The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band · 1972 Spin it Again - A 1972 record from The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band that rewards close listening.

Bob Dylan · 1967 Spin it Again - Three days after his motorcycle crash, he disappeared—then came back with the quietest, most powerful album of his life.

Townes Van Zandt · 1969 Spin it Again - A twenty-four-year-old with a piano background and a gift for gothic Americana, recording himself alone with a guitar and a studio mic, making something so honest it feels almost dangerous.

Samantha Crain · 2013 Spin it Again - Made in rural Oklahoma with Jason Isbell producing and engineering, nothing between her voice and the guitar but air and attention.

Ambrose Akinmusire · 2021 Spin it Again - Ron Miles died in 2021, and this album is where Akinmusire sat with him before saying goodbye—chamber jazz that sounds like someone learning to breathe again.

Nérija · 2023 Spin it Again - Four songs in twenty-nine minutes, built on the understanding that repetition and restraint are the same thing as depth.

The Who · 1969 Spin it Again - Pete Townshend built Tommy as a broken salvation myth, and the Who played it like they understood the weight of what they'd created.

Marvin Gaye · 1971

The Wailers · 1973 Spin it Again - Clapton heard 'I Shot the Sheriff' here first, made it a hit, and the original got left in the shade — which is exactly backwards.

Antony and the Johnsons · 2005 Spin it Again - A voice so specific it shouldn't work on paper, over orchestrations so perfectly restrained they make the grief land harder.

Solange · 2016 Spin it Again - Eight years of patience went into one song, and then she built a whole album to hold it.

U2 · 1987 Spin it Again - Bono was writing about America from Ireland, and that distance is what made it hurt.

Shlump · 2013 Spin it Again - Before the festival circuit caught up, a kid with a DAW and too many late nights quietly mapped out what psychedelic bass music was going to become.

Jacqueline du Pré · 1965 Spin it Again - She was twenty years old, Barbirolli had known Elgar personally, and somehow the tape caught something neither of them could have planned.

Temple of the Dog · 1991 Spin it Again - A grief record made in a few weeks by people who didn't know they were about to become famous, and it shows — in the best possible way.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Peter Gabriel · 1994 Spin it Again - Gabriel built the room and had the sense to stay out of the way.

Red Hot Org · 1994 Spin it Again - A benefit record that forgot to be polite about it — Laswell, Santana, Bootsy Collins, and Billy Higgins in the same room, the year after Ra died.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo · 1987 Spin it Again - Seventy years of Black South African choral tradition, recorded at the Hit Factory in New York, miscategorized as folk music, and still more patient than anything else in your library.

Vusi Mahlasela · 1990 Spin it Again - Recorded in Pretoria in 1990, this is what it sounds like when someone has been singing for their life and finally gets a microphone worth the trouble.

Georg Solti / Vienna Philharmonic · 1959 Spin it Again - John Culshaw put sixty anvils in a Vienna ballroom and accidentally made the most important classical recording of the twentieth century.