Artist	Song
Fleetwood Mac	The Chain
from Rumours (2004)
Steely Dan	Bodhisattva
from Countdown to Ecstasy (1998)
Elton John	Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
from Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1995)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Almost Cut My Hair
from Déjà Vu (1994)
Rod Stewart	Mandolin Wind
from Every Picture Tells a Story (1998)
Van Morrison	Into the Mystic
from Moondance (2007)
Eric Clapton	Let It Grow
from 461 Ocean Blvd. (Deluxe Edition) (2004)
David Bowie	Life On Mars?
from Hunky Dory (Remastered) (1999)
Electric Light Orchestra	Fire On High
from Face the Music (Bonus Tracks) (2003)
Eagles	Ol' 55
from On the Border (2006)
Jackson Browne	The Road
from Running On Empty (2007)
Pure Prairie League	Falling In and Out of Love
from Pure Prairie League: Greatest Hits (1999)
Boz Scaggs	Georgia
from Silk Degrees (2002)
The Doobie Brothers	South City Midnight Lady
from The Captain and Me (2005)
Grateful Dead	Box of Rain
from American Beauty (Bonus Track Version) [Remastered] (2007)
Chicago	Lowdown
from Chicago III (Remastered) (2004)
Poco	Crazy Eyes
from Crazy Eyes (1995)
Little Feat	Sailin' Shoes
from Sailin' Shoes (2008)
Neil Young	(See the Sky) About to Rain
from On the Beach (2003)
America	Riverside
from America (2008)
Dire Straits	Down to the Waterline
from Dire Straits (2009)

Comment:

From Fleetwood Mac to ELO, Jackson Browne to Elton John, our [i]Album Cuts[/i] guide us past the hits' sizzle to the steak within, revealing the extra dimension that turned casual listeners into hard-core fans. In "Almost Cut My Hair," paranoia slithers out of David Crosby's primal-scream vocal like a cobra from a burlap sack, while Stephen Stills’ and Neil Young's guitars slash at each other like thugs in a knife fight. Perpetual rough boy Rod Stewart's "Mandolin Wind” — with its mélange of slide guitar and fingerpicked six-string intertwining with his sandpaper-on-crushed-velvet vocal — seems to have been delivered straight from the cream-puff center of his heart. And surprisingly, given their later sunglass-bedecked stance as sultans of cool, Steely Dan dispenses lightning-strike guitar riffs and a locomotive beat on their smarty-pants Buddhist anthem, "Bodhisattva." These tracks prove beyond question that, even in a hit-driven industry, you sometimes have to rub the lamp a little longer to unleash the genie.

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