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As Christgau wrote, "The whole idea of it for me is that I not feel obliged to check everything against everything else--it can be somewhat more impressionistic. I don't want to grade any of it either."</p> <ul> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/james-03.php">Elmore James Completism, Volumes I Through V (or VI)</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/jackson-05.php">Recyclables: Alan Jackson, George Strait, Merle Haggard</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/animals-05.php">Recyclables: Animals, Roky Erickson</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/williams-05.php">Recyclables: Bert Williams; Macy Gray</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/mctell-04.php">Recyclables: Blind Willie McTell, Slim Harpo, Digital Underground</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/cockburn-04.php">Recyclables: Bruce Cockburn, Phoebe Snow</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/guy-05.php">Recyclables: Buddy Guy & Junior Wells; T-Bone Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/spear-04.php">Recyclables: Burning Spear</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/basie-04.php">Recyclables: Count Basie, Now That's Chicago</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/yoakam-04.php">Recyclables: Dwight Yoakam, Waylon Jennings</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/waller-05.php">Recyclables: Fats Waller</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/belafonte-05.php">Recyclables: Harry Belafonte; Pete Seeger</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/smith-05.php">Recyclables: Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/armatrading-04.php">Recyclables: Joan Armatrading, the Faces</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/delmark-04.php">Recyclables: Masters of the Boogie Piano, For Jumpers Only!</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/memphis-06.php">Recyclables: Memphis</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/mystikal-05.php">Recyclables: Mystikal, Ol' Dirty Bastard</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/vaughan-05.php">Recyclables: Sarah Vaughan; Lucille Bogan</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/santana-03.php">Recyclables: The Essential Santana</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/jesus-03.php">Recyclables: The Jesus and Mary Chain/A Flock of Seagulls/Piano Blues/Lightnin' Hopkins</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/move-06.php">Recyclables: The Move, Slade</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/doggett-04.php">Recyclables: The Very Best of Bill Doggett: Honky Tonk</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/yolatengo-06.php">Recyclables: Yo La Tengo, Neil Young</a></li> <li><a href="/xg/recyc/ndour-04.php">Recyclables: Youssou N'Dour</a></li> </ul> <p> <!-- begin standard footer --> </td> </table> </body> </html>