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Best Beatles Solo Album?

50 years after its initial release, Paul McCartney & Wings’ 1973 masterpiece has aged gracefully, according to Matt Mitchell at Paste magazine,  and remains a timeless document of our greatest pop songwriter’s prime.
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Jazz in the New Millennium: LIVE AND WELL

first comprehensive overview of jazz in the 21st Century,
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ONE HARE, ONE OWL;   Jenny Bray discusses new album with Steve Bewick

For his first serving of Hot Biscuits in 2024 radio presenter Steve Bewick (below left) laid on some fine fare. Amidst healthy portions of fine jazz Steve introduced the album by Jenny Bray, played some tracks off the album and spoke to Jenny about them. The interview made really good listening and Steve and Jenny have graciously allowed me to set the interview into print on our pages to share with our readers
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SHANE MACGOWAN: HIS LEGACY OF POETRY AND SONG

what is worship if not holding onto and sharing memories, trading even the sharpest words between lives gathered together?
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DYLAN´S WRITING STANDARDS

Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan seldom speaks and can go years without saying a word in public
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Sidetracks And Detours present PASS IT ON 36 weekend walkabout Supplement 21 1 2024

Critics pointed out that Cecil Sharp and his educated middle class folk music collecting coterie were really purloining the ‘music of the people’
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SCORING ON DEBUT : 10 great players

When I read a list of ´bes of´or ´most like music´ I always find it intriguing, frequently find it infuriating but never find it exactly matches my own
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GORILLAZ IN THE MIST

Murdoc concludes, “The hallowed tones of Cracker Island will soundtrack our collective ascension into the new dimension! JOIN ME!”
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AMERICANA NUMBER-CRUNCHING.

we have lost so many of our ´original´ band of Americana´ artists since that term was first coined, the demographics surrounding of the genre have been massively changed.