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On the cover: Freddie Mercury: © 1969-2022 Mick

Worth The Weight!

When Mavis Staples rejoined Levon Helm for an emotional rendition of his signature song

Prine movers

John Prine left a thriving legacy in the form of his label, Oh Boy Records

BEST OF THE WEST!

Uncut’s famous Sounds Of The New West compilation series comes to vinyl

Looks like rain…

Mud, madness and the Dead – celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Bickershaw Festival

A QUICK ONE

Take it easy! With the band about to

“Good stuff hangs around”

Now 85, minimalist titan Steve Reich – beloved of Bowie, Eno and Radiohead – just wants to keep writing music

SG Goodman

Southern songwriter makes a plea for empathy

UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month

Killer Cuts

15 tracks of the month’s best new music

AN AUDIENCE WITH... Nancy Sinatra

Much more than “Frank’s daughter who sang ‘Boots…’”, the ’60s icon talks Nancy & Lee, Kill Bill, Elvis, Sonic Youth and flooring her Ford Thunderbird

JOAN SHELLEY The Spur NO QUARTER

THE UNCUT GUIDE TO THIS MONTH’S KEY RELEASES

LOUISVILLE HIP

Essential Joan Shelley releases

WILCO

Cruel Country DBPM 9/10

Q&A

Jeff Tweedy on the pleasures of playing with “a smaller pile of instruments and gear”

ANDREW BIRD

Inside Problems LOMA VISTA 7/10 Indie auteur’s warm

THE BLACK CROWES

1972 AMAZON MUSIC/SILVER ARROW 7/10 Reunited brothers return

THE SMILE

A Light For Attracting Attention  XL  9/10

BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE

Fire Doesn’t Grow On Trees ARECORDINGS 8/10 Classic

CHASTITY BROWN

Sing To The Walls REDHOUSE 8/10 Multi-layered soul

JESSIE BUCKLEY & BERNARD BUTLER

For All the Days That Tear Our Hearts

ROSIE CARNEY

I Wanna Feel Happy COLORSTUDY 7/10 Widescreen studies

NICK CAVE

Seven Psalms CAVE THINGS 7/10 This is the

STEVE CRADOCK

Soundtrack To An Imaginary Movie ABSOLUTE 6/10 Intriguing

DELILUH

Fault Lines TIN ANGEL 8/10 Introspective, intense menace

JULIE DOIRON & DANY PLACARD

Julie & Dany SIMONE 7/10 Canadian duo get

THE DREAM SYNDICATE

Ultraviolet Battle Hymns And True Confessions FIRE 8/10 Paisley

CATRIN FINCH & SEIKOU KEITA

Echo BENDIGEDIG 8/10 LP three of global stringed

FOALS

Life Is Yours WARNER 6/10 Indie rockers turn

JONNY GREENWOOD

The Power Of The Dog OST INVADA 8/10 Score

BRUCE HORNSBY

“My world expanded,” explains the songsmith

DAVID GRUBBS & JAN ST WERNER

Translation From Unspecified BLUE CHOPSTICKS 8/10 Voice, guitar

SCOTT HARDWARE

Ballad Of A Tryhard TELEPHONE EXPLOSION 7/10 DIY

HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR

In Amber SKINT/BMG 8/10 Anohni returns as Andy

BRUCE HORNSBY

’Flicted ZAPPO 8/10 Jazz-pop veteran concludes experimental trilogy

BRIAN JACKSON

This Is Brian Jackson BBEMUSIC 9/10 Elegant soul-funk

VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ

Les Racines WORLDCIRCUIT 8/10

Q&A

“It’s in my blood,” says Vieux Farka Touré

ANGEL OLSEN

Big Time JAGJAGUWAR 8/10

Q&A

Angel Olsen: “I miss my friends a lot”

