Jon Bryan, Author at Backseat Mafia

Album Review: The Divine Comedy – Foreverland

Now a dozen albums into their career, The Divine Comedy have steadily carved their own unique niche into the musical landscape over the last twenty seven years. While Foreverland breaks…

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Album Review: Ed Harcourt – Furnaces

In a music scene still crammed full of post-Jeff Buckley singer songwriters, Ed Harcourt has been criminally overlooked down the years, especially when you consider that he’s only released one…

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Album Review: Dolly Parton – Pure and Simple

I can’t remember a time when I hadn’t heard of Dolly Parton. As I grew up during the 80s, Parton always seemed to be part of the cultural background noise,…

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News: The Magnetic Fields reissue 69 Love Songs on vinyl

When a colleague recently turned around and asked me out of the blue what the one album I would take to a desert island with me, I said The Magnetic…

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Album Review: The Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel

When The Black Crowes went on hiatus a few years ago, it’s probably fair to say that few of their fans held any great hopes out for either of the…

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Not Forgotten: Vernon Elliott – Clangers: Original Television Music

Do you remember when a group of knitted pink miniature aardvarks to rocked your world? More action-packed than Bagpuss, cooler than Chorlton and the Wheelies, more psychedelic than Jamie and…

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Buyers’ Guide: Slade – Live

Perhaps more than at any other point in the history of popular song, the early 70s were a schizophrenic time for rock music, particularly here in the UK, with a…

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Not Forgotten: Rush – Rush

With them having spent the last four decades carving out the most enduring career of all the iconic prog rock acts, hearing Rush’s self titled debut for the first time…

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Not Forgotten: Matt Berry – Opium

A few weeks ago my father-in-law asked me, as the family’s resident source of music recommendations, if there was an act in the contemporary music scene that I was genuinely…

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Not Forgotten: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Tomorrow Belongs to Me

Absolutely uncategorisable throughout their career, by 1975, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were still in pursuit of an elusive hit singles, but album wise Tomorrow Belongs to Me followed hot…

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