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  • Seasons of Love
    Herb Alpert / Lani Hall
    Seasons of Love
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    The former Brasil 66 vocalist plays with her husband Herb Alpert for her first solo album in 20 years.
    - Matt Collar
  • The Boy Named If
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    The Boy Named If
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    Costello and his longtime band use familiar building blocks -- pumped-up riffs, fleet wordplay, an omnivorous musical appetite -- yet reassemble them in unexpected ways.
    - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
  • Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 1974 (Live at the Bottom Line)
    Neil Young
    Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 1974 (Live at …
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    A remarkably loose and light live reading of the doomy songs from Neil Young's On the Beach era.
    - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
  • Soul Sister
    Dexter Gordon
    Soul Sister
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    Two earthy, hard-swinging sets captured in the early '60s during the tenor saxophonist's time in Europe.
    - Matt Collar

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Moods » Literate

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Literate Album Highlights

The Definitive Collection
Chuck Berry
The Definitive Collection
The Essential Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
The Essential Bruce ...
Changesbowie
David Bowie
Changesbowie
Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 [Rhino]
The Kinks
Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 ...
The Best of Van Morrison [Mercury]
Van Morrison
The Best of Van Morrison ...
Greatest Hits
Neil Young
Greatest Hits

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Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Lonesome Day
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
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Rebel Rebel
David Bowie
David Bowie
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All Day and All of the Night
Ray Davies
The Kinks
Wild Night
Van Morrison
Van Morrison
Heart of Gold
Neil Young
Stray Gators / Neil Young
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Workin' Man Blues
Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard
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Riding in My Car (Car Song)
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
Don't Do Me Like That
Tom Petty
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
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This Wheel's on Fire
Rick Danko / Bob Dylan
The Byrds
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