GLENN JONES

Vade Mecum THRILL JOCKEY 8/10 Generous, deftly played

KAVINSKY

Reborn FICTION 5/10 French synth ‘cyborg’ rebooted for

ELIZABETH KING

I Got A Love BIBLE & TIRE 8/10

L’EXOTIGHOST

Kamongo EVERLASTING 6/10 Second serving of Spanish exotica

MARY LATTIMORE & PAUL SUKEENA

West Kensington THREELOBED 8/10 The harpist and her

THE LORD

Forest Nocturne SOUTHERNLORD 7/10 Dark and doomy first

DYLAN MOON

Option Explore RVNG INTL 6/10 Bedroom producer’s sweetly

VAN MORRISON

What’s It Gonna Take? EXILEPRODUCTIONS/VIRGIN 6/10 Conspiracies and rhythm

CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE

Mississippi Son ALLIGATOR 8/10 A fine return to the

STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES

Jerry Jeff NEW WEST 8/10

GRAHAM NASH

Live PROPER 7/10 Fine set featuring Nash and

NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND

Dirt Does Dylan NGDB 6/10 Veteran country-rockers and

KELLY LEE OWENS LP.8

SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND 9/10 Surprise – and powerful –

PAPERCUTS

Past Life Regression SLUMBERLAND 8/10 Indie journeyman takes

TESS PARKS

And Those Who Were Seen Dancing FUZZ CLUB

EMMANUELLE PARRENIN

Targala, La Maison Qui N’en Est Pas Une

PERFUME GENIUS

Ugly Season MATADOR 7/10 Bracingly beautiful dance score

GRANT LEE PHILLIPS

All That You Can Dream YEP ROC 7/10

POLIÇA

Poliça: otherworldly Madness MEMPHISINDUSTRIES 8/10 Brooding, shimmering electronic

PORCUPINE TREE

Closure/Continuation MUSICFORNATIONS/SONY 7/10 Neo-prog standard bearers reconvene for

STEVE REICH

Reich/Richter NONESUCH 8/10 An abstract collaboration between composer

JORDAN REYES & ELI WINTER

Controlled Burning HUSKY PANTS 7/10 Guitar-and-electronics duo’s sensuous,

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS

Welcome 2 Club XIII ATO 8/10

Q&A

Patterson Hood: “It feels so raw”

KLAUS SCHULZE

Deus Arrakis SPV 8/10 Late kosmische pioneer’s (second) salute

SESSA

Estrela Acesa MEXICANSUMMER 8/10 Brazilian psych-folk time-traveller revisits

SHEARWATER

The Great Awakening POLYBORUS 8/10 Revived Texan band’s

THE SOUND OF SCIENCE

The Sound Of Science CASTLES IN SPACE 7/10

REGINA SPEKTOR

Home, Before And After WARNER 7/10 First in

DAVE STEWART

Ebony McQueen BAY STREET 7/10 Eurythmics man’s multi-format,

KELLEY STOLTZ

The Stylist AGITATED 7/10 Powerpop craftsman’s varied 17th

SUN’S SIGNATURE

Sun’s Signature PARTISAN 9/10 One-time Cocteau Twin returns

SUN’S SIGNATURE

Elizabeth Fraser and Damon Reece on the unlikely influences that fed into their long-gestating debut EP

URAL THOMAS & THE PAIN

Ural Thomas: still dancing at eighty something Dancing

YANN TIERSEN

11 5 18 2 5 18 MUTE 8/10

ROBIN TROWER

No More Worlds To Conquer PROVOGUE 7/10 Six-string

TULUUM SHIMMERING

A Distant Moon TULUUMSHIMMERINGRECORDS 8/10 Stargazing covers specialist

THE UTOPIA STRONG

International Treasure ROCKET 7/10 Snooker champion’s Weatherall-endorsed trio

DANIEL VILLARREAL

Panamá 77 INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM 8/10 Redefining Latin jazz

