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what we’re trying to achieve here at Uncut. Both artists are steeped in their respective traditions – in The Black Keys’ case, the growl and punch of classic rock, while Fussell delivers spry interpretations of American folk song – but both are driven to recontextualise their influences for our own age. Says Fussell, “I knew a lot of musicians who weren’t necessarily wearing clothes that we picture when we think about this kind of music. They might be wearing a Nike tracksuit and playing songs from the 1890s. It was all mixed up. For me it continues to be mixed up, and that’s what I’m trying to get at when I’m playing these songs.” Meanwhile, as usual, our free CD brings you the best of the month’s new music –…

“I’ve sung ‘The First Cut Is The Deepest’ thousands of times, but it’s still fresh for me” THE extraordinary, meandering musical career of PP Arnold is best summed up by the way she answers a question about why she moved to Spain in the late ’90s. Her fascinating response takes in her role in Olivier Award-winning musical Once On This Island, a chance meeting with Chaz Jankel in the Andalucian hills, and Roger Waters rescuing her from financial limbo by advancing her a deposit on a house in Salobreña. The story is typical of the ebullient 72-year-old singer, who seems to have crossed paths with everyone in music at one time or another. Yet despite the support of big hitters such as Barry Gibb, Eric Clapton and Paul Weller, it’s…

SMOG Wild Love CITY SLANG, 1995 The very earliest Smog albums can be hard going, Callahan’s barbed humour,  primitive instrumentation and self-annihilating misanthropy not really finding their target until this, his fourth full-length outing. “Bathysphere” makes oddly light of a desire to blot out the universe, “Bathroom Floor” and “Be Hit” are grotesque miniatures, while “Prince Alone In The Studio” isn’t half as funny as it sounds. 9/10 SMOG Supper DOMINO, 2003 Mid-period Smog records like Red Apple Falls (1997) and Knock Knock (1999)  established Callahan’s reputation, but his (moderately) romantic 10th album gets unjustly overlooked. “Feather By Feather”, “Our Anniversary” and “Vessel In Vain” are all fuzzy-edged favourites, with the stately waltz “Truth Serum” an early sighting of his softer side. 9/10 BILL CALLAHAN Sometimes I Wish We Were…

DAVID ALLRED The Cell ERASED TAPES 7/10 Second solo set from erstwhile Peter Broderick collaborator The haunting, folk-infused harmonies of this Sacramento multi-instrumentalist’s debut, The Transition, were sometimes breathtaking, but on this mini-album follow-up, Allred’s creamy vocal tones hold their own. They’re offset by atmospheric midnight piano on the hymn-like “Nature’s Course” and the title track, and graceful cello on “Mandatory Soul”. Still, it’s slightly puzzling that he’s only released seven tracks now rather than waiting to build a full-length second LP. “Family” sounds more like a demo without the same evocative production and accompaniment, and a couple of other tracks resemble tantalising half-songs. Either way, he certainly leaves us wanting more. JOHNNY SHARP ANATOLIAN WEAPONS FEAT. SEIRIOS SAVVAIDIS To The Mother Of Gods BEATS IN SPACE 8/10 Hellenic heavyweights…

What led to the formation of the Rose City Band? A big part of it was wanting to explore musical influences from youth, which mainly means music of our parents’ generation, and to do something mellow but exploratory. So much in the world seems crazy and unsettling at this moment in time; there was an impulse to embrace music that is calming and reminds us of childhood, a time of innocence and optimism. Why the anonymity? It’s just general frustration with the music business, social media, self-promotion, all of that. The way everything is packaged and sold. We just wanted the album to stand on its own and be greeted (or ignored) for what it is, as you would do if you just found it in a stack of old…

