Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Album reviews with TONY BURKE
New releases from Hank Williams Jnr, GA-20 and Kirk Fletcher
Tony Burke reviews
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Hank Williams Jnr
Rich White Honky Blues
Easy Eye Sound
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EASY EYE SOUND is the roots and blues record label owned by the Black Keys’ front man Dan Auerbach.
This set by country music legend Hank Williams’s only son, Hank Jnr (as his blues alter ego Thunderhead Hawkins) features a dozen tracks of stripped back, percussive Mississippi Hill Country juke joint blues — as played by RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Jesse Mae Hemphill in the 1960s and 1970s.
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New releases by Samba Touré, Santrofi, and Piers Faccini & Ballake Sissoko
The towering figures of the North American right and the South American left are set to clash this summer as Brazil hosts Brics, an alliance Trump is determined to smash, reports TONY BURKE
The looming Trump presidency has forced unions to rebuild their unity and strength, writes TONY BURKE, as the SEIU returns to the AFL-CIO, healing the 2005 rift over organising priorities and getting ready to fight the right together
A horn of plenty, no less!
