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April 3, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Wil Sargisson & Margot Pierard (April 3, Hawke’s Bay)
Wil Sargisson & Margot Pierard: Margot and Wil Time A Part Hygge, Te Awanga; HB Saturday, April 3 I first heard Margot Pierard and Wil Sargisson work together late last year at a house concert in Hawke’s Bay. I was blown away. Here, two world class talents took us on a journey through some of […]Archive
January 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 41 – Gary Moore, “Still Got The Blues”
Gary Moore, Still Got The Blues, 1990 There was a time when I loved Gary Moore – and it was mostly because of this album. I mean I was excited about his pedigree (Thin Lizzy) and his hard-rock background. I was a kid. And rock guitar was my jam. And 1990 was the year that […]Archive
September 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 232: Darren Watson’s Getting Sober For The End Of The World
Welcome to episode 232 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]Archive
July 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Peter Green
Peter Green has died. He was 73. The creator of Fleetwood Mac. One of the fathers of the British blues boom – and sound – a tormented soul, a talented player, by default a brilliant bandleader, it wasn’t an easy road at all for Green and he was one of the first prominent “casualties” of […]Archive
July 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 219: Colin Morris
Welcome to episode 219 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]Archive
June 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 104
Fleetwood Mac, Need Your Love So Bad [Single] (1969) A Facebook chum messages. Says he’s found a double-up in his collection and would I like to have it. It’s only Need Your Love So Bad by Fleetwood Mac. Of course I’d fucking love it! It arrives – and it plays just fine. Any tiny little […]Archive
June 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: An Honest Attempt At A Winter Blues
It’s a cold winter coming, in fact it’s already here – if anything it seems to have snuck up on us this year. But I’m saying this with the heating on – and though there’s an extra blanket needed for the bed it happens to be a very small walk to the cupboard where that […]Archive
June 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Ruthie Foster Big Band: Live At The Paramount
Ruthie Foster Big Band Live At The Paramount BLUE CORN MUSIC (ORCH) Ruthie Foster has been releasing great gospel and blues music across the last three decades – always with hints of pop-song writing, jazz and folk too –if Cassandra Wilson is “jazz” but branching out to see and gather from there, then Foster is […]Archive
June 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: You Can’t Lose What You Never Had
Muddy Waters couldn’t read or write, didn’t stop him re-writing the way music works – he’s there in folklore, painting the walls outside the Chess studio; later making new blues with streaks of his own blood to colour outside the linesArchive
May 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Peter Frampton Band: All Blues
Peter Frampton Band All Blues UMe One of the problems with people’s understanding and appreciation – or lack thereof – when it comes to The BluesTM is albums like this. Peter Frampton was my hero when I was a kid (and even into my teens) I drank up Frampton Comes Alive like it was the […]Archive
May 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman