Fresh off the back of last week's triumphant Afghan Whigs gig, I have chosen lead man Greg Dulli as the starting point for this occasional ramble into Six Degrees Of Kevin Shields. As ever, we will take a meander around some weird musical bends, picking up some interesting (and random) facts along the way, as we head from Dulli to the King of Shoegaze, Kevin Shields. *** Greg Dulli had managed a year and a half at the University of Cincinnati, before randomly ending up workin

This review of Mark Lanegan's 2020 memoir Sing Backwards And Weep will read more like a straight synopsis of his life than a critique of his writing style. If you were ever thinking of reading this, then be warned, there are spoilers - having said that, if you know anything much of the man and his life story already, then nothing in here should surprise you all that much. To begin with, in some ways it seems a little odd perhaps that the first seventeen or eighteen years of L

I have focused on here before on some of my favourite guitarists , bassists and drummers , perhaps thinking that singers get enough of the limelight as it is. But there is one particular group of singers that has intrigued me for a while. When I think of the great singing voices of the last sixty years or so, the really great ones I mean, there are some clusters across the years. There was a high volume of supreme singers coming out of the high-end jazz of the 1950s/60s (Ell