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May 29, 2026

  • Leeroy Stagger – Pilgrimage
  • Gipsy Kings – Historia
  • Sour Bridges – Dog Star Sessions [EP]
  • Willie Nelson – Dream Chaser
  • Paul McCartney – The Boys of Dungeon Lane
  • Renée Fleming & Béla Fleck – The Fiddle and the Drum
  • SUSTO – Susto Stringband (Volume 2)
  • Iain Matthews – Rhythm Of The West: Live & In Rehearsal
  • The Highwomen – Live at the Gorge 2023
  • Guided by Voices – Crawlspace Of The Pantheon
  • Kurt Vile – Philadelphia’s been good to me
  • Joshua Ray Walker – Ain’t Dead Yet
  • Benson – Double Dose
  • NEEDTOBREATHE – The Long Surrender (Live at RCA Studios) [EP]
  • Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts – As Time Explodes (Live)
  • Lone Piñon – Hot Carne Seca
  • Clay DuBose – Father Time & Mother Nature
  • Nathan Evans Fox – Heirloom
  • Alexis Harte – Thirsty
  • Jesse and Noah – The Sunshine Shop
  • David Serby – Broken Heart In A Honky Tonk
  • Don Williams – Epilogue: The Cellar Tapes
  • Amani Burhnam – Roots & Wings
  • DERVISH – The Great Irish Songbook Vol. 2: Poets & Storytellers
  • John Gallagher, Jr. – Almost Ok [EP]
  • Robin Ganz – Hypnos
  • Joey Quiñones – Inna Soul Steady Situation
  • JP Soars – Gypsy Blue Revue
  • Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan – Where the Willow and Dogwood Grow

May 22, 2026

  • Memphis Slim – The Memphis Slim Story
  • The Deslondes – Don’t Let It Die: Vol. 1
  • Mick Flannery – The House Must Win
  • Lonesome Ace Stringband – Polly Put the Kettle On [EP]
  • Little Barrie – Gravity Freeze
  • Chimafunk – Te Toca
  • Noah Gundersen – Rites Of Spring
  • Reba McEntire – Hurt Like That
  • David Eugene Edwards – Mercurial Silence
  • Marisa Anderson – The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music
  • Steep Canyon Rangers – Next Act
  • Whitney Rose – The Tennessee Polaroids [EP]
  • Ben Chapman – Feet On Fire
  • Samuel Smith – The Art of Letting Go
  • Marley’s Ghost – Honky Tonk
  • Corey Arceneaux & The Zydeco Fusion Band – Accordion Man
  • Thomas Csorba – Tender Country
  • Alena Diane – Who’s Keeping Time?
  • Jacob Augustine – I Love You Forever
  • Magic Tuber Stringband – Heavy Water
  • Nora Kelly Band – So Wrong For So Long

May 15, 2026

  • Jobi Riccio – Face the Feeling
  • Son of Dave – Four Sod Kickers [EP]
  • Reckless Kelly – Alternate Routes
  • Golden Everything – Down Time [EP]
  • Teddy Thompson – Never Be The Same
  • 49 Winchester – Change of Plans
  • Jack Shields & The Mojave Rush – Avalanche Hour
  • Laurence Juber – I’ve Got a Feeling
  • Reckoners – Where The Hell Am I?
  • Shakey Graves – Fondness, Etc.
  • Kevin Morby – Little Wide Open
  • Ghalia Volt – Burn the House Down
  • Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs – Tribute to The Stanley Brothers
  • S.G. Goodman – (Re)Planting by the Signs
  • Ryan Bingham & The Texas Gentlemen – They Call Us The Lucky Ones
  • Rob Baird – Smoke on the Breeze
  • Crow and Gazelle – Truth Be Told
  • Ramsey Thornton – I Called It!
  • Desiree Dorion – Pieces of Me
  • Peter Frampton – Carry the Light
  • Gypsy Kings – Historia
  • Hunter Morris / Mountain of Youth – Nowhere, NW
  • SUSS – Counting Sunsets
  • Tank and The Bangas – The Last Balloon

May 8, 2026

  • Joanne Shaw Taylor – This is Who I Am [EP]
  • Josh Rouse – Missed Opportunities B/W Running Away from It All [EP]
  • Ashley McBryde – Wild
  • The Lemon Twigs – Look For Your Mind!
  • Ben Chapman – Baby Blue [EP]
  • India Ramey – Villain Era
  • Abigail Lapell – Shadow Child
  • Michaela Anne – These Are The Days
  • Blackwater Railroad Company – Caravan
  • Jack Van Cleaf – Green 2 [EP]
  • Josiah and the Bonnevilles – As Is
  • Jennifer Lyn & The Groove Revival – Electric Eden
  • Whitehorse – All I Want Is All of It
  • Kevin Farge – Country Love Song
  • Mick Flannery – The House Must Win
  • The Flatliners – Cold World
  • Coleman Jennings – Lead You Home
  • Bonnie Paine – Unseen
  • TANASI – TANASI
  • Brother Wallace – Electric Love

May 1, 2026

  • James Maddock – Forever June
  • Underground Springhouse – A Noise Without a Name
  • Rober Jon & the Wreck – Wreckage, Vol. 3
  • Brett Newski – Have a Thing, Miss Your Moment, Wait for the Revival
  • The Marcus King Band – Darling Blue / No Room For Blue
  • Don McLean & The Jordanaires – Rehearsals For Carnegie Hall
  • Trousdale – Want Me Back [EP]
  • Adeem the Artist – Survival Strategies Vol. 1: Enmeshment [EP]
  • Bird – Strange As Folk [EP]
  • Lars Jansson & Eric Söderlind – Why Does Rain Fall
  • Kacey Musgraves – Middle of Nowhere
  • Emily Nenni – Movin’ Shoes
  • The Cold Stares – Texas
  • Taj Mahal & Phantom Blues Band – Time
  • Catfish John Tisdell – Blues in Paradise
  • Paisley Fields – Are U Mad At Me
  • Muscadine Bloodline – The Sound of Roses
  • The Black Keys – Peaches!
  • Sweet Megg – Massive Negroni
  • Florence Dore – Hold the Spark
  • Tori Amos – In Times of Dragons
  • A Different Thread – Over Again
  • Jesca Hoop – Long Wave Home
  • Hiss Golden Messenger – I’m People
  • The Klezmatics – We Were Made For These Times
  • Ben Musser – Sentimental Fever
  • Maisy Owen – Dark on a Sunny Day
  • Dida Pelled – I Wish You Would
  • Vaiano’s Paisanos – Jalopy
  • Various – Old No.1 Revisited
  • Todd Day Wait – Heart Over Mind
  • Rita Wilson – Sound of a Woman

April 24, 2026

  • Setting – Setting
  • Noah Kahan – The Great Divide
  • Glen Hansard – Don’t Settle (Vol. 1 – Transmissions East)
  • Ringo Starr – Long Long Road
  • Jim Lauderdale & The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys – The Birds Know
  • Mikaela Davis – Graceland Way
  • Rosie Flores & Ray Campi – A Little Bit of Heartache
  • Peter Case – My Life To Live: Peter Case at McCabe’s
  • Mike Zito – Outside Or The Eastside
  • Yarn – Saturday Night Sermon
  • The Milk Carton Kids – Lost Cause Lover Fool
  • Dale Watson – Unwanted
  • Wilco – Wilco Live (Yellow)
  • Loose Cattle – May Day (Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival)
  • Terry Allen & Blood Sucking Maniacs – Blood Sucking Maniacs
  • Rachel Brooke – This One’s For You
  • Kevin Carducci – Easy Does It
  • Kiki Cavazos – Goodbye Blues
  • Bobby Dove – Fortune Teller
  • Angelo De Augustine – Angel in Plainclothes
  • The Hip Snacks – Out On A Limb
  • Taylor Dallas Vidic – Cat & Mouse

