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March 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Aretha Franklin: The Genesis of Aretha: 1960-1966

Aretha Franklin The Genesis of Aretha: 1960-1966 Columbia There are so many Aretha compilations on the market – but this one, one of the first since her passing, is a goodie. Its well established that between 1967 and 1972 Aretha Franklin was crowned the Queen of Soul and in that five year period there are […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1960-1966, Album Review, Aretha, Aretha Franklin, Aretha Franklin: The Genesis of Aretha: 1960-1966, Columbia, Compilation, Greatest Hits, Queen Of Soul, Reissue, The Genesis of Aretha: 1960-1966, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 27 – Aretha Franklin, “Who’s Zoomin’ Who”

Aretha Franklin, Who’s Zoomin’ Who, 1985 Maybe it’s a stretch to refer to this as a crap-album – since it was very well received at the time, considered a “comeback” of sorts. Then again, if you really love Aretha Franklin (as you absolutely should) then maybe it’s not going far enough to call this a […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged “Who’s Zoomin’ Who”, 1985, Aretha Franklin, Carlos Santana, Crap Albums, Eurythmics, Narada Michael Walden, Shit That's Good, Shit That's Good - Crap Albums I Love, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 27, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 27 – Aretha Franklin, Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves, The Eurythmics, Tina Turner, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 10, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Aretha Franklin: A Brand New Me – Aretha Franklin With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Aretha Franklin A Brand New Me: Aretha Franklin With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Atlantic Catalog Group SHE’S NOT DEAD – YOU CUNTS! STOP IT! STOP IT!! ELVIS AND THE BIG O DIDN’T DESERVE IT EITHER BUT AT LEAST THEY ARE DEAD, THERE’S ALMOST SOME UNDERSTANDING BEHIND THE THINKING, ONLY SO MANY TIMES YOU CAN SELL […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Brand New Me: Aretha Franklin With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Album Review, Aretha Franklin, Aretha Franklin With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Atlantic, Brand New Me, Elvis Presley, Orchestra, Roy Orbison, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Strings ·

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April 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Moments From (Their) Sweet Inspiration: Listening and Listening Again to Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham

Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham have wonderful careers as journeymen musicians, supporting some of the biggest names in soul music. Penn has performed as a guitarist and singer in his own right – owner also of a wonderful white soul voice. But he’s best known for his producing and songwriting abilities. He, erm, penned a […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Woman Left Lonely, Aretha Franklin, Art Freeman, Charlie Rich, Dan Penn, Dark End of The Street, Dionne Warwick, Do Right Woman, Funk, I'm Your Puppet, James Carr, Listening and Listening Again to Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Moment From This Theatre, Moments From (Their) Sweet Inspiration, Moments From (Their) Sweet Inspiration: Listening and Listening Again to Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Mustang Sally, Neil Young, Penn/Oldham, Percy Sledge, Pop, Soul, Spooner Oldham, Sweet Inspiration: The Songs of Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, When A Man Loves A Woman, Wilson Pickett ·

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March 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 9 – The Greatest Music In The World

Hyperbole – it still has its uses. Hopefully. Tonight I’m doing a DJ set that I have dubbed The Greatest Music In The World. I am not even the greatest DJ in my street. But it’s not about my skills, it’s about the music – it’s always about the music. And though I love music […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 9, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Bettye LaVette, Blues, Chris Bartley, Curtis Mayfield, DJ, DJ Set, Feed Me Good, Five Songs, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: # 9, Five Songs For Friday: # 9 – The Greatest Music In The World, Friday, Funk, Jazz, Kung-Fu, LP, R'n'B, Records, Rodger Fox, San Fran, Soul, The Beatles, The Greatest Music In The World, The Har-You Percussion Group, The Sweetest Thing This Side of Heaven, Van McCoy, Vinyl, Wait, You Ought To Be With Me ·

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January 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Aretha Franklin’s First 12 Sides: You Have To Hear Them

In 1960 and 1961 Aretha Franklin recorded her first 12 sides. Well, she had – at the age of 14 – released a gospel album (in the mid 1950s). But at 18 she walked in to the studio and laid down some tracks; two sets of sessions – she was making songs to exist as […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Adele, Aretha, Aretha Franklin, Aretha Franklin’s First 12 Sides, Aretha Franklin’s First 12 Sides: You Have To Hear Them, Funk, Gospel, Her First 12 Sides, Jazz, Slow Boat Records, Soul, You Have To Hear Them ·

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January 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 14: The Blues Brothers

I have had the double-pack DVD of The Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000 on my shelf for quite a few years. I didn’t need Blues Brothers 2000 but it was cheaper to buy the double-pack than just the original movie… The Blues Brothers had a profound influence on me. It is possibly the movie […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Aretha Franklin, Blues, Blues Brothers, Blues Brothers 2000, Comedy, DVD, Film, Movie, Movies of My Life, Movies of My Life # 14, Movies of My Life # 14 – The Blues Brothers, Musical, Phantom Billstickers, Ray Charles, Saturday Night Live, SNL, Soundtrack, The Blues Brothers ·

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November 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #171 – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Wellington, 2010

People seem to want to treat Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings like some second coming, as if it’s the closest – in this lifetime – they’ll get to seeing Aretha or Ella or Etta or whatever…and no, she’s not that great. I come and go with Sharon Jones really, can’t be bothered much at all […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2010, Aretha Franklin, Art Vandelay, Charles Bradley, Dominion Post, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Funk, Gig Review, Live, Live Gig, Opera House, Sharon Jones, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Soul, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #171 – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, The Dap Kings, Wellington ·

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October 27, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 802

Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace (1972) Recorded at The New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in LA, with the help of the incredible Southern California Community Choir (and of course her ace backing band with Bernard Purdie as bandleader/musical director) this is Aretha Franklin’s third live album, part of a magnificent run of nearly a dozen must-have […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1972, 33 1/3, Amazing Grace, Aretha Franklin, Bernard Purdie, Church, Gospel, Live Album, Missionary Baptist Church, Record, Southern California Community Choir, The Vinyl Countdown # 802, Vinyl ·

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August 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Best Guitarist in The World: # 7 – Duane Allman

When I was about 14 – and at the peak of my guitar-loving “discovery” years, a devotee of Guitar Player magazine, as open to (and obsessed with) Sonic Youth and The Velvet Underground as Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson – I remember watching a History of Rock doc which had a featurette around rock’n’roll guitar […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Aretha Franklin, At Fillmore, At Fillmore East, Best Guitarist, Boz Scaggs, Derek and The Dominos, Dickey Betts, Duane Allman, Eat A Peach, Eric Clapton, Facebook, Gregg Allman, Guitar, Hey Jude, Layla, Phantom Billstickers, Sessions, Skydog, Statesboro Blues, The Allman Brothers, The Allman Brothers Band, The Best Guitarist In The World, The Best Guitarist in The World # 7, The Best Guitarist in The World: # 7 – Duane Allman, Whipping Post, Wilson Pickett ·

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November 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Aretha Franklin: Sings The Great Diva Classics

Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin Sings The Great Diva Classics RCA There was a performance on Letterman to help sell this album. It was fucking atrocious. Worse than that, it was sad. I almost cried – watching the greatest singer of her generation, the Queen of Soul, struggling and warbling. Sicker to hear people tossing out […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Aretha Franklin, Aretha Franklin Sings The Great Diva Classics, Clive Davis, Divas, Sings The Great Diva Classics ·

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November 1, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: DJ Snowboy Presents The Good Foot

Various Artists: DJ Snowboy Presents The Good Foot – The Soundtrack To His Soho Night Ace/Beat Goes Public DJ Snowboy is a journeyman disc-spinner, one foot in the past and one angled toward the future – he’s been playing disco and northern soul, R’n’B and hip-hop, trance and techno and all points in-between and he’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Aretha Franklin, DJ, DJ Snowboy, Etta James, Funk, James Brown, James Carr, LP, R'n'B, Soul, The Good Foot, V/A, Various Artists, Vinyl ·
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