Low Anthem · 2011 Spin it Again - Four people in a room in Rhode Island, playing holiday songs like they mean the sad part.

John Coltrane · 1958 Spin it Again - Recorded eleven months before Giant Steps changed everything, this is Coltrane still inside the tradition — and already pulling at the walls.

Peter Gabriel · 1989 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel made a movie soundtrack that spent the next thirty years making the movie irrelevant.

Peter Gabriel · 1989 Spin it Again - Three years, a half-built studio, Youssou N'Dour, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and a brief to make music that sounds two thousand years old.

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.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · 1990 Spin it Again - Peter Gabriel had the good sense to build a studio in the English countryside and then invite someone who made him irrelevant.

Natacha Atlas · 2010 Spin it Again - Atlas spent the nineties building a sound loud enough to fill clubs; here she proves she never needed the volume.

Sussan Deyhim · 2006 Spin it Again - Deyhim trained for years to sing in ceremonial contexts and then spent her career making sure none of those ceremonies exist.

Cheb i Sabbah · 2006 Spin it Again - Rahat Fateh Ali Khan over a four-on-the-floor kick drum, and somehow nobody flinches.

Cheb i Sabbah · 2009 Spin it Again - You've had this record for years and you've never actually listened to it.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1980 Spin it Again - He had fourteen months to live when they made this, and the only place it shows is the last song.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1976 Spin it Again - He recorded this without Chris Blackwell and it turned out to be the most self-possessed thing he ever made.

Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1977 Spin it Again - He got shot, played a concert two days later anyway, flew to London, and made this.

Keith Jarrett & Jan Garbarek · 1974 Spin it Again - Manfred Eicher put four people in a room in Oslo and trusted the silence as much as the notes.

Keith Jarrett · 1972 Spin it Again - Before the Köln Concert made him famous, Jarrett sat alone in a German studio and invented the whole template in one morning.

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.

The Carter Family & Dolly Parton · 1998 Spin it Again - Dolly Parton walked into a room with the last living Carters and nobody added reverb.

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.

Yo-Yo Ma · 2013 Spin it Again - Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach alone in 2013 and somehow makes a piece written for no instrument in particular feel like it was always meant to end like this.

Various Artists · 1998 Spin it Again - Three men, three centuries of technique between them, all circling the same six suites like they each found something different hidden inside the wood.