Not Missing a Step: An Interview with The New Riders of the Purple Sage
Grateful Web: How about the obligatory political question? Being that we are in the Nation’s capital, if you had a moment with President Bush what would you say to him? David Nelson: I’d say, get out! OUT! - Buddy Cage: He doesn’t want to get that close to me to hear what I have to say to him… - David Nelson: You know that’s funny, because that reminds me of in the 60’s in the backroom with the Dead we thought about that exact same topic. We said what if we could actually talk to the President, what would we say? And Phil I think it was said: “Now listen here asshole….” And that was when Presidents were good!
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  • Leftover Salmon is breaking up or taking a break?
    Leftover Salmon after 15 yrs says no more.. a hiatus or good-bye for good? read more..

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  • Leftover Salmon is breaking up or taking a break?
    Leftover Salmon after 15 yrs says no more.. a hiatus or good-bye for good? read more..

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  • Mark Karan interview - 4/21/01
    Mark Karan interview

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  • Railroad Earth
    With nearly 400 shows and tens of thousands of road miles now behind them, Railroad Earth has become a staple on the national touring and festival scene, and built a huge following of loyal fans that document and trade every note they play, and often join them on the road for multiple nights. These fans call themselves “Hobos,” and the band considers them to be the fuel that keeps this engine chugging along. Railroad Earth’s next album is planned for release in Spring 2004. Till then the band will continue to bring their music to the stage from East to West. So keep an ear to the ground and listen for Railroad Earth, because they'll be rolling through your town very soon.

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  • ten2nine
    "I hate to break the news to you, but you guy's may have finally put all the pieces together. This new ep is the best work I've heard from you ever! The writing, lyrics and music is superb, the performance is top notch and [Jim Leguilloux's] production gives it a true professional gloss." - Ron Gilmour, Power 104 Kelowna, BC

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  • Metharia
    The debut on the band was on 18th January 2000, when Metharia won the festival "Le Quattro Notti Rock." In June 2003 they are one of the three winners of the "NMC festival,' in Marcerta winning the award for the best live performance.

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  • Signal Path
    Armed with new jungle juice, they are warming up and ready to play. They opened up with a latenight show in Atlanta and continued on to Mountain View Jam Festival in North Carolina. Coast to coast, they'll be working their way to SummerCamp, Wakarusa, and High Sierra Music Festival.

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  • T-Band
    Jim Dooney plays guitar and does most of the lead vocals. He is great at getting everyone involved in the fun by taking requests or choosing the perfect song for any situation. Amy Anderson plays the stand up bass and sings harmony. Amy is the musical backbone of the band. Her playing punch and solid timing keeps us all together in our all acoustic environment. Robert Griffith plays banjo and sings harmony. Rob drives the band with lightning fast fingers and great improvising skills. Rich Egan plays mandolin and does some vocals. Rich keeps your feet tapping and your fingers snapping with his rhythm chops and is great at playing tasteful solos."

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  • Shanti Groove (September 2003)
    Shanti's groove moves along acoustical and electrical lines, combining the voice of jazz and rock with back porch bluegrass and funktified percussion. Bringing their unique sound to venues nationwide, the band provides a musical celebration of the 'groove' kind.

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  • Kelly's running column
    In this column I want to talk to you about Ghent. Ghent is the capital of the province East-Flanders in Belgium, a small country in Europe, and has about 225, 000 inhabitants.

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  • Kelly's running column
    In this column I want to talk to you about Ghent. Ghent is the capital of the province East-Flanders in Belgium, a small country in Europe, and has about 225, 000 inhabitants.

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  • Curious Yellow (August 2003)
    After fronting a couple bands in the mid 90s in California and spending the next several years developing his musical and songwriting talents in Japan and Minneapolis, Adam Lancaster landed in Denver in 2000 and founded the band. The band took on many formations and seemingly endless lineup changes for about a year until the perfect complimentary additions of Gregg Rosenthal (drums), Josh Eckhoff (guitar), and Matt Novack (bass, vocals) created a sound and style beyond what Adam could have hoped for. This new talented group immediately began writing songs and reworking old songs to create music and a performance that attracts and engages every listening audience. The personal and musical bond between each member deepened quickly and the dedication from everyone to develop the band to its fullest possibilities is evident.

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  • New Monsoon (June 2003)
    Utilizing congas, timbales, tabla, banjo, bongos, Dobro, ghatham, Didgeridoo, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, drum kit and keys, the band offers a plethora of textures, rhythms, ideas and moods. New Monsoon absorbs elements of sound indigenous to world culture and incorporates them into a variety of colorful and original rhythmic compositions.

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  • One Way Rider (May 2003)
    "One Way Rider has taken Nashville by storm! It was an honor to have them perform on the Interstate Radio Network a network of over twenty stations that broadcast from Music City and airs nationwide and in Canada. Locally in Nashville, the IRN broadcast on WSM 650 AM, the home of the Grand Ole Opry. The response was great! We cant wait to have them come back on the air and play for us again. It was so good to be with folks that live and love the bluegrass way, truly a blessed family. David and Valerie are a great example of what a family can accomplish together."

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  • Smokestack (January 2003)
    “The quality of playing blew me away. All four guys were stars, but that keyboard player is a superstar. Very Hornsby in his writing and singing, very Medeski with his jams. I have had the CD for a few months, and being a little familiar with the songs impressed me even more.” CanJam News Toronto, Canada

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  • The Miltones (December 2002)
    Formed in the summer of 2000, the Miltones have already performed over 350 shows in under 28 months. Their high volume of gigs has enabled the band to mature and explore a range of musical directions that make them a formidable artistic act. Simultaneously their music seems to embrace a level of healing and celebration that make them both accessible and fortunate for the audiences they have attracted.

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  • Ripple (November 2002)
    When Ripple started out in an Old Tappan, NJ basement during early 1978, none of us thought we would be discussing the possibilities of playing together for 25 years. But that’s exactly what happened. From the early day’s of playing friends parties (usually when the Parent’s were away) to all the great nightclubs and other interesting venues we’ve performed at during the years, we’ve met some amazing people and formed life long friendships that will long out live the Band.

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  • Ray Charles died today at 73.
    Ray Charles dead at 73

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  • Fair To Midland (September 2002)
    Brett Stowers and Nathin Seals offer a rhythmic passion that leads the humble gentlemen in their avant-garde sound. The unearthed discord and unconventional cries of frontman Andrew Sudderth infused with guitarist Cliff Campbell's melodic fury tumble into a captivating creation of sonics, cultures, and confusion. Combined with the subtle offering of Matt Langley on keys, FTM glides past the expected boundries and gracefully throws their intense rock harmonies to the flame.

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  • The Few (July 2002)
    "We did it in chunks, whenever he was available," says Burnside. "Living there, and playing in the clubs, it raises your game." The result, an explosive, hooky collection that echoes Burnside's love of the Replacements and fascination with the Cure, is startling from a 22-year-old who took up guitar only three years ago.

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  • One Cat Left (May 2002)
    Pete’s former association with TOM MARSHALL of PHISH led to the band AMFIBIAN. It was here in this situation that Pete found his voice and his motivation..

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  • Mt. Kilimanjaro!
    In one scene we saw a hippo in the river, a croccodile laying on the bank just beside it, and a waterbuck stanking near in the grass!

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  • Grateful Web Interview with Madison House and SCI Ticketing
    SCI interview

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  • Leftover will be calling it quits at years end.
    Leftover Salmon are saying goodbye..

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  • AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM TREY 05.25.04
    Phish is coming to end..

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  • Sativa Gumbo (April 2002)
    Sativa Gumbo

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  • Pamela's stories from Africa
    This month I'll continue teaching English at the school, organize a second beekeeping seminar, begin making fuel-efficient stoves, and track down another place to buy modern breed roosters.

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  • Yamagata update
    Yamagata

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  • Yamagata (June 2001)
    Yamagata

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  • JSwine (October 2000)
    JSwine

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  • Mark Karan (August 2000)
    Mark Karan

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  • Moses Guest (September 2000)
    Moses Guest

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  • Uncle Sammy (July 2001)
    Uncle Sammy

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  • Solomon Grundy (April 2001)
    Solomon Grundy

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  • Tonal Vision (May 2001)
    Tonal Vision

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  • Cosmic Dust Devils (December 2001)
    Cosmic Dust Devils

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  • Purple Buddah (November 2001)
    Purple Buddah

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  • Grateful Web's interview with Paul Murin from PHIX
    Paul Murin from PHIX

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  • Grateful Web's interview with Billy Martin from MMW
    Billy Martin interview

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  • Trolley Car: Donald Patrick on Occupied Japan after WWII
    Well..she was a super girl...their very devoted to their men--that's a known fact-- they meet you at the door, feed ya, give you a hot bath, cut your hair, cut your fingernails, clip your nose hairs-- unbelievable

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  • The Grateful Web Interview with Rose Hill Drive
    Kathryn Dove of the Grateful Web recently had the opportunity to see Boulder’s own Rose Hill Drive open up for Big Head Todd and the Monsters at Red Rocks. A couple of days later we caught up with band on tour and interviewed Jake Sproul, lead singer and bass guitarist. Here’s what he had to say about the band, the music, and life on the road:

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  • The Grateful Web Interview with Rose Hill Drive
    Kathryn Dove of the Grateful Web recently had the opportunity to see Boulder’s own Rose Hill Drive open up for Big Head Todd and the Monsters at Red Rocks. A couple of days later we caught up with band on tour and interviewed Jake Sproul, lead singer and bass guitarist. Here’s what he had to say about the band, the music, and life on the road:

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  • The Grateful Web Interview with Rose Hill Drive
    Kathryn Dove of the Grateful Web recently had the opportunity to see Boulder’s own Rose Hill Drive open up for Big Head Todd and the Monsters at Red Rocks. A couple of days later we caught up with band on tour and interviewed Jake Sproul, lead singer and bass guitarist. Here’s what he had to say about the band, the music, and life on the road:

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  • The Grateful Web Interview with Rose Hill Drive
    Kathryn Dove of the Grateful Web recently had the opportunity to see Boulder’s own Rose Hill Drive open up for Big Head Todd and the Monsters at Red Rocks. A couple of days later we caught up with band on tour and interviewed Jake Sproul, lead singer and bass guitarist. Here’s what he had to say about the band, the music, and life on the road:

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  • Grateful Web Interview with Steve Kimock
    Grateful Web's 4.20.2001 interview with Steve Kimock

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  • Grateful Web Interview with Steve Kimock
    Grateful Web's 4.20.2001 interview with Steve Kimock

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  • Livin' the Dream: MC CHRIS
    I think it’s a general phenomenon. I’ve had moms in Texas. Moms in Mobile. You know, any place that women can have children is where we succeed.

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  • Livin' the Dream: MC CHRIS
    I think it’s a general phenomenon. I’ve had moms in Texas. Moms in Mobile. You know, any place that women can have children is where we succeed.

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  • Livin' the Dream: MC CHRIS
    I think it’s a general phenomenon. I’ve had moms in Texas. Moms in Mobile. You know, any place that women can have children is where we succeed.

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  • Phil Lesh Legacy
    But it is Lesh himself who is venturing out to major jam festivals this summer in search of the vibe and some answers. He’s looking to explore why the jam scene keeps going and what it all means. As part of a long-term oral history project, Lesh has started formally dialoging with people of his generation and young people today about the 60s, what some have thought was a Golden Age of enlightenment and music or a time of unachievable idealism and unrest.

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  • Phil Lesh Legacy
    But it is Lesh himself who is venturing out to major jam festivals this summer in search of the vibe and some answers. He’s looking to explore why the jam scene keeps going and what it all means. As part of a long-term oral history project, Lesh has started formally dialoging with people of his generation and young people today about the 60s, what some have thought was a Golden Age of enlightenment and music or a time of unachievable idealism and unrest.

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  • Phil Lesh Legacy
    But it is Lesh himself who is venturing out to major jam festivals this summer in search of the vibe and some answers. He’s looking to explore why the jam scene keeps going and what it all means. As part of a long-term oral history project, Lesh has started formally dialoging with people of his generation and young people today about the 60s, what some have thought was a Golden Age of enlightenment and music or a time of unachievable idealism and unrest.

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  • Searching for a Real Outlaw Part I
    So yours truly, a determined, attractive (yes a little vain but I’m cute, be nice), slightly crazy lone journalist, crazes herself further and displays questionable judgment repeatedly as she travels from Rt. 66 to the Country Music Hwy. I will tell you tales of battling hurricanes, family feuds, rock stars, would be rock stars, their managers and even the occasional producer, sound-guy or bartender. I even heard some music while I was at it.

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  • Searching for a Real Outlaw Part I
    So yours truly, a determined, attractive (yes a little vain but I’m cute, be nice), slightly crazy lone journalist, crazes herself further and displays questionable judgment repeatedly as she travels from Rt. 66 to the Country Music Hwy. I will tell you tales of battling hurricanes, family feuds, rock stars, would be rock stars, their managers and even the occasional producer, sound-guy or bartender. I even heard some music while I was at it.

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  • Grateful Web's Interview with New Monsoon's Ron Johnson
    Prior to the performance, the Grateful Web had a chance to chill out with bassist Ron Johnson to discuss being the new guy in the band, what thrills him about this group, and why he digs The Beatles so much.

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  • Grateful Web's Interview with New Monsoon's Ron Johnson
    Prior to the performance, the Grateful Web had a chance to chill out with bassist Ron Johnson to discuss being the new guy in the band, what thrills him about this group, and why he digs The Beatles so much.

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  • The Grateful Web Interview with Jake Cinninger
    Of all the great artists making the rounds this year, none have been more ambitious than Umphreys McGee. They released the follow-up album to Safety in Numbers called The Bottom Half; a risky two-disc endeavor of leftover studio gems and insightful audio fragments. The band has also since embarked on a national tour that will take them all across the nation, including stops at such top festivals as Summercamp, 10,000 Lakes, Camp Bisco, Mountain Jam, and more.

