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WITH no live music and specialist record shops closed, 2020 looked like it was going to be a wipe-out.
So who would have thought that so many excellent releases and reissues would have found their way into the hands of music fans, with 2020 the year that veterans released some great new albums.
They included soul artists such as Don Bryant with Your Love Is To Blame (Fat Possum), Jerry “Swamp Dogg” William’s country-soul set Sorry You Couldn’t Make It (Joyful Noise) and Dan Penn’s Living On Mercy (Last Music Company).
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