April 17, 2026

  • EZRA – Whippersnap
  • Darin and Brooke Aldridge – Soul Condition
  • Vincent Neil Emerson – Blue Stars
  • Marc Broussard – Chance Worth Taking
  • Robben Ford – Two Shades Of Blue
  • I’m With Her – Sing Me Alive
  • Benjamin Tod – Vengeance and Grace
  • Todd Thibaud – Alchemy
  • Dirk Powell – Wake
  • The Brudi Brothers – Dark and Stormy
  • The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers – Revival
  • Grey Jacks – INTERgenerational
  • Andy Leftwich – Aced
  • Dan Penn – Smoke Filled Room
  • Lewis Pugh – Heretics & Heritage
  • The Tall Pines – Tales from the Tall Pines
  • Todd Albright – Blues for Dexter Linwood
  • Banshee Tree – Bad Luck

April 10, 2026

  • Brown Horse – Total Dive
  • Julia Pratt & JULITH – This Is A Kindness
  • Cactus Lee – Lee’s Dream
  • George Jackson & Tristan Scroggins – Old Time 100, Vol. 3
  • Joseph Arthur – You’re Not a Ghost Anymore: FAITH
  • Frank Turner – Campfire Punkrock 20
  • Drivin N Cryin – Crushing Flowers
  • Fantastic Cat – Cat Out of Hell
  • Don Ross – Songs That Found Me
  • Sierra Hull – The Movements [EP]
  • Gurf Morlix – Cobwebs & Stardust
  • Tenille Townes – The Acrobat
  • Rachel Lyme – STORIES

April 3, 2026

  • Cuchulain – It’s Always Something
  • Chris Tapp & The Cold Stares – Green
  • Bruce Hornsby – Indigo Park
  • Joe Pernice & Pernice Brothers – Sunny, I Was Wrong
  • Thomm Jutz – Ring-A-Bellin’
  • Jonny Fritz – Debbie Downers (Woodwinds)
  • Cactus – Temple of Blues II – All-Stars
  • Jeff Coffin – When Now
  • Charley Crockett – Age of the Ram
  • India Ramey – We Ride At Dawn [EP]
  • Paul Cauthen – Book of Paul
  • Jessye DeSilva – Glitter Up The Dark
  • Elizabeth & The Catapult – Responsible Friend
  • Mark Erelli – Spring Green
  • David Aaron Greenburg – Trap Poems
  • Maria Taylor – Story’s End
  • Joe Troop – The Truth Machine [EP]
  • Seth James – Motormouth

March 27, 2026

  • Taylor Roberts – Sanctuary
  • Ty Myers – Heavy On The Soul
  • Robert Francis – Phantasmagoria
  • Okoye: When the Caged Bird Sings – Various Artists
  • Drayton Farley – A Heavy Duty Heart
  • Paul Carrack – For One Night Only (Live in London)
  • Jim Lauderdale – Country Super Hits Volume 2
  • Melissa Etheridge – Rise
  • Mick Clarke – Shake That Boogie (Live in Bremen 1989)
  • Calder Allen – Fault Lines
  • Flatland Cavalry – Work of Heart (EP)
  • NEEDTOBREATHE – The Long Surrender
  • Luke Winslow-King – Coast of Light
  • Charlotte Cornfield – Hurts Like Hell
  • Andy Hedges – The Westerner
  • Yonder Mountain String Band – Good As True
  • Big Harp – Runs to Blue
  • Anthony Vaccaro/Helicopter Leaves – Sabrina Nickles
  • Jose Gonzales – Against the Dying of the Light
  • Andy Thomas – Highway Junkie
  • Melanie Martinez – Hades
  • Selwyn Birchwood – Electric Swamp Funkin Blues

March 20, 2026

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band – Future Soul
  • Hurray For The Riff Raff – Live Forever
  • Lonesome Ace Stringband – Little Bird in the Ashbank (EP)
  • Aubrie Sellers – Attachment Theory
  • Jimmie Allen – Wild Dreams (The Cover Collection)
  • Ariel Posen – Bannatyne
  • Daniel Grindstaff & The Uptown Troubadours – Daniel Grindstaff & The Uptown Troubadours
  • The Black Keys – Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire
  • The Montvales – Path of Totality
  • The Westerlies – Have You Heard? The Music of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1
  • Leah Blevins – All Dressed Up
  • Mike Finnigan – Mike Finnigan
  • Son Little – Cityfolk
  • Kenny Shore – Happiness & Misery
  • Jack Studer – Falling Forward
  • Ben Brandt – Solid Ground
  • Joshua Burnside – It’s Not Going to Be Okay
  • Robert Lester Folson – If You Wanna Laugh, You Gotta Cry Sometimes: Archives Vol. 3, 1972–1975
  • The Alexis P Suter Band featuring Garth Hudson – Just Stay Live