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  • The Grateful Web Interview with Jake Cinninger
    Of all the great artists making the rounds this year, none have been more ambitious than Umphreys McGee. They released the follow-up album to Safety in Numbers called The Bottom Half; a risky two-disc endeavor of leftover studio gems and insightful audio fragments. The band has also since embarked on a national tour that will take them all across the nation, including stops at such top festivals as Summercamp, 10,000 Lakes, Camp Bisco, Mountain Jam, and more.

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  • The Grateful Web Interview with Jake Cinninger
    Of all the great artists making the rounds this year, none have been more ambitious than Umphreys McGee. They released the follow-up album to Safety in Numbers called The Bottom Half; a risky two-disc endeavor of leftover studio gems and insightful audio fragments. The band has also since embarked on a national tour that will take them all across the nation, including stops at such top festivals as Summercamp, 10,000 Lakes, Camp Bisco, Mountain Jam, and more.

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  • Bob Weir, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Mr. Blotto, & Festival Philosophy
    Originally, all three bands were to perform on Thursday on different stages at different times, with Weir and Ratdog closing out the Main Stage. When Trey cancelled earlier this spring, Weir was moved up to the headlining spot on the Main Stage on Saturday night. Having him headline the festival is a move that Weir is most deserving of but is a spotlight he often shuns. “I’m not real concerned with grabbing people’s attention,” he says. “I never have been. I want to make music. As a matter of fact if I can make music that just grabs people without grabbing their attention, then that’s better as far as I’m concerned.”

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  • Bob Weir, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Mr. Blotto, & Festival Philosophy
    Originally, all three bands were to perform on Thursday on different stages at different times, with Weir and Ratdog closing out the Main Stage. When Trey cancelled earlier this spring, Weir was moved up to the headlining spot on the Main Stage on Saturday night. Having him headline the festival is a move that Weir is most deserving of but is a spotlight he often shuns. “I’m not real concerned with grabbing people’s attention,” he says. “I never have been. I want to make music. As a matter of fact if I can make music that just grabs people without grabbing their attention, then that’s better as far as I’m concerned.”

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  • Bob Weir, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Mr. Blotto, & Festival Philosophy
    Originally, all three bands were to perform on Thursday on different stages at different times, with Weir and Ratdog closing out the Main Stage. When Trey cancelled earlier this spring, Weir was moved up to the headlining spot on the Main Stage on Saturday night. Having him headline the festival is a move that Weir is most deserving of but is a spotlight he often shuns. “I’m not real concerned with grabbing people’s attention,” he says. “I never have been. I want to make music. As a matter of fact if I can make music that just grabs people without grabbing their attention, then that’s better as far as I’m concerned.”

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  • Jon Cleary On New Orleans Music: Part Two
    However, keeping New Orleans music viable is complex. “There are lots of elements that go into making up a healthy music scene,” says Cleary. “The most important, I think, is the consumer. It’s essential for musicians to be able to go and play a gig and get enough people in so that club owner is happy and generates enough income for the band to get paid. The primary driving force, I think, in New Orleans for musicians has almost been more economical than artistic. Musicians will take up an instrument much more regularly if they think they can go out and do some gigs and make some money at it to the pay bills and put gas in the car like everybody else. Really, you have to have a large concert-going audience.”

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  • Jon Cleary On New Orleans Music: Part Two
    However, keeping New Orleans music viable is complex. “There are lots of elements that go into making up a healthy music scene,” says Cleary. “The most important, I think, is the consumer. It’s essential for musicians to be able to go and play a gig and get enough people in so that club owner is happy and generates enough income for the band to get paid. The primary driving force, I think, in New Orleans for musicians has almost been more economical than artistic. Musicians will take up an instrument much more regularly if they think they can go out and do some gigs and make some money at it to the pay bills and put gas in the car like everybody else. Really, you have to have a large concert-going audience.”

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  • Jon Cleary On New Orleans Music: Part Two
    However, keeping New Orleans music viable is complex. “There are lots of elements that go into making up a healthy music scene,” says Cleary. “The most important, I think, is the consumer. It’s essential for musicians to be able to go and play a gig and get enough people in so that club owner is happy and generates enough income for the band to get paid. The primary driving force, I think, in New Orleans for musicians has almost been more economical than artistic. Musicians will take up an instrument much more regularly if they think they can go out and do some gigs and make some money at it to the pay bills and put gas in the car like everybody else. Really, you have to have a large concert-going audience.”

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  • Dumpsta-Divin’ with Ivan Neville
    Grateful Web recently caught up with Ivan Neville while he was in Maryland. The phone interview had to be postponed for two hours while Neville enjoyed some crab cakes, reputed to be the best in the country. “I’m in Baltimore ” he said. “You’ve got to have crab cakes, and I want to give them my full attention.” While his meal was digesting, he spoke about his new band, Dumpstaphunk...

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  • Dumpsta-Divin’ with Ivan Neville
    Grateful Web recently caught up with Ivan Neville while he was in Maryland. The phone interview had to be postponed for two hours while Neville enjoyed some crab cakes, reputed to be the best in the country. “I’m in Baltimore ” he said. “You’ve got to have crab cakes, and I want to give them my full attention.” While his meal was digesting, he spoke about his new band, Dumpstaphunk...

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  • Dumpsta-Divin’ with Ivan Neville
    Grateful Web recently caught up with Ivan Neville while he was in Maryland. The phone interview had to be postponed for two hours while Neville enjoyed some crab cakes, reputed to be the best in the country. “I’m in Baltimore ” he said. “You’ve got to have crab cakes, and I want to give them my full attention.” While his meal was digesting, he spoke about his new band, Dumpstaphunk...

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  • Derek Trucks Band
    Though he has sat in with nearly every blues great out there and recorded on plenty of albums, recently he toured all of June with his wife, roots performer Susan Tedeschi. Combing her own firey guitar work with Trucks and her powerful voice, that tour put folk, gospel, blues, and rock out there for audiences to eagerly lap up. “It’s a chance for the whole family to be on the road,” says Trucks. “My kids will be out. My younger brother will be playing drums. My mom will be out helping with the kids.” For Trucks and Tedeschi, it was a working vacation that allowed them to create music together and do some writing.

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  • Derek Trucks Band
    Though he has sat in with nearly every blues great out there and recorded on plenty of albums, recently he toured all of June with his wife, roots performer Susan Tedeschi. Combing her own firey guitar work with Trucks and her powerful voice, that tour put folk, gospel, blues, and rock out there for audiences to eagerly lap up. “It’s a chance for the whole family to be on the road,” says Trucks. “My kids will be out. My younger brother will be playing drums. My mom will be out helping with the kids.” For Trucks and Tedeschi, it was a working vacation that allowed them to create music together and do some writing.

