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"Billboard Top Rock'N'Roll Hits - 1965" is a compilation album released in 1993, featuring a selection of the biggest rock and roll hits from 1965. This collection showcases the era's vibrant music scene, highlighting popular tracks that topped the Billboard charts.

The top of the country charts features a surprising mix of material. Billboard Top Country Hits is a series of compilation albums released by Rhino Records, each featuring ten hit country music recordings from a specific year, mostly number ones on the Billboard country singles chart.

Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz: Rock gathers ten fusion favorites, including Weather Report's "Punk Jazz," Chick Corea's "Armando's Rhumba," and Al Di Meola's "Electric Rendezsvous." Jean-Luc Ponty's "Cosmic Messenger" and Billy Cobham's "Moon Germs" are two of the other highlights from this collection, which does a fine job of showcasing definitive cuts from fusion's heyday in the '60s and '70s.

If you don't mind shorter versions of some of your favorite songs, this is a nice album to own. Many hit songs from 1965 from You've Lost That Loving Feeling to Help Me, Rhonda and Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, you'll love hearing these songs again that you grew up to. They have staying power, which I can't say for much of what passes for music today. Yes, I'm showing my age. Billboard early years is always a good bet.

Creative sparks and killer riffs are flying everywhere on Brian Setzer's new album The Devil Always Collects out via Surfdog Records. The 3-time Grammy award-winners guitar work is bracingly virtuosic and blazing on these 11 tracks, and his irresistible vocals thrillingly deliver the clever storylines of catchy songs like "The Devil Always Collects," "The Girl On The Billboard," "Black Leather Jacket" and "Rock Boys Rock." Add in non-stop breakneck rhythms, and you have an album–produced by Brian Setzer and Julian Raymond and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge–that stands with Setzer's best.

One of the great bluegrass bands in history, brothers Jim (born 1927) and Jesse (born 1929) McReynolds and their Virginia Boys remained at the top by changing with the times. Starting as a traditional brothers duet, Jim on guitar and Jesse on mandolin showed their versatility by following country's changing tastes, moving to country/folk when necessary to keep a road band going. Whatever style they played (including Berry Pickin' in the Country, an album of bluegrass versions of Chuck Berry tunes), they retained a pure country core, due in no small part to Jim's pure, high tenor and Jesse's virtuoso, cross-picking mandolin playing. Raised in Virginia, Jim & Jesse were born into a musical family.

Two Against Nature — Steely Dan's Grammy winner for Album of the Year! The brilliance of Steely Dan on Hybrid SACD from Analogue Productions! Newly remastered from the original analog tape by Bernie Grundman direct to DSD!

Quadraphonic sound, or 4.0 surround sound, utilizes four audio channels connected to four speakers positioned at the corners of a listening space. The multi-tracked audio is mixed dimensional, immersing the listener in an expansive soundscape. BILLION DOLLAR BABIES saw Alice Cooper at the height of their power, mixing theatrical stage shows with hard-hitting rock anthems like "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and "Elected." The album went #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and the U.K. Album Chart and later earned a platinum certification.

Beth Hart emerged in the 2010s as a formidable singer and songwriter on the contemporary blues scene. Her rise to stardom was a long time coming. Hart first made inroads as a contestant on Star Search in 1993 and had a brief period where she was pushed as a possible adult alternative act, landing a slot on the 1996 Lollapalooza tour. A series of bad business breaks and personal troubles kept her on the margins throughout the 2000s, but in 2011, she teamed up with blues guitar hero Joe Bonamassa for Don't Explain and the collaboration rejuvenated her career.