Debut Album "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
* Album and live show in Uncut best of year list *
* Sunday Times No.4 album of the year *
* As seen on BBC’s Later with Jools Holland *
* Nominated for the Uncut Music Award 2009 *
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'.
26th February - Wellmont Theatre (NJ)
- with Levon Helm
Catalog: VJCD184
Released: 20th July 2009
PRESS
"Exquisite - already one of my favourite albums of the year" – Uncut (Allan Jones)
"Songs so perfectly formed they might have been around forever" The Daily Telegraph (Neil McCormick)
"A wondrous album" CD Of The Week - The Sunday Times (Mark Edwards)
"The kind of record that cults are made of" - The Word (James Medd)
"They have pulled off a quite remarkable feat on Nothing Gold Can Stay - 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 (Laura Barton)
"Nothing Gold Can Stay already has hovering not so very far above it the status of a classic" The Sunday Times (Dan Cairns)
"Haunted but rapturous. Treasure it." - The Mirror (Gavin Martin)
"Simply has to be the must-have album of the year so far." - Maverick Magazine
"In a word, superb" 9/10 - Americana UK
"A beautiful sound. I've had some great live music on the show over the years but I dont think we've had any better this, that was just beautiful, so so good!" Robert Elms / BBC Radio London
"Shows the power of music to lift your spirits and make your heart full - absolutely fantastic." Johnnie Walker / BBC Radio 2
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