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April 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Particle Kid: Everything Is Bullshit
Particle Kid Everything Is Bullshit Particle Kid/Gnar Tapes One of two Particle Kid albums ripped out in the same year, Everything Is Bullshit is a strange world of magic. It reminds me of One Foot In The Grave-era Beck, not so much for the sound as for the surprises. It’s as wilful as Neil Young […]Archive
March 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Paradox: Film
Paradox Director: Daryl Hannah Netflix One of the great paradoxes of our time – or all-time – is how Neil Young can make time seemingly stand still (in the best possible way) during his extended guitar workouts, yet give him a film-project and he makes time stand still in only the very worst way. Paradox […]Archive
December 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Don’t Give Up…
The original plan Peter Gabriel had for his song Don’t Give Up was for it to be a duet between him and Dolly Parton. He wrote it with Dolly in mind. She gave up before she began; she had no interest in recording the song with him. Gabriel heard it, in part, as a country song. You hear the song […]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
September 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 11: Ray Price – “Night Life”
It’s all sounding a bit broken-record I know, but yet again I knew of Ray Price and have heard some songs – but I can’t remember ever sitting down to hear a Ray Price album, and I never would have – I’m sure – were it not for this self-inflicted challenge. And what an album – […]Archive
June 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Glen Campbell: Adiós
Glen Campbell Adiós UMe Recorded during the same sessions that resulted in See You There and deliberately held back to be released as a final album in his lifeftime, Adiós is about as lovely (bittersweet, of course) as a late-stage Glen Campbell record could be. Weepy guitars and strings that cling to the arrangements and […]Archive
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 […]Archive
March 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Willie Nelson: Summertime – Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin
Willie Nelson Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin Sony Legacy There’s dozens of Willie Nelson Sings and/or Willie Nelson Plays albums – a kids album, an instrumental album, reggae, jazz, standards, particular eras, composers…he is one of the most adept and brilliant song stylists of the post-war years. And yet some of his albums – particularly […]Archive
November 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Leon Russell
Our heroes are dropping like flies – and it hurts. These are the people that built the pyramids and the train tracks within and to popular music. They shaped the way it works. And Leon Russell, 74, is the latest in a long line of names from this year alone. There’ll be so many more […]Archive
October 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Willie Nelson: Living Legend
Willie Nelson is 83. He is a living legend who has happily downscaled his myth to a quirky commodity that sees him as the punchline for marijuana jokes, a bit-part actor in walk-on wooden-delivery roles and a symbol of the shambolic shaman, the long hair and head-scarves, the gypsy who owed the IRS close to […]Archive
August 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman