The Historic El Rey Theater in Albuquerque just informed us of the long-awaited return of G.LOVE to New Mexico! Huzzah! I think tix went on sale today (Tues 12/23). 1-866-I-GET-TIX.
That's G.LOVE, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. C U there (^_^)
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
TnJ 049 (12/17/08)
2008 HONORABLE MENTIONS
-HOUR ONE-
THE WAYBACKS – Black Cat (2008 Loaded)
DREW EMMITT – Take the Highway (2008 the Long Road)
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Free Somehow (2008 Free Somehow)
JOHN BROWN’S BODY – Push Some Air (2008 Amplify)
FREEKBASS – Ghost of Temptation (2008 Junkyard Waltz)
ACORN PROJECT – Stomp (2008 We’ll Be Fine)
BLUES TRAVELER – Free Willis (Ruminations from Behind Uncle Bob’s Machine Shop) (2008 North Hollywood Shootout)
MARKUS JAMES – Exile Tracks (2008 Snakeskin Violin)
HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD – Sara & Jane (2008 Poison)
-HOUR TWO-
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Well, Well (4/15/08 Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO)
OAKHURST – Bitterroot Hop (2008 Jump in the Get Down)
ZACH DEPUTY – She Takes Me High (2008 Out of the Water)
GOOSE CREEK SYMPHONY – Tulsa Turnaround (2008 the Same Thing Again)
JEFF COFFIN MU’TET – Tag (2008 Mutopia)
ROBERT WALTER – Box of Glass (2008 Cure All)
STANTON MOORE TRIO – (Proper) Gander (2008 Emphasis! On Parenthesis)
THE MACPODZ – Quatroliola (2008 Orcastrate)
PHISH – Suzy Greenberg > Buried Alive > Punch You in the Eye (1993/2008 At the Roxy, 2/19-21/1993 Atlanta, GA)
# # #
While Tom and I are having fun putting our 2008 Top Ten Lists together behind the scenes, there was a lot of other great music that came our way this year. So, here you have the "almosts," which we felt deserved one last spin before 2008 comes to a close.
You might recognize a bunch of these picks from my earlier HONORABLE MENTIONS post. The Fox Theatre (Boulder) Infamous Stringdusters show was my favorite "unofficial" live recording of the year. Phish's "At the Roxy" is my favorite "official" live release, though the show dates back to 1993. Goose Creek Symphony comprises material recorded in the 1970's, but never released until 2008, I believe. Lastly, though I really liked the Macpodz' release, "Orcastrate," if anyone who knows them reads this, for the love of all that's Holy, PLEASE ASK THEM TO CONSIDER USING A READABLE FONT NEXT TIME! If it wasn't for the press release we would've had no idea what the name of the band was, the name of the CD, or the names of the songs. Ah well, it still sounds great. One of my "Best Bands I'd Never Heard of Before 2008," though I believe they had one previous release.
As always, if you have trouble finding any of the music you hear on Toast-n-Jam for purchase, take a gander over at homegrownmusic.net
Catch us on NEW YEAR'S EVE at the usual time for our ABSOLUTE TOP PICKS of 2008!!! We're taking Xmas Eve off. Happy Holidays y'all (^_^)
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-HOUR ONE-
THE WAYBACKS – Black Cat (2008 Loaded)
DREW EMMITT – Take the Highway (2008 the Long Road)
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Free Somehow (2008 Free Somehow)
JOHN BROWN’S BODY – Push Some Air (2008 Amplify)
FREEKBASS – Ghost of Temptation (2008 Junkyard Waltz)
ACORN PROJECT – Stomp (2008 We’ll Be Fine)
BLUES TRAVELER – Free Willis (Ruminations from Behind Uncle Bob’s Machine Shop) (2008 North Hollywood Shootout)
MARKUS JAMES – Exile Tracks (2008 Snakeskin Violin)
HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD – Sara & Jane (2008 Poison)
-HOUR TWO-
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Well, Well (4/15/08 Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO)
OAKHURST – Bitterroot Hop (2008 Jump in the Get Down)
ZACH DEPUTY – She Takes Me High (2008 Out of the Water)
GOOSE CREEK SYMPHONY – Tulsa Turnaround (2008 the Same Thing Again)
JEFF COFFIN MU’TET – Tag (2008 Mutopia)
ROBERT WALTER – Box of Glass (2008 Cure All)
STANTON MOORE TRIO – (Proper) Gander (2008 Emphasis! On Parenthesis)
THE MACPODZ – Quatroliola (2008 Orcastrate)
PHISH – Suzy Greenberg > Buried Alive > Punch You in the Eye (1993/2008 At the Roxy, 2/19-21/1993 Atlanta, GA)
# # #
While Tom and I are having fun putting our 2008 Top Ten Lists together behind the scenes, there was a lot of other great music that came our way this year. So, here you have the "almosts," which we felt deserved one last spin before 2008 comes to a close.
You might recognize a bunch of these picks from my earlier HONORABLE MENTIONS post. The Fox Theatre (Boulder) Infamous Stringdusters show was my favorite "unofficial" live recording of the year. Phish's "At the Roxy" is my favorite "official" live release, though the show dates back to 1993. Goose Creek Symphony comprises material recorded in the 1970's, but never released until 2008, I believe. Lastly, though I really liked the Macpodz' release, "Orcastrate," if anyone who knows them reads this, for the love of all that's Holy, PLEASE ASK THEM TO CONSIDER USING A READABLE FONT NEXT TIME! If it wasn't for the press release we would've had no idea what the name of the band was, the name of the CD, or the names of the songs. Ah well, it still sounds great. One of my "Best Bands I'd Never Heard of Before 2008," though I believe they had one previous release.
As always, if you have trouble finding any of the music you hear on Toast-n-Jam for purchase, take a gander over at homegrownmusic.net
Catch us on NEW YEAR'S EVE at the usual time for our ABSOLUTE TOP PICKS of 2008!!! We're taking Xmas Eve off. Happy Holidays y'all (^_^)
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Sad news for English Beat fans in SF
From the promoter, re: tonight's show:
I am terribly, terribly disappointed to report that tonight's show is canceled. The English Beat are stuck, snowed in in Colorado and cannot get here. The band expresses their great regret to al their fans as they love Santa Fe and were very much looking forward to being here.
I for my part have probably never worked harder to try to make a show special, going into the Railyard and Farmers Market Pavilion for the first time so this is crushingly sad for me...
REGGAE PARTY TONIGHT! OUTLAW NATION AT THE SANTA FE BREWING CO. !
If you have a sitter, are looking to go out tonight, the opening band, a VERY cool contemporary regge/rock band called Outlaw Nation, left Aspen early and got out and will be playing at the Santa Fe Brewing Co TONIGHT AT 8:00 for JUST $5 ...
I am terribly, terribly disappointed to report that tonight's show is canceled. The English Beat are stuck, snowed in in Colorado and cannot get here. The band expresses their great regret to al their fans as they love Santa Fe and were very much looking forward to being here.
I for my part have probably never worked harder to try to make a show special, going into the Railyard and Farmers Market Pavilion for the first time so this is crushingly sad for me...
REGGAE PARTY TONIGHT! OUTLAW NATION AT THE SANTA FE BREWING CO. !
If you have a sitter, are looking to go out tonight, the opening band, a VERY cool contemporary regge/rock band called Outlaw Nation, left Aspen early and got out and will be playing at the Santa Fe Brewing Co TONIGHT AT 8:00 for JUST $5 ...
TnJ 048 (12/10/08)
-HOUR ONE-
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Dreams (7/29/95 Raleigh, NC)
THE DOORS – Moonlight Drive (including Horse Latitudes) (1983 Alive, She Cried, c. 1970)
NORMAN BLAKE – Jordan Am a Hard Road to Travel (3/2/77 Boston, MA, radio broadcast?)
PETER ROWAN – Land of the Navajo (unknown source, c. 2005)
JERRY GARCIA BAND – Don’t Let Go (1991/2006 Pure Jerry 07, 11/9/91 Hampton, VA)
-HOUR TWO-
LOTUS – Hammerstrike (2008 Hammerstrike)
PHISH – the Divided Sky (1993/2008 At the Roxy, 2/19-21/1993 Atlanta, GA)
MC5 – Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) (1969 Kick Out the Jams)
TOM WAITS – Baby Gonna Leave Me (2004 Real Gone)
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Jessica (7/24/99 Dallas, TX)
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ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Dreams (7/29/95 Raleigh, NC)
THE DOORS – Moonlight Drive (including Horse Latitudes) (1983 Alive, She Cried, c. 1970)
NORMAN BLAKE – Jordan Am a Hard Road to Travel (3/2/77 Boston, MA, radio broadcast?)
PETER ROWAN – Land of the Navajo (unknown source, c. 2005)
JERRY GARCIA BAND – Don’t Let Go (1991/2006 Pure Jerry 07, 11/9/91 Hampton, VA)
-HOUR TWO-
LOTUS – Hammerstrike (2008 Hammerstrike)
PHISH – the Divided Sky (1993/2008 At the Roxy, 2/19-21/1993 Atlanta, GA)
MC5 – Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) (1969 Kick Out the Jams)
TOM WAITS – Baby Gonna Leave Me (2004 Real Gone)
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Jessica (7/24/99 Dallas, TX)
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Monday, December 8, 2008
TnJ BEST of 2008 special show coming 12/31
Yep, everybody's doing it and so are we: Toast-n-Jam's "Best of 2008 Special" will air Wednesday night, 12/31/08, starting at 8pm on KBAC 98.1 Radio Free Santa Fe. Happy New Year (^_^)
TnJ 047 (12/3/08)
-HOUR ONE-
KELLER WILLIAMS w/MOSELEY, DROLL & SIPE – Tribe (2008 Live)
MOSES GUEST – How Does It Feel (2002 Moses Guest)
GIANT PANDA GUERILLA DUB SQUAD – Incognito (lyrics by Tom Robbins) (2006 Slow Down)
SLIGHTLY STOOPID – Jimi (2007 Chronchitis)
DELTA NOVE – Maraca Eu (Maraca Tu) (2006 The Future Is When)
BONERAMA – The Ocean (2007 Bringing It Home)
INDIGENOUS – Water (1999 Live at Pachyderm Studios)
CHARLIE WHEELER BAND – I Got to Ramble (2008 Highway Run)
-HOUR TWO-
JJ GREY & MOFRO – Everything Good Is Bad (2008 Orange Blossoms)
UMPHREY’s McGEE – Made to Measure (2009 Mantis)
UMPHREY’s McGEE – Cemetery Walk (2009 Mantis)
moe. – Bring You Down > Shoot First (2007 Warts & All Vol. 5, 2/22/05 Des Moines, IA)
PHISH – Runaway Jim (2008 At the Roxy, 2/19 - 21/93, Atlanta, GA)
PHISH w/JIMMY HERRING – Funky Bitch (2008 At the Roxy, 2/19 – 21/93, Atlanta, GA)
# # #
KELLER WILLIAMS w/MOSELEY, DROLL & SIPE – Tribe (2008 Live)
MOSES GUEST – How Does It Feel (2002 Moses Guest)
GIANT PANDA GUERILLA DUB SQUAD – Incognito (lyrics by Tom Robbins) (2006 Slow Down)
SLIGHTLY STOOPID – Jimi (2007 Chronchitis)
DELTA NOVE – Maraca Eu (Maraca Tu) (2006 The Future Is When)
BONERAMA – The Ocean (2007 Bringing It Home)
INDIGENOUS – Water (1999 Live at Pachyderm Studios)
CHARLIE WHEELER BAND – I Got to Ramble (2008 Highway Run)
-HOUR TWO-
JJ GREY & MOFRO – Everything Good Is Bad (2008 Orange Blossoms)
UMPHREY’s McGEE – Made to Measure (2009 Mantis)
UMPHREY’s McGEE – Cemetery Walk (2009 Mantis)
moe. – Bring You Down > Shoot First (2007 Warts & All Vol. 5, 2/22/05 Des Moines, IA)
PHISH – Runaway Jim (2008 At the Roxy, 2/19 - 21/93, Atlanta, GA)
PHISH w/JIMMY HERRING – Funky Bitch (2008 At the Roxy, 2/19 – 21/93, Atlanta, GA)
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
BIG D's extensive HONORABLE MENTIONS for 2008
Too many items of note to make my TOP 10 of 2008 list, so here’s all my HONORABLE MENTIONS for the year:
MOST INTERESTING FOREIGN RE-RELEASE STATESIDE:
> POOR BILLY – Moonlight Stranger
MOST WELCOME JAZZ RELEASE:
> STANTON MOORE TRIO – Emphasis! On Parenthesis
MOST AMAZING GUITAR LICKS THIS SIDE OF SRV:
> WALTER TROUT – The Outsider
MOST BIZARRE EXPERIMENT I’M STILL NOT SURE I LIKE:
> PUNCH BROTHERS – Punch
BEST INDICATOR THAT REGGAE IS NOT A DEAD GENRE:
> JOHN BROWN’S BODY – Amplify
BEST ISSUE OF ARCHIVAL MATERIAL, STUDIO:
> GOOSE CREEK SYMPHONY – The Same Thing Again
BEST ISSUE OF ARCHIVAL MATERIAL, LIVE:
> PHISH – At the Roxy (Atlanta, 2/19-21/1993)
BEST “UNOFFICIAL” LIVE RECORDING
> INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 4/15/08 Fox Theater, Boulder, CO
BEST LIVE SHOW “EVERYBODY” SAW:
> WIDESPREAD PANIC – 6/28/08 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO
BEST LIVE SHOW “NOBODY” SAW:
> GRACE POTTER & the NOCTURNALS – 11/10/08 Santa Fe Brewing Company, Santa Fe, NM
BEST ALBUMS FROM PERFORMERS I’D NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE:
> ZACH DEPUTY – Out of the Water
> FREEKBASS – Grooveyard, Junkyard Waltz
> ACORN PROJECT – We’ll Be Fine
> RAINMAKER – Long Slow Fade
> THE MACPODZ - Orcastrate
> POOR BILLY – Moonlight Stranger
(TIP - Check out homegrownmusic.net if you can’t find these tasty nugs.)
WORST RELEASE OF MATERIAL TO RADIO:
> MIKE GORDON – The Green Sparrow
(I’ve never been so excited and insulted at the same time. This otherwise fantastic release was received in a plain wrapper with no liner notes and a bold declaration that, if copied, the powers-that-be would find out and make my program director’s life a living hell, due to amazing digital watermarking technology. Screw you guys. We played the hell out of this disc and our reward was a disc which will no longer even cue up in most players. Not as bad as Sony’s infamous “rootkit,” but close.)
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MOST INTERESTING FOREIGN RE-RELEASE STATESIDE:
> POOR BILLY – Moonlight Stranger
MOST WELCOME JAZZ RELEASE:
> STANTON MOORE TRIO – Emphasis! On Parenthesis
MOST AMAZING GUITAR LICKS THIS SIDE OF SRV:
> WALTER TROUT – The Outsider
MOST BIZARRE EXPERIMENT I’M STILL NOT SURE I LIKE:
> PUNCH BROTHERS – Punch
BEST INDICATOR THAT REGGAE IS NOT A DEAD GENRE:
> JOHN BROWN’S BODY – Amplify
BEST ISSUE OF ARCHIVAL MATERIAL, STUDIO:
> GOOSE CREEK SYMPHONY – The Same Thing Again
BEST ISSUE OF ARCHIVAL MATERIAL, LIVE:
> PHISH – At the Roxy (Atlanta, 2/19-21/1993)
BEST “UNOFFICIAL” LIVE RECORDING
> INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 4/15/08 Fox Theater, Boulder, CO
BEST LIVE SHOW “EVERYBODY” SAW:
> WIDESPREAD PANIC – 6/28/08 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO
BEST LIVE SHOW “NOBODY” SAW:
> GRACE POTTER & the NOCTURNALS – 11/10/08 Santa Fe Brewing Company, Santa Fe, NM
BEST ALBUMS FROM PERFORMERS I’D NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE:
> ZACH DEPUTY – Out of the Water
> FREEKBASS – Grooveyard, Junkyard Waltz
> ACORN PROJECT – We’ll Be Fine
> RAINMAKER – Long Slow Fade
> THE MACPODZ - Orcastrate
> POOR BILLY – Moonlight Stranger
(TIP - Check out homegrownmusic.net if you can’t find these tasty nugs.)
WORST RELEASE OF MATERIAL TO RADIO:
> MIKE GORDON – The Green Sparrow
(I’ve never been so excited and insulted at the same time. This otherwise fantastic release was received in a plain wrapper with no liner notes and a bold declaration that, if copied, the powers-that-be would find out and make my program director’s life a living hell, due to amazing digital watermarking technology. Screw you guys. We played the hell out of this disc and our reward was a disc which will no longer even cue up in most players. Not as bad as Sony’s infamous “rootkit,” but close.)
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BIG D's favorite singles of 2008
Not necessarily TnJ related, but these 2008 numbers hooked me from the get-go:
1) INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS - Loving You
2) HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD - Hell or High Water
3) FLOBOTS - Handlebars
4) RACONTEURS - Top Yourself
5) MY MORNING JACKET - Evil Urges
6) GNARLS BARKLEY - Run (I'm A Natural Disaster)
7) YOAV - Club Thing
8) DUFFY - Rockferry
9) LIPBONE REDDING - Never Forsake You
10) STEPHEN MALKMUS & the JICKS - Real Emotional Trash
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Worst song of 2008, possibly of all time, is "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" by SOULJA BOY TELL'EM. This is what happens when you let YouTube designate hit records.
Favorite video of 2008 - "Run" by GNARLS BARKLEY. Super-psychedelic (at least in its unedited form), and I still have a hard time believing Justin Timberlake is actually cool (go "Southland Tales" and "Give it on up for Homelessville!"). Too bad "The Odd Couple" isn't as great an album as 2006's "St. Elsewhere."
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1) INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS - Loving You
2) HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD - Hell or High Water
3) FLOBOTS - Handlebars
4) RACONTEURS - Top Yourself
5) MY MORNING JACKET - Evil Urges
6) GNARLS BARKLEY - Run (I'm A Natural Disaster)
7) YOAV - Club Thing
8) DUFFY - Rockferry
9) LIPBONE REDDING - Never Forsake You
10) STEPHEN MALKMUS & the JICKS - Real Emotional Trash
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Worst song of 2008, possibly of all time, is "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" by SOULJA BOY TELL'EM. This is what happens when you let YouTube designate hit records.
Favorite video of 2008 - "Run" by GNARLS BARKLEY. Super-psychedelic (at least in its unedited form), and I still have a hard time believing Justin Timberlake is actually cool (go "Southland Tales" and "Give it on up for Homelessville!"). Too bad "The Odd Couple" isn't as great an album as 2006's "St. Elsewhere."
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BIG D’s FAVORITES from 2007 he never heard until 2008
Amazing how not doing a radio show leads to ignoring all kinds of music. Playin' a little catch-up before we lay our BEST OF 2008 lists on ya...
01) WILCO – Sky Blue Sky
(Yet another American classic from possibly the most underrated band on the planet. “Impossible Germany” is my favorite song of 2007.)
02) UMPHREY’S McGEE – Live at the Murat
(Can’t get enough of these guys live, and since they can’t be bothered to come to a venue near me, I’ll put this on, close my eyes and pretend.)
03) JOHN BUTLER TRIO – Grand National
(“Gov Did Nothin’” is my 4th favorite song of the year. Each JBT album is better than the last. I only hope he can resist the temptation to degenerate into throwaway popiness à la Ben Harper. Oooh, diss!)
04) THE BRIDGE – The Bridge
(Best band I never heard of before – amazing songwriting – faves include “Bad Locomotive,” “Country Mile,” “14 Days”)
05) MAMA’S COOKIN’ – Mama’s Cookin’
(Second-best band I never heard of before – some of my favorite songs of the year are here: “Aquarius Skies,” “Black Reign,” “Tough Times”)
06) MOSES GUEST – Best Laid Plans
(Best band no one else seems to have heard of - yet. JAMericana from TX. Personal faves: “Colorado,” “Shine,” “Wheel”)
07) JJ GREY & MOFRO – Country Ghetto
(Another great American band in the making. Southern-fried soul music. “War” is my 2nd favorite song of the year.)
08) HOT BUTTERED RUM – Live in the Northeast
(Ear-pleasing newgrass with some nice jams. Great “Cumberland Blues,” but check out the originals “Busted in Utah,” “Desert Rat,” and “Spider.” Super-nice guys, too.)
09) RYAN MONTBLEAU BAND – Patience on Friday
(Definitely hope to hear more form these guys. Easy, catchy, R&B. Nice songwriting, interesting arrangements.)
10) SLIGHTLY STOOPID – Chronchitis
(I can’t believe everybody everywhere isn’t cranking this one up to eleven.)
HONORABLE MENTION:
3rd favorite song of 2007: “Ah Mary” from GRACE POTTER & the NOCTURNALS. From an album called “This Is Somewhere.” Sure hope I get to hear it someday.
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01) WILCO – Sky Blue Sky
(Yet another American classic from possibly the most underrated band on the planet. “Impossible Germany” is my favorite song of 2007.)
02) UMPHREY’S McGEE – Live at the Murat
(Can’t get enough of these guys live, and since they can’t be bothered to come to a venue near me, I’ll put this on, close my eyes and pretend.)
03) JOHN BUTLER TRIO – Grand National
(“Gov Did Nothin’” is my 4th favorite song of the year. Each JBT album is better than the last. I only hope he can resist the temptation to degenerate into throwaway popiness à la Ben Harper. Oooh, diss!)
04) THE BRIDGE – The Bridge
(Best band I never heard of before – amazing songwriting – faves include “Bad Locomotive,” “Country Mile,” “14 Days”)
05) MAMA’S COOKIN’ – Mama’s Cookin’
(Second-best band I never heard of before – some of my favorite songs of the year are here: “Aquarius Skies,” “Black Reign,” “Tough Times”)
06) MOSES GUEST – Best Laid Plans
(Best band no one else seems to have heard of - yet. JAMericana from TX. Personal faves: “Colorado,” “Shine,” “Wheel”)
07) JJ GREY & MOFRO – Country Ghetto
(Another great American band in the making. Southern-fried soul music. “War” is my 2nd favorite song of the year.)
08) HOT BUTTERED RUM – Live in the Northeast
(Ear-pleasing newgrass with some nice jams. Great “Cumberland Blues,” but check out the originals “Busted in Utah,” “Desert Rat,” and “Spider.” Super-nice guys, too.)
09) RYAN MONTBLEAU BAND – Patience on Friday
(Definitely hope to hear more form these guys. Easy, catchy, R&B. Nice songwriting, interesting arrangements.)
10) SLIGHTLY STOOPID – Chronchitis
(I can’t believe everybody everywhere isn’t cranking this one up to eleven.)
HONORABLE MENTION:
3rd favorite song of 2007: “Ah Mary” from GRACE POTTER & the NOCTURNALS. From an album called “This Is Somewhere.” Sure hope I get to hear it someday.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
TnJ 046 (11/26/08)
With special guest programmers Matt & Andrew Fricek!
BOOT-y-licious (^_^)
They opened with a birthday tribute to Hendrix, and just kept WOWing everybody, all night.
"ROAST-n-HAM"
-HOUR ONE-
BAND of GYPSYS – Foxey Lady (01/01/70 Fillmore East)
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – Killing Floor (01/29/68 the Black Pearl, Paris)
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (1998 BBC Sessions, c. 1967)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (7/1/71)
WHITE BROTHERS – Alabama Jubilee (Live in Sweden ‘73)
ALMOST ACOUSTIC BAND – One Lift > I Am > One Lift
(2/14/04 Jensen Beach, FL)
BECK BOGERT & APPICE – Superstition (live c. 1973)
CHUCHO VALDÉZ, PAQUITO D’RIVERA, ARTURO SANDOVAL – Irakere (live c. 1979)
PUCHO & HIS LATIN SOUL BROTHERS – Got Myself a Good Man
(unknown source, though allmusic.com lists one on 1970’s Jungle Fire!)
-HOUR TWO-
FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS – Devil in Disguise (11/7/70 Fillmore East)
FLEETWOOD MAC – Oh Well (1970 Boston Tea Party)
BLIND FAITH – Under My Thumb (6/7/69 Live @ Hyde Park)
STEPHEN STILLS – Treetop Flyer (Live in New Orleans – thought one of the boys mentioned it was "from late 70s")
DOC & MERLE WATSON – Doc’s Guitar (1971 Doc Watson on Stage [featuring Merle Watson])
WHITE BROTHERS – Soldier’s Joy (Live in Sweden ’73)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Black Rock (6/12/08 Asheville, NC)
KENTUCKY COLONELS – All the Good Times (Are Past and Gone)
(Possibly from 2003 Live in Stereo, c. 1965)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Viola Lee Blues (6/18/67 Monterey Fairgrounds)
Hokey smoke, Bullwinkle, that was awesome!!! Thanks you guys (^_^)
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BOOT-y-licious (^_^)
They opened with a birthday tribute to Hendrix, and just kept WOWing everybody, all night.
"ROAST-n-HAM"
-HOUR ONE-
BAND of GYPSYS – Foxey Lady (01/01/70 Fillmore East)
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – Killing Floor (01/29/68 the Black Pearl, Paris)
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (1998 BBC Sessions, c. 1967)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (7/1/71)
WHITE BROTHERS – Alabama Jubilee (Live in Sweden ‘73)
ALMOST ACOUSTIC BAND – One Lift > I Am > One Lift
(2/14/04 Jensen Beach, FL)
BECK BOGERT & APPICE – Superstition (live c. 1973)
CHUCHO VALDÉZ, PAQUITO D’RIVERA, ARTURO SANDOVAL – Irakere (live c. 1979)
PUCHO & HIS LATIN SOUL BROTHERS – Got Myself a Good Man
(unknown source, though allmusic.com lists one on 1970’s Jungle Fire!)
-HOUR TWO-
FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS – Devil in Disguise (11/7/70 Fillmore East)
FLEETWOOD MAC – Oh Well (1970 Boston Tea Party)
BLIND FAITH – Under My Thumb (6/7/69 Live @ Hyde Park)
STEPHEN STILLS – Treetop Flyer (Live in New Orleans – thought one of the boys mentioned it was "from late 70s")
DOC & MERLE WATSON – Doc’s Guitar (1971 Doc Watson on Stage [featuring Merle Watson])
WHITE BROTHERS – Soldier’s Joy (Live in Sweden ’73)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Black Rock (6/12/08 Asheville, NC)
KENTUCKY COLONELS – All the Good Times (Are Past and Gone)
(Possibly from 2003 Live in Stereo, c. 1965)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Viola Lee Blues (6/18/67 Monterey Fairgrounds)
Hokey smoke, Bullwinkle, that was awesome!!! Thanks you guys (^_^)
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
CAT-SHAPED RACCOON
Don't ask. Inside joke from the Tea Leaf Green show.
Anyway, be sure to have the tape machines rolling this Wednesday, as Toast-n-Jam proudly turns over the reigns to Matt & Andrew Fricek, or (as we will now refer to them) the Amazing Bootleg Bros.! These guys are serious explorers on the live trading scene and are bound to scare up some unbelievable goodness for us all (^_^)
Wednesday, 11/26/08, 8-10 p.m., KBAC-FM 98.1 Radio Free Santa Fe
If we're lucky, maybe we'll get the whole podcasting thing figured out on the KBAC end and you can download the show if you miss it. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!!!
Anyway, be sure to have the tape machines rolling this Wednesday, as Toast-n-Jam proudly turns over the reigns to Matt & Andrew Fricek, or (as we will now refer to them) the Amazing Bootleg Bros.! These guys are serious explorers on the live trading scene and are bound to scare up some unbelievable goodness for us all (^_^)
Wednesday, 11/26/08, 8-10 p.m., KBAC-FM 98.1 Radio Free Santa Fe
If we're lucky, maybe we'll get the whole podcasting thing figured out on the KBAC end and you can download the show if you miss it. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!!!
