List #4 - Some Recommended Folk Records

A few (mainly British, mainly 60's - 70's) folk classics.

1. C.O.B. - Moyshe McStiff And The Tartan Lancers Of The Sacred Heart
2. Fuchsia - Fuchsia
3. Shelagh McDonald - Let No Man Steal Your Time (comp)
4. Dransfield - The Fiddler's Dream
5. Alisdair Roberts - Farewell Sorrow
6. Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
7. Bert Jansch - Jack Orion
8. Trees - On The Shore
9. Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
10. The Incredible String Band - The Incredible String Band
11. Barry Dransfield - Barry Dransfield
12. Richard Thompson - Henry the Human Fly
13. Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
14. Anne Briggs - The Time Has Come
15. Shirley and Dolly Collins - Love Death and the Lady
16. The Watersons - The Definitive Collection
17. Pentangle - The Pentangle
18. Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
19. Chris Wood - The Lark Descending
20. Various Artists - Gather in the Mushrooms

List #3 - Guilty Pleasures

Making a Guilty Pleasures type CD for my mate Brian at the moment. Some of the highlights

1. The Highwaymen - The Highwayman
2. Cyndi Grecco - Making our Dreams Come True
3. Tin Tin - Toast And Marmalade For Tea
4. Looking Glass - Brandy You're a Fine Girl
5. 20/20 - Giving It All
6. The Munx - Our Dream
7. John Sebastian - Welcome Back Kotter
8. Tony Hatch - Man Alive
9. Free Design - Bubbles
10. Summer Breeze - Seals and Crofts

List #2 - Currently listening to

1. Albert Collins - The Ice Axe Cometh
2. Sam Dees - Second To None
3. Murcof - Remembranza
4. Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches
5. Albert King - The Best Of
6. Sexsmith and Kerr - Destination Unknown
7. The Move - Message From The Country
8. Miles Davis - Miles In Berlin
9. Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack
10. Khonnor - Handwriting

List #1 - Ten great records that you really should own

This list presumes that you already own all the usual suspects that appear in best album ever type lists - Bryter Layter, Astral Weeks, Blood on the Tracks etc, for those that want to dig a little deeper (these are in no particular order).

1. Terry Reid - River
2. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down
3. Gene Clark - No Other
4. Alisdair Roberts - Farewell Sorrow
5. Murcof - Martes
6. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
7. The Millennium - Begin
8. Patto - Hold Your Fire
9. Slint - Spiderland
10. David Crosby - If Only I Could Remember My Name