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Little Feat

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Mick Martin

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Brothers Brown

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Son Volt

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The Williams Brothers

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Elvis Presley

Elvis 75: Good Rockin’ Tonight

RCA/Legacy

The King finally has a box set fit for a king. After years of such multidisc compilations as “I Believe — The Gospel Masters,” “The Complete ’68 Comeback Special,” “The Music of Elvis Presley — The 1950s,” “Elvis at the Movies” and “The Country Side of Elvis,” Legacy Recordings commemmorates what would have been the Mississippi Tupelo Flash’s 75th birthday with a career-spanning chronological sampler of 100 songs (incorporating the entire “30 #1 Hits” release) that keeps the singer’s forays in proportion to his artistic success.

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January 8, 2010
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Country & Western Hit Parade 1955

Bear Family

Nobody remasters Golden Age country music better than Germany’s Bear Family Records. The admirable label doesn’t simply reissue albums, it also compiles the best single- and multi-artist collections out there.

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December 11, 2009
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Los Lobos

Los Lobos Goes Disney

Disney Sound

There’s no shortage of single- and various-artist Disney tributes: “Dave Digs Disney” (Dave Brubeck), “Let’s Fly With Mary Poppins” (Louis Prima), “Disney Songs the Satchmo Way” (Louis Armstrong), “Stay Awake,” “Heigh-Ho! Mozart,” “Bossa Disney Nova” and “Got No Strings” (Michelle Shocked) are but a few over a half-century.

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November 26, 2009
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The Subdudes

Flower Petals

429 Records

In 1994 the Subdudes were one of the brightest spots on “adult album alternative” radio. They and the Iguanas, also from New Orleans, were among the cream of that era’s Americana crop. The Subdudes’ “Annunciation” and the Iguanas’ “Nuevo Boogaloo” peaked that year at Nos. 19 and 34, respectively, on Billboard’s Heatseekers album chart.

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November 3, 2009
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Chris Smither

Time Stands Still

Signature Sounds

Smither is a true-blue blues journeyman, having started playing coffeehouses in Boston in the mid-’60s. Alcohol waylaid his recording career in the ’70s, but he emerged stronger for it and returned to the studio.

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November 3, 2009
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