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Readers’ Pick: Joe Ely – Driven to Drive

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Joe Ely – Driven to Drive (cover art)

You picked Joe Ely – Driven to Drive as your favorite new release for the week of August 2, 2024.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of August 2?

  • Joe Ely – Driven to Drive (37%, 16 Votes)
  • X – Smoke & Fiction (16%, 7 Votes)
  • The Honey Dewdrops – Here in the Mountains (16%, 7 Votes)
  • 49 Winchester – Leavin’ This Holler (12%, 5 Votes)
  • Los Lonely Boys – Resurrection (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Jack White – No Name (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Orville Peck – Stampede (5%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 43

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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 Summer 2024

  1. Melissa Carper – Borned in Ya (17 votes)
  2. Joe Ely – Driven to Drive (16)
  3. American Aquarium – The Fear of Standing Still (16)
  4. Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) – Passage du Desir (10)
  5. AJ Lee and Blue Summit – City of Glass (8)
  6. X – Smoke & Fiction (7)
  7. The Honey Dewdrops – Here in the Mountains (7)
  8. Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called (7)
  9. Zach Bryan – The Great American Bar Scene (7)
  10. 49 Winchester – Leavin’ This Holler (5)
  11. The Red Clay Strays – Made by These Moments (5)
  12. Los Lonely Boys – Resurrection (3)
  13. Jack White – No Name (3)
  14. Linda Gail Lewis – Rockabilly Queen (3)
  15. Boy Golden – For Eden (3)
  16. Dr. Dog – Dr. Dog (3)
  17. Andrew Marlin – Phthalo Blue (3)
  18. Phish – Evolve (3)
  19. Bette Smith – GOODTHING (3)
  20. Orville Peck – Stampede (2)
  21. Kiely Connell – My Own Company (2)
  22. Ever-Lovin’ Jug Band – Move That Thing (2)
  23. Cassandra Lewis – Lost in a Dream (2)
  24. Maya de Vitry – The Only Moment (2)
  25. Blackwater Railroad Company – A Lovely Place to Die (2)
  26. Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers – Can’t Outrun a Memory (2)

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.