Category Archives: Essential Listening
Essential Listening: Voices Of Freedom – Bob Dylan, Ron Wood & Keith Richards (1985)
I’ve been meaning to focus on this one for a while. It’s been prompted by reading the illustrated edition of Robert Shelton’s Bob Dylan – No Direction Home, which I got from my aunt at Christmas. You can buy it … Continue reading
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Essential Listening: The Best Releases Of 2023
Another year in the books already, can’t be many left to go now. Even so music still has the capacity to surprise even those with jaded palates. Did anyone expect new releases from Bob Dylan, The Stones, plus a new … Continue reading
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Essential Listening: Best of the NTS Guide To…
It’s a contradiction of sorts, streaming albums (once, again, thank you Bandcamp) in their entirety feels very old-fashioned. The rationale is a cleaving to analogue snobbery – lifting just one or two songs from an album feels cheap, egregiously so … Continue reading
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Essential Listening: The Best Releases Of 2022
It’s been a year of nostalgia through sound meeting the innovation wrought by modernity, reflected by the diversity in my choices for best releases of 2022; a street-soul compilation, unreleased demos from the sixties, a discarded album spanning material from … Continue reading
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