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Readers’ Pick: Arlo McKinley – Die Midwestern

Friday, August 21, 2020 By Tom Osborne

Arlo McKinley – Die Midwestern (cover art)

You picked Arlo McKinley – Die Midwestern as your favorite new release for the week of August 14, 2020.

What is your favorite new release for week of August 14?

  • Arlo McKinley – Die Midwestern (39%, 19 Votes)
  • Kathleen Edwards – Total Freedom (33%, 16 Votes)
  • Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (8%, 4 Votes)
  • Bill Frisell – Valentine (6%, 3 Votes)
  • Matt Rollings – Matt Rollings Mosaic (4%, 2 Votes)
  • Jeannie Seely – An American Classic (4%, 2 Votes)
  • Twisted Pine – Right Now (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Kris Delmhorst – Long Day in the Milky Way (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Sylvie Simmons – Blue on Blue (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Gangstagrass – No Time for Enemies (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Bruce Hornsby – Non-Secure Connection (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 49

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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 Summer & Fall 2020

  1. Peter Himmelman – Press On (134 votes)
  2. Jack the Radio – Creatures (35)
  3. Nocona – Los Dos (33)
  4. Thin Lear – Wooden Cave (23)
  5. Ray Wylie Hubbard – Co-starring (22)
  6. Arlo McKinley – Die Midwestern (19)
  7. Charley Crockett – Welcome to Hard Times (18)
  8. Kathleen Edwards – Total Freedom (16)
  9. Lori McKenna – The Balladeer (15)
  10. Jason Molina – Eight Gates (12)
  11. Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers (12)
  12. Willie Nelson – First Rose of Spring (12)
  13. Daniel Donato – A Young Man’s Country (8)
  14. S.G. Goodman – Old Time Feeling (7)
  15. Margo Price – That’s How Rumors Get Started (7)
  16. Kenny Roby – The Reservoir (6)
  17. Cary Morin – Dockside Saints (6)
  18. The Chicks – Gaslighter (6)
  19. David Ramirez – My Love Is a Hurricane (6)
  20. The Texas Gentlemen – Floor It!!! (5)
  21. The Pretenders – Hate for Sale (5)
  22. The Jayhawks – XOXO (5)
  23. Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (4)
  24. Joshua Ray Walker – Glad You Made It (4)
  25. Bill Frisell – Valentine (3)

Keep ’em coming. Your votes in our weekly Readers’ Pick poll help create these rankings. Many thanks! Also, check out our weekly Twangville playlist.


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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