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Rant: Beatles = Lightweights?
Rant: On the Digital Revolution
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Rant: Teenage Noise
Rant: Hughesy's Music Classifications
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Reflection: Australian music from the sixties
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Rant: A Trans-Atlantic Question
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Reflection: A New Listening Paradigm
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Reflection: After The Basement
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Reflection: On Keeping Things Going
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Reflection: Reviewing a Paradigm
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Rear Views & Retrospectives
Rear View: San Francisco 1967-68
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Rear View: John Mayall
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Rear View: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
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Rear View: The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders
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Rear View: Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Safe As Milk (Incomplete)
Rear View: Robert Palmer Sneaking Sally Through The Alley
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Rear View: Jeff Beck Truth
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Retrospective: Dr Strangely Strange
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Retrospective: Richard Thompson Part 1
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Reminiscences
Where I'm Coming From
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The Making of a Music Freak
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A Less Than Distinguished Musical Career
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The Underworld Years
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The Wilderness Years
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The Internet Years
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The Broadband/ iPod Years
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Concerts Over The (Townsville) Years
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Afrocubism (4.5*)
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Mose Allison The Way of the World (3.5*)
Allman Brothers Band
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Partial Discography
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The Allman Brothers Band (4*)
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Idlewild South (4*)
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Gregg Allman Low Country Blues (4.5* if you're a Gregg fan, 4* otherwise)
Bob Andrews
Invisible Love (4.5*)
Shotgun (4.5*)
Arnaldo Antunes, Toumani Diabaté & Edgard Scandurra A Curva Da Cintura (4* for you, 4.5 for yours truly)
Arbouretum The Gathering (2.5*)
Kevin Ayers
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Bananamour (4*)
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The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories (4*)
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Joy of a Toy (4*)
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Shooting at the Moon (4*)
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Whatevershebringswesing (4*)
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BeauSoleil
Tab Benoit Voice of the Wetlands (4*)
Terence Blanchard A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina) (4*)
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Joe Bonamassa Driving Towards the Daylight (3*)
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Pour l'Amour Des Chiens (3.5*)
David Bromberg Use Me (4*)
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Los Cenzontles Raza de Oro (4*)
Bobby Charles Timeless (4*)
Ray Charles
The ABC years
1973–2004
Posthumous and Compilation Albums
The Chieftains San Patricio (4.5*)
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Eric Clapton
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Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton Play the Blues (4*)
The Clash
Leonard Cohen
Old Ideas (4.5*)
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Songs from the Road (4* for the Cohen fan, 3.5 otherwise)
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Shirley Collins
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Shirley & Dolly Collins The Harvest Years (Anthems in Eden, Love, Death and the Lady) (3.5*)
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Albion Country Band & Shirley Collins No Roses (4*)
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Ry Cooder
Election Special (4.5*)
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Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (4.5*)
Elvis Costello
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Momofuku (4.5*)
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Secret, Profane & Sugar Cane (4.5*)
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Wise Up Ghost
Stephen Cummings
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Happiest Man Alive (4*)
Reverse Psychology (4*)
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Devo Something For Everybody (3.5*)
Toumani Diabaté
Kaira (4.5*)
The Mandé Variations (4.5*)
The Dingoes Tracks (3.5*)
Dr Feelgood
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Down by the Jetty (4*, 4.5 if you’re not lining up for Stupidity)
Sneakin' Suspicion (4*)
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Stupidity (4.5*)
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Dr John
City That Care Forgot (4*)
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Tribal (4*)
Bob Dylan
In Concert (Brandeis University 1963) (3.5*)
Tempest (4*)
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Terry Evans Anthology (3.5*)
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John Fahey
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Requia (4*)
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The Yellow Princess (4.5*)
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Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You (The Fonotone Years 1958-1965) (4.5*)
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Fairport Convention House Full: Live at the L.A. Troubadour (4.5*)
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Galactic Ya-Ka-May (3.5*)
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J. Geils Band The J. Geils Band (4*)
JJ Grey And Mofro Georgia Warhorse (4*)
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Levon Helm Ramble at the Ryman (4.5*)
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Joe Henry Reverie (4*)
Mike Heron Smiling Men with Bad Reputations (3.5*)
John Hiatt
Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns (4.5*)
Mystic Pinball (4.5*)
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The Open Road (4*)
Dan Hicks
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Hindu Love Gods Hindu Love Gods (3.5*, 4 if you're a Warren Zevon fan)
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Holton’s Opulent Oog Love In The Mist (3.5*)
Hot 8 Brass Band
The Life And Times Of… (4.5*)
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Rock with The Hot 8 (4.5*)
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Incredible String Band
The Izzys Keep Your Powder Dry (4*)
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Bert Jansch
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Bert Jansch & John Renbourn Bert & John (4*)
Bert Jansch (4*)
It Don’t Bother Me (4*)
Jack Orion (4.5*, assuming you're trad folk fingerpicking tolerant)