THE BLACK CROWES Shake Your Money Maker DEF AMERICAN, 1990 The debut from  Robinson and guitarist brother Rich turned back the clock to vintage raunch and swaggering boogie not heard since the heyday of the Stones and Faces. Songs such as “Jealous Again”, “Twice As Hard”, a stonking cover of Otis Redding’s “Hard To Handle” and the acoustic ballad “She Talks To Angels” saw the LP notch five million sales. 8/10 CHRIS ROBINSON & NEW EARTH MUD This Magnificent Distance VECTOR, 2004 The second album under Robinson’s New Earth Mud banner crackles with an energy laced with romantic, evocative songwriting. Sung in his passionate trademark howl, his vision of an all-encompassing Americana takes in blues, folk, country, Southern soul, riffs and psych on a set that rolls effortlessly while rocking…

What can you tell us about the home studio you set up for this LP? I’ve produced a lot of records in our home. We have loads of vintage gear and mics in a beautiful space. And we didn’t use any of it to this record. There was too much baggage attached. Instead we moved a few pieces to a tiny corner of our bedroom. It was uncomfortable and imposed limitations, but I don’t see that as a negative. There were also three dogs and a cat always inches away from the mics all of the time. That helped. That space seems very prominent on the record, down to the title. The title reflects the personal breakdown informing our 10-plus-year hiatus. For 10 years I busied myself making music with…

TANGERINE DREAM In Search Of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973–1979 UMC-VIRGIN REISSUE OF THE MONTH 8/10 IN recent years, Tangerine Dream have enjoyed something of a raised profile: Survive’s music for the hugely popular Stranger Things, for example, leans heavily on the ever-shifting German group’s early ’80s scores, and last December’s interactive Black Mirror episode “Bandersnatch” at one point allowed the viewer to decide whether the main character purchased Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra or Isao Tomita’s The Bermuda Triangle; your choice determined the soundtrack for the protagonist’s nightmarish mental unravelling later on. Yet this isn’t the usual story of cult legends finally getting their dues. Tangerine Dream have been firmly in the zeitgeist before: 1974’s Phaedra, their first LP for Virgin, sold impressively well, breaching the UK Top 20. Edgar Froese…

JACK BRUCE Live At Rockpalast 1980/1983/1990 WDR 6/10 A mixed and sprawling bag of German concert performances Since taking to the air in 1974, Rockpalast has become an institution on German TV, broadcasting live performances from different venues around the country. Bruce’s three appearances on the show between 1980 and 1993 are presented here across five discs, starting with a concert with a stellar band of jazz-rock titans that included Billy Cobham, David Sancious and Clem Clempson. The lineup had just recorded the album I’ve Always Wanted To Do, and the quartet show off their chops playing seven of the album’s 10 songs, including the complex jazz-rock patterns of the 13-minute “Bird Alone”. The virtuosity is impressive, but inevitably it’s Bruce’s old Cream showpieces such as “White Room” and “Sunshine…

Next month sees new work from The Flaming Lips, The Black Keys, Mega Bog, Jesca Hoop and Lloyd Cole, the latter going fully electronic with Guesswork . 75 Dollar Bill also return with their north African-inspired grooves, while David Berman is back as Purple Mountains. In the cavernous world of archival releases, we’ll be dusting off music by the Grateful Dead, Ian Dury, Sigur Rós, David Bowie and Iggy Pop, while Billy Childish’s entire career is celebrated with Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot: 1977–2018 . TOM.PINNOCK@TI-MEDIA.COM…

XERXES The Great was a Persian king in the 400s BC who launched a failed invasion of Greece – but that’s not where Jake Xerxes Fussell’s name originates. “I was actually named after DX Gordy. Dorris Xerxes. He was a traditional potter who was close friend of my parents and a mentor to my dad. I knew him as a kid growing up. He had his pottery shop up in Merriweather County, Georgia. A very kind, soft-spoken person, but immensely knowledgeable about all kinds of stuff. In addition to being a potter, he was a herbalist, a self-taught builder, and a chemist. He died when I was 13 or 14. “I’ve never met another Xerxes, but it’s a name that was around. Hardly anybody ever called me that, although some…

