Rebel music

MARGO PRICE ’ s harrowing life story was the stuff of country legend, but in the decade since her debut she’s slowly reinvented herself as a psychedelic free spirit. Now, with a new album, she’s taken stock, returned to Nashville, and is out to reclaim her outlaw roots. “I wanted to make a defiant record,” she confides to Stephen Troussé

Lukas Nelson: a plaintive voice and an innate ...

The Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman’s saga is one of American rock’s most complex: a story of working-class poetry, bitter betrayal, legal warfare, and long-delayed redemption. Now at peace with his past and driven by a renewed purpose, John Fogerty’s story is not over yet…

Strawbs co-founder Dave Cousins died in July following a long illness. The singer, songwriter and guitarist enjoyed an active musical career spanning more than six decades and has been name-checked by many musicians as a key influence and inspiration. We reflect on his rich legacy and reveal plans for a number of posthumous releases, including the long-awaited new Strawbs album.

From a home in England’s West Midlands, to Knebworth and Live Aid with Led Zep and back, via fame, fortune, tragedy and musical resurrection – ROBERT PLANT ’ s come full circle. A new album with local heroes Saving Grace exemplifies his hard rock apostasy, the reason he’d rather worship Nora Brown than hang with Axl Rose. And if all else fails? “I’ll just be an Elvis impersonator!” he tells KEITH CAMERON .

Strawbs lodestar and constant Dave Cousins left us on July 13.