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Rory Gallagher’s solo debut gets deluxe box set treatment

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Rory Gallagher’s solo debut gets deluxe box set treatment

Rory Gallagher‘s self-titled debut is due for a 50th anniversary box set.

The album will be released on September 3 by UMC. It arrives on various formats including a deluxe 5-disc box set comprising 4 CDs and 1 DVD featuring previously unreleased tracks, rare outtakes, BBC Radio sessions, a hardback book, plus a rare never-before-released concert Pop Deux filmed in 1971 for French television. The album will also be released on single-disc orange vinyl (BBC Sessions) and 3-disc black vinyl package.

You can pre-order the album by clicking here.

Formats are below:

4CD+1DVD Deluxe Set / Super Deluxe Digital

CD1
Laundromat – 50th Anniversary Edition
Just The Smile – 50th Anniversary Edition
I Fall Apart – 50th Anniversary Edition
Wave Myself Goodbye – 50th Anniversary Edition
Hands Up – 50th Anniversary Edition
Sinner Boy – 50th Anniversary Edition
For The Last Time – 50th Anniversary Edition
It’s You – 50th Anniversary Edition
I’m Not Surprised – 50th Anniversary Edition
Can’t Believe It’s True – 50th Anniversary Edition

CD2
Gypsy Woman – Tangerine Studio Session
It Takes Time – Tangerine Studio Session
I Fall Apart – Tangerine Studio Session
Wave Myself Goodbye – Tangerine Studio Session
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 1
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 2
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 3
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 4
Advision Jam
Laundromat – Alternate Take 1
Just The Smile – Alternate Take 1
Just The Smile – Alternate Take 2
I Fall Apart – Alternate Take 1
Wave Myself Goodbye – Alternate Take 1
Wave Myself Goodbye – Alternate Take 2

CD3
Hands Up – Alternate Take 1
Hands Up – Alternate Take 2
Hands Up – Alternate Take 3
Hands Up – Alternate Take 4
Hands Up – Alternate Take 5
Hands Up – Alternate Take 6
Sinner Boy – Alternate Take 1
Sinner Boy – Alternate Take 2
Sinner Boy – Alternate Take 3
For The Last Time – Alternate Take 1
For The Last Time – Alternate Take 2
For The Last Time – Alternate Take 3
It’s You – Alternate Take 1
It’s You – Alternate Take 2
I’m Not Surprised – Alternate Take 1
I’m Not Surprised – Alternate Take 2
Can’t Believe It’s True – Alternate Take 1

CD4
For The Last Time – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
Laundromat – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
It Takes Time – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
I Fall Apart – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
Hands Up – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
For The Last Time – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
In Your Town – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
Just The Smile – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
Laundromat – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
It Takes Time – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
(*Off Air Recording)

DVD
Interview
Hands Up
Wave Myself Goodbye
It Takes Time
Sinner Boy
For the Last Time
The Same Thing
I Fall Apart

2CD
CD1
Laundromat – 50th Anniversary Edition
Just The Smile – 50th Anniversary Edition
I Fall Apart – 50th Anniversary Edition
Wave Myself Goodbye – 50th Anniversary Edition
Hands Up – 50th Anniversary Edition
Sinner Boy – 50th Anniversary Edition
For The Last Time – 50th Anniversary Edition
It’s You – 50th Anniversary Edition
I’m Not Surprised – 50th Anniversary Edition
Can’t Believe It’s True – 50th Anniversary Edition

CD2
Gypsy Woman – Tangerine Studio Session
It Takes Time – Tangerine Studio Session
I Fall Apart – Tangerine Studio Session
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 3
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 4
Advision Jam
Laundromat – Alternate Take 1
Just The Smile – Alternate Take 1
Wave Myself Goodbye – Alternate Take 2
Hands Up – Alternate Take 2
Sinner Boy – Alternate Take 3
For The Last Time – Alternate Take 1
It’s You – Alternate Take 2
I’m Not Surprised – Alternate Take 1
For The Last Time – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
Laundromat – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
It Takes Time – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
I Fall Apart – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
(*Off Air Recording)

3LP
SIDE A
Laundromat – 50th Anniversary Edition
Just The Smile – 50th Anniversary Edition
I Fall Apart – 50th Anniversary Edition
Wave Myself Goodbye – 50th Anniversary Edition
Hands Up – 50th Anniversary Edition

SIDE B
Sinner Boy – 50th Anniversary Edition
For The Last Time – 50th Anniversary Edition
It’s You – 50th Anniversary Edition
I’m Not Surprised – 50th Anniversary Edition
Can’t Believe It’s True – 50th Anniversary Edition

SIDE C
Gypsy Woman – Tangerine Studio Session
It Takes Time – Tangerine Studio Session
I Fall Apart – Tangerine Studio Session
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 3
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 4
Advision Jam

SIDE D
Laundromat – Alternate Take 1
Just The Smile – Alternate Take 1
Wave Myself Goodbye – Alternate Take 2
Hands Up – Alternate Take 2

SIDE E
Sinner Boy – Alternate Take 3
For The Last Time – Alternate Take 1
It’s You – Alternate Take 2
I’m Not Surprised – Alternate Take 1

SIDE F
For The Last Time – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
Laundromat – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
It Takes Time – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
I Fall Apart – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
(*Off Air Recording)

D2C 1LP Colour Vinyl – John Peel Sunday Concert 28/08/1971
SIDE A
Hands Up – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
For The Last Time – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
In Your Town – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971