A LIFELONG film fanatic, Gallagher contemplated a side career in acting. Roddy Doyle had used him as a template for the young gunslinger who breaks the mould in his 1987 novel The Commitments. When the 1991 film was in production, Gallagher met director Alan Parker to discuss a screen test for another role, that of seasoned saxophonist “Joey The Lips”, who would be recast as an older guitar player. “It was manna from heaven,” says Donal Gallagher. “I was trying to find a vehicle to get Rory off the road, and this could completely change his life. I eventually got him to go for a coffee and chat it through with Alan. He came out after and said, ‘I’ve given them Van’s number…’ I thought, ‘What the fuck!’”…

THERE have long been rumours of a “lost” Tin Machine album. Tentative plans were made to record a third studio effort, but the band’s split put paid to that. Instead, many of the unheard recordings (some of which have fetched up on bootlegs, with titles like “It’s A Hit”, “Exodus” and “It’s Tough”) seem to originate from the sessions for Tin Machine and Tin Machine II. “There are eight to 10 songs, left over from the first and second albums, that were finished but not mastered,” reveals Reeves Gabrels. “Plus there’s another 10 live songs that were supposed to be included on Oy Vey, Baby and even more stuff if you want to go deeper into the archives. There’s a lot of Tin Machine stuff that never saw the light…

BEATS Directed by Brian Welsh Starring Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald Opens May 17 Cert 18 9/10 BIRDS OF PASSAGE Directed by Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego Starring Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta Opens May 17 Cert 15 9/10 THUNDER ROAD Directed by Jim Cummings Starring Jim Cummings, Nican Robinson Opens May 31 Cert 15 8/10 HALSTON Directed by Frédéric Tcheng Starring Liza Minnelli, Marisa Berenson Opens June 7 Cert Unconfirmed 8/10 LATE NIGHT Directed by Nisha Ganatra Starring Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling Opens June 7 Cert 15 7/10…

THE FLAMING LIPS King’s Mouth BELLA UNION Mick Jones narrates a typically fried story about a giant king whose head absorbs the universe; also doubles as Coyne & co’s  finest collection of songs since Yoshimi… MATTSON 2 Paradise COMPANY San Diego twins in the orbit of Toro Y Moi and Money Mark add dazed vocals to their supremely chilled slacker jazz. Think Gabor Szabo guesting with Real Estate. VIOLENT FEMMES FEAT. TOM VERLAINE “Hotel Last Resort” PIAS Two vinegary US art-punk institutions exchange withering glances on the Femmes’ new album: “I don’t laugh, but I chortle/When I pass by the gym.” PETER CAT RECORDING CO. Bismillah PANACHE No, it will not let you go. Addictively dreamy and occasionally profane postmodern crooning from  New Delhi’s answer to…

BILL CALLAHAN Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest DRAG CITY ALBUM OF THE MONTH 9/10 Pasture prime: smog lifts over the Bob Dylan of dysfunction. By Jim Wirth BILL CALLAHAN’S parents were national security operatives – language analysts; secrecy is in his blood. While he has produced a huge catalogue of supremely affecting music in the past 30 years, Maryland’s master of minimalism could never be accused of oversharing. Over 17 albums – the first 11 as Smog, the latter six under his own name – the 52-year-old has developed an uncanny knack of speaking volumes by giving very little away, his songs an inscrutable mix of allegory, desert-dry humour and plausible personal deniability. The mildly prurient fascination in the indie community with his past romantic dalliances – with the late…

