Gerry Rafferty was a popular music giant at the end of the '70s, thanks to the song "Baker Street" and the album City to City. His career long predated that fixture of Top 40 radio, however; indeed, by the time he cut "Baker Street" Rafferty had already been a member of two successful groups, the Humblebums and Stealers Wheel. As a tribute to this great artist, here are the nine original albums plus an early compliation of his songs in solo and with Stealers Wheel

Back in 1986, a duo recorded an album that has since become an unsung classic, unfortunate for those of us who found the album via their one hit song, “Welcome to the Boomtown,” in that the duo never recorded together again. And for that, there is a sense of deprivation that surrounds the album itself after having heard it even once.