48 Daily Express Friday April 11 2014 Daily Express Friday April 11 2014 49 N\\b\e[Dlj`ZK_\Xki\ nnn%\ogi\jj%Zf%lb&k`Zb\kj IF;E<P:IFN<CC1 DPJ@O9<JK8C9LDJ@8E8E;<IJFE Tarpaper Sky (New West) 8C9LDI<M@<NJ Emmylou Harris’s favourite IAN ANDERSON, 66, is a singer afraid to talk about social issues collaborator has created another and musician with Jethro Tull, and presented them in a dignified collection of pleasingly warm SOUL MAN: KVbe^gZX]^aaZg whose biggest hit was Living In way. He didn’t live long, but should country, folk and roots songs Paolo Nutini The Past in 1969. His album Homo be honoured as an important artist. that will sit happily alongside goes retro Erraticus is released on Monday chart-topping sets such as with a new and he tours from April 28. 9<<K?FM<E1Jpdg_fepEf0 Diamonds And Dirt (1988), Life gigantic.com/artist/ian-anderson (Deutsche Grammophon) edge on his Is Messy (1992) and the brilliant latest record WVX`l^i]VW^iZ I got to know this through the The Outsider (2005). Helped by IFP?8IG<I1:fd\Flk movie A Clockwork Orange. his longtime guitarist buddy, =`^_k`e^>_\e^`jJd`k_(Deleted) Beethoven is the big daddy of Eagles sideman Steuart Smith, C<KK?<I@>?KFE<@E Benson) from a climbing frame. This was released in 1968, the year classical composers, technically RC zips slickly along this avenue Although both are caught in the Jethro Tull began, and we played a refined with the ability to of Americana with some style. Apollo Theatre, London, 0844 412 4648 maelstrom of puberty, Eli has the few shows together. Roy’s music communicate emotion across a From the jukebox classic sound until September 27 self-possession of someone, or WISE WORDS: evolved from the folk revival and dramatic range. I like Herbert von of Frankie Please and the jaunty something, older. Inexplicably, Eli (Benson) he brought some originality to it. Karajan’s version from the 1960s. accordion and mandolin-driven UST when you thought it Thorne fails to include Eli’s most helps bullied The way he combined observation, Fever On The Bayou to the was safe to go back to the telling line from John Ajvide storytelling and opinion helped to M8IKK@E818`kXiX(Xenophile) touching God I’m Missing You theatre, particularly one Lindqvist’s screenplay – “I’m 12. Oskar (Quinn) shape my approach to songwriting. Folk has always been part of my and poignant Grandma Loved ?whose roof collapsed on the But I’ve been 12 for a long time.” life and this is a Finnish band, That Old Man, this well- audience last year, along comes a As Gavin Kean’s detective DFJ<8CC@JFE1Jn`e^`eË who I refer to irreverently as the produced album becomes more play to make you quiver with pursues a serial killer it is evident DXZ_`e\(Atlantic) “fishwives”. They sing about comfortable with every listen. apprehension of a different kind. that the perpetrator is Eli’s My favourite jazz album. Allison women in the workplace in a ;8M@;?8D@CKFE What began as a novel and was guardian and, er, supplier, Hakan. performed laconic songs of the curious, beautiful voice. subsequently resurrected on Eli encourages Oskar to fight Deep South, a smoky, illegal booze G8FCFELK@E@1Caustic celluloid in two film versions – the back against bullies while he in shack kind of jazz. A cult figure J<K?C8B<D8E1=i\\[fd Love (Atlantic) original Swedish and a remarkably turn acts as her protector when who provided a generation =`\c[j(Relentless) He’s been away for five years – with Parkinson’s Disease makes years after the first. Like most of good American remake – Let The Hakan comes to an appalling end. of blues and rock musicians This is based on folk-song and my, how he’s grown up. this a timely and poignant the Brewis beat, it’s a sometimes Right One In is one of the most Slow to start, it leaps into life in with material. ideas but Seth brings it into Paisley’s Paolo ditches the jollity release. The album contains 15 challenging but ultimately successful variants on the the second half, haemorrhaging the 21st century, which of Pencil Full Of Lead and gets of her finest collaborations, entertaining coupling of art- hackneyed myth of vampires in satisfying shocks. Director John A9C<EF@I18cXYXdX makes it appealing because funky and soulful here, with highlighting her great voice and rock, funk and prog – staccato the last two decades. If this latest Tiffany adds music and dance to 9cl\j(Complete Blues) of the great use of rhythm. material that amazing voice has her versatility. Grammy-winning drumbeats and clipped incarnation loses much in the sustain an atmosphere that the Lenoir was a strummer