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The Hudson River Sampler can be heard every Saturday from 8 to 10:30 pm on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio.

Wanda's Favorite Folk CDs of 2009

• Battlefield Band: Zama Zama Try Your Luck (Temple)
• Ben Bedford: Land of the Shadows (Hopeful)
• Dan Berggren, John Kirk and Christopher Shaw: North Woods (Sleeping Giant)
• Betty and the Baby Boomers: Where the Heron Waits (Betty Boomer)
• Bop Ensemble: Between Trains (Cordova Bay)
• Boreal Tordu: Les Chevaliers (Kitchen Party)
• Guy Clark: Sometimes the Song Writes You (Dualtone)
• David Ferrard: Across the Troubled Wave (Alter Road)
• John Gorka: So Dark You See (Red House)
• Danny Gotham: Old Friends (Blue Line)
• Tim Grimm: Farm Songs (Vault)
• Matt and Shannon Heaton: Lover's Well (Eats)
• Joe Jencks: Links in a Chain (Turtle Bear)
• James Keelaghan: House of Cards (Borealis)
• Joel Mabus: No Worries Now... (Fossil)
• Steve Martin: The Crow (Rounder)
• Brian McNeill: The Baltic Tae Byzantium (Mad River)
• Jaime Michaels: Crooked (Frumdahart)
• Molasses Creek: Follow the Heron Home (Soundside)
• Zoe Mulford: Bonfires (Azalea City)
• Pierce Pettis: That Kind of Love (Compass)
• Tom Rush: What I Know (Appleseed)
• Tommy Sands: Let the Circle Be Wide (Appleseed)
• Shanneyganook: Volume VII (Shanneyganook)
• James Lee Stanley: Live from Tehachapi, Volumes I and II (Beechwood)
• Chuck Suchy: Unraveling Heart (Little Bluestem/High Horse)
• Michael Troy: Mill Town Boy (Troy Town)
• The Wailin' Jennys: Live from the Mauch Chunk Opera House (Red House)