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WMNF (88.5) has always been good about playing local artists but rarely does one top the radio station's playlists. So it warrants mention to note that Will Quinlan, who I interviewed last month, topped the tally with his excellent Navasota album on Mon., July 21. Here's the chart:

 WMNF 88.5 Tampa playlist, July 21, 2008

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ADDS IN BOLD

1)      Will Quinlan and the Diviners  - Navasota  - Self-Release (12)

2)      Hayes Carll  -Trouble In Mind – Lost Highway  (9)

3)      Alejandro Escovedo  - Real Animal  - Back Porch  (7)

4)      Old 97s -  Blame It On Gravity  -  New West  (7)

5)      Austrian Death Machine -  Total Brutal  -  Metal Blade  (7)

6)      Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis – Two men With the Blues – Blue Note  (6)

7)      Emmylou Harris – All I Intended To Be – Nonesuch  (6)

8)      My Morning Jacket  -  Evil Urges -  ATO  (6)

9)      Various Artists  -  Cheatin’ Heart: Tales of Lies & Love – BAAMO (6)

10)     Quiet Village  -  Silent Movie  -  IK7  (6)

11)     She & Him -  Volume 1 -  Merge  (6)

12)     The Chap  - Mega Breakfast  -  Ghostly  (6)

13)     The Hold Steady  -  Stay Positive  -  Vagrant  (5)

14)     Dr. Dog -  Fate  -  Park The Van  (5)

15)     Donna the Buffalo  -  Silver Lined  - Sugar Hill (5)

16)     The Black Angels -  Directions To See a Ghost  -  Light in the Attic  (5)

17)     James Hunter  - The Hard Way  -  Hear Music (4)

18)     Nas  - Untitled -  Def Jam  (4)

19)     John Hiatt – Same Old Man -  New West  (4)

20)     Kudu  -  Back for More: A Remix Collection – Nublu (4)

21)     Passenger – Wicked Mans Rest  Cooking Vinyl  (4)

22)     Fred Eaglesmith  - Tinderbox  - Lonesome Day (4)

23)     Amanda Shaw  - Pretty Runs Out  - Rounder (4) 

24)     Solomon Burke – Like a Fire  -  Shout!Factory  (4)

25)     Have Gun Will Travel -  Casting Shadows Tall As Giants (4)

26)     Conor Oberst – Sausalito single  (4)  

27)     Railroad Earth – Amen Corner  (4)

28)     Maurette Brown  Clark -  The Dream  -  Atlanta  (4)

29)     Hercules and Love Affair  -  Hercules and Love Affair   (4)

30)     The Cool Kids  -  The Bake Sale -  Chocolate Industries (3)

31)     Death Cab for Cutie  - Narrow Stairs  -  Atlantic  (3)

32)     The Explorer’s Club  -  Freedom Wind – Dead Ocean (3)

33)     Carolyn Wonderland  - Miss Understood  (3)

34)     Eli “Paperboy Reed and the True Loves -  Roll With You  -  Q Division  (3)

35)     King Khan and the The Shrines -  The Supreme Justice  -  Vice  (3)

36)     Eric Lindell  -  Low in Cash, Rich on Love  - Alligator  (3)

37)     J*Davey – The Beauty in Distortion -  Independent Media (3)

38)     Fleet Foxes -  Fleet Foxes -  Sub Pop  (3)

39)     N.E.R.D. – Seeing Sounds -  Interscope  (3)

40)     Hybrid Groove  -  Just About Feeling  -  Self – release  (3)

41)     Radiohead  - In Rainbows  - ATO  (3)

42)     Reckless Kelly  -  Bulletproof  -  Yep Roc (3)

43)     Sigur Ros -  Med Sud  -  XL  (3)

44)     Pinetop Perkins & Friends – Pinetop Perkins & Friends -  Telarc  (3)

45)     Manu Chao  -  La Radiolina -  Nacional  (3)

46)     Grupo Fantasma  -  Sonidos gold  -  High Wire  (3)

47)     Dr. John and the Lower 911 -  City That Care Forgets 429 (3)

48)     The Black Ghosts -  The Black Ghosts  -  I Am Sound (3)

49)     Marcia Ball -  Peace, Love & Barbeque -  Alligator  (3)

50)     Cold Play  -  Viva la vida  -  Capitol (3)

51)     Orchestre Baobab -  Made in Dakar  -  Nonesuch  (3)

52)     Silver Jews  -  Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea  -  Drag City (3)

53)     Shelby Lynne -  Just a Little Lovin’ - Lost Highway  (3)

54)     Wild Sweet Orange – We Have Cause To be Uneasy -  Columbia (3)

55)     Various  Artists -  Rmxology -  Delicious Vinyl  (3)

56)     STS9 – Peaceblaster – 1320 (3)

57)     KaiserCartel  -  March Forth -  Bluhammock (3)

58)     Mojo Gurus  - Let’s Get Lit  (3)

59)     The Avett Brothers -  The Second Gleam  - Ramseur (3)

60)     Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – Have Another Ball (3)

61)     Love Psychedlico  -  This is Love Psychodelico  - HackTone  (3)

62)     Chip Taylor  - New Songs of Freedom  -  Train Wreck  (3)

63)     Ben Sollee  - Learning To Bend  -  Tin Ear  (3)

64)     Various Artists  -  Life Beyond Mars: Bowie Covered -  Rapster  (3)