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January 20, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Lee Ranaldo: In Virus Time [EP]

Lee Ranaldo In Virus Time [12 “ Single] Mute My favourite ex-member of Sonic Youth to check in on, always, is Lee Ranaldo. Because what he does never feels like posturing. And because you have to follow him across poetry and photographs, improv and band jamming, solo acoustic singer/songwritery pursuits and all manner of music. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 12" Single, Acoustic, Album Review, EP, Guitar, In Virus Time, Jim O'Rourke, John Fahey, Joni Mitchell, Lee Ranaldo, Lee Ranaldo: In Virus Time [EP], Solo, Sonic Youth, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 18, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Marc Ribot: Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus [Reissue]

Marc Ribot Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus Knockwurst Records Marc Ribot’s contribution to the guitar is enormous – his catalogue is vast, he’s one of those players you’ve heard, even if you don’t know it. Alongside his own idiosyncratic catalogue he has recorded sessions or played live for soul giants (Wilson […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1993, 2021, Acoustic, Album Review, Bonus Tracks, Classical, Flamenco, Folk, Frantz Casseus, Haitian, Knockwurst Records, Marc Ribot, Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus, Marc Ribot: Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus [Reissue], Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus, Reissue, Solo Guitar, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 28, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Neil Young: Young Shakespeare

Neil Young Young Shakespeare Reprise Neil Young is really cleaning out his closet of late – another big box-set from his archives (Vol. II) finally arrived after many years of chat. And Way Down In The Rust Bucket was very recently released too. That’s a Crazy Horse gig from 1990.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1971, Acoustic, Album Review, Archival, Archive, Archives, Bootleg, Connecticut, Live, Neil Young, Neil Young: Young Shakespeare, Solo, Stratford, The Shakespeare Theatre, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Young Shakespeare ·

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March 7, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Gwenifer Raymond: Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain

Gwenifer Raymond Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain Tompkins Square Welsh fingerstyle guitarist Gwenifer Raymond returns with her second-full-lengther and though the debut was astonishing, it felt like show-time; the chance to tell you about all of her collected influences. The songs were pretty and dazzling in equal measures but felt like exercises, wee trace-arounds. Don’t […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, Americana, Bob Brozman, Folk, Guitar, Gwenifer Raymond, Gwenifer Raymond: Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain, John Fahey, Mississippi John Hurt, Primitive, Solo, Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain, Tompkins Square, Welsh, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon: Noon

Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon Noon Megaplum / ATO Records What a wonderful anomaly Leo Kottke is – a folk guitarist, but also a jazz guitarist and there’s classical in there, it’s just an absolute stew. He also doesn’t seem to have ever gone too far down the eccentric path (Bill Orcutt, Sir Richard Bishop) […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, Bass, Duo, Guitar, Jon Fishman, Leo Kottke, Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon, Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon: Noon, Mike Gordon, Noon, Phish, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

M. Ward: Think of Spring

M. Ward Think of Spring Anti I’ve been a fan of M. Ward’s music since I first heard him – and maybe it was his cover of David Bowie’s Let’s Dance that really hooked me in, but I remember loving the whole album, Ward’s originals were always high quality too. Here he covers Billie Holiday, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, ANTI-, Billie Holiday, Covers, Lady in Satin, M. Ward, M. Ward: Think of Spring, Matt Ward, Solo, Think of Spring, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Laura Marling: The Lockdown Sessions (ep)

Laura Marling The Lockdown Sessions (ep) Chrysalis Records Limited, in partnership w/ Partisan Records Though it was sometimes a challenge batting away the various Lockdown-streamed home-concerts; famous musicians beaming themselves in with their ‘all in this together’ vibe delivered from the comfort of their opulent house…it was also a time of great giving, of rare […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, Coronavirus, Covid-19, EP, Fortune, Hope We Meet Again, House Concert, Laura Marling, Laura Marling: The Lockdown Sessions (ep), Lockdown, Lockdown Session, Pandemic, Song for Our Daughter, Stream, The End of The Affair, The Lockdown Sessions, The Lockdown Sessions (ep), You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Neil Young: The Times EP

Neil Young The Times EP Reprise / Amazon Music Neil Young has been one of my favourite voices of lockdown – I quickly got bored with live-streamed house-gigs. Zooming in on musicians attempting to heal the world, make it a better place was fine in our first reaches of housebound panic but it felt, for […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, Archives, Demo, EP, Home Recording, Lockdown, Neil Young, Neil Young: The Times EP, Pandemic, Reprise / Amazon Music, The Times EP, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 48

Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska (1982) I’ve been about as uninterested in Bruce Springsteen as can be lately – not regretting the years I was a fan or anything like that but just so wound up about it. He’s really a gurning clown. This has been on my mind a bit over the last couple of years […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1982, Acoustic, Bruce Springsteen, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, LP, Nebraska, Record, Records, Solo, The Boss, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 48, Used Car, Vinyl ·

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September 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Richard Thompson: Bloody Noses (ep)

Richard Thompson Bloody Noses (ep) Beeswing Richard Thompson is never less than brilliant, never less than prolific – for me if it has his name on the spine of the album it’s an instant mark of quality. But in recent years there’s been a lot of closet-cleaning and stocktaking, volumes of Acoustic “Classics” and “Rarities”, […]
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August 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Paul Kelly: Forty Days

Paul Kelly Forty Days Cooking Vinyl Limited I keep thinking this is a very prolific period for Australia’s greatest songwriter. But actually it’s just a purple patch – within a purple patch. He’s always been regular and often prolific with his output but the last decade has seen a combination of ends-tying compilations and themed-shows […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Bill Withers, Cooking Vinyl Limited, Covers, Forty Days, Lockdown, Paul Kelly, Paul Kelly: Forty Days, Poems, Quarantine, Readings, Shakespeare, Slim Dusty, Solo, Sonnet, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, YouTube ·

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May 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 125

Earl Klugh, Low Ride (1983) If I have a record – and artist – that would jump in and out of the “Guilty Pleasure” category (if I did actually have a Guilty Pleasure category) then it would be this album in particular, and more generally Earl Klugh. Look, he’s obviously great – and I love […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1983, 80s, Acoustic, Earl Klugh, George Benson, Guitar, Low Ride, LP, Night Drive, Record, Smooth Jazz, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 125, Vinyl ·
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