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  • Derek Trucks Band
    Though he has sat in with nearly every blues great out there and recorded on plenty of albums, recently he toured all of June with his wife, roots performer Susan Tedeschi. Combing her own firey guitar work with Trucks and her powerful voice, that tour put folk, gospel, blues, and rock out there for audiences to eagerly lap up. “It’s a chance for the whole family to be on the road,” says Trucks. “My kids will be out. My younger brother will be playing drums. My mom will be out helping with the kids.” For Trucks and Tedeschi, it was a working vacation that allowed them to create music together and do some writing.

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  • From Appalachia to Folk & Traditional Music Festivals Past and Present: The Mike Seegers' Unique Lifes' Work
    Mike Seeger has helped bring the music of the rural South to popular attention. He did this as a folk musician in the 60s, bringing traditional musicians not yet well known to the forefront of popular attention and continues to do so through performances and archive work today. It is in part through his influence on his own generation that we have the folk-based songs of Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead.

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  • From Appalachia to Folk & Traditional Music Festivals Past and Present: The Mike Seegers' Unique Lifes' Work
    Mike Seeger has helped bring the music of the rural South to popular attention. He did this as a folk musician in the 60s, bringing traditional musicians not yet well known to the forefront of popular attention and continues to do so through performances and archive work today. It is in part through his influence on his own generation that we have the folk-based songs of Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead.

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  • From Appalachia to Folk & Traditional Music Festivals Past and Present: The Mike Seegers' Unique Lifes' Work
    Mike Seeger has helped bring the music of the rural South to popular attention. He did this as a folk musician in the 60s, bringing traditional musicians not yet well known to the forefront of popular attention and continues to do so through performances and archive work today. It is in part through his influence on his own generation that we have the folk-based songs of Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead.

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  • The Apple of the Big Apples' Eye
    As burlesque bumps, grinds and laughs its way back in vogue, the art of its’ golden eras, from Nouveau to the 50s, shimmies in alongside it. Montmarte had Lautrec, (or, perhaps more appropriately, his now lesser known but then more famous mistress, model and contemporary, (though not necessarily in that order), Suzanne Valdon.). The Neo-Burlesque world has Molly Crabapple, artist, subject and muse. Not surprisingly, she’s made several ‘Top New Yorkers’ lists. Her art has graced posters for burlesque shows as well as publications ranging from the “New York Times” and “The Wall Street Journal” to “Screw” and “Playgirl”.

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  • The Apple of the Big Apples' Eye
    As burlesque bumps, grinds and laughs its way back in vogue, the art of its’ golden eras, from Nouveau to the 50s, shimmies in alongside it. Montmarte had Lautrec, (or, perhaps more appropriately, his now lesser known but then more famous mistress, model and contemporary, (though not necessarily in that order), Suzanne Valdon.). The Neo-Burlesque world has Molly Crabapple, artist, subject and muse. Not surprisingly, she’s made several ‘Top New Yorkers’ lists. Her art has graced posters for burlesque shows as well as publications ranging from the “New York Times” and “The Wall Street Journal” to “Screw” and “Playgirl”.

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  • El Diablo, Brian Mitchell
    I left Appalachia’s Country Music Hwy., (via Flatpick KY), for Rt. 66. It was Labor Day Weekend and I was going to Asbury Park, NJ, a town made famous by Bruce Springsteen and others. I was going to see Soozie Tyrell, of the E-Street band, along with 9 other bands play over the weekend. There were even knowledgeable whispers, before an inconvenient hurricane hit at a most critical moment that Springsteen might make one of his periodic appearances there that Saturday.

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  • El Diablo, Brian Mitchell
    I left Appalachia’s Country Music Hwy., (via Flatpick KY), for Rt. 66. It was Labor Day Weekend and I was going to Asbury Park, NJ, a town made famous by Bruce Springsteen and others. I was going to see Soozie Tyrell, of the E-Street band, along with 9 other bands play over the weekend. There were even knowledgeable whispers, before an inconvenient hurricane hit at a most critical moment that Springsteen might make one of his periodic appearances there that Saturday.

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  • El Diablo, Brian Mitchell
    I left Appalachia’s Country Music Hwy., (via Flatpick KY), for Rt. 66. It was Labor Day Weekend and I was going to Asbury Park, NJ, a town made famous by Bruce Springsteen and others. I was going to see Soozie Tyrell, of the E-Street band, along with 9 other bands play over the weekend. There were even knowledgeable whispers, before an inconvenient hurricane hit at a most critical moment that Springsteen might make one of his periodic appearances there that Saturday.

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  • Dirty Sweet Pumps Out Irresistible Blues-Based Rock
    “We’re not a classic rock song band. That wasn’t the intention,” says Nate Beale, one of the guitarists. However, he does admit that classic rock had a heavy influence on him personally and on his guitar technique. His dad introduced him to the music of all of the rock legends. “I grew up on this stuff,” he says. “When I first started playing guitar when I was twelve years old, I was learning how to play Jimi Hendrix and Led Zepplin and all those classics.”

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  • Dirty Sweet Pumps Out Irresistible Blues-Based Rock
    “We’re not a classic rock song band. That wasn’t the intention,” says Nate Beale, one of the guitarists. However, he does admit that classic rock had a heavy influence on him personally and on his guitar technique. His dad introduced him to the music of all of the rock legends. “I grew up on this stuff,” he says. “When I first started playing guitar when I was twelve years old, I was learning how to play Jimi Hendrix and Led Zepplin and all those classics.”

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  • Dirty Sweet Pumps Out Irresistible Blues-Based Rock
    “We’re not a classic rock song band. That wasn’t the intention,” says Nate Beale, one of the guitarists. However, he does admit that classic rock had a heavy influence on him personally and on his guitar technique. His dad introduced him to the music of all of the rock legends. “I grew up on this stuff,” he says. “When I first started playing guitar when I was twelve years old, I was learning how to play Jimi Hendrix and Led Zepplin and all those classics.”

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  • Donna Jean & The Tricksters: Coming Full Circle
    “Once I got into the Grateful Dead,” Donna recalls, “Jerry actually encouraged me. He said, ‘You need to be writing song to put on a record.’ Which I did. I was greatly encouraged by his encouragement. I really started getting back into songwriting at about that time. I think the first thing I wrote for the Grateful Dead was ‘Sunrise.’ It’s on Terrapin Station. I’ve been writing ever since, growing musically.”

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  • Donna Jean & The Tricksters: Coming Full Circle
    “Once I got into the Grateful Dead,” Donna recalls, “Jerry actually encouraged me. He said, ‘You need to be writing song to put on a record.’ Which I did. I was greatly encouraged by his encouragement. I really started getting back into songwriting at about that time. I think the first thing I wrote for the Grateful Dead was ‘Sunrise.’ It’s on Terrapin Station. I’ve been writing ever since, growing musically.”

