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October 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real: Turn Off The News Build A Garden
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Turn Off The News Build A Garden Fantasy It’s getting hard to know what Lukas Nelson’s best day-job is – and what his best moonlighting side-gig is too for that matter: Son of Willie Nelson, bandleader for Neil Young, “Authenticity Consultant” to Bradley Cooper (leading to soundtrack contributions […]Archive
September 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 243
Bettye LaVette, The Scene of the Crime (2007) I saw Bettye LaVette in concert close to 20 years ago – she was a nobody in a way, she’d had the first phase of her career and hadn’t yet had the mighty comeback. But shit she was good! It was obvious she was a ferocious talent. […]Archive
September 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Willie Nelson: Ride Me Back Home
Willie Nelson Ride Me Back Home SMG Willie Nelson’s career has been a phenomenon – and the “IRS Tapes” years, the stories of bankruptcy and the punchlines about him being a weed-smoking machine seem so far in the rearview mirror now, it’s back to the music. He’s been making nearly consistently great music across the […]Archive
April 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: April 2018
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so a couple of years into […]Archive
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