TnJ 045 (11/19/08)
Special Thanks to David Waldrop for stopping in to talk up the New Orleans Fall Funk Throwdown, and for spinning some fine tunage!
-HOUR ONE-
GUMBO PROJECT – Old Man & the River (mudfootmusic.com)
INTERVIEW> David Waldrop part one
GUMBO PROJECT – Mars (live on the SF Plaza) (mudfootmusic.com)
THE WILD MAGNOLIAS – Meet the Boys (On the Battle Front)
(2007 They Call Us Wild)
INTERVIEW> David Waldrop part two
VINYL – Imperial Dub (1999 Three Sets, recorded 3/98)
THE MACPODZ – Panama Jackelope (2008 Orcastrate)
JEFF COFFIN MU’TET – L’Esperance (2008 Mutopia)
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – Fire (1987 Live at Winterland, c. 1968)
JOHNNY JENKINS – I Walk On Gilded Splinters (1970 Ton-Ton Macoute!)
-HOUR TWO-
GOV’T MULE – Mr. High & Mighty (2006 High & Mighty)
GALACTIC w/LYRICS BORN – What You Need (2007 From the Corner to the Block)
CALEXICO – Man Made Lake (2008 Carried to Dust)
PETER BRUNTNELL – K2 (2005 Ghost in a Spitfire)
MY MORNING JACKET – I’m Amazed (2008 Evil Urges)
RAINMAKER – Waiting and Wondering (2008 Long Slow Fade)
UMPHREY’S McGEE – 40’s Theme > The Triple Wide (2007 Live at the Murat)
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-HOUR ONE-
GUMBO PROJECT – Old Man & the River (mudfootmusic.com)
INTERVIEW> David Waldrop part one
GUMBO PROJECT – Mars (live on the SF Plaza) (mudfootmusic.com)
THE WILD MAGNOLIAS – Meet the Boys (On the Battle Front)
(2007 They Call Us Wild)
INTERVIEW> David Waldrop part two
VINYL – Imperial Dub (1999 Three Sets, recorded 3/98)
THE MACPODZ – Panama Jackelope (2008 Orcastrate)
JEFF COFFIN MU’TET – L’Esperance (2008 Mutopia)
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – Fire (1987 Live at Winterland, c. 1968)
JOHNNY JENKINS – I Walk On Gilded Splinters (1970 Ton-Ton Macoute!)
-HOUR TWO-
GOV’T MULE – Mr. High & Mighty (2006 High & Mighty)
GALACTIC w/LYRICS BORN – What You Need (2007 From the Corner to the Block)
CALEXICO – Man Made Lake (2008 Carried to Dust)
PETER BRUNTNELL – K2 (2005 Ghost in a Spitfire)
MY MORNING JACKET – I’m Amazed (2008 Evil Urges)
RAINMAKER – Waiting and Wondering (2008 Long Slow Fade)
UMPHREY’S McGEE – 40’s Theme > The Triple Wide (2007 Live at the Murat)
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Monday, November 17, 2008
MITCH MITCHELL R.I.P.
Sad news again last week, as the last surviving member of the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience, drummer Mitch Mitchell, died of "natural causes" at age 62 last Wednesday, November 12.
Read more about Mitch's last days here:
http://www.jambase.com/Articles/15792/Hendrix-Drummer-M.-Mitchell-Dies
Bon voyage, Mitch. Hope you enjoyed the trip!
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Read more about Mitch's last days here:
http://www.jambase.com/Articles/15792/Hendrix-Drummer-M.-Mitchell-Dies
Bon voyage, Mitch. Hope you enjoyed the trip!
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
TEDESCHI TIX SAT 11/15
Just announced:
SUSAN TEDESCHI w/JAMES HUNTER at the Lensic in Santa Fe. Show's in February, but tix go on sale Sat 11/15/08
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SUSAN TEDESCHI w/JAMES HUNTER at the Lensic in Santa Fe. Show's in February, but tix go on sale Sat 11/15/08
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TnJ 044 (11/12/08)
-HOUR ONE-
LEGION of MARY – Boogie on Reggae Woman (4/12/75 Scranton, PA, late show)
XAVIER RUDD – Secrets (2008 Dark Shades of Blue)
RUSTED ROOT – Food and Creative Love (2004 Live)
MAMA’s COOKIN’ – Run Up Quick (2007 Mama’s Cookin’)
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Can’t Take It With You (7/19/79 Columbia, MD)
MOSES GUEST – Wheel (2007 Best Laid Plans)
-HOUR TWO-
NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE – Cowgirl in the Sand
(1970/2006 Live at the Fillmore East)
FREEKBASS – Junkyard Waltz (2008 Junkyard Waltz)
RETURN to FOREVER – Captain Señor Mouse (1973 Hymn of the Galaxy)
LETTUCE – Squadlive (2002 Outta Here)
PORTER BATISTE STOLTZ w/PAGE McCONNELL – Message from PBS
(2008 Moodoo)
PHISH – Maze (7/6/98 Lucerna Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic) *** NOTE: the CD player in the studio konked out halfway through the song – BUMMER!
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Fairies Wear Boots (6/28/08 Red Rocks Amphitheater)
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LEGION of MARY – Boogie on Reggae Woman (4/12/75 Scranton, PA, late show)
XAVIER RUDD – Secrets (2008 Dark Shades of Blue)
RUSTED ROOT – Food and Creative Love (2004 Live)
MAMA’s COOKIN’ – Run Up Quick (2007 Mama’s Cookin’)
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Can’t Take It With You (7/19/79 Columbia, MD)
MOSES GUEST – Wheel (2007 Best Laid Plans)
-HOUR TWO-
NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE – Cowgirl in the Sand
(1970/2006 Live at the Fillmore East)
FREEKBASS – Junkyard Waltz (2008 Junkyard Waltz)
RETURN to FOREVER – Captain Señor Mouse (1973 Hymn of the Galaxy)
LETTUCE – Squadlive (2002 Outta Here)
PORTER BATISTE STOLTZ w/PAGE McCONNELL – Message from PBS
(2008 Moodoo)
PHISH – Maze (7/6/98 Lucerna Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic) *** NOTE: the CD player in the studio konked out halfway through the song – BUMMER!
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Fairies Wear Boots (6/28/08 Red Rocks Amphitheater)
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Monday, November 10, 2008
AMAZING GRACE
GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS
11/10/08 Santa Fe Brewing Company
Concert Review by Chris Diestler
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OMG!
I had heard they would be great, but OMFG!
Apologies to those who didn’t hear the word in advance – it was a last-minute addition to the FanMan calendar – but GRACE POTTER & the NOCTURNALS blew the roof off the Santa Fe Brewing Company last Monday.
Crikey! If this show isn’t talked about ten years from now as one of the best Santa Fe’s ever seen, I’ll eat my hat.
With the crowd a scant-yet-robust 150 strong at its wintery peak, the setting was, to say the least, “intimate.” Instruments and stagehands spilled out onto the floor, because the stage just wasn’t big enough to contain all the gear, and this band (who’s accustomed to playing festivals in front of 25K) wasn’t phased at all as they ripped into an incredible set.
The stuffed mascot attached to Grace’s front mike was “Animal,” the crazed drummer from Jim Henson’s beloved “Muppet Show.” Watching her work the crowd, I could see her affinity with this character. Grace was all over the place, switching from acoustic guitar, to a Flying V, to her trademark Hammond B3 organ, and always belting out the strongest, sweetest voice this side of Bonnie Raitt.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN A CHICK ROCK SO HARD!
Opener was “Joey,” perhaps not surprisingly, but a good opener, followed by the big radio hits “Ain’t No Time” and “Treat Me Right.” All well and good. By the time they busted out “Ah Mary” five songs in, we were collectively eating out of the palms of their hands. Their tunes aren’t exactly jammy, but they do jam, and they certainly rock when called upon, but they also have a bluesy-country flavor. If I had to describe this band to someone who’d never heard them, I’d say “Allman Brothers with a female vocalist, but with twice as much energy and can’t-hold-back dance grooves.” Granted, ABB in their heyday were a formidable beast, but this girl’s got it going on NOW.
It seemed as though the Santa Fe crowd might just have been on the cusp of recognizing more than a few of their tunes, and the Nocturnals are SOLID backup -- however grungy they might’ve looked on the outside, these boys know how to play. Surprise covers included the Stones’ “No Expectations” (ethereal and sublime) and Petty’s “Running Down a Dream” (exuberant, playful, and over too soon). I thought I detected a little Talking Heads’ “I Zimbra” in the middle of the encore – “Nothing but the Water” – but I can’t be sure. It sure was a tasty groove to end the night on, though.
Thanks to Jamie Lenfesty for snagging this outfit at the last minute when he had the chance. I predict, by the time they swing back around to Santa Fe, it will be difficult to get this close to them, but they’ll probably sound just as good. And I bet they’ll come back, because as great as it was for us to see them in this intimate a setting, it looked as though they were really enjoying themselves too.
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11/10/08 Santa Fe Brewing Company
Concert Review by Chris Diestler
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OMG!
I had heard they would be great, but OMFG!
Apologies to those who didn’t hear the word in advance – it was a last-minute addition to the FanMan calendar – but GRACE POTTER & the NOCTURNALS blew the roof off the Santa Fe Brewing Company last Monday.
Crikey! If this show isn’t talked about ten years from now as one of the best Santa Fe’s ever seen, I’ll eat my hat.
With the crowd a scant-yet-robust 150 strong at its wintery peak, the setting was, to say the least, “intimate.” Instruments and stagehands spilled out onto the floor, because the stage just wasn’t big enough to contain all the gear, and this band (who’s accustomed to playing festivals in front of 25K) wasn’t phased at all as they ripped into an incredible set.
The stuffed mascot attached to Grace’s front mike was “Animal,” the crazed drummer from Jim Henson’s beloved “Muppet Show.” Watching her work the crowd, I could see her affinity with this character. Grace was all over the place, switching from acoustic guitar, to a Flying V, to her trademark Hammond B3 organ, and always belting out the strongest, sweetest voice this side of Bonnie Raitt.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN A CHICK ROCK SO HARD!
Opener was “Joey,” perhaps not surprisingly, but a good opener, followed by the big radio hits “Ain’t No Time” and “Treat Me Right.” All well and good. By the time they busted out “Ah Mary” five songs in, we were collectively eating out of the palms of their hands. Their tunes aren’t exactly jammy, but they do jam, and they certainly rock when called upon, but they also have a bluesy-country flavor. If I had to describe this band to someone who’d never heard them, I’d say “Allman Brothers with a female vocalist, but with twice as much energy and can’t-hold-back dance grooves.” Granted, ABB in their heyday were a formidable beast, but this girl’s got it going on NOW.
It seemed as though the Santa Fe crowd might just have been on the cusp of recognizing more than a few of their tunes, and the Nocturnals are SOLID backup -- however grungy they might’ve looked on the outside, these boys know how to play. Surprise covers included the Stones’ “No Expectations” (ethereal and sublime) and Petty’s “Running Down a Dream” (exuberant, playful, and over too soon). I thought I detected a little Talking Heads’ “I Zimbra” in the middle of the encore – “Nothing but the Water” – but I can’t be sure. It sure was a tasty groove to end the night on, though.
Thanks to Jamie Lenfesty for snagging this outfit at the last minute when he had the chance. I predict, by the time they swing back around to Santa Fe, it will be difficult to get this close to them, but they’ll probably sound just as good. And I bet they’ll come back, because as great as it was for us to see them in this intimate a setting, it looked as though they were really enjoying themselves too.
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
TnJ 043 (11/5/08)
-HOUR ONE-
WIDESPREAD PANIC w/COL.BRUCE HAMPTON, LUTHER DICKINSON, and ROBERT RANDOLPH – Fixin’ to Die (6/12/05 Bonnaroo Music Festival)
THE BRIDGE – Heavy Water (2008 Blind Man’s Hill)
TONY FURTADO – Cypress Grove Blues (2005 Bare Bones)
DEREK TRUCKS BAND – Crow Jane (2006 Songlines)
moe. – Queen of Everything (2008 Sticks and Stones)
JIMMY HERRING – One Strut (2008 Lifeboat)
JAMIE McLEAN – Cherry Tree (2008 American Heartache)
BLUES TRAVELER – You, Me and Everything (2008 North Hollywood Shootout)
-HOUR TWO-
RYAN ADAMS – What Sin > Beautiful Sorta (6/10/05 North Charleston, SC)
GRACE POTTER & the NOCTURNALS – Some Kind of Ride (2006 Nothing But the Water)
JERRY GARCIA & MERL SAUNDERS – Keepers (1974/2004 Pure Jerry 04)
JERRY GARCIA & MERL SAUNDERS – Wondering Why (1974/2004 Pure Jerry 04)
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WIDESPREAD PANIC w/COL.BRUCE HAMPTON, LUTHER DICKINSON, and ROBERT RANDOLPH – Fixin’ to Die (6/12/05 Bonnaroo Music Festival)
THE BRIDGE – Heavy Water (2008 Blind Man’s Hill)
TONY FURTADO – Cypress Grove Blues (2005 Bare Bones)
DEREK TRUCKS BAND – Crow Jane (2006 Songlines)
moe. – Queen of Everything (2008 Sticks and Stones)
JIMMY HERRING – One Strut (2008 Lifeboat)
JAMIE McLEAN – Cherry Tree (2008 American Heartache)
BLUES TRAVELER – You, Me and Everything (2008 North Hollywood Shootout)
-HOUR TWO-
RYAN ADAMS – What Sin > Beautiful Sorta (6/10/05 North Charleston, SC)
GRACE POTTER & the NOCTURNALS – Some Kind of Ride (2006 Nothing But the Water)
JERRY GARCIA & MERL SAUNDERS – Keepers (1974/2004 Pure Jerry 04)
JERRY GARCIA & MERL SAUNDERS – Wondering Why (1974/2004 Pure Jerry 04)
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
GRACE POTTER & the NOCTURNALS at SF Brewing 10/10
Last-minute addition to the calendar y'all ~
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals at SF Brewing Company, this Mon. Nov. 10th! Bound to be good (^_^)
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals at SF Brewing Company, this Mon. Nov. 10th! Bound to be good (^_^)
Monday, November 3, 2008
Vic Chesnutt / Elf Power at SF Brewing Nov. 5
Hey y'all ~
If you want to know more about the upcoming Vic Chesnutt / Elf Power show, there's a nice write-up here:
http://www.jambase.com/Articles/15584/Vic-Chesnutt.Elf-Power-Tour
Jambase.com is always a great place to look for upcoming live shows, by the way. Toast-n-Jam use it all the time. Get out there and groove!
