Artist · chart history
Edie Brickell And New Bohemians
Band Dallas United States Formed 1985
Edie Brickell And New Bohemians formed in 1985 in Dallas, United States. Edie Brickell And New Bohemians has 38 chart appearances on 35 radio countdowns from 14 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “What I Am”, which appears on 34 lists with a best position of #9. The station that charted Edie Brickell And New Bohemians most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 12 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1988.
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians came out of Dallas in 1985, a bar band with a loose, rambling sound and a singer who phrased like she was making it all up on the spot and meaning every syllable. Brad Houser's bass and Brandon Aly's drums kept things supple, Kenny Withrow's guitar drifted around the edges, and the songs pulled folk, blues and jazz into a rock setting without making a big show of it. It was an unlikely record for Geffen to be pushing, and all the better for it.
"What I Am" was the song that made their name, a shrugging, sing-song declaration of self that sounded like nobody else on the radio. Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars and then Ghost of a Dog, in 1990, followed, and Matt Chamberlain had joined the ranks along the way.
After Ghost of a Dog, Brickell left the band and married Paul Simon, and for a long while that looked like the whole story. It wasn't: Brickell and the band regrouped in 2006, with a fresh website and a record called Stranger Things, with a lineup that has since come to include John Bush and Eric Presswood.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Edie Brickell And New Bohemians on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What I Am | 34 | #9 | – | 1988 | |
| 2 | My Power | 1 | #28 | – | 2021 | |
| 3 | Little Miss S | 2 | #1250 | – | – | |
| 4 | Black and Blue | 1 | #1500 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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