TnJ BEST of 2016

-TOAST’S FAVORITE ALBUMS of 2016-

16) TAUK – Sir Nebula

This ironically-named instrumental combo from Oyster Bay, NY, continues to impress with their third studio album.  Since releasing their incredible double-live set “Headroom,” their studio sound seems fuller and more in line with their live sound:  buzzy and fuzzy, hippy and trippy.

HIGH POINTS: Program Select, Where You Are, Sunshine Harry

15) CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – Any Way You Love, We Know How You Feel

Unwieldy album title aside, this is another fine entry into CRB’s catalog.  Their studio output is prolific, and nearly all of it worth a listen.  Hippie rock is their forte, and they seem content to reside near the top of that heap.  Recent personnel changes haven’t diminished their ability to play extremely well together.

HIGH POINTS: Ain’t It Hard but Fair, Leave My Guitar Alone, Narcissus Soaking Wet

14) MARCUS KING BAND – The Marcus King Band

The way I heard it, Warren Haynes “discovered” this young talent.  Marcus King could definitely find less valuable mentorship in the jamband world, but he’s already so fully-formed as a guitar wiz and bandleader at age twenty, I can only predict that great things surely lie ahead for the Marcus King Band.  A sparse two-man horn section fills out the sound nicely.

HIGH POINTS:  Plant Your Corn Early, Self-Hatred, the Man You Didn’t Know

13) SAM BUSH – Storyman

It’s been 7 years since the last release from Newgrass legend Sam Bush.  Whether that was deliberate on his part, or whether he’s too busy tearing it up on tour, or whether nobody’s in a hurry to release full-length albums these days, “Storyman” was worth the wait.  At age 64, his considerable songwriting and playing abilities do not seem to be waning in the least.

HIGH POINTS:  I Just Wanna Feel Something, Everything Is Possible, Where’s My Love

12) YEASAYER – Amen & Goodbye

This Brooklyn outfit seems intent on conjuring up bizarre soundscapes to back up their unusual harmonies.  Rarely does a band so roundly eschew traditional songwriting esthetics to such glorious result.  Whether their intention is to actually blow minds or to proudly represent the “hipster-kook” contingent, I can’t say.  Neither can I argue with an album this wonderfully strange.

HIGH POINTS:  Daughters of Cain, I Am Chemistry, Gerson’s Whistle

11) BOB WEIR – Blue Mountain

My hat’s off to Bob Weir for recognizing that folkie Josh Ritter and The National’s Josh Kaufman would be good songwriting partners for an album of “cowboy songs.”  This collection has a cohesive, old-timey vibe which suits Bobby’s aging voice.  Not even slightly “far out” in the way you might expect from a member of the Grateful Dead, but does echo back to the “earthy” Weir/Barlow collaborations.

HIGH POINTS:  Lay My Lily Down, Ki-Yi Bossie, Gonesville

10) AVETT BROTHERS – True Sadness

Take an ace family vocal duo, add an impressive band and an incomparable producer, and you could argue you’re bound to succeed. Succeed the Avett Brothers have, both live and in the studio, building a joyfully loyal grassroots fan base, then pumping it up to enormous proportions.  More often than not, their brand of twisted wit and melancholy comes off as more buoyant and bubbly than depressing, which may be their Golden Goose.

HIGH POINTS:  True Sadness, Satan Pulls the Strings, Victims of Life, Smithsonian

09) MARCO BENEVENTO – the Story of Fred Short

Somehow, Benevento is able to make the plinky, toy piano sound majestic.  His skills as a composer and conductor have metastasized into a giant, hairy beast whose chest heaves and unleashes fierce fronts of tropical wind which threaten to capsize our brains and devastate our ears.  With “The Story of Fred Short,” he’s finally concocted an operatic narrative large enough to contain his carnivalesque musings.  Fred Short is a fitting avatar for Benevento, coaxing frenzy from the mundane.

HIGH POINTS:  Follow the Arrow, Heavy Metal Floating Upstream, Live a Certain Life, Stay in Line

08) DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS – American Band

One might have worried the Drive-By Truckers would have wobbled in the absence of Jason Isbell, but they certainly don’t seem to be concerned.  In fact, they’ve stepped their game up considerably.  They’ve traded their grittily charming D-I-Y aesthetic for an ambitious, universal Americana sound which manages to hit all the right notes, and loudly.  For better or worse, this is their “Joshua Tree.”  They had something to prove, and that something was likely along the lines of, “Jason Isbell who?”

HIGH POINTS:  Ramon Casiano, Once They Banned Imagine, Surrender Under Protest, Ever South

07) BLACKBERRY SMOKE – Like an Arrow

Taking the southern rock thing and (to borrow a shopworn gag from “This Is Spinal Tap”) turning it up to eleven, this band seems poised to inherit the crown of the kingdom, by force if necessary.  Their songwriting has always been exemplary, but their musical muscle is now flexing off the chart.  If a band could literally set the world on fire by simply choosing the right incendiary sequence and layering of noises, my money would be on Blackberry Smoke.  I think “like an arrow” is an understatement; I’ll go with “like a cannon.”

HIGH POINTS:  Like an Arrow, Sunrise in Texas, Waiting for the Thunder, Running Through Time

06) RECORD COMPANY – Give It Back to You

I caught their act at an after-hours festival gig a couple of years ago, and the promise implied on that night has borne fruit with the most impressive bare-bones blues-rock album I’ve heard in a while.  If you’re the sort of Rolling Stones fan who believes “Exile” is their high-water mark, this is your kind of band.  Granted, the Record Company’s kind of gutter trash has more of a neon sheen to it, being from Los Angeles rather than London, but they’ve got the swagger and the attitude right.  I’d pay good money to see them on a bill with JJ Grey and Mofro sometime.

HIGH POINTS:  Off the Ground, On the Move, This Crooked City, Rita Mae Young

05) TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND – Let Me Get By

For my money, this is still one of the best live bands going.  A few personnel changes over the years doesn’t seem to have slowed them down.  They lock in the groove and just keep hammering.  It can’t be easy keeping all twelve (!) musicians on track, but like other “family-”and “extended-family-” bands before them, the bandleader (in this case, Derek Trucks) manages to bring the train safely to the station every time.  It may seem like it’s going to barrel through the brick wall at the end of the line, but that’s half the fun.  Susan Tedeschi and Mike Mattison’s vocal turns are always smooth and sexy, but for me the sonic circus is the star.