~ TOAST (^_^)
If you want to know more about the upcoming Vic Chesnutt / Elf Power show, there's a nice write-up here:
http://www.jambase.com/Articles/15584/Vic-Chesnutt.Elf-Power-Tour
Jambase.com is always a great place to look for upcoming live shows, by the way. Toast-n-Jam use it all the time. Get out there and groove!
~ TOAST (^_^)
Merl Saunders, keyboardist, dies at 74
Toast-n-Jammers: We are sad to report that keyboardist Merl Saunders died last week at age 74. Known to any Jerry Garcia fan as “that funky-ass keyboardist from Legion of Mary,” Saunders typically worked a Hammond B3 organ (oft-favored by R&B/Blues players) and can be heard on many fine recordings with and without Uncle Jer.
Merl seemed to like resurrecting dusty old soul numbers in the same way Jerry seemed to like reviving old bluegrass tunes. Carrying on their legacy by playing them, yes, but giving them a new spin as well. And we were usually happy to spin along with 'em.
My first exposure to Merl’s slinky organ grinding was a 5/21/75 bootleg from the Keystone in Berkeley. Still love that “I Feel like Dynamite.” Other faves over the years include Merl’s versions of the Sun Records classic “Mystery Train,” Stevie Wonder’s “I Was Made to Love Her” and “Creepin’,” Little Milton's "That's What Love Will Make You Do," as well as the Merl originals “Keepers” and ”Wondering Why.”
You KNOW we're gonna have to throw down a Merl tribute on the show this Wednesday – be listening! God bless you, Merl, on your trip back to the source of all things. Thank you for all the tasty grooves.
~ Christoker Diestler
If you plan to be in the bay area, the service is Wednesday as well. Here’s the official link:
http://www.merlsaunders.com/
And for the most up-to-date (though, by it’s nature, possibly specious) information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merl_Saunders
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Merl seemed to like resurrecting dusty old soul numbers in the same way Jerry seemed to like reviving old bluegrass tunes. Carrying on their legacy by playing them, yes, but giving them a new spin as well. And we were usually happy to spin along with 'em.
My first exposure to Merl’s slinky organ grinding was a 5/21/75 bootleg from the Keystone in Berkeley. Still love that “I Feel like Dynamite.” Other faves over the years include Merl’s versions of the Sun Records classic “Mystery Train,” Stevie Wonder’s “I Was Made to Love Her” and “Creepin’,” Little Milton's "That's What Love Will Make You Do," as well as the Merl originals “Keepers” and ”Wondering Why.”
You KNOW we're gonna have to throw down a Merl tribute on the show this Wednesday – be listening! God bless you, Merl, on your trip back to the source of all things. Thank you for all the tasty grooves.
~ Christoker Diestler
If you plan to be in the bay area, the service is Wednesday as well. Here’s the official link:
http://www.merlsaunders.com/
And for the most up-to-date (though, by it’s nature, possibly specious) information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merl_Saunders
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
TnJ 420 (10/29/08) Musical Costume Party
Really Show 042 - darn typos (^_^)
-HOUR ONE-
PARTICLE – Workin’ for MCA (2004 Under the Influence)
PHISH – Jesus Just Left Chicago (1997/2008 Live Phish 12.07.07)
UMPHREY’S McGEE – Don’t Do It (2005 the Best Show on Earth, 12/31/04)
MARTY STUART & his FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES w/WARREN HAYNES and DANNY LOUIS – Shape I’m In (2006/2008 the Benefit Concert Volume 8)
DREW EMMITT – Take the Highway (2008 Long Road)
LARRY – Into the Mystic (3/23/01 Houston, TX)
DEEP BANANA BLACKOUT – What’s Going On (2/13/02 Philadelphia, PA)
-HOUR TWO-
PORTER BATISTE STOLTZ f/PAGE McCONNELL – Check Out Your Mind
(2008 Moodoo)
FRANK ZAPPA – Whipping Post (1984 Them or Us, c. 1974)
JERRY GARCIA BAND – Dear Prudence (unknown source)
JERRY GARCIA BAND – Simple Twist of Fate (1978/2005 Pure Jerry 06, 3/19/78)
KELLER WILLIAMS w/STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Hells Bells
(6/21/02 Bonnaroo Music Festival)
RECKLESS KELLY – You Shook Me All Night Long (2000 Acoustic: Live at Stubb’s)
One of my favorite shows so far. Thanks for lettin’ us give y’all the musical buzz every week (^_^)
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-HOUR ONE-
PARTICLE – Workin’ for MCA (2004 Under the Influence)
PHISH – Jesus Just Left Chicago (1997/2008 Live Phish 12.07.07)
UMPHREY’S McGEE – Don’t Do It (2005 the Best Show on Earth, 12/31/04)
MARTY STUART & his FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES w/WARREN HAYNES and DANNY LOUIS – Shape I’m In (2006/2008 the Benefit Concert Volume 8)
DREW EMMITT – Take the Highway (2008 Long Road)
LARRY – Into the Mystic (3/23/01 Houston, TX)
DEEP BANANA BLACKOUT – What’s Going On (2/13/02 Philadelphia, PA)
-HOUR TWO-
PORTER BATISTE STOLTZ f/PAGE McCONNELL – Check Out Your Mind
(2008 Moodoo)
FRANK ZAPPA – Whipping Post (1984 Them or Us, c. 1974)
JERRY GARCIA BAND – Dear Prudence (unknown source)
JERRY GARCIA BAND – Simple Twist of Fate (1978/2005 Pure Jerry 06, 3/19/78)
KELLER WILLIAMS w/STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Hells Bells
(6/21/02 Bonnaroo Music Festival)
RECKLESS KELLY – You Shook Me All Night Long (2000 Acoustic: Live at Stubb’s)
One of my favorite shows so far. Thanks for lettin’ us give y’all the musical buzz every week (^_^)
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
TnJ 041 (10/22/08) Good Gravy, it's JAKE!
-HOUR ONE-
PAGE McCONNELL – Beauty of a Broken Heart (2007 Page McConnell)
PAGE McCONNELL – Heavy Rotation (2007 Page McConnell)
TEN TON CHICKEN – Soup Is Good Food (2002 Just Like in the Old Country)
STEVE CROPPER & FELIX CAVALIERE – Full Moon Tonight
(2008 Nudge It Up a Notch)
PAWNSHOP ROSES – Second Hand Love (soul) (2008 Versions)
KELLER WILLIAMS w/MOSELEY, DROLL & SIPE – Breathe (2008 Live)
COL. BRUCE HAMPTON & the AQUARIUM RESCUE UNIT –
Working on a Building (10/20/04 Georgia Theatre, Athens, GA)
-HOUR TWO-
TEA LEAF GREEN – Franz Hanzerbeak (2006 Rock’n’Roll Band OST)
GREG BROWN – Sadness (1994 The Poet Game)
BEN HARPER – How Many Miles Must We March
(1994 Welcome to the Cruel World)
XAVIER RUDD – Le Me Be (2005 Solace)
LIPBONE REDDING – Never Forsake You (2008 Party on the Fire Escape)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Get It While You Can
(2008 Infamous Stringdusters)
LEFTOVER SALMON – Doin’ My Time (4/16/96 8x10 Club, Baltimore, MD)
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PAGE McCONNELL – Beauty of a Broken Heart (2007 Page McConnell)
PAGE McCONNELL – Heavy Rotation (2007 Page McConnell)
TEN TON CHICKEN – Soup Is Good Food (2002 Just Like in the Old Country)
STEVE CROPPER & FELIX CAVALIERE – Full Moon Tonight
(2008 Nudge It Up a Notch)
PAWNSHOP ROSES – Second Hand Love (soul) (2008 Versions)
KELLER WILLIAMS w/MOSELEY, DROLL & SIPE – Breathe (2008 Live)
COL. BRUCE HAMPTON & the AQUARIUM RESCUE UNIT –
Working on a Building (10/20/04 Georgia Theatre, Athens, GA)
-HOUR TWO-
TEA LEAF GREEN – Franz Hanzerbeak (2006 Rock’n’Roll Band OST)
GREG BROWN – Sadness (1994 The Poet Game)
BEN HARPER – How Many Miles Must We March
(1994 Welcome to the Cruel World)
XAVIER RUDD – Le Me Be (2005 Solace)
LIPBONE REDDING – Never Forsake You (2008 Party on the Fire Escape)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Get It While You Can
(2008 Infamous Stringdusters)
LEFTOVER SALMON – Doin’ My Time (4/16/96 8x10 Club, Baltimore, MD)
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TnJ 040 (10/15/08) Tom's Birthday Week + HUGE BOBBY SANDWICH!
-HOUR ONE-
GRATEFUL DEAD – Lazy Lightnin’ > Supplication (1980/2002/2004 Go to Nassau)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Greatest Story Ever Told (2005 Truckin’ Up to Buffalo)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Hell in a Bucket (1990/1996/2004 Dozin’ at the Knick)
JIMMY HERRING – Scapegoat Blues (2008 Lifeboat)
ACORN PROJECT – McGuffin (2008 We’ll Be Fine)
LARRY – Whistle Britches (5/10/01 Antone’s, Austin, TX)
-HOUR TWO-
LARRY – Myth of Fingerprints (5/10/01 Antone’s, Austin, TX)
LARRY – Manitou Song (12/2/00 Houston, TX)
STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Quinn the Eskimo (the Mighty Quinn)
(2003 On the Road, 7/4/03 Santa Fe, NM)
TONY FURTADO – Waiting for Guiteau (1/17/05 John’s Alley, Moscow, ID)
GREATEFUL DEAD – Let It Grow (7/10/76 Orpheum, San Francisco, CA)
GRATEFUL DEAD – The Music Never Stopped (1975/1991/2004 One from the Vault)
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GRATEFUL DEAD – Lazy Lightnin’ > Supplication (1980/2002/2004 Go to Nassau)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Greatest Story Ever Told (2005 Truckin’ Up to Buffalo)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Hell in a Bucket (1990/1996/2004 Dozin’ at the Knick)
JIMMY HERRING – Scapegoat Blues (2008 Lifeboat)
ACORN PROJECT – McGuffin (2008 We’ll Be Fine)
LARRY – Whistle Britches (5/10/01 Antone’s, Austin, TX)
-HOUR TWO-
LARRY – Myth of Fingerprints (5/10/01 Antone’s, Austin, TX)
LARRY – Manitou Song (12/2/00 Houston, TX)
STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Quinn the Eskimo (the Mighty Quinn)
(2003 On the Road, 7/4/03 Santa Fe, NM)
TONY FURTADO – Waiting for Guiteau (1/17/05 John’s Alley, Moscow, ID)
GREATEFUL DEAD – Let It Grow (7/10/76 Orpheum, San Francisco, CA)
GRATEFUL DEAD – The Music Never Stopped (1975/1991/2004 One from the Vault)
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TnJ 039 (10/8/08)
-HOUR ONE-
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Surprise Valley > Blight > Walkin’
(2002 Live in the Classic City, c. 2000)
JOHN PRINE – Some Humans Ain’t Human (2005 Fair & Square)
HILLSTOMP – Flood Blues (2002/2004 One Word)
LOS LOBOS – Down on the Riverbed (10/13/00 Austin, TX)
moe. – I Wanna Be Sedated (2001 Warts and All, Volume One)
PARTICLE – The Elevator (2004 Launchpad)
-HOUR TWO-
U-MELT – Escape (2006 The I’s Mind)
ROBERT WALTER – Scores of Spores (2008 Cure All)
WARREN HAYNES – Lucky (2004 Live at Bonnaroo)
RADIOHEAD – Talk Show Host (12/19/07 New York, NY)
THE NEW DEAL – Episode 7 (2003 Gone Gone Gone)
OM TRIO – Romero (2003 GlobalPositioningRecord)
FUTURE ROCK – Torture (2007 Gears)
PETER TOSH – 400 Years > Stepping Razor (3/14/79 WLIR Broadcast)
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WIDESPREAD PANIC – Surprise Valley > Blight > Walkin’
(2002 Live in the Classic City, c. 2000)
JOHN PRINE – Some Humans Ain’t Human (2005 Fair & Square)
HILLSTOMP – Flood Blues (2002/2004 One Word)
LOS LOBOS – Down on the Riverbed (10/13/00 Austin, TX)
moe. – I Wanna Be Sedated (2001 Warts and All, Volume One)
PARTICLE – The Elevator (2004 Launchpad)
-HOUR TWO-
U-MELT – Escape (2006 The I’s Mind)
ROBERT WALTER – Scores of Spores (2008 Cure All)
WARREN HAYNES – Lucky (2004 Live at Bonnaroo)
RADIOHEAD – Talk Show Host (12/19/07 New York, NY)
THE NEW DEAL – Episode 7 (2003 Gone Gone Gone)
OM TRIO – Romero (2003 GlobalPositioningRecord)
FUTURE ROCK – Torture (2007 Gears)
PETER TOSH – 400 Years > Stepping Razor (3/14/79 WLIR Broadcast)
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TnJ 038 (10/1/08)
-HOUR ONE-
JERRY GARCIA & DAVID GRISMAN – So What (1998 So What)
DeVotchKa – Transliterator (2008 A Mad & Faithful Telling)
THE DUHKS – Fast Paced World (2008 Fast Paced World)
PHISH w/LES & LARRY from PRIMUS – Harpua > Wildwood Weed > Harpua >
I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart > Harpua > Suspicious Minds > Harpua (1996/2007 Vegas ’96)
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD – The Future (2008 All Rebel Rockers)
-HOUR TWO-
KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE w/SAUL WILLIAMS & MICHAEL FRANTI – Freedom (2002 The Bridge)
SOLDIERS of JAH ARMY – Open My Eyes (2005 Get Wiser)
THE RADIATORS – Tear My Eyes Out (2008 Wild & Free, 12/11/98)
MOSES GUEST – Best Laid Plans (2007 Best Laid Plans)
FLOUNDERS WITHOUT EYES – Get What You Pay For (2000 What Will It Bring)
MAMA’S COOKIN’ – Black Reign (2007 Mama’s Cookin’)
PAUL MARK & the VAN DORENS – Ruff House (2008 Blood & Treasure)
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN & DOUBLE TROUBLE – Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) (2000 SRV Box Set, 10/4/84)
# # #
JERRY GARCIA & DAVID GRISMAN – So What (1998 So What)
DeVotchKa – Transliterator (2008 A Mad & Faithful Telling)
THE DUHKS – Fast Paced World (2008 Fast Paced World)
PHISH w/LES & LARRY from PRIMUS – Harpua > Wildwood Weed > Harpua >
I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart > Harpua > Suspicious Minds > Harpua (1996/2007 Vegas ’96)
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD – The Future (2008 All Rebel Rockers)
-HOUR TWO-
KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE w/SAUL WILLIAMS & MICHAEL FRANTI – Freedom (2002 The Bridge)
SOLDIERS of JAH ARMY – Open My Eyes (2005 Get Wiser)
THE RADIATORS – Tear My Eyes Out (2008 Wild & Free, 12/11/98)
MOSES GUEST – Best Laid Plans (2007 Best Laid Plans)
FLOUNDERS WITHOUT EYES – Get What You Pay For (2000 What Will It Bring)
MAMA’S COOKIN’ – Black Reign (2007 Mama’s Cookin’)
PAUL MARK & the VAN DORENS – Ruff House (2008 Blood & Treasure)
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN & DOUBLE TROUBLE – Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) (2000 SRV Box Set, 10/4/84)
# # #
Thursday, October 9, 2008
CONCERT REVIEW - Michael Franti & Spearhead 9/26/08
Michael Franti & Spearhead – 9/26/08 – Paolo Soleri Amphitheater, Santa Fe, NM
Concert Review by Chris Diestler, KBAC
Okay, maybe I’m getting a little jaded, but I used to think, “If you’ve seen one Michael Franti show you’ve seen them all.” Damn, was I wrong. The show at Santa Fe’s grooviest venue – Paolo Soleri – was a revelation.
Even a cursory listen to his latest albums (2006’s “Yell Fire!” and the new release “All Rebel Rockers”) might have presaged what I-and-I-and-what-seemed-like-the-rest-of-Santa-Fe were in store for, and we knew it would be an unusual night due to the pre-show simulcast of the McCain-Obama debate, but I seriously had my mind blown by Franti’s new stage show. He has taken it to the next level.
His famously documented travel to other countries (including a documentary shoot / concert tour of Iraq which, according to legend, was free to all) has had an amazing effect on this man and his presentation. In terms of this concert, perhaps most salient among his outlook-expanding voyages was setting up shop in Kingston, Jamaica where dub legends Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare would record the new songs. Presumably handpicking Cherine Anderson from the Jamaican dancehall circuit to work the crowd and sing back-up, Franti’s show is no longer the bare-bones venture of yesteryear. He’s always been a natural entertainer and knows how to work a crowd. But now, by G*d, he’s got a SHOW!
We had watched, with bizarre fascination, the McCain-Obama debate on a jury-rigged big screen above the stage. When Franti was ready to come on, he pulled a ZOO-TV-esque (U2 reference) silhouette introduction to 2006’s “Hello Bonjour,” backlit against the big screen while it hawked seemingly random commercial products. The rhythm section was a fu**ing freight train. I was their plaything.
Lyrics like “you say you’re a Christian cause God made you / and you say you’re a Muslim cause God made you / you say you’re a Hindu and the next man a Jew / then we all kill each other cause God told us to” never hit me so hard. He’s always had good backup. But this combo is unstoppable. Between the DJ (keyboardist?), the drummer, and the aforementioned Ms. Anderson, the show hit the ground running and didn’t let up until the Bob Marley end-of-show exit music came up with the lights some 90 minutes later.
Leaning mostly on material from “All Rebel Rockers,” Spearhead delivered a conscious, positive, energetic performance. Acoustic re-workings of songs like “Sometimes” (originally from 2001’s “Stay Human”) and the poignant new song “Nobody Right Nobody Wrong” gave Franti a chance to sit his sizable frame down on a stool and let us all catch our breath before the next wave of happy dancing / chanting.
It’s now almost the “Michael Franti All-Reggae Review” and I couldn’t help but wonder whether he realizes, with his charisma and this new act, he could be the next Bob Marley (or as close as someone from Oakland could hope to be). He seems to be a genuinely peaceful, intelligent human being and I, for one, think he’s doing the right thing, creatively, by focusing more on the positive than previous, angrier efforts.
Other highlights for me included:
“Yell Fire” (from the album of the same name), a political rock anthem if ever there was one, which we were only too willing to chant along with;
“The Future” (from the new release), and I, too, hope it gets here soon;
the timely-as-ever Bring the Boys (and Girls) Back Home sing-along “Light Up Ya Lighter,” combined with a powerful “Time to Go Home” (both from “Yell Fire”), reminded us of the ridiculous quagmire we’re still stuck in in Iraq;
Even the silly, “loudy-loud” bass-driven “Everybody Ona Move” (from “Yell Fire”) got me moving in its current incarnation. And hey, he managed to rhyme “vamanos” with “dominoes.” (^_^)
“I Got Love for You,” from the latest release, which he introduced as a song he wrote for his child who took a Greyhound bus to New York to see what life was really about, struck a chord with the crowd and got them all singing, even though the new album was hot off the press and unfamiliar to most. Such is Franti’s superpower – a commanding voice and an uncanny ability to turn an immediately memorable phrase.
He admitted from the stage, during a segue into an acoustic number, that the Democratic National Committee had asked if they could set up a booth at the show. His response was along the lines of, “certainly, as long as any Republicans or Green Party or Libertarians who wish to set up are also allowed.” This inclusive attitude is still surprisingly rare even in “enlightened” Santa Fe (and shame on you for shouting John McCain down before the show, even if it was pretty hilarious), but Michael Franti seems determined to follow it through to its logical conclusion – bringing power to the peaceful.
Michael Franti has found a nice groove. I think it suits him. Though he’s always been eloquent, I think he’s finally found his voice.
# # #
Concert Review by Chris Diestler, KBAC
Okay, maybe I’m getting a little jaded, but I used to think, “If you’ve seen one Michael Franti show you’ve seen them all.” Damn, was I wrong. The show at Santa Fe’s grooviest venue – Paolo Soleri – was a revelation.
Even a cursory listen to his latest albums (2006’s “Yell Fire!” and the new release “All Rebel Rockers”) might have presaged what I-and-I-and-what-seemed-like-the-rest-of-Santa-Fe were in store for, and we knew it would be an unusual night due to the pre-show simulcast of the McCain-Obama debate, but I seriously had my mind blown by Franti’s new stage show. He has taken it to the next level.
His famously documented travel to other countries (including a documentary shoot / concert tour of Iraq which, according to legend, was free to all) has had an amazing effect on this man and his presentation. In terms of this concert, perhaps most salient among his outlook-expanding voyages was setting up shop in Kingston, Jamaica where dub legends Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare would record the new songs. Presumably handpicking Cherine Anderson from the Jamaican dancehall circuit to work the crowd and sing back-up, Franti’s show is no longer the bare-bones venture of yesteryear. He’s always been a natural entertainer and knows how to work a crowd. But now, by G*d, he’s got a SHOW!
We had watched, with bizarre fascination, the McCain-Obama debate on a jury-rigged big screen above the stage. When Franti was ready to come on, he pulled a ZOO-TV-esque (U2 reference) silhouette introduction to 2006’s “Hello Bonjour,” backlit against the big screen while it hawked seemingly random commercial products. The rhythm section was a fu**ing freight train. I was their plaything.
Lyrics like “you say you’re a Christian cause God made you / and you say you’re a Muslim cause God made you / you say you’re a Hindu and the next man a Jew / then we all kill each other cause God told us to” never hit me so hard. He’s always had good backup. But this combo is unstoppable. Between the DJ (keyboardist?), the drummer, and the aforementioned Ms. Anderson, the show hit the ground running and didn’t let up until the Bob Marley end-of-show exit music came up with the lights some 90 minutes later.
Leaning mostly on material from “All Rebel Rockers,” Spearhead delivered a conscious, positive, energetic performance. Acoustic re-workings of songs like “Sometimes” (originally from 2001’s “Stay Human”) and the poignant new song “Nobody Right Nobody Wrong” gave Franti a chance to sit his sizable frame down on a stool and let us all catch our breath before the next wave of happy dancing / chanting.
It’s now almost the “Michael Franti All-Reggae Review” and I couldn’t help but wonder whether he realizes, with his charisma and this new act, he could be the next Bob Marley (or as close as someone from Oakland could hope to be). He seems to be a genuinely peaceful, intelligent human being and I, for one, think he’s doing the right thing, creatively, by focusing more on the positive than previous, angrier efforts.
Other highlights for me included:
“Yell Fire” (from the album of the same name), a political rock anthem if ever there was one, which we were only too willing to chant along with;
“The Future” (from the new release), and I, too, hope it gets here soon;
the timely-as-ever Bring the Boys (and Girls) Back Home sing-along “Light Up Ya Lighter,” combined with a powerful “Time to Go Home” (both from “Yell Fire”), reminded us of the ridiculous quagmire we’re still stuck in in Iraq;
Even the silly, “loudy-loud” bass-driven “Everybody Ona Move” (from “Yell Fire”) got me moving in its current incarnation. And hey, he managed to rhyme “vamanos” with “dominoes.” (^_^)
“I Got Love for You,” from the latest release, which he introduced as a song he wrote for his child who took a Greyhound bus to New York to see what life was really about, struck a chord with the crowd and got them all singing, even though the new album was hot off the press and unfamiliar to most. Such is Franti’s superpower – a commanding voice and an uncanny ability to turn an immediately memorable phrase.
He admitted from the stage, during a segue into an acoustic number, that the Democratic National Committee had asked if they could set up a booth at the show. His response was along the lines of, “certainly, as long as any Republicans or Green Party or Libertarians who wish to set up are also allowed.” This inclusive attitude is still surprisingly rare even in “enlightened” Santa Fe (and shame on you for shouting John McCain down before the show, even if it was pretty hilarious), but Michael Franti seems determined to follow it through to its logical conclusion – bringing power to the peaceful.
Michael Franti has found a nice groove. I think it suits him. Though he’s always been eloquent, I think he’s finally found his voice.
# # #
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
CONCERT REVIEW - Ani DiFranco 9/23/08
Ani DiFranco – 9/23/08 – Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM
Concert Review by Chris Diestler, KBAC
I expected a great show from D.I.Y. diva Ani DiFranco, because her shows are always great. But this show happened to fall on her 38th birthday, and the word came backstage beforehand that the Lensic was sold out – packed to the brim with adoring fans.
“Red Letter Year,” her newest release, wouldn’t be in stores for yet another week, but I had managed to check it out the night before on her Righteous Babe Records website. Two years in the making, it’s as lovingly crafted and delightful to listen to as any in her nearly-twenty-year repertoire. There were several selections I was already dying to hear live, especially “The Atom.”
True to form, despite her confession to being a little “under the weather,” Ani did not disappoint the crowd. The birthday show ran the gamut, featuring a lively mixture of old and new songs. At one point she stumbled over the lyrics, admitting she may sometimes be a little too clever for her own good, but the crowd humbly prompted her and she was quickly back on track.
My highlights included 2001’s “Your Next Bold Move” (from “Revelling/Reckoning”), which she prefaced by informing us there were volunteers outside who apparently took it upon themselves to come out and register people to vote. She packed an extra emotional punch into lines like, “watching capitalism gun down democracy,” and “buying and selling off shares of air” just for the occasion.
The reworking of 1992’s “Coming Up” (from “Imperfectly”) came off as particularly timely, with her pockets empty except for “receipts, bus schedules, matchbook phone numbers, and urgent napkin poems,” wishing she “could cry more and care less,” and admonishing “whoever’s in charge up there” to “take the elevator down and put more than change in our cup or else we are coming up.”
And what would an Ani DiFranco show be without some of the best-written love songs on the planet? “Smiling Underneath” (from 2008’s “Red Letter Days”) oozed honest charm with lines like, “I don’t mind if the bills pile up / and the work is slow / I don’t mind the gas or the groceries or the grind / long as I’m with you / I’m having a good time.” When I first read those lyrics on her website I smiled, because it sounded exactly like something my wife, Kate, would say. As Ani sang them, Kate gave me a nudge and a smile.
“You Had Time,” though dating clear back to 1994’s “Out of Range,” still seemed fresh, as did all the dusty old numbers she played that night. A poignant song about coming home to your lover after performance tour but being too exhausted to have even a conversation, I wondered how true it might still be for her, or if she now sings it merely for nostalgia’s sake, or simply because it’s a great song.
Frankly, if Ani was sick, I never would’ve guessed. Her energy level seemed superhuman as usual. She segued effortlessly from love song to political commentary and back again, occasionally chatting with the audience about whatever was on her mind (nasal congestion; her new baby -- whom they apparently refer to as “Doot;” the upcoming presidential election; whether you can consider yourself a feminist and still dismiss the idea of voting for Sarah Palin), and sent me home with a smile on my face.
