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Blind Willie McTell

Atlanta Twelve String

1975

Acoustic Blues

A 1949 15-song session for the newly formed Atlantic Records resulted in the initial release of only two songs: "Kill It Kid" and "Broke Down Engine Blues." The music was forgotten until nearly 20 years later. McTell is mostly solo, in excellent form, and vividly captured on acoustic 12-string.

- Bruce Eder

Original Soundtrack

The Wicker Man

September 30, 2002

Film Score

The Wicker Man is a stunning soundtrack. Paul Giovanni, together with obscuro folk group Magnet, uses flutes, lyres, harmonicas, and guitars in a mixture of original and traditional material to create a mysterious and sinister world that comes to life apart from the film. His background scoring has a medieval feel, all appropriate to the story, set on a mysterious Scottish isle where the inhabitants retain pagan rituals.

- Jason Nickey