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October 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

What’s The Saddest Song You Love?

I’m looking for suggestions for songs that actually make you sad, examples of songs you love, but find rather heart-breaking, almost too hard to hear, but you’re drawn to them. They are, in fact, songs by artists you like. I’m not looking for jokes about the song that makes you saddest being something by Manic […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Lambchop, Lou Reed, Richard and Linda Thompson, Sad, Sad Songs, Sun Kil Moon, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, What’s The Saddest Song You Love?, Wilco ·

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November 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Lambchop: TRIP

Lambchop TRIP Merge Records I love Lambchop so much that even the thought of Kurt Wagner trying to croon via a vocoder wasn’t going to put me off…until they went to that well once too often (ie: twice) and I just haven’t really been able to care about the last few Lamchop albums – haven’t […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Covers, George Jones, Lambchop, Lambchop: TRIP, Merge Records, Michael Jackson, Mirrors, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, TRIP, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 24, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Kacy & Clayton: The Siren’s Song

Kacy & Clayton The Siren’s Song New West Records They’re Canadian. They’re second cousins. They’ve played music together across the last decade as the formal duo Kacy & Clayton – ahead of that they grew up honing their craft and it’s a timeless country/folk/roots amalgam that here, on their fourth full-lengther is fleshed out further […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Duo, Jeff Tweedy, Kacy & Clayton, Kacy & Clayton: The Siren’s Song, New West Records, The Loft, The Siren’s Song, Wilco, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Mavis Staples: If All I Was Was Black

Mavis Staples If All I Was Was Black Anti/Epitaph What a decade it’s been for Mavis Staples – riding on a high note ever since 2007’s We’ll Never Turn Back with a constant victory-lap of touring and this now deep collaboration with Jeff Tweedy’s Wilco. It hasn’t all been amazing, I couldn’t get too excited […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, ANTI-, Blues, Epitaph, Folk, Gospel, If All I Was Was Black, Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples, Politics, Pops, Protest, Racism, Rick Holmstrom, Ry Cooder, Staples, The Staples Singers, Tweedy, Wilco ·

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June 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Jeff Tweedy: Together At Last

Jeff Tweedy Together At Last Amazon Digital Services, LLC A stripped back set of band songs performed by the chief – the singer/songwriter – that’s the plan for Tweedy’s first proper solo album – and it works just fine. Very well in fact, particularly because after a lovely opening stroll through Via Chicago, its groove […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Adult Head, Album Review, Golden Smog, Jeff Tweedy, Loose Fur, Solo, Solo Album, Together At Last, Tweedy, Wilco ·

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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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December 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Tortoise (December 3, Wgtn)

Tortoise San Fran Saturday, December 3 What a treat to see Tortoise – finally. (I missed their previous show – one of those ones, many years ago now, but people still reference it). The Chicago quintet has been making its post-rock, essentially genre-less amalgams of jazz-meets-indie-via-minimalism-and-now-synth-pop for a quarter century. Slowly, but surely the sound […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2016), Chicago, December 3, Gig Review, Gig Review: Tortoise (December 3, Instrumental, Jazz, Minimalist, Post-Rock, San Fran, Saturday, The Catastrophist, Tortoise, Wellington, Wgtn, Wilco ·

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September 18, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Wilco: Schmilco

Wilco Schmilco Anti./Epitaph I had a wee hissy-fit the first couple of times I listened to this – Tweedy is out front and centre and almost all of the songs are acoustic-driven, so where’s the really great guitar of Nels Cline (I mean it is there but just not doing what I want it to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, Glenn Kotche, Jeff Tweedy, Nels Cline, Schmilco, Sky Blue Sky, Star Wars, Wilco ·

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June 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

case / lang / veirs: case / lang / veirs

case / lang / veirs case / lang / veirs ANTI/Epitaph It’s always really something when the final product delivers on the obvious hype around the project. Here Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs have collaborated – made, if you must, “a supergroup” (you get the feeling they’d hate that tag – deserved though […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, ANTI-, case / lang / veirs, Collaboration, Country, Epitaph, Glenn Kotche, John Zorn, k.d. lang, Laura Veirs, Neko Case, Rob Burger, Supergroup, Tin Hat Trio, Trio, Tucker Martine, Wilco ·

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November 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #165 – Billy Bragg, Wellington, 2014

There aren’t many people I’ve seen more than once where I can say that every gig was great and each one was (noticeably, crucially) different. But Billy Bragg is one. For sure. Seen him three times now, every gig is to promote a new album – which helps. But also the line-up/format. First time was […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2014, Billy Bragg, Dominion Post, Gig Review, Interview, Live Gig, Opera House, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #165 – Billy Bragg, Stuff.co.nz, Tooth & Nail, Wellington, Wilco, Woody Guthrie ·

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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 […]
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August 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Best Guitarist in The World: # 11 – Lindsey Buckingham

You never even used to see this guy considered for The Best Guitarist lists…and, actually, maybe you still don’t, come to think of it…but I reckon something changed when the core version of Fleetwood Mac, the classic FM-music version of the group, reformed for Bill Clinton’s inauguration and started a victory-lap tour of sorts. (One […]
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