“Half-Assed” (from 2006’s “Reprieve”) and 2005’s “Manhole” (from “Knuckle Down”) also struck a chord with me, as did the new song “Present / Infant,” but as I said, my favorite from the new disc upon first listen was “The Atom,” and by God, did she give me “The Atom.” Her prefatory ramble informed us she had recently “found religion.” The audience seemed unsure how to respond. “Surely,” I thought, “she can’t expect the customary, collective “woo hoo?” Finally, she said over her shoulder to the band, “They think I’m kidding.” Someone bellowed something mostly unintelligible from the audience. Ani took a guess that they had asked that she “play something awesome.” After a few hearty chuckles, she said that she’d been holding back on the awesome for just the right moment, and proceeded to play “The Atom.” She sang about “the smallest unit of matter…uniting bird and rock and tree / and you and me,” and how “the glory of the atom / begs a reverent word” with such passion I did feel a tingle deep in my emotional being some might call religion. I don’t know if her great-great-uncle really worked on the atomic bomb, as she sings in the song, but her parents were scientists, and it’s certainly possible. Maybe it was that I knew we were so close to Los Alamos, but each verse overwhelmed me more than the one before it and I found myself wiping away tears by the time she got to the final verse, which drew a cheer from the entire crowd: “Someone fashion me a pulpit / I have been called to engage / with the maniacal heretics / of the nuclear age.”
“The Atom” is my new favorite Ani DiFranco song.
As usual, I had a handful of old favorites I was keen to hear that night – “Little Plastic Castle,” “Untouchable Face,” “Evolve,” “Not a Pretty Girl,” “Dilate,” “Angry Anymore,” “Freakshow,” “Educated Guess,” “’Tis of Thee,” “Blood in the Boardroom” – none of which were played (though my wife did manage to call for / receive Little Plastic Castles’ “Gravel,” as the first encore), but it was an amazing show nevertheless. Fresh. Thoughtful. Critical. Hopeful. Like always.
# # #
Concert Review by Chris Diestler, KBAC
I expected a great show from D.I.Y. diva Ani DiFranco, because her shows are always great. But this show happened to fall on her 38th birthday, and the word came backstage beforehand that the Lensic was sold out – packed to the brim with adoring fans.
“Red Letter Year,” her newest release, wouldn’t be in stores for yet another week, but I had managed to check it out the night before on her Righteous Babe Records website. Two years in the making, it’s as lovingly crafted and delightful to listen to as any in her nearly-twenty-year repertoire. There were several selections I was already dying to hear live, especially “The Atom.”
True to form, despite her confession to being a little “under the weather,” Ani did not disappoint the crowd. The birthday show ran the gamut, featuring a lively mixture of old and new songs. At one point she stumbled over the lyrics, admitting she may sometimes be a little too clever for her own good, but the crowd humbly prompted her and she was quickly back on track.
My highlights included 2001’s “Your Next Bold Move” (from “Revelling/Reckoning”), which she prefaced by informing us there were volunteers outside who apparently took it upon themselves to come out and register people to vote. She packed an extra emotional punch into lines like, “watching capitalism gun down democracy,” and “buying and selling off shares of air” just for the occasion.
The reworking of 1992’s “Coming Up” (from “Imperfectly”) came off as particularly timely, with her pockets empty except for “receipts, bus schedules, matchbook phone numbers, and urgent napkin poems,” wishing she “could cry more and care less,” and admonishing “whoever’s in charge up there” to “take the elevator down and put more than change in our cup or else we are coming up.”
And what would an Ani DiFranco show be without some of the best-written love songs on the planet? “Smiling Underneath” (from 2008’s “Red Letter Days”) oozed honest charm with lines like, “I don’t mind if the bills pile up / and the work is slow / I don’t mind the gas or the groceries or the grind / long as I’m with you / I’m having a good time.” When I first read those lyrics on her website I smiled, because it sounded exactly like something my wife, Kate, would say. As Ani sang them, Kate gave me a nudge and a smile.
“You Had Time,” though dating clear back to 1994’s “Out of Range,” still seemed fresh, as did all the dusty old numbers she played that night. A poignant song about coming home to your lover after performance tour but being too exhausted to have even a conversation, I wondered how true it might still be for her, or if she now sings it merely for nostalgia’s sake, or simply because it’s a great song.
Frankly, if Ani was sick, I never would’ve guessed. Her energy level seemed superhuman as usual. She segued effortlessly from love song to political commentary and back again, occasionally chatting with the audience about whatever was on her mind (nasal congestion; her new baby -- whom they apparently refer to as “Doot;” the upcoming presidential election; whether you can consider yourself a feminist and still dismiss the idea of voting for Sarah Palin), and sent me home with a smile on my face.
“Half-Assed” (from 2006’s “Reprieve”) and 2005’s “Manhole” (from “Knuckle Down”) also struck a chord with me, as did the new song “Present / Infant,” but as I said, my favorite from the new disc upon first listen was “The Atom,” and by God, did she give me “The Atom.” Her prefatory ramble informed us she had recently “found religion.” The audience seemed unsure how to respond. “Surely,” I thought, “she can’t expect the customary, collective “woo hoo?” Finally, she said over her shoulder to the band, “They think I’m kidding.” Someone bellowed something mostly unintelligible from the audience. Ani took a guess that they had asked that she “play something awesome.” After a few hearty chuckles, she said that she’d been holding back on the awesome for just the right moment, and proceeded to play “The Atom.” She sang about “the smallest unit of matter…uniting bird and rock and tree / and you and me,” and how “the glory of the atom / begs a reverent word” with such passion I did feel a tingle deep in my emotional being some might call religion. I don’t know if her great-great-uncle really worked on the atomic bomb, as she sings in the song, but her parents were scientists, and it’s certainly possible. Maybe it was that I knew we were so close to Los Alamos, but each verse overwhelmed me more than the one before it and I found myself wiping away tears by the time she got to the final verse, which drew a cheer from the entire crowd: “Someone fashion me a pulpit / I have been called to engage / with the maniacal heretics / of the nuclear age.”
“The Atom” is my new favorite Ani DiFranco song.
As usual, I had a handful of old favorites I was keen to hear that night – “Little Plastic Castle,” “Untouchable Face,” “Evolve,” “Not a Pretty Girl,” “Dilate,” “Angry Anymore,” “Freakshow,” “Educated Guess,” “’Tis of Thee,” “Blood in the Boardroom” – none of which were played (though my wife did manage to call for / receive Little Plastic Castles’ “Gravel,” as the first encore), but it was an amazing show nevertheless. Fresh. Thoughtful. Critical. Hopeful. Like always.
# # #
Thursday, September 25, 2008
TnJ 037 (9/24/08)
-HOUR ONE-
DAVID BYRNE – Once in a Lifetime (2007 Live from Austin TX, c. 2001)
TALKING HEADS – I Zimbra (1982 The Name of this Band is Talking Heads)
JOHN COLTRANE – Acknowledgement (1965 A Love Supreme)
LIVING DAYLIGHTS – 6/8 (7/4/99 High Sierra Music Festival)
GALACTIC – Baker’s Dozen (5/1/04 New Orleans, LA)
PORTER BATISTE STOLTZ featuring PAGE McCONNELL – All We Wanna Do (2008 Moodoo)
-HOUR TWO-
LED ZEPPELIN – When the Levee Breaks (1971 Led Zeppelin IV)
SCISSORMEN – Whiskey and Mary Jane (2008 Luck in a Hurry)
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Pilgrims > Blackout Blues > Porch Song
(9/29/07 Paramount Theater, Oakland, CA)
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD – Hello Bonjour (11/13/06 Pittsburgh, PA)
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD – Soundsystem (2008 All Rebel Rockers)
# # #
DAVID BYRNE – Once in a Lifetime (2007 Live from Austin TX, c. 2001)
TALKING HEADS – I Zimbra (1982 The Name of this Band is Talking Heads)
JOHN COLTRANE – Acknowledgement (1965 A Love Supreme)
LIVING DAYLIGHTS – 6/8 (7/4/99 High Sierra Music Festival)
GALACTIC – Baker’s Dozen (5/1/04 New Orleans, LA)
PORTER BATISTE STOLTZ featuring PAGE McCONNELL – All We Wanna Do (2008 Moodoo)
-HOUR TWO-
LED ZEPPELIN – When the Levee Breaks (1971 Led Zeppelin IV)
SCISSORMEN – Whiskey and Mary Jane (2008 Luck in a Hurry)
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Pilgrims > Blackout Blues > Porch Song
(9/29/07 Paramount Theater, Oakland, CA)
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD – Hello Bonjour (11/13/06 Pittsburgh, PA)
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD – Soundsystem (2008 All Rebel Rockers)
# # #
TnJ 036 (9/17/08) BOMBS AWAY
-HOUR ONE-
GOV’T MULE w/CHUCK LEAVELL, DAVE SCHOOLS, AL SCHNIER –
Feelin’ Alright (5/5/01 New Orleans, LA)
RAILROAD EARTH – Warhead Boogie (2005 Elko)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Fork in the Road >
Lonesome As It Gets > Jono’s Farewell (3/20/08 Fullerton, CA)
-HOUR TWO-
PHISH – 46 Days > Possum (2006 Live in Brooklyn)
GARAJ MAHAL – Semos (2002 Live Vol. 1)
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL STARS w/CODY BURNSIDE & KENNY BROWN – Be So Glad > Snake Drive > Goin’ Home Part Two (2004 Hill Country Revue)
# # #
GOV’T MULE w/CHUCK LEAVELL, DAVE SCHOOLS, AL SCHNIER –
Feelin’ Alright (5/5/01 New Orleans, LA)
RAILROAD EARTH – Warhead Boogie (2005 Elko)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Fork in the Road >
Lonesome As It Gets > Jono’s Farewell (3/20/08 Fullerton, CA)
-HOUR TWO-
PHISH – 46 Days > Possum (2006 Live in Brooklyn)
GARAJ MAHAL – Semos (2002 Live Vol. 1)
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL STARS w/CODY BURNSIDE & KENNY BROWN – Be So Glad > Snake Drive > Goin’ Home Part Two (2004 Hill Country Revue)
# # #
TnJ 035 (9/10/08)
-HOUR ONE-
GRATFEUL DEAD – Smokestack Lightnin’ (1972/2003 Dick’s Picks 30, NY, NY)
JERRY GARCIA BAND – I’ll Be With Thee (1978/2005 Pure Jerry 06, 3/18/78)
POPS STAPLES – Down in Mississippi (1992 Peace to the Neighborhood)
TOM WATTS -> Leo Kottke tribute f / Ojo Caliente > jam > Beantown
POOR BILLY – Moonlight Stranger (2008 Moonlight Stranger)
DRUNK STUNTMEN – Every Third Thing (2008 State Fair)
TEA LEAF GREEN – Red Ribbons (2008 Raise Up the Tent)
-HOUR TWO-
LEFTOVER SALMON / CRACKER – Sweet Potato (2003 O Cracker, Where Art Thou?)
KELLER WILLIAMS – For What It’s Worth (2004 Stage)
LOS LOBOS – Revolution (1996 Colossal Head)
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD – People in the Middle > Get Up Stand Up (11/13/06 Pittsburgh)
RUSTED ROOT – Women Got My Money (2004 Live)
RUSH – YYZ (1981 Moving Pictures)
PRIMUS – To Defy the Laws of Tradition (1990 Frizzle Fry)
JOHN BUTLER TRIO – Fire in the Sky (2007 Grand National)
# # #
GRATFEUL DEAD – Smokestack Lightnin’ (1972/2003 Dick’s Picks 30, NY, NY)
JERRY GARCIA BAND – I’ll Be With Thee (1978/2005 Pure Jerry 06, 3/18/78)
POPS STAPLES – Down in Mississippi (1992 Peace to the Neighborhood)
TOM WATTS -> Leo Kottke tribute f / Ojo Caliente > jam > Beantown
POOR BILLY – Moonlight Stranger (2008 Moonlight Stranger)
DRUNK STUNTMEN – Every Third Thing (2008 State Fair)
TEA LEAF GREEN – Red Ribbons (2008 Raise Up the Tent)
-HOUR TWO-
LEFTOVER SALMON / CRACKER – Sweet Potato (2003 O Cracker, Where Art Thou?)
KELLER WILLIAMS – For What It’s Worth (2004 Stage)
LOS LOBOS – Revolution (1996 Colossal Head)
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD – People in the Middle > Get Up Stand Up (11/13/06 Pittsburgh)
RUSTED ROOT – Women Got My Money (2004 Live)
RUSH – YYZ (1981 Moving Pictures)
PRIMUS – To Defy the Laws of Tradition (1990 Frizzle Fry)
JOHN BUTLER TRIO – Fire in the Sky (2007 Grand National)
# # #
TnJ 034 (9/3/08) JJ GREY DAY
-HOUR ONE-
JJ GREY & MOFRO – On Fire (2008 Orange Blossoms)
INTERVIEW -> JJ Grey part one
JJ GREY & MOFRO – Country Ghetto (7/13/07 Steamboat Springs, CO)
INTERVIEW -> JJ Grey part two
JJ GREY & MOFRO – Brighter Days (7/13/07 Steamboat Springs, CO)
UMPHREY’S McGEE – Andy’s Last Beer > Space Funk Booty > Andy’s Last Beer (11/9/01 House of Blues, Boston, MA)
STANLEY MAXWELL – Mousetrap (2008 Don’t Wake the Baby!)
S.M.V. – Grits (2008 Thunder)
STANTON MOORE TRIO – (Here Come) the Brown Police (2008 Emphasis! On Parenthesis)
-HOUR TWO-
DANNY GATTON – 88 Elmira (9/9/94 The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA)
VAN MORRISON – T.B. Sheets (1967 Blowin’ Your Mind)
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Send Your Mind (1991 Live at the Georgia Theatre)
JOHN BUTLER TRIO – Peaches & Cream (2006 Live at St. Gallen, c. 2005)
ZACH DEPUTY – Bluffton (2008 Out of the Water)
STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Heads Up jam > Desert Dawn (10/29/05 Travelogue)
# # #
JJ GREY & MOFRO – On Fire (2008 Orange Blossoms)
INTERVIEW -> JJ Grey part one
JJ GREY & MOFRO – Country Ghetto (7/13/07 Steamboat Springs, CO)
INTERVIEW -> JJ Grey part two
JJ GREY & MOFRO – Brighter Days (7/13/07 Steamboat Springs, CO)
UMPHREY’S McGEE – Andy’s Last Beer > Space Funk Booty > Andy’s Last Beer (11/9/01 House of Blues, Boston, MA)
STANLEY MAXWELL – Mousetrap (2008 Don’t Wake the Baby!)
