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September 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: September 2020
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into it or so… For […]Archive
February 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Billie Holiday With A Gardenia In Her Hair.
Billie Holiday with a gardenia in her hair. Billie Holiday wanting a husband and children. Billie Holiday living 100 days in a single night. Billie Holiday singing with a gardenia in her hair. Singing “God bless the child that’s got his own” And she never had her own… Billie Holiday dreaming of the happy marriage […]Archive
November 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
On: Billie Holiday’s Voice
I was re-reading These Lives I Have Buried by Lindsay Rabbitt the other day, an excellent short book, an essay from the Four Winds Press series. And in and around stories of struggle and loss, heartache, pain, grit and soul there was a mention of Billie Holiday. An all but parenthetical mention – but I […]Archive
July 5, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Billie Holiday: The Centennial Collection
Billie Holiday The Centennial Collection Sony Legacy This year, 2015, marks the 100-year anniversary of Billie Holiday’s birth. And major labels being what they are, beyond a shadow of their former selves, there will always be an occasion for an attempt at the cash-grab. Sony Legacy is of course one of the worst here – […]Archive
June 15, 2014 by Simon Sweetman