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October 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Tami Neilson: CHICKABOOM!

Tami Neilson CHICKABOOM! Outside Music You don’t need me to tell you that it’s been a funny old year…still, I just have. I’m reminded of it daily, as we all are, but at this point in the year I’m doing my best to count blessings, to find highlights, to think of the good things that […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brett Adams, CHICKABOOM!, Country, Delaney Davidson, Gospel, Jay Neilson, Joe McCallum, Outside Music, Rockabilly, Soul, Tami Neilson, Tami Neilson: CHICKABOOM!, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Big Band, Blues, Gospel, Jazz, Live, Live At The Parmount, Ruthie Foster, Ruthie Foster Big Band, Ruthie Foster Big Band: Live At The Paramount, The Paramount, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Marc Cohn & The Blind Boys of Alabama: Work To Do

Marc Cohn & The Blind Boys of Alabama Work To Do BMG Rights Management (US) LLC Here’s an interesting prospect. The Blind Boys of Alabama are a bit of a wax-works museum gospel act; gimmick. Marc Cohn is as far as most are concerned as one-hit-wonder from the early 1990s (but what a hit!)
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Gospel, Marc Cohn, Marc Cohn & The Blind Boys of Alabama, Marc Cohn & The Blind Boys of Alabama: Work To Do, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Walking In Memphis, Work To Do, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 377

Doc Watson, Doc Watson (1964) I’ve been really enjoying this lately – the debut, self-titled album by Doc Watson; one of those guys that is kinda bigger than music – just there always, deep inside the grooves, be it country, folk, blues, gospel. In the post-Oh Brother country music book he got a new wave […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1964, Acoustic, Banjo, Black Mountain Rag, Blues, Country, Debut, Doc Watson, Folk, Gospel, Guitar, John Herald, LP, Nashville Blues, Record, Records, Self-Titled, Sitting On Top Of The World, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 377, Vinyl ·

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December 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Mavis Staples: If All I Was Was Black

Mavis Staples If All I Was Was Black Anti/Epitaph What a decade it’s been for Mavis Staples – riding on a high note ever since 2007’s We’ll Never Turn Back with a constant victory-lap of touring and this now deep collaboration with Jeff Tweedy’s Wilco. It hasn’t all been amazing, I couldn’t get too excited […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, ANTI-, Blues, Epitaph, Folk, Gospel, If All I Was Was Black, Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples, Politics, Pops, Protest, Racism, Rick Holmstrom, Ry Cooder, Staples, The Staples Singers, Tweedy, Wilco ·

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April 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Johnny Cash: Forever Words – The Unknown Poems

Forever Words: The Unknown Poems Johnny Cash Blue Rider Press/Canongate Johnny Cash, famously, never threw anything away…ironic given he all but threw his career away a number of times. But the work within and around that career always stayed. He kept it all. As evidenced by the amount of “lost” recordings resurfacing…and in his after-life […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book, Book Review, Cash, Church, Forever Words, Forever Words: The Unknown Poems, Gospel, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash: Forever Words - The Unknown Poems, Love, Lyrics, Poems, Religion, Songs, The Unknown Poems ·

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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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May 29, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: The Rough Guide to Gospel Blues

Various Artists: The Rough Guide To Gospel Blues World Music Network These sorts of compilations are dime a dozen, in terms of where you find them, but really what it’s about – almost always – is how you find them, and The Rough Guide to Gospel Blues is a pretty terrific long-play single-disc workout. Giving […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Blues, Church, Compilation, Gospel, Gospel Blues, RG, Rough Guide, Rough Guide to Gospel Blues, V/A, V/A: The Rough Guide to Gospel Blues, Various, Various Artists, World Music, World Music Network ·

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May 18, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 694

Jerry Lee Lewis, Would You Take Another Chance On Me? (1972) I haven’t actually listened to this yet – but I do know a lot of the songs, I got quite hooked on the country/gospel phase of Jerry Lee Lewis’ career (as important as his part in rock’n’roll, well maybe not as important but certainly […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1972, Country, Gospel, Jerry Lee Lewis, LP, The Vinyl Countdown # 694, Things That Matter Most To Me, Viny, Would You Take Another Chance On Me? ·

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February 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 750

V/A, An Introduction to Gospel Song (1962) If you strip away the wars, and the Facebook arguments – even if you’re not religious at all, I find it hard to believe you could deny the power of religion as guiding force for some good in the world. I think primarily of all the amazing music […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1962, An Introduction to Gospel Song, Fisk Jubilee Singers, Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, God, Gospel, LP, Record, Religion, Roll Jordan Roll, Smithsonian, Spirituality, The Vinyl Countdown # 750, V/A, Various Artists, Vinyl ·

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December 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 773

V/A, Worried Now, Won’t Be Worried Long: Field Recordings from Alan Lomax’s “Southern Journey”, 1959-1960 (2010) The record store I go to most often has this little pile of LPs down the end of the shop, near the counter…that’s where you find the gold; the stuff that’s just about to hit the shelves for the […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged "Southern Journey", 1959-1960, 2010, Alan Lomax, Blues, Cliff Ricahrd, Cliff Richard, Compilation, Elvis Presley, Field Hollers, Gospel, LP, Record, Robert Johnson, Rolled and Tumbled, Rosalie Hill, The Beatles, The Vinyl Countdown # 773, V/A, Various, Various Artists, Vinyl, Won't Be Worried Long, Worried Now, Worried Now Won’t Be Worried Long: Field Recordings from Alan Lomax’s “Southern Journey” ·

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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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