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September 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Drummers You Just Can’t Beat: # 20 – Bobby Colomby

As with many of my early – and lasting – drum heroes, I have my mum to thank for introducing me to the music made by Bobby Colomby. I’m not sure she’d even know the name if I mentioned it. But she would definitely remember the name of his band – Blood, Sweat & Tears. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blood, Bobby Colomby, BST, Drum, Drummer, Drummers, Drummers You Just Can't Beat, Drummers You Just Can't Beat: # 20 - Bobby Colomby, Jaco Pastorius, Sweat & Tears, Tour Of Duty, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
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October 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Jaco Pastorius by Jaco Pastorius: One of My Favourite Albums

Here’s one of my favourite albums – I don’t want to say of all time, because that feels a bit trite, but I’ve certainly loved this album since I first heard it, nearly 20 years ago – and nearly 20 years after it was released. Jaco Pastorius’ eponymous debut arrived in 1976. Bobby Colomby, the […]
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March 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 735

Joni Mitchell, Mingus (1979) Of course I always liked this record – and owned it – it’s a Joni Mitchell record after all, but I was never as enamoured with it as so many of the others, a difficult record, a bit unfinished, bits and pieces, which of course is part of its charm and […]
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