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MARCH 2023 TAKE 310

“The world has lost a unique voice”

TERRY HALL | 1959–2022

THE WAY THAT HE DID IT

13 great Terry Hall songs

Peaches and squeam

Who’s got the crack? Anti-folk pranksters The Moldy Peaches return to the stage for more “slap and tickle”

A QUICK ONE

Well, blessmy soul!The latest Ultimate Music Guideisdedicated to

Remember her CHRISTINE McVIE | 1943–2022

As the Fleetwood Mac songbird ascends, we revisit her 20 greatest compositions

“Deep and mysterious”

This year’s Celtic Connections explores the hidden affinities between the folk music of Scotland, Louisiana and Mali

Mary Elizabeth Remington

Itinerant Big Thief associate channels “the magic of nature”

UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month...

Sounds Of The New West Vol 6

15 Tracks Of The Best New Americana

John Sinclair

The renegade jazz poet and one-time MC5 manager on John Lennon, surviving jail and why he’s still kicking out the jams

THE NECKS

Travel NORTHERN SPY

BRASS NECKS

Three of the band’s finest studio epics

ROBERT FORSTER

The Candle And The Flame

Q&A

Robert Forster, thankful for the much-needed distractions of music-making

AtoZ

This month…

LISA O’NEILL

All Of This Is Chance

Q&A

Lisa O’Neill “I’d love to be understood”

THE ARCS

“It was like a three-ring circus with three ringleaders,”

JOE HENRY

All The Eye Can See

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

DANIELWHEELER NOT much has been heard from Doug

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO

A masterful return.

THE WAEVE

The Waeve TRANSGRESSIVE 8/10

SUNNY WAR

Anarchist Gospel NEW WEST 8/10

QUASI

Sam Coomes & Janet Weiss: “We were able to let go…”

BRIX SMITH

“I needed to put my head above the parapet on my own”

From Hoboken To Eternity

Start spreading the news… The epic adventures of YO LA TENGO continue with This Stupid World – “an energetic record” that finds New Jersey’s most enduring cult band giving renewed prominence to big, loud guitars. Jason Anderson visits the band in their studio to learn how Sinatra (Frank and Frank Jr), surveillance and sandwiches have informed this latest marvellous step forward in their lengthy history. “We just try to do what’s inside of us.”

THE ROAD TO THIS STUPID WORLD

Yo La Tengo’s five heaviest songs

LARAAJI

Segue To Infinity NUMERO GROUP

FURTHER VIBRATIONS

Three more alternative New Age pearls

JOHN LEE HOOKER

Burnin’ (reissue, 1962) CRAFTRECORDINGS 10/10

A to Z

This month…

MOGWAI

Mogwai Young Team/ Come On DieYoung (reissues, 1997, ’99) CHEMIKALUNDERGROUND 8/10, 9/10

BOOKER T & THE MG’S

Green Onions (reissue, 1962) STAX 8/10

ROBERT PALMER

The Island Years 1974-1985 EDSEL/DEMON 8/10

PHEW

Our Likeness (reissue, 1992) MUTE 6/10

COMING NEXT MONTH...

I N the next issue, we’ll be taking

Loose change

From Romford to East Nashville, SPENCER CULLUM has taken a peripatetic journey from pedal steel to pastoral psychedelia. Tom Pinnock hears how secret societies devoted to the Grateful Dead, “krautrock wormholes” and sojourns accompanying country superstars in Las Vegas have propelled this sonic upstart into bold new directions. “It’s more about gradually trying to find my identity…”

LIKE A VERSION

Ira Kaplan on Yo La Tengo’s cover love

Linda Thompson

The folk-rock luminary charts the bright lights and shadows of a stellar career

THE BUNCH

ROCK ON ISLAND, 1972 ISLAND A gathering of

IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE TOP

…if you want to be the biggest hard rock band in the world. With AC/DC on the point of their 50th anniversary, Uncut charts their first steps. You join us in Sydney, Australia, where a major 1960s pop star is signing up new talent: including his younger brothers. From their dabblings in glam, to their first classic lineup, we learn how AC/DC’s audaciously simple sound was hewn from the rock, and their true leader emerged. “Malcolm had no ego,” one former member tells John Robinson. “He knew what he wanted. He wanted a great band.”

