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Readers’ Pick: Carolyn Wonderland – Truth Is

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Carolyn Wonderland – Truth Is (cover art)

You picked Carolyn Wonderland – Truth Is as your favorite new release for the week of May 16, 2025.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of May 16?

  • Carolyn Wonderland – Truth Is (31%, 10 Votes)
  • Charlie Musselwhite – Lookout Highway (19%, 6 Votes)
  • Ken Pomeroy – Cruel Joke (9%, 3 Votes)
  • Barenaked Ladies – IN FLIGHT – CARRY ON (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Dan Mangan – Natural Light (6%, 2 Votes)
  • The Talbott Brothers – Borderlands (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Peter Rowan – Tales of The Free Mexican Airforce (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Kat Hasty – The Time of Your Life (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Ben Hackett – Songs for Sleeping Dogs (3%, 1 Votes)
  • The Lowtimers – Cracks (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Suzie Brown – Songs Worth Saving (3%, 1 Votes)
  • BEATrio – BEATrio (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Erin Durant – Firetrail (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Sweet Megg – Never Been Home (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Christian Rutledge – An Inch Of This New York Mile (0%, 0 Votes)
  • The Travelin’ McCourys – One Chord That Rings True (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 32

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New Releases

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

  • Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ – Room On The Porch (50%, 9 Votes)
  • SteelDrivers – Outrun (17%, 3 Votes)
  • Silverado – Texas 42 (11%, 2 Votes)
  • Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane – Double Takes (6%, 1 Votes)
  • Andy Frasco & The UN – Growing Pains (6%, 1 Votes)
  • Ken Pomeroy – Cruel Joke (6%, 1 Votes)
  • Marc Ribot – Map of a Blue City (6%, 1 Votes)
  • Evan Bartels – To Make You Cry (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Jeffery Broussard & the Nighttime Syndicate – Bayou Moonlight (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Amble – Reverie (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Florry – Sounds Like… (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Jess Kerber – From Way Down Here (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 18

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Readers’ Tops Spring 2025

  1. Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners – Before The Fall (48 votes)
  2. Ward Hayden & The Outliers – Little by Little (31)
  3. Turnpike Troubadours – Price of Admission (14)
  4. Webb Wilder – Hillbilly Speedball (13)
  5. Shinyribs – Leaving Time (13)
  6. I’m With Her – Wild and Clear and Blue (12)
  7. Carolyn Wonderland – Truth Is (10)
  8. Little Feat – Strike Up The Band (8)
  9. Esther Rose – Want (9)
  10. Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson – What Did The Blackbird Say to The Crow (9)
  11. Gurf Morlix – A Taste of Ashes (9)
  12. Valerie June – Owls, Omens, and Oracles (8)
  13. Brown Horse – All The Right Weaknesses (8)
  14. Eliza Gilkyson – Dark Ages (7)
  15. Charlie Musselwhite – Lookout Highway (6)
  16. Willie Nelson – Oh What A Beautiful World (6)
  17. Ally Venable – Money & Power (5)
  18. Galactic & Irma Thomas – Audience with the Queen (5)
  19. Caitlin Cannon – Love Addict (4)
  20. Julien Baker & Torres – Send a Prayer My Way (4)
  21. Taylor Rae – The Void (4)
  22. Marlon Williams – Te Whare Tiwekaweka (4)
  23. Will Johnson – Diamond City (4)
  24. Seth Walker – Why The Worry (4)
  25. Ken Pomeroy – Cruel Joke (3)
  26. Mattie Schell – Everything Means Nothing (3)
  27. Southern Avenue – Family (3)
  28. Chaparelle – Western Pleasure (3)
  29. Grey Delisle – The Grey Album (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.