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February 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gat This: My Top 10 ‘Guitar’ Albums
A while ago I described something/someone as “guitar music” and was chortled at from all directions; there’s no such thing as guitar music. This is not a genre. This is no way to explain or define music. Andres Segovia and Derek Bailey and Jimi Hendrix and Django Reinhardt and Eddie Van Halen have all made amazing music by approaching the same instrument (or versions of […]Archive
July 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
DeJohnette/Grenadier/Medeski/Scofield: Hudson
DeJohnette/Grenadier/Medeski/Scofield Hudson Motema Music, LLC As far as modern-day jazz supergroups go – this one is pretty, pretty good: master drummer (occasional pianist and also – here – cameo vocalist) Jack DeJohnette is joined by supple, subtle bassist Larry Grenadier (Brad Mehldau, Herbie Mann, Charles Lloyd, Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman), John Medeski (Medeski Martin & […]Archive
December 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Music Biopics Usually Get It Wrong: The Problem Is Taking The Page To The Stage
The music biopic has a tough job I guess – it has to satiate the fan, someone who might know it all or be pretty sure they do. It has to also introduce people to the music, it has to explain why there is a narrative fictional film about this person – or at least […]Archive
August 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 651
Tuck & Patti, Love Warriors (1989) Husband and wife duo Tuck & Patti were new to me when I heard this gorgeous sound – the voice was fine, lovely, really good but what really sold me was the guitar playing, it was a cover – I spotted it, though I’d never quite heard it played […]Archive
August 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Betty Davis: The Columbia Years 1968-69
Betty Davis The Columbia Years 1968-69 LightInTheAttic It’s fitting that LightInTheAttic should shine the light on these fabled Betty Davis sessions – via this comprehensive round-up with stellar liner notes, as is the way with LightInTheAttic releases, and of course the good oil being the music – since it was the reissue label which represented […]Archive
April 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: Discovery
I used to hate it when my mum would say things like “turn that noise down!” And I would always say back: “it’s not noise!” and she’d say, “It is. It’s noise!” I really couldn’t handle that. I had to say who it was that she was calling noise. I had to yell back something […]Archive
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 […]Archive
October 12, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jimi Hendrix: Rainbow Bridge (Reissue)
Jimi Hendrix Rainbow Bridge Reprise One of the first of the posthumous Hendrix releases – this was never actually the soundtrack to a film (in that the material here is not recorded from the concert film of the same name), but it was the album Hendrix was working on, or comprised bits of the album/s […]Archive
October 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Gary Clark Jr: Live
Gary Clark Jr. Live Warner Bros. I’ve just about never been as gutted as when I heard Gary Clark Jr’s debut studio album. Just awful. He had this rep – and there was loads of evidence, an earlier EP, YouTube clips, cameos, anecdotal evidence piled up; he was the man. The future of blues guitar, […]Archive
August 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jim Campilongo: Dream Dictionary
Jim Campilongo Dream Dictionary Blue Hen Records Jim Campilongo has been showing off his angular jazz lines and non-flashy but sonically startling guitar work across ten solo albums and a career as sideman and cameo artist – including his work with Norah Jones in the side-project, The Little Willies. His latest album, Dream Dictionary, is […]Archive
July 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman