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Readers’ Pick: Freedom Highway by Rhiannon Giddens

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Rhiannon Giddens, Freedom Highway - cover art

You picked “Freedom Highway” from North Carolina folk artist, RHIANNON GIDDENS, as your favorite new release for the week of February 24, 2016.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of February 24?

  • RHIANNON GIDDENS, Freedom Highway (32%, 16 Votes)
  • SHINYRIBS, I Got Your Medicine (26%, 13 Votes)
  • OLD 97’S, Graveyard Whistling (14%, 7 Votes)
  • CURTIS MCMURTRY, The Hornet’s Nest (12%, 6 Votes)
  • SCOTT H. BIRAM, The Bad Testament (6%, 3 Votes)
  • SUN KIL MOON, Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood (6%, 3 Votes)
  • FRONTIER RUCKUS, Enter the Kingdom (4%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 50

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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. RHIANNON GIDDENS, Freedom Highway (16)
  3. CHUCK PROPHET, Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins (15)
  4. DELBERT MCCLINTON & SELF-MADE MAN, Prick of the Litter (14)
  5. NIKKI LANE, Highway Queen (14)
  6. RYAN ADAMS, Prisoner (13)
  7. SON VOLT, Notes of Blue (13)
  8. SHINYRIBS, I Got Your Medicine (13)
  9. VIVIAN COOK, The Long Shot (12)
  10. OTIS TAYLOR, Fantasizing About Being Black (12)
  11. TIFT MERRITT, Stitch of the World (11)
  12. JOHN MAYALL, Talk About That (11)
  13. SUSTO, & I’m Fine Today (10)
  14. RON GALLO, Heavy Meta (10)
  15. BAND OF HEATHENS, Duende (9)
  16. ELVIN BISHOP, Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio (9)
  17. BASH AND POP, Anything Could Happen (8)
  18. THE SADIES, Northern Passage (8)
  19. INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, Laws of Gravity (7)
  20. OLD 97’S, Graveyard Whistling (7)
  21. CURTIS MCMURTRY, The Hornet’s Nest (6)
  22. SHOW PONIES, How It All Goes Down (5)
  23. JIMBO MATHUS, Solo Blues Guitar: Jimbo Mathus Performs The Replacements’ Let It Be (4)
  24. ROMANTICA, Shadowlands (4)
  25. BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS, Backlash (4)

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

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