March 13, 2026

  • Jesse Jones & Jacob Jolliff – Jolliff Plays Jones
  • The Third Mind – Spellbinder!
  • Tony Trischka – Earl Jam 2
  • Druken Hearts – Live at the Bluebird
  • Canon Tyler – Rhododendron Hell
  • The Black Crowes – A Pound of Feathers
  • The Steel Wheels – The Steel Wheels
  • Daniel Romano & The Outfit – Preservers Of The Pearl
  • Vince Gill – 50 Years From Home: Lonely’s What I Do
  • Anjimile – You’re Free to Go
  • Dan & Peggy Reeder – Dan and Peggy Reeder Live
  • Foy Vance – The Wake
  • Cat Clyde – Mud Blood Bone
  • Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds (Sturgill Simpson) – Mutiny After Midnight
  • Sam Bergquist – Devils & Doves
  • Colton Bowlin – Grandpa’s Mill
  • Garrett T. Capps – I Still Love San Antone
  • Morgan Nagler – I’ve Got Nothing to Lose and I’m Losing It
  • Sweet Petunia – Foggy Mountain Mental Breakdown
  • Tinariwen – Hoggar
  • Jason P. Woodbury – Jason P. Woodbury & The Night Bird Singing Quartet

March 6, 2026

  • Lena Jonsson & Johanna Juhola – The Power of Polska
  • HAPPY LANDING – Big Sun
  • J.D. Graham – Uppers & Downers
  • Jackie Venson – Live at Fitzgeralds Historic
  • Hank, Pattie & the Current – Under the Stars
  • JD McPherson – The Lowdown (Original Soundtrack)
  • William Clark Green – Watterson Hall
  • Trey Hensley – Can‘t Outrun The Blues
  • Chicago Farmer – Homeaid
  • Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers – Hell to Breakfast
  • The Delines – The Set Up
  • Sam Lewis – Everything‘s Fine
  • Jesper Lindell – 3614 Jackson Highway
  • Odd Marshall – Seconds
  • Paper Wings – Mountains on the Moon
  • The Taproots – Comedy of Fools
  • Brit Taylor – Land Of The Forgotten
  • Travis Bolt – Burning Bridges
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy – We Are Together Again
  • Hunter Hayes – Evergreen
  • Jillette Johnson – The Pain, My Friend [EP]
  • Reese McHenry – Reese McHenry Forever
  • Sons of Town Hall – Of Ghosts and Gods

February 27, 2026

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

February 20, 2026

  • Duke Robillard – Blast Off!
  • Tim Easton – fIREHORSE
  • The Band of Heathens – Country Sides
  • Mumford and Sons – Prizefighter
  • Brooks Williams – Brooks’ Acoustic
  • Pekka Kuusisto, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Sam Amidon – Willows
  • Israel Nash, Eric Swanson – Moods
  • The Last Riber Bottomed Fig Plucker – Plucked
  • Aubrie Sellers – Attachment Theory
  • Rick Shea – Smoke Tree Road
  • Jesse Appelman – Where We Go
  • Jimmy Fretwell – analog dream
  • Mirah – Dedication

