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Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Magnificent late-'50s singles round-up that keeps on giving.
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Headless Heroes
The Silence Of Love
(Headless Heroes/Names)
Novel covers album finds the essence rare. From 2008 - or is that 1968?
Before bands were expected to write all their own tunes, it was perfectly acceptable - if not expected - for singers to make entire albums of other peoples' songs. This covers collection, dreamt up by executive producer/ A&R man Eddie Belazel and studio grafter Hugoth Nicolson, suggests there was more to this model than its detractors would admit. Using a carefully calibrated blend of strings, guitar chime and the gently truthful voice of Nevada City folk psychstress Alela Diane, this small but perfectly formed 33 minute album brings together disparate material - try Daniel Johnson's True Love Will Find You In The End, Linda Perhacs' Hey, Who Really Cares and the Jesus & Mary Chain's Just Like Honey - and absorbs them its own warm, somewhat opiated vision of emotional pain. Throughout Diane doesn't go overboard and trusts the listener to feel it too; duly, I Am Kloot's To You seems like an old familiar classic, Nick Cave's Nobody's Baby Now becomes a ghostly transmission of lost romance and Jackson C Frank's Blues Run The Game is as lost and heartbroken as the original. Belazel, who has since worked on a collection of "surreal felt hats", describes the aesthetic as the "bittersweetness of heartache and love", and any masochistic fool wanting to imbibe would surely agree.
Clive Prior
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 19/06/2009
Further Listening
Alela Diane – To Be Still (Names, 2009)
Terry Durham – Crystal Telephone (Deram, 1969)
Johnny Cash – American Recordings (American/ Sony, 1994)
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Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Magnificent late-'50s singles round-up that keeps on giving.
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The Cincinnati siblings bed into their heavy period.
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Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land
The trumpeter's most soulful excursion entrances MOJO messageboarder.
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