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Readers’ Pick: Mark Erelli – Lay Your Darkness Down

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Mark Erelli – Lay Your Darkness Down (cover art)

You picked Mark Erelli – Lay Your Darkness Down as your favorite new release for the week of February 3, 2023.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of February 3?

  • Mark Erelli – Lay Your Darkness Down (31%, 10 Votes)
  • Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (28%, 9 Votes)
  • Mile Twelve – Close Enough to Hear (16%, 5 Votes)
  • Fantastic Negrito – Grandfather Courage (13%, 4 Votes)
  • Jarrod Dickenson – BIG TALK (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Tim Stafford and Thomm Jutz – Lost Voices (6%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 32

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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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Readers’ Tops Winter 2023

  1. Margo Price – Strays (12 votes)
  2. Mark Erelli – Lay Your Darkness Down (10)
  3. Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (9)
  4. JD Clayton – Long Way From Home (9)
  5. H.C. McEntire – Every Acre (8)
  6. The Bad Ends – The Power and the Glory (8)
  7. The Gibson Brothers – Darkest Hour (7)
  8. Erik Huey – Appalachian Gothic (7)
  9. Pony Bradshaw – North Georgia Rounder (6)
  10. Whitehorse – I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying (6)
  11. Mile Twelve – Close Enough to Hear (5)
  12. Fantastic Negrito – Grandfather Courage (4)
  13. The Mother Hips – When We Disappear (4)
  14. Irene Kelley – Snow White Memories (3)
  15. Guided By Voices – La La Land (3)
  16. The Dirty Grass Players – Shiny Side Up (3)
  17. Jarrod Dickenson – BIG TALK (2)
  18. Tim Stafford and Thomm Jutz – Lost Voices (2)
  19. Illiterate Light – Sunburned (2)
  20. John Cale – Mercy (2)
  21. Rachael & Vilray – I Love a Love Song (2)
  22. Fran – Leaving (1)
  23. The Bombadils – Dear Friend (1)

Keep them 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.