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May 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Reese Wynans & Friends: Sweet Release 

Reese Wynans & Friends  Sweet Release  J&R Adventures  This Sweet Release is also, no doubt, sweet relief for Reese Wynans, a sideman for some 50 years across a range of rock, blues and roots acts with – most notably – time spent at Stevie Ray Vaughan’s side as part of the Double Trouble band. He also has a story of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Chris Layton, Double Trouble, J&R Adventures, Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Keyboard, Organ, Piano, Reese Wynans, Reese Wynans & Friends, Reese Wynans & Friends: Sweet Release, Sam Moore, Sideman, Special Guests, SRV, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sweet Release, Tommy Shannon, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 7, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 376

Bob Dylan, Under The Red Sky (1990) I always had a soft spot for this – because it was one of the first original Bob Dylan albums I heard – and owned. My brother’s friend, a huge Dylan fan, had bought the CD and been given a tape free as part of the deal and […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged # 376, 1990, Bob Dylan, LP, Record, SRV, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 376, Unbelievable, Under The Red Sky, Vinyl, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 84 – Midge Marsden

Welcome to episode 84 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Up in Auckland recently I finally got to have a sit-down chat with Midge Marsden. We’ve talked about doing this a few times, he and I have corresponded over the years – but this was the first time we’d […]
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July 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 73 – Janna Lapidus Leblanc

Welcome to episode 73 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This conversation is me chatting with model, actor and author Janna Lapidus Leblanc. She was the former fiancée of Stevie Ray Vaughan and has recently written and released a book of photos from their time together.
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged America, Blues, Book, Chat, Conversation, Death, Discussion, ep73, Episode Seventy-Three, Four Years In Pictures, Grief, Guitar, Interview, Janna Lapidus, Janna Lapidus Leblanc, Janna Leblanc, Kiwi, Le Petit Chocolat, Model, Modelling, photos, Podcast, Simon Sweetman, SRV, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 73, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 73 – Janna Lapidus Leblanc, T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys ·

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July 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 530

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Live Alive (1986) Just recently I’ve returned to the music of Stevie Ray Vaughan – well, it’s always there, of course – but it’s only been recently that I’ve returned to the records.  In particular I’ve been playing In Step – it’s probably his all-around best album and even […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1986, 2xLP, Change It, Concert, Double Trouble, In Step, Life Without You, Live, Live Alive, LP, Record, SRV, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, The Vinyl Countdown # 530, Vinyl, Voodoo Chile ·

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April 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Remembering Stevie Ray Vaughan: October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990

It must have been the school holidays – because I wasn’t at school, I was just sifting about. And I heard the news on the radio: there had been a helicopter crash. Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy and Robert Cray and Jimmie Vaughan were not dead. Stevie Ray Vaughan was dead. I spent the rest […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1954 – August 27, 1990, Blues, Guitar, Jimmie Vaughan, R.I.P., Remembering Stevie Ray Vaughan: October 3, SRV, Stevie Ray Vaughan ·

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April 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Lonnie Mack

The great blues guitarist and vocalist Lonnie Mack has died. He was 74. And – there’s no other way to say it – he won’t get the column inches he might have otherwise deserved due to news of his passing being overshadowed by the death of Prince. Lonnie Mack won’t be on everyone’s radar – […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blues, Eulogy, Guitar, Guitarist, Instrumentalist, Lonnie Mack, R.I.P., R.I.P. Lonnie Mack, SRV, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Doors ·

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August 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Best Guitarist in The World: # 12 – Stevie Ray Vaughan

We’re less than a month away from it being 25 years since Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed. But I’m talking to you about this now because, well, I wanted to include him in this series… It’s easy – now – to see Steve Ray Vaughan as some bogan rock-as-blues/blues-as-rock guy, because of the influence, his […]
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May 14, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1126

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Texas Flood  (1983) This must have been – at least – the third album I heard/knew by Stevie Ray Vaughan and, therefore, probably the first that I bought (on tape, to begin with) after he died. Oh man, I was so cut up. I was like 13. And I’d […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1983, Cold Shot, David Bowie, Love Struck Baby, LP, Mary Had A Little Lamb, SRV, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texas Flood, Vinyl ·

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July 12, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1934

  Freddie King, Getting Ready (1971) I started going through the YouTube recently for some great Freddie King clips. Such a great live performer was Freddie. I first started listening to him when I was 13-14-15; obsessed as I was with all things blues and rock guitar. Every time I found a new-ish player (SRV […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Albert King, B.B. King, Freddie King, Getting Ready, Going Down, SRV, Vinyl ·

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