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August 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Playlist: Fleetwood Mac World Tour 2019 Setlist

If you’re as excited as me about seeing Fleetwood Mac (aka “Finnwood Mac”) in New Zealand in September you might want to know what the band is playing. Sure, okay, you might not! So in that case click out now. But with the new line-up solidified it looks like a new setlist has taken permanent shape – […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2019, Fleetwood, Fleetwood Mac, FM, https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/fleetwood-mac-7bd6bef0.html, Mac, Mike Campbell, Neil Finn, NZ Tour, Playlist, Playlist: Fleetwood Mac World Tour 2019 Setlist, Setlist, Spotify, Tom Petty, Tour ·

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July 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Nothing Doing 

There was nothing to be done – so  he set about  doing that. Making sure nothing gets done  is at least as hard as doing anything, harder perhaps to measure. He chose coffee  cups, broken dreams and crazy schemes. And waiting… Waiting…like Tom once said, it’s the hardest part.    
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Nothing Doing, Poem, Poem: Nothing Doing, Tom Petty, Waiting ·

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March 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 420

Jeff Lynne, Armchair Theatre (1990) I was pleased to find this. Jeff Lynne’s first solo album – arriving right at the end of the very hot streak that saw the Wilburys and all of the albums that Jeff worked on in and around that – Tom Petty, George Harrison, etc. I reckon Armchair Theatre is […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1990, Armchair Theatre, Debut, Electric Light Orchestra, ELO, Every Little Thing, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, LP, Record, Solo Album, The Vinyl Countdown # 420, Tom Petty, Traveling Wilburys, Vinyl, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Remembering The Wilburys, Remembering The Wilburys – Especially Vol. 1, Roy Orbison, The Traveling Wilburys, The Wilburys, Tom Petty, Vol. 1, Vol.3 ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, All American Made, Country, Janet Frame, Margo Price, Margo Price: All American Made, Midwest Farmer's Daughter, Songwriter, Tom Petty, Weakness, Weakness (ep), Willie Nelson ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bob Dylan, Electric Light Orchestra, ELO, End Of The Larkin Line, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Philip Larkin, Poem, Poem: End Of The Larkin Line, Roy Orbison, The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys, Volume 1 ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1001, 1001 Albums, 1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 1964, A Girl Called Dusty, Bacharach, Burt Bacharach, Dusty In Memphis, Dusty Springfield, Dusty Springfield – “A Girl Called Dusty”, Sixties, Stay Awhile – I Only Want To Be With You (1964), Stay Awhile I Only Want To Be With You, The 1001 Albums Challenge, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 14:, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 14: Dusty Springfield – “A Girl Called Dusty”, Tom Petty, Warren Zanes ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Eulogy, Mudcrutch, R.I.P., R.I.P. Tom Petty, The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 3-CD, Album Review, Bella Donna, Christine McVie, Deluxe Edition, demos, Don Henley, Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Live, Mick Fleetwood, Mike Campbell, Mirage, Reissue, Rumours, Stevie Nicks, Stop Draggin' My Heart Around, Task, Tom Petty, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1989, A Face In The Crowd, Alright For Now, Electric Light Orchestra, ELO, Free Fallin', Full Moon Fever, LP, Record, The Heartbrakers, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 613, Tom Petty, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys, Vinyl, Yer So Bad ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2, Album Review, Full Moon Fever, Mudcrutch, Second Album, The Heartbreakers, Tom Petty, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Two, Warren Zanes, Wildflowers ·

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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 […]
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