After the truckload of recommendations last week it’s to be expected this week would be minimal. Very minimal… No matter. Plenty of time to catch up and catch on… to Mr. McNeir.
Reissues, Best-of’s, & Compilations:

Ronnie McNeir - Ronnie McNeir [1972]
Dusty Groove
Smooth Soul, Soul
Illinois-born but Kentucky through and through, John Prine debuted with one of the best records of 1971 (not an easy feat that year).
Although much changed for Martyn both personally and professionally between yesterday’s feature, 1971’s Bless the Weather, and this 1980 masterwork, Grace & Danger, his irreplaceable signatures remain sinisterly intact.
Another great loss this year as Scottish folk-fantastico John Martyn died on Thursday morning. While not his first effort, Bless the Weather is the place to begin.
Eight top rate songs tail ended by the monumental life-changer, “(The) Living Proof”!
The dead soldier on the cover, gushing blood into a rushing stream, is the kind of picturesque disquietude you want housing prog-rock of this caliber.
My dad listened to ‘Walk Away Renee’ 100 times on his deathbed and, at the time, it made a lot of sense.