SIDE B
Just The Smile – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
Laundromat – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
It Takes Time – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971

Deluxe Digital HD / Deluxe Digital MFiT / Deluxe Digital Standard
Laundromat – 50th Anniversary Edition
Just The Smile – 50th Anniversary Edition
I Fall Apart – 50th Anniversary Edition
Wave Myself Goodbye – 50th Anniversary Edition
Hands Up – 50th Anniversary Edition
Sinner Boy – 50th Anniversary Edition
For The Last Time – 50th Anniversary Edition
It’s You – 50th Anniversary Edition
I’m Not Surprised – 50th Anniversary Edition
Can’t Believe It’s True – 50th Anniversary Edition
Gypsy Woman – Tangerine Studio Session
It Takes Time – Tangerine Studio Session
I Fall Apart – Tangerine Studio Session
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 3
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 4
Advision Jam
Laundromat – Alternate Take 1
Just The Smile – Alternate Take 1
Wave Myself Goodbye – Alternate Take 2
Hands Up – Alternate Take 2
Sinner Boy – Alternate Take 3
For The Last Time – Alternate Take 1
It’s You – Alternate Take 2

Introducing the new issue of Uncut

Michael Bonner
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Introducing the new issue of Uncut

The last time I saw Nick Cave in concert was at the Royal Albert Hall, seven years ago. Billed as a solo show, it naturally featured Warren Ellis along with veterans from several Bad Seeds line-ups. There was a piano, too – but for the most part, I remember Cave uncontained, striding up and down the front of the stage, occasionally dragging microphone stands and sundry pieces of equipment into the crowd as he encouraged audience members to listen to his heartbeat. This was May 2015, since when a lot has happened both to Cave and elsewhere in the world.

Cave and the Bad Seeds’ transformation over the course of Push The Sky Away, Skeleton Key and Ghosteen has been remarkable, not least for the way that the band have grappled with new creative directions and working practises. Although it’s hardly been surprising: as Cave himself once noted, “The game is never won / By standing in any one place for too long”. Many of these latest career developments – especially on Skeleton Key and Ghosteen – are discussed by Cave and the Bad Seeds in this month’s cover story. We learn about lost songs, near-forgotten gems and sundry sonic outcasts that may not have made the official tracklisting for either of those albums, but whose genesis and development shines a light on what exactly Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds do and how they do it. There are also, I’m pleased to report, a lot of big laughs to be had here: check out the wild times on “King Sized Nick Cave Blues”. “By any measure, a flat-out lyrical triumph,” Cave assures us. “You can’t buy that stuff!”

Elsewhere, there’s more new interviews with The Specials, Kacey Musgraves, Ry Cooder, Shabaka Hutchings, Supergrass, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, David Crosby, Low, Caravan and Kenney Jones – who lifts the lid on a bounty of Small Faces’ discoveries. A typically busy issue, in other words. And if you ever make it to Essaouira, a port city on the coast of Morocco, best follow Nick’s advice and check out the funky spice shop on Place Moullay Hasan…

The Rolling Stones announce 40th anniversary editions of Tattoo You

Michael Bonner
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The Rolling Stones announce 40th anniversary editions of Tattoo You

The Rolling Stones are to mark the 40th anniversary of their Tattoo You album with a number of special editions.

The album will be accompanied by nine previously unreleased tracks, including “Living In The Heart Of Love“, which you can hear below:

The newly-remastered set is released on October 22 via Universal Music. Deluxe formats will also include Lost & Found: Rarities and Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982.

The unreleased tracks also include versions of Jimmy Reed’s “Shame, Shame, Shame” and Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away” as well as a ‘reggae-tinged’ version of “Start Me Up“.

You’ll find the full tracklisting for the various editions below. You can pre-order by clicking here.

Standard CD
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

Deluxe 2CD
+ 20 page booklet including essay from Kevin Howlett & Jeff Slate

CD 1 – Tattoo You (2021 Remaster)
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

CD 2 – Lost & Found: Rarities
1. Living In The Heart Of Love
2. Fiji Jim
3. Troubles A’ Comin
4. Shame Shame Shame
5. Drift Away
6. It’s A Lie
7. Come To The Ball
8. Fast Talking Slow Walking
9. Start Me Up (Early Version)

4CD Super Deluxe Boxset
Includes 4 x CDS (CD1 – Remastered Album, CD2 – Bonus 9 Tracks + CD 3 & 4 – “Still Life” (Wembley Stadium Concert 1982)
+ Keith Richards Picture Disc + 124 Page Book featuring over 200 rare photos from recording sessions & world tour + interviews with producer Chris Kimsey & photographer Hubert Kretzschmar + Lenticular Art

CD 1 – Tattoo You (2021 Remaster)
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

CD 2 – Lost & Found: Rarities
1. Living In The Heart Of Love
2. Fiji Jim
3. Troubles A’ Comin
4. Shame Shame Shame
5. Drift Away
6. It’s A Lie
7. Come To The Ball
8. Fast Talking Slow Walking
9. Start Me Up (Early Version)

CD 3 & CD 4 – “Still Life” (Wembley Stadium Concert 1982)

1. Under My Thumb
2. When The Whip Comes Down
3. Let’s Spend The Night Together
4. Shattered
5. Neighbours
6. Black Limousine
7. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
8. Twenty Flight Rock
9. Going To A Go Go
10. Chantilly Lace
11. Let Me Go
12. Time Is On My Side
13. Beast Of Burden
14. Let It Bleed

1. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
2. Band Introductions
3. Little T&A
4. Tumbling Dice
5. She’s So Cold
6. Hang Fire
7. Miss You
8. Honky Tonk Women
9. Brown Sugar
10. Start Me Up
11. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
12. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

1LP Standard
180g Black Vinyl

Side A
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021

Side B
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

2LP Deluxe Black Vinyl
180g Double Black Vinyl in Gatefold sleeve

Side A
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021

Side B
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

Side C
1. Living In The Heart Of Love
2. Fiji Jim
3. Troubles A’ Comin
4. Shame Shame Shame
5. Drift Away

Side D
6. It’s A Lie
7. Come To The Ball
8. Fast Talking Slow Walking
9. Start Me Up (Early Version)

2LP Deluxe Clear Vinyl (The Rolling Stones Store Exclusive)
180g Double Clear Vinyl in Gatefold sleeve

Side A
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021

Side B
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

Side C
1. Living In The Heart Of Love
2. Fiji Jim
3. Troubles A’ Comin
4. Shame Shame Shame
5. Drift Away

Side D
6. It’s A Lie
7. Come To The Ball
8. Fast Talking Slow Walking
9. Start Me Up (Early Version)

5LP Super Deluxe Boxset
Includes 5 x 180g Heavyweight Vinyl. (LP1 Brand New 2021 Remaster of Tattoo You, LP2 Lost & Found: 9 Previously Unreleased Tracks, LP3, 4 & 5 “Still Life” Live At Wembley Stadium 1982)
Plus 124 page hardback book featuring over 200 rare photos from recording sessions & world tour + interviews with producer Chris Kimsey & photographer Hubert Kretzschmar + Lenticular Art

Side A
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021

Side B
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

Side C
1. Living In The Heart Of Love
2. Fiji Jim
3. Troubles A’ Comin
4. Shame Shame Shame
5. Drift Away

Side D
6. It’s A Lie
7. Come To The Ball
8. Fast Talking Slow Walking
9. Start Me Up (Early Version)

Side E
1. Under My Thumb
2. When The Whip Comes Down
3. Let’s Spend The Night Together
4. Shattered
5. Neighbours

Side F
6. Black Limousine
7. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
8. Twenty Flight Rock
9. Going To A Go Go

Side G
1. Chantilly Lace
2. Let Me Go
3. Time Is On My Side
4. Beast Of Burden

Side H
5. Let It Bleed
6. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
7. Band Introductions
8. Little T&A

Side J
1. Tumbling Dice
2. She’s So Cold
3. Hang Fire
4. Miss You
5. Honky Tonk Women

Side K
6. Brown Sugar
7. Start Me Up
8. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
9. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Uncut – October 2021

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Uncut – October 2021

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Specials, Kacey Musgraves, Supergrass, Caravan, Buena Vista Social Club, David Crosby, Low, Shabaka Hutchings, and Van der Graaf Generator all feature in the new Uncut, dated October 2021 and in UK shops from August 19 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, this time comprising 15 tracks of the month’s best new music.

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: Moroccan opium dens! A song called “Jazzmen”! “I spend my days pushing Elvis Presley’s belly up a series of steep hills”! As a new compilation featuring previously unreleased material from Nick Cave’s most recent studio albums emerges from the vaults, Peter Watts takes a dive into a remarkable secret history – a rich and strange phantasmagoria of lost songs, near-forgotten gems and other sonic outcasts. Our guides are Bad Seeds Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos, Thomas Wydler and Mick Harvey along with Cave himself. “You can’t buy that stuff!” he tells us…

OUR FREE CD! TOMORROW’S SOUNDS TODAY: 15 fantastic tracks from the cream of the month’s releases, including songs by The Limiñanas/Laurent Garnier, The Felice Brothers, Low, Devin Hoff and Sharon Van Etten, The Stranglers, Little Simz, Sarah Davachi, Matthew E White and more.

This issue of Uncut is available to buy by clicking here – with FREE delivery to the UK and reduced delivery charges for the rest of the world.

Inside the issue, you’ll find:

THE SPECIALS: The No 1 success of Encore proved The Specials remain a vital force – but what are Terry Hall, Horace Panter and Lynval Golding doing for, well, an encore? Taking a stand against the “heavy atmosphere” of the last 18 months, they have recorded a set of protest songs by artists as diverse as Frank Zappa, Big Bill Broonzy and Chip Taylor. “All we can do is try and raise awareness,” they tell Peter Watts. “That’s our role.”

KACEY MUSGRAVES: By confronting Nashville conservatism, she became the outspoken queen of “galactic country” – but how will magic mushrooms, “insane spiritual welfare” and a rose-strewn bed that resembles “some Brian Wilson shit” help Kacey Musgraves sort out her next “Big Bang explosion of ideas”? She tells Stephen Deusner, “Sometimes I contradict myself from one song to the next…”

CARAVAN: Join us at the bar in The Millers Arms, before genial host Pye Hastings takes us on an evocative tour of Caravan’s old haunts around Canterbury. Along the way, Sam Richards hears how wigwams, Brussels sprouts and a bypass near Sevenoaks helped them become the enduring, if unlikely, heroes of prog. “The problems of the world didn’t really affect us… We lived in our own little bubble.”

BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB: In 1996, Ry Cooder assembled the Buena Vista Social Club and turned Havana’s forgotten musical aristocracy into unlikely stars. Twenty-five years on, the magic of the joyous, bittersweet album they recorded together is stronger than ever. But how did its curator and venerable cast navigate power cuts, food shortages and meetings with Fidel Castro? “We got in there and did great things,” Cooder tells Graeme Thomson.

SMALL FACES: Kenney Jones reveals his plans to restore the lost treasures of the Small Faces.

DAVID CROSBY: As new album For Free caps a remarkable renaissance, Croz recalls jamming with Hendrix, being “stupefied” by The Beatles… and the making of High Noon.

SUPERGRASS: The making of “Richard III”.

SHABAKA HUTCHINGS: Album by album with the Brit saxophonist.

LOW: Duluth duo’s intense 13th album Hey What masterfully combines the difficult with the beautiful.

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In our expansive reviews section, we take a look at new records from The Stranglers, Pokey LaFarge, Saint Etienne, Little Simz, José González, Arushi Jain, and more, and archival releases from Van der Graaf Generator, Joan Shelley, Rory Gallagher, Whipping Boy, Charles Mingus and others. We catch Roger and Brian Eno, and Chrissie Hynde live; among the films, DVDs and TV programmes reviewed are Respect, Censor, New Order and Pig; while in books there’s Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer.

Our front section, meanwhile, features Small Faces, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, John Grant, and Adia Victoria, while, at the end of the magazine, Pat Metheny reveals the records that have soundtracked his life.

You can pick up a copy of Uncut in the usual places, where open. But otherwise, readers all over the world can order a copy from here.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album track listing and Uncut cover story revealed!

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album track listing and Uncut cover story revealed!

Nick Cave is on the cover of the new issue of Uncut, on sale today – August 19, 2021.

In the issue, we trace the secret history of Cave and the Bad Seeds via their new album B-Sides & Rarities Part II and uncover a treasure trove of lost songs, near-forgotten gems and sundry sonic outcasts.

Cave himself, along with assorted Bad Seeds, guides us through a personal selection of the ones that got away. Many of these songs were originated during sessions for their most recent albums, Skeleton Tree and Ghosteen, as the band have grappled with new creative directions and working practises.

Cave and The Bad Seeds will release B-Sides & Rarities Part II on October 22. This is the companion volume to 2005’s B-Sides & Rarities. It will be available on double vinyl, double CD, deluxe double CD and all digital platforms.

B-Sides & Rarities Part I and Part II will also be released together as a limited edition deluxe 7 vinyl box set including 83 rare tracks and exclusive sleeve notes.

All compiled by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, B-Sides & Rarities Part II contains 27 rare and unreleased tracks from 2006 – 2020.

You can hear a previously unreleased song “Vortex” here:

Taken from B-Sides & Rarities Part II, “Vortex” was written and recorded in 2006 by Cave, Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos.

“I always liked the original B-Sides & Rarities more than any of our other albums,” says Cave. “It’s the only one I’d listen to willingly. It seems more relaxed, even a bit nonsensical in places, but with some beautiful songs throughout. There is something, too, about the smallness of certain songs that is closer to their original spirit.

“B-Sides & Rarities Part II continues this strange and beautiful collection of lost songs from The Bad Seeds. I love the final side of the last disc because it reveals the small and fragile beginnings of some of my favourite Bad Seeds songs. ‘Waiting For You‘ complete with bizarre ‘canning factory’ rhythm track, a gorgeous ‘Life Per Se‘ deemed too sad for Skeleton Tree, and ‘Earthlings’ that some consider the finest track of the Ghosteen sessions.”

You can pre-order B-Sides & Rarities Part I and Part II by clicking here.

St. Vincent is a one-woman street parade in new “Daddy’s Home” video

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St. Vincent is a one-woman street parade in new “Daddy’s Home” video

St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) has shared a music video for the title track from her latest album Daddy’s Home.

In the Bill Benz-directed clip, Clark rides on the back of a truck down a street, singing and playing guitar. Towards the end of the video, a newspaper flashes onscreen with the headline “DADDY HOME: Singer alleges daddy’s home from back of truck”.

The video is available to watch exclusively on Facebook for now, ahead of its arrival on YouTube this Friday (August 20). Watch it here.

Her sixth studio album as St. Vincent, Clark released Daddy’s Home back in May. In Uncut‘s 8/10 review, we said: “Listening to Daddy’s Home brings a sense of exhalation, a filling out, an openness, that is as unexpected as it is wonderful. Yes she’s still arch and meta and provocative, still complex and mischievous and ambitious. But on this record, Annie Clark seems to stand just a little closer.”

Last week, Clark released the full-length trailer for The Nowhere Inn, her forthcoming feature film with Sleater-Kinney‘s Carrie Brownstein.

The film is described as “a metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent’s music, touring life, and on-stage persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to detail the friendship, the project, and the duo’s creative lives”.

George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass cover art recreated with giant garden gnomes

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George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass cover art recreated with giant garden gnomes

The cover art for George Harrison‘s classic album All Things Must Pass has been recreated in the form of a large gnome installation.

A special boxset edition of the late Beatles guitarist’s third solo record (1970) arrived earlier this month to mark its 50th anniversary. The collection boasts demos of 30 tracks from the album sessions, including a handful of songs that didn’t make the final cut.

To further commemorate the five-decade milestone, Harrison‘s widow Olivia and son Dhani Harrison have contributed to a new mini-documentary that documents the process of bringing the All Things Must Pass cover to life.

