Vashti Bunyan · 1970 Spin it Again - A woman walked from London to the Isle of Skye with a horse and cart, and this album fell out of her head along the way.

Joni Mitchell · 1968 Spin it Again - David Crosby fought the label for hours to keep a single tambourine track off this record. He won.

John Martyn · Spin it Again - A timeless record from John Martyn that rewards close listening.

Bert Jansch · 1965 Spin it Again - Bert Jansch in 1965, fingerpicking his way into the future with nothing but a guitar and the kind of technical command that made everyone else sound like they were learning.

Susana Baca · 2002 Spin it Again - She spent decades in the Peruvian highlands collecting songs and stories; this album is what happens when those become personal.

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band · 1972 Spin it Again - A 1972 record from The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band that rewards close listening.

Bob Dylan · 1967 Spin it Again - Three days after his motorcycle crash, he disappeared—then came back with the quietest, most powerful album of his life.

Townes Van Zandt · 1969 Spin it Again - A twenty-four-year-old with a piano background and a gift for gothic Americana, recording himself alone with a guitar and a studio mic, making something so honest it feels almost dangerous.

Ry Cooder · 1976 Spin it Again - He listened so hard to other people's music that he became invisible in his own record, and somehow that's when he sounded most like himself.

Ry Cooder · 1974 Spin it Again - A man and his guitars in one room, the tape running, no looking back—and somehow more honest than anything louder.

Alela Diane · 2010 Spin it Again - She moved to France, made a record about leaving, and somehow it sounds like staying.

Wovenhand · 2001 Spin it Again - The guy who made post-punk sound like a revival tent stripped it all back to one guitar and meant every word.

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.