THE SPRINGSTEEN SONGBOOK

1 MITCH RYDER & THE DETROIT WHEELS DEVIL

ALTERED STATE

Forty years ago, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN released Nebraska, a lo-fi fever dream populated by troubled cops and serial killers, the lost and the lonely. The songs were a new kind of writing, with a depth that rendered his credibility “forever bulletproof”. But at the time, even Springsteen asked himself if, by releasing it, he was throwing everything away. “I got to wondering, What the hell am I doing?”

AMERICAN HORROR STORY

How Nebraska’s raw material – the Charles Starkweather murders – shocked a nation.

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING...

Theories, rants, etc.

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Forever Falling

Ethereal voice of mystery and dreams, Julee Cruise left us on June 9.

AUGUST 1972 …Wattstax hits Los Angeles

Soul not dole: (clockwise from above) and Black

Who went off-script?

Time to delve into this month’s rock-related queries, weird enigmas and tricky brain-teasers.

Remake Remodel Relisten

Win! A Belkin SoundForm Connect adapter and revitalise your hi-fi.

Dean Wareham and Galaxie 500

It began with three friends and a beautiful car. It ended with a very awkward phone call.

Cometh The Power

Fifty years on from Iggy & The Stooges at King’s Cross, Alec Byrne’s unseen images of the night.

COMIN’ SOON – DR. JOHN’S POSTHUMOUS VENTURE INTO COUNTRY ‘FONK’

Anutha zone: the late Dr. John and (above)

GRAHAM COXON AND ROSE ELINOR DOUGALL RIDE THE WAEVE

Oscillate wildly: meet hydro electric power duo Graham

TOM PAXTON

The Greenwich Village elder talks miracles, Phil Ochs and why the music never stops.

Ezra Furman

The Chicago indie-rocker salutes The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs (Merge, 1999).

AFTER MACCA’S HIT- PACKED GLASTONBURY, WHICH FABS SONGS HAVEN’T BEEN PLAYED?

P AUL McCARTNEY’s epic Saturday night set at

VOX CONTINENTAL KING AND SESSION ACE AUGIE MEYERS PUSHES ON

Suited and booted: The Sir Douglas Quintet (above,

JUMPSTART THE LOWRIDER! THEE SACRED SOULS HOTWIRE CHICANO SOUL FOR THE 2020s.

Easy ’riders: Thee Sacred Souls (from left) Sal

FROM FIDDLES TO FALCONRY – AMANDA SHIRES PREYS ON COUNTRY STEREOTYPES

THERE ARE times when Grammywinning Americana singer-songwriter Amanda

MOJO PLAYLIST

Get down! For the best lowlands rock, monorail twang and electro.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

With Pentangle, Nick Drake and John Martyn, he marked out virgin territory, before booze and the black dog bit. At 83, Battersea’s bass explorer has some ‘plonks’ left in him – but in what genre? “I’ve got no prejudices about music at all,” says Danny Thompson

IDYLLS OF THE KING

ALFRED WERTHEIMER’S CLASSIC IMAGES BE ELVIS IN 1956 HAVE BEEN HAILED AS SOME OF THE GREATEST ROCK’N’ROLL HOTOGRAPHS EVER. ROW A REMARKABLE REW BOOK COLLECTS THE BEST OF THEM: 'I WARTEB TO BE LIKE A GOOD PSYCHIATRIST,’’ WERTHEIMER MRSEO. "WITH A CAMERA.”

TAKE IT OR LEAVE

In The Runaways and with The Blackhearts, JOAN JETT fought for a woman’s right to rock. In 2022, disquiet over one man’s role in her rise casts a shadow, but should not tarnish her victories. “For women, it’s a no-win,” she tells VICTOR IA SEGAL . “You’ve got to make your own rules and follow them.”

A HISTORY OF VIOLINS

In 1982, Too-Rye-Ay marked DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS’ commercial peak. Soulful, irresistible, lucrative, nonetheless it left mainman IN ROWLANL with deep misgivings, over its mix and its authorship. Resolving both has taken 40 years of pain and soul-searching. “I can move on, finally,” he tells TED KESSLER

MOJO PRESENTS

‘Rapper’s Rapper Meets Super Producer!’ reads like a recipe for anticlimax. But DA NGER MOUSE and BL ACK THOUGHT ’s Cheat Codes team-up, marinading for 16 years, is the hip-hop chef d’oeuvre that reinvents old-school classicism for 2022. “You’re who this record is for!” they assure DORIAN LYNSKEY

FIRE IN BABYLON

BURNING SPEAR is the last liuing legend of roots reggae. Emerging from the pouerty of northern Jamaica a font of spirituality and Rfrocentric idealism, it took a mystical seaside epiphany and a chance meeting with Bob Harley for his path in music to be reuealed. "I don’t euen know where the lyrics came from," he tells DAVID KATZ. "But the lyrics did come.”

PROCOL HARUM TURN A WHITER SHADE OF PALE, 1967

As the Summer Of Love’s Aquarian energies proliferated across the globe, Southend’s finest former R&B group were there to furnish one of its most glorious and enigmatic variations. Rooted in Bach, a dope dealer’s Siamese cat and house party inebriation, their soulful, poetic masterpiece took the world by storm. Yet with a writing credit dispute waiting in the wings, they found it impossible to top. “A Whiter Shade Of Pale was perfect for the psychedelic times,” say band members, friends and onlookers. “But it did become a weight around their neck.”

VOICE OF AMERICA

A 20-PAGE CELEBRATION

Let’s get metaphysical

Does the body rule the mind or the mind rule the body? Californian singer-songwriter gets on the case with tenth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

Parallel Lives

Deep dive into the NY punk-pop trailblazers’ archive, including home tapes, lost gems and an embarrassment of hits.

Insider dealing

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The Gaia Sermon

Sprouting this month from rock obscuria’s compost heap, a folk/ jazz/synth eco-suite for the world.

Steve Albini

Big Black to Shellac, the Chicagoan iconoclast’s own recordings.

Some brothers do ’ave ’em

Second, more thoughtful autobiography from the younger Kink.

FILTER SCREEN

The Nowhere Inn ★★★★ Dir: Bill Benz WIENERWORLD.