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Unpeeled website ("The small, but perfectly deformed publication that covers the kind of music played by John Peel as well as material he’s never heard of!") had this nice article about ONE DAY IN CHICAGO (Dec 05).

NAMELESS, STUPID AND WITLESS?

Kevin Coyne With Jon Langford & The Pine valley Cosmonauts “One Day In Chicago” (Spinney Records)
I’m not a big fan of old people and while Kevin Coyne is, was a less than underage 61 at the time of recording this, I am a big fan of this slab from the dirt-blues scuffed spangle stomp of “Monkeyheart” and know two things; if this came from some sulky Oxford drop outs it’d be page one and number one and that in ideal world “Monkeyheart” would still be the Christmas number one at Easter. But, there is, as they say, more… KC roams through styles, fearlessly and effortlessly and while I’m about to idiotically note that “Over Land & Sea” reminds strongly of Gabriel’s better stuff, it’s far more likely that Gabriel is the influencee. To be fair though, the skiffled up shuffle of “Money Like Water” owes a nod to Lonnie Donegan, that’s a good thing and the agi-prop pinko-commie ranting is very funny and very fine. “One Day…” is a charming and warming album, it’s the got the blues, it mucks about, it’s got the giggles, it’s got an bona fide English eccentric fronting, in the main, excellent Americana music, with some krautrock keyboards surfacing now and then, “Way Of The World” being an elegant example. Kevin Coyne is not on Myspace, but he is on the ball and will always be on the playlist at Unpeeled Perches. (www.spinneyrecords.co.uk)

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