1 Heroes 2 Post Requisite 3 Heroes In A Half Shell 4 More feat. Anderson .Paak 5 Capillaries 6 Burning Down The House feat. George Clinton 7 Spontaneous feat. Yukimi Nagano/Little Dragon 8 Takashi 9 Pilgrim Side Eye 10 All Spies 11 Yellow Belly feat. Tierra Whack 12 Black Balloons Reprise feat. Denzel Curry 13 Fire Is Coming feat. David Lynch 14 Inside Your Home 15 Actually Virtual feat. Ishmael Butler of Shabazz Palaces 16 Andromeda 17 Remind U 18 Say Something 19 Debbie Is Depressed 20 Find Your Own Way Home 21 The Climb feat. Thundercat 22 Pygmy 23 9 Carrots feat. Toro y Moi 24 FF4 25 Land Of Honey feat. Solange 26 Thank U Malcolm 27 Hot Oct. Produced by: Steven Eliison Recorded at: Flying Lotus’s studio,…

1 I Want Your Dreams 2 Once Is Enough 3 Heavenly Day 4 Love Comes On Silent Feet 5 The Power Is In You 6 Believe In Nothing 7 War Plan Red 8 48 Crash 9 Walking In Berlin 10 Love’s Inferno 11 Master Of Destruction 12 Carousel Produced by: Jamie Perrett Recorded at: Snap Studios, London Personnel: Peter Perrett (guitar, vocals), Jamie Perrett (guitar), Peter Perrett Jr (bass), Jenny Maxwell (synthesiser, viola, backing vocals), Lauren Moon (keys, drums, backing vocals), Jake Woodward (drums)…

TANGERINE DREAM Alpha Centauri OHR, 1971 The group’s second album  was, as the title suggests, an interstellar opus. Synths were out of their reach in ’71, so organs, guitars and flutes were fed through tape delay units for some sublime cosmic textures. 8/10 EDGAR FROESE Epsilon In Malaysian Pale VIRGIN, 1975 Inspired by visits  to Malaysia and Australia, Froese’s second solo album – very much out of print – is suitably steamy and bucolic. Mellotrons abound on the verdant title track, which takes up the whole of Side One. 8/10 PETER BAUMANN Romance 76 VIRGIN, 1976 Still only 23, Baumann looked  outside the confines of TD for his first solo album, even enlisting musicians from the Munich Philharmonic for the “Meadow Of Infinity” suite. 6/10 TANGERINE DREAM Quantum Gate EASTGATE,…

“It’s about nowism – it’s a bit eclectic!” is how Nic Jones explains “Now”, one of two newly recorded songs on Topic’s An Introduction To Nic Jones. “Now is neither past nor future but somewhere in between. That’s the time we always are.” Being in the moment has been Jones’s thing since a 1982 road accident ended his career. Living quietly in Devon, he spends his days, “Thinking. Playing the guitar occasionally. Reading. Watching the snooker.” However, his reputation – based upon 1980’s extraordinary Penguin Eggs and his deleted 1970s albums – remains huge, albeit somewhat mystifying to the master trad-rearranger himself: “It’s amazing rather than pleasing. I’ve been down here for years doing nothing, and if people still like the records, great!” Accompanied by his son Joe, Jones made…

“I’M a YouTube addict,” confesses Jake Xerxes Fussell. The folk singer is sitting at one of the brightly coloured tables at Cocoa Cinnamon, a Mexican coffeeshop that he declares the best in Durham, North Carolina. Nursing a mug of strong coffee, he’s explaining how he finds the old folk tunes that he has been arranging and recording for five years now. He has a nearly encyclopedic grasp of various strains of musical tradition in the southeastern United States, but mainly he finds his material just surfing the web, dialling up YouTube videos, and seeing what sticks with him once he’s off the computer. “I listen to a lot of old songbooks, and I’ll even go to physical archives and look through collections out of a genuine curiosity about things,” he…

