 | Blue Valentine by Tom Waits
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £3.89 For 'Christmas Card....' and 'Kentucky Avenue', Closing Time is the album for Waits beginners, but no collection is complete without Waits
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 | New Moon Shine by James Taylor
Buy new: £4.62 / Used from: £3.98 His best work, sharp and elegant musicianship, 'Like Everyone She Knows' is the gem
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 | August And Everything After by Counting Crows
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.45 Debut Classic, probably the best debut by any band for years, their live album 'Across The Wires' is also one of the best live recordings I've heard.. The VH1 recording
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 | Nickel Creek
Buy new: £9.92 / Used from: £3.95 Bluegrass full of youth and enthusiasm, plus some nice songs too
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 | Citizen Steely Dan: 1972-1980 by Steely Dan
Buy new: £31.51 / Used from: £29.99 I was going to recommend 'Katy Lied' but this is everything from 1972-1980. Crucial Sounds
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 | Original Fin by Jeff Finlin
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £7.80 I can't understand why this doesn't sell in it's millions. 'Perfect Mark Of Cain' and'She's A Mamma Now' shine
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 | Somewhere South of Wonder by Jeff Finlin
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £19.68 Now buy the follow up. 'Alchemy' is a great track.
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 | Songs of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen
Buy used from: £4.00 His first and greatest, don't think of depression, think of poetry
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 | Blackwater by Altan
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.68 Irish Traditional Music at its zenith. Track 6 is wicked
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 | Pop by U2
Buy new: £4.55 / Used from: £0.49 Often overlooked and criticised, but great bands make great albums. 'If God Would Send His Angels' and 'If You Wear That Velvet Dress' are the tracks to chill too
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 | Thus Always to Tyrants by Scott Miller
Buy new: £9.45 / Used from: £4.72 Good old rock and roll, no messing.... Great live act, catch them if you can
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 | How Was Tomorrow by Cash Brothers
Buy new: £6.20 / Used from: £2.23 'Guitar Strings And Foolish Things' is the one for me. Nice live act too.
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 | Unearthed by Johnny Cash
Buy new: £56.03 / Used from: £38.86 Nuff Said.... if you don't want to shell out the cash, get 'The Man Comes Around' his last release
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 | Love and Theft by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £1.90 I've gone for this one out of the many because it's great to see the old guy still producing great music
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 | One Trick Pony: Original Soundtrack by Paul Simon
Buy used from: £2.50 Again not one most go for, but great lyrical content and clever arrangements from the diminutive one, but anything by him is worth a listen 'Rene and Georgette Magritte with their dog ...' is class
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 | So by Peter Gabriel
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.20 Always thought this album would be better if 'Big Time' was erased. Glad he left Genesis, great sounds since. 'Us' also a great album
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 | Intuite by Pierre Bensusan
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £4.99 All acoustic guitarists 'need' this album, it shows you the limitless possibilities. Pierre is the man Steve Vai calls 'GOD'
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 | Call Me Al
Buy used from: £23.16 This is fretless and fretted bass players artist Alain Caron who played with 'Uzeb'. Any bass player should have a listen to any of his work.
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 | Luck of the Draw by Bonnie Raitt
Buy new: £6.80 / Used from: £0.50 'I can't make you love me' the way it should be and pre George Michael's awful effort. Also has a few Paul Brady numbers. Delbert McClinton also appears
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 | The Very Best of The Pogues by The Pogues
Buy new: £2.25 / Used from: £1.85 The best songwritter of a generation Shane McGowen. Great Compilation. 'A Rainy Night In Soho' is brilliant.
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 | Nobody Knows: the Best of Paul Brady by Paul Brady
Buy new: £40.00 / Used from: £9.59 A great compilation and introduction to this singer songwritter
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 | Wicked Grin by John Hammond
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.00 'Buzz Fledderjohn' is a great track, Tom Waits helps out on this album + a few Waits covers
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 | Musicforthemorningafter by Pete Yorn
Buy new: £4.56 / Used from: £2.94 Don't get frighted by the first 20 seconds, well worth the wait
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 | For the Beauty of Wynona by Daniel Lanois
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.49 Second offering from MEGA Producer Lanois.... see why U2 and Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris and other rave about a Canadian
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![Wrecking Ball [Us Import]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X89E6KQKL._SL75_.jpg) | Wrecking Ball [Us Import] by Emmylou Harris
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.89 No relation to Rolf, which is obvious when you listen to this quality work. Country Music they say
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