Various Artists – Lost Blues Tapes: More American Folk Blues Festival 1963-65

Archive anthology of blues greats recorded on historic European visits

Downtown Uproar

Legendary 'bootleg' recording of the Velvets on home turf, taped just before Lou Reed went home to mama and then became the godfather of gory glam

Cheap Trick – The Essential…

36-track masterclass in larger-than-life rock

The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup

London-based pop collective's chewy hits in expansive format

Stan Webb & Chicken Shack – Going Up, Going Down: The Anthology 1968-2001

Double album retrospective from Kidderminster's favourite blues band

Clifford T Ward – No More Rock’N’Roll

1975 album from the late teacher turned crooner

Blondie – Singles Box Set

Pop art taken to logical extreme

Near The Knuckle

Sixties power-poppers inspired, aided and abetted by The Beatles

Animals That Swim – Faded Glamour

Best-of compendium from mid-'90s indie should-have-beens

The Spencer Davis Group – Keep On Running

Career anthology that runs out of steam halfway through
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