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Cheryl Wheeler
Solo artist Baltimore County United States
Cheryl Wheeler is an artist from Baltimore County. Cheryl Wheeler has 5 chart appearances on 5 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Driving Home”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #325. The station that charted Cheryl Wheeler most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 2 appearances.
Cheryl Wheeler's Driving Home, from 1993, finds a contemporary folk singer-songwriter who has spent decades on the road across America and has more than a dozen albums to show for it. Born in 1951, she has built her audience the slow way, and in Boston and around New England she has built a devoted cult following on local radio and the folk circuit.
Her shows are half concert and half stand-up. She can have a crowd howling at her stories and self-deprecating asides, then turn around and silence the room with a ballad, and the voice is the thing that does it: clear, warm and unshowy, the kind that makes a simple song land hard.
The title track of Driving Home has that quiet pull, an unhurried, reflective folk song with a country ache in the melody and the steady rhythm of a long drive at night.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cheryl Wheeler on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Driving Home | 1 | #325 | – | – | |
| 2 | When Fall Comes To New England | 1 | #1045 | – | – | |
| 3 | Is It Peace or Prozac | 1 | #1805 | – | – | |
| 4 | If It Were Up To Me | 1 | #830 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1045 | When Fall Comes To New England | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2010 | 325 | Driving Home | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) |
| 2009 | 830 | If It Were Up To Me | WYEP 913 Essential Songs |
| 2006 | 698 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 2001 | 1805 | Is It Peace or Prozac | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
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