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Readers’ Pick: Ray LaMontagne – Long Way Home

Saturday, August 24, 2024 By Tom Osborne

Ray LaMontagne – Long Way Home (cover art)

You picked Ray LaMontagne – Long Way Home as your favorite new release for the week of August 16, 2024.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of August 16?

  • Ray LaMontagne – Long Way Home (21%, 9 Votes)
  • Shelby Lynne – Consequences of the Crown (19%, 8 Votes)
  • Morgan Wade – Obsessed (16%, 7 Votes)
  • Jontavious Willis – West Georgia Blues (14%, 6 Votes)
  • The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys – Wanderers Like Me (9%, 4 Votes)
  • Blind Pilot – In the Shadow of the Holy Mountain (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Pony Bradshaw – Thus Spoke the Fool (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Muscadine Bloodline – The Coastal Plain (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Ben Sollee – Long Haul (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Devon Allman – Miami Moon (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer With Chao Tian – From China to Appalachia (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Down Hill Strugglers – Old Juniper (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Rusty Sal – Rusty Sal (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Jordie Lane – Tropical Depression (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Jumaane Smith – Come On Home (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Piper & the Hard Times – Revelation (0%, 0 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. Ray LaMontagne – Long Way Home (9)
  6. Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters – The Ones That Stay (9)
  7. Shelby Lynne – Consequences of the Crown (8)
  8. AJ Lee and Blue Summit – City of Glass (8)
  9. Morgan Wade – Obsessed (7)
  10. Amos Lee – Transmissions (7)
  11. X – Smoke & Fiction (7)
  12. The Honey Dewdrops – Here in the Mountains (7)
  13. Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called (7)
  14. Zach Bryan – The Great American Bar Scene (7)
  15. Jontavious Willis – West Georgia Blues (6)
  16. Justin Townes Earle – All In: Unreleased and Rarities (The New West Years) (6)
  17. 49 Winchester – Leavin’ This Holler (5)
  18. The Red Clay Strays – Made by These Moments (5)
  19. The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys – Wanderers Like Me (4)
  20. Blind Pilot – In the Shadow of the Holy Mountain (3)
  21. The Damnwells – Bad at Beautiful (3)
  22. Los Lonely Boys – Resurrection (3)
  23. Jack White – No Name (3)
  24. Linda Gail Lewis – Rockabilly Queen (3)
  25. Boy Golden – For Eden (3)
  26. Dr. Dog – Dr. Dog (3)
  27. Andrew Marlin – Phthalo Blue (3)
  28. Phish – Evolve (3)
  29. Bette Smith – GOODTHING (3)

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.


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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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