George Benson Walking To New Orleans Provogue George Benson has performed many tribute songs (Wes Montgomery) and whole albums + shows (Nat King Cole) as well as working with the Count Basie Orchestra and just generally tipping his hat to the blues and jazz of the past. But here he steps out into the rock’n’roll that came from blues and boogie […]
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Exodus (1977) I love Bob Marley – and yet I reckon he’s somewhat underrated. Hear me out…he’s a legend (pardon the pun), he’s an icon, he’s a figurehead. To many he is Reggae. To at least as many others he is the gateway. He is a hero to some people that don’t even […]
Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres Strap Originals I’ve never really understood the buzz around Pete Doherty – now Peter, since he’s all growsd up. Back when the Libertines were running white-hot lines and turning some of that entitled angst-energy into a post-punk prosody of sorts I was still, at best, […]
Welcome to episode 168 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. This is a conversation with Roy Dunningham – he was […]
The soap-opera of Fleetwood Mac has had me hooked since I was about 10 or 12. There was a doco – a bit of late-night music-TV that filled in all the blanks. I was, as a kid, already a fan, but I had no idea how the same band that sang Sara and Sweet Little Lies had jammed out an instrumental called Albatross. My brother recorded this thing called Fleetwood […]
Bob Dylan, Fort Collins Stadium Radio Broadcast, Colorado May 23rd 1976 (2017) It’s a dirty bootleg – it says it’s limited to 500 copies and is on a ‘label’ called BAD JOKER – I ask no questions and access the music. I know this recording well – it was released on TV also and is readily available […]
Jane Goodall will speak in Wellington this Sunday night, May 19. The Jane Goodall Institute New Zealand & Loop are proud to welcome the incomparable Dr. Jane Goodall back to New Zealand in 2019 to help us Rewind The Future. Discover how Dr. Goodall and her Institute are helping to rewind the future for planet earth […]
James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 Te Auaha Tuesday May 15 – Saturday May 19 (7.00pm) It’s getting harder to review comedy – and I don’t just mean for me, since I don’t go out to it as often as I once did. I’m not bemoaning a lack of match fitness. The rules have […]
Ulysses Owens Jr. Songs of Freedom Resilience Music Alliance LLC Drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. has two previous albums as a leader and is known for his work with Kurt Elling, Wynton Marsalis and Christian McBride among others. But for Songs of Freedom it’s his work with Elling that provides an obvious link – for this audacious project […]
Doris Day died today, I’m gonna get so drunk, Case of Syrah, Syrah. Actually, for her it was more a temperamental journey, I heard she wasn’t always so nice. But you’ll not hear that in most of the eulogies – only that she protected Rock Hudson when he couldn’t come out. Whereas she was largely out for herself – despite the idea that she was the girl next door. When actually she was […]
Luke Wright Meow; Wellington Monday, May 13 I call it a “Gig Review” – but it’s a poetry reading. Still, “Gig Review” seems to suit, poetry reading suggests something staid, safe, possibly boring. Not even the chance with one of the UK’s finest modern poetic voices – Luke Wright. Here for writers/readers festivals and Wellington was […]
Sharon O’Neill, Smash Palace (1982) This EP is the soundtrack to the movie Smash Palace – one of the first Kiwi films I can remember seeing and one of the first “adult” films I can remember making an impact on me, I’ve rewatched it a bunch of times and it’s both a great complete story/movie and a virtuoso performance from Bruno Lawrence. The music […]
