Cemin Deshayes Garnier Boche Jouan - Alexandre Dumas Et la Musique'There are few people as susceptible to certain musical beauties as I am; the more learned and complicated the instrumentation, the less I sense it, the faster it escapes me; on the contrary, if a simple and melancholic motif appears, I feel flooded with infinite sweetness,' Alexandre Dumas once said. To mark the 150th anniversary of the great writer's death, this album celebrates Dumas and music: 'Despite the incompatibility of poetry and music, the

it's sources of inspiration and it's many influences

but even the toughest tasks are easier when you're doing something you love with someone who's quickly becoming far more than just a friend

First compiled by writer and Saint Etienne member Bob Stanley 15 years ago

Starting life as The Sentimental Four in Newport News

shuffle beats

a "female peeping Tom"

and examples of the classic bluegrass "breakdown" style

Tazartès' unique vocals

It's going to be a big adjustment

Duane helped inspire a generation of teenagers to pick up a guitar Vinyl LP pressing

with their roots firmly in gospel

the Laieszhalle Hamburg and the Leipzig Gewandhaus