Tuesday’s Tune: The Morning I Get To Hell

November 10, 2009 by Tim
Filed under: music

The Duke & The King is a new band featuring Simone Felice and Robert “Chicken” Burke. Felice, a former New York subway busker, has wowed English critics and fans alike on their first ever tour. Neil McCormack of the London Telegraph called Felice “the greatest singer-songwriter you’ve never heard,” and

“I went to a gig last week as good as any I have ever seen, by a relatively unknown singer & songwriter (and performer) working at the very highest level of his art…It’s a kind of cracked country soul thing, with a dash of psychedelia, and at the heart of it are Simone’s songs which are, honestly, the best I have heard in a while, touching the hem of Dylan by way of Gordon Lightfoot…There is a boldness to Simone’s writing, the fierceness and fearlessness of complete honesty that pushes them into places that simply take the breath away…When he tells stories from his own life he goes to places few artists ever touch…These songs are good enough to be sung by the whole world, if only people got to hear them.”

All I can say is that Felice’s song writing is extraordinary and the début album, Nothing Gold Can Stay competes with anything released this year.