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Reviews 2

Rum Music For August Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

John Fahey

Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You (The Fonotone Years 1958 - 1965)

Articles 3

Anniversary

The Enduring Influence of John Fahey’s Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death, 60 Years On

As The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death turns 60, Will Snelling explores how the record's combination of bare-bones intimacy and haunting atmosphere, post modern edge and inherent tension loom large over myriad artists today
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Robbie Basho

Jennifer Lucy Allan surveys the work of the most misunderstood of the American primitive steel string guitar players
Film

Fahey’s A Jolly Good Fellow: In Search of Blind Joe Death Reviewed

Sean Kitching reviews a new documentary on the American guitar iconoclast.

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 4

Baker's Dozen

Driving Force: Adam Franklin’s Baker’s Dozen

From childhood seven inch singles and cash-in LPs to the joy of Sandinista! on shuffle, Swervedriver and Bolts Of Melody frontman Adam Franklin takes Ned Raggett through the thirteen records that shaped him

Baker's Dozen

Maximum Drama: Lee Ranaldo’s 13 Favourite Albums

From the peak of CBGB new wave to the group he calls 'the defining band of the 90s', former Sonic Youth man Lee Ranaldo takes Nick Hutchings through the thirteen albums that shaped his life
Baker's Dozen

Northern Uproar: Tanya Tagaq’s Favourite Albums

With the release of her phenomenal new album, Retribution, the Inuit throat singer talks to John Freeman about the albums that make her laugh and cry. And laugh some more.

Baker's Dozen

Compiling & Filing: Jan St. Werner’s Favourite Albums

With his operatic performance-cum-radio play Miscontinuum released as an album earlier this year, the Mouse On Mars man takes Nick Hutchings on a trawl of his favourite avant-garde and experimental records

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