Collaborating with floral artist Ruth Davis, the pair created “a massive gnome” at Duke Of York Square in Chelsea, London.

“We knew we wanted to recreate the album cover, but we also loved the idea of having some naughty gnomes roaming about London,” Davis explained in the clip. “It was almost a bit like a treasure hunt – so one will be at Abbey Road, which will lead people to the main one.”

She added that the aim of the project was “to recreate the story in a really fun but poignant way”. Dhani, meanwhile, reflected on his late father’s “connection with nature” and fondness for gardening.

Upon the finished product being unveiled towards the end of the clip, Olivia Harrison described the piece as “the most joyous thing I’ve ever seen”, adding that George would be “over the moon”.

The installation is on display to the public at Duke Of York Square until this Friday (August 20) – you can watch the mini-documentary in full above (via George Harrison‘s official YouTube channel).

Released on August 6, the 50th anniversary edition of All Things Must Pass was executive produced by Dhani Harrison. The classic album has been completely remixed from the original tapes by engineer Paul Hicks.

End Of The Road announce Comedy and Literature line-ups

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End Of The Road announce Comedy and Literature line-ups

End Of The Road have announced the comedy and literature programmes at this year’s festival.

The line-up includes Simon Amstell, Josie Long, Shaparak Khorsandi, Sam Lee and Sophie Heawood.

They join the festival’s musical bill who include Stereolab, Sleaford Mods, Damon Albarn, Jonny Greenwood, The Comet Is Coming and Shirley Collins.

The festival takes place between September 2 – 5 at its usual home in Larmer Tree Gardens.

Uncut will be hosting events in the Big Top Tent on Friday, September 3, as well as a number of Q&As on site during the festival – check back here for further details!

The complete comedy and literature line-ups are:

COMEDY
Simon Amstell
Josie Long
Shaparak Khorsandi
Flo & Joan
Jordan Brookes
Rob Auton
Cally Beaton
Tom Ward
Crybabies
Alison Spittle
Micky Overman
Jenny Collier
Ignacio Lopez
Garrett Millerick
Mary Bourke
David Hoare
Jon Levene
Ronan Leonard

LITERATURE
Sam Lee
Philip Hoare
Sophie Heawood
Melissa Harrison
Will Burns
Rebecca Schiller
Heavenly Records At 30 With Robin Turner & Guests
Lucy Jones
Miranda Ward

The final music line-up for End Of The Road Festival is:

HOT CHIP
KING KRULE
SLEAFORD MODS
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Ahead of new album Hey What, Low release new single and video “More”

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Ahead of new album Hey What, Low release new single and video “More”

Iconic slowcore/indie act Low have released “More”, a new single ahead of their upcoming record Hey What. The ambitious track arrives alongside an equally striking video directed by Julie Casper Roth.

Hey What is Low’s thirteenth album, and will be released on 10 September. It’s their third with producer BJ Burton, and features cover art designed by Peter Liversidge. Hey What follows 2018’s acclaimed LP Double Negative.

Check out the new video for “More” below.

Hey What can be preordered here. Its full tracklist is as follows:

1. “White Horses”
2. “I Can Wait”
3. “All Night”
4. “Disappearing”
5. “Hey”
6. “Days Like These”
7. “There’s a Comma After Still”
8. “Don’t Walk Away”
9. “More”
10. “The Price You Pay (It Must Be Wearing Off)”

The band has also announced a 2022 US tour. Check out the list of dates:

March 2022

22 – Bloomington, IN, Bishop
25 – Birmingham, AL, Saturn
26 – Atlanta, GA, Terminal West
28 – Washington, DC, Miracle Theatre
29 – Philadelphia, PA, World Cafe Live
31 – New York, NY, Webster Hall

April 2022

1 – Providence, RI, Columbus Theater
2 – Montreal, QC, Theatre Fairmount
4 – Toronto, ON, The Axis Club
5 – Detroit, MI, Loving Touch
8 – Madison, WI, High Noon Saloon

Megadeth’s touring bassist shares behind-the-scenes images of tour rehearsals

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Megadeth’s touring bassist shares behind-the-scenes images of tour rehearsals

Megadeth‘s touring bassist James LoMenzo has shared behind-the-scenes images of the band rehearsing for their upcoming Metal Tour Of The Year.

LoMenzo was recently appointed as the replacement for Megadeth co-founder and former bassist David Ellefson, who parted ways with the group in May following allegations of grooming an underage girl (he previously denied the claims).

The new bassist first joined the band in 2006, contributing to the studio albums United Abominations (2007) and Endgame (2009).

Now, LoMenzo has taken to Instagram to give fans a sneak peek of Megadeth‘s upcoming tour with Lamb Of God, which kicks off this Friday (August 20) and runs until October (the full schedule can be found here).

“I want to take a moment to sincerely thank all my friends and the amazing Megadeth fans who took the time to wish me well this week,” he captioned a trio of shots.

“Tour prep has been a blast, it’s great to be playing with Dave [Mustaine, frontman] again! I’m finding that with Kiko [Loureiro] and Dirk [Verbeuren], Megadeth feels like a Locomotive bearing down the tracks.”

He added: “I can’t wait to see you all out there on The Metal Tour of the Year!” You can see the post above.

Speaking in a statement last week, Mustaine said that he and the band “cannot wait to start crushing North America”. LoMenzo, meanwhile, told fans he was “super stoked” to be rejoining Megadeth.

