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Something for the weekend: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit “Overseas”
So here we are again as Cher said in 1989. If you really do want to be distracted from the absolute state of things for 5 minutes (and who could blame you now we have the […]
Articles by Mark Whitfield
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Patterson Hood on DBT’s band name: “I sincerely apologize for its stupidity”
Drive-By Truckers frontman Patterson Hood has written a new op-ed for NPR in which he apologises to fans for the band’s name. “Our name was a drunken joke that was never intended to be in rotation […]
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Neal Casal Foundation and tribute album announced
A tribute album featuring Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams and Beachwood Sparks among others was announced yesterday along with details of a new Neal Casal Music Foundation (NCMF) which has been created “to honour the memory of […]
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Songs for the apocalypse: John Wesley Harding “God Lives Upstairs”
Many years ago when I lived in Sydney I used to sometimes go down Pitt Street which had some now long-forgotten record stores which would flog off albums for next to nothing, so pre-the days of […]
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Watch Margo Price cover Dylan classic “Things Have Changed”
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Margo Price was set to release her latest album ‘That’s How Rumors Get Started’ when the coronavirus pandemic hit. The Nashville artist, whose last album garnered all kinds of acclaim, has postponed the release […]