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1	Celtic Christmas, Vol. 2 [Windham Hill] (1996) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist If you prefer your contemplative Christmas music with a Celtic/folk undercurrent rather than a jazz/new age one, then Windham Hill's Celtic Christmas series is a dependable choice. As an added benefit, you can bathe in relatively obscure traditional Celtic airs rather than yet another collection of the hoary carol standards. The second volume ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.83!
2	Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2 (2000) more music like this by Billy Bragg & Wilco add to wishlist Like many sequels, Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2 isn't the equal of its predecessor -- that felt fully realized, where this feels a little patchwork -- yet it is still satisfying on many levels. As on the first, the Billy Bragg-written and sung music is the most convincing since he captures the cadences and spirit of Guthrie's music. They sound like ... see all copies from $5.27! new only from $5.31!
3	World Without Tears (2003) more music like this by Lucinda Williams add to wishlist While many considered Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and Essence as definitive statements of arrival for Lucinda Williams as a pop star, she "arrived" creatively with her self-titled album in 1984 and opened up a further world of possibilities with Sweet Old World. The latter two records merely cemented a reputation that was well-deserved from the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.60!
4	Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006) more music like this by Tom Waits add to wishlist At this stage of the game, any new Tom Waits record is an event. Listening through the music of his entire career is daunting, to say the least, but it's a journey no one else, with the possible exception of Bob Dylan, has taken before. If one listens to the official recordings, from 1973's Closing Time, featuring the songs of an itinerant Beat ... see all copies from $9.58! new only from $30.78!
5	Mermaid Avenue (1998) more music like this by Billy Bragg & Wilco add to wishlist During the spring of 1995, Woody Guthrie's daughter Nora contacted British urban folk troubadour Billy Bragg about writing music for a selection of completed Guthrie lyrics. This was no minor task -- Guthrie left behind over a thousand sets of complete lyrics written between 1939 and 1967 that had no music other than a vague stylistic notation. ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $9.64!
6	March 16-20, 1992 [Bonus Tracks] (1992) more music like this by Uncle Tupelo add to wishlist While Uncle Tupelo's first two albums occasionally nodded toward the quieter side of traditional country music, they were dominated by tough, guitar-driven rock & roll which stylistically split the difference between the Minutemen and Neil Young. So Uncle Tupelo's third album, March 16-20, 1992, came as a bit of a surprise to their fans when it ... see all copies from $5.71! new only from $5.71!
7	Little Plastic Castle (1998) more music like this by Ani Difranco add to wishlist Little Plastic Castle posed an unusual challenge for Ani DiFranco. She released this record after spending a year promoting her first live CD (Living in Clip) by repeatedly admitting to reporters that her studio albums lack the vitality of her concert performances. Rock critics agreed en masse, and their praise for the live album helped to propel ... see all copies from $6.24! new only from $7.99!
8	Out of Range (1994) more music like this by Ani DiFranco add to wishlist DiFranco spruces up her sparse folk arrangements with the odd brass band, accordion, and even an electric guitar or two, but the meat of these songs is still her distinctively funky acoustic guitar style (she borrowed her rhythmic plucking technique from R&B, but unplugged, it bears no resemblance to its genre of origin). Meanwhile, DiFranco's ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $8.21!
9	Not a Pretty Girl (1995) more music like this by Ani DiFranco add to wishlist On her relatively spare sixth album (which features only one other musician, percussionist/vocalist Andy Stochansky, and, on one song, singer Kate Fenner), Ani DiFranco takes on a few expected topics, such as abortion ("Tiptoe"), capital punishment ("Crime for Crime"), and why she isn't on a major label ("The Million You Never Made"). But much of ... see all copies from $4.12! new only from $8.21!
10	Up Up Up Up Up Up (1999) more music like this by Ani DiFranco add to wishlist The self-appointed CEO of intrepid indie grrrl rock sparks one more with Up Up Up Up Up Up, an ebullient addition to an already prolific and deeply admirable career. The playful synthetics and occasional stabs at atypical Ani DiFranco stylings belie the general humorlessness of her lyrics: "'Tis of Thee" is as annoyed with American TV-news culture ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.22!
11	Puddle Dive (1993) more music like this by Ani DiFranco add to wishlist Like most singer/songwriters, Ani DiFranco writes songs out of her own experience and perspective, and as of her fourth album she seems to be spending a lot of time on the road, since the life of a traveling musician is repeatedly described in the album's songs. The first two tracks, "Names and Dates and Times" and "Anyday," are about the singer's ... see all copies from $6.24! new only from $8.91!
12	Arkansas Traveler (1991) more music like this by Michelle Shocked add to wishlist One may feel a certain pity for Mercury Records when it took delivery of Michelle Shocked's third album for the label, Arkansas Traveler. Mercury had signed the feisty country-folk singer/songwriter in the wake of the hoopla surrounding her first album, The Texas Campfire Tapes, an impromptu collection recorded on a cassette player at the 1986 ... see all copies from $1.99!
13	Upfront & Down Low (2007) more music like this by Teddy Thompson add to wishlist Given Teddy Thompson's talent as a songwriter and the cool, intelligent folk-rock leanings of his first two albums, he would hardly seem like a likely candidate to record an album of covers, especially one devoted to interpretations of old-school country classics made famous by the likes of George Jones, Ernest Tubb, Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard ... see all copies from $2.10! new only from $10.54!