Last month, Dave Mustaine announced the title of Megadeth‘s 16th studio album: The Sick, The Dying And The Dead. He also shared a snippet of the title track. A release date for the record has not yet been confirmed.

Garbage announce 20th anniversary reissue of Beautiful Garbage

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Garbage announce 20th anniversary reissue of Beautiful Garbage

Garbage have announced a reissue of their album Beautiful Garbage to mark its 20th anniversary.

Released on October 1, 2001, the Shirley Manson-fronted band’s third studio effort includes the singles “Androgyny”, “Breaking Up The Girl” and “Shut Your Mouth”. It landed at Number Six in the Official UK albums chart.

The special reissue of the record will arrive exactly two decades on from its initial release – on Friday October 1, 2021 – and is set to boast a previously unheard version of the album’s lead single “Androgyny” (listen below).

Available to pre-order in a range of formats here, the new version of Beautiful Garbage will feature the original album in remastered audio as well as B-sides, demos, remixes and memorabilia.

“We wanted to celebrate the release of our third album in the same manner as we have celebrated the 20th anniversaries of our previous two records, as we cherish this third child of ours just as much as its predecessors,” Manson explained in a statement.

“Over time it has garnered more and more respect from our fans, with many of the songs remaining in rotation in our live sets to this day. We’ve always felt incredibly proud of this record and felt it was in many ways very much ahead of its time.”

She continued: “Twenty years down the line, we are all exceedingly grateful to have such well-crafted songs in our discography and are very proud that against all the odds we are still standing and can give our beloved album the tribute it so very much deserves.”

Garbage previously marked the two-decade milestones of their self-titled debut in 2015 and its follow-up, Version 2.0, in 2018. The band also performed a series of live shows to mark each anniversary.

This year saw Garbage release their seventh studio effort, No Gods No Masters.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis reportedly record soundtrack for Marilyn Monroe film Blonde

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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis reportedly record soundtrack for Marilyn Monroe film Blonde

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have reportedly recorded a soundtrack for Andrew Dominik‘s film Blonde, about Marilyn Monroe, that is slated for release next year.

That’s according to The Guardian, which also reports that Cave and Ellis will perform songs from albums including Carnage and Ghosteen for a new music film by Dominik.

Cave and Ellis had previously worked with the director and screenwriter on his 2016 documentary One More Time With Feeling, which chronicles the recording of Cave‘s Skeleton Tree in the aftermath of his son Arthur’s death.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Credit: Gaelle Beri/Redferns via Getty Images

Blonde is due to be released next year though no firm date has been set. The production is a biographical film based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates, which was released in 2000.

The Netflix movie stars Ana De Armas in the titular role, joined by Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, and Adrien Brody, among others.

Meanwhile, Cave and Ellis have announced that they will head out on their first-ever UK tour as a duo this autumn.

The Bad Seeds duo will play 20 shows across September and autumn in support of their acclaimed album Carnage, which arrived earlier this year.

Warren Ellis on his new book Nina Simone’s Gum: “You can take a leap of faith inspired by the most ridiculous thing”

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Warren Ellis on his new book Nina Simone’s Gum: “You can take a leap of faith inspired by the most ridiculous thing”

Nick Cave collaborator and Bad Seeds multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis has opened up about his forthcoming memoir Nina Simone’s Gum ahead of its publication early next month.

Set to be released in the UK on September 2 via Faber, the non-fiction work is about a piece of Simone‘s chewed gum that Ellis acquired in 1999, when the jazz singer performed at London’s Meltdown Festival – which Cave curated that year.

Following Simone‘s performance, Ellis climbed onstage taking a piece of gum from her piano. The composer held onto it for two decades, eventually casting the gum in a silver and gold display as part of Cave’s Stranger Than Kindness exhibition.

“All I have seen the gum do is bring out love and care in the people who have come in contact with it,” Ellis explains in a new interview with The Guardian. “And that love and care has carried the most humble thing imaginable and elevated it to the status of a holy relic.

“I love the perversity of it, that it has become something almost sacred and spiritual, but, at the end of the day, it’s just this piece of chewing gum. It shows that you can take a leap of faith inspired by the most ridiculous thing in your head.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Ellis discussed working with Nick Cave on the Bad Seeds 2019 album Ghosteen, written in the aftermath of the death of Cave‘s son Arthur in 2015, saying the record “threw [him]” for a time.

“It felt like there was something – or someone – else directing it. I’ve never put much stock in things like that, but it did feel that, if there was ever anyone else in the room, it was then,” Ellis said.

“When we finished, it just felt like the record I had always wanted to make. I remember thinking, how can we ever crawl out from underneath that? But, you push through. You keep going.”

Last month, Ellis and Cave announced they would embark on their first-ever UK tour as a duo in autumn. The pair will play 20 shows from September in support of their acclaimed collaborative album Carnage, which arrived earlier this year.

Back in June, it was announced that Ellis was helping open a wildlife sanctuary for animals with special needs in Sumatra, Indonesia. Ellis Park will serve as “a forever home for animals who are unable to be released back into the wild due to their injuries sustained from maltreatment by humans”.

In April, Cave and Ellis released a collaborative 7″ single titled “Grief”, based on a letter sent to Cave’s Red Hand Files website.

Bon Iver announce limited 10th anniversary reissue of second album Bon Iver, Bon Iver

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Bon Iver announce limited 10th anniversary reissue of second album Bon Iver, Bon Iver

Bon Iver have announced a special limited-edition 10th anniversary reissue of their second album, Bon Iver, Bon Iver.