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  • Donna Jean & The Tricksters: Coming Full Circle
    “Once I got into the Grateful Dead,” Donna recalls, “Jerry actually encouraged me. He said, ‘You need to be writing song to put on a record.’ Which I did. I was greatly encouraged by his encouragement. I really started getting back into songwriting at about that time. I think the first thing I wrote for the Grateful Dead was ‘Sunrise.’ It’s on Terrapin Station. I’ve been writing ever since, growing musically.”

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  • Bob Weir and Ratdog at The Beacon Theater
    Chat with Bob Weir. I shared with Mr. Weir that I am advanced at yoga myself, and asked him what type of yoga does he practice? A-"Ashtanga". Q- "I understand you workout too, how often do you go to the gym?" A-"Everyday". Q-"What's your biggest accomplishment in life, what more would you like to achieve?" A- "I just want to keep playing, keep practicing, keep improving, that's what I really want to do, to keep on playing". Q-"Are you going to write a book?" A-"I have to write a book, it's long overdue."

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  • Bob Weir and Ratdog at The Beacon Theater
    Chat with Bob Weir. I shared with Mr. Weir that I am advanced at yoga myself, and asked him what type of yoga does he practice? A-"Ashtanga". Q- "I understand you workout too, how often do you go to the gym?" A-"Everyday". Q-"What's your biggest accomplishment in life, what more would you like to achieve?" A- "I just want to keep playing, keep practicing, keep improving, that's what I really want to do, to keep on playing". Q-"Are you going to write a book?" A-"I have to write a book, it's long overdue."

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  • Bob Weir and Ratdog at The Beacon Theater
    Chat with Bob Weir. I shared with Mr. Weir that I am advanced at yoga myself, and asked him what type of yoga does he practice? A-"Ashtanga". Q- "I understand you workout too, how often do you go to the gym?" A-"Everyday". Q-"What's your biggest accomplishment in life, what more would you like to achieve?" A- "I just want to keep playing, keep practicing, keep improving, that's what I really want to do, to keep on playing". Q-"Are you going to write a book?" A-"I have to write a book, it's long overdue."

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  • Grateful Web's Interview with the New Deal
    When we decided to play a proper “show” (to 5 people) as just the three of us, without any acid jazz covers, that was when it really kicked in. The beautiful accident was the fact that we played the music that we did that night, and happened to record it to a cassette tape, which turned out to be The New Deal This Is Live.

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  • 12/29 & 12/30/97 on LivePhish Radio this Monday & Tuesday
    An early New Year's treat from LivePhish.com: starting at 2PM EST on Monday 12/29 and Tuesday 12/30, LivePhish.com will broadcast both 12/29/97 and 12/30/97, respectively, in their entirety on Live Phish Radio.

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  • Tiësto named Mixmag's #1 DJ in 2008
    Tiësto is excited about topping off this fantastic year with this acknowledgement and says, "I am honored that Mixmag chose me as the number one DJ of 2008. I had an amazing year and would like to thank Mixmag and their readers for their support!"

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  • Tiësto named Mixmag's #1 DJ in 2008
    Tiësto is excited about topping off this fantastic year with this acknowledgement and says, "I am honored that Mixmag chose me as the number one DJ of 2008. I had an amazing year and would like to thank Mixmag and their readers for their support!"

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  • Mike Berkowitz & the Gene Krupa Band at Iridium for Gene's 100th Birthday
    Star drummer Gene Krupa and his Orchestra were the hottest of the hot stuff in the big band years. Fortunately Mike Berkowitz, an incredible drummer of today rescued the brilliant Krupa arrangements and put together a phenomenal aggregation of some of our New York Jazz world's swingingest musicians and Vocalist extraordinaire, Cassie Miller from L.A. Not just for nostalgia buffs and music historians, any real jazz lover has to be thrilled by the sounds made by this amazing 16-piece group. Scott Barbarino has booked them into the Iridium, the premiere Jazz room (on West 51 Street and Broadway) on Tuesday, January 13, which coincides with what would have been Gene Krupa's 100th birthday.

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  • Mike Berkowitz & the Gene Krupa Band at Iridium for Gene's 100th Birthday
    Star drummer Gene Krupa and his Orchestra were the hottest of the hot stuff in the big band years. Fortunately Mike Berkowitz, an incredible drummer of today rescued the brilliant Krupa arrangements and put together a phenomenal aggregation of some of our New York Jazz world's swingingest musicians and Vocalist extraordinaire, Cassie Miller from L.A. Not just for nostalgia buffs and music historians, any real jazz lover has to be thrilled by the sounds made by this amazing 16-piece group. Scott Barbarino has booked them into the Iridium, the premiere Jazz room (on West 51 Street and Broadway) on Tuesday, January 13, which coincides with what would have been Gene Krupa's 100th birthday.

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  • New Years Eve Party, Ky-mani Marley, TOK, Turblence, & Pressure
    New Years Eve Party at 2b1 Multimedia Inc. 3075 17th Street, San Francisco, featuring: Ky-mani Marley, TOK, Turbulence, Pressure and Winstrong.

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  • New Years Eve Party, Ky-mani Marley, TOK, Turblence, & Pressure
    New Years Eve Party at 2b1 Multimedia Inc. 3075 17th Street, San Francisco, featuring: Ky-mani Marley, TOK, Turbulence, Pressure and Winstrong.

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  • WU Years Eve Bash
    If you're looking for something to do New Year's Eve this year and you're in the neighborhood of Minneapolis, fall by The Boardroom at Trocaderos on Wednesday night for a four-band groove extravaganza on two stages, hosted by local music partiers The Big Wu.

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  • WU Years Eve Bash
    If you're looking for something to do New Year's Eve this year and you're in the neighborhood of Minneapolis, fall by The Boardroom at Trocaderos on Wednesday night for a four-band groove extravaganza on two stages, hosted by local music partiers The Big Wu.

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  • Toubab Krewe NYE in Denver + Winter Tour!
    Toubab Krewe is thrilled to be in Denver for NYE tonight at Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom. Special guest Rayna Gellert (Uncle Earl) joins the band for the run on fiddle.

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  • Toubab Krewe NYE in Denver + Winter Tour!
    Toubab Krewe is thrilled to be in Denver for NYE tonight at Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom. Special guest Rayna Gellert (Uncle Earl) joins the band for the run on fiddle.

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  • The Dead to Tour in 2009...
    The lineup for this edition of The Dead will be the same one that rocked the house at Penn State last fall at the Obama benefit: The Core Four of Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined by guitar monster Warren Haynes and RatDog keyboard ace Jeff Chimenti (both veterans of the 2004 Dead "Wave That Flag" tour).

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  • The Dead to Tour in 2009...
    The lineup for this edition of The Dead will be the same one that rocked the house at Penn State last fall at the Obama benefit: The Core Four of Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined by guitar monster Warren Haynes and RatDog keyboard ace Jeff Chimenti (both veterans of the 2004 Dead "Wave That Flag" tour).

