You picked Kinky Friedman – Poet of Motel 6 as your favorite new release for the week of March 21, 2025.
Poll Results
What is your favorite new release for week of March 21?
- Kinky Friedman – Poet of Motel 6 (43%, 9 Votes)
- David Ramirez – All The Not So Gentle Reminders (24%, 5 Votes)
- Bobby Rush and Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Young Fashioned Ways (19%, 4 Votes)
- Sam Outlaw – The Nonessential Sam Outlaw (14%, 3 Votes)
- Kora Feder – Some Kind of Truth (0%, 0 Votes)
- Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers – Thankful and Blessed (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 21

New Releases
What is your favorite new release for week of April 18?
- Ward Hayden & The Outliers – Little by Little (51%, 31 Votes)
- Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson – What Did The Blackbird Say to The Crow (15%, 9 Votes)
- Ally Venable – Money & Power (8%, 5 Votes)
- Julien Baker & Torres – Send a Prayer My Way (7%, 4 Votes)
- Taylor Rae – The Void (7%, 4 Votes)
- Chaparelle – Western Pleasure (5%, 3 Votes)
- Avery Friedman – New Things (3%, 2 Votes)
- Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto – Electric War (3%, 2 Votes)
- The Slow Harvest – Selections From The Sad Bastard Songbook (2%, 1 Votes)
- C. Daniel Boling (feat. Tom Paxton) – It Matters (0%, 0 Votes)
- Domenic Cicala – As Good As It Gets/Vamoose (0%, 0 Votes)
- Henhouse Prowlers – Unravel (0%, 0 Votes)
- Taylor Robert – Brighter Day (0%, 0 Votes)
- Nathan McEuen – My One and Only (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 61

Readers’ Tops Winter 2025
- Patterson Hood – Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams (28 votes)
- Jason Isbell – Foxes in the Snow (23)
- Larkin Poe – Bloom (14)
- Evan Nicole Bell – Shades of Blue (12)
- Mike Farris – The Sound of Muscle Shoals (11)
- Devil Makes Three – Spirits (11)
- Ringo Starr – Look Up (11)
- Kinky Friedman – Poet of Motel 6 (9)
- Mary Chapin Carpenter with Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart – Looking for Thread (9)
- Charley Crockett – Lonesome Drifter (8)
- John Lee Hooker – The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (8)
- Joel Timmons – Psychedelic Surf Country (7)
- Kasey Anderson – To The Places We Lived (7)
- Tommy Castro & the Painkillers – Closer To The Bone (6)
- Todd Snider – Best Of All My Songs (6)
- JD Clayton – Blue Sky Sundays (5)
- Charles Wesley Godwin – Lonely Mountain Town (5)
- Drew & Ellie Holcomb – Memory Bank (5)
- Bobby Rush and Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Young Fashioned Ways (4)
- The Seldom Scene – Remains to Be Scene (4)
- Kris Delmhorst – Ghosts in the Garden (4)
- Them Coulee Boys – No Fun in the Chrysalis (4)
- Crys Matthews – Reclamation (4)
- Sam Outlaw – The Nonessential Sam Outlaw (3)
- Jason Boland & The Stragglers – The Last Kings of Babylon (3)
- Sierra Hull – A Tip Toe High Wire (3)
- Sam Amidon – Salt River (3)
- Rufus Wainwright – Dream Requiem (3)
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.
