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Some recordings I've been enjoying lately …

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	Howlin' Wolf Howlin' Wolf: His Best—The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection MCA/Chess CHD-9375 Smokestack Lightning
	David Byrne Music for the Knee Plays ECM 25022-4 E (1985) Tree I Bid You Goodnight
	Ted Nash and Odeon La Espada de la Noche Palmetto PM2108 (2005) Concto. de Aranuez, Movt. 1 A Night in Tunisia
	Jason Moran Same Mother Blue Note 71780 (2005) Jump Up I'll Play the Blues for You
	Regina Carter Paganini: After a Dream Verve 4400655542 (2003) Oblivion (Astor Piazzolla)
	Henry Butler Blues After Sunset Black Top Records 1144 (1998) Bourbon Street Blues
	Uncle Tupelo 89/93: An Anthology Columbia/Legacy CK 62223 No Depression Graveyard Shift
	Tomasz Stanko Quartet Suspended Night ECM 1868 Suspended Variations V
	Greg Osby St. Louis Shoes Blue Note East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
	Richard Galliano with Eddy Louiss Face to Face Disques Dreyfus Sous la ciel de Paris
	Joan Baez Dark Chords on a Big Guitar Koch Rexroth's Daughter
	Lou Reed The Raven Sire/Reprise 48373-2 Edgar Allan Poe The Raven (Willem Dafoe)
	The Flatlanders Now Again New West 6040 Down in the Light of the Melon Moon
	Dexter Gordon The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions Capitol 34200 Broadway (Our Man in Paris)
	Charlie Haden—Quartet West Now Is the Hour Verve/Gitanes 314 529 827-2 Here's Looking at You
	Tomasz Stanko Soul of Things ECM 1788 440016374-2 Part VI
	Tomasz Stanko From the Green Hill ECM 1680 547336-2 Love Theme from Farewell to Maria
	Emanuel Ax and Pablo Ziegler Los Tangueros: The Tangos of Astor Piazzolla Sony Classical SK 62728 Buenos Aires Hora Cero
	Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble Silk Road Journeys: Where Strangers Meet Sony Classical SK 89782 Blue as the Turquoise Night of Neyshapur