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Essentials: The top 10 Lee Hazlewood songs

August 12, 2021 Sean Hannam 0

When NME reviewed Lee Hazlewood’s 1973 album, ‘Poet, Fool or Bum’, the journalist famously wrote a one-word critique, ‘Bum.’ Sure, it’s not one of his best records, and although Hazlewood was arguably all three of those […]

Essentials: The top 10 Gordon Lightfoot songs

July 22, 2021 Emily Dongray 8

Canadian legend Gordon Lightfoot has a career that spans over six decades. He has released 19 studio albums, three live albums, and a whopping 47 singles. There are also 19 authorised compilations to date. With a […]

Essentials: The top 10 Wilco/Jeff Tweedy albums

July 15, 2021 Rich Orpin 1

Wilco’s rise to becoming one of America’s greatest rock bands of the 21st century has been anything but straightforward. Multiple line-up changes – some acrimonious and bitter – rejection by major labels and addiction have all […]

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 Rick Bayles 37

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Essentials: The top 10 ‘Paisley Underground’ albums

July 1, 2021 Guy Lincoln 6

Time was when we used to have ‘scenes’ to belong to. ‘Scenes’ we could relate to, which reflected who we thought we were, or at least who we wanted to be and ‘scenes’ that made us […]