HIGH POINTS:  Let Me Get By, Laugh About It, Just as Strange, Anyhow, Crying Over You / Swamp Raga

04) PHISH – Big Boat

Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd’s “the Wall”) takes another turn at producing a Phish album.  Though “Big Boat” may seem less cohesive on first listen than its predecessor, “Fuego,” I think its meandering nature may be its strength.  Just as showcasing each of the phoursome individually in concert makes the overall structure more robust and varied, or the addition of outside genetic material can curb birth defects in humans, this album manages to avoid the trap of “same-y-ness” that can plague a band after fifteen studio albums.  Of course, as with all Phish albums, we must infer the jam sections these crafted, concise gems are meant to initiate, but for those who can’t afford to attend every Phish show, the implications are delightful enough.

HIGH POINTS:  Blaze On, Miss You, Petrichor, Waking Up Dead, Things People Do

03) DAVID BOWIE – Blackstar

I don’t think I can say anything about this album that a hundred writers haven’t already said.  Even if Mr. Jones hadn’t died two days after this album’s release and called for a permanent spotlight to shine on it all year, I remember how impressive it was on that first, untainted listen.  And the second.  And then I heard the sad news.  It is certainly one of the best albums he released in recent memory (though no less experimental), and I’ll argue it stands with the best of all his masterpieces.  The fact that it explores themes of abandonment, life after death, and an unsympathetic (or possibly nonexistent) supreme being wouldn’t have been surprising on any other Bowie album, but of course it’s in our nature to retroactively assign pre-sagacity to these in this case.  Bon voyage, Mr. Jones, and safe travels.  You will be missed.

HIGH POINTS:  I Can’t Give Everything Away, Blackstar, Lazarus, ‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore, Sue (Or In a Season of Crime)

02) UMPHREY’S McGEE – Zonkey

The first time I heard Umphrey’s perform one of their now-infamous “live mash-ups” was in 2010 at the El Rey Theater in Albuquerque.  It was a mash-up of Nine Inch Nails “Closer” and The Beatles “Come Together.”  I thought it was brilliant.  Over the years, they’ve added enough of these to their arsenal to have committed them to an album of their own.  Whether or not the stunt gets them noticed by a more mainstream audience is practically irrelevant, since most of that “more mainstream audience” is too obsessed with checking their fucking phone to possibly matter in the grand scheme of things.  Mash-ups are a fun and interesting way to cover songs, and normally relegated to YouTube DJs with too much equipment and time on their hands, but Umphrey’s has proven that, in the right hands, mash-ups can be played, and quite impressively, by actual musicians.

HIGH POINTS:  Life During Exodus, Electric Avenue to Hell, National Loser Anthem, Strangletage, Can’t Rock My Dream Face

 

01) MARCHFOURTH – Magic Number

MarchFourth is now the band I most want to see in concert.  I spent the better part of 2016 telling anyone who would listen that this was the best, most interesting album of the year.  I’ve heard impressive “jam marching bands” before, but this is a totally take-no-prisoners affair.  They are here to literally blow you away.  Ben Ellman (Galactic) has produced the impossible, making something simultaneously goldbrick-solid and river-flowing, like I always imagined the Mesoamerican diety Quetzalcoatl.  Guest musicians Stanton Moore and Trombone Shorty add a New Orleans flair to the proceedings, but are hardly necessary.  Having been a member of marching bands myself, I simply cannot fathom how they are able to swing and thump this hard.  Heavy enough to stop you in your tracks, but lilting enough to spur your feet to happy dancing, this is the kind of band I could see forming a religion around.

HIGH POINTS:  Science (Free Your Mind), the Quarter, Inventing the Wheel, Magic Number, Push It Back, Call to Action

-TOAST’S FAVORITE SINGLES of 2016-

I should preface this list by saying that some of the albums of the year also produced what I considered singles of the year (e.g. “Off the Ground” by The Record Company), but for this list, either one track was a total standout from the album, or perhaps I simply haven’t had the opportunity to hear the whole album.  These are, for want of a better term, “radio songs,” but would nevertheless make great additions to many mixtapes.

16) WIL – A Whoo Hoo

A nice little retro ditty that got stuck in my head for weeks.

15) FRUITION – Santa Fe

New Yorkers love songs about New York, I love songs about Santa Fe.

14) JIM JAMES – Here in Spirit

A good message draped in fantastic production.  Operatic yet sparse.

13) STONE ROSES – All for One

This is one of the few bands from the 90s I’m glad got back together.

12) JAH WORKS - Water

So much reggae is just plain claptrap, I applaud their originality and sincerity.

11) ELLE KING – Good Girls

This one oozes a kind of Wanda Jackson-esque brassiness and sex appeal.

10) MONDO KOZMO - Shine

A songwriter singalong which uses no whistle track?  Thank you.  Just, thank you.

09) THE WIND + THE WAVE – Grand Canyon

Seems like it would be great music to ride to, really fast, down a mountain biking trail.

08) RIVER WHYLESS – All Day All Night

They call themselves a folk band, but this sound is pretty expansive.  Maybe that’s allowed in the Mumford age.

07) FANTASTIC NEGRITO – In the Pines

Like many takes on traditional standards, this one works by playing up the minor key and the bassline, implying a certain menace.

06) SAINT MOTEL - Move

The song opens with a command I’m happy to oblige.  This band is slinky and sleazy in all the right ways.

05) BASTILLE – Good Grief

Bordering on being too clever and meticulous to be a pop song, or maybe just clever and meticulous enough.  Meta moment: “It goes in one ear, out the other.”

04) DAWES – When the Tequila Runs Out

You’ve never heard Dawes try so hard to sound like an “indie” band.  This is as hooky and experimental as these “whisper-folkies” are likely to get.

03) STRAY BIRDS – Sabrina

My favorite “out of left field” entry this year.  Blissfully breakneck in its pacing and refreshingly unadorned with fancy production.  Raw in the best way possible.

02) STRUMBELLAS – We Don’t Know

In my opinion, far superior to their international hit “Spirits.”  Only time will tell if they’re just another flash-in-the-post-Mumford-folkie-pan, but I’m hooked so far.

