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Lee Southall and Ady Johnson
by Bob Oram

AFTER seven albums with The Coral, guitarist Lee Southall is now getting back into a new groove with a gentler and more fragile honesty as he sings about personal experiences like becoming a father and moving away from Merseyside to a “hill in west Yorkshire.”

 

He’s a really talented guitarist and his voice is both achingly pure and as soulful as a veteran country-folk singer.

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