The Top 10 Reissues of 2007

3 Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
(Rhino)
The prime movers of the Bay Area's acid-ballroom revolt — Jefferson Airplane, the Charlatans, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Grateful Dead and their bar-band incarnation, the Warlocks — are all here in their exploratory glory. So are psychedelic foot soldiers such as the Oxford Circle, Frum­ious Bandersnatch and Country Weather, whose local-label and privately pressed records made late-Sixties San Francisco the first great indie-rock scene in America.

4 City of Dreams: A Collection of New Orleans Music
(Rounder)
This four-CD box is priced to move — and move you — at $29.99 (suggested retail). It is also Rounder's party for itself, drawn from the label's rich Eighties and Nineties catalog of local funk, soul and piano power. Legends such as singer Irma Thomas and pianist Eddie Bo are in vintage form, while younger wonders like singer-pianist Davell Crawford and the ReBirth Brass Band prove that New Orleans, sorely tested in many ways even before Katrina, has always been a city of living art — and that we would be a poorer nation without it.