01) ALABAMA SHAKES – Sound & Color

Yes, the album came out in 2015, and made my list of favorite albums.  As a single in 2016, this masterpiece revealed its hidden glory slowly.  It seemed like a new song every time I heard it.

-BEST LIVE RELEASES-

NEW MASTERSOUNDS – the Nashville Session

PHISH – 12/31/16 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

WIDESPREAD PANIC – 5/5/16 Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL

-BEST ARCHIVAL RELEASES / REISSUES-

CROSSROADS REVISITED - Selections from the Crossroads Guitar Festivals

DEAR JERRY – Celebrating the Music of Jerry Garcia

GRATEFUL DEAD – Red Rocks 7/8/78

JIMI HENDRIX – Machine Gun - the Fillmore East 12/31/69 [first show]

30 DAYS of DEAD – November 2016 [web series @ dead/net]

-BEST BANDS I SAW LIVE – TOUR DIARY-

DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE – 1/11/16 National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM

GARY CLARK, JR. – 3/9/16 Sunshine Theater, Albuquerque, NM

MY MORNING JACKET / BARR BROTHERS – 5/29/16 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO

KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE – 6/30/16 the Bridge, Santa Fe, NM

POLYRHYTHMICS – 7/19/16 Plaza Bandstand, Santa Fe, NM

GALACTIC – 8/5/16 Taos Mesa Brewing, El Prado, NM

LAKE STREET DIVE – 8/11/16 Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO

GOV’T MULE / moe. / BLACKBERRY SMOKE – 8/25/16 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO

PHISH – 9/2-4, 2017 – Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND / LOS LOBOS / NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS – 9/19/16 Sandia Casino Amphitheater, Albuquerque, NM

photo by Gerald Bivens

-BEST LOCAL ALBUM-

MATT CHAMBERLAIN and BRIAN HAAS – Prometheus Risen

Not certain if this technically counts as a local release, though Brian Haas (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey) does spend a lot of his time in Santa Fe and apparently loves recording at Frogville Studios.  This album is all the more amazing because, as he told me, it is 100% improvised in the studio.

HIGH POINTS:  African Crowley, Orange Purple Sunshine, Cosmic Vision, Neuro Quantum Adept, Space Colonization

-LIKED THESE – MORE PLEASE!-

ARJUN

CORBU

DAWG YAWP

EXPLOSIONS in the SKY

HAUNTED WINDCHIMES

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER

KING GIZZARD & the LIZARD WIZARD

MAGIC MUSIC

PAPER BIRD

TWEED

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WIN GRATEFUL DEAD 50th ANNIVERSARY RELEASE

Listen this week and next for your chance at a copy of the Grateful Dead's 50th anniversary album release "deluxe edition," including a bonus live disc - previously unreleased recordings from Vancouver, BC, 1966 (^_^)

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TnJ 626 (1/26/17)

Bon voyage to the Allman Brothers Band's original drummer, Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks, who passed this past Tuesday at age 69...

-HOUR ONE-

GRATEFUL DEAD – Cream Puff War  (2017 the Grateful Dead – 50^th Anniversary [deluxe edition], 7/29/66 P.N.E. Garden Auditorium, Vancouver, BC, CAN)

BILLY & the KIDS – Help On the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower  (2016 Dear Jerry – Celebrating the Music of Jerry Garcia, 5/14/15 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD)

STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Close Encounters Theme > Born On the Wrong Planet  (7/4/00 Paolo Soleri, Santa Fe, NM)

KELLER WILLIAMS’ KWAHTRO – Ripped 6-Pack  (2017 Sync)

DEAD MAN WINTER – Destroyer  (2017 Furnace)

BIG SOMETHING – Tumbleweed  (2017 Tumbleweed)

-HOUR TWO-

LOTUS – Behind Midwest Storefronts  (9/17/16 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO) livedownloads.com

MATT CHAMBERLAIN and BRIAN HAAS – Cosmic Vision  (2016 Prometheus Risen)

LETTUCE – Mt. Crushmore  (2016 Mt. Crushmore EP)

ARJUN – Endless Again  (2016 Gravity)

GOV’T MULE – Larger Than Life > If 6 Was 9 > Larger Than Life  (8/25/16 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO) muletracks.net

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Whipping Post  (“Another One for Woody” 11/22/10 Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY) livedownloads.com

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TEDESCHI TRUCKS RETURN TO ABQ 7/27

Tickets go on sale Friday, January 27th, 2017 - last year's party was crazy good (^_^) TOAST

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RUMELIA COLLECTIVE FEB 4 SAN MIGUEL CHAPEL

TnJ 625 (1/19/17)

-HOUR ONE-

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue  (6/16/16 New Daisy Theatre, Memphis, TN)

WIDESPREAD PANIC – Maggot Brain  (4/28/16 nTelos Pavilion, Charlottesville, VA) livewidespreadpanic.com

JANIS JOPLIN with FULL TILT BOOGIE BAND – Get It While You Can  (1972 In Concert, 7/4/70 Canadian Festival Express, Calgary, Alberta, CAN)

DAVID BROMBERG BAND – Walkin’ Blues  (2017 the Blues the Whole Blues and Nothing But the Blues)

DELBERT McCLINTON & SELF-MADE MEN – Don’t Do It  (2016 Prick of the Litter)

RECKLESS KELLY – Who’s Gonna Be Your Baby Now  (2016 Sunset Motel)

BAND of HEATHENS – Sugar Queen  (2017 Duende)

-HOUR TWO-

WOOD BROTHERS – Tried and Tempted  (2017 Live at the Barn, 8/19/16 Woodstock, NY)

AVETT BROTHERS – Smithsonian  (2016 True Sadness)

GRANT FARM – One Hundred Ways…>…to Kneel and Kiss the Ground  (2016 Kiss the Ground)

TWEED – RL WRLD  (2016 the Chunky Life EP)

MARCO BENEVENTO – Witches of Ulster  (6/8/16 Bell’s Brewery, Kalamazoo, MI)

TWIDDLE – Five  (2015 Plump Chapter 1)

PHISH – Miss You  (2016 Big Boat)

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PIGMENT / ANGEL FIRE SATURDAY

TnJ 624 (1/12/17)

