NUTHIN' BUT NOLA

As a Mardi Gras warm-up, check out the all New Orleans mix on Toast-n-Jam this Thursday, featuring not one, but two guest toasts (^_^)

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TnJ 158 (2/24/11)

-HOUR ONE-

DEREK TRUCKS BAND – Don’t Miss Me (2010 Roadsongs)
JOHN HERMANN – Don’t Throw It Away (2001 Smiling Assassin)
WIDESPREAD PANIC w/ DAVID BROMBERG – Sharon (12/31/10 Pepsi Center, Denver, CO) livewidespreadpanic.com
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME – Emma’s Pissed (2011 Apollo) stockholmsyndromeband.com
GALACTIC w/ CYRIL NEVILLE – Boban (9/18/10 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival)
BLACK ANGELS – Telephone (2010 Phosphene Dream)
HOT TUNA – Ice Age (1997 Live in Japan at Stove’s Yokohama City)

-HOUR TWO-

HANK WILLIAMS III – 7 Months, 39 Days (2002 Lovesick, Broke & Driftin’)
JOHNNY CASH – Big River (1958 Sun Records single)
JOHNNY WINTER – Cheatin’ Blues (2004 I’m a Bluesman)
HILL COUNTRY REVUE – Hill Country Revue (2009 Make a Move)
HYMN for HER – Here (2010 2010 Lucy & Wayne and the Amairican Stream) hymnforher.com
BLACK CROWES – Nonfiction (12/5/10 Reno, NV) liveblackcrowes.com
FLORENCE + the MACHINE – Drumming Song (2009 Lungs)
THE BRIDGE – Sanctuary (2011 National Bohemian)
BOB MARLEY & the WAILERS – Running Away > Crazy Baldhead (2011 Live Forever, 9/23/80 Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA)

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Forwarded by a fan, too funny not to post:


Although - he does have long hair and sandals, so maybe not...

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ARCADE FIRE TICKETS ON SALE 2/25

Grammy winners ARCADE FIRE are slated to play the Convention Center in Santa Fe Monday, April 18th, 2011 - the same night as BRUCE HORNSBY! Decisions, decisions...

Tickets for Arcade Fire go on sale this Friday morning, 10 a.m. MST, through ticketssantafe.org

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TnJ 157 (2/17/11)

-HOUR ONE-

the DECEMBERISTS – Don’t Carry it All (2010/2011 the King is Dead) decemberists.com
EDDIE from OHIO – Cantering on Fool (2001 Quick) eddiefromohio.com
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS – the Thanksgiving Filter (2011 Go-Go Boots) drivebytruckers.com
SANTANA – Persuasion (1997 Live at the Fillmore 1968)
GRUPO FANTASMA – La Conozco (2010 El Existential) grupofantasma.com
PHISH – Gotta Jiboo (7/4/10 Encore Park, Alpharetta, GA) livephish.com
D NUMBERS – Dead Things (2010 Onda) dnumbers.com

-HOUR TWO-

PINK FLOYD – Run Like Hell (1987 “On the Turning Away” CD single, 11/5/87 the Omni, Atlanta, GA)
BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION – Song of Yesterday (2010 Black Country Communion) bccommunion.com
COUNTER RIOT – Get Off (2010 Punk Funk Fugato!) counterriot.net
JOHN BROWN’s BODY – Struggling (2009 Re-Amplify, 10/10/08 Aggie Theatre, Ft. Collins, CO) johnbrownsbody.com
the HEAVY PETS – Grace Blix (2010 the Heavy Pets) theheavypets.com
the JOHN SULLIVAN BRIGADE – Somewhere to Run (2011 Live My Dream Rock True) johnsullivanbrigade.com
GRATEFUL DEAD – When I Paint My Masterpiece (9/15/90 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)

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BRUCE HORNSBY @ the LENSIC 4/18/11

Fair warning, Santa Fe:

Bruce Hornsby tickets for the Lensic show April 18, 2011, will go on sale this Friday morning at 10am MST

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BONNAROO ANNOUNCES 10th ANNIVERSARY LINE-UP

Eminem | Arcade Fire | Widespread Panic | the Black Keys | Buffalo Springfield | My Morning Jacket | Lil Wayne | String Cheese Incident | Robert Plant | Mumford & Sons | the Strokes | the Decemberists | Ray LaMontagne | Primus | Iron & Wine | Dr. John | the Meters | Pretty Lights | Gregg Allman | Gogol Bordello | Beirut | lots more

Tickets on sale Saturday 2/19/11, 12n EST

Go here for more info (^_^)

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TnJ 156 (2/10/11)

-HOUR ONE-

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Wasted Words (8/10/03 Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NC)
GREGG ALLMAN – Floating Bridge (2011 Low Country Blues) greggallman.com
TONY FURTADO – the Bawds of Euphony (2009 Deep Water) tonyfurtado.com
FISTFUL of MERCY – In Vain or True (2010 As I Call You Down)
IMPERIAL ROOSTER – the Ballad of Lightnin’ Bill Jasper (2010 Old Good Poor Crazy Dead) reverbnation.com/theimperialrooster
JERRY GARCIA BAND – Let it Rock (11/23/77 Palace Theater, Waterbury, CT)
JOHN-ALEX MASON f/ CODY BURNSIDE – Riding On (2011 Juke Joint Thunderclap) johnalexmason.com
ORGŌNE – A WOT (2007 the Killion Floor) orgonespace.com

