The New Cue #305 July 28: Dot Allison, Blur, Corinne Bailey Rae, Aphex Twin, Public Service Broadcasting, Cooper T, The Clientele, The Prisoners, Black Grape, Kojaque, Lol Tolhurst & Budgie

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An Album To Blow Your Mind #1

Dot Allison picks a country-rock classic.

Dot Allison’s excellent new album Consciousology is out today – scroll down to Ted’s Recommender entry below to read all about it. But not yet! First read why Dot has chosen Dillard & Clark’s ’68 classic as her mind-blower:

Dillard & Clark
The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark (1968)

“I was first introduced to Gene Clark outside of The Byrds by Andrew Weatherall. He generously made very many people cassettes (and later CDs) of songs he must have felt they should hear. He included on the cassettes he made me Strength Of Strings and Some Misunderstanding from the album No Other and also Why Not Your Baby?. I then formed a connection with Gene Clark’s uniquely emotive and brilliant songwriting and his beautiful, mournful voice and I came across his albums with Doug Dillard. Out On The Side has to be one of the greatest opening songs on an album… sublime composition throughout, enveloping, plaintive, country harmonies and organ melodies like another voice. Alongside Gene Clark, Doug Dillard’s mind-blowing banjo genius makes this one of my favourite albums, a phenomenal record from start to finish… a country-rock masterpiece!