Almanack 10
Tie 87 Tyler Childers
Purgatory 10
Tie 87 Joan Osborne
Songs of Bob Dylan 10
Tie 87 Moot Davis
Hierarchy Of Crows 10
Tie 87 Joe Henry
Thrum 10
Tie 87 Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams
Contraband Love 10
Tie 87 Jolie Holland and Samantha Parton
Wildflower Blues 10
Tie 87 The Nines
Colour Radio (American transistor) 10
Tie 87 Bootsy Collins
World Wide Funk 10
Tie 87 EZTV
High in Place 10
Tie 87 Dennis Johnson
Rhythmland 10
Tie 87 Luther Russell
Selective Memories: An Anthology 10
Tie 87 Derek Hoke
Bring The Flood 10
Tie 87 Gregg Allman
Southern Blood 10
Tie 87 Steelism
ism 10
Tie 87 Cash Box Kings
Royal Mint 10
Tie 87 Brother Roy
Last Man Standing 10
Tie 87 Travis Meadows
First Cigarette 10
Tie 87 The Deep Dark Woods
Yarrow 10
Tie 87 Various Red Hot
A Memphis Celebration of Sun Records 10
Tie 87 The Deslondes
Hurry Home 10
Tie 87 Hiss Golden Messenger
Hallelujah Anyhow 10
Tie 87 King Khan
Murderburgers 10
Tie 87 Iron and Wine
Beast Epic 10
Tie 87 Drums And Wires UK
Ups Downs and Merry Go Rounds 10
Tie 87 Jackie Greene
The Modern Lives Vol1 10
126 Scott Gagner
Pins & Needles 9
Tie 126 Chris Pierce
You’ve Got To Feel It! 9
Tie 126 Various: Follow The Sun
Follow The Sun 9
Tie 126 Rob Martinez
Today My Mind Tomorrow The World 9
Tie 126 Nick Heyward
Woodland Echoes 9
Tie 126 Fastball
Step Into Light 9
Tie 126 Pugwash
Silverlake 9
Tie 126 Lost Film
Broken Spectre 9
Tie 126 Buffalo Killers
Alive and Well In Ohio 9
Tie 126 The Singles
Sweet Tooth 9
Tie 126 Widowspeak
Expect the Best 9
Tie 126 Gerry Devine and the Hi Beams
Fire Lane (Remastered with Bonus Tracks) 9
Tie 126 The Heartache State
Last of the Buffalo 9
Tie 126 Chris Bell
Looking Forward: The Roots Of Big Star 9
Tie 126 Mel O Madnezz
What You Getting High On 9
Tie 126 Kimon Kirk
Baby Who Knows / Powerstroke 9
Tie 126 Various: Cheap Old Wine and Whiskey
Cheap Old Wine and Whiskey 9
Tie 126 The Elders
TRUE 9
Tie 126 Various: Marshmellow Skies
Marshmallow Skies: 60’s Pop Stars Flirt with
Psychedelia
9
Tie 126 Sitcom Neighbor
Shag 9
Tie 126 Bash and Pop
Friday Night Is Killing Me (Expanded Reissue) 9
Tie 126 Sounding Arrow
Loving Is Breathing 9
Tie 126 Stone Ridge
Stone Ridge Covered 9
Tie 126 Arvidson and Butterflies
Blank Season EP 9
Tie 126 Ryan Wong
More Milk 9
Tie 126 The Gentlemens Agreements
Last Call for the Gentlemen 9
Tie 126 The Pengwins
Box Set, Vol. 4 9
Tie 126 Cloud Nothings
Life Without Sound 9
Tie 126 The Kaisers
Wishing Street 9
Tie 126 Len Price 3
Kentish Longtails 9
156 Alvvays
Antisocialites 8
Tie 156 Chris Lund
Great Event Syndrome 8
Tie 156 Winterpills
Colorblind 8
Tie 156 Brent Cobb
Aint A Road Too Long 8
Tie 156 Juana Molina
Halo 8
Tie 156 Bronco Bullfrog
Marmalade 8
Tie 156 Greg Ashley
Pictures of Saint Paul Street 8
Tie 156 Bash and Pop featuring Nicole Atkins
Too Late 8
Tie 156 The Lost Ragas
Where James Once Played / I’ll Be Gone 8
Tie 156 Nick Capaldi
Neon Heart 8
Tie 156 Birds of Chicago
American Flowers 8
Tie 156 Calexico
The Thread That Keeps Us 8
Tie 156 Ultimate Painting
Dust On My Eyes 8
Tie 156 Radney Foster
For You To See The Stars 8
Tie 156 Wesley Fuller
Inner City Dream 8
Tie 156 Replacements
For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986 8
Tie 156 Chase Hamblin
Fools 8
173 The Soap Opera
Eggs to Hach / No Name No Packdrill 7
Tie 173 Lee Fields and The Expressions
Time 7
Tie 173 Coke Belda (2)
Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels) 7
Tie 173 Courtney Barnett (1)
How to Boil an Egg 7
Tie 173 Oister
Pre-Dwight Twilley Band 1973-74 Teac Tapes 7
Tie 173 Deer Tick (2)
Deer Tick Vol. 2 7
Tie 173 The Brixton Riot
Close Counts 7
180 Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives
WAY OUT WEST 6
Tie 180 Joecephus and The George Jonestown Massacre
Five Minutes To Live: A Tribute To Johnny Cash 6
Tie 180 Courtney Barnett (2)
Three Packs a Day 6
183 Matthew Sweet
Tomorrow Forever 5
Tie 183 Bob and Gene
If This World Were Mine… 5
Tie 183 Ben Vaughn Quintet
Piece de resistance 5
Tie 183 The Infamous Stringdusters
Undercover 2 5
Tie 183 Hurray For The Riff Raff
The Navigator 5
188 Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real
Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real 4
Tie 188 Ray Wylie Hubbard
Tell The Devil I’m Gettin’ There As Fast As I Can 4
Tie 188 Larissa Tandy
The Grip 4
Tie 188 Sherman Holmes Project
The Richmond Sessions 4
Tie 188 Justin Townes Earle
Kids In The Street 4
Tie 188 Dusty Dave and The Heart Attacks
One Beer Left 4
Tie 188 Valerie June
The Order Of Time 4
Tie 188 Stanton Moore
With You In My Mind – The Songs of Allen Toussaint 4
Tie 188 Mitch Woods
Friends Along The Way 4
Tie 188 Terry Anderson
Jimmy’s Arcade 4
Tie 188 Cotton Mather
Wild Kingdom 4
Tie 188 Brace Cooper Jutz
Profiles in Courage, Frailty, & Discomfort 4
Tie 188 Dion
Kickin’ Child: The Lost Album 1965 4
Tie 188 Wesley Stace
Wesley Stace’s John Wesley Harding 4
Tie 188 Turnpike Troubadours
A Long Way From Your Heart 4
Tie 188 WFMU Michael Shelley’s Pure Dyn-o-mite!
Super Hits Of The Seventies: Pure Dyn-O-Mite 4
Tie 188 Richard Thompson
Acoustic Classics II 4
Tie 188 Calico the band
Under Blue Skies 4
Tie 188 Larkin Poe
Peach 4
Tie 188 Brian Lisik and The Unfortunates
We’re Sorry 4
Tie 188 Gill Landry
Love Rides A Dark Horse 4
Tie 188 Billy Burnette
Crazy Like Me 4
Tie 188 Modern Mal
The Misanthrope Family Album 4
Tie 188 Big Star
Complete Third 4
Tie 188 Chris Church
Limitations of Source Tape 4
213 Tom Irwin
All That Love 3
Tie 213 Eli Fox
Tall Tales 3
Tie 213 Lazer Lloyd
Freedom’s Child 3
Tie 213 Great Willow
Find Yourself In Los Angeles 3
Tie 213 Richard X Heyman
Incognito 3
Tie 213 Shake Some Action
Crash Through or Crash 3
Tie 213 Robert Kuhn
Maria the Gun 3
Tie 213 Green Circles
No room for squares 3
Tie 213 Lee Roy Parnell
Midnight Believer 3
Tie 213 Matt Patershuk
Same as I Ever Have Been 3
Tie 213 Coke Belda (1)
A Tribute to the Bee Gees 3
Tie 213 Peter Lewis
Just Like Jack 3
Tie 213 Juanita Stein
America 3
Tie 213 Greg Townson
Back To My Old Self Again 3
Tie 213 Fairbanks and The Lonesome Light
Nothing To Escape 3
Tie 213 Chad VanGaalen
Light Information 3
Tie 213 First Aid Kit
It’s a Shame 3
Tie 213 Slaid Cleaves
Ghost on the Car Radio 3
Tie 213 Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn
Echo In The Valley 3
Tie 213 Plasticsoul
Therapy 3
Tie 213 Willie Nile
Positively Bob: Willie Nile Sings Bob Dylan 3
Tie 213 Matt Urmy
Out Of The Ashes 3
Tie 213 John Fogerty
Blue Moon Swamp 3
Tie 213 Elizabeth Erin Kemler
The Weight of Mortal Skin 3
Tie 213 Michael Blessing
Infinite Tuesday: Autobiographical Riffs 3
Tie 213 Hannah Aldridge
Gold Rush 3
Tie 213 Diesel Park West
Summer Of Love 3
Tie 213 Happyness
Write In 3
Tie 213 Captain Storm
On The Waterfront 3
Tie 213 Cheap Trick
We’re All Alright! 3
Tie 213 Rob Clarke and The Wooltones
Better Times 3
Tie 213 Radiophonic Tuckshop
Running Commentary EP 3
Tie 213 Alex Williams
Better Than Myself 3
Tie 213 Tex Rubinowitz and Bob Newscaster
The Old Man Mississippi 3
Tie 213 Kyle Craft
Full Circle Nightmare 3
Tie 213 The Americans
I’ll Be Yours 3
Tie 213 Fred Wickham
Mariosa Delta 3
Tie 213 Boris McCutcheon
I’m Here Let Me In 3
Tie 213 Mike Penny and his Moonshiners
Rock Me Daddy-O 3
Tie 213 Deer Tick (1)
Deer Tick Vol. 1 3
Tie 213 Whiskey Shivers
Some Part of Something 3
Tie 213 The Coffis Brothers and The Mountain Men
Roll With It 3
Tie 213 Wild Ponies
Galax 3
Tie 213 Chicano Batman
Freedom Is Free 3
Tie 213 BB and The Blues Shacks
Reservation Blues 3
Tie 213 Randy Casey
RC 3
Tie 213 Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson
In Their Own Words with Vin Scelsa 3
Tie 213 Husker Du
Savage Young Du 3
Tie 213 Devin Sinha
Our Fathers Were Lions 3
Tie 213 The Doughboys
Front Street Rebels 3
Tie 213 The Surfin Burritos
The Surfin Burritos 3
Tie 213 The Eddies
Return 3
Tie 213 AJ and The Rockin Trio
Rockin’ The Blues 3
Tie 213 India Ramey
Snake Handler 3
Tie 213 The Wailin Jennys
Fifteen 3
Tie 213 Chip Taylor
The Warner Brothers Years 3
Tie 213 The White Buffalo
Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights 3
Tie 213 Andrew Taylor
From The Outside Looking In 3
Tie 213 TimeWhys
Autumn of Love 3
Tie 213 The Forty Nineteens
Good Fortune 3
Tie 213 Country Lips
Till the Daylight Comes 3
Tie 213 Burning Ferns
Public Mono 3
Tie 213 Rick Shea and The Losin End
The Town Where I Live 3
Tie 213 Elliott Brood
Ghost Gardens 3
Tie 213 Trip Wire
Cold Gas Giants 3
Tie 213 Jeff Mix and The Songhearts
Lost Vegas Hiway 3
Tie 213 Twin Brother
Alone In Austin 3
Tie 213 Ray Davies
Americana 3
Tie 213 Mike Eldred Trio
Elvis Unleaded 3
Tie 213 Bill Carter
Bill Carter 3
Tie 213 Cris Cuddy
Time Bomb Baby 3
Tie 213 Bye Bye Blackbirds
Take Out The Poison 3
Tie 213 Beach Fossils
Somersault 3
Tie 213 Jeffrey Martin
One Go Around 3
Tie 213 Various: Life and Songs of Kris Kristofferson
The Life & Songs of Kris Kristofferson 3
Tie 213 Bruce Cockburn
Bone On Bone 3
Tie 213 Dan Baird and Homemade Sin
Rollercoaster 3
Tie 213 The Mock Turtles
Turtle Soup: Expanded Edition 3
Tie 213 Various: Tribute to John D Loudermilk
A Tribute to John D Loudermilk 3
Tie 213 Arcade Fire
Everything Now 3
Tie 213 Game Theory
Supercalifragile 3
Tie 213 The Naturals
We Are The Naturals 3
Tie 213 Sammy Kershaw
Swamp Poppin’ 3
Tie 213 Jillette Johnson
All I Ever See In You Is Me 3
Tie 213 Sapin
Dark is the Night…On is the Party 3
Tie 213 Jim Byrnes
Long Hot Summer Days 3
Tie 213 Boris Garcia
Around Some Corner 3
Tie 213 Offa Rex
The Queen of Hearts 3
Tie 213 Will Hoge
Anchors Aweigh 3
Tie 213 The Pesos
Casual Encounters #2 3
Tie 213 Legends Of Country
Anything But Country 3
Tie 213 Chuck Berry
CHUCK 3
Tie 213 Action Skulls
Angels Hear 3
Tie 213 Max Wareham
Nobody Knows Anything 3
Tie 213 The Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers Live At The Fonda Theatre 3
Tie 213 Heirs Of Fortune
Circus Of Mirth 3

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