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  • Jesse Elder Quintet live at the Blue Note Tonight
    Jesse is a NYC based jazz composer, pianist and band leader. He has performed at venues such as the Blue Note, Smalls, Minton's Playhouse, Fat Cat, Top of the Rock, the Jazz Standard, and Town Hall. Jesse graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy where he received a "Fine Arts Award in Jazz Performance" and went on to study on scholarship at Oberlin Conservatory and New School University for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Jesse performs his original compositions with renowned jazz artists such as Nasheet Waits, Ben Street, Chris Cheek, Tyshawn Sorey, Logan Richardson, Gary Thomas and others.

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  • Jesse Elder Quintet live at the Blue Note Tonight
    Jesse is a NYC based jazz composer, pianist and band leader. He has performed at venues such as the Blue Note, Smalls, Minton's Playhouse, Fat Cat, Top of the Rock, the Jazz Standard, and Town Hall. Jesse graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy where he received a "Fine Arts Award in Jazz Performance" and went on to study on scholarship at Oberlin Conservatory and New School University for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Jesse performs his original compositions with renowned jazz artists such as Nasheet Waits, Ben Street, Chris Cheek, Tyshawn Sorey, Logan Richardson, Gary Thomas and others.

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  • Turbine Rumbles in the Red Fish
    Rightmire’s harmonica is almost certainly the band’s most exciting feature. It functions like a mouth-operated synthesizer, electrified, and run through a huge board of pedals. At times it sounds like a DJ scratch kit, at others it sounds like something from outer space. Sometimes it sounds like a regular harmonica. Rightmire’s epic lung capacity allows him to jam out on the mouth harp with incredible longevity. Long after most people would have blacked out and fallen over, Rightmire keeps the notes flowing, rocking around like a man possessed. I felt lightheaded just watching.

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  • Turbine Rumbles in the Red Fish
    Rightmire’s harmonica is almost certainly the band’s most exciting feature. It functions like a mouth-operated synthesizer, electrified, and run through a huge board of pedals. At times it sounds like a DJ scratch kit, at others it sounds like something from outer space. Sometimes it sounds like a regular harmonica. Rightmire’s epic lung capacity allows him to jam out on the mouth harp with incredible longevity. Long after most people would have blacked out and fallen over, Rightmire keeps the notes flowing, rocking around like a man possessed. I felt lightheaded just watching.

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  • Attention Colorado: Umphrey’s is on the Way!
    Chicago’s favorite export is coming to Colorado, and I’m not talking about either crooked politicians or Da Bears. I’m talking about Umphrey’s McGee, who will be doing a four-night stint along the Front Range later this month, beginning at the Aggie in Fort Collins on the 22nd. From there, UM will be stopping at the Boulder Theater on the 23rd, with back to back gigs in Denver at the Fillmore and Cervantes on the 24th, and a show in Breckenridge on the 25th.

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  • Attention Colorado: Umphrey’s is on the Way!
    Chicago’s favorite export is coming to Colorado, and I’m not talking about either crooked politicians or Da Bears. I’m talking about Umphrey’s McGee, who will be doing a four-night stint along the Front Range later this month, beginning at the Aggie in Fort Collins on the 22nd. From there, UM will be stopping at the Boulder Theater on the 23rd, with back to back gigs in Denver at the Fillmore and Cervantes on the 24th, and a show in Breckenridge on the 25th.

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  • New Years Eve: Zeppelin Reborn as Rose Hill Drive
    The promise of hearing Zeppelin II was a deal-maker as well, the kind of rock and roll Rose Hill Drive does best. But when the band opened up with Trans Am, an original track off the band’s latest, Moon is the New Earth, the crowd didn’t know what to think. As it would turn out, the change up was so that the band wouldn’t have to pause in the middle of Zeppelin II to play Auld Lang Syne, release the balloons, and watch the happy couples make out on the dance floor. Good thing too, because once these guys got going, there was no stopping them.

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  • New Years Eve: Zeppelin Reborn as Rose Hill Drive
    The promise of hearing Zeppelin II was a deal-maker as well, the kind of rock and roll Rose Hill Drive does best. But when the band opened up with Trans Am, an original track off the band’s latest, Moon is the New Earth, the crowd didn’t know what to think. As it would turn out, the change up was so that the band wouldn’t have to pause in the middle of Zeppelin II to play Auld Lang Syne, release the balloons, and watch the happy couples make out on the dance floor. Good thing too, because once these guys got going, there was no stopping them.

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  • Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Announce New Lineup & Jan./Feb. Tour Dates
    Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey are very pleased to announce a revamped lineup for 2009. The odyssey continues with Brian Haas on keys, Josh Raymer on drums, and proudly introducing new members Chris Combs on guitar and lap steel and Matt Hayes on bass. The reconfigured band made its debut on New Year's Eve to an elated sold out crowd in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They'll make their next apperance this coming Saturday, January 10th in New York City as part of the 2009 Winter Jazzfest.

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  • Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Announce New Lineup & Jan./Feb. Tour Dates
    Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey are very pleased to announce a revamped lineup for 2009. The odyssey continues with Brian Haas on keys, Josh Raymer on drums, and proudly introducing new members Chris Combs on guitar and lap steel and Matt Hayes on bass. The reconfigured band made its debut on New Year's Eve to an elated sold out crowd in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They'll make their next apperance this coming Saturday, January 10th in New York City as part of the 2009 Winter Jazzfest.

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  • Jones Street Station Announce January Tour
    Jones Street Station make American music that is both contemporary and classic in character. Veterans of New York City's roots music community, they released their debut album Overcome (as The Jones Street Boys) on Smith Street Records in October 2007. They are currently finishing their second album to be released in mid-2009.

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  • Jones Street Station Announce January Tour
    Jones Street Station make American music that is both contemporary and classic in character. Veterans of New York City's roots music community, they released their debut album Overcome (as The Jones Street Boys) on Smith Street Records in October 2007. They are currently finishing their second album to be released in mid-2009.

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  • Switzerland Meets New York @ The Canal Room - 1.14.09
    Beat Kaestli moved to New York from his native Switzerland, where he was awarded a scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music and he received his Master Degree from the Aaron Copland School of Music. While honing his craft alongside luminaries such as Jane Monheit, Jason Moran and Stefon Harris, he immersed himself in Manhattan’s fiercely competitive music scene, and now appears in clubs such as The Blue Note, Birdland, The Bitter End, The Jazz Standard, The Stone and Sweet Rhythm, performing with jazz greats, like Esperanza Spalding, Clarence Penn, Joel Frahm and Victor Prieto.

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  • Switzerland Meets New York @ The Canal Room - 1.14.09
    Beat Kaestli moved to New York from his native Switzerland, where he was awarded a scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music and he received his Master Degree from the Aaron Copland School of Music. While honing his craft alongside luminaries such as Jane Monheit, Jason Moran and Stefon Harris, he immersed himself in Manhattan’s fiercely competitive music scene, and now appears in clubs such as The Blue Note, Birdland, The Bitter End, The Jazz Standard, The Stone and Sweet Rhythm, performing with jazz greats, like Esperanza Spalding, Clarence Penn, Joel Frahm and Victor Prieto.

