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Steve Newton discusses Southern Rock and the Allman Brothers with the late Dickey Betts (Rock's Backpages audio, 1991)
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Features and interviews
Alan Walsh discusses girls with the Bachelors' Dec Clusky (Disc, 1964)
Derek Boltwood gets an earful of woes from the Kinks' Ray Davies (Record Mirror, 1969)
Richard Williams hears about Charisma Records' "six-bob" UK tour from Van Der Graaf Generator's Peter Hammill (Melody Maker, 1971)
Mike Oberman speaks to former Mar-Key turned artist/producer Don Nix (Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 1971)
Val Mabbs meets producer and RAK Records boss Mickie Most (Record Mirror, 1973)
James Wolcott reports on a "conservative impulse" among New York's CBGB's bands (The Village Voice, 1975)
Toby Goldstein checks in with Cleveland's Dead Boys (Circus, 1977)
Penny Valentine profiles the newly-solo Patti LaBelle (Melody Maker, 1979)
John Morthland on the fightin' side of Merle Haggard (Country Music, 1981)
Jack Barron grabs a chat with skanking toasters Clint Eastwood & General Saint (Sounds, 1983)
Paul Mathur meets the Communards' Richard Coles and Jimmy Somerville (Blitz, 1985)
Edwin J. Bernard meets Prince protégée Jill Jones (Record Mirror, 1987)
Cathi Unsworth on the comeback trail with We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It (Sounds, 1989)
Alan Light meets scandalous gangsta rappers N.W.A. (Rolling Stone, 1991)
Siân Pattenden discusses racism and the BNP with Apache Indian (Smash Hits, 1993)
Steffan Chirazi is treated to a tour of Oakland by Machine Head's Robb Flynn (Kerrang!, 1995)
David Sinclair meets Morphine's Mark Sandman (The Times, 1997)
Sylvia Patterson puts some tricky questions to Blur (The Face, 1999)
Johnny Black joins the Saw Doctors in craggy Galway (Rock'n'Reel, 1999)
Chris Salewitz soaks up the sun, sea and soca at Grenada's Spice Jazz Festival (Daily Telegraph, 2001)
Dorian Lynskey befriends Belle & Sebastian (The Word, 2003)
Scott McLennan checks in with the Shins' James Mercer (Rip It Up (Australia), 2005)
Jon Wilde discusses conspiracies and show business with Muse (Daily Mail, 2007)
Geoff Barton checks in with UFO's Phil Mogg (Classic Rock, 2009)
Charles Bermant sees (and speaks to) Ian Hunter in Seattle (Rock's Backpages, 2012)
Ned Raggett profiles glam-metal drummer turned Nashville store-owner Pepper Denny (Nashville Scene, 2015)
Kate Mossman reminisces about her childhood love affair with Paul Simon's Rhythm of the Saints (New Statesman, 2017)
Wyndham Wallace discusses the impact of the Covid pandemic on musicians with Gomez's Tom Gray (The Quietus, 2020)
Album & Live Reviews
Ian Dove reviews Ray Charles movie vehicle Ballad in Blue (New Musical Express, 1965)
Robert Shelton sees the Staple Singers, Ten Years After and headliners Big Brother & the Holding Company, live at the Fillmore East (The New York Times, 1968)
Farewell to Al Wilson: Disc considers Canned Heat's Future Blues (Disc and Music Echo, 1970)
Roy Carr catches the soon-to-be-Sensational Alex Harvey, live at London's Marquee (New Musical Express, 1972)
Jonathan Morrish reviews not one but two albums by the Doobie Brothers (Let It Rock, 1974)
Burn, baby, burn? Robin Katz is left tepid by the Trammps, live at the Hammersmith Odeon (Sounds, 1976)
Fred Schruers is blown away by Delbert McClinton's Second Wind (Circus, 1978)
Clinton Walker witnesses Dr. Feelgood's Australian debut, live at Melbourne's Crystal Ballroom (Roadrunner, 1979)
Michael Goldberg sways to the sound of the Specials, live at San Francisco's Warfield Theater (Downbeat, 1980)
Dave McCullough dismisses Culture Club's Kissing To Be Clever (Sounds, 1982)
Helen Fitzgerald sees the post-Stan-Ridgway Wall of Voodoo, live at London's Marquee (Melody Maker, 1984)
Davitt Sigerson listens to Al Green's He Is The Light (Rolling Stone, 1986)
Abby Weissman sees New Order, live at New York's Felt Forum (East Coast Rocker, 1986)
Dele Fadele is persuaded by Pussy Galore, live at London's Mean Fiddler (New Musical Express, 1988)
Andy Gill listens to Wendy & Lisa's Eroica (The Independent, 1990)
Neil Perry is knocked out by Napalm Death, live at London's Astoria (Melody Maker, 1992)
Angus Batey approves of basketball-star-turned-rapper Shaquille O'Neal's Shaq Diesel (New Musical Express, 1994)
Richard Cromelin catches Brit trip-hoppers Morcheeba, live at L.A.'s Luna Park (Los Angeles Times, 1996)
Alan Light is underwhelmed by the "minor diversion" that is Beck's Mutations (Vibe, 1998)
Julian Marszalek reviews Monster Magnet's God Says No (music365.com, 2000)
Ian Winwood diagnoses Sum 41's Does This Look Infected? (Kerrang!, 2002)
"The bland leading the blondes": Stephen Dalton sees Girls Aloud, live at Glasgow's SECC (The Times, 2008)
Jude Rogers is almost won over by the "rockier edge" of folk prince Seth Lakeman's Hearts and Minds (bbc.co.uk, 2010)
Simon Price on the tenth anniversary edition of Interpol's Turn On The Bright Lights (Q, 2013)
John L. Walters gyrates to a genre-hopping set by Screaming Headless Torsos (London Jazz News, 2016)
Tom Doyle takes to the "retro-modernist soul" of Gabriels' Angels & Queens (MOJO, 2023)