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Apr 20
American Beauty
Grateful Dead · 1970 Spin it Again - Six months after Workingman's Dead, they went back to the same room and got it even more right.
genre:Folk Rock
Apr 20
Harvest
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.
genre:Rock
Apr 20
I Love You, Honeybear
Father John Misty · 2015 Spin it Again - Josh Tillman made a record so committed to sincerity that he had to bury it under three layers of irony just to get it out the door.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 18
A New Kind of Light: Songs of Christmas
Meaghan Smith · 2011 Spin it Again - You already own this one — the question is whether you've ever actually listened to it.
decade:2010s
Apr 17
Duets
Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson · 1984 Spin it Again - A Spaniard in a blazer and a Texas outlaw in a bandana walked into a studio together, and the result hit number one on both the pop and country charts simultaneously.
genre:Country
Apr 17
Relaxin'
Miles Davis · 1958 Spin it Again - Recorded in a day to satisfy a contract, which is exactly the kind of pressure that makes jazz tell the truth.
genre:Jazz
Apr 16
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald · 1957 Spin it Again - Duke Ellington flew his actual orchestra to Hollywood for this, sat down at the piano, and played while Ella sang his songs back to him.
decade:1950s
Apr 16
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald · 1956 Spin it Again - The record that convinced the world a pop singer could be a serious artist — and then quietly made that argument unnecessary.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 15
风月
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.
decade:1950s
Apr 15
Café Blue
Patricia Barber · 1994 Spin it Again - Recorded in a mob bar on Monday nights by a pianist who never left Chicago and never needed to.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 15
Cupid & Psyche 85
Scritti Politti · 1985 Spin it Again - Green Gartside spent years in a Welsh breakdown, then came back and made the most philosophically loaded pop record of 1985 — with Marcus Miller on bass.
genre:Soul
Apr 14
Shahbaaz
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · 1989 Spin it Again - The voice that made Peter Gabriel stop talking at WOMAD in 1985, finally captured on tape the way it deserved.
decade:1980s
Apr 13
My World
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.
genre:R&B
Apr 13
I'll Take Romance
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.
genre:Blues
Apr 13
Live & Unplugged
Nils Lofgren · 1992 Spin it Again - He spent the decade being the second name in the credits for Neil Young and Springsteen, then walked into the Ryman with an acoustic guitar and no backup plan.
decade:1990s
Apr 13
Acoustic Live
Nils Lofgren · 1997 Spin it Again - He played piano on *After the Gold Rush* having practiced for three days. This is what four more decades of that kind of nerve sounds like.
decade:1990s
Apr 13
Cold Mountain
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.
decade:2000s
Apr 13
Lonely Runs Both Ways
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.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 12
Traveller
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.
genre:Outlaw Country
Apr 12
Nightsongs
Madeleine Peyroux · 2009 Spin it Again - Marc Ribot plays guitar on your late-night jazz record and somehow still doesn't steal it.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
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