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Readers’ Pick: Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive

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You picked Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive as your favorite new release for the week of February 23, 2024.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of February 23?

  • Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive (36%, 12 Votes)
  • Corb Lund – El Viejo (24%, 8 Votes)
  • JJ Grey and Mofro – Olustee (15%, 5 Votes)
  • Mike Zito – Life Is Hard (9%, 3 Votes)
  • Amigo the Devil – Yours Until the War is Over (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Amelia White – Love I Swore (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Mary Timony – Untame the Tiger (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Donna Ulisse – Mountain Lily (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Shaina Hayes – Kindergarten Heart (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Mama Zu – Quilt Floor (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Desiree Cannon – Radio Heat (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Leslie Stevens – Leslie Stevens (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 33

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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 2024

  1. Old Heavy Hands – Small Fires (47 Votes)
  2. Blackberry Smoke – Be Right Here (18)
  3. Sarah Jarosz – Polaroid Lovers (15)
  4. Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive (12)
  5. James Talley – Bandits, Ballads and Blues (10)
  6. Chris O’Leary – The Hard Line (10)
  7. Corb Lund – El Viejo (8)
  8. Tinsley Ellis – Naked Truth (8)
  9. Holler Choir – Songs Before They Write Themselves (8)
  10. Joshua Ray Walker – Thank You For Listening (7)
  11. Bill Ryder-Jones – Iechyd Da (7)
  12. Frontier Ruckus – On the Northline (6)
  13. The Steel Wheels – Sideways (6)
  14. The Dead South – Chains & Stakes (6)
  15. Sour Bridges – Down and Out (6)
  16. JJ Grey and Mofro – Olustee (5)
  17. The Roseline – Keystone of the Heart (5)
  18. Willi Carlisle – Critterland (5)
  19. Cary Morin – Innocent Allies (5)
  20. Lizzie No – Halfsies (5)
  21. Pawn Shop Saints – 45 American Lies (5)
  22. The Paranoid Style – The Interrogator (4)
  23. Chatham County Line – Hiyo (4)
  24. John Leventhal – Rumble Strip (4)
  25. William Elliott Whitmore – Silently, The Mind Breaks (4)
  26. Jim Kweskin – Never Too Late (4)

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.