-HOUR ONE-

FLAMING LIPS – There Should Be Unicorns  (2017 Oczy Mlody)

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND – Minarets  (9/29/95 University of Virginia Amphitheater, Charlottesville, VA)

GRATEFUL DEAD – Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower  (3/24/91 Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY, released as part of the web series “30 Days of Dead” @ dead.net 2016)

DAVID GRISMAN SEXTET – Slinky  (2016 the David Grisman Sextet)

ELEPHANT REVIVAL – Sea Monster  (2016 Petals)

GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – Room Without a Roof  (2016 Shouted, Written Down & Quoted)

INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Vertigo  (2017 Laws of Gravity)

-HOUR TWO-

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – Some Garden’s Green  (2016 Any Way You Love, We Know How You Feel)

ALLAH-LAS – Autumn Dawn  (2016 Calico Review)

TORTOISE – Ox Duke  (2016 the Catastrophist)

WOLF PEOPLE – Kingfisher  (2016 Ruins)

LED ZEPPELIN – Whole Lotta Love > Boogie Chillun > Let’s Have a Party > Hello Mary Lou > Going Down Slow  (2003 How the West Was Won, 6/25/72 L.A. Forum, Inglewood, CA)

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CRAIG MACK MEMORIAL BENEFIT SATURDAY

TnJ 623 (1/5/17)

Roll up for some of the toastiest grooves available in 2016…

-HOUR ONE-

DAWES – When the Tequila Runs Out  (2016 We’re All Gonna Die)

BOB WEIR – Lay My Lily Down  (2016 Blue Mountain)

GRATEFUL DEAD – Samson and Delilah  (2016 Red Rocks 7/8/78)

MARCHFOURTH – the Quarter  (2016 Magic Number)

TAUK – Program Select  (2016 Sir Nebula)

YEASAYER – Gerson’s Whistle  (2016 Amen & Goodbye)

DAVID BOWIE – Lazarus  (2016 Blackstar)

DEVIL MAKES THREE – Waiting Around to Die  (2016 Redemption & Ruin)

RECORD COMPANY – This Crooked City  (2016 Give It Back to You)

-HOUR TWO-

BOMBINO – Iyat Ninhay / Jaguar [a Great Desert I Saw]  (2016 Azel)

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND – Let Me Get By  (2016 Let Me Get By)

MARCUS KING BAND w/ DEREK TRUCKS – Self-Hatred  (2016 the Marcus King Band)

BLACKBERRY SMOKE w/ GREGG ALLMAN – Free on the Wing  (2016 Like an Arrow)

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS – Ever South  (2016 American Band)

PHISH – Bathtub Gin > Split Open and Melt  (9/4/16 Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO)

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P.S. There was no live show last week.  I was getting down at Melvin Seals & JGB.  Last week's show was an All-Grateful repeat from Thanksgiving 2016.  Here's to another great year of live music in 2017!

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TnJ 622 (12/22/16)

-HOUR ONE-

Interview > Melvin Seals  (recorded 12/22/16 at KBAC-FM Santa Fe, NM)

MELVIN SEALS & JGB – I Second That Emotion  (11/5/16 Nectar Lounge, Seattle, WA)

BOB MARLEY & the WAILERS – Wake Up and Live  (2016 the Legend Live – Santa Barbara County Bowl 11/25/79) livedownloads.com

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER – Highland Grace  (2016 Heart Like a Levee)

JACK & JORMA – the ORIGINAL ACOUSTIC HOT TUNA – Good Shepherd  (3/18/02 Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO)

-HOUR TWO-

ROBERT RANDOLPH & the FAMILY BAND – Traveling Shoes  (2011 Live in Concert)

PEARL JAM – Yellow Ledbetter  (5/10/00 Mt. Baker Theatre, Bellingham, WA) livedownloads.com

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – Narcissus Soaking Wet  (9/25/16 Beachland Ballroom and Tavern, Cleveland, OH) livedownloads.com

FRANK ZAPPA – Camarillo Brillo > Black Napkins  (10/31/77 the Palladium, New York, NY)

UMPHREY’S McGEE – 2x2  (7/2/16 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO) livedownloads.com

UMPHREY’S McGEE – National Loser Anthem  (2016 Zonkey)

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TnJ 621 (12/15/16)

Special guest toast Clinton Huling shares grooves from his collection, and pays tribute to those who’ve gone on in 2016…

-HOUR ONE-

MELVIN SEALS & JGB – Expressway to Your Heart  (unknown source)

SHARON JONES & the DAP-KINGS – Better Things  (2010 I Learned the Hard Way)

FUNKADELIC – You Hit the Nail on the Head  (1972 America Eats Its Young)

DAVID BOWIE – Black Country Rock  (1970 the Man Who Sold the World)

EAGLES – Doolin Dalton [instrumental] > Outlaw Man  (1973 Desperado)

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER – From the Beginning  (1972 Trilogy)

BEATLES – Something [no vocals]  (bootleg: “Abbey Road Instrumental”)

LEON RUSSELL – Stranger in a Strange Land  (1971 Leon Russell and the Shelter People)

-HOUR TWO-

SUGARLOAF – Green-Eyed Lady  (1970 Sugarloaf)

GRANT GREEN – Sookie, Sookie  (1970 Alive!, 8/15/70 Cliché Lounge, Newark, NJ)

JERRY GARCIA BAND w/ CLARENCE CLEMONS – Let It Rock  (unknown source)

DAVID BOWIE – Space Oddity  (bootleg: “Strange Fascination,” 9/5/74 Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA)

ERIC CLAPTON – Let It Rain  (bootleg: “Milk Cow Blues,” 4/14/75 Festival Hall, Brisbane, AUS)

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UMPHREY'S at RED ROCKS 2017

Get on board early and save some serious dough (bro), with an Early Bird Three-Day Pass for just $99.00. umVIP and ticket pre-sale begins Wednesday, December 14th at 10:00 am MT, followed by a Live Nation pre-sale on Thursday, December 15th at 10:00 am MT. General on-sale begins Saturday, December 17th at 10:00 am MT.

Come rock the Rockies and celebrate Independence Day weekend with ​the first Umphrey’s Red Rocks Triple Header!

