Pre-sale of the week: Steve Earle & The Dukes – Ghosts Of West Virginia , out 22 May
Ghosts Of West Virginia centres on one of the worst mining disasters in American history: the Upper Big Branch coal-mine explosion that killed twenty-nine men in 2010. When asked about what drove him to craft his deeply evocative new album, Steve Earle says: “I thought that, given the way things are now, it was maybe…