 | Old Kit Bag by Richard Thompson
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $3.75 Dark, funny, tender, moving little novellas on every track from one of the true masters.
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 | Night Train by Bill Morrissey
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $4.66 "Birches" is a fantastic short story - and it's all in verse...
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 | Ready
Buy used from: $42.62 How can you not love an album that name checks Emily Dickinson and quotes from As You Like It?
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 | Live by Jonatha Brooke
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $1.48 Just amazing.
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 | Veering from the Wave by Jennifer Kimball
Buy used from: $0.01 Just as good as Jonatha, except where she's better - and she quotes Hamlet!
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 | Robbie Robertson by Robbie Robertson
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.95 Strange and beautiful stories from the man who wrote "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."
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 | Tales of a Librarian: A Tori Amos Collection (Bonus DVD) by Tori Amos
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $1.88 Makes it for the librarian reference. Besides, Tori's great even when I don't quite understand what she's talking about - which is probably most of the time.
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 | Ellis Paul Live by Ellis Paul
Buy used from: $1.53 So hard to choose just one from Ellis. But I love "Conversation with a Ghost," and it's on here in two different versions.
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 | Living With Ghosts by Patty Griffin
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.69 Simple. Unadorned. Beautiful.
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 | The Mask and Mirror by Loreena McKennitt
Buy used from: $1.45 She set Prospero's last speech from The Tempest to music. And what music!
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 | All This Useless Beauty (With Bonus Disc) by Elvis Costello
Buy used from: $8.93 It is very hard to write a perfect song. There are at least four of them on this album.
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 | Grace by Jeff Buckley
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.52 People know the voice, and it was miraculous. But Jeff was also a brilliant songwriter and a helluva nice guy. I miss him.
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 | Red Dirt Girl
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $2.42 Her voice is gorgeous. She's gorgeous. Her songwriting is gorgeous, too.
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 | Taproot by Michael Hedges
Buy used from: $1.88 He set e.e. cummings to music, and he brought Crosby and Nash along for the ride.
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 | Dire Straits by Dire Straits
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.78 I can't prove it, but I've always thought that "Lions" refers to Santiago's dream in The Old Man and the Sea.
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 | 10 Song Demo by Rosanne Cash
Buy used from: $1.99 Yes, it makes it for the Colette reference, but the lyrics themselves are also amazing. And it's a "10 Song Demo" with eleven songs.
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![Zenyatta Mondatta [Digipak]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31122Q10WFL._SL75_.jpg) | Zenyatta Mondatta [Digipak] by The Police
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.78 Esperanto and Nabokov from the lead singer/bassist who used to teach English. What more do you want?
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 | Reunion Hill by Richard Shindell
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $6.99 Every album he makes has at least one instant classic; this has several. Extraordinary lyrics, sung in a voice that I try every day to sound as good as. At least I served him a beer once...
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 | Fruit Tree by Nick Drake
Buy used from: $29.50 Nick Drake only made three albums, four if you count "Time of No Reply" (which I would). All are dark, beautiful, and fascinating. If the box set is out of your range, try the individual remasters.
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