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TnJ 620 (12/8/16)

-HOUR ONE-

MELVIN SEALS & JGB - That's What Love Will Make You Do  (11/05/16 Nectar Lounge, Seattle, WA)
HART VALLEY DRIFTERS - Sitting On Top of the World (2016 Folk Time, ca. 1962 KZSU Radio, Stanford University)
GRATEFUL GRASS - Shakedown Street  (2014 Grateful Grass Dos, 12/7/13 the Fillmore, San Francisco, CA) livedownloads.com
JEREMY GARRETT - High on a Ridge  (2016 the RV Sessions 2 – instrumentals)
RAILROAD EARTH - Hard Livin'  (12/31/11 Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO) livedownloads.com
LEFTOVER SALMON - Headbag  (1997 Ask the Fish, ca. Oct 1994 Boulder, CO)
GREENSKY BLUEGRASS - Living Over  (2016 Shouted, Written Down & Quoted)

-HOUR TWO-

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - Once They Banned Imagine  (2016 American Band)
SAM BUSH - I Just Wanna Feel Something  (2016 Storyman)
JIM LAUDERDALE - the Weakness of Two Hearts  (2016 This Changes Everything)
HANDSOME FAMILY - Gold  (2016 Unseen)
the DOORS - Moonlight Drive > Horse Latitudes > a Little Game > the Hill Dwellers > Spanish Caravan  (2012 Live at the Bowl ’68, 7/5/68 Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA)
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND - Black Hearted Woman  (“Another One for Woody” 11/22/10 Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY) livedownloads.com

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MELVIN SEALS / JGB in TAOS DEC 29

Did I show you this poster yet?  Love it (^_^)

TnJ 619 (12/1/16)

-HOUR ONE-

GRATEFUL DEAD – Lazy River Road  (3/29/93 Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY, released as part of the web series “30 Days of Dead” @ dead.net 2016)

STOCKHOLM SYNDROME – Sing Bird Sing  (2010 Apollo)

the DOORS – When the Music’s Over  (2012 Live at the Bowl ’68, 7/5/68 Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA)

OZZY OSBOURNE – Flying High Again  (1981 Diary of a Madman)

JIMI HENDRIX w/ BAND of GYPSYS – Machine Gun  (2016 Machine Gun – the Fillmore East First Show, 12/31/99 New York, NY)

UMPHREY’S McGEE – Electric Avenue to Hell  (2016 Zonkey)

UMPHREY’S McGEE – Life During Exodus  (2016 Zonkey)

-HOUR TWO-

EUFÓRQUESTRA – Road Funk  (2014 Fire)

YO MAMA’S BIG FAT BOOTY BAND – Wake Yo’ Self  (2015 Funk Life)

the MOTET – the Truth  (7/22/16 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO)

PHISH – No Men in No Man’s Land  (2016 Big Boat)

JIM JAMES – Same Old Lie  (2016 Eternally Even)

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – Roan County Banjo  (2016 If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home By Now)

MAGIC MUSIC – Eldorado Canyon  (2016 Magic Music)

GRATEFUL DEAD – Days Between  (10/18/94 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, released as part of the web series “30 Days of Dead” @ dead.net 2016)

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TnJ 618 (11/24/16)

All-Grateful Thanksgiving special session (^_^) roll up and enjoy!

-HOUR ONE-

GRATEFUL DEAD – Picasso Moon  (5/12/91 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, released as part of the web series “30 Days of Dead” @ dead.net 2016)

GRATEFUL DEAD – Cold Rain and Snow  (2016 Dave’s Picks Volume 20, 12/9/81 CU Events Center, Boulder, CO)

GRATEFUL DEAD – Estimated Prophet > He’s Gone  (2016 Dave’s Picks Volume 20, 12/9/81 CU Events Center, Boulder, CO)

GRATEFUL DEAD – That’s It for the Other One  (2016 Dave’s Picks Volume 19, 1/23/70 Honolulu Civic Auditorium, Honolulu, HI)

-HOUR TWO-

GRATEFUL DEAD – Friend of the Devil  (5/17/78 Uptown Theatre, Chicago, IL, released as part of the web series “30 Days of Dead” @ dead.net 2016)

GRATEFUL DEAD – Peggy-O  (2016 Dave’s Picks Volume 18, 7/17/76 Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, CA)

GRATEFUL DEAD – Eyes of the World > China Doll  (2016 Dave’s Picks Volume 17, 7/19/74 Selland Arena, Fresno, CA)

GRATEFUL DEAD – Sugar Magnolia  (2016 Red Rocks 7/8/78)

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617 (11/17/16)

So many losses in 2016.  I hope they're all enjoying the great gig in the sky.  Especially this guy: our beloved Craig Mack (^_^) R.I.P.

photo by Lisa Clark

 -HOUR ONE-

PINK FLOYD – Interstellar Overdrive  (2016 Cre/ation – the Early Years 1967-1972, Aug 1969, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

YEASAYER – Half Asleep  (2016 Amen & Goodbye)

LEON RUSSELL – a Song for You  (1970 Leon Russell)

LEONARD COHEN – Hallelujah  (1984 Various Positions)

DOYLE BRAMHALL II – My People  (2016 Rich Man)

MARCUS KING BAND – the Man You Didn’t Know  (2016 the Marcus King Band)

MWALIM DAPHUNKEE PROFESSOR – 2 Cheese Slices and a Drink  (2014 Awakened by a Noon Day Sun)

ROOTS of CREATION – Get Ready [RAS MG rremix]  (2016 Livin’ Free)

-HOUR TWO-

DAWES – Picture of a Man  (2016 We’re All Gonna Die)

ODESZA w/ LITTLE DRAGON – Light  (2015 In Return [deluxe edition])

HER – Her  (2016 Tape #1 EP)

PHISH – Petrichor  (2016 Big Boat)

GRATEFUL DEAD – Weather Report Suite > Stella Blue  (2/23/74 Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA, released as part of the web series “30 Days of Dead” @ dead.net 2016)

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TnJ 616 (11/10/16)

-HOUR ONE-

GRATEFUL DEAD – Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > Franklin’s Tower  (9/1/79 Hollader Stadium, Rochester, NY, released as part of the web series “30 Days of Dead” @ dead.net 2016)

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS – Guns of Umpqua  (2016 American Band)

HANDSOME FAMILY – the Red Door  (2016 Unseen)

MIGHTY MYSTIC – High Grade  (2016 the Art of Balance)

