…A recent and worthy addition to the desert island disc genre comes from an unlikely source: actor Sam Neill’s blog. Neill, the star of such films as The Piano and Jurassic Park and Fox’s new J.J. Abrams-produced TV series Alcatraz, is one of the most knowledgeable and entertaining music fans (and accidental critics) around. He’s also a winemaker in New Zealand, growing and selling under the Two Paddocks label. Neill and his winemaking staff have been compiling lists of Top 10-personal-music-faves for a few years now on the Two Paddocks blog. Neill’s own lists of R&B and New Zealand music (written under the name “The Proprietor”) are first-rate. He has also called on famous friends, like Marianne Faithfull, Stephen Fry, Toni Collette, Ian McKellen, Jorge “Hurley” Garcia and Alan Rickman, to contribute lists, and some of their choices will knock you out…
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