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Readers’ Pick: Billy Strings – Highway Prayers

Friday, October 04, 2024 By Tom Osborne

Billy Strings – Highway Prayers (cover art)

You picked Billy Strings – Highway Prayers as your favorite new release for the week of September 27, 2024.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of September 27?

  • Billy Strings – Highway Prayers (25%, 10 Votes)
  • JD McPherson – Nite Owls (23%, 9 Votes)
  • Cody Jinks – Backside of 30 (23%, 9 Votes)
  • Randall Bramblett – Paradise Breakdown (10%, 4 Votes)
  • Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – symbiont (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Julian Taylor – Pathways (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Leif Vollbekk – Revelation (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Kelley Mickwee – Everything Is Beautiful (5%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 40

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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. Jeffrey Foucault – Universal Fire (17)
  4. Melissa Carper – Borned in Ya (17)
  5. Joe Ely – Driven to Drive (16)
  6. American Aquarium – The Fear of Standing Still (16)
  7. The Cactus Blossoms – Every Time I Think About You (15)
  8. Caleb Caudle – Sweet Critters (14)
  9. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (11)
  10. Billy Strings – Highway Prayers (10)
  11. Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) – Passage du Desir (10)
  12. JD McPherson – Nite Owls (9)
  13. Cody Jinks – Backside of 30 (9)
  14. Ray LaMontagne – Long Way Home (9)
  15. Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters – The Ones That Stay (9)
  16. Various Artists – Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin (8)
  17. Kevin Gordon – The In-Between (8)
  18. The Deslondes – Roll It Out (8)
  19. Shelby Lynne – Consequences of the Crown (8)
  20. AJ Lee and Blue Summit – City of Glass (8)
  21. Jerry Douglas – The Set (7)
  22. Shemekia Copeland – Blame It on Eve (7)
  23. Morgan Wade – Obsessed (7)
  24. Amos Lee – Transmissions (7)
  25. X – Smoke & Fiction (7)
  26. The Honey Dewdrops – Here in the Mountains (7)
  27. Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called (7)
  28. Zach Bryan – The Great American Bar Scene (7)

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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