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Jenny & Johnny I’m Having Fun Now (4*)
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Kamerunga
The Push (3.5*)
Worlds Kaleid (4*)
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Jeff Lang
Carried In Mind (4.5*)
Chimeradour (4.5*)
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Chuck Leavell Back To the Woods: A Tribute To the Pioneers of Blues Piano (4*)
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Dylan LeBlanc
Cast The Same Old Shadow (4*)
Paupers Field (4*)
Chris Ligon Look At The Birdy (4*)
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Lil' Band O' Gold The Promised Land (4*)
Little Feat
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Barnstormin' Live Volume One, Barnstormin' Live Volume Two, Rocky Mountain Jam (all 4*)
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Rooster Rag (4.5*)
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Little Village Little Village (4*)
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Los Lobos
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...And a Time to Dance (4*)
By the Light of the Moon
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Disconnected in New York City
How Will the Wolf Survive? (4.5*)
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The Neighborhood
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Tin Can Trust (4*)
Nick Lowe
Jesus of Cool (4*)
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Labour of Lust (4.5*)
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Alex McMurray
Manfred Mann The Ascent of Mann (3.5*)
Harry Manx
Bread and Buddha (4*)
Laura Marling
Laura Marling A Creature I Don't Know (4.5*)
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Pedro Pablo “Pedrito” Martinez
The Pedrito Martinez Group (4.5*)
Frankie Miller Frankie Miller… That’s Who! (4*)
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Lisa Miller Car Tape 2 (4*)
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National Health National Health and Of Queues and Cures (Both 4*)
Aaron Neville
My True Story (4.5*)
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Randy Newman
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12 Songs (4.5*)
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The Randy Newman Songbook (5* if you don’t already own the original albums)
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Steve Nieve Lazy Point (4*)
North Mississippi Allstars Keys to the Kingdom (3.5*)
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Edward O'Connell Our Little Secret (4*)
TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Cotonou Club (4*)
Anders Osborne
American Patchwork (4*)
Black Eye Galaxy (4*)
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Graham Parker
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Live at Rockpalast 1978 + 1980 (4*)
23 January 1978
18 October 1980
Three Chords Good (4.5*) (Graham Parker & The Rumour )
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The Up Escalator (4*)
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Dan Penn
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Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Lickety Split (4.5*)
Live In Concert (4.5*)
We Walk This Road (4.5*)
Otis Redding
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Compilations
John Renbourn Palermo Snow (4.5*)
Zachary Richard
Le Fou
Royal Fingerbowl
Greyhound Afternoons (4*)
Happy Birthday, Sabo! (4.5*)
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Todd Rundgren
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The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect (3.5*)
Faithful (4*)
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Hermit of Mink Hollow (4.5*)
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Runt (3*)
Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren (3*)
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Doug Sahm and the Tex-Mex Trip Groovers Paradise (4*)
Paul Sanchez
Johnny Sansone The Lord Is Waiting the Devil Is Too (4*)
Scaffold At Abbey Road 1966 to 1971 (3.5*)
Scrapomatic
Alligator Love Cry (4.5*)
I'm a Stranger (And I Love The Night) (4*)
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Scrapomatic (4*)
Sidewalk Caesars (4.5*)
Ron Sexsmith
Forever Endeavour (4.5*)
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Long Player Late Bloomer (4.5*)
Small Faces
From the Beginning (3.5*)
Small Faces (4*)
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Southside Johnny
Men Without Women (3.5* for the general public)
Jeremy Spencer Precious Little (3.5*)
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Spirit of John Morgan Spirit of John Morgan (3.5*)
Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball (4.5*)
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Peter Stampfel
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Dook of the Beatniks (3.5*, 4 for those familiar with the Holy Modal Rounders)
The Sound of America (4*) (Peter Stampfel & The Ether Frolic Mob )
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Vivian Stanshall Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead (4*, but approach with caution)
Steeleye Span A Parcel of Steeleye Span: Their First Five Chrysalis Albums 1972-1975 (3.5*)
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C.W. Stoneking Jungle Blues (3.5*)
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Fred Tackett Silver Strings (3.5*)
Taj Mahal
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The Hidden Treasures of Taj Mahal (4*)
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Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabaté Kulanjan (3.5*)
Talking Heads
Little Creatures (4.5*)
Tamikrest Toumastin / Adagh (4*)
Texas Tornados ¡Esta Bueno! (3.5*)
Hans Theessink and Terry Evans Visions (4*)
Irma Thomas
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Simply Grand (4*)
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Richard Thompson
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Dream Attic (4.5*)
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Electric (4.5*)
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Live Warrior (4.5*)
Teddy Thompson Bella (4*)
Tinariwen The Radio Tisdas Sessions (4*)
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Tin Men
Avocado Woo Woo (4*)
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Toots & The Maytals Flip & Twist (3.5*)
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté Ali & Toumani (4.5*)
Allen Toussaint
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The Bright Mississippi (4.5*)
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Boubacar Traoré Mali Denhou (4*)
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Trombone Shorty a.k.a. Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews
Backatown (4.5*)
For True (4*)
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Say That To Say This (3.5*)
Derek Trucks and associates
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Derek Trucks Band The Derek Trucks Band (4.5*)
Derek Trucks Band Roadsongs (4.5*)
Tedeschi Trucks Band Everybody’s Talkin’ (5*)
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Trdeschi Trucks Band Made Up Mind (4.5*)
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The Uniques Absolutely Rock Steady (4* for Reggae fans, 3.5 otherwise)
The Unthanks Last (4.5*)
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Valparaiso Men’s Chorus
Guano and Nitrates (4*)
Townes van Zandt
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Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (4.5*)
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The Amazing ZigZag Concert (3.5*)
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The Beautiful Old: Turn of the Century Songs
