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April 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: April 2021
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. I’ve been doing it for about five years now. Most months. This was my first time in for 2021. This month I talked about two records made under lockdown restrictions. First up was the latest by Tindersticks and I played their cover […]Archive
March 28, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young: Young Shakespeare
Neil Young Young Shakespeare Reprise Neil Young is really cleaning out his closet of late – another big box-set from his archives (Vol. II) finally arrived after many years of chat. And Way Down In The Rust Bucket was very recently released too. That’s a Crazy Horse gig from 1990.Archive
March 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Tindersticks: Distractions
Tindersticks Distractions City Slang Tindersticks may not have set out to make “A Lockdown Record” with the remote and remotely recorded Distractions (there were earlier band sessions, ahead of the new rules that came in under pandemic’s total fucking chaos) but the end result sure sounds like A Lockdown Record. Brilliantly so.Archive
March 5, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Way Down In The Rust Bucket
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Way Down In The Rust Bucket Reprise This version and era of Crazy Horse is well-represented by official live albums – but Neil Young fans have loved passing around a bootleg of this particular show, now available officially as part of the never-ending story that is Neil Young’s Archives.Archive
November 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Laurel Canyon: DVD
Laurel Canyon Director: Alison Ellwood Canyon Films, LLC / Madman It’s hard to see this as anything more than a boomer circle-jerk: Oooh, we had the best music didn’t we… Laurel Canyon is this near-mythical place in songs, in albums, in bands’ biographies. It is real. It was a place; a place where a large […]Archive
November 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Return To Greendale
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Return To Greendale Reprise I like Neil Young most of the time. Or even love Neil Young’s music most of the time. But I think I like him best when he’s being wilfully obscure, or chasing his own vision more directly than the handful of times when he’s just Making […]Archive
September 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young: The Times EP
Neil Young The Times EP Reprise / Amazon Music Neil Young has been one of my favourite voices of lockdown – I quickly got bored with live-streamed house-gigs. Zooming in on musicians attempting to heal the world, make it a better place was fine in our first reaches of housebound panic but it felt, for […]Archive
September 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 52
Neil Young, Tonight’s The Night (1975) I guess I have about 10 favourite Neil Young albums – even albums of his that are pretty-much duds are sometimes on that list by the way. Such is my love for what he does and perhaps particularly the way he has gone about it. But one album I […]Archive
September 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Daze That Used To Be: Ragged Glory Turns 30
Ragged Glory by Neil Young (with Crazy Horse) turns 30 today. Thirty years old! I remember walking into a store that is long gone in a town that was my home (but I’ve now lived longer anywhere else) to buy this on a format that was long ago dead and buried until a bit of […]Archive
June 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young: Homegrown
Neil Young Homegrown Reprise Neil Young’s archive boasts many hidden gems and over the last decade or so he’s been sharing more from that cellar door. There are whole albums, live gigs, alternate versions – and though there have been one or two slightly unnecessary live sets there is still so much more magic to […]Archive
April 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman