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Will the circular economy, advances in textile technology and a new generation of designers turn fashion’s environmental impact around?
February 15, 2021
Living through Covid-19 has made us focus on what really matters, with many in the world of fashion ranking the planet highly on that list. Both the fashion and luxury industries have suffered financially during the pandemic, with sales down as much as 30-40 per cent globally according to
Forbes. Pre-pandemic, overproduction had already become a problem for the industry, with lockdowns providing a potential opportunity to reset.
With her new album,
The Waylon Sessions, the prolific and wide-ranging
Shannon McNally set out to revisit the songs and spirit of Waylon Jennings, a legend with whom she’s always had an ongoing fascination. “I have always loved his defiantly existential but immediately accessible common man’s music and how it boogies,” says McNally. But her collection of tunes ended up being not so much a tribute as it is a recontextualization; a nuanced, feminine rendering of a catalog long considered a bastion of hetero-masculinity.
That’s not to say McNally has a softer, gentler take on Jennings’ songs in fact, just the opposite. Over and over again, she manages to locate a smoldering intensity, a searing hurt buried deep within the music’s deceptively simple poetry, and she hones in on it with surgical precision on this new album, which features special guests like Jessi Colter, Buddy Miller, Rodney Crowell, and Lukas Nelson. “The world has changed a lot since these songs
HISTORIAN and broadcaster Tom Holland will be giving an online lecture for Wiltshire Museum. The award-winning history expert and documentary presenter will explore ancient and modern aspects of his native county as well as its historic sites Stonehenge and Avebury in What Goes Around Comes Around: Wiltshire, from Stone Circles to Corn Circles. The lecture begins at 7.30pm on February 18. Tickets cost £7 per household and can be bought at wiltshiremuseum.org.uk Mr Holland is the presenter of BBC Radio 4 s Making History and has written and presented BBC and Channel 4 docs on subjects ranging from ISIS to dinosaurs. He has written several prize-winning books, including Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, Persian Fire, Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom; In the Shadow of the Sword, and Dynasty.
Richie Albright, Waylon Jennings Longtime Drummer, Dead at 81
Richie Albright, Waylon Jennings Longtime Drummer, Dead at 81
A member of Jennings band the Waylors since 1964, he is essential to the story of Waylon, who referred to Albright as my right hand
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Richie Albright, who manned the drum kit for Waylon Jennings since the Sixties and was essential to the Outlaw country trailblazer’s signature rock-based sound, died suddenly Tuesday in Nashville. He was 81. A rep for Shooter Jennings, with whom Albright toured up until 2017, confirmed Albright’s death to
Rolling Stone.
An Oklahoma native, Albright joined Jennings’ backing band the Waylors in 1964 in Arizona, and the group developed a fan base at the Tempe nightspot J.D.’s. Jennings’ first album, in fact, was named after the club,