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Jerry Lee Lewis – The “Killer” Rocks On

'70s offerings from JLL on a twofer

Neal Casal – Leaving Traces: Songs 1994-2004

18-track roundup of unsung songwriter

Random Harvest

Only a perverse spoilsport could claim that Neil Young was not a giant among the North American singer-songwriters who emerged in the '60s. For this reviewer, he dwarfs all of them. Young is greater even than his hero Bob Dylan because he is more Heart than Head, more Body than Brain. There's something intuitive and primitively intense about Young's best music that Dylan rarely matches. More Dionysus than Apollo, Young puts music first, words second. And what music it is.

Judy Collins – Sings Leonard Cohen: Democracy

Career-spanning compilation of Cohen covers

The Durutti Column – The Best Of The Durutti Column

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

Various Artists – The Hit List: 24 Hot 100 American Chartbusters Of The 1970s

What American radio was playing instead of Mud, Slade and Stephanie De Sykes

Brinsley Schwarz – Silver Pistol

Third and fifth albums by front-runners of UK pub rock scene of early '70s

Patty Waters – You Thrill Me

Unreleased tracks by undervalued jazz vocalist, covering 1960-1979

Wigan Peerless

All of Ashcroft and co's plus two Urban Hymns outtakes

Albert Ayler – Holy Ghost Revenant

Lavish nine-CD box of unreleased scream-up by visionary saxophonist
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