New Morning
Artist: Bob Dylan
Community Score: 6.76
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Artist: Bob Dylan
Community Score: 7.00
Buffalo Springfield - COLLECTION
Artist: Buffalo Springfield

Not to be confused with their self-titled debut album, this double LP, which can still be found without too much hassle, is clearly the best Springfield compilation, at least until the overdue day when a box set appears that includes everything recorded by this superb band. It does miss some good songs, especially from the first album, but... Read More

Lost in the Ozone
Artist: Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

This is the monumental debut by one of insurgent country's pioneer bands. Playing with electric instruments, including the all important steel and fiddle, and a good dose of irreverence allowed the band to adhere to their own agenda. This first release was only a taste of the things to come. A combination of original tunes and some dusty covers,... Read More

Once in a Blue Moon
Artist: Frankie Miller

This first album by Scotland's Frankie Miller features pub-rock favorites Brinsley Schwartz as his backup band. That alone is reason enough to own this record. Add to that a nice batch of songs (mostly originals) and you have an enjoyable album. ~ Jim Worbois, All Music Guide Read More

Rick Danko
Artist: Rick Danko
Community Score: 8.00

Recorded after the breakup of the Band in 1977, Danko's debut featured guest shots from Eric Clapton, Ron Wood, Doug Sahm, Tim Drummond, and Gerry Beckley. Even with all the extra firepower, it's an uneven effort at best with "Java Blues," "Shake It," and "Brainwash" being particular standouts. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide Read More

Skip
Artist: Skip Battin

A true Hollywood cowboy, Skip Battin writes songs in a country-rock style that frequently concern themselves with the silver screen, a tendency that turned up during his tenure in The Byrds on songs like "Citizen Kane" and that is apparent here on his debut solo album on songs like "Valentino." Battin's songwriting partner is the notorious Kim... Read More

Area Code 615/A Trip in the Country
Artist: Area Code 615

Koch reissued Area Code 615's two albums, 1969's Area Code 615 and 1970's Trip in the Country, as a CD two-fer in 2000, adding two bonus tracks -- "John Henry" and "Tennessee Green" -- in the process. These were cult items prior to this CD, and they remained cult items after this reissue, because these are progressive psychedelic instrumental... Read More

After the Gold Rush/Harvest
Artist: Neil Young

After his first recording with Crazy Horse, Neil Young returned to more of a singer/songwriter sound on his next two albums of the early '70s, After the Gold Rush and Harvest, both early high points in Young's career. The two albums were then combined, for a time, on a double-LP set or single cassette. ~ Sean Westergaard, All Music Guide Read More

Transformer
Artist: Lou Reed
Community Score: 8.37

David Bowie has never been shy about acknowledging his influences, and since the boho decadence and sexual ambiguity of the Velvet Underground's music had a major impact on Bowie's work, it was only fitting that as Ziggy Stardust mania was reaching its peak, Bowie would offer Lou Reed some much needed help with his career, which was stuck in... Read More

Europe '72
Artist: Grateful Dead
Community Score: 9.33

The Grateful Dead commemorated their first extended European tour with an extravagant triple-LP set appropriately enough titled Europe '72. This collection is fashioned in much the same way as their previous release -- which had also been a live multi-disc affair. The band mixes a bevy of new material -- such as "Ramble on Rose," "Jack Straw,"... Read More

Wake of the Flood
Artist: Grateful Dead
Community Score: 8.70

After satisfying their nine-title/dozen-disc deal with Warner Brothers, the Dead began their own record labels: Grateful Dead Records (for group releases) and Round Records (for solo projects). Wake of the Flood was the first Dead disc issued entirely under the band's supervision -- which also included manufacturing and marketing. Additionally,... Read More

I Can Hear It Now/The Sixties
Artist: Walter Cronkite

A double-CD of sound bites from speeches, press conferences, broadcasts and the like from the 1960s, narrated by famed newscaster Walter Cronkite (who wrote and edited the album with Fred Friendly). Note that the history documented on I Can Hear It Now/The Sixties is very much that of the 1960s in the United States. There's some coverage of... Read More