Not a GBV album, but I'd recommend Keene Brothers - Blues and Boogie Shoes.  A classic Pollard album with Tommy Keene's awesome guitar hooks

Hey Daryl is that a real Mexican poncho? Or is that a Sears poncho?

Hey Daryl is that a real Mexican poncho? Or is that a Sears poncho?

Can't wait to get this album in full.  Those Ralph Molina drum beats at the beginning of Jesus' Chariot are absolutely classic Horse

Can't wait to get this album in full.  Those Ralph Molina drum beats at the beginning of Jesus' Chariot are absolutely classic Horse

"You done good there pops, reeal smart, you just keep on bein Leonard Cohen see, and never die see"

Black Orpheus does the Chicken Dance alone in his parents' basement wearing lipstick

Again though, Dylan would say - and has said -  that the songs are not re-arrangements per se and are in fact 'true to their character.'  I just think anyone who dismisses his performance of say, Lay Lady Lay in recent years just because it doesn't sound like the recording made 40 years ago is really missing out.

Who did you expect? Pavarotti? Anyone who expects Dylan to do a Greatest Hits tour with an acoustic guitar is SURELY missing the point

After that article about judging Ryan Adams' against his earlier albums, AVClub has taken about 5 steps backward with articles like this.  2006's A Compound Eye? 2006?

"But hey, we don’t watch the show for the cases; we watch for what happens around those cases"

Why/how would Walt need to steal Jesse's ricin?  Along the same lines, why would Gus need to use someone else's poison not to mention go through the trouble of slyly stealing a cigarette

The only thing people remember about that last Radiohead album is that they paid 35 cents for it. "Dude you can just pay what you want"

Wilcos or Radioheads?  How is sorting bands into one of two categories a worthwhile discussion?  Isn't this the same sort of labeling the supposed "indie" snobs abhor?  This article couldn't be any less about music