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Add to playlist: Kashus Culpepper’s ‘southern sounds’ and the week’s best new tracks
Welcome to our new series highlighting the best emerging artists – first up, a former firefighter and US Navy recruit who counts Samuel L Jackson as a fan
The handful of songs he’s released so far take a smart, often witty route through the classic Nashville topics of romantic despair, boozing and the struggles of everyday life, performed in a style he classifies as “southern sounds”, based on “the music in the cars on the freeway, in the restaurants and in the churches” in his home town of Alexander City, Alabama. Durand Jones & the Indications – Flower Moon The classic soul revivalists’ drummer Aaron Frazer takes the lead vocal here, with doo-wop levels of harmonised romance over a funk backing as crisp yet soft as a hearthside rug. Annea Lockwood – On Fractured Ground The octogenarian NZ composer visited the peace walls that divided zones in Belfast, “playing” them with hands, leaves and stones: history shivers through this nape-prickling work.
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