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TRY A LITTLE FENDERNESS

There are several Duff McKagans. There’s Duff the Guns N’ Roses bass player; the Loaded vocalist/guitarist; the temporary Jane’s Addiction member; the Walking Papers bassist; the author; the family man... The list goes on.

When it was announced that McKagan was about to release a new solo album called Tenderness – only his second, following 1993’s Believe In Me, but third if you count the unreleased Beautiful Disease in 1999 – it could well have been any of these Duffs that made the album. But instead, it’s none of them. This album is Duff as acoustic singer-songwriter, collaborating with Shooter Jennings on a collection of songs that allow space and

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