TWEED – Big Sky  (2016 the Chunky Life EP)

LETTUCE – the Love You Left Behind  (2016 Mt. Crushmore EP)

-HOUR TWO-

BONNIE RAITT – the Comin’ Round Is Going Through  (2016 Dig in Deep)

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND – I Pity the Fool [live at the Beacon]  (2016 Let Me Get By [deluxe edition])

DEREK TRUCKS & SUSAN TEDESCHI BAND w/ WARREN HAYNES – Coming Home  (2010 Crossroads – Eric Clapton Guitar Festival DVD, 6/26/10 Chicago, IL)

NEIL YOUNG – Indian Givers  (2016 Peace Trail)

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE – Like a Hurricane  (11/15/76 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL [late show])

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER – Take a Pebble [including Still…You Turn Me On and Lucky Man]  (1974/1999 Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends – Ladies and Gentlemen)

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TnJ 615 (11/3/16)

-HOUR ONE-

JERRY GARCIA BAND – Tore Up Over You  (2016 Garcia Live Volume Seven, 11/8/76 Sophie’s, Palo Alto, CA)

BOB WEIR – Gonesville  (2016 Blue Mountain)

PHISH – Waking Up Dead  (2016 Big Boat)

PHISH – Blaze On  (2016 Big Boat)

SETH WALKER – Back Around  (2016 Gotta Get Back)

decker. – Snake River Blues  (2016 Snake River Blues)

PIGMENT – Neither Here Nor There  (2016 digital single)

TAUK – Sunshine Harry  (2016 Sir Nebula)

BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR and ISRAEL NASH – Lupita  (2016 Neighbors EP)

-HOUR TWO-

MARCUS KING BAND – Plant Your Corn Early  (2016 the Marcus King Band)

MARCHFOURTH – the Quarter  (2016 Magic Number)

LEFTOVER SALMON w/ SAM BUSH – Dixie Chicken  (12/12/14 Strings & Sol, Puerto Morelos, MX) livedownloads.com

PAPER BIRD – Sleepwalker  (2016 Paper Bird)

MAGIC MUSIC – the Porcupine Flats Shuffle  (2016 Magic Music)

ORCHESTRA BAOBAB – Franklin’s Tower  (2016 Day of the Dead [box set])

JIMMY CLIFF, BOB WEIR, MICKEY HART and BILL KREUTZMANN – Fire on the Mountain  (2016 Dear Jerry – Celebrating the Music of Jerry Garcia, 5/14/15 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD)

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TnJ 614 (10/27/16)

Halloween special session – “musical costumes” for everyone (^_^)

-HOUR ONE-

PEARL JAM [as PINK FLOYD] – Comfortably Numb  (11/28/15 Foro Sol, Mexico City, MX) livedownloads.com

PHISH [as EDGAR WINTER GROUP] – Frankenstein  (2005 New Year’s Eve 1995 – Live at Madison Square Garden, 12/31/95 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) livephish.com

BONNIE RAITT [as INXS] – Need You Tonight  (2016 Dig in Deep)

GOV’T MULE [as ZZ TOP] – Just Got Paid  (2016 the Tel-Star Sessions, ca. 1994)

GOV’T MULE [as the BEATLES] – And Your Bird Can Sing  (8/25/16 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO) muletracks.net

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND [as JOHN PRINE and JERRY GARCIA] – Angel from Montgomery > Sugaree  (possibly 1/30/13 Sunshine Blues Festival, Boca Raton, FL)

JOHN SCOFIELD [as HANK WILLIAMS] – I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry  (2016 Country for Old Men)

TRIO SUBTONIC [as SIA] – Chandelier  (2016 Fiction)

-HOUR TWO –

CASCADE CRESCENDO [as SMASHING PUMPKINS] – Disarm  (2016 Caught in the Rain)

STURGILL SIMPSON [as NIRVANA] – In Bloom  (2016 a Sailor’s Guide to Earth)

STEVE ‘n’ SEAGULLS [as GUNS N’ ROSES] – November Rain  (2016 Brothers in Farms)

DWIGHT YOAKAM [as PRINCE and the REVOLUTION] – Purple Rain  (2016 Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars…)

WIDESPREAD PANIC [as TRAFFIC] – Dear Mr. Fantasy  (5/5/16 Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL) livewidespreadpanic.com

HIP BONES [as GRATEFUL DEAD] – Dark Star  (2016 the Moose Lodge Session)

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND w/BÉLA FLECK [as GRATEFUL DEAD] – Friend of the Devil  (7/4/15 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY)

DISCO BISCUITS w/ BILL KREUTZMANN, MICKEY HART and TOM HAMILTON [as GRATEFUL DEAD] – New Speedway Boogie  (4/17/15 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO) livedownloads.com

RAILROAD EARTH [as GRATEFUL DEAD] – Terrapin Station  (9/18/15 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO) livedownloads.com

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TnJ 613 (10/20/16)

Happy 66th birthday, Mr. Thomas Earl Petty (^_^)

-HOUR ONE-

WIDESPREAD PANIC – Space Wrangler  (10/31/15 US Cellular Center, Asheville, NC) livewidespreadpanic.com

STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Believe  (2016 SCI Sound Lab, Volume 1) livecheese.com

Nth POWER – Freedom  (2016 Live to Be Free) homegrownmusic.net

JOSEPH ISRAEL – Fire Burn Dem  (2016 Paradise)

SPIRITUAL REZ – Square Grouper  (2016 Setting in the West)

JIM JAMES – Here In Spirit  (2016 Eternally Even) 

CARL BROEMEL – Sleepy Lagoon  (2016 4^th of July)

-HOUR TWO-

LEFTOVER SALMON – Aquatic Hitchhiker  (2015 25)

JEREMY GARRETT – Tidal Wave  (2016 the RV Sessions 2 – instrumentals)

HANDSOME FAMILY – Underneath the Falls  (2016 Unseen)

WOLF! – You Are No Longer My Friend, My Friend  (2016 1-800-WOLF!)

