Various Artists

Various Artists – The Songs Of Jimmy Webb, Tunesmith

Hefty selection of Webb songs, featuring R.E.M., Stevie Wonder, Scott Walker and Dusty Springfield

Various Artists – Goodbye, Babylon

Magnificent six-CD compilation of gospel roots

Various Artists РCr̬me De La Cr̬me

Philly soul classics and rarities from vaults of Atlantic, Atco and Warner Bros '72-'76

1989 box set rejigged again

Road To Nowhere

From art-damaged garage to cosmic avant jitterfunk; a box set containing 54 tracks and 13 videos charts the weird musical journey that took Talking Heads from CBGB's to MTV

Various Artists – Phil’s Spectre: A Wall Of Soundalikes

Roll over Jack Nitzsche and tell Bill Medley the news. Two dozen quality excursions into Echo Chamber Music

Various Artists – Papa Ain’t No Santa Claus…

Twenty seasonal helpings of doo wop, country, blues and rockabilly

Various Artists – Feedback To The Future

The shoegazing revival starts here. Apparently

The Free Design

First and third LPs from contemporaries of The Association and The 5th Dimension

Various Artists – Alan Lomax: Popular Songbook

When Moby sampled Vera Ward Hall's "Trouble So Hard", he was merely the latest in a long line of musicians to use as a source the field recordings made in the Deep South between 1933 and 1959 by the folklorist Alan Lomax. The Popular Songbook collects together 22 such tracks and, perhaps to your surprise, you'll find you know almost every one of them—if not in these original versions then in covers by artists as diverse as Clapton, Miles Davis, Steve Miller, Dylan, Led Zep and The Grateful Dead. File alongside the Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music.
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