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April 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Bettye LaVette: Things Have Changed
Bettye LaVette Things Have Changed Verve Bettye LaVette’s had one hell of a comeback – or an arrival; barely anyone knew about her before, and if they did it was more about her struggles than her music – she’s also got one hell of a colourful backstory and though there was some great music early […]Archive
January 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 454
Bob Dylan, Planet Waves (1974) When I first heard this I wasn’t so sure – it didn’t stick, not quite like so many of the other Bob Dylan albums had. But no matter, it was still going to be part of the collection – I had about 20 Bob Dylan cassette tapes and every time […]Archive
November 10, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 472
Bob Dylan, Blood On The Tracks (1975) For nearly nine years I wrote a daily blog called Blog On The Tracks – it wasn’t always about Bob Dylan but then again – it was. He was always on my mind. I mentioned him now and then, wrote specifically about him a few times – but […]Archive
October 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Litcrawl 2017: Bringing It All Back Home
Litcrawl takes place over the weekend of November 10-12 in various venues across Wellington. And one of the sessions I’m most looking forward to is Bringing It All Back Home, part of the first phase of the crawl, 6pm at MEOW on Saturday, November 11. This session is about the greatest songwriter of the modern […]Archive
August 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 4: Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – “Jack Takes The Floor”
I guess I heard about Ramblin’ Jack Elliott before I ever heard him – and though this album wasn’t known to me before reading this book and starting this challenge I did know a lot of the songs here, either these versions or some of them coming from the sources Ramblin’ Jack mentions (such as […]Archive
July 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Andrew McCarron: Light Come Shining – The Transformations of Bob Dylan
Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan Andrew McCarron OUP USA What’s that theory? The more books written about a particular subject suggests how little is really known? You’d easily apply that to Dylan – each year turning out more and more books with dubious angles; his 5th grade friend interviewed, exes, journalists who […]Archive
June 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 67 – Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
Welcome to episode 67 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This conversation is me chatting with the poet, historian and academic Jeffrey Paparoa Holman.Archive
November 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Heroes Live: #4 – Bob Dylan
You will have to trust that I was going to write about Bob Dylan anyway. It’s time to mark him down in my files just as I have with Neil Young and Mike Nock and Paul Simon (and you can click those links to read the entries about each of them) in my series “Heroes […]Archive
October 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 132 Dylan
I came to love the work of Bob Dylan quite late – the first album of his I bought was The Basement Tapes when I was a young teen in high school. At the time I was more into Bowie, the Faces and Mott the Hoople, the hard rock of Sabbath and Zeppelin or the […]Archive
March 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 740
V/A, Texas-Mexican Border Music Vol. 9 – Canciones de Ayer Part 4 (1977) I guess it was Ry Cooder that hipped me to this sort of stuff, him and one or two others (Los Lobos too I guess)…I love this Border music. Huge sing-songs, such wonderful singing. And these Latino folk standards (I guess we […]Archive
May 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman