Madeleine Peyroux · 2009 Spin it Again - Marc Ribot plays guitar on your late-night jazz record and somehow still doesn't steal it.

Patricia Barber · 1994 Spin it Again - Two microphones, a working bar in Chicago, and one of the most unsettling piano voices in American music.

Weather Report · 1980 Spin it Again - Zawinul slowed everything down, Shorter finally had room to breathe, and for once Weather Report sounded like they were playing for the end of the night instead of the beginning.

Rickie Lee Jones · 1982 Spin it Again - She sounds like the last woman left in a bar at 2 a.m. who actually has somewhere to be, and the band behind her knows it.

Bill Evans Trio · 1965 Spin it Again - Bill Evans at the Club Saint-Germain, 1965, and the piano sounds like something you overhear through a half-open door at 2am and decide not to interrupt.

Jimmy Smith · 1960 Spin it Again - Jimmy Smith found that groove where a Hammond B-3 stops sounding like church and starts sounding like the back of a cab at 2am, and he just lived there for forty minutes.

Steely Dan · 1980 Spin it Again - Becker and Fagen spent so much money and time making LA sound this cold and frictionless that it almost killed the band, and you can hear every dollar of it.

Donald Fagen · 1982 Spin it Again - Fagen spent six years out of Steely Dan's shadow to make something quieter and colder and more his, and it turns out that's exactly what he had to say.

Cowboy Junkies · 1988 Spin it Again - One microphone, one room, one take, and somehow the Trinity Session sounds like the only honest thing recorded that decade.

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions · 2003 Spin it Again - Sandoval sounds like she's singing from the bottom of a well and somehow that's the only place you want to be at 2am.

Mazzy Star · 1993 Spin it Again - Hope Sandoval sounds like she learned to sing in a room she was trying to disappear into, and David Roback let the reverb prove her right.

Donald Fagen · 1982 Spin it Again - Donald Fagen cashed out his Steely Dan ticket and spent it all on one quiet, fluorescent-lit night in 1982 that still sounds like it knows something you don't.

Bill Evans Trio · 1963 Spin it Again - Bill Evans in 1963, late, quiet, the piano doing exactly what a piano should do when there's nothing left to prove.

Shelby Lynne · 2000 Spin it Again - Shelby Lynne covering the soundtrack to a John Cusack movie nobody asked for and somehow making it sound like 2 AM in a bar where everyone's pretending they're fine.