Simone Felice

Renound for being the drummer for The Felice Brothers and frontman for The Duke & The King, Simone Felice is also a writer and a poet.

He is touring in support of the release of his latest novel "Black Jesus" - the story of a young american war veteran returned to his hometown, the fictional Galilee, New York, after being blinded in Iraq by a homemade bomb and the unexpected love he finds with a mysterious dancer who arrives in the town, fleeing darkness and violence of a different kind. Simone will be performing a combination of spoken word and song. Last August marked the limited release of "Live from a Lonely Place" recorded at home (in the barn) just a few weeks after his heart surgery. This retrospective collection includes songs from the earliest Felice Brother days, The Duke & The King favourites and the traditional Celtic waltz "Wild Mountain Thyme". The cut to the bone recordings reveal the excellence of the songwriting and the poetry.

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"There is a boldness to Simones writing, the fierceness and fearlessness of complete honesty that pushes into places that simply take the breath awaysome of his songs are so perfectly formed they sound like they might have been around forever the best I have heard in a while, touching the hem of Dylan by way of Gordon LightfootThese songs are good enough to be sung by the whole world.- Neil McCormick, The Telegraph

The best of this year and beyond Rolling Stone

These are songs of memory and regret, of reminiscence and desire, songs that reflect on love and childhood and Americanness and, more than anything, on time passingeach song somehow sounds like a classic, each live performance suggesting we are in the presence of a rare, fiery brilliance. - Laura Barton, The Guardian

Spellbinding. - Alan Jones, Editor of UNCUT

Shows the power of music to lift your spirits and make your heart full absolutely fantastic. - BBC Radio