IT’S a six-minute straight shot down 8th Avenue from Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio to Berry Hill, Tennessee, a cosy little neighbourhood smack in the middle of Nashville. Less than a mile square, with its own postcode and cemetery – George Jones, Porter Wagoner and Tammy Wynette are among the residents – Berry Hill is a mix of yoga studios, junk shops, doll’s-house furniture makers, tax advisers and craft stores, all housed in folksy ’40s-era cottages. Nestled along Franklin Pike, there is Athens Family Diner – an unassuming Greek restaurant where Auerbach and Patrick Carney, his co-conspirator in The Black Keys, have chosen to unveil “Let’s Rock” – their first album since 2014’s Turn Blue . But first, there are more pressing matters to attend to. “What are you…

DAN: What can I tell you about Patrick? Well, if he weren’t the drummer in The Black Keys, I’d hire him as the manager. Nobody knows more about percentage and dates and years and numbers. All the rules and laws of the music business. All that shit. He’s freakish with his recall. He can tell you what dates we played, and where and how many people showed up. I would say he’s the historian of our band, and all that stuff about him stalking Devo? All true. He says what he means. I mean, sometimes he’s full of shit, but he says what he feels at the moment and he puts it out there. He’s very opinionated and highly intelligent. PATRICK: What can I say about Dan? Well if he…

“THERE were very few opportunities in the late ’70s to have what I would call a daily commune with creativity. Our outlets were either music, most of which came from our older siblings, or going to the local library and getting books out. We naturally gravitated to that darker side – Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast novels, Camus, Kafka, some science fiction as well, like Brian Aldiss’s Barefoot In The Head. We generally liked anything that was unusual! We were lucky because with quite a few people we knew, their parents were a bit like that too, so they would encourage us. It was almost a perfect storm – we were unwillingly or willingly being moulded into something!”…

“I CAN’T imagine anyone producing a body of work like this again,” says bassist Steve Hanley, who appeared on more Fall albums – 18 – than anybody bar singer Mark E Smith, before exiting after an onstage punch-up in 1998. “When I left I thought that would be it, but he kept it going for another 20 years. Amazing.” Through 31 studio albums, 50-odd musicians and innumerable record labels, the music kept evolving, taking in post-punk, krautrock, northern rockabilly, electronics and a kazoo. The Fall were never mainstream – but by the time Smith’s death in January 2018 made the national news, this revered group occupied a unique position in British culture. “The Fall are like a musical Rorschach test,” says Brix Smith Start, the group’s 1980s-era guitarist. “It taps…

“I’m one of those black people who can’t dance,” writes Roger. “I just jump around…” JERRY Dammers was apt to remind “Ranking” Roger Charlery that the first time the 2-Tone kingpin saw him, the 16-year-old was toasting gamely over the Angelic Upstarts Oi! anthem “I’m An Upstart”. It is an image that sums up the have-a-go spirit of The Beat’s emcee, who died of cancer in March, a few weeks after completing his autobiography, I Just Can’t Stop It. One of Birmingham’s few black punks, he impressed The Beat with his U-Roy-savvy stage patois (despite being of St Lucian rather than Jamaican extraction) while playing for a rival band; singer Dave Wakeling drafted him in and gave him a home at a time when Roger was living in a bail…

ROCKETMAN OPENS MAY 22 Elton John – for it is he – hopes for some Queen magic in an extravagant biopic. JOHN McENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION OPENS MAY 24 Documentary set at the final of the 1984 French Open between tennis giants McEnroe and Ivan Lendl. GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS OPENS MAY 29 He comes to crush puny humans! Charles Dance, no less, is among the very scared. THE BLUE ANGEL OPENS MAY 31 Welcome reissue for von Sternberg’s 1930 melodrama that launched Marlene Dietrich to global stardom. X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX OPENS JUNE 5 One day, there will be no more Marvel films. Think on that. LIAM GALLAGHER: AS IT WAS OPENS JUNE 5 Documentary about that guy, as he does his thing. Warning: possibly involves some…

