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Candi Staton, the legendary Queen Of Southern Soul, is back with an Americana-influenced, Muscle Shoals-made new album - she tells Simon Price about Elvis Presley, Bobby Womack, how America's gun culture has killed childhood, how to escape a hellish marriage and, most importantly, how to pronounce her surname
Following the release of Richmond Fontaine's tenth and final album, You Can't Go Back If There Is Nothing To Go Back To, the singer and author talks to John Freeman about his favourite albums of storytelling escapism