Desire
Artist: Bob Dylan
Community Score: 8.08
Live on Sugar Mountain
Artist: Neil Young

Reportedly in record stores within weeks after the concert it documented, Live on Sugar Mountain was drawn from a lo-fi audience tape made at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles on the last night of Neil Young's early-1971 solo tour. Young was at a pivotal point in his career, having released his commercial breakthrough album After the... Read More

First Plane Outta Here!
Artist: Neil Young

Three months after the 1974 opening of the New York club the Bottom Line, Neil Young gave a solo acoustic performance there that was among the more remarkable shows of his career. Even for an artist accustomed to throwing a new song or two into his concerts, this set was unusual: of the 11 songs, only one, "Helpless," had been released on... Read More

Coming Home
Artist: Neil Young

Anyone listening to Time Fades Away, the collection of all-new songs recorded on Neil Young's first-quarter 1973 tour of North America, would believe the legend that this was a tour overshadowed by the death of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten on which Young sang off-key and he and his band played raggedly, if fervently. But a listen to... Read More

Old-New-Borrowed-Blue
Artist: Fairport Convention

This is Fairport Convention's first all-acoustic album in their 29 year history. The material, recorded variously in the studio and at December 30, 1995 concert, displays the eclectic nature of the 1990's version of the band, folk-styled originals such as "There Once Was Love/Innstruck" juxtaposed with covers of James Taylor and Loudon... Read More

Collected Works
Artist: Paul Simon

Like the identically titled Simon & Garfunkel boxed set released at the same time, Paul Simon's Collected Works was what it claimed to be: A five-LP set reissue containing The Paul Simon Song Book (in its first and only U.S. release), Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Live Rhymin'/Paul Simon In Concert, and Still Crazy After All These Years.... Read More

The Best of Phoebe Snow
Artist: Phoebe Snow

Best of Phoebe Snow contains most of the singer/songwriter's biggest hits from the '70s, as well as several key album tracks that make this a good introduction to her work. Among the highlights are "Poetry Man," "Shakey Ground, " "Love Makes a Woman, " "Two Fisted Love," and "Never Letting Go." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Read More

Spotlight
Artist: Donovan

Donovan's acoustic, pre-psychedelic work was shoddily packaged in the United States, spread out over several albums in a haphazard fashion. This 24-track double LP reissue covers most of his work from this period (basically, 1965), including the hits "Catch the Wind" and "Colours," as well as his cover of Buffy St. Marie's "Universal Soldier"... Read More

Time Passages - ARISTA
Artist: Al Stewart
Community Score: 10.00

Year of the Cat brought Al Stewart a genuine worldwide smash with its title track, and for its successor, he did make a few concessions. These, however, were slight -- just a slight increase of soft rock productions, an enhancement of the lushness that marked not only Year of the Cat but also Modern Times. These happened to be welcome... Read More

Nebraska
Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Community Score: 8.09
Collected Works
Artist: Simon & Garfunkel
Community Score: 8.00

The three-disc box set Collected Works contains all of Simon & Garfunkel's studio albums, from Wednesday Morning, 3 AM to Bridge Over Troubled Water. Though this is too much material for casual fans, any serious fan of Simon & Garfunkel or folk-rock will need to acquire the set, simply because it presents the albums in their best-ever sound. The... Read More

Ladies of the Canyon
Artist: Joni Mitchell
Community Score: 7.38
Young Man's Fancy
Artist: Neil Young

Young Man's Fancy was drawn from an audience tape made at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles on the last night of Neil Young's early-1971 solo tour. Young was at a pivotal point in his career, having released his commercial breakthrough After the Gold Rush five months earlier; his 15-song set included acoustic versions of such familiar... Read More