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  • Harlem Shakes To Release Debut LP 'Technicolor Health'
    After extensive touring and a bit of schooling, the band got back together with Chris Zane (Les Savy Fav, The Walkmen, Passion Pit, White Rabbits) to record their first full-length album, Technicolor Health. The result is one of the most quietly ambitious pop albums in ages. Much like Blur fused English pop traditions and contemporary sonics to forge Brit Pop, Harlem Shakes meld the Great American Songbook with unmistakably contemporary textures, creating what one might call "Am Pop." Influences as disparate as the Band, Randy Newman, Carlos Santana and Spank Rock inform the soundscapes, but the vibe is too coherent to be called eclectic.

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  • Harlem Shakes To Release Debut LP 'Technicolor Health'
    After extensive touring and a bit of schooling, the band got back together with Chris Zane (Les Savy Fav, The Walkmen, Passion Pit, White Rabbits) to record their first full-length album, Technicolor Health. The result is one of the most quietly ambitious pop albums in ages. Much like Blur fused English pop traditions and contemporary sonics to forge Brit Pop, Harlem Shakes meld the Great American Songbook with unmistakably contemporary textures, creating what one might call "Am Pop." Influences as disparate as the Band, Randy Newman, Carlos Santana and Spank Rock inform the soundscapes, but the vibe is too coherent to be called eclectic.

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  • Marco Benevento Announces West Coast Tour Dates
    The Los Angeles Times recently selected Marco Benevento as a "2009 Artist To Watch" in anticipation of Me Not Me. The ten track collection finds Benevento interpreting the work of artists such as Deerhoof, Leonard Cohen, George Harrison and My Morning Jacket among others. Benevento also contributes three original compositions, including "Now They're Writing Music," which was first performed as a rough sketch last spring when the Brooklyn-based pianist appeared on "The World Cafe With David Dye." In addition to Benevento, the album features the aforementioned Mathis and Barr along with drummer Matt Chamberlain. The set was recorded in Seattle at Chroma Sound and mixed in Brooklyn by Bryce Goggin.

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  • Marco Benevento Announces West Coast Tour Dates
    The Los Angeles Times recently selected Marco Benevento as a "2009 Artist To Watch" in anticipation of Me Not Me. The ten track collection finds Benevento interpreting the work of artists such as Deerhoof, Leonard Cohen, George Harrison and My Morning Jacket among others. Benevento also contributes three original compositions, including "Now They're Writing Music," which was first performed as a rough sketch last spring when the Brooklyn-based pianist appeared on "The World Cafe With David Dye." In addition to Benevento, the album features the aforementioned Mathis and Barr along with drummer Matt Chamberlain. The set was recorded in Seattle at Chroma Sound and mixed in Brooklyn by Bryce Goggin.

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  • ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINE-UP ADDITIONS
    The ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL (UMF)--the world’s leading two-day electronic and alternative music experience set for Friday March 27 and Saturday March 28, 2009 during the Winter Music Conference in Miami--has announced more exciting additions to its lineup. Promoters for the festival have revealed that The Prodigy (who will release their new album Invaders Must Die on March 2) and Pendulum, two of the most anticipated live acts for 2009, have been confirmed along with DJ titans Paul Van Dyk and Armin Van Buuren. Moby has also tapped UMF for his exclusive Winter Music Conference appearance.

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  • ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINE-UP ADDITIONS
    The ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL (UMF)--the world’s leading two-day electronic and alternative music experience set for Friday March 27 and Saturday March 28, 2009 during the Winter Music Conference in Miami--has announced more exciting additions to its lineup. Promoters for the festival have revealed that The Prodigy (who will release their new album Invaders Must Die on March 2) and Pendulum, two of the most anticipated live acts for 2009, have been confirmed along with DJ titans Paul Van Dyk and Armin Van Buuren. Moby has also tapped UMF for his exclusive Winter Music Conference appearance.

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  • Hot Buttered Rum & The Travelin' McCourys @ Boulder Theater
    Hot Buttered Rum, one of the hardest-working and fastest-rising stars in the musical firmament, has become, over the last five years, a group that is infinitely greater than the sum of its parts. Often described as a rock band playing bluegrass instruments, the band melds blues, folks, bluegrass, jazz, and rock, and the members’ varying degrees of classical training lead them to invest heavily in group composition. The widespread appeal of HBR’s music stems not only from the band’s musical versatility and prolific songwriting, but also from the magnetic chemistry the group creates onstage together. It is this chemistry that is propelling the band to ever greater success.

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  • Hot Buttered Rum & The Travelin' McCourys @ Boulder Theater
    Hot Buttered Rum, one of the hardest-working and fastest-rising stars in the musical firmament, has become, over the last five years, a group that is infinitely greater than the sum of its parts. Often described as a rock band playing bluegrass instruments, the band melds blues, folks, bluegrass, jazz, and rock, and the members’ varying degrees of classical training lead them to invest heavily in group composition. The widespread appeal of HBR’s music stems not only from the band’s musical versatility and prolific songwriting, but also from the magnetic chemistry the group creates onstage together. It is this chemistry that is propelling the band to ever greater success.

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There is a new trend in the music industry today, bands which have been broken up for decades reforming suddenly in order to cash in on the pocketbooks and prosperity of their baby-boomer generation fans.  Groups like The Police, Cream, and Pink Floyd have all appeared on stage together recently after years of absence, often times charging outrageous ticket prices for one-off concerts which have been disappointing performance wise.

 

While the New Riders of the Purple Sage had never quite enjoyed the success of the above bands, they are no strangers to the rock spectacle, having played to large audiences (including a 1974 Central Park concert for over 50,000 people) as well as having a long and successful career.   It would have been easy for them to come back and cash in on all the successful Dead Heads and baby boomers for just a few concerts; however they have done something much more impressive.  David Nelson and Buddy Cage have managed to reform the band with an outstanding lineup, continually giving excellent performances, and maintaining a touring schedule which would make many younger bands’ heads spin. Their lineup of original members David Nelson and Buddy Cage, joined by Michael Falzarano on guitar, Ronnie Penque on bass guitar, and Johnny Markowski on drums are some of the finest veteran musicians.  As a result of this their skill and comfort levels with each other and the music is clearly nothing short of superb.  On this particular evening they were joined by keyboardist Mookie Siegel, a veteran of the David Nelson Band, Phil and Friends, as well as a top notch performer in his own right.

 

In between sets of their recent stop at the State Theater in Falls Church, VA, a suburb of Washington D.C. I had the chance to sit down with the band and talk candidly about the past, the present, the future, politics, and of course Panama Red.

 

Grateful Web: What inspired you to release a new live album and live DVD after not being together and not releasing anything for three decades?

David Nelson:  Well it’s because we weren’t together for 30 years. <laughing> That’s the basic answer, but this most recent thing is really great because Bob Matthews and Betty Cantor offered to come out and brought the remote and bus and set the whole thing up and recorded the whole thing, and it was just great!  The whole three nights…. Two nights?   How many nights did we play?

