George Thorogood and the Destroyers · 1982 Spin it Again - A bar band that never left the bar — and made an album that proves staying put was the right call.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble · 1984 Spin it Again - Nine minutes of 'Couldn't Stand the Weather' contains more guitar ideas than most guitarists have in a career.

Stevie Ray Vaughan · 1983 Spin it Again - Stevie Ray Vaughan walked into a studio with nothing to prove and left with a guitar tone that still knocks drywall off its rails.

Derek and the Dominos · 1970 Spin it Again - Clapton was in love with his best friend's wife, and he made an album this good about it.

The Allman Brothers Band · 1972 Spin it Again - Duane Allman died halfway through making it. They put the tapes together and this is what you got.

The Allman Brothers Band · 1971 Spin it Again - Six men playing like they knew the clock was running out.

Dire Straits · 1982 Spin it Again - Mark Knopfler went to Montserrat and made a record that sounds like a novel you don't want to finish.

The Rolling Stones · 1972 Spin it Again - The Stones hiding from tax collectors in a French villa basement, too wrecked to leave and too talented to fail.

The Rolling Stones · 1973 Spin it Again - They recorded this in Kingston and LA without the hunger that made Exile, and came out sounding twice as confident.

Cream · 1968 Spin it Again - Clapton, Bruce, and Baker were already breaking up when they played these Fillmore shows, and you can hear it.

Dire Straits · 1991 Spin it Again - Six years after Brothers in Arms sold nine million copies, Knopfler came back with something quieter, more interior, and then walked away for good.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience · 1967 Spin it Again - Three weeks of sessions in London, a borrowed Fuzz Face, and an engineer smart enough to mike the amp from the side — that's the whole story.

The Rolling Stones · 1969 Spin it Again - Released five days after Altamont, with a choir, a cracked voice, and Ry Cooder — this is the record where the Stones figured out they didn't need to be a band to sound like one.

The Rolling Stones · 1971 Spin it Again - Two days in Muscle Shoals, a zipper Andy Warhol designed, and Mick Taylor playing three and a half unrequested minutes on 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking' that nobody stopped.

Dire Straits · 1979 Spin it Again - Jerry Wexler flew a British pub-rock band to Alabama and let the room do the work.