PINK FLOYD THE WALL HARVEST/COLUMBIA, 1979 I saw the movie, and that was my first experience of Pink Floyd. I was in early high school and I went to see it with friends, without any context or knowing what it would be. It was a pretty overwhelming, socio-politically charged piece of art for a little suburban freshman – it made an impact. I honestly think it was the first time I ever thought about World War II! That got me into the actual Floyd albums. VARIOUS ARTISTS JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR DECCA/MCA/DECCA BROADWAY, 1970 I was so young when I heard this, over and over again – my parents played it a lot when I was probably about three. It introduced me to the idea of the album as a true…

Attention all 21st century schizoid men! As they celebrate their 50th anniversary, we present the Ultimate Music Guide to King Crimson. In shops now, it features deep new writing on the band’s work and that of their mainstay Robert Fripp, as well as some surprisingly sexual archive features. Yes, you read that correctly… On May 24, we’ll be presenting the next volume of our Ultimate Record Collection, this time focusing on 1970-1974. More than 500 great LPs appraised, with longer looks at the careers of Joni Mitchell, Bob Marley, Can, James Brown, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Pink Floyd and many more besides… One of Uncut’s favourite European festivals, Le Guess Who?, has unveiled its curators for the 2019 edition, taking place on November 7-10 in Utrecht. Fatoumata Diawara, Jenny Hval, Patrick…

1 PJ HARVEY The Sandman We start off this month with one of Polly Harvey’s finest songs in years. However, as it’s taken from her soundtrack to Ivo van Hove’s new production of All About Eve, Gillian Anderson is handling vocals on this eerie ballad – surprisingly well, too. Full review on p22. 2 BLACK PEACHES Fire In The Hole From the sublime to the ridiculous, with this excellent rock juggernaut from Londoner Rob Smoughton’s crew. With its massed percussion, epic length and duelling guitars, it sounds like James Murphy if he’d got into the Allmans instead of ESG. Read our lead review on p36. 3 PETER PERRETT Once Is Enough Art-rock’s lost boy returns (again) with his second solo album of the century. Here, he’s focusing…

1 Shepherd’s Welcome 2 Black Dog On The Beach 3 Angela 4 The Ballad Of The Hulk 5 Writing 6 Morning Is My Godmother 7 747 8 Watch Me Get Married 9 Young Icarus 10 Released 11 What Comes After Certainty 12 Confederate Jasmine 13 Call Me Anything 14 Son Of The Sea 15 Camels 16 Circles 17 When We Let Go 18 Lonesome Valley 19 Tugboats And Tumbleweeds 20 The Beast Recorded and mixed by: Brian Beattie Recorded at: Wonder Chamber, Austin, Texas Personnel: Bill Callahan (vocal, gtr, harm, kalimba, keys, perc, bowed psaltery and banjo), Brian Beattie (bass, perc, keys, marimbola), Matt Kinsey (gtr, perc), Adam Jones, Dony Wynn (drums), Gary Newcombe (lap steel), Hanly Banks Callahan, Tori Olds (bkvocals)…

Fresh from scooping a Grammy for My Way, his recent collection of Sinatra standards, Willie Nelson returns in June with Ride Me Back Home SONY LEGACY. It’s a reflective set featuring a small crop of new songs, co-written with longtime producer Buddy Cannon, balanced by covers of Billy Joel (“Just the Way You Are”), Guy Clark (“Immigrant Eyes” and “My Favourite Picture Of You”) and Mac Davis (“It’s Hard To Be Humble”, with sons Lukas and Micah Nelson). Intriguingly, too, Nelson reworks his own “Stay Away From Lonely Places”, initially cut in 1972. Nelson is also among the starry cast on Rodney Crowell’s Texas, which sees the  singer-songwriter return to his Lone Star roots. Other guests include Billy Gibbons, Lee Ann Womack, Steve Earle, Ringo Starr and Lyle Lovett. Due…