14	Ani DiFranco (1990) more music like this by Ani DiFranco add to wishlist "I am a work in progress," appropriately announces Ani DiFranco on her debut album. Though her lyrics have the rambling style of free-form poetry and she sounds like she learned her spare, percussive style of guitar playing by listening to Suzanne Vega albums, she defines a distinct persona, that of a self-possessed, assertive woman in a tough, ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $6.93!
15	Life Short Call Now (2006) more music like this by Bruce Cockburn add to wishlist Bruce Cockburn displayed his aesthetic restlessness with his instrumental album Speechless in 2005. Those who have followed his career over the past four decades wondered where he would go next, or indeed if there was anywhere he could go. The question has been answered in spades on Life Short Call Now. Along with his regular band, Cockburn has ... see all copies from $5.58! new only from $14.56!
16	Lifeline (2007) more music like this by Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals add to wishlist As it's played out on his recordings, the very gift that has been such a boon to Ben Harper has also been his bane: his musical restlessness and the wide range of styles he seems to employ. It's obvious, and has been since his sophomore offering, Fight for Your Mind, that Harper is not only a master guitarist but a fine songwriter and a great ... see all copies from $12.72! new only from $12.72!
17	Breakfast in New Orleans Dinner in Timbuktu (1999) more music like this by Bruce Cockburn add to wishlist Breakfast in New Orleans Dinner in Timbuktu is Bruce Cockburn's 20th studio album. Lyrically, Cockburn doesn't stray from the impressionist poetic lyrics that he's honed over the years, nor does he stray from his favored topics: travelogs, including those drawn from his trips to Third World nations that emphasize his social concerns; reflections ... see all copies from $3.27! new only from $6.95!
18	Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson (1990) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist Roky Erickson often seems to be better known in rock circles for his well publicized psychological maladies and his less-than-gentle treatment at the hands of Texas' judicial system than for his music -- and that's a shame. While Roky's habit of informing anyone who asks that he's a Martian or is in contact with Satan makes for good fanzine copy, ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $14.14!
19	Deep Natural (2002) more music like this by Michelle Shocked add to wishlist Michelle Shocked's natural eclecticism, long since unfettered by the commercial considerations of a record label other than her own Mighty Sound imprint, means that, on the infrequent occasions when she issues a new recording, one approaches it with no idea what it will sound like, except, of course, that it won't sound anything like her last one. ... see all copies from $3.79! new only from $4.98!
20	Test Pattern (2004) more music like this by Sonia Dada add to wishlist Some bands defy categorization on purpose; Chicago's Sonia Dada do it naturally. Their intoxicating blend of R&B, pop, and worldbeat has found them wrongfully lumped into the jam band scene, a genre that, while supportive, tends to pigeonhole artists indefinitely. Their latest, the ambitious Test Pattern, opens in a wash of tablas and "Bollywood" ... see all copies from $5.70! new only from $13.04!
21	Short Sharp Shocked (1988) more music like this by Michelle Shocked add to wishlist Michelle Shocked is asked in the song "Anchorage," "What's it like to be a skateboard punk rocker?" Perhaps it takes a flashback like Short Sharp Shocked to fully answer the more interesting question, "How did you get there?" The album finds Shocked taking a semi-fond trip back to an East Texas childhood, and all of the defined roles, limited ... see all copies from $2.49!
22	Arkansas Traveler [Bonus Tracks] (1991) more music like this by Michelle Shocked add to wishlist One may feel a certain pity for Mercury Records when it took delivery of Michelle Shocked's third album for the label, Arkansas Traveler. Mercury had signed the feisty country-folk singer/songwriter in the wake of the hoopla surrounding her first album, The Texas Campfire Tapes, an impromptu collection recorded on a cassette player at the 1986 ... see all copies from $9.17! new only from $11.01!
23	Canon (2007) more music like this by Ani DiFranco add to wishlist The easy part is the facts: that there are 36 cuts on these two CDs, taken from Ani DiFranco's catalog over a 14-year time span. There are many familiar songs here: "Firedoor" (the Like I Said version), "Coming Up," "Hello Birmingham," "Buildings and Bridges," "Joyful Girl," "Marrow," and "Manhole," to name just a few. It's even easy to write that ... see all copies from $16.10! new only from $16.10!
24	Streetcore (2003) more music like this by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros add to wishlist Like Muddy Waters, whose final albums were among the best in his catalog, Streetcore by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros (Martin Slattery, Tymon Dogg, Simon Stanford, and Scott Shields) sends Strummer into rock & roll heaven a roaring, laughing, snarling lion. Unlike the previous Mescaleros outings, which were rooted in various world and folk musics ... see all copies from $9.97! new only from $9.97!
25	Wounded Heart of America (2007) more music like this by Tom Russell add to wishlist When is a Tom Russell record not really a Tom Russell record? When it's Wounded Heart of America. From the title it seems Russell is starting to take himself a bit seriously, even if it is taken from a quote by beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. This 18-song set contains 14 covers of tunes written or co-authored by Russell. They were recorded by ... see all copies from $14.37! new only from $14.37!

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