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May 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Buckle Up: Ten Important Country Albums In My Life of Listening

I started this thing a while ago where I decided I was going to name ten albums important to me (and important for me) in a particular musical genre. I started with hip-hop (see here). And then I decided to do my list of seminal and sentimental metal albums (see here). And most recently it […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 89/93: An Anthology, American Recordings, Buckle Up, Buckle Up: Ten Important Country Albums In My Life of Listening, Car Wheels On a Gravel Road, Country, Country Music, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Essence, Gold, Hank Williams, Heartbreaker, Johnny Cash, Little Sparrow, Lucinda Williams, Modern Sounds In Country And Western, Patsy Cline, Patsy Cline’s Greatest Hits, Ray Charles, Ryan Adams, Teatro, Ten Important Country Albums In My Life of Listening, The Ultimate Collection, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Willie Nelson, Wrecking Ball ·

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November 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Tweedy: One NZ Show (March, 2016)

Tweedy is the father/son duo of Jeff Tweedy and Spencer Tweedy. Jeff we know from Wilco – Spencer, from being Jeff’s son. I wasn’t at all impressed with their debut album as a duo but I’m fully into the idea of seeing them live – because the show is promising a mix of the material […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2016), Akld, Auckland, Easter, Gig, Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples, Powerstation, PR, Promo, Solo, Spencer Tweedy, Sukierae, Sunday March 27, Tweedy, Tweedy: One NZ Show (March, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco ·

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March 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Wilco: What’s Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994-2014

Wilco What’s Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994-2014 Nonesuch Look, I wasn’t sure the world needed a Wilco Greatest Hits album – or that one could even/ever work. But this shows the world does need it – and it does work. Still, a bit weird though, right? Naysayers aren’t going to be convinced – largely because […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1994-2014, 20 Years, Album Review, American Music, Best, Best Of, Compilation, Essential Tracks, Jeff Tweedy, Nonesuch, Uncle Tupelo, What's Your 20?, Wilco, Wilco: What's Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994-2014 ·

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March 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Drive-By Truckers: English Oceans

Drive-By Truckers English Oceans ATO Records To go calling any one album by Drive-By Truckers their finest would be a disservice to a catalogue with no holes, no black marks, no misfires. It’s solid-solid-solid, hints of R.E.M and the band Wilco used to be, traces of filthy blues-rock era Stones and writing that is steeped […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Americana, Country, Drive-By Truckers, English Oceans, Levon Helm, Mike Cooley, Neil Young, Patterson Hood, R.E.M., Uncle Tupelo, Wilco ·

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February 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1195

Wilco, Being There (1996) The first Wilco album I knew, but not the first I owned – a mate had it, we used to dig that Outtasite clip on the late-night music TV, it was country/ish but not too country at all really, just a damn good hooky song. And so my mate took the […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1996, 2LP, Being There, Forget The Flowers, LP, Outtasite, Uncle Tupelo, Vinyl, Wilco ·

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July 15, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Farrar/Johnson/Parker/Yames: New Multitudes

Farrar/Johnson/Parker/Yames New Multitudes Universal Created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s birth, New Multitudes started life as a Jay Farrar solo project. He tagged in Anders Parker (Varnaline) and from there Will Johnson (Centro-matic) and Yim Yames (the hipster persona of My Morning Jacket’s Jim James) became involved. The obvious comparison will be […]
Posted in Back Catalogue · Tagged Anders Parker, Centro-matic, Farrar/Johnson/Parker/Yames, Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, Jim James, Mermaid Avenue, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Varnaline, Wilco, Will Johnson, Woody Guthrie, Yim Yames ·

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February 5, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1636

  Wilco, A.M. (1995) I was a Wilco fan from Being There – I had to go back to hear this one. And then to Uncle Tupelo and now this album makes more sense as a last Uncle Tupelo record, rather than a first Wilco album. That’s because of the distance between the bands and […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1995, A.M., Being There, Casino Queen, Country, LP, Passenger Side, Uncle Tupelo, Vinyl, Wilco ·

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