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Adventurous successor to garage star's Mercury-winning debut

Second album of dark Americana from Illinois trio

Two-CD, 26-track memento of Cali punk-funkers' London summer shows

Stunning all-star tribute to country music's first dynasty, produced by John Carter Cash As musical legacies go, the Carter Family takes some topping. From an obscure 100,000-watt Mexican radio station, the truly seminal recordings of Alvin Pleasant Carter, wife Sara and cousin Maybelle took country to a whole new coast-to-coast American audience in the '30s. As vocal-harmony innovators, they were as vital to the development of bluegrass as Bill Monroe.

Epic Scots find fresh focus for fifth LP

Fourth album from leading UK Americana exponents

Uncut recounted the tale of Fleetwood Mac's improbable reunion at length in May last year (Take 72). Now come two DVD releases commemorating the resumption of rock'n'roll's longest-running soap opera. Live In Boston is a straightforward concert film shot in September 2003 on their first tour in five years. The band clearly miss Christine McVie, the only member of the classic mid-'70s line-up not to participate, and on one level, they offer up stadium rock of the blandest kind.

Exhaustive triple-disc anthology of '70s Philadelphian troubadour

Reprised fun and frolics from Fee, Prairie and the girls

Remastered version of 1994 album with second CD of outtakes/rarities and DVD