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EXPLAINED: 3 | Vintage Vibes

“I’m still predominantly a Teleplayer, but I felt like my guitar playing had got a bit stale. I switched to a Les Paul for a year and I think it did the trick”: Joanne Shaw Taylor on rewiring her playing and conquering ADHD in the studio

New album Heavy Soul finds JST pushing her vocals to new limits and pushing tube amps beyond their limits, and it cements her rep as one of the great blues players of our time

Guitar World

Van Morrison review, Royal Albert Hall: When it’s good, it’s great – when it’s bad, it’s still Van Morrison

The 78-year-old singer treats the historic London venue to a characteristically mercurial night of covers

The Independent UK

"I got my left ring finger shot off. So that was the end of my guitar career pretty much": The incomparable tales of Dr John

Late New Orleans legend Dr John on that time he drank a case of Blue Nun with Frankie Miller, and other stories

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John Lee Hooker: "Eric Clapton, John Mayall and all those other people over in England made the blues a big thing. In the States, people didn't want to know"

Legendary bluesman on his latter-day fame

MusicRadar

Pub in the Park 2024: Tom Kerridge announces chef line-up, including Angela Hartnett and Sabrina Gidda

Van Morrison, Olly Murs and Paloma Faith are lined up to perform

Evening Standard

Vince Power obituary

Visionary festival and venue promoter who changed the face of live music in Britain

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Vince Power's untimely death is a bitter blow for the music industry he changed

Vince Power, the veteran music promoter who died on Saturday aged 76, always made a point of refusing to wind down. Over the course of a career beginning with the opening of his first music venue the Mean Fiddler in 1982, an unglamorous but cosy Harlesden spot which hosted legends…

Evening Standard

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"People in Dublin thought we'd made it and were living like kings. Little did they know": Thin Lizzy and the struggle of Vagabonds Of The Western World

It was on Thin Lizzy's third album, Vagabonds Of The Western World, that "you really get to hear Phil the poet", says drummer Brian Downey

Louder

“Rest in peace, Bobby”: Veteran vocalist and guitarist Bobby Tench – who worked with the likes of Jeff Beck, Peter Green, Humble Pie, Ginger Baker, Van Morrison and many more – dies, aged 79

The British musician played with everyone from Peter Green to Freddie King and Ginger Baker yet never got the limelight he deserved

Guitar World

“I think Metallica thought that I knew who they were. I didn’t. They thought I was in awe of them – not true… it wasn’t enjoyable”: Whiskey in the Jar was the hardest song Thin Lizzy’s Eric Bell ever tackled, and he didn't enjoy playing it with Metallica

In a wide-ranging conversation with GW, Bell also acknowledges that he could never have returned to Phil Lynott’s band after an infamous onstage meltdown in 1973 – but at least he apologized to his beloved Strat for his behavior that night...

Guitar World

10 times bands made masterpieces late in their career

Some bands run out of juice towards the ends of their career. These bands and artists are the exception

Louder

Van Morrison review – gently shakes, rattles and rolls back the years

The 78-year-old’s voice is still strong but his reworkings of early rock’n’roll tunes are more wily than wild

The Guardian - UK

Van Morrison taps into his 'spirit music' with a return to rock 'n' roll

The Belfast musician is returning to where it all began... sounding as youthful as when he started out

Evening Standard

"Morrison is like a guest on a musical chat show, turning these songs into musical anecdotes": Van Morrison's Accentuate The Positive

Van Morrison takes ownership of an archipelago’s worth of his desert island discs on covers album Accentuate The Positive

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The Guardian - UK

Richard Davis obituary

US jazz bassist who worked with Van Morrison and Sarah Vaughan and later became a professor of bass at Wisconsin University

The Guardian - UK

The Secret Hours by Mick Herron review – secrets and spies

This companion piece to the Slough House series uncovers intrigue and corruption in the secret service, from 90s Berlin to the Cabinet office

The Guardian - UK

Robbie Robertson obituary

Driving force of the Band, whose influential first album, Music from Big Pink, sent US rock music in new directions

Louder

Watch the historic footage of Robbie Robertson saving Eric Clapton before they go head-to-head in a duel for the ages

Captured by Martin Scorsese for the concert film The Last Waltz, Robbie Robertson and Eric Clapton's guitar duel is a standout moment from two standout careers

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The Band’s Robbie Robertson captured a dream of what America was, is and might be

The bandleader who didn’t front his band, who was never as celebrated as Bob Dylan or their peers, was the glue keeping the Band together

The Guardian - UK

Tokiyoshi Harada obituary

Other Lives: Bass player who collaborated with some of the biggest artists of the 1970s

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak: ‘Bairstow was brilliant’ for manhandling Just Stop Oil activist

‘He was great, it was a shame about the rest of the game’ the PM told us

Evening Standard

Van Morrison at the Royal Albert Hall review: back from the depths of vaccine paranoia, and a generous host

As retro tributes to an artist’s root inspirations go, this was a refined and joyful display

The Guardian - UK

Joni Mitchell review – first headline show in two decades is three hours of total joy

Many thought she might never play live again after an aneurysm, but Mitchell is in lively, fun-filled form at this all-star return in rural Washington state

Belfast Live

Co Derry music industry insider shares story of working with stars including Van Morrison, Ray Davies and the Buzzcocks

The music industry memoir is set to launch this week

The New Daily

New York jury to rule on Ed Sheeran copyright case

Jurors in a New York court have been urged to use "common sense" to decide whether Ed Sheeran's hit Thinking Out Loud copied Marvin Gaye's Let's Get it On.

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