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September 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

David Rawlings: Poor David’s Almanack

David Rawlings Poor David’s Almanack Acony Records A new David Rawlings record is a chance for Gillian Welch fans to celebrate – just as any Gillian Welch album means some dynamic, earthy, wonderful playing from David Rawlings; so deep is their connection, their collaboration, that you almost have to like both of them, even if […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acony Records, Album Review, Americana, Brittany Haas, Country, David Rawlings, David Rawlings: Poor David's Almanack, Dawes, Gillian Welch, Griffin Goldsmith, Jim, Ketch Secor, Poor David's Almanack, Ryan Adams ·

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May 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Buckle Up: Ten Important Country Albums In My Life of Listening

I started this thing a while ago where I decided I was going to name ten albums important to me (and important for me) in a particular musical genre. I started with hip-hop (see here). And then I decided to do my list of seminal and sentimental metal albums (see here). And most recently it […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 89/93: An Anthology, American Recordings, Buckle Up, Buckle Up: Ten Important Country Albums In My Life of Listening, Car Wheels On a Gravel Road, Country, Country Music, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Essence, Gold, Hank Williams, Heartbreaker, Johnny Cash, Little Sparrow, Lucinda Williams, Modern Sounds In Country And Western, Patsy Cline, Patsy Cline’s Greatest Hits, Ray Charles, Ryan Adams, Teatro, Ten Important Country Albums In My Life of Listening, The Ultimate Collection, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Willie Nelson, Wrecking Ball ·

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May 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Old Interview Haunts: Old Interviews Haunt

These days I do most of my interviews, face to face, in long form, for the podcast. And I love doing that. But I have a lot of time – too – for the old phoner. I’m always saying, on the podcast, that I hate/d the “15 minute phoner” and that’s true. I did. And […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bauhaus, Civic Square, Duran Duran, Interview, Neneh Cherry, Old Interview Haunts, Old Interview Haunts: Old Interviews Haunt, Old Interviews, Old Interviews Haunt, Phone Interview, Phoner, Podcast, Ryan Adams, Sharon Van Etten, Side of the road ·

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February 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Ryan Adams: Prisoner

Ryan Adams Prisoner Blue Note The best anyone can want for (and from) Ryan Adams these days is consistency. And he finds it here – perhaps ironically – when contemplating the recent upheaval of a failed marriage. Prisoner, arriving nearly two decades later, is the flip-side, in some ways, to debut solo album Heartbreaker. You […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Blue Note, Bruce Springsteen, Heartbreaker, Love Is Hell, Neil Young, Prisoner, Ryan Adams ·

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November 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

To Infinity and (Sadly) Beyond: I’d Rather Read The Poetry of Bryan Adams

Ryan Adams released a book of poems called Infinity Blues. It is horrific! Adams is not known for his filter – 190 albums in 4 weeks – and while people can praise his honest, direct approach to lyrics with songs like Come Pick Me Up and Oh My Sweet Carolina, those same people better have […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Billy Corgan, Infinity Blues, Jeff Tweedy, Jewel, Poetry, Ryan Adams, To Infinity and (Sadly) Beyond, To Infinity and (Sadly) Beyond: I’d Rather Read The Poetry of Bryan Adams ·

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April 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Ryan Adams: 1989

Ryan Adams 1989 Blue Note Ryan Adams has always made Record Collection PopTM  but here, with his full-album cover of Taylor Swift’s album (of, obviously, the same name) he merely proves he’s open to folly. Oh, I’ve no doubt that he means it, or thinks he means it, he probably even really feels it man […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1989, Album Review, Covers, Record Collection PopTM, Ryan Adams, Taylor Swift, Wonderwall ·

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December 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #175 – Ryan Adams, Wellington, 2015

I was a big Ryan Adams fan for quite a while, then not so much, then not at all…but he won me back around, or at least I returned. I liked the self-titled album and that had me keen to see him again (the first time I saw him live was rather ho-hum, though by […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2015, Birthday, Frontier, Gig Review, Live, Opera House, Opera HouseB, Oscar, Ryan Adams, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #175– Ryan Adams, Wellington ·

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August 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Digests: The Best of 2015’s Album Reviews – July

A busy month for me, July. It was my birthday – and as a special birthday treat I got to go and see Ryan Adams (and it was great). Also loaded up another three episodes of the Podcast. And debuted two new features here at Off The Tracks – Five Films That Stay With Me […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2015, Album Reviews, Digest, Digests, Digests: The Best of 2015’s Album Reviews – July, July, Radio Nowhere, Ryan Adams ·

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July 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Ryan Adams (July 16, Wgtn)

Ryan Adams Opera House Thursday, July 16 Ryan Adams is no stranger to New Zealand but this is his first visit to Wellington in a half decade and just his second show in the capital. The last was with The Cardinals, this time he has a new band in tow, The Shining. They’re like a […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Gig, Gig Review, Gig Review: Ryan Adams (July 16, Live, Live Gig, Ryan Adams, The Cardinals, The Shining, Wgtn ·

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July 8, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Ryan Adams: Live at Carnegie Hall

Ryan Adams Live at Carnegie Hall PaxAmericana Recording Company/Blue Note (BLU) Ryan Adams is 40 – and I mention this because I can’t help but feel like he’s wanted to be 40 for most of his professional (solo) career. He’s written music as if he was already 40, and looking back over his career now […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, Live, Live At Carnegie Hall, Ryan Adams, Solo ·

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February 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Kim Richey: NZ Tour (Feb 2015)

Kim Richey is touring New Zealand later this month, she’ll play Wellington’s Bodega on February 19, Masterton’s King Street Live on February 20 and Auckland’s Tuning Fork, February 21. Richey’s a Nashville based singer/songwriter who has released over half a dozen critically acclaimed albums (her most recent is 2013’s Thorn In My Heart). She’s had […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Auckland, Bodega, Country, February 2015, Kim Richey, Kim Richey: NZ Tour (Feb 2015), King Street Live, Masterton, NZ Tour, Promo, Ryan Adams, Singer/Songwriter, Tuning Fork, Wellington ·

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September 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Ryan Adams: Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams Ryan Adams Blue Note/Universal Remember on Gold – the album that really announced Ryan Adams to the world (if you think about the inclusion of songs from that on movie soundtracks, if you think that people were still just catching up with Heartbreaker and/or Whiskeytown, often after hearing Gold) – he had this […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Gold, Heartbreaker, Jason Isbell, Rock'n'Roll, Ryan Adams, Ryan Adams (the album), Self-Titled, Whiskeytown ·
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