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November 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Remembering The Wilburys – Especially Vol. 1
The Traveling Wilburys were a big deal to me. I remember the news item announcing them. I remember my mum and dad took us out, family outing, Friday night (late-night) shopping, to buy the cassette tape. Not only that we took it home and sat and listened to it. The whole family. It was an […]Archive
November 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Margo Price: All American Made
Margo Price All American Made Third Man Records Just as Janet Frame released To The Is-Land as a volume of her autobiography and then Owls Do Cry as fiction – the two linked, and it could even be argued that there’s more truth in her fiction, more creativity in her alleged non-fiction, the same sort […]Archive
November 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: End Of The Larkin Line
When the first Traveling Wilburys album was released we took a drive into Hastings – Friday night, late night shopping…it was me and my brother in the back of the car (our usual spots) and mum and dad up front. They bought the album – on cassette tape. No CDs then – not in our […]Archive
October 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 14: Dusty Springfield – “A Girl Called Dusty”
I’ve always loved Dusty Springfield – right from when I first heard her, Bacharach compilations, and then finding out it was her that was the voice on that Pet Shop Boys song and from there to classic Dusty compilations, of course the Dusty in Memphis album – a masterpiece; a revelation – and not that […]Archive
October 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Tom Petty
What a day. First that awful news from Las Vegas. Many of us went to bed on that last night, woke to hear the full horror, from one death to twenty, then over 50, some 400 injured… For music fans the news didn’t get better as the new day started. First the story that Tom […]Archive
November 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Stevie Nicks: Bella Donna (Deluxe Edition)
Stevie Nicks Bella Donna (Deluxe Edition) Rhino Entertainment Company It was an interesting time – and very creative – for Fleetwood Mac and its members post-Rumours. The popular narrative suggests they never bettered it, but they did something much better in a way, they diversified. Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood both made solo records in […]Archive
October 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 613
Tom Petty, Full Moon Fever (1989) One of the great albums for showcasing that even with a bunch of hit singles the album tracks are worth the dig. I guess for me I arrived at this early in the journey of understanding Tom Petty. I already knew him and his Heartbreakers (absent – in name […]Archive
August 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Mudcrutch: 2
Mudcrutch 2 Reprise Warren Zanes’ excellent biography of Tom Petty predicted just this sort of move (of course Zanes was deep inside the camp and would have actually known, would have been able to correctly steer us) – where the previous Mudcrutch album was Tom all but paying lip-service to his earlier group this one […]Archive
March 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 732
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Southern Accents (1985) A difficult album this, apparently. But a rewarding one. I can never name a favourite album by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers (though the sentimental fav is probably Damn The Torpedoes) but some days this comes close, a special album at any rate. From a band that […]Archive
January 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 765
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Long After Dark (1982) A good music book sends you straight to the music, sends you back to favourites and off to reconsider things you never bothered with or dismissed or forgot about…and so it was with Warren Zanes’ excellent Tom Petty bio, a bit of my summer reading. I’ve […]Archive
January 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman