{"id":26527,"date":"2023-12-25T05:30:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T10:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=26527"},"modified":"2023-12-22T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T20:47:16","slug":"musoscribes-best-of-2023-archival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/25\/musoscribes-best-of-2023-archival\/","title":{"rendered":"Musoscribe&#8217;s Best of 2023: Archival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26528\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023_archival350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023_archival350.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023_archival350-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023_archival350-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Reissues, compilations and archival releases are of particular interest here at Musoscribe World HQ. And this year has seen a bumper crop of excellent titles in these categories. Here are my four favorites; all come highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Marshall Crenshaw<\/b><\/i><br \/>\nPerfect album gets deluxe reissue. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/31\/album-review-marshall-crenshaw-s-t\/\">Review is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Various \u2013 <\/b><i><b>Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos<\/b><\/i><br \/>\nWith the amazing stable of writers at Stax during its golden years, it should be no surprise that there would be a wealth of songwriters\u2019 demos. Somewhere, but where? An intrepid team rescued them from obscurity, earning a Grammy nom along the way. Essential. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/stax-records-written-in-their-soul-part-1-of-2\/\">My feature is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Various \u2013 <i>March of the Flower Children<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nBritish labels have an easier time putting together various-artists compilations. This one is extra-special, for fans of <i>Nuggets<\/i>. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/29\/album-review-various-artists-march-of-the-flower-children\/\">Review is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Andrew Gold (Fraternal Order of the All) \u2013 <i>Greetings from Planet Love<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nThere\u2019s so much to say about this one. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/04\/album-review-andrew-gold-greetings-from-planet-love\/\">Here\u2019s my review<\/a>, and a long-form feature will be on the site next month. Must-hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reissues, compilations and archival releases are of particular interest here at Musoscribe World HQ. And this year has seen a bumper crop of excellent titles in these categories. Here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-of-list","category-compilation","cat-8-id","cat-19-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26530,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527\/revisions\/26530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}