Various Artists: Bob Dylan in the ’80s: Volume One
If you're unfamiliar with Bob Dylan's work in the 1980s, this album is no place to start.
Jerrick Adams
Uncle Tupelo: No Depression
If you care a thing for rock ‘n’ roll, country, or American music in general, No Depression is simply essential.
Johnny Cash: Out Among the Stars
For all of its faults, this album speaks to the variety of Cash's immense body of work in a way that the much-celebrated Rick Rubin recordings simply do not.
Elvis Presley: Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis
There's a lot to be learned from Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis, not just about Elvis Presley, but about the amorphous metrics by which we measure the quality of live performances.
Bruce Springsteen: High Hopes (take 1)
A patchwork of studio leftovers, covers and reworked originals billed as a studio album proper, High Hopes leaves something considerable to be desired.