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December 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Joe Pernice: Could It Be Magic

Joe Pernice Could It Be Magic Ashmont Records There I was missing Joe Pernice and comforting myself by reading the books he’s penned and listening back to so many great Pernice Brothers moments and the Scud Mountain Boys too – and now he’s back in a big way, a recent Pernice Brothers album is still […]
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November 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 16

The Staple Singers, Turning Point (1984) I love checking out the “out of place” albums by a heritage act – sixties and seventies groups that ‘failed’ in the 1980s…that sort of thing. The Staple Singers were making gospel gems and spirituals through the late 1950s and early 1960s and then political funk and soul in […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1984, 80s, Cover, disco, LP, Record, Slippery People, Talking Heads, The Staple Singers, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 16, This Is Our Night, Turning Point, Vinyl ·

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October 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Yo La Tengo: Sleepless Night [EP]

Yo La Tengo Sleepless Night [EP] Matador This new EP by Yo La Tengo features covers that stretch back over the last decade or so. As always with this band there’s equal awe for the versions they offer and the mere song-selection. It’s cool, or reassuring, or reassuringly cool to know that that band you’ve […]
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August 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Clint Mansell and Clint Walsh: Berlin

Clint Mansell and Clint Walsh Berlin Invada Records UK In 2014 Clint Mansell’s girlfriend died. He contacted his friend and fellow multi-instrumentalist Clint Walsh to help him recreate Lou Reed’s Berlin album. The idea came from Julian Barnes’ slim volume about grief. In that fabulous book Barnes lists the ‘lasts’ that he shared with his […]
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May 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Joan As Police Woman: Cover Two

Joan As Police Woman Cover Two Sweet Police LLC Where cover versions can fail is in overreaching and trying to tell you how the song should be, or, more often, dropping to their knees as if to say “we’re not worthy” repeatedly – basically: We know our version is not as good, we know we […]
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January 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Jeff Denson: Jeff Denson Live

Jeff Denson Jeff Denson Live Ridgeway Records Bassist, singer, composer Jeff Denson returns with his seventh album as a leader – his first live outing. And what a band. What a set of tunes. What a delight. Saxophonist Lyle Link, drummer Dillon Vado and pianist Dahveed Behroozi get deep inside these tunes with Denson a […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bass, Cover, Covers, Jazz, Jeff Buckley, Jeff Denson Live, Jeff Denson: Jeff Denson Live, Live, Ridgeway Records, Singing, The Beatles, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 196

(The Byrds, The Byrds Play Dylan (1979) I can remember hearing this in the days before I really knew how to separate compilations from albums – and I thought man The Byrds really are hammering home the fact that they love covering Bob Dylan albums – now they’ve done a whole record of them! When […]
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December 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 110: Laibach – “Opus Dei”

Despite the Slovenian industrial band being around since the very start of the 1980s – and on record since at least the mid-80s I had not heard Laibach until the release of their 2003 opus, WAT. I kinda liked it. There was a world to discover. It arrived liked most musical letterbombs at that time […]
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February 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 441

Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, The Fool On The Hill [Single] (1968) One of my all-time favourite Beatles covers is this wee lounge-classic by Sergio Mendes and his Brasil ’66 combo. Nothing fancy, a little bit cheesy, but just right. It works for me. I like it. I like a lot of Sergio’s Brasil ’66 […]
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July 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Los Straitjackets: What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets

Los Straitjackets What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets Yep Roc Records Los Straitjackets (originally The Straitjackets in the 80s, but after a bust-up they’ve been at it as Los Straitjackets for over 20 years now) is back with another set of surf-pop-meets-rockabilly instrumentals. The catch, this time, the album’s title being a […]
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April 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 11 – Five Favourite Cover Versions

Many years back – a decade ago at least, I reckon, the editor of the then-Real Groove magazine asked me to compile a list of five favourite cover versions; he never ended up using it but wrote back to tell me he thought my list was weird but cool. I liked that. You hardly ever […]
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April 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Framing Vinyl: The LP Cover as Artwork

One of the things that vinyl has in its favour – and you’ll always hear a vinyl enthusiast trot it out as one of the virtues of the format – is the cover artwork; it actually works, it actually is (or can become) art. The CD has a lot of faults and though it seemed […]
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