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August 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: August (2) 2019
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into it or so… This […]Archive
August 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
T-Bone Burnett & Jay Bellerose & Keefus Ciancia: The Invisible Light – Acoustic Space
T-Bone Burnett & Jay Bellerose & Keefus Ciancia The Invisible Light: Acoustic Space Verve Label Group T-Bone Burnett has been many things for many people – enabler of careers, creator of dreamscapes and perfect soundtrack moments, producer of classic albums by a wide range of artists across the spectrum, session gunslinger and buried somewhere in and around all of that […]Archive
April 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The State of Play: Fame Goes, Music Remains…
“We live in an age of music for people who don’t like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren’t that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music’s annoying, or at the very least they don’t need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a […]Archive
February 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Rhiannon Giddens: Tomorrow Is My Turn
Rhiannon Giddens Tomorrow Is My Turn Nonesuch On first listen it took me until track four – a version of Patsy Cline’s She’s Got You – to realise that Rhiannon Giddens was not the writer, only the singer. I say only – such is the way she makes these songs her own. Her voice (both […]Archive
February 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The New Basement Tapes: Lost on the River
Various Artists: The New Basement Tapes: Lost on the River Electromagnetic Recordings/Harvest Records You can always see the appeal of such projects, even if only in theory. Here a “supergroup” has been put together, charged with creating the song-settings for previously unheard/leftover Bob Dylan lyrics. But with Dylan’s Bootleg series doing the better job of […]Archive
August 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1062
V/A, Attack of The Killer B’s, Vol.1 (1983) I saw this in the “rare & interesting” section of the store – and spotted Marshaw Crenshaw at the top – You’re My Favourite Waste of Time is a favourite. Then the list of names that carried it on: Pretenders, The Blasters, Ramones, John Hiatt, Roxy Music, […]Archive
March 31, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1156
T-Bone Burnett, Trap Door (1982) Despite owning this for quite a while – I picked it up one day, having enjoyed so much of the work T-Bone Burnett has offered as soundtrack composer and compiler, as producer and background player – I can’t say I was overly taken with this album (well, it’s an EP, […]Archive
March 11, 2013 by Simon Sweetman