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Readers’ Pick: Kinky Friedman – Poet of Motel 6

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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

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Readers’ Tops Winter 2025

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

About the author:  Washington, D.C. area creative by day. Music is my muse. I host Twangville’s weekly Readers‘ Pick.