February playlist

• Steve Hackett—Night Siren (2017)
• Richard Barbieri—Planets + Persona (2017)
• Jesca Hoop—Memories are Now (2017)
• Blackfield—Blackfield V (2017)
• Otis Taylor—Fantasizing About Being Black (2017)
• Big Wreck—Grace Street (2017)
• Paul Draper—EP 2 (2017)
• Elbow—Little Fictions (2017)
• Backwordz—Veracity (2017)
• Ninet—Paper Parachutes (2017)
• Tim Bowness—Lost in the Ghost Light (2017)
• Anderson.Paak—Malibu (2016)
• Three Trapped Tigers—Silent Earthling (2016)
• Prince—4Ever (2016)
• Plank—Hivemind (2016)
• Sand—A Sleeper, Just Awake (2016)
• Los Lobos—Gates of Gold (2015)
• Sufjan Stevens—Ilinoise (2005)

Now on newsstands

The new issue of Tight but Loose, the Led Zeppelin magazine, includes a piece I wrote about Robert Plant's recent concert in Boston on the Lampedusa tour. Plant joined Americana luminaries Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Buddy Miller and the Milk Carton Kids for a series of dates across the US to raise money to help refugees. The format a departure for the singer. The performers sat in a semi circle of chairs on stage with acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins and banjos. They each took turns singing lead, duets and adding harmonies to Americana classics. A fun and memorable evening.

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