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March 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 44: John Prine – “John Prine”
John Prine – class act. Songwriter’s songwriter. I feel like everyone knows this. Or should. Some don’t – but then they’ll know some of his songs at least. Like Sam Stone, famously covered by many and perhaps in particular Johnny Cash. But the original is here. This is Prine’s first album and I say all […]Archive
May 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Buckle Up: Ten Important Country Albums In My Life of Listening
I started this thing a while ago where I decided I was going to name ten albums important to me (and important for me) in a particular musical genre. I started with hip-hop (see here). And then I decided to do my list of seminal and sentimental metal albums (see here). And most recently it […]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
March 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Songs Sung Blue: Everybody Knows One…
People love Johnny Cash’s version of the Nine Inch Nails song, Hurt because of the timing; that video, his wife had died – then Johnny died shortly after. Complications resulting from a broken heart. It’s a good song, a good version. But the original is better. I know I’m not alone in thinking that – […]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
March 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Mary G. Hurd: Kris Kristofferson – Country Highwayman
Kris Kristofferson: Country Highwayman Mary G. Hurd Rowman & Littlefield Publishers While we wait – and wait – for some sort of memoir from Kristofferson, Mary G. Hurd takes a scholarly “overview” approach to this text which aims to study “the arc of Kristofferson’s creative output”. So we start with 1970 and his launch to […]Archive
August 4, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Billy Sherrill
Sad to hear, just now, of the passing of one of the all-time great behind-the-scenes players, perhaps the greatest arranger and producer to ever work in country music, Billy Sherrill. Best known for his work with Tammy Wynette and George Jones Sherrill had a hand in so many hit records – working also with the […]Archive
July 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 846
Johnny Cash, Special 20 Original Hits Volume 1 (1969) One of those records I don’t ever remember buying, or receiving – it’s just always been there. So long in fact that at first I didn’t even really care for it. Now, out the other side of full-scale Johnny Cash obsession – and everyone digs him now […]Archive
March 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Carlene Carter: Carter Girl
Carlene Carter Carter Girl Rounder It’s no doubt a blessing and a curse – she’s a part of the Carter Family (bonus, her step-dad was Johnny Cash) but as has been the case with Rosanne Cash, there’s a tendency to think only of the lineage, of their place in the line, the foot up. Carlene […]Archive
April 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Chance: In Search
Chance In Search 1-2-3-4-GO!/Southbound Chance Martin used to knock around with Cowboy Jack Clement – he was sound engineer for the wonderful Nashville and a trusted stage-hand and side-kick of one Johnny Cash. He got on the gas with Tanya Tucker and when that all got to be a bit of a bore, or at […]Archive
March 24, 2014 by Simon Sweetman