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Readers’ Pick: Highway Queen by Nikki Lane

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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 February 27?

  • Rose’s Pawn Shop – American Seams (22%, 8 Votes)
  • Iron & Wine – Hen’s Teeth (17%, 6 Votes)
  • Bill Frisell – In My Dreams (11%, 4 Votes)
  • Luke Winslow-King – Coast of Light (11%, 4 Votes)
  • Lil Ed & The Blues Imperial – Slideways (11%, 4 Votes)
  • Pert Near Sandstone – Side by Side (8%, 3 Votes)
  • Julianna Riolino – Echo in the Dust (8%, 3 Votes)
  • Buck Meek – The Mirror (6%, 2 Votes)
  • A Thousand Horses – White Flag Down (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Clayton Chaney – Too Far (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Jake Soffer & Brent Carter – Imaginary Rooms (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Catfish John Tisdell – Stayin’ Out All Night (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Adam Weil – A Little Broken (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Lamisi – Let Us Clap (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Ben Sollee – Time On Hold (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 36

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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!

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