S.M.V. – Grits (2008 Thunder)
STANTON MOORE TRIO – (Here Come) the Brown Police (2008 Emphasis! On Parenthesis)
-HOUR TWO-
DANNY GATTON – 88 Elmira (9/9/94 The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA)
VAN MORRISON – T.B. Sheets (1967 Blowin’ Your Mind)
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Send Your Mind (1991 Live at the Georgia Theatre)
JOHN BUTLER TRIO – Peaches & Cream (2006 Live at St. Gallen, c. 2005)
ZACH DEPUTY – Bluffton (2008 Out of the Water)
STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Heads Up jam > Desert Dawn (10/29/05 Travelogue)
# # #
Saturday, September 13, 2008
TnJ 033 Playlist (8/27/08)
TOAST n JAM 033 (8/27/08) 3-FER MADNESS!!!
-HOUR ONE-
GRATEFUL DEAD – Help on the Way > Slipknot! >
(1990 Without A Net)
MARKUS JAMES – I Won’t Let It (2008 Snakeskin Violin)
THE AFROMOTIVE – Scare Tactics (2007 Scare Tactics)
FELA KUTI – Stalemate (1977 Stalemate)
-HOUR TWO-
ZERO – Horses (1994 Change in a Million)
GOV’T MULE – Kind of Bird (1996 Live at Roseland Ballroom)
PRIMUS – Tommy the Cat (1990 Suck on This, c. 1989
HILL COUNTRY REVUE – Thinkin‘Bout Things (unreleased album)
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL STARS – ML (2007
UNCLE TUPLEO – Willin’ (11/11/93 Slim’s,
DEL McCOURY BAND – 1952 Vincent Black Lightning Motorcycle
(2/21/01 Fox Theater, Boulder, CO)
LEFTOVER SALMON – Let It Bleed (8/10/02 Mishawaka Amphitheater, Bellvue, CO)
# # #
TnJ 032 Playlist (8/20/08)
TOAST n JAM 032 (8/20/08)
-HOUR ONE-
PHISH – Moma Dance > Free (2006 Live in
THE RACONTEURS – Rich Kid Blues (2008 Consolers of the Lonely)
LED ZEPPELIN – Babe I’m Gonna Leave You (1969 Led Zeppelin)
PETER ROWAN – Panama Red > Freight Train > Panama Red
(unknown source)
-HOUR TWO-
KELLER WILLIAMS – Best Feeling >
GOOSE CREEK SYMPHONY – The Same Thing Again (2008 reissue)
JOHN HIATT – Your Dad Did (1994 Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan?)
DONNA JEAN & the TRICKSTERS – Till the Morning Comes
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Sleeping Man (10/9/07
THE CLASH – The Magnificent Seven (1999 From Here to Eternity, 9/7/82
THE WHO – The Magic Bus (1995 Live at
# # #
TnJ 031 Playlist (8/13/08)
TOAST n JAM 031 (8/13/08) Chris’ Infinite Mixtape II
-HOUR ONE-
RAILROAD EARTH – Waggin’ the Dog (2008 Amen Corner)
DREW EMMITT – Long Road (2008 Long Road)
STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Birdland > Flying West Jam > Birdland
(7/26/03 On the Road,
GOV’T MULE (w/TAJ MAHAL and BRANFORD MARSALIS) – Leaving Trunk
(2006/2008 Warren Haynes Benefit Concert Vol. 8)
SLIGHTLY STOOPID – Ain’t Got A Lot of Money (2006 Winter Your ’05-‘06)
GLUEY BROTHERS – The Orange Monster (2003 Stiff for the Elders)
-HOUR TWO-
UMPHREY’S McGEE – Ringo > Hajimemashite > Ringo (2007 Live at the Murat)
JJ GREY and MOFRO – War (7/13/07 Howelson Hill, Steamboat Springs, CO)
ANTHONY SMITH’S TRUNK FULLA FUNK – That What It Do
(2008 Life As We Know It)
DeVOTCHkA – La Llorrona (2003 Una
TEA LEAF GREEN – Don’t Curse at the Night (2008 Raise Up the Tent)
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – You Can’t Handle the Truth
(1/26/08 Happy
BELA FLECK (w/SAM BUSH, JERRY DOUGLAS, GABE WITCHER, BRIAN SUTTON, MARK SCHATZ) – Sailin’ Shoes > Crossroads > Sailin’ Shoes
(9/5/99 Strawberry Festival,
# # #
TnJ 030 Playlist (8/6/08)
TOAST n JAM 030 (8/6/08)
-HOUR ONE-
DONNA the
THE RADIATORS – Suck the Head, Squeeze the Tip (2008 Wild & Free, 2/15/80)
LICORICE – What’s Your Status in
MIKE GORDON – Dig Further Down (2008 the Green Sparrow)
STS9 (w/P-NUT DANIELS) – Water Song (7/7/01 High Sierra)
RADIOHEAD – Jigsaw Falling Into Place (2008 In Rainbows)
ROBERT RANDOLPH & the FAMILY BAND – The March (2002 Live at Wetlands)
-HOUR TWO-
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – What Goes On (1969 The Velvet Underground)
(Jerry Garcia R.I.P.)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Comes A Time (1985/2004 Dick’s Picks 21, 11/1/85
GRATFEUL DEAD – Mud Love Buddy Jam (1990/2004 Dozin’ at the Knick, 3/90 NY)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Touch of Grey (2005 Truckin’ Up to
GRATFEUL DEAD – Not Fade Away > Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad >
Morning Dew (12/31/81
BONUS> THE GOURDS – Gin & Juice (2001 Shinebox)
# # #
TnJ 029 Playlist (7/30/08)
TOAST n JAM 029 (7/30/08)
-HOUR ONE- (Jerry Garcia’a Birthday)
GRATEFUL DEAD – The Other One > St. Stephen > The Wheel > The Other One
(7/10/76 Orpheum,
GRATFEUL DEAD – Ripple (1970 American Beauty)
JERRY GARCIA – Imagine (2/26/72 KSAN Broadcast)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Stella Blue (1974/2005 The Grateful Dead Movie OST)
-HOUR TWO-
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – New Horizons >
(2008 Mountain Tracks, Volume 5)
JEFF COFFIN MU’TET – Bubble Up (2008 Mutopia)
FREEKBASS – Mission (2008 Grooveyard)
PHISH – The Wedge (2007 Live Phish Downloads, 11/14/95
MIKE GORDON – Andelman’s Yard (2008 The Green Sparrow)
THE BRIDGE – Country Mile (2007 The Bridge)
HOT BUTTERED RUM – Busted in
# # #
TnJ 028 Playlist (7/23/08)
TOAST n JAM 028 (7/23/08) Chris’ Birthday (Guest DJ: Jeremy Renda)
-HOUR ONE-
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Mountain Jam (1992 The Fillmore Concerts, c. 1971)
PHIL LESH & FRIENDS –
(Phil, Trey, Kimock, Molo, McConnell)
-HOUR TWO-
RYAN ADAMS – Mockingbird (1/18/08)
KELLER WILLIAMS – So Many Roads (2/24/05)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Standing On the Moon (9/10/91)
TREY ANASTASIO & the 70 VOLT PARADE w/ROBERT
– Stone Free (10/27/06)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Scarlet Begonias > Fire On the Mountain (5/8/77 Cornell U)
# # #
TnJ 027 Playlist (7/16/08)
TOAST n JAM 027 (7/16/08)
HOUR ONE
GOV’T MULE w/DAVE SCHOOLS – Goin’ Out West
(2000/2007 The Warren Haynes Benefit Concert Vol 2)
(2006/2008 The Warren Haynes Benefit Concert Vol 8)
BILL MONROE – Make Me A Pallet On the Floor
(8/7/80
GRATEFUL DEAD –
DEEP BANANA BLACKOUT – Se A Cabo (2/13/02
QUEEN – Hammer to Fall (1984 The Works)
ROKY ERICKSON & THE ALIENS – Sputnik (1981 The Evil One)
OYSTERHEAD – Oysterhead Theme ??? (5/4/00
HOUR TWO
LOS LOBOS – Mas y Mas > One Way Out (10/13/00 Stubb’s,
CHRIS WHITLEY – Home Is Where You Get Across
(2000 Live at Martyr’s, circa 8/99
JORMA KAUKONEN – Just Because (2002 Blue Country Heart)
TIM REYNOLDS –
CHRIS WHITLEY – Serve You (same as above)
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – King Ebeneezer > Ten
(2008 Mountain Tracks, Volume 5)
# # #
TnJ 026 Playlist (7/9/08)
TOAST n JAM 026 (7/9/08)
-HOUR ONE- (guest DJ Kate Cargile – Chris’ anniversary)
TEA LEAF GREEN – If It Wasn’t for the Money (2006 Rock’n’Roll Band OST)
THE FLAMING LIPS – The Spiderbite Song (1999 the Soft Bulletin)
WHISKEYTOWN – 16 Days (1997 Stranger’s Almanac)
WILCO – Via
SILVER JEWS – Blue Arrangements (1998 American Water)
PAVEMENT – Fillmore Jive (1994 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
>>> TOM’S SERENADE >>> Katie Mae (traditional?)
BRIGHT EYES – The Difference in the Shades (1998 Letting Off the Happiness)
THE BETA BAND – Dry the Rain (1998 the Three E.P.s)
-HOUR TWO-
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Walkin’ (For Your Love) (10/9/07
GRATEFUL DEAD – Groove #2
(1975/2004 Blues for Allah – 2/27/75 ACE’s,
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD – Yes I Will
(11/26/04 Fillmore,
ROBERT WALTER – Bulldog Run (2008 Cure All)
LARRY w/DEXTER GROVE – Don’t Let Go (10/28/00 Club Dada,
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Deep Elem Blues (4/15/08 Fox Theater,
HOT BUTTERED RUM –
# # #
TnJ 025 Playlist (7/2/08)
TOAST n JAM 025 (7/2/08)
-HOUR ONE-
PHISH – Mike’s Song (2007 Live Phish 08.13.93 Murat Theater,
MIKE GORDON – Voices (2008 The Green Sparrow)
HILL COUNTRY REVUE – Alice Mae (officially only available at shows)
DREW EMMITT BAND – River’s Risin’ (2008 Long Road)
WALTER TROUT – The Next Big Thing (2008 the Outsider)
moe. – Head (2003 Warts and All Vol 3 – 11/13/98 the
-HOUR TWO-
DR. DIDG – Ever Evolving Techno Jam (2/9/01 Recher Theater,
LIPBONE
RYAN ADAMS – Bird Song (6/3/05 Northern Lights,
GRATEFUL DEAD – Deal (5/5/77 Veteran’s Memorial,
MATT PALKA and the CARAVAN – The
DeVOTCHkA – Head Honcho (2008 A Mad & Faithful Telling)
KUDZU KINGS – Bound for
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Southbound
(1992 An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band, First Set)
# # #
TnJ 024 Playlist (6/25/08)
TOAST n JAM 024 (6/25/08)
-HOUR ONE- (Guest DJ Bob Compton)
RADIATORS – Like Dreamers Do (6/3/86
RADIATORS – Fever Dream (6/9/87 Southlake Studio)
THE BLACK KEYS – Things Aren’t Like They Used To Be (2008 Attack & Release)
DANIEL LANOIS – This May Be the Last Time > Smoke #6 (2007 Here Is What Is)
RICHIE HAVENS – Tombstone Blues (2007 I’m Not There OST)
MUDCRUTCH – Lover of the Bayou (2008 Mudcrutch)
BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB – The Show’s About to Begin
(2007 American X: Baby 81 Sessions)
THE RACONTEURS – Many Shades of Black (2008 Consolers of the Lonely)
-HOUR TWO- (Widespread Weekend Warm-Up)
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Disco > Diner > No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
(9/27/07 Paramount Theater,
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Greta > Rock > Cream Puff War > Pickin’ Up the Pieces
(10/14/01
# # #
TnJ 023 Playlist (6/18/08)
TOAST n JAM 023 (6/18/08)
-HOUR ONE-
PHISH – Split Open and Melt (2002 Live Phish 07 – 8/14/93
SAM BUSH BAND – You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone
(12/31/03 Boulder Theater)
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – If You’re Ever in
(4/26/06 Sunshine Theater,
DEL McCOURY BAND – Bluegrass Country (2/21/01 Fox Theater, Boulder, CO)
GUY CLARK – Good Hearted Woman
(2003 Lonesome On’ry and Mean – Tribute to Waylon Jennings)
CHET ATKINS – La Vie en Rose (2003 Solo Sessions)
STEVE EARLE – The Week of Living Dangerously (1987 Exit O)
ROBERT EARLE KEEN – Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?
