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Earl Scruggs – Classic Bluegrass Live

Cleveland County bluegrass legend and Foggy Mountain Boy wows Newport festival crowd, 1959-66

Thomson

West Country power pop brothers gonna work it out

Sizzla – Ghetto Revolution

Babylon burns on reggae superstar's nu-roots stormer

Kenso – Fabulis Mirabilibus De Bombycosis Scriptis

Japanese prog band keep genre alive

Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers – Wea

Underwhelmed as we are by franchise McBlockbusters, this score's by the really rather talented Howard Shore, who was responsible for the coolly sexy sounds which rippled under David Cronenberg's Crash. His soppy strings for the first Baggins movie won him all manner of awards and made the UK Top 10. This one is distinguished by its remarkable guest vocalists: Iceland's Emiliana Torrini and former Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser—from "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" to Gollum and Samwise: it makes a kind of sense, no?

Mary Lorson & Billy Cote – Piano Creeps

Cinematic album of moody instrumentals from Madder Rose duo

Intastella – Intastella Overdrive

Double CD compendium from Mancunian Deee-lite

Bill Withers

Seminal soul man, best known for "Ain't No Sunshine", "Lean On Me" and "Lovely Day", back in print

Talib Kweli – Quality

Mos Def's best mate expands hip hop's horizons

My Morning Jacket – Sweatbees

American space cowboys release UK-only EP of early releases
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