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November 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Dave Brubeck: Lullabies

Dave Brubeck Lullabies Verve This is Dave Brubeck’s final album – released just now, but recorded a decade ago. It’s a set of charming-enough lullabies, the real weight of them can be measured by the wait I guess – and the timing now of release; early next month it is the jazz legend’s centenary so […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 100, Album Review, Centenary, Covers, Dave Brubeck, Dave Brubeck: Lullabies, Instrumental, Jazz, Lullabies, Lullaby, Originals, Piano, posthumous, Solo, Standards, Verve, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Lucy Dacus: 2019 [EP]

Lucy Dacus 2019 (ep) Matador As far as stopgap EPs go this is very good. It’s a bunch of single tracks collected up and gathered here under a clever-enough theme (holidays; a different song for each holiday, mix of covers and originals) but it ultimately exists to make sure people don’t forget about Dacus in […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2019, Album Review, boygenius, Bruce Springsteen, Covers, Edith Piaf, EP, Historian, Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Lucy Dacus: 2019 [EP], Matador, Originals, Phil Collins, Phoebe Bridgers, Wham!, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 261   

Prince, Originals (2019) So far, I have to say, they’ve hit it out of the park with the official posthumous Prince releases. I previewed this one a while back (unofficially)  My prediction was the Kenny Rogers song would be ‘discovered’ as a lost-classic, a gem, and I’ve no way of knowing if that’s the case, it was just a feeling I […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2019, 2LP, Covers, Demo, demos, Kenny Rogers, LP, Manic Monday, Originals, Prince, Record, Songwriting, The Vinyl Countdown # 261, Vinyl, You're My Love ·

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June 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: Covers You Didn’t Know Were Covers

I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But now and then I present features on the show too. Last year I had nearly an hour to explore the music of George Harrison. I followed that up with a chat about Ringo Starr and played some of his best Beatles drum bits […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2019, Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Covers, Covers You Didn't Know Were Covers, https://embed.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018697113/covers-you-didn-t-know-were-covers-simon-sweetman, Jesse Mulligan, Originals, Playlist, Radio, RNZ, RNZ Feature, RNZ Feature: Covers You Didn't Know Were Covers, Spotify, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Music Feature: Prince’s Side-Projects, Collaborations and Songs He Wrote For Other People

I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But now and then I present features on the show too. Last year I had nearly an hour to explore the music of George Harrison. I followed that up with a chat about Ringo Starr and played some of his best Beatles drum bits […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Collaborations and Songs He Wrote For Other People, Covers, Demo, Feature, Jesse Mulligan, Music, Originals, Prince, Protege, Radio New Zealand, RNZ, RNZ Music Feature, RNZ Music Feature: Prince's Side-Projects, Sheila E., Side-Project, The Family, The Time, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Hankering To Hear The Original: The Hunt, The Journey…

If you’re a record store tragic then you probably have “a list” – I mean the sort of list (mythical, in your head – at best) where you hope to find the album when and where you’re looking. It would be too easy (and boring) to just click the link and have it delivered – […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Blow By Blow, Cat Stevens, Cause We've Ended As Lovers, Covers, Jeff Beck, Originals, Stevie Wonder, Syreeta, The Hankering, The Hankering To Hear The Original: The Hunt The Journey..., The Hunt, The Journey, The Vinyl Countdown, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Van Morrison: Versatile

Van Morrison Versatile SMG No need to slow down and too late to stop by quite a way, and so here we have Van Morrisson’s second brand new album of 2017, this one arriving right at the end of the year and just a few short months after the also very good Roll With The […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Blues, Covers, Jazz, Originals, Roll With The Punches, Standards, Van Morrison, Van Morrison: Versatile, Versatile, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Harry Nilsson Was The Greatest: Who Is Harry Nilsson?

The first thing I knew about Harry Nilsson was the power-ballad Without You. Then I found out that he sung that song Coconut – the end-credits music to Reservoir Dogs. I found both those songs were on the record Nilsson Schmilsson – a record that I thought was worth buying for the title and album […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Little Touch of Schmilsson In The Night, Coconut, Covers, Everybody's Talkin', Harry Nilsson, Harry Nilsson Was The Greatest, Harry Nilsson Was The Greatest: Who Is Harry Nilsson?, Jump Into The Fire, Midnight Cowboy, Nilsson Schmilsson, Nilsson Sings Newman, Originals, Randy Newman, Reservoir Dogs, Singer/Songwriter, Songwriter, The Beatles, The Point!, Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him)?, Who Is Harry Nilsson? ·

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February 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 578

V/A, 20 Reggae Classics (1984) Good times! And good timing – there I was just thinking about how I needed to dive back into some reggae – some of the good stuff, the proper stuff – and I found this old compilation. Would have been handy having this a few years back but actually this […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1984, 20 Reggae Greats, Bob Marley, Compilation, Covers, Desmond Dekker, LP, Originals, Record, Reggae, The Ethiopians, The Vinyl Countdown # 578, The Wailers, Toots & The Maytals, Train to Skaville, UB40, Vinyl ·

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May 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Britta Phillips: Luck Or Magic

Britta Phillips Luck Or Magic Double Feature For the last two decades Britta Phillips has partnered with Dean Wareham to provide a great range of music across the “dream-pop” spectrum, first as half of Luna, and then as the duo Dean & Britta. There they mixed covers and originals and worked on commissioned soundtracks for […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged ABBA, Agnetha Faltskog, Album Review, Britta Phillips, Covers, Dean & Britta, Dean Wareham, Dennis Wilson, Drive, Evie Sands, Fallin' In Love, Fleetwood Mac, Lana Del Rey, Landslide, Luck Or Magic, Luna, Melody's Echo Chamber, Nancy Sinatra, One Fine Summer Morning, Originals, Sebastien Tellier, Soundtrack, The Cars, Wrap Your Arms Around Me ·

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November 24, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Preview: The Overdogs at Fringe Bar (Thurs, Nov 26)

Tomorrow night, Thursday, November 26, The Overdogs will play at The Fringe Bar in Wellington. Doors are at 7.30pm with a KOHA – there’ll be an opening set from folk-duo Accord at 8pm with The Overdogs going on straight after. This new project features originals and covers – all very much in the spirit of classic […]
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