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Dec 19

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The Morning That I Get To Hell

In my post the other day about The Low Anthem’s Oh My God Charlie Darwin, I rattled off a few of the albums that have given me the most pleasure over the last twelve months or so. I’ve talked about some of them before, but one I haven’t mentioned, and should have, is the fabulous Nothing Gold Can Stay, by Felice Brothers frontman Simone Felice’s side-act, The Duke and The King. If you haven’t heard it, I strongly recommend dropping by their Myspace page and listening to a couple of tracks, because it’s gem of an album: more laid-back and gentle than the Felice Brothers proper, but suffused with amazing warmth and feeling, and layering soul and gospel over the usual Felice blend of backwoods folk and blues. I’ve pulled a couple of tracks from the album below, the debut single, ‘If You Ever Get Famous’, and a gorgeous live version of one of my favourite tracks, ‘The Morning That I Get To Hell’, but if you can track down the album proper down, do. You won’t be sorry.

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Oct 24

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Hang the DJ goes to America

To celebrate the US release of his delightfully idiosyncratic book of music lists, Hang the DJ, Angus Cargill is pulling together a series of songs and clips featuring some of his favourite American music. Today’s offering is ‘Roll on Arte’, by the incomparable Felice Brothers, and I’m sure tomorrow’s will be of an equal calibre, so if you’d like a tour of some bands and music you may not have heard before (and most definitely should) it might be worth keeping an eye on his site over the next week or two.

And if you haven’t got a copy of the book, track one down. It’s a wonderfully peculiar compilation of rants and raves about music from writers like DBC Pierre, Rick Moody and Ali Smith, and it’s not just a fascinating window into the musical likes and dislikes of a truly eclectic bunch of writers, it’s a lot of fun.

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