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(Main Man/Unka Jeff) www.mainmanrecords.com Even a tentative exploration of this bountiful 28-track, double-CD compilation might leave you with the unsettling feeling that you've just aw more...

(Rapster)       www.rapsterrecords.com     For years, DJs and sample-dependent producers kept their source material closely guarded secrets. Beyond the obvious bre more...

(Vanguard)    www.vanguardrecords.com     This isn't the first tribute to the Texas Tornado--that honor goes to the Bottle Rockets' 2002 effort Songs of Sahm--but it is th more...

(Chapter Music)   www.chaptermusic.com   Kath Bloom, who has been recording off and on with little national attention since the early 1980s, may just be the purest, most natural hei more...

(Vanguard)   www.vanguardrecords.com     This isn't the first tribute to the Texas Tornado - that honor goes to the Bottle Rockets' 2002 effort Songs of Sahm - but it is the fi more...

(Stax)   www.concordmusicgroup.com     Every album review should be as much of a no-brainer as this one. Take the finest soul music sung and played by some of the most revered more...

(Yep Roc)    www.yeproc.com   Dave Alvin is the motive force behind this tribute to the late Chris Gaffney, and he has pulled together a formidable procession of artists from t more...

(Cherry Red)   www.cherryredrecords.co.uk     The late Robert Moog deserves a museum (which is in the planning stages), a postage stamp, a best-selling biography, a Broadway mu more...

(Strut)   www.strut-records.com   Now in its second reissue, this influential compiliation (originally from 2001) was one of the earliest windows onto Nigeria's late 1960s/early 19 more...

(Lo Recordings)   www.lorecordings.com   Don't let the title fool you into thinking this has anything to do with psychedelic music as it came to be defined by artists like the Beatl more...