Artist · chart history
The Cactus Blossoms
Band
The Cactus Blossoms has 9 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 2016–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Please Don't Call Me Crazy”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #34. The station that charted The Cactus Blossoms most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2022.
The Cactus Blossoms make music that sounds like it was cut on a warm night in some half-forgotten studio, then smuggled out of Minneapolis decades later. At the heart of the band are two brothers, Jack Torrey and Page Burkum, and the whole trick is in their voices: close sibling harmonies that lean on each other the way only family can, over twangy guitars and an easy country shuffle.
Their self-titled debut arrived in 2011, and You're Dreaming, Easy Way and One Day followed, each one polishing the formula without trying to modernize it away. The sound draws on old-time country, hillbilly records and early rock and roll, and the obvious touchstones are the Everly Brothers and Roy Orbison, with a little of the Byrds' jangle and Duane Eddy's twang in the mix. One Day landed in February 2022 on Walkie Talkie Records, and "Hey Baby" from it is as sweet and lonesome as anything they've done.
In 2024 they went back to Creation Audio in their hometown, the room where the Trashmen made "Surfin' Bird" and the Replacements made Tim, and worked again with engineer and mixer Alex Hall on Every Time I Think About You, their biggest full-band sound yet. On the road, Phillip Hicks, Jake Hanson and Jeremy Hanson fill out the lineup behind the brothers.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Cactus Blossoms on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Please Don't Call Me Crazy | 4 | #34 | – | 2019 | |
| 2 | Hey Baby | 1 | #13 | – | 2022 | |
| 3 | Stoplight Kisses | 2 | #51 | – | 2016 | |
| 4 | Mississippi | 1 | #694 | – | – | |
| 5 | Happy Man | 1 | #75 | – | 2020 |
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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