THE WAIFS, Beautiful You beats out GRACE POTTER, Midnight as your favorite for the week of August 14, 2015. Poll Results Readers’ Tops – Summer 2015 BOBBY LONG, Ode to Thinking (134) JASON ISBELL, Something More Than Free (34) BRENT BEST, Your Dog, Champ (10) THE WAIFS, Beautiful You (10) SHINYRIBS, Okra Candy […]
Readers’ Picks: Best Albums of 2010 (Plus a Giveaway)
Twangville readers rallied to give Paul Thorn‘s ‘Pimps and Preachers’ an overwhelming victory for album of the year. An interesting fact about the album is that Thorn himself painted the album cover. He painted the preacher to be his father and the pimp to be his uncle. You don’t have to look much further to […]
Editors’ Pick: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
They’re last album finished in the top ten of 2007. Will the latest Grace Potter and the Nocturnals album make the cut in 2010? Here’s what the Twangville editors think of their new self-titled album: Tom says: The album begins with the melodic scream “Ah yeah!” a fitting way to begin their third release on […]
Sun Studio Sessions
Some cool stuff going on with the famous Sun Studio lately. Here’s a handful of Twangville’s favorite artists including Sarah Borges, Grace Potter, Backyard Tire Fire and Amy LaVere captured on video at the pivotal recording studio:
Best Albums of 2007, Official Twangville Picks
For the first time in three years Twangville presents an official top albums list aggregated from several of our editors’ picks. The first number in parenthesis represents the cumulative score and the second number is the number of editors who selected a particular album. 1. Jason Isbell, ‘Sirens of The Ditch’ (26.5/4) 2. Patty Griffin, […]
Best Albums of 2007 (Tom’s Picks)
Top 10 lists are relative in that they are best judged against the music the reviewer was exposed to and spent enough time listening to to properly analyze. For this reason, many fine albums of 2007 didn’t make my list. I had every intention of purchasing Steve Earle’s and Bettye Lavette’s albums in time to […]