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Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 16: Springtime in New York 1980 1985

Behold Bob Dylan’s ’80s, that blighted hour. No-one could really argue if you described it as largely a time of muddle and waste, lit up here and there by occasional flashes of the inspiration Dylan seemed previously to have had on speed dial but which was now mostly dodging his calls. The records he made then are testament to that – the versions of them he released, anyway. There were six studio albums across those years, and Springtime In New York – in its fullest iteration, a 5CD set with 57 tracks – focuses on the first three, Shot...
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Joan Shelley Ginko/Electric Ursa

After studying environment ethics and playing in coffee shops around Athens, Georgia, Joan Shelley returned to her native Kentucky in the late 2000s and embedded herself in the Louisville music scene. She found a place among a motley assortment of players steeped in punk and post-punk but bent on reassessing the region’s old-time traditions. They held all-night jam sessions that were lively and jubilant, and they helped sharpen Shelley’s playing and songwriting. First as one-third of the trio Maiden Radio (which also includes Julia Purcell and Cheyenne Marie Mize) and later as a solo artist, she imported the scene’s...
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Steely Dan/Donald Fagen Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!/Donald Fagen the Nightfly Live

Steely Dan have a well-deserved reputation as the ultimate studio band. During their 1970s heyday, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen became increasingly meticulous when it came to session musicians and state-of-the-art recording techniques, creating LPs that still stand as the epitome of sonic perfectionism for the era. That elevated level of craftsmanship always carried with it a healthy dose of irony, of course. Steely Dan’s records sounded perfect but the jaded, wasted and weird characters who populated the lyrics were the opposite. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of the November 2021 issue of Uncut Preferring the...
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Uncut exclusive: hear Margo Cilker’s new song, “That River”

Margo Cilker‘s upcoming debut Pohorylle has rarely been off the Uncut stereo recently, so we are delighted to premier a new track from the album – “That River“. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of Uncut’s November 2021 issue Speaking about the song, Oregon’s Cilker says: “The road from California across the Great Basin to Oregon has been travelled, often afoot, by countless Basque expatriates – so much so, that in the early twentieth century it was said most Basques in Spain could name only two American cities: New York and Winnemucca. I drove that road a...
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Listen to an extract from Can Live In Brighton 1975

The mnagnificent Can have announced details of the second instalment of their ongoing series of archival concert recordings. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of Uncut’s November 2021 issue Can Live In Brighton 1975 will be released on December 3 on limited edition triple gold vinyl and double CD, both packaged in a gatefold sleeve with accompanying booklet containing sleevenotes by Can biographer and Uncut contributor, Rob Young. You can watch an extract from “Sieben” below. Advertisement Following Can Live in Stuttgart 1975, this latest instalment has been overseen by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer /...
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The 8th Uncut New Music Playlist of 2021

With another fun-filled issue of Uncut at the printers – more news on that very soon – it’s high time for a new playlist, shining a light on some of the excellent music that helped us make it. Keep scrolling for tasters from the fine new albums by Dean Wareham and Bedouine, reliably uplifting sentiments from Courtney Barnett and Field Music, noisy interjections from a couple of grizzled indie supergroups, and Mogwai remixed by (half of) New Order. Plus plenty more goodness besides… DEAN WAREHAM “Cashing In” (Double Feature) Advertisement BEDOUINE “It Wasn’t Me” (The Orchard) COURTNEY BARNETT “Write...
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Johnny Cash’s live cover of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right” has been released to streaming

Johnny Cash’s live cover of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right” has been made available on streaming services for the very first time. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of Uncut’s November 2021 issue READ MORE: A Johnny Cash live album from 1968 is finally set to be released Taken from the Man in Black’s forthcoming live album, Bear’s Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash, At The Carousel Ballroom April 24, 1968, the 28-song set saw Cash performing with his then-new wife June Carter Cash and his backing band The Tennessee Three. Recorded by the late Owsley...
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Various Artists I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico

For many years, Hal Willner co-ordinated the music sketches on revered US TV sketch show Saturday Night Live. At other times he could be found curating multi-cast tributes to the work of songwriters such as Leonard Cohen, Charles Mingus, Kurt Weill and Thelonious Monk. Or convincing The Replacements to sing Disney tunes. Or soundtracking Robert Altman films. Or producing albums for Marianne Faithfull, Laurie Anderson and Allen Ginsberg. His skill was in the art of combination – matching artists to other artists, or to specific songs, certain sounds to other sounds, or to situations. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are...
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Whipping Boy Heartworm

On the face of it, Whipping Boy could have been huge stars. Formed in Dublin during the late ’80s as Spacemen 3/Loop/Mary Chain devotees, by the time of their second album, they had become accomplished songwriters and musicians, with a major label deal behind them. Heartworm presented a strong package – melodies, edge and verve – but what it didn’t have was timing. Released in November 1995, it got lost somewhere between (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? and Different Class. Heartworm maps an inward trajectory, where narrators have “lost my faith in all things good”, childhood reveries are framed...
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Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Where Monk was mysteriously interior and Coltrane beatific, Mingus was volcanic, a big, turbulent man who notoriously punched the embouchure and prospects of his trombonist Jimmy Knepper to bits, and regularly blew his own career stormily off-course. His autobiography Beneath The Underdog saw his music subsumed by wild pornographic excess, even a composing sanctum in a plush New York pad paid for by the tortured pimping of willing lovers. Where smack and a wounded liver were the crosses Coltrane’s genius bore, libido and temper were Mingus’, snagged at root on American racism’s barbed-wire, which sometimes made him feel that...
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