TOP 20 Songs on Acoustic Pie
Based on listeners' online voting!

October 2008

Artist ~ Song ~ Album
Links to all artists' web sites are found on the Artists page
Read more about this month's Top 20 on the Pie Blog!

1. Tracy Chapman ~ Unsung Psalm ~ Telling Stories
2. Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris ~ All the Roadrunning ~ All the Roadrunning
3. Eliza Gilkyson ~ Tennessee Road ~ Your Town Tonight
4. David Wilcox ~ Falling For It ~ Airstream
5. Still on the Hill ~ Take Me to the Other Side ~ Ozark: A Celebration in Song
6. Nancy K. Dillon ~ O Susanna ~ Just Let Me Dream
7. Krista Detor ~ Aurora Means Dawn ~ Wilderness Plots
8. Janis Ian ~ The Great Divide ~ Folk is the New Black
9. Gregory Page ~ Bumble Bees & Me ~ All Make Believe
10. The Garden Verge ~ Shadow of a Habit ~ Shadow of a Habit
11. Don McLean ~ Empty Chairs ~ Solo
12. Catherine MacLellan ~ Snow Day ~ Church Bell Blues
13. Stacey Earle ~ If It Weren't For You ~ Simple Gearle
14. Patty Griffin ~ Mary ~ Flaming Red
15. Kris Delmhorst ~ Galuppi Baldessare ~ Strange Conversation
16. Girlyman ~ Easy Pearls ~ Joyful Sign
17. Catie Curtis ~ Sing ~ Sweet Life
18. The Weepies ~ Little Bird ~ Hideaway
19. Storyhill ~ Highlight ~ Storyhill
20. Stephen Fearing ~ Johnny's Lament ~ Yellowjacket

A government board has proclaimed a huge increase in royalty rates that would force many broadcasts such as Acoustic Pie off the air. Internet radio has always paid higher rates of royalty than any other radio medium. Because I love music and musicians, I'm proud of that. I don't understand why we're now being asked to pay even higher increases, making our fees even more out-of-line with satellite and broadcast radio.

We can't support the music we love if we're not broadcasting.

Because of the public outcry by musicians and listeners (thanks, everybody!), the collection agency SoundExchange agreed on July 13, 2007 to temporarily not enforce the impossibly high rates. This is a troubling compromise and not a permanent solution.

Congress has now passed a bill now called the "Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008" which officially allows negotations between SoundExchange and us small webcasters. Our host Live365 will be negotiating on behalf of Acoustic Pie. I'm hopeful!

Any and all developments on this issue are tracked at the Save Net Radio website. And I'll keep you posted here, too!

~Kelley
Updated Oct 1, 2008