It’s good to have you back and working at a fast clip. What are the themes that inform your songs on Humanworld ? The word “themes” suggests premeditation. Thought processes that become increasingly fractured, result in the reactive rather than the conceptual. Reacting to the stimuli of random input – informed by idiosyncratic life experiences… So the themes are personal and observational. Hopefully, words that sound good. No meaning. Life has lost its meaning. I was recently listening to your ’90s live album with The One, Hearts On Fire . It’s a great performance. What’s the live experience like now? In the ’70s and then, very briefly, in the ’90s, playing live was everything to me. The “live experience” has a very different dynamic now, compared to 20 years ago…

1 Breakdown On 20th Avenue South 2 Feast Of The Dead 3 Everything Is Your Fault 4 Unused Heart 5 I’m Gonna Make You Love Me 6 Til The Stardust Comes Apart 7 Underneath The Sky 8 Spittin’ On Fire 9 Secret 10 War Child 11 Thoughts At 2AM 12 Storm Of Kisses Produced by: Buddy Miller, Julie Miller Personnel: Julie Miller (vocals, guitar, hurdy gurdy), Buddy Miller (guitars, vocals), Marco Giovino (drums, percussion), Brady Blade (drums), Rick Plant (bass), Steve Hindalong (drums, percussion)…

Are there genres from which you’d resist borrowing? Nothing’s out of bounds, but it has to make sense. I don’t write with the aim of mashing together two things just for the novelty. Being a white man who grew up in south London in the ’90s, it might seem strange the music that’s influenced me most was made on the other side of the pond, or south of the equator. But London is such a mélange of cultures I can’t help but be influenced by my neighbours. I also try to draw parallels between disparate elements: a samba beat with a pedal steel, African guitar styles with prog-rock or jazz-fusion time signatures. After all, bossa nova and new wave mean the same thing. Do you have reservations about mixing music…

ULTRA DELUXE BOXSET CD 1: Phaedra CD 2 & 3: November 1973 – Phaedra outtakes volume one CD 4 & 5: Live At The Victoria Palace Theatre, London – June 16, 1974 CD 6: Oedipus Tyrannus CD 7 & 8: Live at the Rainbow, London – October 27, 1974 CD 9: Rubycon CD 10 & 11: The Royal Albert Hall, London – April 2, 1975 CD 12: Ricochet CD 13: Stratosfear CD 14: Encore CD 15: Cyclone CD 16: Force Majeure Blu-ray 1: Phaedra and Oedipus Tyrannus Blu-ray 2: Ricochet remastered; Tangerine Dream At Coventry Cathedral – concert film; Signale aus der Schwäbischen Strasse – German TV documentary…

How’d you get involved with the Time Fades Away tour? Neil wanted to go on the road and he gave me some money to build a truck. I said, “I want a truck with real fidelity.” So I go and pick out a new console and I say, “Ship it to Nashville!” We put it in the truck and went out on the road. We hear some of the tapes and Neil is, like, beyond belief. What was the vibe like? That was a rough tour because [ Neil ] didn’t like the drummer. He didn’t like this, he didn’t like that. He was doing a lot of substance abuse.  It was a troubled tour. But the sounds were great. How did the Time Fades Away album come about? Neil…

Discs 1 and 2 SIR Rehearsals, New York Disc 3 Seacrest Motel rehearsals, Falmouth, MA Discs 4 and 5 Memorial Auditorium, Worcester, MA Discs 6 and 7 Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA Discs 8 and 9 Boston Music Hall, afternoon show Discs 10 and 11 Boston Music Hall, evening shows Discs 12 and 13 Forum de Montreal, Canada Disc 14 Bonus Disc – rare performances Personnel: Bob Dylan (vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica), Joan Baez (vocals, guitar), Joni Mitchell (vocals), Roger McGuinn (guitar, vocals), Ramblin’ Jack Elliott (vocals, guitar), Allen Ginsberg (vocals, finger cymbals) Guam: Bobby Neuwirth (guitar, vocals), Scarlet Rivera (violin), T Bone Burnett (guitar, vocals), Steven Soles (guitar, vocals), Mick Robson (guitar), David Mansfield (steel guitar, mandolin, violin, dobro), Rob Stoner (bass, vocals), Howie Wyeth (drums, piano), Luther Rix…

