Old music: Billy Swan – Don't Be Cruel

A country soul take on an Elvis classic … with some unexpected guest appearances in the videoHere's a song I didn't know existed until summer 2007, when Lemon Jelly's Fred Deakin released an impeccably curated three-CD mix. Halfway through the first disc, the music slipped into an easy, loping groove, sunburned and hungover, and a regretful voice offered Otis Blackwell's lonesome lyric: "You know I can be found/ Sitting home all alone …"For more than five decades, Billy Swan has been one of ...

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