Heavy Sugar: The Pure Essence of New Orleans R&B Parts 1, 2 and 3; Heavy Sugar Second Spoonful: More Pure Essence of New Orleans R&B (all titles 4.5* for New Orleans fans, 3.5 otherwise)
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Jamaican Skarama (3.5*)
Return of the Mac - In the Studio With Mac Rebennack AKA Dr.John 1959 - 61 (3.5*)
Sound System Scratch and Return of Sound System Scratch (3.5* for the general public, 4* for reggae fans, 5* if you’re heavily into dub)
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Three Period Pieces
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Tumbélé! Biguine, Afro and Latin Sounds From the French Caribbean, 1963-1974 (4.5*)
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Gillian Welch The Harrow & The Harvest (5*)
Robin Williamson
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Love Will Remain (3.5* for the non-ISB Masses)
Wingless Angels Wingless Angels (4*)
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Neil Young
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Americana (3.5*)
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Archives Vol. 1 (4.5*)
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Dreamin' Man Live '92 (3.5*)
Le Noise (3.5*)
Psychedelic Pill (4.5*)
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A Treasure (4*)
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Frank Zappa
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Freak Out! (4.5*)
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Lumpy Gravy (3.5*)
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Warren Zevon
Mr Bad Example (4*)
Concerts
Harry Manx Proserpine Cultural Centre 23 May 2008
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Drum Tao Mackay Entertainment Centre 1 July 2008
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello Brisbane Convention Centre 18 October 2009
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters State Theatre Sydney 19 April 2011
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters, State Theatre, Sydney, 30 January 2013
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Sydney Setlist
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters Ex Theatre, Roppongi, Tokyo 11 December 2013 (Spinning Songbook Show)
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters Ex Theatre, Roppongi, Tokyo 12 December 2013 Spinning Songbook Show
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The Encores
Elvis Costello & The Imposters Ex Theatre, Roppongi, Tokyo 13 December 2013 Spinning Songbook Show
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The Encores
Elvis Costello & The Imposters Zepp Namba, Osaka 15 December 2013 Spinning Songbook Show
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The Encore
Ry Cooder Brisbane Convention Centre 21 November 2009
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Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen Brisbane Entertainment Centre 6 November 2010
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Leonard Cohen Townsville Entertainment Centre Thursday, 28 November 2013
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Tedeschi Trucks Band Enmore Theatre Sydney 21 April 2011
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Randy Newman in concert with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra 24 July 2011
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse March 2013
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Brisbane Entertainment Centre 14 March 2013
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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Brisbane Entertainment Centre 16 March 2013
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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Allphones Arena Sydney 18 March 2013
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Video
Moogis
Allman Brothers Band 2010 United Palace Run
Allman Brothers Band United Palace Theatre New York 11 March 2010
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Allman Brothers Band United Palace Theatre New York 12 March 2010
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Allman Brothers Band United Palace Theatre New York 13 March 2010
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Allman Brothers Band United Palace Theatre New York 15 March 2010
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Allman Brothers Band United Palace Theatre New York 16 March 2010
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Allman Brothers Band United Palace Theatre New York 18 March 2010
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Allman Brothers Band United Palace Theatre New York 19 March 2010
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Allman Brothers Band United Palace Theatre New York 20 March 2010
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Wanee Festival 2010
Wanee Festival Day One
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Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre Run 2011
Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre New York 10 March 2011
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Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre New York 11 March 2011
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Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre New York 12 March 2011
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Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre New York 14 March 2011
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Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre New York 17 March 2011
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Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre New York 18 March 2011
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Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre New York 19 March 2011
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Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre New York 21 March 2011
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Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre New York 22 March 2011
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Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre New York 24 March 2011
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Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre New York 25 March 2011
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Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre New York 26 March 2011
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R.I.P.
Bo Diddley
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Charlie Gillett
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Bobby Charles
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Tuli Kupferberg
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Ben Keith
Richie Hayward
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Solomon Burke
Captain Beefheart
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Owsley Stanley
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Jerry Leiber
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Bert Jansch
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Steve Jobs
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Clarence Clemons
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Kevin Ayers
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Lou Reed
31 Themes
1. Linin’ Track - Taj Mahal
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Playlist
2. Steamboat Gwine 'Round The Bend - John Fahey
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3. Tipitina - Professor Longhair
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4. Soul Man - Sam & Dave
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