Vicki Brown · 1994

Tom Waits · 1975 Spin it Again - A 24-year-old singer and his voice on a single night in a Los Angeles diner, with a bass player and a drummer who'd each seen the 20th century coming.

Murray Head ·

Joni Mitchell · 1975 Spin it Again - Henry Lewy and Joni Mitchell built a LA session band that sounds like the future arriving inside a sprinkler's hiss.

Mark Knopfler · 1991 Spin it Again - He had the biggest-selling British rock album behind him and made this instead — a quiet, fingerpicked thing about faith healers and dead kings.

Mark Knopfler · 1996 Spin it Again - Sixteen songs, no stadium in sight, and a guitar tone that makes you realize how much of Dire Straits was just overhead.

Rufus Wainwright · 2007 Spin it Again - Rufus Wainwright released a grand, forty-piece album in 2007 and then, almost in the same breath, this — twenty-three minutes of French chanson recorded in Montreal with his mother at the piano.

Keren Ann · 2002 Spin it Again - She sang in two languages with equal authority and Paris barely exported her — the rest of the world mostly missed this entirely.

Tom Odell · 2013 Spin it Again - He was twenty-two, playing piano in a Bermondsey studio, and somehow the grief in his voice sounds earned.

Bon Iver · 2007 Spin it Again - He had mono, a broken relationship, and a TASCAM 8-track — and nothing about those circumstances explains why this sounds so good.

Big Thief · 2022 Spin it Again - Sixty-eight minutes of dry, unromanticized folk-rock recorded at Studio G Brooklyn — two albums in one year, and this is the one that sticks.

Alela Diane · 2007 Spin it Again - She made this in Nevada City on a tape machine her dad gave her, and it sounds exactly like that.

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

Neil Young · 1992 Spin it Again - Neil Young found Kenny Buttrey working outside of music, drove out to get him, and made the most unhurried album of 1992.

Greg Keelor · 1997 Spin it Again - The kind of record that sat in your collection for years being background music until the night you finally stopped moving.

Patty Griffin · 1994 Spin it Again - She was tending bar in Boston when she made this, and A&M sat on it for two years because they didn't know what to do with a voice that honest.

Emmylou Harris & Patty Griffin · 2007 Spin it Again - The record you filed under 'nice' a decade ago has been waiting to tell you something you're finally ready to hear.

Vic Chesnutt · 2002 Spin it Again - Michael Stipe signed this man, produced him with almost nothing, and the result outlasted most of what surrounded it.

Miya Folick · 2023 Spin it Again - You've played this one before, but not like this — Justin Raisen buried the real architecture where casual listening doesn't reach.

Emmylou Harris · 1975 Spin it Again - Emmylou Harris walked into a Los Angeles studio still carrying Gram Parsons, and somehow that made the whole thing sound more honest than anything Nashville was putting out.