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Readers’ Pick: Livin’ On A High Note by Mavis Staples

Friday, February 26, 2016 By Tom Osborne

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MAVIS STAPLES, Livin’ On A High Note beats out CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, Lola as your favorite for the week of February 19, 2016.

Poll Results

What is your favorite release for weeks of Feb 19?

  • MAVIS STAPLES, Livin’ On A High Note (59%, 19 Votes)
  • CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, Lola (28%, 9 Votes)
  • VANDAVEER, Wild Mercury (6%, 2 Votes)
  • DOUG TUTTLE, It Calls On Me (6%, 2 Votes)
  • WOLFMOTHER, Victorious (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 32

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New Releases








What is your favorite new release for week of May 29?

  • Joshua Ray Walker – Ain’t Dead Yet (21%, 9 Votes)
  • Nathan Evans Fox – Heirloom (12%, 5 Votes)
  • Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan – Where the Willow and Dogwood Grow (10%, 4 Votes)
  • Willie Nelson – Dream Chaser (10%, 4 Votes)
  • Paul McCartney – The Boys of Dungeon Lane (10%, 4 Votes)
  • SUSTO – Susto Stringband (Volume 2) (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Kurt Vile – Philadelphia’s been good to me (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Alexis Harte – Thirsty (7%, 3 Votes)
  • David Serby – Broken Heart In A Honky Tonk (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Lone Piñon – Hot Carne Seca (2%, 1 Votes)
  • JP Soars – Gypsy Blue Revue (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Joey Quiñones – Inna Soul Steady Situation (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Clay DuBose – Father Time & Mother Nature (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Leeroy Stagger – Pilgrimage (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Jesse and Noah – The Sunshine Shop (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Benson – Double Dose (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Amani Burhnam – Roots & Wings (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Robin Ganz – Hypnos (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Guided by Voices – Crawlspace Of The Pantheon (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Renée Fleming & Béla Fleck – The Fiddle and the Drum (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Gipsy Kings – Historia (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 42

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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’ Tops Winter 2016

  1. THE CACTUS BLOSSOMS, You’re Dreaming (23)
  2. MAVIS STAPLES, Livin’ On A High Note (19)
  3. TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, Let Me Get By (18)
  4. LUCINDA WILLIAMS, Ghosts Of Highway 20 (18)
  5. BUDDY MILLER AND FRIENDS, Cayamo Sessions at Sea (13)
  6. BOB MARGOLIN, My Road (12)
  7. STEPHEN KELLOGG, South, West, North, East (12)
  8. THE RECORD COMPANY, Give It Back To You (10)
  9. THE PINES, Above the Prairie (9)
  10. CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, Lola (9)
  11. DYLAN LEBLANC, Cautionary Tale (7)
  12. DAVID BOWIE, Blackstar (6)
  13. APPLEWOOD ROAD, Applewood Road (6)
  14. ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER, C&O Canal (5)
  15. DORI FREEMAN, Dori Freeman (5)
  16. LISSIE, My Wild West (4)
  17. RON POPE, Ron Pope & The Nighthawks (2)
  18. MERCYLAND, VOL. 2, Various Artists (2)
  19. VANDAVEER, Wild Mercury (2)
  20. DOUG TUTTLE, It Calls On Me (2)
  21. SONYA KITCHELL, We Come Apart (1)
  22. SIERRA HULL, Weighted Mind (1)
  23. SIMO, Let Love Show The Way (1)
  24. BROTHER NOTHING, All In My Mind (1)

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


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


Filed Under: Readers' Pick Tagged With: Carrie Rodriguez, Mavis Staples

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Polls

What is your favorite new release for week of May 29?

  • Joshua Ray Walker – Ain’t Dead Yet (21%, 9 Votes)
  • Nathan Evans Fox – Heirloom (12%, 5 Votes)
  • Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan – Where the Willow and Dogwood Grow (10%, 4 Votes)
  • Willie Nelson – Dream Chaser (10%, 4 Votes)
  • Paul McCartney – The Boys of Dungeon Lane (10%, 4 Votes)
  • SUSTO – Susto Stringband (Volume 2) (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Kurt Vile – Philadelphia’s been good to me (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Alexis Harte – Thirsty (7%, 3 Votes)
  • David Serby – Broken Heart In A Honky Tonk (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Lone Piñon – Hot Carne Seca (2%, 1 Votes)
  • JP Soars – Gypsy Blue Revue (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Joey Quiñones – Inna Soul Steady Situation (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Clay DuBose – Father Time & Mother Nature (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Leeroy Stagger – Pilgrimage (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Jesse and Noah – The Sunshine Shop (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Benson – Double Dose (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Amani Burhnam – Roots & Wings (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Robin Ganz – Hypnos (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Guided by Voices – Crawlspace Of The Pantheon (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Renée Fleming & Béla Fleck – The Fiddle and the Drum (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Gipsy Kings – Historia (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 42

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