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Alan Lomax – American Folk-Blues Train

Three-disc box set of field and studio recordings from Moby's favourite musical archivist

Cradle 2 The Grave

Everybody's kung fu fighting

Mr Deeds Goes To Town

Much-emulated screwball comedy, directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper as the disingenuous rustic type who inherits a $20 million fortune and a new life in New York. There he's pitted against a variety of shysters, cynics and dodgy lawyers who lend the film its edge as well as material for the underlying homily against urban sophistication. Jean Arthur adds charm as the hard-bitten tabloid hack who falls for Cooper.

Jack The Ripper Special Edition

TV mini series from 1988 directed by David (The Sweeney) Wickes and starring Michael Caine as the police inspector investigating 'orrible murders in Whitechapel, with Lewis Collins as his sidekick. Hack melodrama with red herrings galore, but still quite watchable.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Special Edition

If Easy Rider spelled the end of the hippie dream, then Chainsaw provided the full-blown nightmare. A camper van full of paisley-shirted, astrology-obsessed kids pulls up in rural Texas only to discover Leatherface and his family only too willing to show them some local hospitality. The opening half-hour still remains the most unnerving in horror history.

New York punk trio surpass media hype with cataclysmic debut

Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth hold a party in their home studio

The Jayhawks – Rainy Day Music

Seventh album from immaculate country-rockers with guest appearances by Jakob Dylan, Bernie Leadon and Matthew Sweet

The Aislers Set – How I Learned To Write Backwards

Third from 'Frisco 'twee'-revivalists

Chris Whitley – Hotel Vast Horizon

Respected Texan troubadour's eighth album
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