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June 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: Looking Back On The Best of Bonnie Raitt’s Career

About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular musical artist or genre or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. This week I chose to talk about Bonnie Raitt. I’ve been a fan for a while. And this feature was all about revisiting the golden years […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, And click here to check out any of the past features I’ve done for RNZ. You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron Want more? Check out my Substack, Bonnie Raitt, Guitar, Jesse Mulligan, Looking Back On The Best of Bonnie Raitt's Career, Music, Radio, Radio Feature, Radio New Zealand, Radio NZ, RNZ, RNZ Feature, RNZ Feature: Looking Back On The Best of Bonnie Raitt's Career, Slide Guitar, Vocal ·

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February 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sonny Landreth: Blacktop Run

Sonny Landreth Blacktop Run Provogue Sunny Landreth is a master slide guitarist with just enough of a voice left to offer rootsy, interesting songs too. But for the most part he’s an instrumentalist – and that’s where he really ‘sings’.
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August 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Jeremy Spencer: Latina Nights

Jeremy Spencer Latina Nights Sibylline Media Into the pantheon of completely non-essential albums enter…Latina Nights, the latest from Jeremy Spencer. He was once a member of Fleetwood Mac. He was third fiddle (guitar) to Peter Green and Danny Kirwan and he was sometimes the star of the show; rock’n’roll parodies – Elvis impersonations, slide-guitar routines, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Fleetwood Mac, Jeremy Spencer, Latina Nights, Sibylline Media, Slide Guitar, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: The Music of George Harrison

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. Most recently I co-interviewed Steve Gadd! And then, Jesse Mulligan asked me a question – a silly question: Was I the right person to do a feature about George Harrison? […]
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February 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sonny Landreth: Bound By The Blues

Sonny Landreth Bound By The Blues Mascot Label Group Sonny Landreth is here Bound By The Blues, though sadly not gagged. He’s a phenomenal slide player – even if it’s always so clean, so the absurdity of his whiter-than-white playing is exposed further when he tackles standards such as Walkin’ Blues and Key To The […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Blues Standards, Bound By The Blues, Derek Trucks, Eric Clapton, Grateful Dead, Robben Ford, Slide Guitar, Sonny Landreth ·

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July 28, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Best Guitarist in The World: # 2 – Ry Cooder

You can’t just call him a guitarist. He plays so many instruments. He’s written a book of short stories. He produces, finds and nurtures talent, is something of an ethnomusicologist, he’s created evocative film scores, is a gifted singer/songwriter and yet through all of that he is simply one of the very best guitarists you […]
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March 8, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 61 – Bonnie Raitt, Wellington, 2013

I’ve never been so sick at a gig – sick as a dog, mystery illness, brought on perhaps by travel and late hours, next to no sleep, that sort of thing…I’d just returned from a whirlwind trip to Auckland for the amazing Paul Simon gig, the next night was Robert Plant. And then it was […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2013, Bonnie Raitt, Dominion Post, Gig Review, Live, Live Gig, Paul Simon, Robert Plant, Sick, Slide Guitar, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 61 – Bonnie Raitt, Wellington ·

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October 14, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1011

Ry Cooder, Paris, Texas [OST] (1985) Been listening to all the Ry Cooder soundtracks lately – the new box-set got me started (again). Magic stuff. So much of it is so great I reckon. I remember one time playing this record, around about the last time I was ever stoned I think – we found […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], 1985, Brothers, LP, Paris Texas, Ry Cooder, Slide, Slide Guitar, Soundtrack, Vinyl, Wim Wenders ·

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May 18, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1997

                                                                          Ry Cooder, Boomer’s Story (1972) I can’t pick when I first heard Ry Cooder or when I was first aware of him. I figure (perhaps rather obviously) I first heard him before I knew who he was – but then I just always seem to have been aware of him. Most likely it was this […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Boomer's Story, Crossroads, Reservoir Dogs Poster, Ry Cooder, Slide Guitar, Vinyl ·

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