WARM

What Do The Stars Say To You NIGHT TIME

XPROPAGANDA

The Heart Is Strange ZTT 8/10 Welcome back

CURRENT 93

If A City Is Set Upon A Hill HOUSE OF MYTHOLOGY 8/10

JB DUNCKEL

Carbon PROTOTYP 8/10 Air man looks further into

SAULT

Air FOREVER LIVING ORIGINALS 7/10 Inflo pitches for

AL STEWART

REISSUES | COMPS | BOXSETS | LOST RECORDINGS

SLEEVE NOTES

CD1 Bedsitter Images– 1967 CD 2 Love Chronicles–

FREAK STREET

Key works from Al Stewart’s Les Cousins contemporaries

FRANK SINATRA

Watertown FRANK SINATRA ENTERPRISES/UME 8/10

THE ASSOCIATES

Sulk: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition UNION SQUARE 9/10

INTERESTING CONCEPT

Three notable Sinatra theme pieces

ALBERT AYLER

Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings

BARBARA KEITH

Barbara Keith (reissue, 1973) MAPACHE 8/10

Q&A

Barbara Keith: “We didn’t want to do all the reasonable things required”

WILLIAM BELL

Never Like This: The Complete “Blue” Stax Singles

DENNIS BOVELL

The Dubmaster: The Essential Anthology TROJAN/BMG 9/10 Blackbeard

THE CLASH

Combat Rock: The People’s Hall Special Edition SONY

JOHN COLTRANE

My Favorite Things: 60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition RHINO

KAREN DALTON

Karen Dalton: heady emotions Shuckin’ Sugar DELMORE RECORDING

ELTON JOHN

Madman Across The Water: 50th Anniversary UMC/EMI 8/10

IAIN MATTHEWS

I Can’t Fade Away: The Rockburgh Years, 1978–1984

PAT MATSHIKIZA & KIPPIE MOKETSI

Tshona! (reissue, 1975) WE ARE BUSY BODIES 8/10

PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION

Prince & The Revolution: live and deeply purple

SUZI QUATRO

The Rock Box 1973–1979 (The Complete Recordings) CHRYSALIS

THE ROLLING STONES

Live At El Mocambo UNIVERSAL 8/10 The Stones’

ARTHUR RUSSELL

Calling Out Of Context/ Instrumentals (reissues, 2004, 2017) ROUGHTRADE 9/10, 8/10

MICHAEL NESMITH

Tantamount To Treason Vol 1 (reissue, 1972) 7A 8/10

SEX PISTOLS

The Pistols: part of the rock canon The

NANCY SINATRA & LEE HAZLEWOOD

Nancy & Lee (reissue, 1968) LIGHT IN THE ATTIC

IURY LECH

Música Para El Fin De Los Cantos (reissue, 1990) WAH WAH SUPERSONIC SOUNDS 8/10

SOFT MACHINE

Facelift France And Holland CUNEIFORM 6/10 2CD and

SPIROGYRA

The Future Won’t Be Long: The Albums 1971-1973

RICHARD THOMPSON

Music From Grizzly Man NO QUARTER 9/10 The

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ban The Bomb: Music Of The Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear Marches

WOLFHOUNDS

Wolfhounds: angry inthe ’80s Bright And Guilty (reissue,

YO LA TENGO

I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

COMING NEXT MONTH...

N ina Nastasia returns with her first album

ANTHONY MOORE

Flying Doesn’t Help (reissue,1979) DRAG CITY 9/10 Weird

PAST THE SHADOWS

THE DELINES’ atmospheric blend of country soul balladry and hard-luck tales has reached stunning new heights with their latest album, The Sea Drift. Willy Vlautin and Amy Boone help Laura Barton join the dots between Richmond Fontaine, “low-level coke dealers” and “Rainy Night In Georgia”. Their secret? “We’re eavesdropping into people’s lives for moments at a time.”

THE ROAD TO THE SEA DRIFT

RICHMOND FONTAINE WE USED TO THINK THE FREEWAY

WHISTLING DIXIE

Willy Vlautin on the South

FIGHTING TALK!

