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June 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Got Live Cos I Want It: 10 Important Live-in-Concert Albums In My Life of Listening
I know I’ve written about live albums before – several times, and I always will, I love live albums! – but I thought I’d give you a list of the ten live albums that I consider the most important. That is to say important to me, these lists are a chance for me to remind […]Archive
February 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 583
Chicago Smoke Shop, Mind On My Sleeve [Single] (1988) Long before I knew Darren Watson or any of his music as a solo performer I knew this song – and a couple of others from the band. I remember seeing the clips on TV, I never saw the band live – but they were a big […]Archive
December 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: # 4 – Five Great Tracks From Five Great Live Albums
Not all live albums are created equally – many are built in the studio after with overdubs, some just feature crowd-noise endlessly, Neil Young’s brand new live album has him substituting out the crowd for animal noise. There are some great, great live albums out there – where the energy of the crowd is so […]Archive
October 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Check out Chris Cain: He’s Got The Blues in his Soul and at his Fingertips
Chris Cain is an American blues guitarist and singer. He writes his own songs – has nearly a dozen albums to his name, but it’s the blues he carries inside him, a repertoire of songs by the greats, the legends – B.B. King and Albert King, for example – that make Cain worth seeing and […]Archive
September 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 625
Billy Ocean, No More Love On The Run [Single] (1984) I was pretty into Billy Ocean in the mid-80s. His songs were on the radio, we taped the radio and kept the best songs to play over and over and my aunty bought cassette tapes of all the new artists with fresh hits. So she […]Archive
March 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Chris Cain, Roy Phillips – Together in Concert for the First Time w/ The Rodger Fox Big Band (Wgtn, March 23)
Chris Cain/Roy Phillips – Together in Concert for The First Time w/ The Rodger Fox Big Band The Grand Wednesday, March 23 Billed as The USA – UK Connection (featuring The Rodger Fox Big Band) we essentially had 2-for-1, a double-bill that started with The UK’s Roy Phillips. He’s been living in New Zealand since […]Archive
March 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Chris Cain with The Rodger Fox Big Band: King of the Blues
Chris Cain w/ The Rodger Fox Big Band King of the Blues TBone Records American guitarist Chris Cain is a regular visitor to these shores and late last year he recorded this set with The Rodger Fox Big Band. Consider it a business card, of sorts. Here you get to hear Cain do his B.B. […]Archive
July 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #115 – Soul Power, Wellington, 2009
Well it’s Film Festival time once again. And so by way of looking back I post this stub – not really all that exciting at all (though you might notice I’ve written a phone number on it, then scribbled that out…a hark back to landlines, and the days when the tickets sat next to the […]Archive
June 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 88 – B.B. King, Auckland, 2011
Still feels like such a heavy weight, knowing he’s gone. I, like a lot of others, have said my goodbye, and was expecting B.B. King to die for the last few years – in fact, in a way, this gig was my goodbye to him. The chance to (finally) see him. Okay, so he wasn’t […]Archive
May 19, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. B.B. King
B.B. King has died. Anyone reading this already knows that – I held off a couple of days. I was away. The news had to soak in. Almost everyone else has paid tribute anyway, or will…but I also held off because, well, I wrote about B.B. King often. And every post – in some way […]Archive
April 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman