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Matthews Southern Comfort: The New Mine

Read "The New Mine" reviewed by Doug Collette


In hindsight, Matthews Southern Comfort's Like A Radio (MIG Music, 2018) seems to have foretold the gloom and doom of the 2020 pandemic. But the fifth album under that moniker (not counting numerous anthologies and live LPs) also spoke to the positivism of change, i.e., streaming music is 'like a radio,' but also decidedly not the same. Perhaps it's not too much of a stretch to apply a similar interpretation to the follow-up and, if so, it may well be ...

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Iain Matthews: The Art of Obscurity

Read "The Art of Obscurity" reviewed by Doug Collette


Iain Matthews has come to be something of a past master of the concept in this album title. Not the highest profile member of Fairport convention--Sandy Dennis and Richard Thompson hold that designation--the singer/musician has nevertheless continued to maintain a more than respectable profile for decades, through his assembly of Matthews Southern Comfort, Plainsong and a solo career that, in introducing his wryly titled The Art of Obscurity, may now be giving way again to collaborative endeavors. Not ...

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