I’m confident that if I put on been crying out for. Let Me songs I Can’t Help It (with guitarwork abound. Distance transition it is still a potent chiller. leaden dialogue fails to deliver. who sang with bell-like his latest, I’ll be able to pick Down Easy and Iron Sky see Emmylou Harris), Somewhere Between, Dress Up and Moment Jack Thorne’s adaptation for In his professional stage debut, clarity about up my flute and play along him transmogrify into a cross Out There (with James Ingram) Of Doubt are the best moments. the National Theatre of Scotland Quinn conveys perfectly Oskar’s conscription and the as our influences are between Marvin Gaye and and the fabulous Don’t Know – which premiered at Dundee Rep awkwardness, whether hugging race riots. He wasn’t so similar. Bobby Womack, with the latter Much with the velvet-voiced 9<EN8KK1Hendra before becoming the company’s Eli at arm’s length or failing to even throwing in a sample of Aaron Neville are all here, along (Unmade Road) first production to play London’s jump over a pommel horse in the Charlie Chaplin as the Great with Cajun-tinged duets with He’s been busy, Ben, since his West End – transfers the action school gym. Benson is equally Dictator. Opener Scream and Ann Savoy, crooning with Frank debut solo album in 1983, with from a soulless Stockholm suburb good, radiating the abstruse allure Fashion are more modern affairs Sinatra on Moonlight In Vermont Everything But The Girl, DJ to an anonymous Scottish one. of a young Alice Krige while with Fashion buzzing thanks to and rolling back the years with work, nightclub ownership, As bullied schoolboy Oskar flattening her delivery to remain an all-too-short appearance by Bette Milder in a version of record label launching, (Martin Quinn) pursues revenge just the wrong side of human. Puts traveloffer the marvellous Janelle Monae. Rosemary Clooney’s Sisters. fatherhood, illness, and fantasies at night by stabbing a fresh blood into the undead. He does keep the troubadour authorship, but finally, 31 years knife into the trees, he is observed feel of earlier albums, though, on 9IFENPEE<9I<EK1 after North Marine Drive, comes by his new neighbour, Eli (Rebecca E<@CEFID8E tracks like Better Man and the Stardust his solo follow-up. And it’s worth great Cherry Blossom. (bronwynne brent music) the wait. Simple and delicate for booking The album cover sees this the most part, but with some he’s adept at a mean cover or two, 9@CCP9I8>>1Live At The Mississippi miss wearing a wispy hidden bite. Much is driven by including Dock Of The Bay, Some Deposit Union Chapel, London garland of dried flowers in her loss, with Matthew Arnold’s Guys Have All The Luck, Rocks your (Cooking Vinyl) hair, suggesting we’re in for some Field seeing Watt scattering his and Baby Please Don’t Go among Having delivered masterful delicate folk. Boy, looks can be father’s ashes, and the title track others, while the Stewart classics Americana on last studio album so deceiving. Brent’s second remembering his late sister are all here. Tooth & Nail last year, Billy album is awash with Tex-mex Jennie. Some heavy duty guitar secures Bragg seems rejuvenated, and Americana, jazzy shuffles and pals help out, as Suede’s K?<8D8Q@E>JE8B<?<8;J1 shows that to great aplomb on bluesy laments, all delivered Bernard Butler and David Amphetamine Ballads this live CD/DVD set. The music with a voice that has the power Gilmour of Pink Floyd pitch in, (Domino) spans his 30-year career, of Billie Holiday and the range of but Watt’s original mantra of An angry, ferocious debut album including Woody Guthrie tracks Nerina Pallot. John Convertino, stripped-down folk and the from the Glasgow trio. Dale he worked on with Wilco on one-half of Calexico, mans the EBTG flow is back in vogue Barclay rampages at the front, akin Mermaid Avenue, and his drums, and his input along with again. to Nick Cave during his Birthday impassioned political views on the production and guitar licks Party days, making no Between The Wars and There Is of Johnny Sangster keep things IF;JK<N8IK1Live concessions with his broad, Power In A Union. The band are ticking along as Bronwynne 1976-1998 – Tonight’s menacing accent spitting out his sharp, the venue is acoustically bemoans betrayal and loss on The Night (Rhino) skewed view on the seedy great and visually stunning, and top tracks like Lay Me Down, A sprawling four-disc collection underbelly of life (Swamp Song the DVD also includes his solo Devil Again and Bulletproof. of Rod on stage in over 20 years Nighttime, I’m A Vampire).