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Sweet Billy Pilgrim

Sweet Billy Pilgrim: We Just Did What Happened and No One Came [2016 Kscope Remix/Remaster]

by John Kelman
July 31, 2016

Sweet Billy PilgrimWe Just Did What Happened and No One CameKscope Music2016 (2005) My how things have changed. Upon first encountering Britain's Sweet Billy Pilgrim at the 2007 Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway, funding was so diminutive that singer/songwriter/guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/erstwhile leader Tim Elsenberg was unable to bring the full group; instead, he ...

Meet John Kelman

by AAJ Staff
March 7, 2013

I currently live in: Ottawa, Canada I joined All About Jazz in: 2004 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? After deciding to start writing about music in about 2001, and starting at smaller websites, I was approached by All About Jazz in late 2003, with the question: “We've ...

Sweet Billy Pilgrim: Crown and Treaty

By Sweet Billy Pilgrim

Label: Luxor Purchase
Released: 2012
Track listing: Joyful Reunion; Archaeology; Blakefield Gold; Arrived At Upside Down; Blood is Big Expense; Brugada; Kracklite; Shadow Captain; Blue Sky Falls.

Punkt 2012: Kristiansand, Norway, September 6-8, 2012

by John Kelman
September 19, 2012

Punkt Festival Kilden Performing Arts Centre Kristiansand, Norway September 6-8, 2012Another year, another Punkt. If that sounds flippant or dismissive, that's not the intention; instead, it's a reflection that a year simply isn't complete without visiting Kristiansand, Norway, for the Live Remix festival that continues to expand its network and garner attention ...

Sweet Billy Pilgrim: Crown and Treaty

by John Kelman
June 9, 2012

Sweet Billy Pilgrim Crown and Treaty Luxor Purchase 2012 Leaping onto the scene overnight might appear to have its advantages, but there are plenty of disadvantages, too. Building an audience incrementally, over a period of time, often allows an artist to evolve without the same degree of mass expectation that comes ...

Punkt 2011: Kristiansand, Norway, September 1-3, 2011

by John Kelman
September 19, 2011

Punkt Festival 2011 The Agder Theatre Kristiansand, Norway September 1-3, 2011It was almost not meant to be. Plagued by a combination of airline snafus and the residual effects of Hurricane Irene--which had hit the northeast coast of the United States a few days earlier, creating (amidst other much more serious results) a ...

Punkt Festival 2010

by John Kelman
September 14, 2010

The trials and tribulations of international travel—flight delays, missing or damaged baggage, and increasing limitations on said baggage—can be enough to frustrate even the most patient and seasoned world traveler. But despite an almost incredible confluence of problems flying to Kristiansand, Norway, for Punkt 2010, once there all such problems were forgotten. Punkt is simply too ...

Twice Born Men

By Sweet Billy Pilgrim

Label: SamadhiSound
Released: 2009
Track listing: Here It Begins; Truth Only Smiles; Bloodless Coup; Longshore Drift; Kalypso; Future Perfect Tense; Joy Maker Machinery; There Will It End.

Sweet Billy Pilgrim: Twice Born Men

by John Kelman
April 29, 2009

In the 21st century nothing is sacred, but in the best possible way. Cultural, stylistic and sonic cross-pollination is today's de facto standard, with sound processing, sampling and post-production creating previously unheard aural landscapes. Sweet Billy Pilgrim--largely the brainchild and creation of lead singer/songwriter/multi- instrumentalist Tim Elsenburg, but unmistakably colored by band mates, banjoist Anthony Bishop ...