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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
Dan Penn
Living on Mercy
(The Last Music Co.)
★★★★
DAN PENN is a blue-eyed country-soul songwriting genius and, at the age of 79, this is his first solo album in 26 years, recorded in Muscle Shoals and Nashville.
Hailing from Vernon, Alabama, among the big hits he penned are James & Bobby Purify’s I’m Your Puppet, Aretha’s Do-Right Woman, Do-Right Man, James Carr’s Dark End of the Street, You Left the Water Running by Maurice & Mac, plus hits for Percy Sledge, Bobby Patterson, The Box Tops, Bobby Bland and Albert King.
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