but it's bloody deleted! I've been wanting to get hold of it again for ages but it goes for silly money on the internet.

One I've been loving for the past few months is Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk and Rockabilly. The tunes are interspersed with old 1950s teen flick trailers, which is such a great touch.

for the past year

Bloody pricey but I din't buy it, it was gifted to me

In any event, lest we forget...

...is pretty good.

One Kiss Can lead to Another - Girl Group Sounds, Lost and Found.

Loads of winners but personal fave Trojan Dub Instrumentals. All killer ... Not a DVD, just CDs, but then I've never gone much for the former.

You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore

12 CDs of live genius in a wooden box with metal flight case style corners.

Some rockists and popists may well go "Huh?" but the roots of just about everything we listen to these days are somewhere in "Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music", originally a great big box containing 3 double vinyl albums with 14 tracks per side: Vol.1 - Ballads, Vol.2 - Social Music and Vol.3 - Songs. It also contained a large, beautifully-illustrated book with short essays on each track and artist.

Harry Smith was a polymath bohemian figure, avant-garde film-maker, painter, magician and expert on string figures and paper aeroplanes. Also an inveterate record-collector specialising in old-timey stuff.

All the selections were originally released on 78s between the '20s and '40s, mainly in the American South. The Anthology itself dates from 1952. Reissued in 1997.

That vinyl version would set you back about £230 these days, but it's also available as a 6-CD box (still with the book, in miniature) for a more-affordable 60-odd quid.

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There is also now "Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music Vol.4", his "Secret volume" which was never released at the time but has a similar format: 2 albums of 14 tracks each with a beautiful book. Released in 2000.

The CD version of this is in the form of a small black hardbound book with one CD in the front, another in the back. This will cost you nearly £30, the vinyl version will set you back about £70.

I have Vol.4 on CD and dodgy .mp3s of the first 3 volumes, but intend getting the CD edition of the first 3 when finances permit because I want the book.