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Editor’s Note

Music City miracle! • Big Thief unveil their new triple album live in Nashville, with the aid of Americana royalty Gillian Welch, Iris DeMent and Lucinda Williams

“It’s a ninja art” • Dhani Harrison and Nigel Godrich have come together as Dragonflies to make an album of warm, immersive trip-hop on Ravi Shankar’s old tape machine

A Quick One

Rhapsody in biro • Freddie Mercury’s lifelong companion Mary Austin opens the notepads of the beloved Queen frontman

In the orbit of rare • This month: five of the most desirable jazz LPs out there

RPM Music • 4 Old George Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1EZ

Rock’n’roll with me • Exploring David Bowie’s eclectic record collection with his lifelong friend and collaborator Geoff MacCormack

Way Dynamic • Classic sunshine-pop songwriting, knocked out with typically Australian nonchalance and endorsed by Elton

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

ON THIS MONTH’S CD • UNCUT and RICHARD THOMPSON present…

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KENNEY JONES • The Small Faces drummer on East End pubs, piloting helicopters, going “a bit nuts” with The Who… and new Faces material

BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME! • An important message for UNCUT readers

NEIL YOUNG & THE CHROME HEARTS • A moving meditation on memory, love and mortality.

THE ROAD TO SECOND SONG • Three key albums from Young’s reflective late-period catalogue

JULIA JACKLIN • Australian road warrior discovers there’s no place like home.

AtoZ • This month…

SOFT CELL • Synth-pop legends bow out with a vivacious nostalgia fest.

JIM GHEDI • Sheffield folkie takes his dark ruminations to Hollywood.

CHARLIE PARR • Career best from country-blues Minnesotan

HELEN • Liz Harris and co on spontaneity and shadows

JOHNNY MARR • The erstwhile super-sideman’s latter-day burst of solo creativity continues apace.

SADURN • Singer G DeGroot on the troubled genesis of their band’s new album

THE BEATLES • What goes on! The Fabs’ revelatory sixth remixed, with added treasures.

ISN’T IT GOOD? • Three oddities from the Super Deluxe Rubber Soul

Q&A • Giles Martin on the new Rubber Soul, the surprise Lennon demo, and why his father’s “In My Life” solo turned out to be a happy accident

HOLE • Love supreme: the LA band’s trilogy remastered and re-pressed.

AtoZ • This month…

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

ELVIS COSTELLO • Five-disc telling of Declan MacManus’s metamorphosis.

THE SPECIALIST

THE QUEEN OF COUNTRY • From a one-room cabin in East Tennessee to global superstardom, DOLLY PARTON built an empire on talent, humour,...