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Readers’ Pick: Joshua Ray Walker – Tropicana

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Joshua Ray Walker – Tropicana (cover art)

You picked Joshua Ray Walker – Tropicana as your favorite new release for the week of June 13, 2025.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of June 13?

  • Joshua Ray Walker – Tropicana (45%, 14 Votes)
  • Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts – Talkin to the Trees (39%, 12 Votes)
  • Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. + The Wild Magnolias – Chip Off the Old Block (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Buick Audra – Adult Child (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Terri Lyne Carrington and Christie Dashiell – We Insist! 2025 (3%, 1 Votes)
  • The Westerlies – Paradise (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Joseph Allred – Old Time Fantasias (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Common Holly – Anything Glass (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Ruby Friedman Orchestra – Chimes After Midnight (0%, 0 Votes)
  • John C Reilly – What’s Not To Love? (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Wayne Scott – Wayne’s Pain (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Patrick Wolf – Crying the Neck (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Māhealani Uchiyama - Pōpoloheno: Songs of Resilience & Joy (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 31

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New Releases

What is your favorite new release for week of February 27?

  • Rose’s Pawn Shop – American Seams (22%, 8 Votes)
  • Iron & Wine – Hen’s Teeth (17%, 6 Votes)
  • Bill Frisell – In My Dreams (11%, 4 Votes)
  • Luke Winslow-King – Coast of Light (11%, 4 Votes)
  • Lil Ed & The Blues Imperial – Slideways (11%, 4 Votes)
  • Pert Near Sandstone – Side by Side (8%, 3 Votes)
  • Julianna Riolino – Echo in the Dust (8%, 3 Votes)
  • Buck Meek – The Mirror (6%, 2 Votes)
  • A Thousand Horses – White Flag Down (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Clayton Chaney – Too Far (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Jake Soffer & Brent Carter – Imaginary Rooms (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Catfish John Tisdell – Stayin’ Out All Night (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Adam Weil – A Little Broken (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Lamisi – Let Us Clap (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Ben Sollee – Time On Hold (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 36

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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. Joshua Ray Walker – Tropicana (14)
  4. Turnpike Troubadours – Price of Admission (14)
  5. Webb Wilder – Hillbilly Speedball (13)
  6. Shinyribs – Leaving Time (13)
  7. Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts – Talkin to the Trees (12)
  8. Watchouse – Rituals (12)
  9. I’m With Her – Wild and Clear and Blue (12)
  10. Carolyn Wonderland – Truth Is (10)
  11. The Shootouts – Switchback (9)
  12. Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ – Room On The Porch (9)
  13. Little Feat – Strike Up The Band (8)
  14. Esther Rose – Want (9)
  15. Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson – What Did The Blackbird Say to The Crow (9)
  16. Gurf Morlix – A Taste of Ashes (9)
  17. Valerie June – Owls, Omens, and Oracles (8)
  18. Brown Horse – All The Right Weaknesses (8)
  19. North Mississippi Allstars – Still Shakin (7)
  20. Alan Sparhawk – With Trampled by Turtles (7)
  21. Eliza Gilkyson – Dark Ages (7)
  22. Charlie Musselwhite – Lookout Highway (6)
  23. Willie Nelson – Oh What A Beautiful World (6)
  24. Ben de la Cour – New Roses (5)
  25. Ally Venable – Money & Power (5)
  26. Galactic & Irma Thomas – Audience with the Queen (5)

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.