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Spartan but rewarding collection from the flighty New York chanteuse...

16 tracks of the wildest New Orleans soul and R'n'B, featuring Dr John, Allen Toussaint, Fats Domino, Bobby Charles, Professor Longhair and more

The Godfather of Americana hollers on magnificently

And on we go with the judges' discussions. Today: The Felice Brothers. Tomorrow: Fleet Foxes.

Latest archive material is from San Francisco's The Matrix

Click on the links for Part One, Part Two and Part Three of the interview. Is it fair to see the last three LPs of a piece? They seem to sit together as a sequence. Yeah I think what I found, funnily enough, is sometimes you get what you want when you stop trying to get it.

Van's homely 1971 effort reissued

Elvis Costello and Gipsy Kings also play the historic site this July

Unsung '60s soul queen of New Orleans

Ex-Vinegar Joe fella turned, er, '80s sex symbol celebrates 25 years of lounge lizardry