Joni Mitchell · 1976 Spin it Again - She drove across the country alone after a breakup and came back with nine songs and Jaco Pastorius on fretless bass — no drummer required.

Sam Amidon · 2010 Spin it Again - Old murder ballads and fiddle tunes, run through an Icelandic studio and returned barely recognizable — in the best way.

Pentangle · 1968 Spin it Again - Bert Jansch and John Renbourn sharing a guitar track is reason enough, but then Terry Cox barely touches the kit and somehow that's the thing that gets you.

Nick Drake · 1969 Spin it Again - Nick Drake recorded this in a converted Chelsea dairy at night, and you can hear every wall.

Vashti Bunyan · 1971 Spin it Again - Joe Boyd produced it at the same studio where Nick Drake made his records, it sold nothing, and she disappeared for thirty years — which is the only explanation for why you don't already own this.

Nick Drake · 1972 Spin it Again - Twenty-two minutes, one guitar, one voice, and Drake was dead two years later — some nights that's all the context you need.

Joni Mitchell · 1972 Spin it Again - She sat down at a piano in Christmas-time Los Angeles and made loneliness sound like the most precise thing in the room.

Nick Drake · 1970 Spin it Again - Nick Drake in 1970, strings arranged by Robert Kirby, jazz musicians who barely knew him, and somehow that distance is exactly what makes it hurt.

Joni Mitchell · 1972 Spin it Again - She wrote these songs alone in the Canadian wilderness and it shows in the best possible way.