Barbara Acklin, Complete on Brunswick (Edsel)
Animals, Twain Shall Meet (Repertoire)
Pete Belasco, Deeper (Compendia)
Belle & Sebastian, Wrapped Up in Books (Rough Trade)
Chuck Berry, Rock and Roll Music [Dynamic] (Dynamic)
Big Breakfast, Stripper Music (Catamount)
Brightblack, Ala. Cala. Tucky (Galaxia)
Eric Burdon, My Secret Life (SPV UK)
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Between Here and Gone (Sony)
The Cate Brothers, Play by the Rules (Louisiana Red Hot)
Cenotaph, Pseudo Verminal (United Guttural)
Copeland, Know Nothing Stays the Same (Militia)
The Benjy Davis Project, Practice Sessions (Bogalusa)
Dave Edmunds, From Small Things: Best of Dave Edmunds (Sony)
Evergrey, Inner Circle (Inside Out Music)
The Fiction, I Told Her That I Like Living in a Box (Level Plane)
Jason Forrest, Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash (Sonig)
Jerry Garcia & David Grisman, Been All Around This World (Acoustic Disc)
Jerry Gaskill, Come Somewhere (Inside Out Music)
Gothic Knights, Up from the Ashes [Bonus Tracks](Inside Out UK)
Hampton the Hamster, Hampsterdance Hits (Koch)
The Hollies, Evolution Plus (Toshiba)
Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Re.present (Koch)
L.A. Guns, Rips the Covers Off (Shrapnel)
Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
Joey McIntyre, 8:09 (Artemis)
Mortician, House by the Cemetery/Mortal Massacre (Relapse)
The One AM Radio, Name Writ In Water (Level Plane)
Sam Phillips, Boot and a Shoe (Nonesuch)
Rockpile, Seconds of Pleasure [Expanded] (Sony)
Diana Ross/The Supremes/Temptations, Joined Together: The Complete Studio Duets (Motown)
Yamamoto Seiichi, Baptism (Tzadik)
Patti Smith, Trampin' (Sony)
Sounds Like Violence, Pistol (Deep Elm)
Supercharger, Live 92 (Rip Off)
Transplants, Police State (Bacchus)
The Troggs, Trogglodynamite (Repertoire)
Various Artists, Spin the Bottle: Tribute to Kiss (Koch)
Dan Zanes & Festival Five Folk, Sea Music (Festival Five Rec.)
—Leilani Polk
This article appears in Apr 22-28, 2004.