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Readers’ Pick: Ruthie Foster – Mileage

Friday, August 30, 2024 By Tom Osborne

Ruthie Foster – Mileage (cover art)

You picked Ruthie Foster – Mileage as your favorite new release for the week of August 23, 2024.

Poll Results

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

  • Ruthie Foster – Mileage (43%, 33 Votes)
  • Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – Woodland (30%, 23 Votes)
  • India Ramey – Baptized by the Blaze (5%, 4 Votes)
  • Fruition - How to Make Mistakes (4%, 3 Votes)
  • Wild Ponies – Dreamers (3%, 2 Votes)
  • Guy Davis - The Legend of Sugarbelly (3%, 2 Votes)
  • The Harlem Gospel Travelers - Rhapsody (3%, 2 Votes)
  • Kishi Bashi - Kantos (3%, 2 Votes)
  • Andrew Combs - Dream Pictures (3%, 2 Votes)
  • The Georgia Thunderbolts - Rise Above It All (3%, 2 Votes)
  • Cimafunk - Pa' Tu Cuerpa (1%, 1 Votes)
  • Colby Acuff - American Son (1%, 1 Votes)
  • Thee Heart Tones - Forever & Ever (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Pete Yorn - The Hard Way (0%, 0 Votes)
  • The Grascals - 20 (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Grant Maloy Smith - Mississippi: American Stories (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 77

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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. Ruthie Foster – Mileage (33 votes)
  2. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – Woodland (23)
  3. Melissa Carper – Borned in Ya (17)
  4. Joe Ely – Driven to Drive (16)
  5. American Aquarium – The Fear of Standing Still (16)
  6. Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) – Passage du Desir (10)
  7. Ray LaMontagne – Long Way Home (9)
  8. Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters – The Ones That Stay (9)
  9. Shelby Lynne – Consequences of the Crown (8)
  10. AJ Lee and Blue Summit – City of Glass (8)
  11. Morgan Wade – Obsessed (7)
  12. Amos Lee – Transmissions (7)
  13. X – Smoke & Fiction (7)
  14. The Honey Dewdrops – Here in the Mountains (7)
  15. Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called (7)
  16. Zach Bryan – The Great American Bar Scene (7)
  17. Jontavious Willis – West Georgia Blues (6)
  18. Justin Townes Earle – All In: Unreleased and Rarities (The New West Years) (6)
  19. 49 Winchester – Leavin’ This Holler (5)
  20. The Red Clay Strays – Made by These Moments (5)
  21. India Ramey – Baptized by the Blaze (4)
  22. The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys – Wanderers Like Me (4)
  23. Fruition – How to Make Mistakes (3)
  24. Blind Pilot – In the Shadow of the Holy Mountain (3)
  25. The Damnwells – Bad at Beautiful (3)
  26. Los Lonely Boys – Resurrection (3)
  27. Jack White – No Name (3)
  28. Linda Gail Lewis – Rockabilly Queen (3)
  29. Boy Golden – For Eden (3)
  30. Dr. Dog – Dr. Dog (3)
  31. Andrew Marlin – Phthalo Blue (3)
  32. Phish – Evolve (3)
  33. 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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