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Readers’ Pick: The Quality Holiday Revue (live) by Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets

Friday, December 11, 2015 By Tom Osborne

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NICK LOWE & LOS STRAITJACKETS, The Quality Holiday Revue (live) beats out MARC BROUSSARD, Magnolias & Mistletoe as your favorite holiday album of 2015.

Poll Results

What is your favorite release for week of November 20?

  • SHOVELS & ROPE, Busted Jukebox: Volume 1 (40%, 10 Votes)
  • LESLIE WEST, Soundcheck (36%, 9 Votes)
  • PUNCH BROTHERS, The Wireless (24%, 6 Votes)

Total Voters: 25

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Best New Album of 2015

What is your favorite new release for week of May 2?

  • Webb Wilder – Hillbilly Speedball (52%, 13 Votes)
  • Esther Rose – Want (36%, 9 Votes)
  • Kassi Valazza – From Newman Street (8%, 2 Votes)
  • Missy Raines & Allegheny – Love & Trouble (4%, 1 Votes)
  • Jedd Hughes – Nightshades (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 25

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Did we miss something? If you feel a new release is missing from our current poll, please let us know in the comments.


Readers’ Top 25 – Fall 2015

  1. MIKE ZITO & THE WHEEL, Keep Coming Back (65)
  2. KINKY FRIEDMAN,The Loneliest Man I Ever Met (60)
  3. VARIOUS ARTISTS, Soundtrack to The Winding Stream: The Carters, The Cashes & The Course of Country Music (36)
  4. PETER CASE, Hwy 62 (17)
  5. JOSH RITTER, Sermon On The Rocks (16)
  6. JEFFREY FOUCAULT, Salt As Wolves (16)
  7. THE BOTTLE ROCKETS, South Broadway Athletic Club (15)
  8. WIDESPREAD PANIC, Street Dogs (13)
  9. AARON LEE TASJAN, In The Blazes (11)
  10. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, It’s Great To Be Alive! (11)
  11. ISRAEL NASH, Israel Nash’s Silver Season (10)
  12. CORB LUND, Things That Can’t Be Undone (10)
  13. SHOVELS & ROPE, Busted Jukebox: Volume 1 (10)
  14. SHAWN MULLINS, My Stupid Heart (9)
  15. LESLIE WEST, Soundcheck (9)
  16. JESSE MALIN, Outsiders (8)
  17. WALTER TROUT, Battle Scars (8)
  18. THE WOOD BROTHERS, Paradise (7)
  19. JOE LOUIS WALKER, Everybody Wants A Piece (7)
  20. CHRIS ISAAK, First Comes The Night (7)
  21. BLITZEN TRAPPER, All Across This Land (6)
  22. TOM MCBRIDE, Columbia (6)
  23. PUNCH BROTHERS, The Wireless (EP) (6)
  24. THE OH HELLOS, Dear Wormwood (5)
  25. BUCK OWENS, Buck ‘Em, Vol. 2 (5)

Keep ’em coming. Your votes in our weekly Readers’ Pick poll help create these rankings. Many thanks!


About the author:  Washington, D.C. area creative by day. Music is my muse. I host Twangville’s weekly Readers‘ Pick.


Filed Under: Readers' Pick Tagged With: Marc Broussard, Nick Lowe

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Polls

What is your favorite new release for week of May 2?

  • Webb Wilder – Hillbilly Speedball (52%, 13 Votes)
  • Esther Rose – Want (36%, 9 Votes)
  • Kassi Valazza – From Newman Street (8%, 2 Votes)
  • Missy Raines & Allegheny – Love & Trouble (4%, 1 Votes)
  • Jedd Hughes – Nightshades (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 25

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