DEAD & CO ADD RED ROCKS OCT 2021

Dead & Company have added Red Rocks to the fall tour schedule.  Tickets on sale Sept. 24 at axs.com Vaccination is required for these shows.

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TnJ 858 (9/16/21)

-HOUR ONE-

NATHANIEL RATELIFF & the NIGHT SWEATS w/ PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND - Having a Party  (2017 Live at Red Rocks, 8/21/16 Morrison, CO)

ST. PAUL and the BROKEN BONES - Convex  (2018 Young Sick Camellia)

LARKIN POE - Holy Ghost Fire  (2020 Self Made Man)

B.B. KING - Why I Sing the Blues  (1969 Live and Well)

STRING CHEESE INCIDENT - Don't It Make You Wanna Dance > Dudley's Kitchen  (7/27/13 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO)

STURGILL SIMPSON w/ WILLIE NELSON - Juanita  (2021 the Ballad of Dood and Juanita)

CHARLEY CROCKETT - Round This World  (2021 Music City USA)

LORD HURON - Long Lost  (2021 Long Lost)

-HOUR TWO-

MY MORNING JACKET - Love Love Love  (2021 My Morning Jacket)

PHISH - Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove  (2021 Live Bait vol. 17, 10/19/95 Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, MO)

LOTUS - Condor  (2021 Citrus)

MATTHEW E. WHITE - Genuine Hesitation  (2021 K Bay)

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News from the Telluride people about the Superjam this weekend:

Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real’s 2021 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival performances will not be ones to miss! More than just a legendary family name and Neil Young’s touring group of choice the last few years, this is a band in their prime, showcasing stunning musicianship and a sound that plucks from rock, country, soul, folk and R&B.

In addition to their Sunday headlining set, we’re thrilled to announce an extension of the music with a one-of-a-kind Super Jam. Curated and hosted by Lukas, we’re excited to announce that special guests Nathaniel Rateliff, Larkin Poe, The Allman Betts Band, Jamestown Revival, and Amythyst Kiah will be sitting in and playing together. Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real takes the Main Stage at 7 pm for a full set with hits from their critically acclaimed new album “A Few Stars Apart”, followed by the Super Jam at 8:30 pm.

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TnJ 857 (9/9/21)

-HOUR ONE-

BLUES TRAVELER w/ GREGG ALLMAN - Mountain Cry  (1991 Travelers and Thieves)

ROBBEN FORD - Go  (2021 Pure)

ROBERT WALTER w/ GARY BARTZ and GREYBOY ALLSTARS - Impervious  (1996 Spirit of '70, 2021 reissue)

MAJOR SPARK - Beautiful Noise  (2021 Beautiful Noise)

SPAFFORD - the Reprise  (2020 Live at the Drive-In, 5/24/20 Digital Drive-In, Mesa, AZ)

TAUK - Moon Dub  (2021 Chaos Companion)

VILLAGERS - So Simpatico  (2021 Fever Dreams)

-HOUR TWO-

BÉLA FLECK w/ TONY TRISCHKA and NOAM PIKELNY - Boulderdash  (2021 My Bluegrass Heart)

FURIOUS SEASONS - Is This Happening  (2021 Home All Day, Home All Night)

GRATEFUL DEAD - Big Boss Man  (2021/1971 Grateful Dead [Skull & Roses], 4/26/71 Fillmore East, New York City, NY)

GRATEFUL DEAD - Bird Song  (2020 Dave's Picks vol. 36, 3/26/87 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT)

ROGER WATERS - Welcome to the Machine > Déjà Vu  (2020 Us + Them, ca. Jun 2018 Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

TOM PETTY and the HEARTBREAKERS - Shout  (1985 Pack Up the Plantation - Live!, 3/19/83 the Coliseum, Richfield, OH)

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TnJ 856 (9/2/21)

HEADS UP!  If y'all are heading to the Labor Day weekend run of Phish near Denver this weekend, they will be requiring proof of vaccination or a negative test result.  No camping this year...

-HOUR ONE-

PHISH - Possum  (1999 Hampton Comes Alive [box set], 11/20/98 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA)

NEAL FRANCIS w/ DEREK TRUCKS - Can't Stop the Rain  (2021 In Plain Sight)

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER - Hardlytown  (2021 Quietly Blowing It)

MY MORNING JACKET - Regularly Scheduled Programming  (2021 My Morning Jacket)

PINK FLOYD - Sorrow  (2021 Live at Knebworth 1990, 6/20/90 London, Silver Clef Award show)

TAUK - Make Your Move  (2021 Chaos Champion)

WAR on DRUGS - Living Proof  (2021 I Don't Live Here Anymore)

-HOUR TWO-

HOUNDMOUTH - Cool Jam  (2021 Good for You)