(2003 Lonesome On’ry and Mean – Tribute to Waylon Jennings)
-HOUR TWO-
LEFTOVER SALMON – Ask the Fish (4/16/96
DARRELL SCOTT – River Take Me (4/27/06 Merlefest)
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND w/SUSAN TEDESCHI – Don’t Think Twice
(8/10/03 Walnut Creek,
ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND – Ted’s Jam
(2002 Live at the Wetlands)
JERRY JOSEPH & THE JACKMORMONS – My Little Tiger
(2003 Mouthful of Copper – 8/02
# # #
TnJ 022 Playlist (6/11/08)
TOAST n JAM 022 (6/11/08)
-HOUR ONE-
DISCO BISCUITS – Little Shimmy in a Conga Line (2006 the Wind at Four to Fly)
ROOTS OF CREATION – Giraffe (2008 Live)
DREW EMMITT BAND – Steampowered Aeroplane (1/15/05
HUGH MASAKELA – Grazing in the Grass (1968 Grazing in the Grass)
CHARLIE HUNTER – Lively Up Yourself (1996 Natty Dread)
PAT MARTINO – Israfel (1968 Baiyina (the Clear Evidence))
-HOUR TWO-
GRATEFUL DEAD w/BO DIDDLEY – I’ve Seen Them All > Jam
(2003 Dick’s Picks 30 – circa 1972)
REVEREND HORTON HEAT – The Devil’s Chasing Me
(1993 the Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS – Goodbye (2006 A Blessing and a Curse)
JJ GREY & MOFRO – Lazy Fo’ Acre (7/13/07
THE MOTET – When Doves Cry > Let’s Go Crazy (10/30/04 Fox, Boulder, CO)
# # #
TnJ 021 Playlist (6/4/08)
TOAST n JAM 021 (6/4/08)
-HOUR ONE-
THE KNITTERS – Poor Little Critter in the Road (1985 Poor Little Critter in the Road)
RAILROAD EARTH – Jam > Mighty River (2/16/02
HOT BUTTERED RUM – Well-Oiled Machine (2006 Well-Oiled Machine)
THE WAYBACKS – Conjugal Visit (2008 Loaded)
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Lovin’ You (2008 The Infamous Stringdusters)
TEA LEAF GREEN – Devil’s Pay (2008 Rock ‘n’ Roll Band OST)
-HOUR TWO-
UMPHREY’S McGEE – Morning Song > Der Bluten Kat (3/6/07 Fox, Boulder, CO)
STEVE KIMOCK BAND – You’re the One (2/4/02
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Halloween Jam > Welcome To My Nightmare > Chilly Water
(10/31/07
# # #
TnJ 020 Playlist (5/28/08)
TOAST n JAM 020 (5/28/08)
-HOUR ONE-
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Stormy Monday
(1992 The Fillmore Concerts – circa 1971)
LED ZEPPELIN – The Ocean (2003 How the West Was Won – circa 1972)
PARLIAMENT – Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)
(1978 Motor-Booty Affair)
THE MACPODZ – Egg Sandwich (2008 Orcastrate)
PARTICLE – Workin’ for MCA (2004 Under the Influence – Skynyrd Tribute)
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND – Two Step (2003 The
-HOUR TWO-
LARRY w/LEFTOVER SALMON – All Blues (4/23/02
STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Footprints (Fall 2005 Travelogue – 10/15/05)
BRAVO JOHNSON – Ace in the Hole (2008 Crooked and the Straight)
THE BAND – When I Paint My Masterpiece
(1993 Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration)
CREEDENCE
COL. BRUCE HAMPTON’S AQUARIUM RESCUE UNIT – Time is Free
(10/20/04
# # #
TnJ 019 Playlist (5/21/08)
TOAST n JAM 019 (5/21/08) “Chris’ Infinite Mixtape”
-HOUR ONE-
PHISH – Quadrophenia (2002 Live Phish 14 – 10/31/95
GOV’T MULE w/PAIGE McCONNELL, MIKE GORDON, CHUCK LEAVELL –
Jesus Left
ANTHONY SMITH’S TRUNK FULLA FUNK – Funk Out with Your Junk Out
(2008 Life As We Know It)
DRUMS and TUBA – The Metrics (11/13/03 John’s Alley,
MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD – Uninvisible (2002 Uninvisible)
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Looking Back Over My Shoulder >
Death Trip (2008 Mountain Tracks Vol. 5 – 7/21/07
-HOUR TWO-
RAILROAD EARTH – The Forecast (2008 Amen Corner)
BLUE RODEO – Know Where You Go (1993 Five Days in July)
JANGO MONKEY – Musical Gods (2007 Jango Monkey)
TOM PETTY & the HEARTBREAKERS – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
(1993 Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration)
CHEECH & CHONG – Acapulco Gold Filters (1972 Cheech & Chong)
JERRY GARCIA BAND – Simple Twist of Fate
(2004 After Midnight – 2/28/80
BOB DYLAN – Down Along the Cove (2005 Bonnaroo Music Festival 2004)
# # #
TnJ 018 Playlist (5/14/08)
TOAST n JAM 018 (5/14/08) “TnJ All-Star Draft”
-HOUR ONE-
moe. – 32 Things (11/13/98 – 2003 Warts and All Vol. 3)
PHISH – Run Like an Antelope (10/31/95 – 2002 Live Phish 14)
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
(circa 1971 – 1998 The Fillmore Concerts)
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Space Wrangler (1998 Light Fuse, Get Away)
-HOUR TWO-
STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Under African Skies
(4/28/02 Saenger Theater,
STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Pack It Up
(10/15/05
GRATEFUL DEAD – Dancin’ in the Streets > Cosmic Charlie
(9/28/76
GRATEFUL DEAD – He’s Gone > Spoonful
(11/1/85
# # #
TnJ 017 Playlist (5/7/08)
TOAST n JAM 017 (5/7/08)
-HOUR ONE-
ASYLUM STREET SPANKERS – TV Party (2004 Mercurial)
SOUTH AUSTIN JUG BAND –
(2005 Dark and Weary World)
STEVIE WONDER – To Know You Is to Love You (unknown source - circa 1973)
JJ GREY & MOFRO – Country Ghetto (2007 Country Ghetto)
BEN HARPER & THE INNOCENT CRIMINALS – Glory & Consequence
(2001 Live from Mars)
UMPHREY’S McGEE – 2x2 (4/19/01
VINYL – Bones (1999 Three Sets – circa 3/98)
-HOUR TWO-
AFROMOTIVE – Red E Yo (2007 Scare Tactics)
TALKING HEADS – Psycho Killer (1982 The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads)
RAINMAKER – Sweetwater Has Run Dry (2008 Long Slow Fade)
DONOVAN – Season of the Witch (1966 Sunshine Superman)
WILCO – I Am Trying to Break Your Heart > I’m the Man Who Loves You
(3/14/05
GARAJ MAHAL – Junct > Gulam Sabri (12/22/01
# # #
TnJ 016 Playlist (4/30/08)
TOAST n JAM 016 (4/30/08)
-HOUR ONE-
KELLER WILLIAMS & STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Kidney in a Cooler
(6/21/02
VICTOR WOOTEN – Left, Right & Center (2008 Palmystery)
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Bust It Big > Jack (10/31/07
ADRIAN LEGG – Jam Today (2003 Guitar Bones)
TOMMY EMMANUEL – Train to
LEO KOTTKE – Flattened Brain (1995 Live)
CEPHAS & WIGGINS – I Saw the Light (2000 From
ADRIAN LEGG – Jam Tomorrow (2003 Guitar Bones)
-HOUR TWO-
PUNCH BROTHERS – The Blind Leaving the Blind (4th Movement) (2008 Punch)
WILLIE NELSON w/ERIC CLAPTON – Night Life (2003 Live and Kickin’)
(2001 The Deep End Vol 1 - Bonus Disc)
DEREK TRUCKS BAND – Soul Serenade/Rasta Man Chant (2003 Soul Serenade)
PHISH – Suzy Greenberg (edit) (2002 Live Phish 14 – 10/31/95 Rosemont, IL)
# # #
TnJ 015 Playlist (4/23/08)
TOAST n JAM 015 (4/23/08)
-HOUR ONE-
JOHN BUTLER TRIO – Oldman (2004
BONERAMA – It Don’t Mean Nothin’ (2004 Live from
STEVE KIMOCK BAND – It’s Up to You (12/8/02
VASSAR CLEMENTS w/ROY
(2004 Livin’ with the Blues)
ALBERT KING w/STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN – Blues at
(1999 In Session – circa 1983)
-HOUR TWO-
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT – Give A Man A Fish (instr.) (1993 Unplugged)
CIPES and the PEOPLE – Cool Down (edit) (2007 Conscious Revolution)
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT – Mr. Wendal (1993 Unplugged)
MOVING MATTER – Bond (2007 Live @ Grego’s)
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD – Light Up Your Lighter
(11/13/06
GRATEFUL DEAD – Women Are Smarter
(2004 Dick’s Picks Vol 32 – 8/7/82
# # #
TnJ 014 Playlist (4/16/08)
TOAST n JAM 014 (4/16/08)
-HOUR ONE-
PETER ROWAN & DON EDWARDS – The Old
(2002 High Lonesome Cowboy)
SAM BUSH – On the Road (2006 Laps in Seven)
JORMA & JACK – Another Man Done Gone > Keep Your Lamps
Trimmed and Burning (2/9/04
LITTLE FEAT – The Fan (9/14/74 WLIR-FM)
JEFF COFFIN & CHARLIE PEACOCK – Rice Dice Mice (2008 Arc of the Circle)
SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9 – T.W.E.L.V.E. (7/7/01
-HOUR TWO-
STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS – Real Emotional Trash
(2008 Real Emotional Trash)
GALACTIC w/IVAN NEVILLE – Africa (5/1/04
BARBRA-Q w/JOHN
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Ain’t Life Grand > One Arm Steve (5/4/01
# # #
TnJ 013 Playlist (4/9/08)
TOAST n JAM 013 (4/9/08)
-HOUR ONE-
UMPHREY’S McGEE – In the Kitchen (Acoustic) > Acoustic Improv > Electric Improv
> In the Kitchen (Electric) (2007 Live at the Murat)
HERBIE HANCOCK – Chameleon (1973 Headhunters)
YES – The Clap (1971 The Yes Album)
TIM REYNOLDS – Stream > Kashmir (7/14/05
LEO KOTTKE – William Powell (8/6/93 unknown locale)
-HOUR TWO-
moe. – 202 (2008 Sticks and Stones)
FRANK ZAPPA – Cosmik Debris (11/6/74
THE WAYBACKS – Loaded (2008 Loaded)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Jack Straw > Don’t Ease Me In
(2004 Dick’s Picks Vol 21 – 11/1/85
LEFTOVER SALMON – Breakin’ Thru (unknown source)
BOB MARLEY – Lively Up Yourself (5/26/76
GOV’T MULE – Lively Up Yourself (2/8/02
# # #
TnJ 012 Playlist (4/2/08)
TOAST n JAM 012 (4/2/08)
-HOUR ONE-
JERRY GARCIA & DAVID GRISMAN – Sitting Here in Limbo
(2001 Grateful Dawg Soundtrack)
JIMMY CLIFF – Sitting in Limbo (1976 In Concert – the Best of Jimmy Cliff)
ERIC CLAPTON – 32-20 Blues (2004 Me and Mr. Johnson)
the BAND w/MUDDY WATERS – Mannish Boy (1978 the Last Waltz)
WIDESPREAD PANIC w/ DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND – Bayou
(2001 Night of Joy)
RYAN MONTBLEAU BAND – Eggs (2007 Patience on Friday)
LIVING DAYLIGHTS – Garlic Press (7/4/99
-HOUR TWO-
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Whipping Post (1996 Fillmore East, Feb 1970)
EMMYLOU HARRIS – Deeper Well (1998 Spyboy)
PEARL JAM – Yellow Ledbetter (11/7/95
BHI BHIMAN – FDA Blues (2008 the Cookbook)
NEW MONSOON – Rattlesnake Ride (2007 V)
PHISH – Stash (2001 Live Phish 02, 7/16/94
MARVIN GAYE – Inner City Blues
(2001 What’s Going On Deluxe Edition, 5/1/72
# # #
TnJ 011 Playlist (3/26/08)
TOAST n JAM 011 (3/26/08) “Guest DJ: Jasper
-HOUR ONE-
BELA FLECK & the FLECKTONES – Howdown (Live at the Quick)
JERRY GARCIA BAND – That’s What Love Will Make You Do (unknown source)
DISCO BISCUITS – Morph
GOV’T MULE – Grinnin’ in Your Face (Gov’t Mule)
JOHN POPPER w/GOV’T MULE – the Mountains Win Again (Benefit Concert Vol. 2)
KELLER WILLIAMS – Keep It Simple (Stage)
-HOUR TWO-
THE FRAY – How to Save a Life (How to Save a Life)
LARRY – Here I Am (4/2/02 Mile Away Hall)
MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD – Caravan (Notes from the Underground)
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Black Sabbath (10/31/92
ZERO – Home on the Range (10/14/92 –
# # #
TnJ 010 Playlist (3/19/08)
TOAST n JAM 010 (3/19/08)
-HOUR ONE-
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Red Hot Mama > Worry (2002 Live in the
JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY w/STEVE KIMOCK – Cole’s Law (4/2/03 NYC)
TONY FURTADO – False Hearted Lover’s Blues (2003 Live Gypsy)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Scarlet Begonias (2005 the Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack)
-HOUR TWO-
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Dear Prudence > Things You’re Selling
(4/26/06 Sunshine Theater,
JAMES McMURTRY – Tired of Walking (1998 Walk between the Raindrops)
WILCO – Handshake Drugs (3/14/05
the BRIDGE – Easy Jane (2007 the Bridge)
the BRIDGE – Bad Locomotive (2007 the Bridge)
GARAJ MAHAL – Poodle Factory (12/22/01
PARTICLE w/JOE SATRIANI + DJ LOGIC – W (2006 Transformations Live…)
# # #
TnJ 009 Playlist (3/12/08)
TOAST n JAM 009 (3/12/08)
-HOUR ONE-
PHIL & FRIENDS – Mason’s Children (3/7/01
OAKHURST – Down the Lane (2008 Jump in the Get Down)
HOT BUTTERED RUM – Sweet Honey Fountain (2006 Well-Oiled Machine)
BELA FLECK – Polka on the Banjo (1999 the
ERIC LINDELL – Lady Day & John Coltrane (2008 Low on Cash, Rich in Love)
GIBB DROLL BAND – Blue Love Shawl (1995 Narrow Mouth Jar)
-HOUR TWO-
COL. BRUCE HAMPTON & the QUARK
(2007 Give Thanks to Chank)
MARCO
ADDISON GROOVE PROJECT – the Eleven-Headed (1998
JOHN BUTLER TRIO – Treat Your Mama (2006 Live at
SLY & the FAMILY STONE – Loose Booty (1974 Small Talk)
LORETTA LYNN w/JACK WHITE –
LITTLE FEAT – Spanish Moon > Fat Man in the Bathtub (9/14/74 WLIR Broadcast)
# # #
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