Mercy
DOUBLE SIX/DOMINO
“I can’t even tell when you’re putting me on/We’ve played that game before”
FEBRUARY 2023 TAKE 309
1 MEG BAIRD (P22)
2 GUIDED BY VOICES (P24)
3 KALI MALONE (P30)
4 HC McENTIRE (P34)
ALBUM OF THE MONTH 9/10
IF rock fully sparked into life in the mid-’60s, then those pioneers are now well past collecting their pensions. Some are gone, of course, others creatively spent. A select few, over the last few years, have entered a new creative realm: here, the white-hot urgency of youth is regained, this time tempered with the wisdom of age and the bittersweet passing of time. The results have been stunning: there’s , of course, and , along with Leonard Cohen’s final trio, Roy Harper’s , , Bill Fay and Mavis Staples’ recent work, and so