ROOTS of CREATION w/ AGGROLITES and JESSE WAGNER - Soulshine  (2021 single)

WAY DOWN WANDERERS - the Wire  (2021 More Like Tomorrow)

WATCHHOUSE - New Star  (2021 Watchhouse)

BÉLA FLECK w/ SIERRA HULL and MOLLY TUTTLE - Strider  (2021 My Bluegrass Heart)

LANGHORNE SLIM - Stubborn Love  (2021 Amerikinda - 20 Years of Dualtone)

GRATEFUL DEAD - He's Gone > Little Star  (2021 Dave's Picks vol. 39, 4/15/83 War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, NY)

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KARL DENSON'S TINY UNIVERSE 8/27/21

Friday, August 27th - Karl Denson's Tiny Universe lit up the Railyard stage for the last show there this summer.  The way things are going, we feel grateful to have any shows at all.  This was probably the 5th time I've seen these guys and it's always a funky pleasure.  Towards the end, Karl begged us "white people" to please talk some sense into our "crazy relatives."  The clown generating bubbles from a machine was a nice touch, although technically not part of the show.  Jen Faust, who long ago relocated to Telluride, can be seen right there up front, and birthday girl Ana Padilla was also spotted.  I dare say a good time was had by all, but that always seems to be the case with Karl D.

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BONNAROO CANCELLED DUE to FLOODING

After cancelling last year's event, and postponing this year's event due to COVID, Bonnaroo festival organizers have had to cancel this year's event due to flooding across the 700-acre site from Tropical Storm Ida.

Festival organizers tweeted that "all tickets purchased through FRONT GATE TICKETS will be refunded in as little as 30 days to the original method of payment."

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TnJ 855 (8/26/21)

-HOUR ONE-

KARL DENSON - I Want the Funk  (2001 Dance Lesson #2)

KARL DENSON - Jam Sandwich  (1995 the D Stands for Diesel)

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND w/ BRANFORD MARSALIS - Whipping Post  (8/10/03 Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NC)

YOLA - Starlight  (2021 Stand for Myself)

DAVE McMURRAY - Fire on the Mountain  (2021 Grateful Deadication)

-HOUR TWO-

FAUX PAWS - Guacmaster  (2021 the Faux Paws)

JOHN HURLBUT / JORMA KAUKONEN - A Little Faster  (2021 the River Flows vol. 2, Record Store Day release)

ARTISINALS - Always Taken Care Of  (2021 Zia)

JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY - Crazy Fingers  (2021 Winterwood, ca. 2008)

UMPHREY'S McGEE - October Rain  (2021 You Walked Up Shaking in Your Boots But You Stood Tall and Left a Raging Bull)

PHISH - Down with Disease  (2021 Live Bait vol. 17, 7/1/99 First American Music Center, Antioch, TN)

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TnJ 854 (8/19/21)

-HOUR ONE-

moe. - LL3  (2/2/18 Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY)

LED ZEPPELIN - Stairway to Heaven  (2018/1976 the Song Remains the Same OST, ca. Jul 1973 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)

FLATLANDERS - Moanin' of the Midnight Train  (2021 Treasure of Love)

SON VOLT - Livin' in the USA  (2021 Electro Melodier)

ELOVATERS w/ LUKE MITRANI - Bright Side  (2021 Castles)

BÉLA FLECK w/ SAM BUSH, STUART DUNCAN, EDGAR MEYER and BRYAN SUTTON - Vertigo  (2021 My Bluegrass Heart)

-HOUR TWO-

JERRY GARCIA BAND - the Way You Do the Things You Do  (2021 Garcia Live Volume 16, 11/15/91 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)

TIM REYNOLDS / MICHAEL SOKOLOWSKI - Efflorescence  (2021 Soul Pilgrimage)

JOHN GRANT - County Fair  (2021 Boy from Michigan)

KENDALL STREET COMPANY - Pink Flying Saucer  (2021 the Year the Earth Stood Still)

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND w/ TREY ANASTASIO - Anyday   (2021 Layla Revisited, 8/24/19 LOCKN' Festival, Arrington, VA)

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TnJ 853 (8/12/21)

-HOUR ONE-

SOUTHERN AVENUE - Move Into the Light  (2021 Be the Love You Want)

PRINCE - Play That Funky Music > Hollywood Swinging > Fantastic Voyage  (2021 Welcome 2 America [deluxe edition], 4/28/11 the Forum, Inglewood, CA)

JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY - Song of the Vipers  (2021 Winterwood, ca. 2008)

WEEN - Tried and True  (2003 Quebec)

HAUNTED SHED - Innocence of Man  (2021 Faltering Light)

BILLY STRINGS - Fire Line  (2021 Renewal)

JOHN R. MILLER - Shenandoah Shakedown  (2021 Depreciated)

-HOUR TWO-

WIDESPREAD PANIC - Driving Song > Ride Me High > Driving Song  (6/26/21 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO)

DAVID CROSBY w/ SARAH JAROSZ - For Free (2021 For Free)

MARK KNOPFLER - Theme from Cal  (1984 Cal OST)

UMPHREY'S McGEE - Blue Echo  (2020 Hall of Fame - Class of 2019, 2/14/19 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY)

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HELP! BLOGGER IS BROKEN!

