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| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | No More Shall We Part | 2001 |
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| Ry Cooder |
Chavez Ravine | 2005 |
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| Loretta Lynn | Van Lear Rose | 2004 |
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| Shelby Lynne | I Am Shelby Lynne | 1999 |
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| A. C. Newman | The Slow Wonder | 2004 |
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| Wilco |
A Ghost Is Born | 2004 |
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| Lucinda Williams | World Without Tears | 2003 |
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| Brian Wilson | SMiLE | 2004 |
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| XTC |
Apple Venus Vol. 1 | 1999 |
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| Warren Zevon | The Wind | 2003 |
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