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A look back at Bob Dylan’s landmark debut album

Bob Dylan had a joke he wanted to tell the crowd at Gerde’s Folk City. It was 1961, and he had only just started booking gigs at the Italian restaurant and folk joint, which was already the epicentre of the Greenwich Village music scene. Dylan usually took the stage in work pants, a denim shirt and his Dutch Boy cap, his harmonica braced around his neck, and he addressed crowds in an exaggerated Okie accent, dropping consonants at the end of words. ORDER NOW: Paul McCartney is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut “He was still mainly...
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Irma Thomas Full Time Woman: Lost Cotillion Album

One of the truly great voices of Southern soul, New Orleans’ Irma Thomas never quite broke through and achieved the kind of success of peers like Aretha Franklin. It’s instructive to ponder why that’s the case: while she had chart hits in the USA during the ’60s, there was maybe something a little too left-field in some of Thomas’ song choices, and while she’s recently started to receive wider recognition for her achievements – her 1964 recording of Jerry Ragovoy’s “Time Is On My Side” was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame last year – there’s still much...
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Son House Forever On My Mind

When Son House returned to performing in the 1960s, he played “Death Letter” so often it became his signature tune. It was a highlight of every setlist, and sometimes he’d run through it multiple times during a show, as though something within the song eluded him. He sang it like he had to puzzle something out or find some dark secret at the song’s core, which made every performance sound slightly different. He would invert the guitar riff, reorder the verses, change the lyrics, borrow from different sources, vary the tempo: sometimes fast and jumpy, sometimes slow and languorous....
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Paris, 13th District

Usually associated with crime-related drama (A Prophet, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Dheepan), writer-director Jacques Audiard has been French cinema’s most consistent contemporary auteur. But he recently took a sidestep with an English-language Western, The Sisters Brothers, and for his latest film he’s trying something different again. The French title is Les Olympiades – after a high-rise project in southern Paris’s 13th arrondissement which provides the film’s setting. ORDER NOW: Paul McCartney is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut This is a comedy-drama of 21st-century sexual and social manners, set among the young local residents. Emilie...
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Midlake For The Sake of Bethel Woods

It’s been well over eight years since their last album, 2013’s Antiphon, which is a high-risk absence even for a cultish band like Midlake. The interim, however, has been busy with family life and various members’ projects: guitarist Joey McClellan, keyboard player/flautist Jesse Chandler and vocalist/bandleader Eric Pulido all released solo LPs, as well as teaming up with Ben Bridwell, Fran Healy, Alex Kapranos, Jason Lytle and bandmate McKenzie Smith to record an LP as BNQT. ORDER NOW: Paul McCartney is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut If these experiences helped recalibrate and fortify a Midlake in...
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Watch Mavis Staples and Levon Helm perform “You Got To Move”

Mavis Staples and the estate of Levon Helm have announced details of a new album, Carry Me Home. The album will be released by ANTI- Records on May 20. Below, you can watch a promo for “You Got To Move” – a gospel and blues standard also recorded by artists including Mississippi Fred McDowell and the Rolling Stones. ORDER NOW: Paul McCartney is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut Advertisement Recorded in Levon Helm Studios at Woodstock during the summer of 2011, the set turned out to be one of Helm’s final recordings before his death on...
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Khruangbin’s Laura Lee My Life In Music

From Uncut’s 300th issue, bassist Laura Lee chooses the grooves that helped make Khruangbin cratedigger rock sensations. Read more in Uncut 300 – available now for home delivery from our online store. THE BEATLES REVOLVER PARLOPHONE, 1966 We had all the Beatles cassettes on rotation in the car growing up. I actually taught myself to read from the liner notes – you think about it, “Love Me Do”, they’re all kinda short words! But my Beatles record was Revolver. Still today, every time we record an album I always go back and listen to Revolver because it’s such a...
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The Rolling Stones announce 60th anniversary tour dates

The Rolling Stones have announced details of their 60th anniversary tour dates. ORDER NOW: Paul McCartney is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut The tour – called, perhaps unsurprisingly, SIXTY – includes two shows as part of American Express presents BST Hyde Park on Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, July 3. Advertisement The tour comprises fourteen shows in 10 countries including the band’s first gig in Liverpool in over 50 years. The full run of dates are: JUNE Wednesday, June 1 – Wanda Metropolitano Stadium, Madrid, Spain Sunday, June 5 – Olympic Stadium, Munich, Germany Thursday, June...
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Pink Floyd and David Gilmour remove music from streaming services in Russia, Belarus

Pink Floyd and David Gilmour are removing their music from streaming services in Russia and Belarus to show their support for Ukraine. ORDER NOW: Paul McCartney is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut Ukraine officially severed diplomatic ties with Russia and declared martial law after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an attack on the neighbouring nation on February 24. At the time of writing, the Russian invasion has killed at least 549 citizens, including 41 children. 957 civilians have also been injured. Pink Floyd have removed all their music from 1987 onwards to stand in solidarity with Ukraine,...
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Bobbie Nelson, Willie Nelson’s sister and bandmate, has died

Bobbie Nelson, Willie Nelson’s sister and bandmate, has died aged 91. Bobbie was the pianist in the original line-up of the Willie Nelson Family band and had recently co-authored two books with her brother. Bobbie died on March 10 and news of her passing was confirmed in a family statement. Advertisement “Her elegance, grace, beauty and talent made this world a better place,” the statement from the Nelson family began. “She was the first member of Willie’s band, as his pianist and singer. Our hearts are broken and she will be deeply missed. But we are so lucky to...
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