end of the road

Despite drug battles and internal strife, Jeff Tweedy's band sound newly liberated

Dazzling selection from back catalogue of the "cosmic" country visionary who changed the face of American music

Sorely overdue reissue of a masterpiece of '60s Brit improv, complete with previously unissued material

First 'solo' album appended with Beserkley Chartbusters tracks including "Roadrunner (Once)", and the one with "Egyptian Reggae" on it

Two towering '80s icons get back on track but with some way to go

Even the director of this film, recounting the tale of how road manager Phil Kaufman stole and burned Gram Parsons' corpse, was surprised when Parsons' wife and daughter okay-ed the use of his music. Parsons' "A Song For You" and "Love Hurts" and The Flying Burrito Brothers' "Wild Horses" evoke the era, along with Country Joe and Eddie Floyd. Gillian Welch tackles "Hickory Wind", and Starsailor handle "Hot Burrito No 2" bombastically. But The Lemonheads, Wilco and trend-whores Primal Scream just seek cred by association. Twangy.

Moody Blues man's mid-'70s missives, produced mostly during the group's five-year break

On-the-road documentary trailing Nashville's own Lazarus Man

Long-awaited return of New England philosophy major-cum-troubadour

Her ninth studio album, and first after leaving Arista, her home since 1975