New Morning
Artist: Bob Dylan
Community Score: 6.76
The Grateful Dead Movie
Artist: Grateful Dead

This feature-length film was shot during the Grateful Dead's so-called "retirement run" of shows at Winterland Arena in San Francisco during mid-October 1974 -- after which the band was to take an extended sabbatical from touring North America. Under the direction of the band's lead guitarist, Jerry Garcia, and cinematographer, Leon Gast, The... Read More

Live From Deep in the Heart of Texas
Artist: Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

This is Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen at their best, live on-stage and out on the road with the New Riders of the Purple Sage. What a bill and what a grand time for a live album. This is how it really was -- wild, loud, and fun. Again they intersperse their own songs with old favorites. "Armadillo Stomp" was penned for this event, and... 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

Deliverin'
Artist: Poco

Poco had originally made their name as a live act, and they'd always been at their best and most easygoing on-stage. The result is this live album of all-new material, featuring Jim Messina's swan song with the band and some of the tightest playing and best singing in their recorded history. Jewels include "C'mon," "Hear That Music," "Kind... Read More

Quah
Artist: Jorma Kaukonen
Community Score: 8.00

Quah -- Jorma Kaukonen's (guitar/vocal) solo debut effort -- was recorded and issued shortly after the dissolution of Jefferson Airplane in 1974. In contrast to the sonic indulgences of Grace Slick's Manhole or Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship's Blows Against the Empire, Kaukonen retreated back to his folk-blues roots along with vocalist Tom... 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

American Beauty
Artist: Grateful Dead
Community Score: 8.53

A companion piece to the luminous Workingman's Dead, American Beauty is an even stronger document of the Grateful Dead's return to their musical roots. Sporting a more full-bodied and intricate sound than its predecessor thanks to the addition of subtle electric textures, the record is also more representative of the group as a collective unit,... 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

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