GROOVY OLD MEN

Five AC/DC-pertinent Vanda/Young productions

LIFE AFTER WARTIME

In 1981, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz proved that they were far more than just the rhythm section of Talking Heads. Decamping to Compass Point studios in The Bahamas, they formed TOM TOM CLUB, the casually mould-breaking musical collective whose good vibrations are still being felt today. Sam Richards tunes in for colourful tales of island life, French schoolyard rhymes, lost James Brown sessions and a famished Ian Dury. “It was so fun to have this wonderful karmic spirit,” says Weymouth. “It felt like angels were coming.”

PROPHET MARGINS

How a garage-built synthesiser put the genius into “Genius Of Love”

“YOU CAN’T LEAVE WITHOUT DANCING”

Adrian Belew on his upcoming Remain In Light tour with Jerry Harrison “

BUYERS’ GUIDE

TOM TOM CLUB ISLAND, 1981 The irresistible debut,

Wardance by Killing Joke

Out of the squats of West London came a forbidding rumble, warning of impending nuclear destruction. “There’s nothing like it, even today”

KEY PLAYERS

Jaz Coleman (vocals) Geordie (guitar) Youth (bass) Big

TIME LINE

1979: “Wardance” written during jam sessions in Cheltenham

NOT DARK YET

“I squandered the years of my youth/It’s a scary thing, the truth…” With a new instalment of his ongoing Bootleg series celebrating BOB DYLAN’s 1997 album Time Out Of Mind, Damien Love digs deep to find these latest archival treasures cast new light on one of its creator’s most powerful, emotionally complex records...

LIVE OUT OF MIND

WE’RE not short of Bob Dylan concert recordings,

“DANIEL, DO WE HAVE A RECORD?”

From Uncut’s archives, producer Daniel Lanois recalls making Time Out Of Mind

SUPER FLY!

Sixty years on from The Impressions’ pioneering debut album, Uncut salutes the gentle genius of CURTIS MAYFIELD. Friends, family and famous fans – including Paul Weller, Nile Rodgers, Kurt Wagner, PP Arnold, Brittany Howard, Jim James and Courtney Marie Andrews – join us to celebrate the soul superstar’s finest moments as band leader, solo artist, songwriter, producer, guitarist and label manager. Stand by for music filled with righteous anger, spirituality and a profound desire to tell hard truths with depth, empathy and humanity. “It’s one classic after another,” hears Graeme Thomson

KUDOS TO CURTOM

Paul Weller picks his favourite Mayfield songs/productions for other artists

RUDE BOY

Mayfield’s lasting Impressions on Jamaica

MAYFIELD’S THREE RULES OF PERFORMING

Buzz Amato on the guidelines for touring with a legend

“CURTIS WAS THE TEMPLATE”

Nile Rodgers on Mayfield as all-encompassing inspiration

BIG STAR 50

Crosstown Theater, Memphis, December 2

THE CURE

OVO Hydro, Glasgow, December 4

FILMS

Skirting folk horror in early-’70s Cornwall; a dangerous reunion in Naples; Bresson’s donkey tale revisited…

REVIEWED THIS MONTH

ENYS MEN Directed by Mark Jenkin Starring

ALSO OUT...

M3GAN RELEASED JANUARY 13 Allison Williams (Girls, Get

SOUND & VISION

Paul McCartney: given the runof Abbey Road MARYMCCARTNEY;MPL

BOOKS

ASTAR in the pages of Jazz Journal and

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month…

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Anton Newcombe

The Brian Jonestown Massacre mainman on the records he digs the most: “Music showed me that it was OK to be me”