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Readers’ Pick: Highway Queen by Nikki Lane

Friday, February 24, 2017 By Tom Osborne

Nikki Lane - Highway Queen - cover art

You picked “Highway Queen” from Nashville singer-songwriter, Nikki Lane, as your favorite new release for the week of February 17, 2016.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of February 17?

  • NIKKI LANE, Highway Queen (22%, 14 Votes)
  • RYAN ADAMS, Prisoner (21%, 13 Votes)
  • SON VOLT, Notes of Blue (21%, 13 Votes)
  • OTIS TAYLOR, Fantasizing About Being Black (19%, 12 Votes)
  • ROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BAND, Got Soul (6%, 4 Votes)
  • STRAND OF OAKS, Hard Love (5%, 3 Votes)
  • ALISON KRAUSS, Windy City (5%, 3 Votes)
  • EISLEY, I’m Only Dreaming (2%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 63

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New Releases







What is your favorite new release for week of May 23?

  • Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ – Room On The Porch (50%, 9 Votes)
  • SteelDrivers – Outrun (17%, 3 Votes)
  • Silverado – Texas 42 (11%, 2 Votes)
  • Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane – Double Takes (6%, 1 Votes)
  • Andy Frasco & The UN – Growing Pains (6%, 1 Votes)
  • Ken Pomeroy – Cruel Joke (6%, 1 Votes)
  • Marc Ribot – Map of a Blue City (6%, 1 Votes)
  • Evan Bartels – To Make You Cry (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Jeffery Broussard & the Nighttime Syndicate – Bayou Moonlight (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Amble – Reverie (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Florry – Sounds Like… (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Jess Kerber – From Way Down Here (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 18

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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 2017

  1. BRIGITTE DEMEYER AND WILL KIMBROUGH, Mockingbird Soul (65 votes)
  2. CHUCK PROPHET, Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins (15)
  3. DELBERT MCCLINTON & SELF-MADE MAN, Prick of the Litter (14)
  4. NIKKI LANE, Highway Queen (14)
  5. RYAN ADAMS, Prisoner (13)
  6. SON VOLT, Notes of Blue (13)
  7. VIVIAN COOK, The Long Shot (12)
  8. OTIS TAYLOR, Fantasizing About Being Black (12)
  9. TIFT MERRITT, Stitch of the World (11)
  10. JOHN MAYALL, Talk About That (11)
  11. SUSTO, & I’m Fine Today (10)
  12. RON GALLO, Heavy Meta (10)
  13. BAND OF HEATHENS, Duende (9)
  14. ELVIN BISHOP, Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio (9)
  15. BASH AND POP, Anything Could Happen (8)
  16. THE SADIES, Northern Passage (8)
  17. INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, Laws of Gravity (7)
  18. SHOW PONIES, How It All Goes Down (5)
  19. JIMBO MATHUS, Solo Blues Guitar: Jimbo Mathus Performs The Replacements’ Let It Be (4)
  20. ROMANTICA, Shadowlands (4)
  21. BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS, Backlash (4)
  22. ROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BAND, Got Soul (4)
  23. MICHAEL CHAPMAN, 50 (3)
  24. DEAD MAN WINTER, Furnace (3)
  25. STRAND OF OAKS, Hard Love (3)

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.


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Polls

What is your favorite new release for week of May 23?

  • Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ – Room On The Porch (50%, 9 Votes)
  • SteelDrivers – Outrun (17%, 3 Votes)
  • Silverado – Texas 42 (11%, 2 Votes)
  • Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane – Double Takes (6%, 1 Votes)
  • Andy Frasco & The UN – Growing Pains (6%, 1 Votes)
  • Ken Pomeroy – Cruel Joke (6%, 1 Votes)
  • Marc Ribot – Map of a Blue City (6%, 1 Votes)
  • Evan Bartels – To Make You Cry (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Jeffery Broussard & the Nighttime Syndicate – Bayou Moonlight (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Amble – Reverie (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Florry – Sounds Like… (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Jess Kerber – From Way Down Here (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 18

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