For THE CLASH, the making of Combat Rock was a time of chaos and internal conflict. Yet 40 years on, its infectious mix of dub, funk, punk and hip-hop remains as glorious as ever. Here, collaborators, eyewitnesses, fans and contemporaries – including JIM JARMUSCH, DON LETTS, JULIEN TEMPLE, GLEN MATLOCK, PAUL COOK and MARK STEWART – celebrate the last hurrah of Strummer, Jones, Simonon and Headon. “Knowing them, and what they were trying to do,” we learn, “this is the classic Clash album.”

“THEY WANTED TO REMOVE HIS COLON”

Pennie Smith on shooting Combat Rock’s cover

TO HELL AND BACK

Horace Andy on the afterlife of “Straight To Hell”

FRAME BY FRAME

An excellent new documentary, made to mark the 50th anniversary of KING CRIMSON, may in fact commemorate the band’s “completion”. Uncut talks to Robert Fripp, King Crimson frontman Jakko Jakszyk and filmmaker Toby Amies to uncover a tale of bereavement, self-censorship and the importance of “getting out of the way of the music”. “It’s not 12-bar blues,” learns John Robinson

“A RARE SPIRIT”

Bill Rieflin, 1960–2020

THREE ESSENTIAL KING CRIMSON LINEUPS

KC in 1973: (l–r) Fripp, Bruford, David Cross,

Dennis Bovell

The garlanded dub guru and producer looks back at some landmark works

MEDWAY SKYLINE

Over the last 40 years, the freewheelin’ BILLY CHILDISH has produced a gargantuan body of work encompassing bracing R&B, blues-infused punk, raucous rockabilly, art, poetry and beyond. Currently, he is bringing his rough and rowdy ways to the BOB DYLAN songbook. But how does the Bard of Hibbing fare against Chatham’s very own Renaissance man? “‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’ is about the shortest song Dylan has ever done,” he tells Peter Watts. “So I wrote another 12 verses…”

ANOTHER SIDE...

Billy Childish: five of the best

Psychedelic Soul Man!

As the visionary architect behind “Ball Of Confusion” and “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone”, NORMAN WHITFIELD brought funk-rock revolution and racial protest to conservative Motown. But while he crafted groundbreaking hits for The Temptations, Marvin Gaye and others, Whitfield’s desire for creative control took him to war – with his artists, his label and even his boss, Berry Gordy. “Norman was a winner,” one eyewitness tells Nick Hasted. “But you can’t win all the time.”

NORMAN INVASION

Five Whitfield classics

‘A VERY POWERFUL ALBUM’

Norman Whitfield’s lost Four Tops LP

Sugarcube

In a studio converted for Elvis, the eclectic trio cook up an off-kilter noise-pop confection. Then the future Saul Goodman makes it famous…

BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT

Welcome to Uncut’s deep dive into QUEEN’s 30 greatest songs – from glam smashes to arena-sized anthems, deep cuts and more. Over the next eight pages, BRIAN MAY, ROGER TAYLOR and ADAM LAMBERT share with John Lewis tales behind the band’s thrilling body of work and celebrate the many career highs of their inimitable frontman FREDDIE MERCURY. Stand by for cameos from Groucho Marx, an Alfa Romeo and rock’s only known bicycle-bell solo, learn the secrets of “the Deaky box” and discover how The Who and Aretha Franklin proved to be unlikely influences on the band’s sound…

“ALL SORTS OF MADNESS!”

Explosions! Light shows! Video screens! Giant crowns! A collapsing stage! Match-fit Brian and Roger preview the European leg of The Rhapsody World Tour

NICK MASON’S SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS

Royal Albert Hall, London, April 23

RIDE

O2 Academy, Oxford, April 23

FILM

A compellingly bleak collaboration; an inventive conceptual comedy; a Terence Davies biopic and more

REVIEWED THIS MONTH

VORTEX Directed by Gaspar Noé Starring Dario

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PISTOL

DISNEY+ 6/10

BOOK

PLOTTING his path to pop glory in one

Not Fade Away

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