The album, which was released on June 17, 2011, is celebrated more than a decade later with a reissue on CD and vinyl. Five songs from Bon Iver’s 2012 AIR Studios session will feature on the reissue. Physical formats and streams will be released on January 14, 2022.

Additionally, a personal essay written by Phoebe Bridgers will be included with the reissue. The singer-songwriter opens up about the “massive, sprawling, unbelievably complex” album and how it has impacted her life.

The reissue also comes with a blind embossed, white-on-white version of the original cover art with a white record to match. Pre-order/pre-save here.

Bon Iver album cover
Bon Iver, Bon Iver (10th Anniversary Edition) cover art.

Bon Iver, Bon Iver (10th Anniversary Edition) track list:

1. “Perth”
2. “Minnesota, W”
3. “Holocene”
4. “Towers”
5. “Michicant”
6. “Hinnom, TX”
7. “Wash.”
8. “Calgary”
9. “Lisbon, OH”
10. “Beth/Rest”
11. “Hinnom, TX” (AIR Studios – 4AD/Jagjaguwar Session)
12. “Wash.” (AIR Studios – 4AD/Jagjaguwar Session)
13. “I Can’t Make You Love Me” (AIR Studios – 4AD/Jagjaguwar Session)
14. “Babys” (AIR Studios – 4AD/Jagjaguwar Session)
15. “Beth/Rest” (AIR Studios – 4AD/Jagjaguwar Session)

Elsewhere, Bon Iver are set to perform at the newly opened YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California for two shows on Friday, October 22 and Saturday October 23, 2021. Tickets go on sale on this Friday (August 20) at 8am PST (4pm BST) here.

Watch Elton John surprise restaurant with performance of Dua Lipa collab “Cold Heart”

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Watch Elton John surprise restaurant with performance of Dua Lipa collab “Cold Heart”

Elton John surprised a crowd at a restaurant on Saturday (August 14) with an impromptu performance of his new collaboration with Dua Lipa.

The pop icon released his new single “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)” in collaboration with Lipa on Friday (August 13).

Celebrating the release, John got behind the decks at La Guérite Beach restaurant in Cannes, where a DJ cued up the track and let the star sing along. “During lockdown I made this single and it came out yesterday with Dua Lipa,” he told diners. “I want you all to dance on the table and wave your hands.”

“Cold Heart LIVE performance,” John wrote on Instagram according to Metro, although the clip is no longer visible on his Story. “Thought I’d surprise the people at La Guérite beach restaurant with a performance of the new track.” Watch footage of the performance below now.

The original track seamlessly blends together some of John’s past releases, including “Sacrifice“, “Kiss The Bride” and “Rocket Man”. It is the singer and PNAU’s second collaboration following the 2012 album Good Morning To The Night, which also sampled some of the icon’s older tracks.

Joe Perry says Aerosmith considered replacing Steven Tyler with Sammy Hagar

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Joe Perry says Aerosmith considered replacing Steven Tyler with Sammy Hagar

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry says the band once considered replacing vocalist Steven Tyler with Sammy Hagar, AKA The Red Rocker.

According to Perry, the incident took place around a decade ago, when Tyler was appearing as a judge on American Idol among a number of other non-Aerosmith activities, moves which led Perry to believe the singer was distancing himself from the band.

Speaking to Ultimate Classic Rock in a new interview, Perry spoke of the episode, and how the likes of Lenny Kravitz, the late Chris Cornell, Paul Rodgers, Billy Idol and more were being mentioned with regards to replacing Tyler in Aerosmith.

He went on to say that Hagar came close to accepting the role, before Tyler ended up continuing to sing with the band.

“It was really another one of those times, you don’t keep a band together without a lot of bumps,” he said.

“But anyway, over the years, everybody has to bust out and do what they want. And I remember Steven doing that TV show, I thought that was great,” he continued. “I just knew he had to do something like that, and doing that solo record that he did. So the band wasn’t that tight, there was talk and there were so many people involved – lawyers, different managers.

“I thought Steven wants maybe to take four years off, do what he wants to do. And so the whole looking around for another lead singer thing, just as soon as that happened, that raised its head.”

Speaking of Hagar, Perry added: “I’m not sure how it got out there, but Sam I know as a really mellow guy, easy to get along with. And he definitely had the pipes – so I can see why that idea had been floated.

“But we also had a shortlist at that point. Things went the way they did, everybody got out of the system what they wanted to, and then we slowly glued back together.”

The Cure bassist Simon Gallup says he’s left the band

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The Cure bassist Simon Gallup says he’s left the band

The Cure bassist Simon Gallup says he’s left the band “with a slightly heavy heart,” writing that he’s “fed up of betrayal”.

Gallup joined the band in 1979 following a stint playing in Robert Smith‘s side project Cult Hero. After leaving the band in 1982, he rejoined in 1984, and is The Cure‘s second longest-serving member behind Smith.

“With a slightly heavy heart I am no longer a member of the Cure!” Gallup wrote in a public post on his personal Facebook account Saturday night (August 14). “Good luck to them all.”

Asked by a friend if he was ok following the news, Gallup wrote: “Im ok Vicky… just got fed up of betrayal.”

With a slightly heavy heart I am no longer a member of the Cure ! Good luck to them all …

Posted by Simon Gallup on Saturday, August 14, 2021

In a 2018 with The Irish Times, Robert Smith said that if Gallup were to leave the band, then they “wouldn’t be called The Cure“.

Speaking to NME in in 2019, Smith added that he and Simon’s relationship is “without question” the most dangerous combination within The Cure.

“For me, the heart of the live band has always been Simon, and he’s always been my best friend,” Smith said. “It’s weird that over the years and the decades he’s often been overlooked. He doesn’t do interviews, he isn’t really out there and he doesn’t play the role of a foil to me in public, and yet he’s absolutely vital to what we do.

“We’ve had some difficult periods over the years but we’ve managed to maintain a very strong friendship that grew out of that shared experience from when we were teens. When you have friends like that, particularly for that long, it would take something really extraordinary for that friendship to break.

He added: “You’ve done so much together, you’ve so much shared experience, you just don’t want to lose friends like that.”

Elsewhere, Smith recently said he believes that The Cure‘s next album will be their last. “I can’t think we’ll ever do anything else,” he told The Sunday Times. “I definitely can’t do this again.”

David Byrne’s American Utopia: Spike Lee’s film is heading to US cinemas

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David Byrne’s American Utopia: Spike Lee’s film is heading to US cinemas

David Byrne‘s American Utopia is coming to US cinemas for a special one-off showing.

The acclaimed concert film, from director Spike Lee, is coming to cinemas in the US nationwide for a special one-night-only showing on September 15.

The event will also feature a new introduction from Byrne and will also show a never-before-seen conversation between Byrne and Lee, according to Deadline. 

American Utopia is a concert film documenting Byrne‘s Broadway show of the same name.

In a 9/10 review of the film, Uncut called it “a dazzling blend of greatest-hits show, avant-garde ballet and timely political statement” and “a glorious celebration of music as unifying force, joy as an act of resistance”.

Meanwhile, Byrne‘s American Utopia stage show has been confirmed for a re-run on Broadway in 2021 after an initial 17-week return schedule was postponed last year due to the coronavirus crisis.

The show, which is based on Byrne’s 2018 album of the same name, will this time see a longer, six-month run in New York City’s theatre district, moving from The Hudson to the larger St. James Theatre on 44th street.

The Talking Heads frontman and solo artist is joined by an 11-piece mobile ensemble playing songs from American Utopia as well as other tracks from his solo catalogue and Talking Heads material.

Arctic Monkeys have reportedly recorded a new album in Suffolk

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Arctic Monkeys have reportedly recorded a new album in Suffolk

Arctic Monkeys have reportedly been recording a new album in Suffolk.

According to the website of Butley Priory, a venue just two hours from London on the Suffolk coast, the group were recording their next, seventh album there between June and July.

“We’ve had a band staying with us for the last month recording an album,” the post on the venue’s website began.

“Musicians love the acoustics in the Great Hall and Drawing Room, with their huge vaulted ceilings. Being serenaded while watering and weeding the garden, listening to the double bass, drums and piano wafting out of the open double doors, was pretty nice. Thank you, Arctic Monkeys.”

A further post later appeared on Instagram which you can see below.

Back in January, Matt Helders revealed that the group were in the “early stages of trying to write a [new] record”.

Speaking on Instagram Live on January 13, the drummer explained that the Sheffield band had been “faced with the obvious obstacles” while working on the follow-up to Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino.

“Being separated by the sea is one of them,” Helders said, referring to the travel restrictions that have been imposed due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

“We’re all eager to do it – we would have been doing it by now in a normal time. There’s definitely a desire from our end to do a new record as soon as we can.” Helders went on to say that he is “always tinkering on machines and synths” at his home in Los Angeles. “I’ve got drums here,” he said, adding: “[I’m] always trying to improve on and study certain things.”

The musician was photographed in a recording studio in October 2020, leading fans to speculate that new music could be on the horizon.

Then in January, Arctic Monkeys’ manager revealed that the group had been “working on music” and had initially planned to record last summer.

“In this rather disjointed time, the guys are beavering away and I hope that next year they’ll start working on some new songs, new ideas, with a view on a future release,” explained Ian McAndrew.

Nanci Griffith has died, aged 68

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Nanci Griffith has died, aged 68

Nanci Griffith has died aged 68.

The news was confirmed by the singer’s management in a statement on August 13, but did not specify a cause, according to The Guardian.

“It was Nanci’s wish that no further formal statement or press release happen for a week following her passing,” Gold Mountain Entertainment added in a statement.

Griffith, who came out of the the mid-70s folk scene in and around Austin, Texas, was renowned for classics such as “Love At The Five And Dime” and “Outbound Plane”.

She was also known for her recording of “From A Distance”, from her 1987 album Lone Star State Of Mind, which went on to become a popular Bette Midler cover.

Writing on Twitter, Jason Isbell praised her “beautiful songs” and “big beautiful heart”.

Other tributes came from Roseanne Cash, Michael McKean, Tanita Tikaram, Ron Sexsmith and Brigid Mae Power.

Meanwhile, Don McLean described her as “a lovely person.”

He added: “I worked with her on a TV special we did for PBS TV and on that show, we sang two duets. They were ‘And I Love You So’ and ‘Raining In My Heart’.

“I never heard anyone sing harmony in a more beautiful way. We should have done an album together. At this taping in Austin, Texas she brought her father to see it. I really loved her spirit it was warm and loving and I’m really sorry to hear she has gone.”

Griffith’s work became increasingly political with age, openly criticising George W Bush and supporting Barack Obama.

She described her 2012 record ‘Intersection’ as “a protest album”. It was her last album before she retired in 2013.

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