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Readers’ Pick: Mavis Staples – Sad and Beautiful World

Friday, November 14, 2025 By Tom Osborne

Mavis Staples – Sad and Beautiful World

You picked Mavis Staples – Sad and Beautiful World as your favorite new release for the week of November 7, 2025.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of November 7?

  • Mavis Staples – Sad and Beautiful World (32%, 14 Votes)
  • Luke Bell – The King Is Back (20%, 9 Votes)
  • Willie Nelson – Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle (16%, 7 Votes)
  • Paul Kelly – Seventy (16%, 7 Votes)
  • The Lucky Losers – Arrival (5%, 2 Votes)
  • The Mynabirds – It’s Okay To Go Back If You Keep Moving Forward (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Terry Klein – Hill County Folk Music (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Sabine McCalla – Don’t Call Me Baby (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Tommy Talton – Seven Levels (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Chris Thile – Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2 (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Tristen – Unpopular Music (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Brandy Zdan – So what (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 44

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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 Fall 2025

  1. Mavis Staples – Sad and Beautiful World (14 votes)
  2. Brennen Leigh – Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love (14)
  3. Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives – Space Junk (12)
  4. Rhett Miller – A Lifetime of Riding by Night (11)
  5. Gurf Morlix – Bristlecone (10)
  6. Luke Bell – The King Is Back (9)
  7. Brandi Carlile – Returning to Myself (9)
  8. Luther Dickinson – Dead Blues Vol. 1 (8)
  9. Caitlin Canty – Night Owl Envies the Mourning Dove (8)
  10. Willie Nelson – Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle (7)
  11. Paul Kelly – Seventy (7)
  12. Todd Snider – HIGH, LONESOME AND THEN SOME (7)
  13. Tony Joe White – The Real Thang (6)
  14. Ward Hayden and the Outliers – Piece By Piece (6)
  15. John Gorka – unentitled (6)
  16. Dion – The Rock ‘n’ Roll Philosopher (Keeping the Blues Alive) (5)
  17. Joshua Hedley – All Hat (5)
  18. Jim Keller – End of the World (5)
  19. The Barr Brothers – Let It Hiss (5)
  20. Paul Burch – Cry Love (5)
  21. Maygen & The Birdwatcher – The Americana Dream (5)
  22. Nicki Bluhm – Rancho Deluxe (5)
  23. Jeremy Pinnell – Decades (4)
  24. Joshua Ray Walker – Stuff (4)
  25. The Autumn Defense – Here and Nowhere (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.


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Polls

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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