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Tom Moon's Top 10 CDs of 2005

NPR reviewer Tom Moon shares his picks for the year's best CDs, from the lo-fi, indie folk of Iron and Wine to a newly discovered live recording by Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. Moon writes for The Philadelphia Inquirer and is a regular contributor to NPR's All Things Considered. He's currently working on the book A Thousand Recordings to Hear Before You Die.

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Tom Moon has been writing about pop, rock, jazz, blues, hip-hop and the music of the world since 1983.
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