In 1993, The Scud Mountain Boys typified an emergent generation of professorial American songwriters with the same respect for the plangent Americana of Big Star and Gram Parsons their forebears showed to Robert Frost and John Cheever.
Indeed, after leaving the band rudderless in the late nineties, Joe Pernice pursued a literary career alongside his solo recordings.
The Alternative Country originators reform to drop ten apparently effortless slices of slowburning, immaculately harmonised, perfect grown-up guitar pop, gilded with lyrics both studiously modest and painfully precise.
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Jackmumf, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Mearecate, Youtube
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