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The Allman Brothers, Trouble No More: 50th Anniversary Collection
Great tribute to one of rock music’s most enduring bands
By chance, RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA comes across a fine new two hander about the enduring legacy of the Miners' strike
Rescue care from the realm of sentimentality: what happens when we replace the vertical relationship between benefactor and victim with interdependence, collective organisation and struggle?
New releases by Interpol, Phoebe Bridgers, Lambchop
ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
THE ALLMAN Brothers came together in 1969 and these box and vinyl sets span their entire career across 13 different line-ups, with tracks from their albums and live recordings – including with The Grateful Dead — and unreleased material.
Kicking off in 1969 with an unreleased cover of Muddy Waters’s Trouble No More, the Capricorn album’s tracks have Duane Allman’s wonderful slide guitar work at the centre of things.
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