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    Dan Kelly sings an eloquent paean to ‘The Sea Shepherd Cook’ ahead of new album and live dates – Backseat Mafia

    The new track ‘The Sea Shepherd Cook’ from Australian troubadour Dan Kelly is a gorgeous dreamy and eloquent water-logged tale soaked in melancholy and drenched with a whimsical melody. The track veritably skims along the waters with a nautical lilt but leavened with a good-natured observations on nutrition, friendships and desire, with singer Jess Ribeiro adding a ray of sunshine, a golden filigree, to Kelly’s humorous and witty observational style. Kelly says of the track: I made up this one after an introduction to night kayaking, Tasmanian whiskey and homemade patè by the great Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan. Wandering through the Hobart docks the next morning, grimly trying to work…

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    Kenny Wayne Shepherd gives us Vol. 2 of Dirt On My Diamonds, his epic ‘virtual’ double album. – Backseat Mafia

    US blues-rock guitar wizard, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, along with his band, have unveiled the second half of the Dirt On My Diamonds project. Following on from Dirt On My Diamonds Vol. 1, which was released back in November of 2023, Vol. 2 sees Shepherd assemble a further 8 tracks, all of which were written at the same recording sessions for the November release. While all of the song-writing produced enough tracks for a double album, certain songs seemingly had a distinctly different groove and feel, and thus Vol 2 was born. As Kenny Wayne states, “When I started writing all of these songs, I started to see two individual identities…