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Readers’ Pick: Rifles and Rosary Beads by Mary Gauthier

Friday, February 02, 2018 By Tom Osborne

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You picked Rifles and Rosary Beads by Nashville-based folk singer-songwriter, Mary Gauthier, as your favorite new release for the week of January 26, 2018.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of January 26?

  • MARY GAUTHIER, Rifles and Rosary Beads (29%, 10 Votes)
  • CALEXICO, The Thread That Keeps Us (26%, 9 Votes)
  • MARIE/LEPANTO, Tenkiller (17%, 6 Votes)
  • JEFFREY GAINES, Alright (9%, 3 Votes)
  • STEEP CANYON RANGERS, Out in the Open (9%, 3 Votes)
  • BETH HART & JOE BONAMASSA, Black Coffee (6%, 2 Votes)
  • BEN MILLER BAND, Choke Cherry Tree (3%, 1 Votes)
  • LAURA BENITEZ & THE HEARTACHE, With All Its Thorns (3%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 35

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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 & Spring 2018

  1. ANDERSON EAST, Encore (16 Votes)
  2. MARY GAUTHIER, Rifles and Rosary Beads (10)
  3. CALEXICO, The Thread That Keeps Us (9)
  4. GLEN HANSARD, Between Two Shores (8)
  5. FIRST AID KIT, Ruins (6)
  6. MARIE/LEPANTO, Tenkiller (6)
  7. TOMMY EMMANUEL, Accomplice One (5)
  8. JOHN GORKA, True in Time (4)
  9. STEEP CANYON RANGERS, Out in the Open (3)
  10. JEFFREY GAINES, Alright (3)
  11. BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Wrong Creatures (2)
  12. BETH HART & JOE BONAMASSA, Black Coffee (2)
  13. BAHAMAS, Earthtones (1)
  14. BEN MILLER BAND, Choke Cherry Tree (1)
  15. LAURA BENITEZ & THE HEARTACHE, With All Its Thorns (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.


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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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