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February 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gat This: My Top 10 ‘Guitar’ Albums

A while ago I described something/someone as “guitar music” and was chortled at from all directions; there’s no such thing as guitar music. This is not a genre. This is no way to explain or define music. Andres Segovia and Derek Bailey and Jimi Hendrix and Django Reinhardt and Eddie Van Halen have all made amazing music by approaching the same instrument (or versions of […]

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August 26, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1880

John Williams, The John Williams Collection (1978) I pulled out The John Williams Collection the other night. I told my wife, Katy, all about how I used to listen to John Williams on CD at university. It was my go-to music for when I wrote essays (which wasn’t all that often). I had heard John […]