 | Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.16 Often called the best jazz recording ever-- with good reason
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 | The Complete Last Concert by The Modern Jazz Quartet
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $13.50 Incredibly beautiful vibes
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 | The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie by Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $10.80 She became one of my heroines the first time I heard her at the age of 12
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 | Abbey Road (1990) by The Beatles
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $3.49 My favorite album by the most important band of my generation
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 | It's a Beautiful Day by It's a Beautiful Day
Buy used from: $41.89 It's a beautiful album-- "White Bird" was my personal theme song when I was 19
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 | Watermark by Enya
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $2.66 This music is divine and soothes my soul
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 | Acoustic Highway by Craig Chaquico
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.21 The first time I heard this gorgeous guitar music it astonished me - in my opinion, he's the best living famous guitarist
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 | Album 1700 by Paul and Mary Peter
Buy new: $13.96 / Used from: $6.01 Peter, Paul and Mary at their best
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 | First Take by Roberta Flack
Buy used from: $6.08 The first time ever I heard her sing, I wept
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 | Stronger Than Pride by Sade
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.38 Smokey and sultry and smooth
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 | Arthur Rubinstein: Ludwig Van Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $6.96 To hear Rubinstein play the Moonlight Sonata-- sublime!
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 | Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture by k.d. Lang
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.70 Amazing movie soundtrack-- especially k d lang singing "Skylark"
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 | New Moon Daughter by Cassandra Wilson
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.65 I love to hear her sing-- on this album, she does a haunting version of the most haunting of all songs-- Billy Holiday's "Strange Fruit" (not written by Billy Holiday, but written for her)
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 | Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.94 It's a standard for a reason-- although I have wondered if Brubeck ever got tired of playing Take 5
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 | Send in the Clowns (20 Bit Mastering) by Sarah Vaughan with the Count Basie Orchestra
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.98 She was called Divine and her rendition of the title song shows why
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 | High Country Snows by Dan Fogelberg
Buy used from: $3.15 "Wandering Shepherd" touches my heart
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 | Greatest Story Never Told by John McCutcheon
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.90 "Not in My Name" says it all-- John McCutcheon is a doll
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 | Run For Freedom/Sweet Thunder by Larry Long
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $4.69 Just played this repeatedly on a long road trip and remembered why it was so meaningful
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 | Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits by Pete Seeger
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.93 Another hero since I first heard him at the age of 12 (loong ago!)
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 | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $2.75 I chose "Greatest Hits" to stand for all early Dylan-- who meant so much to so many of us
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 | Joan by Joan Baez
Buy used from: $2.98 Joan Baez -- another heroine of my youth-- I listened to this album until I had it memorized
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 | Closer to Far Away by Douglas Spotted Eagle
Buy used from: $1.45 A fantastic musician, a virtuoso of the flute
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 | Graceland by Paul Simon
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.33 I wore out the LP, the cassette, videotape of the concert, now I'm working on the CD-- I love this music!!
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 | Still Crazy After All These Years by Paul Simon
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.99 This and every other Simon album shows he is the greatest songwriter of my generation
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 | O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.88 This is about the only movie all of my kids and I agree is great! Great music too!
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