February 13, 2026

  • Clay Street Unit – Sin & Squalor
  • Erik Vincent Huey – Fort Defiance
  • Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands – O California
  • Keegan McInroe – Neon John
  • Rodney Rice – Call It What You Will
  • The Waymores – The Knot
  • Boy Golden – Best of Our Possible Lives
  • The Infamous Stringdusters – 20/20
  • The Lone Bellow – What A Time To Be Alive
  • The Nude Party – Look Who’s Back
  • Vince Gill – 50 Years From Home: Down At The Borderline
  • Morgan Myles – Laced
  • The Paranoid Style – Known Associates
  • Madi Diaz – Enema Of The Garden State
  • Chip Taylor – Words from Holy Gardens
  • The Sky Chiefs – The Sky Chiefs
  • Robert Francis – PHANTASMAGORIA
  • Gogol Bordello – We Mean It, Man
  • Jeremy Ivey – It’s Shape Will Reveal Itself
  • George Jackson’s Local Trio – Center of The Universe

February 6, 2026

  • Melissa Carper & Theo Lawrence – Havin’ A Talk
  • Mick Clarke – Blues Before Sunrise
  • John Craigie – I Swam Here
  • Big Richard – Pet
  • Marc Broussard – S.O.S. V: Songs of the ’50s
  • Joe Bonamassa – B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100
  • Queen Esther – Blackbirding
  • Jay Buchanan – Weapons of Beauty
  • Emanuela Hutter – Goose Bumps

January 30, 2026

  • Jake Shimabukuro – Calm Seas
  • Ye Vagabonds – All Tied Together
  • Eric Bibb – One Mississippi
  • Tinsley Ellis – Labor of Love
  • Evan Honer – Everything I Wanted (& more)
  • Emily Scott Robinson – Appalachia
  • Beck – Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime
  • The Last River Bottomed Fig Plucker – Melt
  • Steve Poltz – JoyRide
  • Cordovas – Back to Life
  • Natalie Del Carmen – Pastures
  • You, Me, Everybody – Midnight
  • Tyler Ballgame – For the First Time, Again
  • Kim Moberg – All That Really Matters

January 23, 2026

  • Marco Tansini – Heliotropic
  • Sophie Gault – UNHINGED
  • Appalachian Road Show – Della Jane’s Heart
  • Julian Taylor – Anthology Vol. 2
  • Dion & The Belmonts – Together Again
  • Van Morrison – Somebody Tried To Sell Me A Bridge
  • Julian Lage – Scenes From Above
  • Black Pistol Fire – Flagrant Act of Bliss
  • Della Mae – Magic Accident
  • The Paper Kites – If You Go There, I Hope You Find It
  • Lucinda Williams – World’s Gone Wrong
  • Sammy Brue – The Journals
  • The Lowest Pair – Always As Young As We’ll Ever Be
  • Dave Miller – Party in the Pines
  • Wreckless Strangers – Dirty Soul

January 16, 2026

  • Langhorne Slim – The Dreamin‘ Kind
  • Courtney Marie Andrews – Valentine
  • Carsie Blanton – The Red Album Vol 2
  • Elipsis – Elipsis
  • Elles Bailey – Can’t Take My Story Away
  • Horsehoes & Hand Grenades – Living Room
  • Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz – Circle and Square
  • David Huckfelt – I Was Born But…
  • James Hunter Six – Off The Fence
  • Mike Mattison – Turn a Midnight Corner
  • Wormy – Shark River

January 9, 2026

  • Vince Gill – Brown’s Diner Bar [EP]
  • John McCutcheon and Tom Paxton – Together Again
  • Mon Rovîa – Bloodline
  • Pecos & The Rooftops – FROM ME TO YOU
  • Grant Peeples – Code To Live By
  • Eric & The Soo – Phoenix
  • Zach Bryan – With Heaven On Top
  • Devon Allman – nightvision
  • Antonio Sánchez – The Studio
  • Dawes – Rolling Your Third Eye (Live)

January 2, 2026

  • Juliana Zachariou – Dreamer Dreamer
  • Aurelia Anne Cohen – The Magnolia Sessions
  • Josh Weathers – Neon Never Fades
  • Sarah Popejoy – The Oklahoma Storyteller, Vol.1: Crossroads
  • Chris Emmert – The Magnolia Sessions
  • Brule County Bad Boys – Burden Lake (Cold as Life)
  • The Deslondes – Holy Cross Blues
  • Diane Coll – Strangely in Tune
  • Michael McDermott – Lost City Seattle

Friends of Twangville

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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