 | Furnace Room Lullaby by Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
Buy used from: $5.00 Her voice on Furnace Room Lullaby (Track 12) comes from some haunted alternate universe.
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 | Recollection: The Best of Concrete Blonde by Concrete Blonde
Buy used from: $7.52 I know. It's sort of cheating to put in a greatest hits album, but it was just too hard to choose. I love Tomorrow, Wendy (Track 2), Heal It Up (Track 13), and their version of Everybody Knows (Track 14).
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 | Yes I Am by Melissa Etheridge
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $0.01 You can actually hear her heart breaking on I Will Never Be The Same (Track 5).
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 | Red Dirt Girl
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.63 Everything on this album is amazing. The only thing keeping it from being a perfect album is that it doesn't have Deeper Well (Track 6 on Wrecking Ball) or A Love That Will Never Grow Old (Track 4 on the Brokeback Mountain soundtrack).
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 | Rites of Passage by Indigo Girls
Buy used from: $0.01 This was such a hard choice to make, but this album eventually won out because their cover of Romeo and Juliet (Track 7) is incredible.
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 | Janis Joplin - Greatest Hits by Janis Joplin
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $3.79 Blood, sweat, tears and viscera on every track.
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 | Ultimate Collection by Maria McKee
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $6.95 Her solo work as well as her time with Lone Justice should be equally represented. Unfortunately, this collection does not include Dreams Come True (Track 4 on the Dream A Little Dream soundtrack). Also try out her rendition of Wayfarin' Stranger (Track 9 on the Songcatcher soundtrack).
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 | Bella Donna by Stevie Nicks
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.05 Edge of Seventeen (Track 6) is gritty and emotional, and Leather And Lace (Track 8), her duet with Don Henley, a good gravel contributor of the male variety, is tender and genuine.
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 | The Best of Odetta: Ballads & Blues by Odetta
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $1.72 She can manipulate her voice in so many ways and yet never lose its soulful quality.
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 | Relish by Joan Osborne
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $0.01 St. Teresa (Track 1) is so powerful and heart-wrenching, and Man In The Long Black Coat (Track 2) is mournful and stark.
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 | Anthology by Nina Simone
Buy new: $13.97 / Used from: $11.91 I don't think Nina Simone is capable of making a bad song. The only thing keeping this from being a perfect collection is the conspicuous absense of Feeling Good (Track 7 on the Point Of No Return soundtrack).
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 | Faster Than the Speed of Night by Bonnie Tyler
Buy used from: $0.99 Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Track 4) is the ballad for every lost love in the world. Accept no substitutes for the full version of the song on this album.
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 | All the Best by Tina Turner
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.99 Every disaster and every triumph is present in her vocal stylings.
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 | Time (The Revelator) by Gillian Welch
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.58 Tough choice between this album and Hell Among the Yearlings, but I went with this one because of My First Lover (Track 2).
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