Michael Falzarano:  But if you count the 4 sets we played until 4:30 in the morning

Buddy Cage: You played about 3, but 6 sets in two nights. 

David Nelson:  Yeah, it was great, by that 4th set only a select few stayed there and we were like, yeah this is great, there’s only a few people.  Then tried to translate that but I don’t know if it made it…  This is what we want.  This is for YOU, we don’t normally do this.  This is why we played Reggae Ripple.

 

Grateful Web: So I’ve got to ask, is there any hope of a new studio record now that you’ve got both a live CD and DVD under your belts?

David Nelson: Oh, now you’re talking some real dough.  Oh we’d love to do that, if anyone has some benevolent benefactors that would like to sponsor us.

Michael Falzarano:  All I can say is that it won’t happen this year, because we’re booked out until the end of this year. 

Buddy Cage:  I do a show called Jam-On on Sirius, and let me tell you man, they don’t want to hear a whole bunch of studio stuff.  They want to hear mostly live stuff, so who the hell wants to make a studio album these days.

David Nelson:  I think I’d love to make a studio record, but then sometimes when you get back into the studio you think.  Ah now I remember…. and forget it, forget it.  It’s a labor of love and a lot of work.  There’s a lot of pressure on you when you’re in the studio.   And you always end up staying there all night to fix what you did.  It just goes on and on…It’s crazy.

 

Mookie Seigel:  Now you ask him a question!

David Nelson:  Okay, How tall is Mount Fuji <laughter.

Grateful Web:  Tall, real tall.

David Nelson:  That’s the right answer, REAL TALL.  Bingo!

 

Grateful Web:  Do you guys ever get copies of audience recordings from tapers, and if so do you listen to them?

David Nelson:  We try to make our own live tapes.  But once in awhile something gets back to us, but if its months and months later.  Or a long time later, it sounds pretty good!  But if it’s the next night it sounds gahhhhh because all you can hear is the struggle you’re involved in trying to accomplish something and it only half made it.  All you can hear is that, just bleeding bias because its still loud in your mind.  But if you go for a long time then you hear it with a fair position and viewpoint and it sounds ok.

Mookie Seigel:  But then I remind you what you did wrong!

David Nelson: Yes, then there’s Mookie to remind you what you did wrong, he just sits there making my life a living hell. 

 

Grateful Web:  If you guys could put a band together with any living musician besides yourselves, who would you choose to play with?

Mookie Seigel:  Pick me! Pick me!

Michael Falzarano: Somebody different every night, take your pick.

David Nelson: We did jam with Pinetop Perkins in Texas. 

Michael Falzarano: That’s right 93 years old, two years after being hit by a train. 

David Nelson: It was just great.  It was cool though.

Michael Falzarano: Yeah he’d be in the band

David Nelson: Say something for the audience Pinetop? “Wanna buy a cd?”

NRPS: <laughter>

 

Grateful Web:  How about the obligatory political question?  Being that we are in the Nation’s capital, if you had a moment with President Bush what would you say to him?

David Nelson: I’d say, get out! OUT!

Buddy Cage:  He doesn’t want to get that close to me to hear what I have to say to him…

David Nelson:  You know that’s funny, because that reminds me of in the 60’s in the backroom with the Dead we thought about that exact same topic.  We said what if we could actually talk to the President, what would we say?  And Phil I think it was said: “Now listen here asshole….” And that was when Presidents were good! 

 

Grateful Web: Johnny, so I hear you’re writing a Children’s book, what can you tell us about this?

Johnny Markowski: its name is Stan the Can, it teaches kids about recycling.  He goes out on all these adventures, each time he goes out to the recycling plant he’ll come out as something new like a rim of a NASCAR, or an aluminum baseball bat that wins the little league world series.  So it teaches kids that it’s not garbage, that this guy’s got another job to do and to send him to the right place. 

Michael Falzarano:  He could be the rims on Mookie’s glasses on stage! 

Mookie Seigel:  That’s a happy ending right?

Johnny Markowski:  He could be the neck on your steel Buddy. 

David Nelson:  I could be playing Stan the Can.

Grateful Web:  We could go on and on with that one.

 

Grateful Web:  Now I have to ask due to popular demand, have you guys seen Panama Red lately?

Michael Falzarano: A lot of people as that question and we see him regularly...

David Nelson:  About 10 seconds ago.

Toast: I don’t run into Red that often but I see his friend Henry all the time.

 

Grateful Web:  That’s all guys; it’s been an honor and a privilege, thank you so much.

 

The Show: 

As the show began, the band took a few minutes to get into the groove, and the crowd was not far behind them.  The opened with one of my personal favorites Sliding Delta Blues.  The crowd took a bit to warm to the music, perhaps because they were finishing up their dinner still.  This all changed though as soon as the New Riders busted into “I Don’t Know You” the crowd was up on its feet and fully enjoying the evening.  The New Riders were rolling ahead full speed.  With Mookie on the keyboards it added and interesting and wonderful dynamic to the New Riders that served their playing style very well.  The highlights of the rest of the set was “What you Gonna Do,”  “Truck Trivin Man,”  and “15 Days under the Hood.” 

 

After a most enjoyable set break, the band re-emerged and plunged right into a great rendition of Last Lonely Eagle with Mookie trading his keyboard for an accordion.  Keeping the crowds attention throughout, they showed that they weren’t at all rusty despite this being the first show in five weeks.  Later they rounded out the set with a nice Garden of Eden into The Last time and back into Garden of Eden.  They finished out the second set with everyone’s favorite Panama Red.  For the encore, NRPS came out and did a fantastic cover of the Rolling Stone’s Let it Bleed that left the crowd asking for more.  Unfortunately it was now past 1 am and the New Riders bid us goodnight.

 

Anyone who might be questioning whether the New Riders are a still a relevant band should put that question far in the back of their minds and go see them for themselves.  They put on a fantastic show and with their non-stop touring schedule chances are that they are coming to a town near you.  I’m sure that you’ll leave smiling and wanting more, the crowd that night in Falls Church did.

 

Be sure to check out their upcoming tourdates at TheNewRiders.com and listen to Buddy’s show on Sirius, “Jam On.”  This Friday he will be discussing the origins and meanings of 4-20 beyond that of what popular culture tells us.  He’s assured us that it will be very interesting, and we have no doubt that it will be.  Also, you can find the New Riders new CD at:  www.nrpslive.com

 

The Setlist:

Set 1: Sliding Delta Blues, Instant Armadillo Blues, Contract, I Don't Know You, What You Gonna Do, Dirty Business, Sutter's Mill, 15 Days Under The Hood, Truck Drivin' Man,

Set 2: Last Lonely Eagle*, Henry*, Absolutely Sweet Marie, Garden of Eden >The Last Time >Garden Of Eden, Sing Me a Rainbow, Higher, Any Naked Eye, Take a Letter Maria, Panama Red, E:Let it Bleed,

Comment: Whole Show w/Mookie Siegel on Keyboards & Accordion on Last Lonely Eagle & Henry

 

Sanjay Suchak,

The Grateful Web

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