Mr Hodge is off on his travels, but he's left this list of his 50 all-time favourites (which of course he has already disowned):

• THE BAND The Band
  
• THE BEACH BOYS Pet sounds
  
• THE BEATLES Revolver
  
• BEULAH The coast is never clear
  
• BOBBY "BLUE" BLAND His California album
  
• THE BLUE NILE A walk across the rooftops
  
• JOHN CALE Paris 1919
  
• RAY CHARLES The definitive collection
  
• THE CLASH London calling
  
• SHAWN COLVIN Cover girl
  
• CULTURE Two sevens clash
  
• SANDY DENNY Like an old-fashioned waltz
  
• NICK DRAKE Bryter layter
  
• STEVE EARLE Transcendental blues
  
• THE FOUR TOPS The singles collection
  
• NANCI GRIFFITH The last of the true believers
  
• MERLE HAGGARD Lonesome Fugitive: the Anthology
  
• EMMYLOU HARRIS Pieces of the sky
  
• MIKE HERON Smiling men with bad reputations
  
• KELLY HOGAN Beneath the country underdog
  
• THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND Earthspan
  
• THE ISLEY BROTHERS 3+3
  
• MILLIE JACKSON Caught up/ Still caught up
  
• THE JAM All mod cons
  
• BERT JANSCH Three chord trick
  
• RICKIE LEE JONES Traffic from Paradise
  
• LITTLE FEAT Dixie chicken
  
• THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL The very best the Lovin' Spoonful
  
• DAVE MASON Alone together
  
• JONI MITCHELL Blue
  
• VAN MORRISON Tupelo honey
  
• VAN MORRISON Wavelength
  
• HEATHER MYLES Highways and honky tonks
  
• RANDY NEWMAN Lonely at the top
  
• LAURA NYRO The first songs
  
• DAN PENN Do right man
  
• THE POGUES Rum sodomy and the lash
  
• ELVIS PRESLEY From Elvis in Memphis
  
• CHARLIE RICH Feel like going home
  
• TOM RUSSELL Borderland
  
• THE SILVER JEWS Bright flight
  
• PERCY SLEDGE The very best of Percy Sledge
  
• GARY STEWART Out of hand/ Your place or mine
  
• JOE TEX The masters
  
• RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON I want to see the bright lights tonight
  
• BUNNY WAILER Protest
  
• LUCINDA WILLIAMS Car wheels on a gravel road
  
• BOBBY WOMACK The poet/ The poet II
  
• BETTY WRIGHT Danger high voltage/ This time its real
  
• X-RAY SPEX Germ free adolescents