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Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Uncut is the essential magazine about rock music, written by people who love that music as much as you do. Every month, it features the most comprehensive and trustworthy album reviews section in the world. There are in-depth interviews with the finest musicians of the past five decades, and with the exciting new artists who are following in their great tradition. Insightful, informative, passionate about extraordinary music – that’s Uncut.

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Worth The Weight! • When Mavis Staples rejoined Levon Helm for an emotional rendition of his signature song

Prine movers • John Prine left a thriving legacy in the form of his label, Oh Boy Records

BEST OF THE WEST! • Uncut’s famous Sounds Of The New West compilation series comes to vinyl

Looks like rain… • Mud, madness and the Dead – celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Bickershaw Festival

“Good stuff hangs around” • Now 85, minimalist titan Steve Reich – beloved of Bowie, Eno and Radiohead – just wants to keep writing music

SG Goodman • Southern songwriter makes a plea for empathy

Killer Cuts • 15 tracks of the month’s best new music

Nancy Sinatra • Much more than “Frank’s daughter who sang ‘Boots…’”, the ’60s icon talks Nancy & Lee, Kill Bill, Elvis, Sonic Youth and flooring her Ford? underbird

JOAN SHELLEY The Spur NO QUARTER • New parenthood and a songwriting circle helps increasingly ‘swell’-assisted songs attain captivating new heights.

WILCO Cruel Country DBPM 9/10 • Wilco go (back to?) country, with illuminating results.

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THE SMILE • Radiohead duo re-emerge refreshed as avant-jazz trio.

BRUCE HORNSBY

VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ • A legend’s son potently rediscovers his desert blues source.

ANGEL OLSEN • Truth, turning points and a melodious calm on her sixth.

STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS • Another road trip – with reflections in the rear-view mirror.

SUN’S SIGNATURE

CURRENT 93 • David Tibet continues to fine-tune a singular brand of quietly beautiful chamber music.

AL STEWART • 50CD retrospective for naval-gazing folk-rocker.

FRANK SINATRA • The Chairman’s criminally underrated downer concept album, remixed, remastered, recognised.

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BARBARA KEITH • A gifted singer-songwriter crafts a cult classic, then pulls a disappearing act.

ARTHUR RUSSELL • More radiant vinyl reissues drawn from cult New York composer’s vast archive.

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

COMING NEXT MONTH…

PAST THE SHADOWS • THE DELINES’ atmospheric blend of country soul balladry and hard-luck tales has reached stunning new heights with their latest album, The Sea Drift. Willy Vlautin and Amy Boone help Laura Barton join the dots between Richmond Fontaine, “low-level coke dealers” and “Rainy Night In Georgia”. Their secret? “We’re eavesdropping into people’s lives for moments at a time.”

THE ROAD TO THE SEA DRIFT

WHISTLING DIXIE • Willy Vlautin on the South

FIGHTING TALK! • For THE CLASH, the making of Combat Rock was a time of chaos and internal conflict. Yet 40 years on, its infectious mix of dub, funk, punk and hip-hop remains as glorious as ever. Here, collaborators, eyewitnesses, fans and contemporaries – including JIM JARMUSCH, DON LETTS, JULIEN TEMPLE, GLEN MATLOCK, PAUL COOK and MARK STEWART – celebrate the last hurrah of Strummer, Jones, Simonon and Headon. “Knowing them, and what they were trying to do,” we learn, “this is the classic Clash album.”

“THEY WANTED TO REMOVE HIS COLON” • Pennie Smith on shooting Combat Rock’s cover

TO HELL AND BACK • Horace Andy on the afterlife...