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

Miriam Makeba · 1967 Spin it Again - She sang joy in America while her country burned, and made it sound like the only reasonable response.

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.

The Kinks · 1970 Spin it Again - He wrote this to settle accounts with the industry that made him famous, and did it so well you can sing along to your own humiliation.

The Kinks · 1970 Spin it Again - Ray Davies flew back from an American tour to re-record a single lyric for the BBC, and the song still sounds effortless.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience · 1968 Spin it Again - He was twenty-five, burning through studios in New York and London, and somehow this is still the widest-sounding record anyone has ever made.

Eric Clapton · 1997 Spin it Again - Clapton stripped of the band, the arena, and the expectation — it turns out that's when he's most himself.

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.

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.

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.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse · 2003 Spin it Again - A concept album recorded in a ranch barn with a band that had been playing together since Nixon — it should not work as well as it does.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse · 1979 Spin it Again - One side acoustic, one side electric, and the whole thing sounds like it was recorded in a building that was on fire.

Neil Young with Crazy Horse · 2022 Spin it Again - Neil Young finished this album, decided not to release it, and sat on it for two decades — and he was still wrong to wait.

Neil Young · 1972 Spin it Again - He slipped a disc, wore a sling, and recorded the best-selling album of 1972 in a barn and a Nashville studio with a drummer who'd already played on Blonde on Blonde.

Neil Young · 2012 Spin it Again - Neil Young kept the tape running between albums and the outtakes turned out to be the whole point.

Joni Mitchell · 1971 Spin it Again - She sat down at a piano in 1971 and decided to just say the whole thing, and nobody's really recovered from it since.

Fleetwood Mac · 1975 Spin it Again - Buckingham and Nicks walked in off the street and the band immediately sounded like they'd been waiting for them the whole time.