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February 26, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Voice Is Gone, Man: When Singers Can No Longer Sing
There’s a demo version of Bob Dylan singing Like A Rolling Stone, just Bob at the piano, it’s just over a minute long. I like it more than the original. It’s part of the original Bootleg series and that’s easily one of the most important collections of music I ever heard in my life. It opened doors, and worlds […]Archive
February 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 49 – Paul Ubana Jones
Welcome to episode 49 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. A chat with musician Paul Ubana Jones. I first met Paul sometime in the late 1990s. Me and a mate had driven from Wellington to the ski-field to see him play. Four hours or so there and back. When the gig finished […]Archive
December 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Thinking of Sinead O’Connor: Happy 50th
Just as I think about the album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got – the breakthrough, the first Sinead O’Connor record I heard – I go back to the album before that, The Lion And The Cobra. And then I think about 1992’s set of torch ballads and jazz standards, Am I Not Your […]Archive
October 4, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 79 Vocals – Part Three; Funerals
And I’ll be there – in sunshine or in shadow When Michelle got pregnant her mother wasn’t very happy about it and didn’t want to have anything to do with me – we were not getting married and had only just met. Right after Angus was born I called Margret from the hospital and told […]Archive
September 21, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 77 Vocals
It’s the best time. When you go into record the vocals over the tracks with the headphones on or when you open your lips to sing that first line at a live gig to a big crowd – there is nothing quite like it. I wasn’t blessed with any great voice and so I had […]Archive
September 15, 2015 by Simon Sweetman