Tuesday, May 27, 2008

A tale of two cities

At the end of 2007, listeners of 91.9 FM, WFPK, voted for their favorite musical artists of all time. We won't get into the full Top 300, as entertaining as that was...
The local artists who made the list stood out on their own, and this is a Louisville-lovin' music blog, so let's get in to the meat of the matter:

Here are the WFPK listeners' favorite local acts, culled from that survey:
1) Tim Krekel
2) My Morning Jacket
3) Brigid Kaelin
4) Peter Searcy
5) Leigh Ann Yost
6) Cabin
7) Tyrone Cotton
8) The Big Diggity
9) Danny Flannigan and the Rain Chorus
10) VHS or Beta
11) Wax Fang
12) Teneia Sanders
13) Johnny Berry and the Outliers
14) Sub-Urban Situation
15) Heidi Howe
16) The Fervor
17) John Mann
18) Digby
19) Bodeco
20) Will Oldham
21) Squeeze-bot
22) a.m. Sunday
23) Java Men
24) Fire the Saddle
25) Paradigm
26) Freakwater
27) Love Jones
28) Code Red
29) Greg Foresman
30) Merry Pranksters
31) Lucky Pineapple
32) Babylon Dance Band
33) Hog Operation
34) Squirrel Bait
35) Villebillies
36) Muckrakers
37) Yer Girlfriend
38) Days of the New
39) da Mudcats


I know, right?


Here are this local's favorite local acts (listed alphabetically):
1) a.m. Sunday
2) Ayin
3) Babylon Dance Band
4) The Children
5) Crain
6) Dick Sisto
7) Elliott
8) Endpoint
9) Evergreen
10) Fire the Saddle
11) The For Carnation
12) Freakwater
13) Harry Pickens
14) Hog Operation
15) Jamie Barnes
16) Java Men
17) Joe Manning
18) King's Daughters and Sons
19) Kinghorse
20) King Kong
21) Liberation Prophecy
22) Lucky Pineapple
23) My Morning Jacket
24) The Pennies
25) Rachel's
26) Rodan
27) Ronnie Mack and the I'll Beat Your Back Out Band
28) Sean Garrison & Driftin' Luke
29) Second Story Man
30) Seluah
31) Shipping News
32) Slint
33) Speed to Roam
34) Tyrone Cotton
35) Verktum
36) Wax Fang
37) Will Oldham
38) Young Widows
39) Your Food

Please share your comments below. I also look forward to being scolded on other local blogs!