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March 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Loretta Lynn: Still Woman Enough

Loretta Lynn Still Woman Enough Legacy Recordings Loretta Lynn, at 88, still sounds amazing. She still has grit and fight in her voice and her soulful, determined country music still burns. Here, in something of a victory lap, she goes back through the catalogue and re-ignites the fires. She features a few guests – and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged # 88, Album Review, Carrie Underwood, Coal Miner's Daughter, Country, Duets, Legacy Recordings, Legend, Loretta Lynn, Loretta Lynn: Still Woman Enough, Margo Price, Reba McEntire, Still Woman Enough, Tanya Tucker, Tribute, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 136

Bob Marley & The Wailers, Legend (1984) It’s the greatest-selling reggae album of all time and the first significant posthumous hits collection featuring the killer singles by Bob Marley & The Wailers and, for my money, it’s one of the all-time greatest single-disc best ofs for and by any artist. It’s both the token reggae […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1984, Bob Marley, Bob Marley and The Wailers, Compilation, Greatest Hits, Legend, LP, posthumous, Record, Reggae, Singles, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 136, The Wailers, Vinyl ·

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March 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Hal Blaine

Hal Blaine has died. The session drumming legend was 90. What a life. What a legacy. If he wasn’t the most prolific sessioneer skinsman he was certainly the most successful of the busy-schedule players. A part of one of the greatest groups of all time – The Wrecking Crew (not a band as such, a collective […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 90, A Little Less Conversation, Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In, Be My Baby, California Dreaming, Can't Help Falling In Love, Dean Martin, Drummer, Drumming, Drums, Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris, Eulogy, Eve of Destruction, Everybody Loves Somebody, Frank Sinatra, God Only Knows, Good Vibrations, Hal Blaine, https://www.moderndrummer.com/article/april-1981-hal-blaine/?fbclid=IwAR3VCmmiHIlE9kWKHH4Ctttvya4WclpJc_JDyedfEQLFyBKm8XP2PTNicrk, I Am A Rock, I Get Around, John Denver, Johnny Angel, Legend, Modern Drummer, Nancy Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Prolific, R.I.P., R.I.P. Hal Blaine, Session, Sessions, Simon & Garfunkel, Studio, Surf City, The 5th Dimension, The Beach Boys, The Carpenters, The Mamas and The Papas, the Rocky Horror Show's original cast recording, The Wrecking Crew, Then He Kissed Me, These Boots Are Made For Walking, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 148: Joan Baez

Welcome to episode 148 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here’s something a little different for the podcast. A conversation with legendary singer, songwriter, protester, activist and icon Joan Baez. Now, although this is the first-time broadcasting this – it is not a brand new conversation. It was recorded […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged 2015, Activist, Bob Dylan, Bonus Content, Chat, Conversation, ep.148, Folk, https://offthetracks.co.nz/the-joan-baez-connections-just-a-few-minutes-to-talk-about-a-lifetime-of-so-many-little-victories/, Interview, Joan Baez, Legend, Live Concert, Live Gig, NZ, NZ Tour, Phone Interview, Phoner, Podcast, Protest, Review, Summer Holiday Content, Summer Holidays, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 148, Sweetman Podcast # 148: Joan Baez, Tour, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Tour Announcement: Bob Dylan to play TWO NZ Shows (August, 2018)

Bob Dylan will play Auckland’s Spark Arena on Sunday, August 26 and Christchurch’s Horncastle Arena on Tuesday, August 28. These will be Dylan’s first New Zealand dates since 2014 and the first time he’s played Auckland since 2011. The Dylan Neverending Tour reaches Australia in August and then down to New Zealand.
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2018), Akld, Auckland, Aug, August, Bob, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan to play TWO NZ Shows (August, ChCh, Christchurch, Concert, Dylan, Gig, Horncastle Arena, Kiwi, Legend, Live Gig, Live Music, Neverending Tour, NZ, NZ Tour, Spark Arena, Sunday, The Never Ending Tour, Tour, Tour Announcement, Tour Announcement: Bob Dylan to play TWO NZ Shows, Tuesday, Two NZ Shows, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Reggae Knights: Ten Important Reggae Albums In My Life

