Distant Relatives (2 Lp's) 10/27/2009 Released: 9/29/17

Released: 9/29/17

Ron Stallings

Featuring a wide assortment of such odds and ends

this eponymous release is a surprisingly accomplished effort from the Nottingham-born teenager Jake Bugg

surely a deliberate stroke by producer Rick Rubin (who has put many metal bands on the map under his guidance)

Distant Relatives (2 Lp's) 10/27/2009 Released: 9/29/17The Nas and Damian Marley collaboration Distant Relatives came together as a way to earn money for schools in Africa, but before any corny "charity album" misconceptions get in the way, know that this is one purposeful monster and a conceptional bull's eye that fully supports its title. Actually, it all comes together in the album's first few seconds as Marley and Nas loop a sample of Ethiopian jazzman Mulatu Astatke for "As We Enter"'s effective and