I have talked several times in these articles about my father and his descent into dementia. He now resides in a care home, which has, in turn, released my mother (87) from fifteen years of increasing […]
Mavis Staples — one of the most enduring figures in American music — is bringing to the world her latest album “Sad And Beautiful World“ on 7th November 2025 via Anti- Records. Rightly described as a […]
I was moved by Bill Fay‘s passing last month. Here was a singer-songwriter who defined the term cult artist and whose work had flowered in the minds of many who populate these pages. I came to […]
His first for 12 years – packed with friends and Truckers. Patterson Hood the co-founder of of The Drive By Truckers and fierce political commentator has revealed his latest work as a solo album called “Exploding […]
I puzzled over how to compile and preface this list for the best part of four months. I’m bad at choosing favourites, my mind tending toward blankness if asked on the spot. Suitably, when I started […]
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