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1. Kate Tempest – The Book of Traps and Lessons: “No one thing you can buy will make you feel more complete,” she sings, but she is wrong. This will. Feel her passion at Glastonbury http://bit.ly/2Yze73r
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2. Gary Clark Jr – This Land: America in black and white; count the symbols of slavery in his video http://bit.ly/2s4T3Fu. They’re not all buried
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3. Archie Roach – Tell My Why: It’s been a long, often hard, life for the aboriginal activist
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4. Joe Henry – The Gospel According to Water: Bad medical news tends to make a man reflective
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5. Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars: Completes his body of work without knowing he needed to
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6. Dido – Still On My Mind: I’m not arguing with Dido dismissers. This belongs here
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7. Highwomen – The Highwomen: Nobody puts these ladies in the corner
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8. J.S. Ondara – Tales of America: Young Kenyan man finds America’s exceptionalism befuddling. And scary
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9. Fontaines DC – Dogrel: The new voice of Dublin is more VU than U2
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10. Charlie Parr – Charlie Parr: Set yourself on the porch a spell. We got time
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