I started this thing a while ago where I made lists of the top albums that I considered important – it’s a personal list; the albums that introduced me to a genre and have become firm favourites and/or pointed the way. The idea being that I list out my ten favourites – my ten important […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Augustus Pablo, Bob Marley, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Dennis Bovell, Heart of the Congos, Herbs, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Legend, Linton Kwesi Johnson, LKJ, Natty Dread, Peter Tosh, Reggae, Reggae Knights, Reggae Knights: Ten Important Reggae Albums In My Life, Reggae Nights, Ten Important Reggae Albums In My Life, The Wailers, UB40 ·

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April 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Bob Marley & Me: Finding My Way To Marley and Then Back In Again

The first Bob Marley song I was ever aware of was Buffalo Soldier – it was a posthumous hit, released in 1983. And of course it became one of Bob’s biggest songs. A year later the compilation Legend turned up. I was a young kid but this album blew me away. I now have a […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bob Marley, Bob Marley & Me: Finding My Way To Marley and Then Back In Again, Finding My Way To Marley and Then Back In Again, Legend, Marley, Reggae, The Wailers ·

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March 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 570

Quincy Jones And His Orchestra, Quincy Jones plays The Hip Hits (1963) The musical worlds of Quincy Jones – so big, so many, so huge, daunting. There’s Jones the player, the arranger, the bandleader, producer and then super-producer, he trialled hip-hop, he aced jazz, he’s a pop wizard; one of the legends of popular music […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1963, Comin' Home Baby, Cool, Covers, Hip Hits, Jazz, Legend, LP, Orchestra, Q, Quincy Jones, Quincy Jones and His Orchestra, Quincy Jones Plays the Hip Hits, Record, Swing, The Vinyl Countdown # 570, Vinyl ·

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January 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

DJ Setlist: Bowie’s Birthday Bash – Tribute to David Bowie on his 70th Birthday, San Fran, Sunday, January 8, 2017

Well, we paid tribute to David Bowie on his 70th Birthday in the only way we know how – just as last year we played a tribute show at the San Fran with various DJs so it was again. I played the opening afternoon set, and then a little blast a bit later on too…in-between […]
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October 24, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 611

Glen Campbell, Country (1972) Just recently I’ve noticed a bunch of people popping off about this Glen Campbell doco – I didn’t think it was up to much actually; his wife seemed horrid, and sending him out there to flog the nearly dead horse, and almost blindly too. It is a very sad decline for […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1972, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Compilatio, Compilation, Country, Covers, Doco, Documentary, Glen Campbell, Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, Great, Guitar, Guitarist, I'll Be Me, Legend, LP, Mull of Kintyre, Record, Sessions, The Vinyl Countdown # 611 ·

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April 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Merle Haggard

One of the greatest voices in country music has been silenced. Merle Haggard looked and sounded like he was carved from stone, even the name ‘Merle Haggard’, those words, looked on paper like something chiselled away at,all that was left from the starting granite. Merle was one of those names and faces and voices and […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Country Music, Eulogy, Haggard, Legend, Mere Haggard, Merle, R.I.P., R.I.P. Merle Haggard ·

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January 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. David Bowie

David Bowie (b. David Jones, January 8, 1947) was a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, painter and actor. He was an icon. He remains that. We throw about words like ‘Legend’ and ‘Icon’ too easily these days. It’s hard to think of just one word to encapsulate Bowie. But we could use the word ‘Artist’ – […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged All Class, Artist, Bowie, Class Act, David Bowie, Eulogy, Genius, Goblin King, Iconic David Bowie all class to the very end, Jareth, Labyrinth, Legend, R.I.P., R.I.P. David Bowie, Stuff.co.nz, The Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust ·
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