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Readers’ Pick: Joy Comes Back by Ruthie Foster

Friday, March 31, 2017 By Tom Osborne

Ruthie Foster - Joy Comes Back - Cover art

You picked “Joy Comes Back” from Texas-born blues singer-songwriter, RUTHIE FOSTER, as your favorite new release for the week of March 24, 2016.

Poll Results

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

  • RUTHIE FOSTER, Joy Comes Back (38%, 15 Votes)
  • CRAIG FINN, We All Want the Same Things (20%, 8 Votes)
  • SAMANTHA FISH, Chills & Fever (15%, 6 Votes)
  • DREW HOLCOMB & THE NEIGHBORS, Souvenir (15%, 6 Votes)
  • BENCHMARKS, Our Undivided Attention (13%, 5 Votes)
  • SPIRAL STAIRS, Doris and the Daggers (0%, 0 Votes)
  • LEWIS WATSON, midnight (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 40

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New Releases

FRONT COUNTRY, Other Love Songs
DERRICK ANDERSON, A World of My Own
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Whiteout Conditions
ANDREW COMBS, Canyons of My Mind
FATHER JOHN MISTY, Pure Comedy
HAPPYNESS, Write In
JEB LOY NICHOLS, Country Hustle

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 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. RUTHIE FOSTER, Joy Comes Back (15)
  5. DELBERT MCCLINTON & SELF-MADE MAN, Prick of the Litter (14)
  6. NIKKI LANE, Highway Queen (14)
  7. CONOR OBERST, Salutations (14)
  8. RYAN ADAMS, Prisoner (13)
  9. SON VOLT, Notes of Blue (13)
  10. SHINYRIBS, I Got Your Medicine (13)
  11. CINDY LEE BERRYHILL, The Adventurist (13)
  12. VIVIAN COOK, The Long Shot (12)
  13. OTIS TAYLOR, Fantasizing About Being Black (12)
  14. COLIN HAY, Fierce Mercy (12)
  15. TIFT MERRITT, Stitch of the World (11)
  16. JOHN MAYALL, Talk About That (11)
  17. SUSTO, & I’m Fine Today (10)
  18. RON GALLO, Heavy Meta (10)
  19. MARTY STUART, Way Out West (10)
  20. BAND OF HEATHENS, Duende (9)
  21. ELVIN BISHOP, Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio (9)
  22. SPOON, Hot Thoughts (9)
  23. BASH AND POP, Anything Could Happen (8)
  24. THE SADIES, Northern Passage (8)
  25. HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF, The Navigator (8)

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.


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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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