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Readers’ Pick: Joel Timmons – Psychedelic Surf Country

Saturday, February 15, 2025 By Tom Osborne

Joel Timmons – Psychedelic Surf Country (cover art)

You picked Joel Timmons – Psychedelic Surf Country as your favorite new release for the week of February 7, 2025.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of February 7?

  • Joel Timmons – Psychedelic Surf Country (44%, 7 Votes)
  • Tommy Castro & the Painkillers – Closer To The Bone (38%, 6 Votes)
  • Mary Bue – The Wildness of Living And Dying (13%, 2 Votes)
  • Zack Keim – Battery Lane (6%, 1 Votes)
  • Aud Whitson – A House That Can’t Get Quieter (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 16

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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 2025

  1. Larkin Poe – Bloom (14 votes)
  2. Evan Nicole Bell – Shades of Blue (12)
  3. Ringo Starr – Look Up (11)
  4. Mary Chapin Carpenter with Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart – Looking for Thread (9)
  5. Joel Timmons – Psychedelic Surf Country (7)
  6. Kasey Anderson – To The Places We Lived (7)
  7. Tommy Castro & the Painkillers – Closer To The Bone (6)
  8. Todd Snider – Best Of All My Songs (6)
  9. Drew & Ellie Holcomb – Memory Bank (5)
  10. Crys Matthews – Reclamation (4)
  11. Sam Amidon – Salt River (3)
  12. Rufus Wainwright – Dream Requiem (3)
  13. Mary Bue – The Wildness of Living And Dying (2)
  14. John Mailander’s Forcast – Let The World In (2)
  15. The Weather Station – Humanhood (2)
  16. Yola – My Way (2)
  17. Parchman Prison Prayer – Another Mississippi Sunday Morning (2)
  18. 20/20 – Back to California (2)
  19. Ben Chapman – Downbeat (2)
  20. Zack Keim – Battery Lane (1)
  21. Charles ‘Wigg’ Walker – This Love is Gonna Last (1)
  22. Ty Myers – The Select (1)
  23. Shane Pendergast – Winter Grace (1)
  24. Olivia Wolf – Silver Rounds (1)
  25. Songhoy Blues – Herritage (1)
  26. American Man, American Music – Ron Pope (1)
  27. Evan Honor – Annabelle (1)

Keep them coming. Your votes in our weekly Readers’ Pick poll help create these rankings. Many thanks! Also, check out our weekly Twangville 360 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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