ZIGGY MARLEY – Marijuanaman  (2016 Ziggy Marley)

TOM PETTY & the HEARTBREAKERS – Tweeter and the Monkey Man  (2016 Kiss My Amps LIVE Vol. 2, 5/26/13 Beacon Theatre, New York, NY)

MATT CHAMBERLAIN and BRIAN HAAS – Space Colonization  (2016 Prometheus Risen)

UMPHREY’S McGEE – Lenny  (10/31/14 House of Blues, Boston, MA) livedownloads.com

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PIGMENT ROCKS OKTOBERFIESTA at the BRIDGE

This Saturday, Santa Fe jam band Pigment plays Oktoberfiesta at Santa Fe Brewing Co.  Donate to your favorite charity on the way in, and get ready for a good time (^_^)

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TnJ 612 (10/13/16)

*Special session tonight: all instrumentals, emphasis on the "mental."  This session is dedicated to former co-toast Tom Watts, on his 49th birthday.*

-HOUR ONE-

TAUK – the Chemist  (2015 Headroom, 2/11/15 the Southern, Charlottesville, VA)

MARCHFOURTH w/ TROMBONE SHORTY – Inventing the Wheel  (2016 Magic Numbers)

TOM PETTY & the HEARTBREAKERS – Green Onions  (2009 the Live Anthology, 2/6/97 the Fillmore, San Francisco, CA)

JEFF BECK – Beck’s Bolero  (1967 Columbia single B-side)

JOHN GINTY – Switch  (2014 Bad News Travels [live], 6/11/14 Showplace Studios, Dover, NJ)

NEW MASTERSOUNDS – One Note Brown  (2016 the Nashville Sessions)

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER – Fanfare for the Common Man  (1993 Works Live, 8/26/77 Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

-HOUR TWO- 

MEDESKI, SCOFIELD, MARTIN & WOOD – Louis the Shoplifter  (2014 Juice)

STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN – Lenny  (2000 SRV [box set], KUT radio studios, Austin, TX)

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND w/ KARL DENSON – Instrumental Illness  (8/10/03 Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh, NC)

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TnJ 611 (10/6/16)

-HOUR ONE-

LOS LOBOS and BOB WEIR – Bertha  (2016 Dear Jerry – Celebrating the Music of Jerry Garcia, 5/14/15 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD)

JOHN LENNON – Nobody Told Me  (1984 Milk and Honey)

RADIOHEAD – Burn the Witch  (2016 a Moon Shaped Pool)

TAUK – Where You Are  (2016 Sir Nebula)

ARJUN – Ascent  (2016 Gravity)

HOLY SUNS – Eyes Can See Clearly  (2016 In the Garden)

KING GIZZARD & the LIZARD WIZARD – Evil Death Roll  (2016 Nonagon Infinity)

AVETT BROTHERS – Satan Pulls the Strings  (2016 True Sadness)

MARCHFOURTH w/ STANTON MOORE – Push It Back  (2016 Magic Number)

-HOUR TWO-

BIG CHIEF MONK BOUDREAUX – Big Chief  (2016 the Musical Mojo of Dr. John – Celebrating Mac and His Music)

GANG of THIEVES – Lost and Found  (2016 Born to Be Loud)

GIANT PANDA GUERILLA DUB SQUAD – Make It Better  (2016 Make It Better)

TWIDDLE – Indigo Trigger  (2015 Plump Chapter 1)

RECKLESS KELLY – Radio  (2016 Sunset Motel)

BLACKBERRY SMOKE – Waiting for the Thunder  (2016 Like an Arrow)

WIDESPREAD PANIC – Chilly Water > Henry Parsons Died > Chilly Water  (5/5/16 Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL) livedownloads.com

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TnJ 610 (9/29/16)

Happy birthday today to a truly unique individual, one of my favorite kooks, "Colonel" Les Claypool (^_^)

-HOUR ONE-

GOV’T MULE – Kind of Bird  (8/25/16 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO) muletracks.net

IAN MOORE – Me and My Guitar  (1994 Live from Austin)

NEIL YOUNG + PROMISE of the REAL – the Monsanto Years  (2016 Earth)

BOMBINO – Igmayagh Dum  (2016 Azel)

MUMFORD & SONS – Roll Away Your Stone  (2013 the Road to Red Rocks [DVD])

GARY CLARK, JR. – Take Me Down  (2016 Deepwater Horizon OST)

-HOUR TWO-

BOB WEIR – Ki-Yi Bossie  (2016 Blue Mountain)

PHISH – the Lizards  (9/4/16 Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO) livephish.com

CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM – Captain Lariat  (2016 Monolith of Phobos)

OYSTERHEAD – Oz Is Ever Floating  (2001 the Grand Pecking Order)

STEVE ‘n’ SEAGULLS – Self Esteem  (2016 Brothers in Farms)

HIP BONES – Mr. Money  (2016 the Moose Lodge Session) homegrownmusic.net

JOHN SCOFIELD – Jolene  (2016 Country for Old Men)

DOYLE BRAMHALL II – November  (2016 Rich Man)

JIMI HENDRIX / BAND of GYPSYS – Changes  (2016 Machine Gun – the Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69)

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WHEELS of SOUL ALBUQUERQUE REVIEW

Wheels of Soul Tour Sandia Casino Amphitheater Albuquerque, NM

 

The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Mississippi All-Stars, Los Lobos

September 19, 2016
Sandia Casino Amphitheater Albuquerque, NM
Photographer/Writer: Jake Sudek

Monday night’s sky was full of stars and clarity, not only in regards to weather, but also what was to come for those attending an evening on The Wheels of Soul Tour. The night was a reschedule from an August date postponed due electrical storms. The great weather brought relief to many who were returning to the Sandia Casino Amphitheater from the cancelled show in August. By far, one of the hottest tours of the summer was the Wheels of Soul Tour in its second incarnation. This powerhouse tour de force consisted of the North Mississippi All-Stars, Los Lobos, and The Tedeschi Trucks Band. A characteristic of what has made these shows unique is the innumerable sit-ins and band mash-ups that occur on a nightly basis, set after set, seeing all sorts of collaborations, not only by the main names of each band, but also by the auxiliary players of the groups.

