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Ira Robbins discusses ageing, songwriting and Johnny Cash with Nick Lowe (Rock's Backpages audio, 2007)
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Features and interviews
Maureen Cleave catches up with skiffle king Lonnie Donegan (The Evening Standard, 1962)
Fab! Gear! The Pictorial reports on the British R&B revival (Pop Star Pictorial, 1964)
Val Mabbs meets jet-lagged Harlem shufflers Bob & Earl (Record Mirror, 1969)
Andrew Bailey considers America's resistance to Family (Rolling Stone, 1971)
Karl Dallas hangs out with Faust (Melody Maker, 1973)
David Nathan predicts big things for the three Nightbirds known as Labelle (Blues & Soul, 1975)
Danny Goldberg recalls his stint as PR for KISS (Circus, 1977)
Dave McCullough and Garry Bushell loiter with intent at secret London gigs by the Clash (Sounds, 1979)
Richard Harrington checks in with Gladys Knight (The Washington Post, 1981)
Graham K. Smith interviews Aztec Camera's Roddy Frame (Record Mirror, 1983)
Chris Roberts grabs a chat with the soulful Steve Arrington (Sounds, 1985)
Gene Santoro blindfold-tests Living Colour's Vernon Reid (Downbeat, 1987)
Jack Barron hangs out with Happy Mondays (New Musical Express, 1989)
Siân Pattenden puts her questions to Bryan Adams (Smash Hits, 1991)
Rambling man: John Morthland meets Dwight Yoakam (Country Music, 1993)
Richard Cromelin in conversation with the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea (Los Angeles Times, 1995)
Max Bell meets Alaskan ingenue Jewel (The Evening Standard, 1997)
Sylvia Patterson boards Macy Gray's tour bus (The Face, 1999)
David A. Keeps meets cleaned-up rap-metalheads Crazy Town (Rolling Stone, 2001)
Amy Linden discusses hip-hop with Coldplay's Chris Martin (XXL, 2005)
Scott McLennan checks in with Snow Patrol's Nathan Connolly (Rip It Up (Australia), 2007)
Martin Aston submits to Spooky Tooth's Ceremony: An Electronic Mass (MOJO, 2008)
Bob Ruggiero offers a warm Texan welcome to Kiwi comic duo Flight of the Conchords (Houston Press, 2009)
Mike Barnes explains his long fascination with Captain Beefheart (The Wire, 2011)
Dorian Lynskey gives a shout-out to pop's proud underachievers (Q, 2013)
Chris Salewicz pays tribute to London clubowner/DJ Count Suckle (The Independent, 2014)
Kate Mossman hears about the second life of Terence Trent D'Arby (New Statesman, 2015)
Patrick Clarke hears about Sean Lennon's 13 favourite albums (The Quietus, 2017)
Tom Graves on the death of Bessie Smith ('White Boy' (Devault-Graves), 2019)
Roy Trakin talks to smoooooth-jazz saxophonist Kenny G (AARP The Magazine, 2021)
Simon Price laments the poor behaviour of today's punters (The Guardian, 2023)
Album & Live Reviews
Philip Elwood digs a Californian appearance by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (The San Francisco Examiner, 1966)
Jerry Gilbert catches Fairport Convention, live at the Hampstead Country Club (Melody Maker, 1970)
Ken Barnes listens to the debut album by the Electric Light Orchestra (Fusion, 1972)
Ian Dove experiences "the Long Island sound" of Billy Joel, live at NYC's Avery Fisher Hall (Rolling Stone, 1974)
Joe Nick Patoski listens to the juvenilia of Jerry Lee Lewis' cousin Mickey Gilley (Country Music, 1976)
Charles Shaar Murray is appalled by new releases from Paul Butterfield and "supergroup" KGB (New Musical Express, 1976)
Davitt Sigerson boards the mothership as he witnesses Funkadelic, live at London's Hammersmith Odeon (Melody Maker, 1978)
Mitchell Cohen welcomes Warren Zevon's Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School (Creem, 1980)
Betsy Sherman reviews Romeo Void, live at Boston's Paradise (Boston Rock, 1982)
Guitarist 1, Bass player 0: Ira Robbins compares and contrasts solo efforts from Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and David Gilmour (Record, 1984)
Richard Williams is deeply disappointed by the SOS Band, live at the Hammersmith Odeon (The Times, 1986)
John Morthland feels let down by Reba McEntire's Reba (Country Music, 1988)
Damon Wise wanders with Marc Ribot's Rootless Cosmopolitans, live at the at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (Sounds, 1990)
Alan Light finds the grooves in Michael Jackson's Dangerous (Rolling Stone, 1992)
Paul Lester sees Tony Bennett, live at Donald Trump's Taj Mahal (Melody Maker, 1994)
Jim Farber loves Nick Lowe, live at NYC's Wetlands Preserve (New York Daily News, 1995)
Chuck Eddy reviews New York punksters Ruth Ruth's Little Death (L.A. Weekly, 1996)
Robin Bresnark reviews Oasis, live at Wembley Arena (Melody Maker, 1998)
Dele Fadele digs the "damned crazy sound" of D'Angelo's Voodoo (New Musical Express, 2000)
Holly George-Warren hears Robbie Fulks' Couples In Trouble (Country Music, 2002)
John L. Walters heralds the roots rock of Screaming Headless Torsos, live at the London Jazz Festival (The Guardian, 2004)
Barney Hoskyns revisits Robert Plant's Now & Zen (bbc.co.uk, 2010)