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Posts Tagged Rickie Lee Jones

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June 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Rickie Lee Jones: Kicks

Rickie Lee Jones Kicks THE OTHER SIDE OF DESIRE I love Rickie Lee Jones so much – and yet I always play catch-up, let a few years slide by and have an album or two (or three) to catch up with. I’ve just got to this – her fourth album of covers. Anyone else and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Cover Versions, Covers, It's Like This, Kicks, Rickie Lee Jones, Rickie Lee Jones: Kicks, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Come On Up To The House – Women Sing Waits

Various Artists: Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits Dualtone Music Devised as a 70th Birthday gift to Tom Waits (December 7 is the day) this compilation of female singer/songwriters interpreting material from all across Waits’ 45 year recording career is in fact a gift to us all.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 70th Birthday, Aimee Mann, Alison Moorer, Come On Up To The House, Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits, Compilation, Corrine Bailey Rae, Courtney Marie Andrews, Dualtone Music, Iris DeMent, Joseph, Kathleen Brennan, Patty Griffin, Phoebe Bridgers, Rickie Lee Jones, Rosanne Cash, Shelby Lynne, Tom Waits, V/A, V/A: Come On Up To The House - Women Sing Waits, Various, Various Artists, Warren Zanes, Women Sing Waits, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Giving The Drummer Some

I met Steve Gadd. He had played on many of the greatest songs ever. And just in case he’d forgotten I reminded him. I got him to sign my records. He was embarrassed – And told me he liked the fact that I was wearing shorts. It takes all sorts. And I was the only […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, Aja, Drum, Drummer, Drumming, Drums, Giving The Drummer Some…, Paul Simon, Poem, Poem: Giving The Drummer Some, Rickie Lee Jones, Steely Dan, Steve Gadd ·

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October 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Music Feature: Steve Gadd

I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But the other day I got the call up to present a Music Feature for the Afternoons show. Well, actually, I was on-air talking about some albums in my regular review slot and I was promoting the back that legendary drummer Steve […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Chat, Chick Corea, Chuck Mangione, Conversation, Drummer, Drumming, Drums, Gadd, Interview, James Carter, Jazz, Jesse Mulligan, Master, Music, Paul Simon, Radio, Radio New Zealand, RadioNZ, Rickie Lee Jones, RNZ, RNZ Music Feature, RNZ Music Feature: Steve Gadd, Rodger Fox, Session, Simon Sweetman, Steely Dan, Steve, Steve Gadd, The Rodger Fox Big Band, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 129 – Suzanne Vega

Welcome to episode 129 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here I talk with one of my all-time musical heroes, Suzanne Vega. We are in a hotel restaurant and there is some background noise. Just a warning. What a thrill to meet her and speak with her. I flew […]
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June 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 15 – Enduring Favourites, Revisiting Legends…

Been a while since I’ve done a Five For Friday so I’m going old-school – old, old school – in the sense that everything here is something I’ve loved for a long time – these artists are in my special list of all-time favourites; in a lot of cases I come and go, give them […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged (Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive – Extended Version), 5, Bob Dylan, Classics, Enduring Favourites Revisiting Legends…, Erotic City, Five Songs, Five Songs For A Friday, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: # 15, Five Songs For Friday: # 15– Enduring Favourites, Frank Sinatra, Fri, Friday, Hejira, Horses, I've Got You Under My Skin, Joni Mitchell, Legends, Live At The Sands, Prince, Purple Rain, Revisiting Legends…, Rickie Lee Jones, Stardust, Triplicae, Weekend ·

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June 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Rickie Lee Jones

sings of love as “a healing thing”, her singing “when you give everything/You’re loving the world – The world gives you love to hold onto” in a voice that sounds like love, in a voice that could have you in love, in a voice that loves the listener, in a voice the listener loves “when […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Healing Thing, Love, Poem, Poem: Rickie Lee Jones, Rickie Lee Jones, RLJ ·

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November 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

It’s Like This: Rickie Lee Jones’ Great Covers Collection

I am listening (as I often do) to an album by Rickie Lee Jones. It’s called It’s Like This – and it is my favourite album of hers. She’s a great singer and I have followed her career right through from her debut eponymous album. I have – at one point – owned everything she […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Album, Chuck E's In Love, Coolsville, Covers, It's Like This, It’s Like This: Rickie Lee Jones’ Great Covers Collection, On Saturday Afternoons in 1963, Rickie Lee Jones, Traffic From Paradise ·

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August 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Beth Orton: Kidsticks

Beth Orton Kidsticks ANTI I’ve tried to stick by Beth Orton – because, at the time, I loved those first two records – but it really is a career of diminishing returns. What felt like, almost, the start of a mild comeback with Sugaring Season (and also – not really much of one either) further […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Beth Orton, Folktronica, Ghostyhead, Kidsticks, Rickie Lee Jones ·

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August 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 651

Tuck & Patti, Love Warriors (1989) Husband and wife duo Tuck & Patti were new to me when I heard this gorgeous sound – the voice was fine, lovely, really good but what really sold me was the guitar playing, it was a cover – I spotted it, though I’d never quite heard it played […]
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June 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Rob Wasserman

Rob Wasserman has died. The bassist – predominantly playing acoustic and electric upright bass – was a prolific session musician and composer. He toured with many of music’s big names, he was co-founder of RatDog, an outlet for The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir and there’s a good chance he’s on one of your favourite albums […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bass, Bassist, Bob Weir, Duets, Lou Reed, Magic And Loss, Naked Songs, New York, R.I.P., R.I.P. Rob Wasserman, Rickie Lee Jones, Rob Wasserman, Solo, Spotify, Trios ·

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April 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Steve Martin & Edie Brickell: So Familiar

Steve Martin & Edie Brickell So Familiar Rounder Here is the second collaborative album from Martin and Brickell, accurately named since the pair work so well together and here particularly it feels seamless – in fact Martin is essentially the sideman, could have gone unnamed; why then is it Steve Martin and Edie Brickell not […]
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