Re-releases show Kevin Coyne’s true value

A former asylum care-worker who medicated his own demons with drink, Kevin Coyne sang from life’s fault-line – and from the heart. Boasting one of rock’s best voices, this tiny, tubby man made bluesy, folky, comic, sad and marvellously odd music between 1969 and his premature death in 2004.  Derby-born Coyne’s fans include John Lydon and Will Oldham.

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