TELLY B-n-B LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The 21st Telluride Blues & Brews Festival Announces Initial Artist Lineup Violent Femmes, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, The Robert Cray Band and More Set To Perform Telluride, CO (March 25, 2014) - Today, the 21st annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival released its first round of artists for the festival's eagerly awaited return to the legendary Town Park stage in Telluride, Colorado on September 12-14, 2014. Blues & Brews is excited to announce two out of three festival headliners, the Violent Femmes and George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic. Blues & Brews is also thrilled to welcome back festival favorites Anders Osborne, Robert Cray, The Lee Boys, Black Joe Lewis, and Ryan McGarvey. Additional artists include the renownedLee Fields & the Expressions, Shakey Graves, Dumpstaphunk, and  Kipori Woods. Many more artists will be announced soon. "We are excited with the direction the festival is going this year," said Steve Gumble, Festival Director. "With many added amenities, including a second state-of-the-art stage featuring more bands, as well as a more diverse mix of music and entertainment - the 2014 festival could be our best yet!"  The Violent Femmes, one of the most successful alternative rock bands of the 1980s, influenced by the disparate sounds of Velvet Underground, Sun Ra, Johnny Cash and Devo, offered the world a style of music that was at once obvious and obtuse, incredibly danceable and lyrically layered with innuendo and wry humor. Their first self-titled album, has sold millions of copies, reaching platinum status only eight years after its release. As the Femmes' only Colorado performance in 2014, their unprecedented appearance in Telluride is not to be missed! Break out your funkiest costume and get ready to get your freak on for headliner George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic. Booty-rockin', soul-funk tricksters, Parliament Funkadelic, and Supreme Executive of Funk, George Clinton will be bringing their glittery mayhem to Telluride. Known for memorable live performances and uniquely energized music, George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic has created a genre of its own renowned as - P-Funk. Never straying too far from its blues roots, this year Telluride Blues & Brews will welcome The Robert Cray Band, with his straight-up house-rocking blues guitar mastery, for his third appearance on the lineup. Cray's modern counterpart, Austin-based blues-rock-soul guitarist Black Joe Lewis will also flex his prodigious and progressive blues guitar chops on the Main Stage. New Mexico's hottest blues guitarist, Ryan McGarvey, will be making his second appearance at the festival on the new, second stage, and New Orleans blues guitarist Kipori Woods will make a debut performance. Blues & Brews is going deep into the cast of funk and soul players this year with Lee Fields & the Expressions, who have a catalogue ranging from James Brown-style funk to lo-fi blues to contemporary Southern soul to collaborations with French house DJ/producer Martin Solveig. Lee Fields has done it all. Dumpstaphunk will offer fans an unforgettable live experience steeped in the Big Easy tradition of a good time. The quintet will feature Ivan Neville on vocals, B3 and Clav, the double bass and soulful voices of Tony Hall and Nick Daniels III, Ian Neville on guitar, and the monster addition of Nikki Glaspie on drums and vocals. Representing the modern rock landscape, find Austin's multi-instrumental retro-rocker one-man-band Shakey Graves. Funk and gospel band The Lee Boys and Telluride favorite Anders Osborne will also layer the lineup. The Telluride Blues & Brews festival is revered as one of the most scenic and intimate music festivals in the country, tucked in the heart of the San Juan Mountains in the historic mining town of Telluride, Colorado. The three-day Blues & Brews celebration offers an eclectic mix of live blues, funk, jam bands, rock, gospel and soul performances - accompanied by some of the best microbreweries in the country. The newly added second stage will host diverse events including musicians, comedians, films, and Q&A artist discussions. Food and craft vendors, children's activities, on-site camping, and late night juke joint shows will also be featured. Tickets for Three-Day passes, Juke Joint (late night shows) passes, and Camping passes are on sale now. Single day tickets will go on Sale June 15th. For festival information or to purchase tickets visit TellurideBlues.com. To purchase tickets by phone, call toll-free at (866) 515-6166. Tickets are available locally at Telluride Music, located at 123 E. Colorado Ave, and at Wizard Entertainment, located at 126 East Colorado Avenue. About Telluride Blues and Brews is one of the most scenic and intimate music festivals in the country, a three day celebration of music and microbrews held every September in the world-famous resort town of Telluride, Colorado, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. The 21st Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival takes place September 12-14, 2014. # # #

TnJ 485 (3/27/11)

Nothing but super-epic jams this week - BOMBS AWAY!  (^_^)

This may be the first time I only had to bring 4 discs for a 2-hour show.  *w00t* (^_^) TOAST

-HOUR ONE-

ERIC CLAPTON and STEVE WINWOOD – Voodoo Chile  (2009 Live from Madison Square Garden, c. 2008)

moe. – Four > Rebubula  (2002 Warts & All, Volume Two, 2/23/02 the Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA) moe.org

