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Official release for GLP's immediate post-Buffalo work

Sometime bartender, midwife and reverend, O'Connor's true calling may lie as a remarkable interpreter of song. Though recent years have found her adding dewy vocal harmonies for Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire (and Mavis Staples), her solo debut is long overdue. A brace of impressive originals—"My Backyard", "Tonight"—are whispers of classic honky-tonk, but she truly shines on covers of James (Squirrel Nut Zippers) Mathus' "Bottoms" and "Nightingale", twisting each into the kind of lovelorn ballad Alison Krauss would kill for.

Rewarding diversion into Krautrock, plus bonus live CD

Incredible String Band banjoist wanders up the garden path

Bono and the boys reunite with Steve Lillywhite for that difficult 14th album

Lennon laid bare: seven unreleased tracks on this curate’s egg compilation.

Seventh live album from Mick, Keef and the boys.

The Modfather returns with a collection of covers.

Passport have secured neither the band's help nor their music rights, although they provide some irresistible highlights, specifically a TV appearance by the pre-pubescent Jimmy Page and excerpts from a John Bonham interview. Misty old chats with Zep members and Peter Grant are bolstered by the contemporary perceptions of Jeff Beck, Roy Harper, Terry Reid, Chris Dreja, Simon Kirke and Richard Cole. Carol Clerk

Thirty-track compilation tracking a quarter-century in the life of Reilly