My Top 16 Albums

Thinking about my favorite Albums/CD's as a whole. So many times a sub-set of songs resonates, why the whole collection gets chopped up. But some Albums are just too good from start to finish. For this list I chose 16. It's a square of square--I like that.

So, here are 16 of my favorite "Albums"--and yeah, I know...that word dates me. What can I say? I'm 53 and happy! But I digress. These are the ones I go back to time and again, and where possible sing along with. It only scratches the surface of my total music collection, but then who gives a damn about anyone's top 1,600? In alphabetical order by artist:

Kathleen Battle - Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra André Previn)
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Alex Cuba - Agua del Pozo
Elle Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald: The Best of the Song Books
Patty Griffin - Living with Ghosts
Emmylou Harris - Angel Band
Hope for Haiti - various artists
Carole King - Tapestry
Natalie Merchant - Ophelia
Rachel Podger - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo
Bob Seeger & the Silver Bullet Band - "Live" Bullet
Simon & Garfunkel - The Concert in Central Park
Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra: His Great Performances 1953-1960
John Michael Talbot - Come to the Quiet
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe
Hannah White - Poetry