-HOUR TWO-

LETTUCE w/ KARL DENSON – Hang Up Your Hang Ups  (1/6/11 Jam Cruise 9, Teatro Carlo Felice) livedownloads.com

PHISH – 2001 > Run Like an Antelope > Sparks > Walk Away > Tinley Park Jam > Run Like an Antelope > Have Mercy > Run Like an Antelope > Mound  (2002 Live Phish 07, 8/14/93 World Music Theatre, Tinley Park, IL) livedownloads.com

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TnJ 484 (3/20/14)

Quite the festival featurette in the second half of this broadcast.  It occurs to me I could (nay, should) do a full Toast-n-Jam session on festivals of yore one of these days.  Meanwhile, roll up and enjoy (^_^) TOAST

-HOUR ONE-

STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Song in My Head  (2014 Song in My Head)

CORNMEAL – It Ain’t Me  (2003 Tales from Magic Stone Mountain)

INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Winds of Change  (2014 Let It Go)

7HORSE (?) – a Friend in Weed  (?)

MIKE GORDON – Jumping  (2014 Overstep)

TAUK – Hello Narwhal  (2013 Homunculus) homegrownmusic.net

STANTON MOORE – Driftin’  (2014 Conversations)

JOHNNY SKETCH and the DIRTY NOTES – Bandicoot  (2004 Live at the Spleaf, 5/21/04 New Orleans, LA)

-HOUR TWO-

CHARLIE HUNTER QUARTET – the Shango, pt. III (1996 Ready…Set…Shango!)

MILES DAVIS – Call It Anything  (1995 the Isle of Wight Festival 1970)

JIMI HENDRIX – Voodoo Chile [Slight Return]  (1994 Woodstock Diary, c. 1969)

JANIS JOPLIN – Ball and Chain  (1994 Woodstock Diary, c. 1969)

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & the E STREET BAND – Lay Me My Money Down  (1/26/14 Cape Town, South Africa)

ELTON JOHN – Honky Cat  (2014 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road [remaster], Hammersmith Odeon, London 1973)

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TnJ 483 (3/13/14)

-HOUR ONE-

JONATHAN WILSON – Fanfare  (2013 Fanfare)

DAVID LAST – Honey Version  (2014 Early)

the HIP ABDUCTION – Holiday  (2013 the Hip Abduction)

STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Boogie On Reggae Woman  (2/21/14 Hard Rock Hotel, Riviera Maya, MX) livecheese.com

GALACTIC w/ JJ GREY – Higher and Higher  (2014 single)

EDDIE HARRIS – Live Right Now  (2006 What It Is!  Funky Soul and Rare Grooves [box set], c. 1969)

TAJ MAHAL w/ KEB’ MO’ – Diving Duck Blues  (2013 Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)

-HOUR TWO –

In the “Phil Zone” with guest toast John Barraco and an all Phil & Friends feature – wishing the great Phil Lesh the happiest of 74^th birthdays this Saturday!

PHIL & FRIENDS – St. Stephen  (11/18/99 Mullins Center, University of Massachusets, Amherst, MA)

PHIL & FRIENDS – Phil & Mike Gordon Bass Duel  (7/12/06 Champlain Valley Fairgrounds, Essex Junction, VT)

PHIL & FRIENDS – Cosmic Charlie  (10/27/05 Bimbo’s 365 Club, San Francisco, CA)

PHIL & FRIENDS – Joan Moan  (6/27/06 Asheville Civic Center, Asheville, NC)

PHIL & FRIENDS – Attics of My Life  (12/9/12 Terrapin Crossroads [Grate Room], San Rafael, CA)

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TnJ 482 (3/6/14)

-HOUR ONE-

WIDESPREAD PANIC – Pickin’ Up the Pieces > Better Off  (9/28/07 Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA) livewidespreadpanic.com

KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE w/ NICKI BLUHM – My Baby  (2014 New Ammo)

the MOTET – Rynodub  (2014 the Motet)

DAVID GILMOUR – Speak to Me > Breathe (in the Air) > Time > Breathe (in the Air) [reprise]  (2008 Live in Gdańsk)

MIKE GORDON – Ether  (2014 Overstep)

-HOUR TWO-

GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – Before Bring Out Your Dead > Bring Out Your Dead  (2011 Handguns)

Interview > Mike Doval of Greensky Bluegrass  (3/6/14 KBAC-FM, Santa Fe, NM)

QUILT – I Sleep in Nature  (2014 Held in Splendor)

GALACTIC – Doublewide > Whole Lotta Love  (5/1/04 State Palace Theater, New Orleans, LA) livedownloads.com

MATT SCHOFIELD – Hindsight  (2014 Far As I Can See)

JERRY GARCIA BAND – They Love Each Other  (2013 Fall 1989 – the Long Island Sound, 9/5/89 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT)

BOB WEIR and ROB WASSERMAN – Fever  (2013 Fall 1989 – the Long Island Sound, 9/5/89 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT)

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