Recyclables

This is a Village Voice column series, inaugurated in Sept. 2003. 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."

• Elmore James Completism, Volumes I Through V (or VI)
• Recyclables: Alan Jackson, George Strait, Merle Haggard
• Recyclables: Animals, Roky Erickson
• Recyclables: Bert Williams; Macy Gray
• Recyclables: Blind Willie McTell, Slim Harpo, Digital Underground
• Recyclables: Bruce Cockburn, Phoebe Snow
• Recyclables: Buddy Guy & Junior Wells; T-Bone Walker
• Recyclables: Burning Spear
• Recyclables: Count Basie, Now That's Chicago
• Recyclables: Dwight Yoakam, Waylon Jennings
• Recyclables: Fats Waller
• Recyclables: Harry Belafonte; Pete Seeger
• Recyclables: Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
• Recyclables: Joan Armatrading, the Faces
• Recyclables: Masters of the Boogie Piano, For Jumpers Only!
• Recyclables: Memphis
• Recyclables: Mystikal, Ol' Dirty Bastard
• Recyclables: Sarah Vaughan; Lucille Bogan
• Recyclables: The Essential Santana
• Recyclables: The Jesus and Mary Chain/A Flock of Seagulls/Piano Blues/Lightnin' Hopkins
• Recyclables: The Move, Slade
• Recyclables: The Very Best of Bill Doggett: Honky Tonk
• Recyclables: Yo La Tengo, Neil Young
• Recyclables: Youssou N'Dour