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Readers’ Pick: Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ – Room On The Porch

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Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ – Room On The Porch (cover art)

You picked Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ – Room On The Porch as your favorite new release for the week of May 30, 2025.

Poll Results

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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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 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. Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ – Room On The Porch (9)
  9. Little Feat – Strike Up The Band (8)
  10. Esther Rose – Want (9)
  11. Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson – What Did The Blackbird Say to The Crow (9)
  12. Gurf Morlix – A Taste of Ashes (9)
  13. Valerie June – Owls, Omens, and Oracles (8)
  14. Brown Horse – All The Right Weaknesses (8)
  15. Eliza Gilkyson – Dark Ages (7)
  16. Charlie Musselwhite – Lookout Highway (6)
  17. Willie Nelson – Oh What A Beautiful World (6)
  18. Ally Venable – Money & Power (5)
  19. Galactic & Irma Thomas – Audience with the Queen (5)
  20. Caitlin Cannon – Love Addict (4)
  21. Julien Baker & Torres – Send a Prayer My Way (4)
  22. Taylor Rae – The Void (4)
  23. Marlon Williams – Te Whare Tiwekaweka (4)
  24. Will Johnson – Diamond City (4)
  25. Seth Walker – Why The Worry (4)

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.