*read the full post and see all the pictures here*

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LOS MUERTOS con QUESO

LOS MUERTOS CON QUESO A Tropical Concert Vacation in Mexico with your favorite artists! On Sale Thursday, September 29th at 1pm ET

CID Presents is thrilled to announce Los Muertos con Queso, an all-inclusive concert vacation in Riviera Maya, Mexico January 25 – 28, 2017! Following up on a critically acclaimed and fan favorite set at the 2015 LOCKN’ Music Festival, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead are headed to Mexico. They will be joined by Dave Schools from Widespread Panic on bass Jeff Chimentifrom Dead & Company on keyboards and Tom Hamilton from American Babies on guitar. The band will perform songs from the Grateful Dead catalog over three of the four nights of shows. The String Cheese Incident will also perform multiple sets over three of the four nights of beachside concerts! Special Guests The Chris Robinson Brotherhood will perform as a full band for one night, along with an intimate, acoustic performance byChris Robinson and Neal Casal. Additional artists will be announced soon, rounding out four nights of music along the beautiful Caribbean Sea.

Go here for all the details

PIGMENT ROCKS BOXCAR TONIGHT

TnJ 609 (9/22/16)

-HOUR ONE-

PHISH – Fuego  (9/3/16 Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO) livephish.com

BOB WEIR & GRACE POTTER – Friend of the Devil  (2016 Dear Jerry – Celebrating the Music of Jerry Garcia, 5/14/15 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD)

ZIGGY MARLEY – Better Together  (2016 Ziggy Marley)

FEMI KUTI – Make We Remember  (2011 Africa for Africa)

MARCHFOURTH – Science [Free Your Mind]  (2016 Magic Number)

MARCUS KING BAND – Ain’t Nothing Wrong with That  (2016 the Marcus King Band)

the CONGRESS – This Ain’t Livin’  (2016 the Game)

-HOUR TWO-

moe. – Billy Goat  (8/25/16 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO) livedownloads.com

RHYTHMIC STATUES – Dancing at the Zoo  (2016 One Big Day)

KULA SHAKER – Get Right Get Ready  (2016 K 2.0)

ROOSEVELT – Belong  (2016 Roosevelt)

the MOTET – Contraband  (2016 Totem)

JOHN COLTRANE – Naima  (1997 the Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings [box set], 11/3/61 Greenwich Village, New York, NY)

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & the E STREET BAND – Drove All Night  (3/31/16 Pepsi Center, Denver, CO) livedownloads.com

PHISH – Simple  (9/3/16 Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO) livephish.com

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TnJ 608 (9/15/16)

Apologies to the faithful: no recording exists of last week's show, due to technical difficulties in the studio...

-HOUR ONE-

GOV’T MULE – the Same Thing  (2016 the Tel-Star Sessions, ca. 1994)

B.B. KING, ROBERT CRAY BAND, JIMMIE VAUGHAN and HUBERT SUMLIN – Paying the Cost to Be the Boss  (2016 Crossroads Revisited, 7/28/07 Toyota Park, Bridgeview, IL)

STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Hideout Jam > Colorado Bluebird Sky  (2013 Summer Travelogue, 8/3/13 Horning’s Hideout, North Plains, OR) livecheese.com

DEAD 27s – Rainbow  (2016 Ghosts Are Calling Out)

ALLAH LAS – Satisfied  (2016 Calico Review)

GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – Past My Prime  (2016 Shouted, Written Down & Quoted)

WHISKEY MYERS – Some of Your Love  (2016 Mud)

ANDERS OSBORNE – Tchoupitoulas Street Parade  (2016 Spacedust & Ocean Views)

-HOUR TWO-

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – Leave My Guitar Alone  (2016 Any Way You Love, We Know How You Feel)

RAILROAD EARTH – Terrapin Station  (9/18/15 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO) livedownloads.com

PHISH – Breath and Burning  (9/2/16 Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO) livephish.com

MARCO BENEVENTO – Atari (intro to Gibbs) > Atari  (6/18/16 Bell’s Brewery, Kalamazoo, MI)

PAPER BIRD – Limitless  (2016 Paper Bird)

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND – the Storm  (6/7/14 Mountain Jam, Hunter Mountain, Hunter, NY)

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TnJ 607 (9/8/16)

Phish wrapped up their summer tour in Commerce City last weekend, with 3 nights at the fabled Dick's Sporting Goods Park in suburban Denver, CO.  They are masters of subtle energy manipulation.  You can check out the shows at livephish.com (^_^)

-HOUR ONE-

PHISH – Mercury  (9/2/16 Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO) livephish.com

PHISH – Twist  (9/3/16 Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO) livephish.com

PHISH – Party Time  (9/4/16 Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO) livephish.com

SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9 – Metameme  (10/29/15 LC Pavilion, Columbus, OH) livedownloads.com

ROGER WATERS – Hey You  (2015 Roger Waters the Wall)

SONNY ROLLINS – On Green Dolphin Street  (1965 Sonny Rollins on Impulse!)

-HOUR TWO-

TOM PETTY & the HEARTBREAKERS – a Woman in Love [It’s Not Me]  (2009 the Live Anthology, 6/29/81 the Forum, Los Angeles, CA)

GRATEFUL DEAD – Turn On Your Lovelight  (2016 Dave’s Picks Volume 19, 1/23/70 Honolulu Civic Auditorium, Honolulu, HI)

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TnJ 606 (9/1/16)

-HOUR ONE-

moe. – Thorazine Shuffle  (8/25/16 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO) livedownloads.com

GOV’T MULE – Opium  (8/25/16 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO) livedownloads.com

ARJUN – Gravity  (2016 Gravity)

SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9 – World Go Round  (10/29/15 LC Pavilion, Columbus, OH) livedownloads.com

LOTUS – I’ve Been a Fool [Toy Guns]  (2016 Eat the Light)

TRIO SUBTONIC – Sand Dollar  (2016 Fiction)

-HOUR TWO-

PHISH – Halley’s Comet  (2011 Hampton/Winston-Salem '97 [box set], 11/22/97 Hampton Coliseum) livephish.com

TWIDDLE – Syncopated Healing  (2015 Plump)

JOHN “PAPA” GROS – House of Love  (2016 River’s on Fire)

RONNIE EARL & DUKE ROBILLARD – My Tears  (2005 the Duke Meets the Earl)

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – Ain't It Hard But Fair  (2016 Any Way You Love, We Know How You Feel)

JERRY GARCIA BAND – Friend of the Devil  (2016 Garcia Live Volume Seven, 11/8/76 Sophie’s, Palo Alto, CA)

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