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Second compilation gleaned from the cupboards of erstwhile Beta Band man and current member of Fife's oddball Fence Collective

The best of Oldham's early work, revisited Nashville-style

Shimmering performance by the Mother Superior of country rock

Two late-'60s psych-country masterpieces on one disc

Twenty-eight tracks from influential '60s Chicago soul group

Self-styled "desert-surf-redneck" rawk from the other side of the tracks

Life-affirming swan song from Carter Family matriarch

Five-CD epitaph includes 64 never-before-heard tracks

The seemingly ageless Chrissie Hynde storms her way through 26 songs on Pretenders Loose in LA EAGLE VISION , recorded at the Wiltern Theater in February this year. The run-in is particularly impressive as she turns the clock back almost a quarter of a century to the band's spectacular debut album with a sequence that includes "Tattooed Love Boys", "Precious", "Mystery Achievement" and the mighty "Brass In Pocket".

A valiant and moving last hurrah from the sadly departed Clash hero