The Duke and the King: Long Live the Duke and the King | CD review

(Silva Oak)Only a year after their acclaimed debut, Simone Felice's post-Felice Brothers band's follow-up is undeniably lovely. Songs about drummer boys and girls with daisies in their hair are lavished with old folk and soul, although sometimes the gooeyness needs more bite, Shaky's pops at US foreign policy: "Baghdad she's a mean old town/ I get the feeling she don't want me around." No Easy Way Out varies the mood with a terrific female-sung country rocker, but elsewhere the succession of voc...

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