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Readers’ Pick: Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia – Help Yourself

Saturday, September 27, 2025 By Tom Osborne

Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia – Help Yourself (cover art)

You picked Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia – Help Yourself as your favorite new release for the week of September 19, 2025.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of September 19?

  • Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia – Help Yourself (17%, 7 Votes)
  • Pink Stones – THANK THE LORD… IT’S THE PINK STONES (12%, 5 Votes)
  • The Third Mind – Right Now! (12%, 5 Votes)
  • Wednesday – Bleeds (10%, 4 Votes)
  • Los Straitjackets – Somos Los Straitjackets (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Trapper Schoepp – Osborne (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Joan Shelley – Real Warmth (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Otis Gibbs – The Trust of Crows (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Doe Paoro – Living Through Collapse (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Briscoe – Heat Of July (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Cole Chaney – In the Shadow of the Mountain (2%, 1 Votes)
  • The Onlies – You Climb The Mountain (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Dylan Earl – Level-Headed Even Smile (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Kristina Train – County Line (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Peter Stampfel – Song Shards (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Matt Patershuk – Dog, Tiger, Horses (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Lera Lynn – Comic Book Cowboy (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Elexa Dawson – Stay Put (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Lost Post – All We Leave Is Dust (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Bones Owens – Best Western (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Evan Horner – Everything I Wanted (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 41

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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 Summer 2025

  1. Kathleen Edwards – Billionaire (21 votes)
  2. Hayes Carll – We’re Only Human (20)
  3. Molly Tuttle – So Long Little Miss Sunshine (16)
  4. Rodney Crowell – Airline Highway (15)
  5. The Honeydogs – Algebra For Broken Hearts (15)
  6. Lord Huron – The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 (14)
  7. Tami Neilson – Neon Cowgirl (12 votes)
  8. The Wood Brothers – Puff of Smoke (11)
  9. John Jenkins – Restless Hearts (10)
  10. Big Thief – Double Infinity (9)
  11. Sunny Sweeney – Rhinestone Requiem (8)
  12. Patty Griffin – Crown of Roses (8)
  13. Ketch Secor – Story the Crow Told Me (8)
  14. Stillhouse Junkies – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon (8)
  15. Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia – Help Yourself (7)
  16. Robbie Fulks – Now Then (7)
  17. Charley Crockett – Dollar A Day (7)
  18. Jade Bird – Who Wants to Talk About Love (7)
  19. Paul Carrick – The Country Side of Paul Carrack, Vol. 1 (7)
  20. West Texas Exiles – 8000 Days (6)
  21. Grant-Lee Phillips – In The Hour of Dust (6)
  22. Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country – Horizons (6)
  23. The Wildmans – Longtime Friend (6)
  24. Pink Stones – THANK THE LORD… IT’S THE PINK STONES (5)
  25. The Third Mind – Right Now! (5)
  26. Margo Price – Hard Headed Woman (5)
  27. Asleep at the Wheel – Riding High in Texas (5)
  28. Ashley Monroe – Tennessee Lightning (5)
  29. BettySoo – If You Never Go Away (5)
  30. Mose Wilson – That’s Love (5)
  31. Brent Cobb & The Fixin’s – Ain’t Rocked in a While (5)
  32. The Swell Season – Forward (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.


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Polls

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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