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL (PARADISE OF BACHELORS, 2015) Fussell’s solo debut introduces an artist sensitive to the variety of US folk traditions and to the people who created them. Among his best-known songs is “Raggy Levy”, which Jake’s father Fred counts among his favorites: “It was a song he learned from  an old friend of ours in the Georgia Sea Island Singers. I didn’t know he had anything to do with the song until Prairie Home Companion was here in Columbus. He performed it on the show, and I was really surprised.” 8/10 WHAT IN THE NATURAL WORLD PARADISE OF BACHELORS, 2017 Fussell’s second album follows sailors on the high seas, canyoneers hiking far from civilisation, and miners digging deep into the earth. “There was a lot of stuff on that…

Daniel Gallagher guides Uncut through Blues , a new anthology of unreleased performances, split into electric, acoustic and live discs “WE did a deal a while back with Universal. After getting his catalogue out there again, the next step was a new release with as much unreleased material as we could put together. We went through the tape archive, all these unlabelled boxes, to see what was there and started digitising stuff. It was really fun. There was one that said Van Morrison was guesting on the track, but it turned out he was just in the studio while they were recording. For a minute I thought we had Van singing! We ended up with quite a lot of material, but I wanted something that crystallised Rory’s blues moments. Live-wise,…

THE BIG COME UP ALIVE RECORDS, 2002 The Keys take their sneering Midwestern primitivism and updated blues standards out of the basement into the modern world, with eight original tracks and five covers that crackle with dark energy. Standout: “I’ll Be Your Man”. THICKFREAKNESS FAT POSSUM RECORDS, 2003 Recorded in a single 14-hour session in Carney’s basement, their second album includes terrific covers of blues hero Junior Kimbrough and The Kingsmen’s Richard Berry. “Midnight In Her Eyes” could have been on Side Two of Funhouse. RUBBER FACTORY FAT POSSUM RECORDS, 2004 More streamlined and direct than its predecessors, Rubber Factory demonstrates a more foursquare rock sound that unexpectedly soars towards a Hendrix-ian ideal and lyrics that feel like they’ve tumbled out of a fevered sleep. “10 AM Automatic” is a…

THREE IMAGINARY BOYS FICTION, 1979 The post-punk debut. It has its moments, such as the title track and “10.15 Saturday Night” – but the band’s true nature has yet to emerge. The US version, Boys Don’t Cry, added the band’s debut single, the Camus-channelling “Killing An Arab”, and “Boys Don’t Cry” itself. 7/10 SEVENTEEN SECONDS FICTION, 1980 The gloom descends on the group’s second album, a taut masterpiece that found them experimenting with electronics, drum treatments and more. There are even two keyboard-led instrumentals – but the album highlights are the propulsive “A Forest” and “Play For Today”. 8/10 FAITH FICTION, 1981 Even more gothic than its predecessor, the funereal Faith expanded the band’s horizons, from the duelling basses of “Primary” to the gorgeous despair of “All Cats Are Grey”.…

THE prospect of working with David Bowie, or any other major star for that matter, never fazed Hunt and Tony Sales. The sons of American comedian, actor and TV personality Soupy Sales, they grew up surrounded by heavy-duty showbiz. “I was drinking with Frank Sinatra in New York when I was 16 years old,” recalls elder brother, Tony. “Frank was a friend of the family. And Dean Martin’s son, Deano, was my best friend when I was 12. We used to ride motorcycles out in LA and Beverly Hills. Hunt was nine and I was 12 when we played our first gig together.” Adds Hunt, whose first ever solo album, Get Your Shit Together, has just been released: “If you’ve hung out with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis and…