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May 16
The Shuttered Palace
Vicki Brown · 1994
decade:1990s
May 15
Nighthawks at the Diner
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.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 15
Voices
Murray Head ·
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 12
The Hissing of Summer Lawns
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.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 9
Calling Elvis
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.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 9
Golden Heart
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.
genre:Rock
May 9
Vu
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.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 9
Blow
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.
genre:Indie Pop
May 8
How to Dress Well
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.
genre:Indie Pop
May 7
For Emma, Forever Ago
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.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 7
Sometimes, Forever
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.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 6
Cone of Light
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.
decade:2000s
May 6
About Farewell
Alela Diane · 2010 Spin it Again - She moved to France, made a record about leaving, and somehow it sounds like staying.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 5
Harvest Moon
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.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 5
Gone
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.
decade:1990s
May 4
Piece of My Heart
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.
decade:1990s
May 4
Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems
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.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 2
West of Rome
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.
genre:Alternative Rock
May 2
This Time Around
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.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 1
Pieces of the Sky
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.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
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