With his latest album, All My Strangest Companions, Freddie Stevenson returns from Nashville, Tennessee a little older and a little wiser. So how did this Scottish afro’d punk poet end up in Music City, USA? Accidentally. But that’s another story altogether. Stevenson’s music catches everything from acoutsic melancholia to lap steel scratch, at times abrasive, at others so gently lulling it wraps you up and stroked you like you were a twelve day old child. His Secret Playlist is fittingly scattered. A bit of this, a lot of that.
Levon Helm / The Mountain
I first heard this song on the record Steve Earle did with Del McCoury, but this version is just heartbreaking. There is something so ancient and authentic about Levon’s voice. It transports you to the lonely, broken mountain he’s singing about in this song.
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