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Readers’ Pick: Best of Winter 2015

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Cover of Complicated Game by James McMurtry

JAMES MCMURTRY, Complicated Game beats out STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES, Terraplane by 8 votes as your favorite for the Winter of 2015.

Readers’ Official Top 25 – Winter 2015

  1. JAMES MCMURTRY, Complicated Game (26)
  2. STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES, Terraplane (18)
  3. JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, Absent Fathers (17)
  4. JOE PUG, Windfall (14)
  5. THE DECEMBERISTS, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World (13)
  6. RYAN BINGHAM, Fear and Saturday Night (12)
  7. THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, So Delicious (12)
  8. BOB DYLAN, Shadows In The Night (12)
  9. JOE BONAMASSA, Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks (Live) (11)
  10. BRANDI CARLILE, The Firewatcher’s Daughter (10)
  11. JD MCPHERSON, Let The Good Times Roll (10)
  12. SMOKIN JOE KUBEK & BNOIS KING, Fat Man’s Shine Parlor (10)
  13. THE MAVERICKS, Mono (9)
  14. HOUNDMOUTH, Little Neon Limelight (8)
  15. THE LONE BELLOW, Then Came the Morning (8)
  16. WRINKLE NECK MULES, I Never Thought It Would Go This Far (7)
  17. ALLISON MOORER, Down To Believing (7)
  18. BLACKBERRY SMOKE, Holding All The Roses (7)
  19. WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE, Radium Death (7)
  20. ERIC SARDINAS, Boomerang (7)
  21. RON SEXSMITH, Carousel One (6)
  22. ANDREW COMBS, All These Dreams (6)
  23. ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (6)
  24. ROBERT EARL KEEN, Happy Prisoner, The Bluegrass Sessions (6)
  25. BUTCH WALKER, Afraid of Ghosts (6)

 

 

William Elliott Whitmore - Radium Death - Cover Art

WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE, Radium Death beats out RON SEXSMITH, Carousel One by 1 vote as your favorite for the week of March 31, 2015.

Poll Results

What is your favorite release for week of March 31?

  • WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE, Radium Death (26%, 7 Votes)
  • RON SEXSMITH, Carousel One (22%, 6 Votes)
  • ROBBEN FORD, Into the Sun (19%, 5 Votes)
  • JESSE MALIN, New York Before the War (15%, 4 Votes)
  • MILKDRIVE, Places You've Not Been (7%, 2 Votes)
  • DARIUS RUCKER, Southern Style (4%, 1 Votes)
  • DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, Kintsugi (4%, 1 Votes)
  • SUFJAN STEVENS, Carrie & Lowell (4%, 1 Votes)
  • RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM, Violets Are Blue (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 27

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