Fancy picking up a new album to enjoy this summer, but not sure what to go for?

Here's music reviewer Kevin Bryan's low-down on another selection of albums from years gone by:

Samba Toure, "Gandadiko" (Glitterbeat)

Mali's rich and diverse musical culture first reached a world audience via the sterling efforts of performers such as Toumani Diabate and the late Ali Farka Toure, and the latest offering from the latter's gifted namesake Samba Toure should be required listening for open minded music lovers everywhere.

"Gandadiko" serves up a veritable feast of hypnotic desert blues, blending elements of Malian music, rock and blues to create a heady hybrid which is captured at its most compelling during prime cuts such as "I Kana Koto," "Toure Idje Bibi" and the Bo Diddley influenced "Su Wilile."

Fairport Convention, "Access All Areas" (Edsel Records)

This venerable folk-rock institution have had to cope with innumerable personnel changes since their formation long ago in 1967, and Edsel's new audio-visual package chooses to focus attention on the exploits of the 1990 incarnation of the band.

This recording of their gig at Birmingham Town Hall features a set list largely culled from recent albums such as "Gladys' Leap" and "Red And Gold," although they did find space for a couple of old Fairport favourites in the shape of "Matty Groves" and Richard Thompson's timeless "Meet On The Ledge."

"Stars of the 60s" (Union Square Music)

This inexpensive 3CD celebration of the sometimes dubious delights of sixties pop is dominated by easy on the ear recordings from the first few years of the decade, blending the classic and the eminently disposable in roughly equal proportions.

The former category is well represented by a string of memorable offerings from the likes of Roy Orbison, The Crystals, The Drifters and Ben E.King which capture the uncomplicated essence of pre-Beatles era popular music with tunefulness, style and grace.

Crystal Gayle, "Live in Tennessee" (Wienerworld)

As the younger sister of the great Loretta Lynn it surely can't have come as a surprise to anyone that Crystal Gayle should have decided to follow her elder sibling into a career in country music.

Crystal's much more polished and pop orientated approach to music-making leaned heavily on the creative input of producer Allen Reynolds and brought her a healthy run of chart successes during the seventies and eighties, including hits such as "Talking In Your Sleep," "Half The Way" and her best known number, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue."

These smoothly crafted signature pieces are all given stylish re-vamps in this live package from 2005, coupling audio and video versions of her show at the Renaissance Center in Tennessee.