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June 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 15 – Enduring Favourites, Revisiting Legends…

Been a while since I’ve done a Five For Friday so I’m going old-school – old, old school – in the sense that everything here is something I’ve loved for a long time – these artists are in my special list of all-time favourites; in a lot of cases I come and go, give them […]
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January 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Hejira: My Infatuation With That Album…

I’ve been a Joni Mitchell fan for a while, certainly for the last 20 years of my life. And Hejira is an album I’ve known for most of that time; I can’t remember when I first heard it, it was swept up in a run of Mitchell albums that started with Blue and Court And Spark […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blue, Court And Spark, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, For The Roses, Hejira, Hejira: My Infatuation With That Album…, Jaco Pastorius, Joni, Joni Mitchell, Mingus, My Infatuation With That Album…, Sam Shepard, The Hissing of Summer Lawns ·

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October 28, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 7 – Cities Where Stuff Happened

Something different today, before regular Radio Nowhere service finally resumes… People travel for a lot of fairly obvious reasons – to eat, drink, see the sights, visit friends, and so on. Me? I mainly travel so I’ll have a good excuse for repeatedly missing blog deadlines, and also because there’s a part of me that’s […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bonnie Raitt, Cities Where Stuff Happened, Drive-By Truckers, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Hejira, Jane's Addiction, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Mavis Staples, Michael Ross, Mike Ross, Mother Love Bone, Nirvana, Radio Nowhere, Radio Nowhere # 7, Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 7 – Cities Where Stuff Happened, Subpop, Treme, Trombone Shorty ·

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October 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Laura Marling: Short Movie

Laura Marling Short Movie Ribbon Music/LLC Laura Marling is 25. She has five albums to her name – I mention her age only because she seemed to arrive, fully formed, talk of her still being a teenager was unavoidable when addressing the very early work. Because it had a maturity – and sense of style/song-structure […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Hejira, Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell, Laura Marling, Once I Was An Eagle, Short Movie ·

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July 13, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1080

Joni Mitchell, The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975) I hear this album as the start of the great trilogy of albums from Joni Mitchell – and though Hejira means a bit more to me I really love this record. Of course I love all the Joni Mitchell records anyway. But what’s always intrigued me about […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1975, Hejira, Joni Mitchell, LP, Morrissey, Prince, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, The Jungle Line, Vinyl ·

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January 12, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

William Tyler: Impossible Truth

William Tyler Impossible Truth Merge Records William Tyler has already shown his gifts as a guitar player for hire (Will Oldham, Kurt Wagner, Silver Jews, Candi Staton) and with his impressive if slightly hesitant solo debut, Behold The Spirit. That album is still worth hearing – and having – but it’s his latest, Impossible Truth […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Chris Forsyth, Guitar, Hejira, Impossible Truth, Instrumental, James Blackshaw, John Fahey, John Martyn, Joni Mitchell, Solo Guitar, Steve Gunn, William Tyler ·

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December 13, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1718

Joni Mitchell, Miles Of Aisles (1974) Picked this up recently, a good score for me because I have just about everything by Joni Mitchell on vinyl and had never owned this. I know the album – I had the CD version – but I can’t say I listened to it as much as the studio […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1974, Circle Game, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Hejira, Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell, L.A. Express, Miles Of Aisles, Vinyl ·

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November 20, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1751

 Joni Mitchell, Hejira (1976) If I have to name one single favourite Joni Mitchell album – then it is this one. Based on it being the album I’ve listened to the most – and there most be something in that. It’s as much a comfort as anything – an album I just love; just get […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Blog On The Tracks, Coyote, Hejira, Joni Mitchell, Refuge Of The Roads, Vinyl ·

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November 2, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1779

Joni Mitchell, For The Roses (1972) It’s easy to forget about For The Roses, what with Blue just before it and Court And Spark arriving shortly after. Those bookending albums were my two first Joni Mitchell original albums – and so they were my first two favourite Joni Mitchell albums. Then I moved on to […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Blue, Court And Spark, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, For The Roses, Hejira, Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell, See You Sometime, Vinyl, Woman Of Heart And Mind, You Turn Me On I'm A Radio ·

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