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October 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: How Not To
There’s a clip I watch on YouTube and I’m not joking when I say I look at it most weeks. It’s a film-student interviewing John Cusack and she can’t believe her luck, you see the class was watching American Beauty that day, and she skipped out to interview its star – only Cusack, quite reasonably […]Archive
July 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 95
The Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead (1970) I am a Grateful Dead fan but I don’t own much of their stuff on vinyl; maybe it’s just too much of an undertaking – there’s too much so I never really wanted to get started. But I’ve always wanted this and one day I must get American Beauty […]Archive
October 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Bob Weir: Blue Mountain
Bob Weir Blue Mountain SMG Here the former Grateful Dead co-frontman sits up with a set of cowboy tunes, campfire songs – and even if his big production cost was the time taken to grow that beard it was time/money well spent – for this is Weir’s best set of songs since way back to […]Archive
September 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman