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March 1, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Diane Schuur: Running On Faith
Diane Schuur Running on Faith Jazzheads Diane Schuur, blind since birth, is one hell of a singer – and pianist. But here, on a gospel referencing collection, her first in six years, it’s very much about the other direction – the one above, nothing at all to do with down below. I’m pleased to hear […]Archive
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 […]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
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!)Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
February 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman