
If you haven't heard Alela Diane by now, shame on you. If you haven't heard Headless Heroes , well, OK. The latter is a new-ish project featuring a cast of musicians-including Diane-performing songs from Daniel Johnston , The Jesus & Mary Chain , Nick Cave as well as some more obscure '60s tunes by British songstress Vashti Bunyan , British singer-songwriter Philamore Lincoln and California folk duo The Gentle Soul . The record- The Silence of Love -came out in the UK in [...]

If you haven't heard Alela Diane by now, shame on you. If you haven't heard Headless Heroes , well, OK. The latter is a new-ish project featuring a cast of musicians-including Diane-performing songs from Daniel Johnston , The Jesus & Mary Chain , Nick Cave as well as some more obscure '60s tunes by British songstress Vashti Bunyan , British singer-songwriter Philamore Lincoln and California folk duo The Gentle Soul . The record- The Silence of Love -came out in the UK in [...]

Image: Franziska von Stenglin Midnight Blues (live at Planet Claire) - Liz Green Midnight Blues - Liz Green Thanks to Blogotheque for reminding me (a month ago, things on on a 30-day delay round here) about Liz Green, a Northern English lass with the haunted timbre and cadence of a lost, nameless American Southern blues singer [...]
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