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“A true original”

MICHAEL NESMITH | 1942-2021

I’m your woman

Sharon Robinson, the key collaborator from Leonard Cohen’s final act, prepares her own tribute

“I’m still as idealistic as ever”

UK Americana Awards-winner Lucinda Williams on relearning the guitar for her new album

A QUICK ONE

Can I have some of your attention? With

Read about Swell Maps!

A new book finds Jowe Head tending to the legacy of the punk-era eccentrics

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On the stereo this month... DESTROYER Labyrinthitis BELLA

"Accepting change is really important"

AN AUDIENCE WITH ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD

THE UNCUT GUIDE TO THIS MONTH’S KEY RELEASES

BLACK COUNTRY PATHWAYS

HOW TO BUY

Q&A

Tyler Hyde and Charlie Wayne on social media mythologising, and what’s next for BCNR

SPIRITUALIZED

Everything Was Beautiful

AtoZ

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ANAÏS MITCHELL

Anaïs Mitchell

BAS JAN

Bas Jan with Serafina Steer (far left) Serafina

AMERICANA

Album of the month

KEELEY FORSYTH

Why the singer is pursuing a “harder, colder” sound

MODERN STUDIES

Modern Studies: a beguiling weirdness remains PAUL MARR

BEACH HOUSE

Once Twice Melody

THE DELINES

The Sea Drift

SPOON

Singer/guitarist Britt Daniel strives to work “the

JEFF PARKER

Forfolks

BLOSSOMTOES

We Are Ever So Clean/If Only For A Moment

BLOSSOM TOES’ UNDERGROUND NETWORK

HOW TO BUY

Q&A

Brian Godding and Jim Cregan speak to Uncut about the rise and fall of Blossom Toes

BROADCAST

Maida Vale Sessions/Microtronics Vol 1 & 2/Mother Is The Milky Way

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STRANGE BREWS: BROADCAST’S RADIO MIXES

ONE of the highlights of Broadcast’s website was

ANDY IRVINE AND PAUL BRADY

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BIG MAMA THORNTON

Sassy Mama: Live At The Rising Sun Celebrity Jazz Club JUSTIN TIME/NETTWERK

THOMAS LEER & ROBERT RENTAL

The Bridge (reissue, 1979)

WAYLON JENNINGS

Love Of The Common People/Hangin’ On/Only The Greatest/Jewels (reissues, 1967/1968)

FLOWER POWER

Locked down in New Orleans during the pandemic, HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF’s restless creative spirit Alynda Segarra sought solace in the natural world. But while sampling plants, a Singing Tree and psychedelic exploration have helped her make sense of her own experiences, she believes her greatest adventures are yet to come. “I’m like the Fool in the tarot card deck, going out on my journey with my bindlestiff,” she tells Jaan Uhelszki

THE ROOTS OF LIFE ON EARTH

Three inspirations behind Alyna Segarra’s new album

NEW YORK STATE OF MIND

In March, a new exhibition opens to mark LOU REED’s 80th birthday. But what can we expect from a man who rarely wanted to discuss his past? Nick Hasted digs through the boxes of bar tabs, bootleg albums and… swords! And what does this trove tell us about future plans for unreleased music? “There are many plans to continue putting out Lou’s work,” reveals Laurie Anderson

MAGMA MIA

CATE LE BON has been busy chasing inspiration across continents – from a house owned by Gruff Rhys in Cardiff to Neil Young’s former retreat in Topanga Canyon. Her quest has led – metaphorically at least – to ancient Rome for her ambitious new album, Pompeii. But has the enigmatic art-rock outsider finally learned to be herself? “I’ve always flown totally under the radar,” she tells Tom Pinnock

Neat Neat Neat by The Damned

A raw, supercharged blast of punked-up garage rock, recorded live in a tiny studio: “It’s a short, sharp shock on record!” says Captain Sensible

Have Moicy!

Join us at the blackberry bushes, where MICHAEL HURLEY can be found cutting back the foliage deep in the Oregon wilderness. As the veteran folk singer prepares to release a new album, The Time Of The Foxgloves, he leads Stephen Deusner through his wild and idiosyncratic career – from Greenwich Village in the ’60s onwards. Stand by for many marvellous digressions, sundry gardening tips and a glimpse into “Snocko Time”. Oh, and Bob Dylan? “That’s a bad question.”

FROM W EREWOLV ES TO PORK CHOPS

How to buy… Michael Hurley

THE ENDLESS LOOP

Michael Hurley on his collection of eight-track tapes

Sunn O)))

Slow and low: drone titans lift their cowls

THE EARTH MOVES ON

Tapestry made CAROLE KING a global superstar and broke records around the world – but how do you top an album that defined a generation? Graeme Thomson charts King’s path through the rest of her creatively fecund ’70s, with help from her most trusted lieutenants. “Carole broke several glass ceilings with Tapestry – but she just kept going.”

CAROLE KING 1971–1976: A BU YER’S GUIDE

MUSIC (ODE, 1971) Love Tapestry? Then you’ll love

The Year Of Magical Thinking

Nearly four decades on from The Smiths’ debut single, JOHNNY MARR has made the most ambitious album of his career. After the seismic events of recent times, Fever Dreams Pts 1–4 mines qualities of optimism, empathy and collectiveness. But what do Syd Barrett, Sylvia Plath and Marr’s 11-year-old self have to do with it? Michael Bonner heads to Marr’s HQ outside Manchester to discover: “It’s all a work in progress. Everything is connected.”

BUYERS’ GUIDE

Do you want some Marr ?

I AM GRATEFUL TO THE RIFF GODS!”

Johnny Marr on 10 of his own favourite guitar lines

“HE’S LIKE MY BROTHER”

Nile Rodgers on Johnny Marr

INTRODUCING… FEVER DREAMING

CARY FAGAN; HOLLY WAHITAKER; ELY GREY; ANNA WEBBER

DAVE GAHAN & SOULSAVERS

London Coliseum, December 5

JANE WEAVER, MODERN STUDIES

Studio 9294, London, December 4

FILMS

An LA story; a film about film; Almodóvar in the maternity ward; Guillermo del Toro in the shadows…

BRIAN WILSON: LONG PROMISED ROAD

8/10

BOOK

TOURING America in the early 1980s, Simple Minds’

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month…

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One vinyl copy of Black Country, New Road’s Ants From Up There

Curt Smith

One half of Tears For Fears reveals his songs from the big chair: “No matter how famous you get, you can’t buy that emotion”

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