Tim Grimm is a southern Indiana-based folk-Americana singer-songwriter who has recorded a number of albums and songs that have reached the top of the Folk DJ (now FAI Folk Radio) and EuroAmericana charts. He had both the most-played album (A Stranger In This Time) and song (“Gonna Be Great”) on folk radio during 2017, while his 2019 release, Heart Land Again, was the top alum on the Folk DJ Chart that summer. “Woody’s Landlord,” Grimm’s song about Donald Trump’s father, was the most-played song on folk radio in 2016, while “King Of the Folksingers,” a tribute to his friend and musical icon Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, was the #1 song on the Folk DJ songs chart in 2014. Besides having released a dozen albums over the past 20 years, Grimm has worked as an actor in film, theater and television.
[Here’s a link to view a video for the month’s top song, the digital single “Gone” by Tim Grimm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPLKgCwBvug].
The November 2020 Top Albums, Songs and Artists charts are based on 14,627 airplays reported on 483 playlists submitted by 121 different folk DJs.
Top Songs of November 2020
- “Gone” by Tim Grimm (29)
2. “America the Beautiful” by Jesse Palidofsky, Claire Lynch, and Lea
Gilmore (18)
2. “Let Me Tell You What I Think” by Ordinary Elephant (18)
4. “Ghosts of Houston Street” by Raye Zaragoza (17)
4. “Election Day” by Ellis Paul (17)
6. “Windy & Warm” by Doc and Merle Watson (16)
6. “I Think I Am a Soul” by Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche (16)
8. “Thanksgiving Song” by Mary Chapin Carpenter (15)
8. “Mind of a Soldier” by Abbie Gardner (15)
8. “There Be Monsters Here” by Phil Henry (15)
11. “Waiting for the Boatsman” by Adam Hurt (14)
11. “Say Can You See” by Scott Cook (14)
11. “Urge for Going” by Joni Mitchell (14)