-HOUR TWO-

BOB MARLEY & the WAILERS – Could You Be Loved (2011 Live Forever, 9/23/80 Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA)
IVAN NEVILLE’s DUMPSTAPHUNK – Meanwhile… (3/20/09 Highline Ballroom, New York, NY)
7 WALKERS – [For the Love of] Mr. Okra (2010 7 Walkers) 7walkers.com
PHISH – Kill Devil Falls (6/22/10 Comcast Center, Mansfield, MA) livephish.com
LEO KOTTKE – Morning Is the Long Way Home (1999 One Guitar, No Vocals)
CHRIS PANDOLFI – Rolling Blackout (2009 Looking Glass) chrispandolfi.com
NATHAN MOORE – Dear Puppeteer (2011 Dear Puppeteer) nathanmoore.org

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Congrats to the Gregg Allman CD winners tonight, and thanks for tuning in! We know you have a choice when choosing herbally-enhanced entertainment, and we thank you for flying with Toast-n-Jam.

Also, thanks to Rounder Records for kicking down the giveaways (^_^)

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ALBUM REVIEW

Gregg Allman – “Low Country Blues” (released 1/18/11, Rounder Records)


Word is this album was recorded before Gregg Allman had his liver transplant last summer, but you’ll find no gloomy, death’s door vibe in these intentionally lo-fi grooves. Ubiquitous producer T Bone Burnett brings his favorite players to bear on a sound which calls to mind some of the blues greats Allman grew up idolizing (if his early-career cover songs are any indication). For better or worse, this album sounds like a dusty old analog recording, and Burnett’s uncannily encyclopedic knowledge of long-forgotten gems from the likes of “Sleepy” John Estes, Bobby “Blue” Bland, and Otis Rush fits Allman’s delivery like a glove.

Seeing Allman perform the one original from the set, “Just another Rider,” on the David Letterman show, I was struck by how adept and frisky his B-3 playing still was at age 63. He made it look so effortless, but he was hardly just going through the motions. His trademark bluesy growl might be a little thinner, but it still has presence, and the band was absolutely aces. The subdued horn arrangements added a welcome sparkle to the song without overwhelming its gritty earthiness, and the same can be said for the sound of the album. It sounds like the Muscle Shoals album Allman probably always wanted to make.

As the Allman Brothers Band gears up for another epic Beacon run in March, the bad news is Allman’s tour schedule overall for 2011 is very scaled back. After his surgery last summer, Allman was quoted as saying, “I changed my ways years ago, but we can’t turn back time. Every day is a gift.” Maybe at this point we should treat every Allman performance and recording as a gift, too. Here’s hoping he has years of great playing ahead of him, but if “Low Country Blues” should end up being his swan song, it would be a great one.

~ Chris Diestler, a.k.a. "TOAST"

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TnJ 155 (2/3/11)

-HOUR ONE-

3-FER MADNESS!!!

Thanks to my 2 guest-toasts for helping me mix up the musical medicine tonight (^_^)

NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS – Jumpercable Blues (2011 Keys to the Kingdom)
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (2011 Keys to the Kingdom)
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS – the Meeting (2011 Keys to the Kingdom)

GRATEFUL DEAD – Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower (1991 One from the Vault, 8/13/75 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA)

GARCIA / SAUNDERS – I Was Made to Love Her (2/6/72 Pacific High Studio, San Francisco, CA)
TOM JONES – I Was Made to Love Her (1996 13 Smash Hits)
KING CURTIS – I Was Made to Love Her (1967 King Size Soul)

-HOUR TWO-

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS – Dead, Drunk, and Naked (2002 Southern Rock Opera)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS – I Do Believe (2011 Go-Go Boots)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS – Santa Fe (2010 the Big To-Do)

DR. DOG – the Old Days (2008 Fate)
NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE – Cortez the Killer (1979 Live Rust)
BLACK CROWES – Make Glad (2009 Before the Frost…)

BUDDY MILES – Joe Tex (1971 a Message to the People)
BUDDY MILES – the Way I Feel Tonight (1971 a Message to the People)
BUDDY MILES – Place over There (1971 a Message to the People)

REVEREND HORTON HEAT – Bales of Cocaine (1993 the Full-Custom Gospel Sounds)
REVEREND HORTON HEAT – Oh God! Doesn’t Work in Vegas (2009 Laughin’ & Cryin’)
REVEREND HORTON HEAT – Psychobilly Freakout (1990 Smoke ‘em If You Got ‘em)

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If you're scratching your head on the 5th 3-fer set, all the bands are named after animals. Nice work, David - way to stretch the boundaries!

Clint, you must have known next week would've been the late King Curtis' birthday. Also, way to pull the Tom Jones wild card, sir (^_^)

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STREAM WIDEPSREAD PANIC LIVE

As part of their 25th anniversary celebration, Widespread Panic will be streaming the upcoming, sold-out Georgia events at livewidespreadpanic.com

The shows are February 10th and 11th (Athens), and February 14th (Atlanta). The live streams will be available beginning at 7:30 p.m. EST on all 3 nights, according to widespreadpanic.com

And, to all the haters who saw fit to leave comments on my review of WP's NYE show @ jambands.com - how can you live with yourselves being such @$$holes in public? If you don't like the band, why would you read a review of their show? Mystifying.

(^_^) TOAST