What are your Perfect or near perfect albums in your collection?


I generated this post to find some sleeper albums, no specific genre, that we as music lovers hold in high esteem and is meant to be never ending. As we all know as soon as we list, a few more surface as we play and listen, so feel free to add as you go. I will start with 6 of my own, so please enjoy. Shelby Lynne/Just a Little Lovin', Rolling Stones/Sticky Fingers, Allan Toussaint/Song Book, Little Feat/Waiting on Columbus, Jimmy Witherspoon featuring Ben Webster/Roots, & Van Morrison/His Band and the Street Choir.

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@bruce19 

Now there’s an album I never thought I’d see listed, here! 

I love Sunday’s Child, Bless the Weather and Solid Air, too. 

@rettrussell 

Glad you found some items of interest on the list. Maybe I’ll do another with another genre. Not sure how many guys here really pay much attention to what others post in these sorts of threads. 

@stuartk I certainly pay attention and use these types of threads to broaden my knowledge of great music, so please post more as your already mentioned have not gone unnoticed. I also pay attention to what’s on your turntable tonight thread. Enjoy the music

@stuartk  Those are nice albums too, especially Solid Air. Possibly

Springsteen- The wild the innocent and the E Street shuffle

what do you think?

Continuing on with more Country, Americana, Newgrass, , Celtic, singer songwriter...

Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer, Russ Barenberg: Skip, Hop and Wobble 

David Grier: Evocative

Darol Anger, Mike Marshall: Woodshop

Peter Rowan, Tony Rice: Quartet 

Creaking Tree String Quartet: Side Two 

Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters: On the Ropes

Mavericks: What a Cryin’ Shame 

Kelly Willis: Kelly Willis 

Sarah Jarosz: Song Up in Her Head 

Aoife O’Donovan: In the Magic Hour

Over the Rhine: Drunkard’s Prayer , Ohio

Amy Helm: Didn’t It Rain?

Kathleen McLellan: The Raven’s Son 

Stray Birds: Magic Fire 

Vicktor Krauss: Far From Enough

Solas:The Words That Remain 

John Doyle: Wayward Son 

Winifred Horan and Mick McAuley: Serenade

Hellecasters:Escape from Hollywood 

@bruce19 

Hard for me to choose between that, Born to Run, The River and Darkness on the Edge of Town

@tooblue 

yes

Violinist Mark Feldman’s No Exit on ECM. Typically gorgeous EVM production and recording and incredible freeish jazz playing. Highest level all around.