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