The Duke & The King

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Today my inbox has introduced me to a band I have somehow missed, but know I’m just going to love.

The Duke & The King are a glam-soul-folk quartet from New York featuring Simone Felice, Bobbie Bird Burke, Simi Stone and Nowell Haskins. Named after the travelling Shakespeare Hustlers in Mark Twain’s ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’, these curious blood-brothers (and sweet sister) have found a home together, a travelling church of harmony and sin where its OK to French kiss your cousin and all strays are welcome to come out of the cold and sing along to songs of love, loss, pathos and hope. The Duke & The King have been touring all corners of the globe in support of their internationally acclaimed debut album ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’.

Ok so just for once I entered the land of cut and paste ….But hell these guys are bloody good! They play two November shows in the UK at Manchester Ruby Lounge on 21st November and the fantastic Scala in London’s Kings Cross Sunday November 22nd. The Scala will totally suit the kind of acoustics these guys need, reckon it will be a killer show to see.

“Exquisite -Already one of my favourite albums of the Year” – UNCUT
“Songs so perfectly formed they might have been around forever” – THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
“A wondrous album” – CD of The Week – THE SUNDAY TIMES
“The kind of record that cults are made of” – THE WORD
“One of my favourite albums of the year. Each song somehow sounding like a classic, each live performance suggesting we are in the presence of a rare, fiery brilliance” – THE GUARDIAN
“Nothing Gold Can Stay already has hovering not so very far above it the status of classic” – THE SUNDAY TIMES.

www.myspace.com/dukeandtheking

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The Duke and the King – If You Ever Get Famous