Chet Baker & Bill Evans · 1959 Spin it Again - The year Evans finished Kind of Blue and Baker was still beautiful — this is what happened when no one told them to try.

Dire Straits · 1979 Spin it Again - Jerry Wexler flew a British pub-rock band to Alabama and let the room do the work.

The Beach Boys · 1966 Spin it Again - This is the album where Brian Wilson heard the voices and put them to tape with the best players money could buy.

Irma Thomas · 2004 Spin it Again - Randy Newman wrote one of the songs, a residential studio near a Louisiana river caught the rest, and somehow nobody made a bigger deal of this at the time.

Etta James · 2003 Spin it Again - Etta James at sixty-five, live orchestra, Capitol Studios — the woman had been singing 'At Last' for forty years and somehow found more to say.

Bettye LaVette · 2003 Spin it Again - She'd been making records since 1962 and this is the one that made people feel guilty for not knowing her name sooner.

Bettye LaVette · 2005 Spin it Again - Joe Henry recorded this in his house in South Pasadena and somehow made a sixty-year-old Detroit lifer sound like the only adult in the room.

Joe Satriani · 1992 Spin it Again - Turns out all those guitar-hero melodies hold up fine without the amp.

Various Artists · 2003 Spin it Again - T Bone Burnett handed Jack White an acoustic guitar and told him to forget everything he knew, and it worked.

Alison Krauss & Union Station · 2004 Spin it Again - Jerry Douglas's dobro and a voice that never once pushes — quiet proof that restraint is a skill most studios forgot how to teach.

Alison Krauss & Union Station · 2001 Spin it Again - You already own this record. Tonight is the first time you're actually going to hear it.

Colter Wall · 2015 Spin it Again - Dave Cobb knew enough to step back and let the room do the work.

Chris Stapleton · 2015 Spin it Again - He spent a decade writing hits for other people, and then Dave Cobb put him in RCA Studio A and just let the tape roll.

Whiskey Myers · 2014 Spin it Again - The album Whiskey Myers made before people started paying attention, which might be exactly why it hits harder than the one that made them famous.

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

Brian Eno · 1975. Spin it Again - Brian Eno and Phil Collins in 1975. That's all you need to know.

Norah Jones · 2002 - Spin it Again - Don't forget to spin her newer stuff too. This is one artist that gets better with age.

Arthur Russell · 1986 Spin it Again - This is a strange album and that's what makes it great. It's one of those ones you make a tape of and share it with your friends. "Listen to This".

João Gilberto · 1960 Spin it Again - João Gilberto in 1960, turning a handful of American standards into something so quiet and precise it makes every other vocal performance in the room sound like it's trying too hard.

William Basinski · 2002–2003 Spin it Again - Magnetic tape eating itself alive on September 11th, 2001, and Basinski just let the recorder run.