Hi, music lovers!  You may have noticed a lack of updates in the sidebar of late.  This is because, in the process of updating the Blogger platform, they have lost some functionality on the back end.  They have promised to fix it, but in case they don't, this blog may have to undergo a serious redesign and lose the sidebars.  We'll see what happens but, meanwhile, stay toasty my friends (^_^)

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TnJ 852 (8/5/21)

-HOUR ONE-

JERRY GARCIA BAND - Get Out of My Life, Woman  (2005 Pure Jerry - Merriweather Post Pavilion, 9/1/89 Columbia, MD)

JERRY GARCIA BAND - Deal  (2021 Garcia Live Volume 16, 11/15/91 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)

MY MORNING JACKET - Golden  (2006 Okonokos, ca. Nov 2005 the Fillmore, San Francisco, CA)

ARTISINALS - the Road  (2021 Zia)

HIGH HAWKS - Heroes & Highway  (2021 the High Hawks)

BÉLA FLECK w/ BILLY STRINGS and CHRIS THILE - Charm School  (2021 My Bluegrass Heart)

NEIL YOUNG - Cowgirl in the Sand  (2021 Young Shakespeare, 1/22/71 Shakespeare Theater, Stratford, CT)

-HOUR TWO-

IDA MAE - Learn to Love You Better  (2021 Click Click Domino)

KENDALL STREET COMPANY - Say Hey!  (2021 the Year the Earth Stood Still)

UMPHREY'S McGEE - Catshot > There's No Crying in Mexico > Leave Me Las Vegas  (2021 You Walked Up Shaking in Your Boots But You Stood Tall and Left a Raging Bull)

PHISH - Simple  (2021 Live Bait vol. 17, 8/29/14 Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO)

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TOAST BETWEEN TWO LEGENDS

What fun we all had at the 49th annual Rockygrass Festival in Lyons, CO.  After a beautiful and moving tribute to the late Tony Rice, I managed to convince these two esteemed gentlemen of the road to take a photo backstage.  Sam Bush is pictured on the left, David Grisman on the right.  That's me, Toast, in the middle looking happy as a clam (^_^)

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TnJ 851 (7/29/21)

-HOUR ONE-

WIDESPREAD PANIC - Little Lily > Pilgrims  (6/25/21 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO)

CHA WA - Firewater  (2021 My People)

ST. PAUL and the BROKEN BONES - the New Pollution jam  (3/23/19 Palace Theatre, St. Paul, MN)

LUCINDA WILLIAMS - Fruits of My Labor  (2005 Live @ the Fillmore, ca. Nov 2003, San Francisco, CA)

WATCHHOUSE - Better Way  (2021 Watchhouse)

FELICE BROTHERS - Silverfish  (2021 From Dreams to Dust)

-HOUR TWO-

RIVER KITTENS - Trouble  (2021 Soaking Wet EP)

JIM LAUDERDALE - the Opportunity to Help Somebody Through It  (2021 Hope)

PHISH - Fluffhead > Lifeboy  (2021 Live Bait vol. 17, 8/3/97 the Gorge, George, WA)

GRATEFUL DEAD - Fire on the Mountain  (7/13/85 Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA)

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TnJ 850 (7/22/21)

-HOUR ONE-

GRATEFUL DEAD - Sing Me Back Home  (2021 Grateful Dead [50th Anniversary], 7/2/71 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA)

YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND - Girlfriend Is Better  (7/18/15 Horning's Hideout, North Plains, OR)

MOUNTAIN  GOATS - Dark in Here  (2021 Dark in Here)

SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9 - When the Dust Settles  (10/29/15 LC Pavilion, Columbus, OH)

JOCELYN & CHRIS - Sugar and Spice  (2021 Favorite Ghosts)

CHRISTONE "KINGFISH" INGRAM - Old Enough to Know  (2021 662)

-HOUR TWO-

SPAFFORD - Soundcheck  (2020 Live vol. 3, 8/10/13 the Sail Inn, Tempe, AZ)

DJANGO DJANGO - Headrush  (2021 Glowing in the Dark)

KING GIZZARD and the LIZARD WIZARD - Interior People  (2021 Butterfly 3000)

FUNKADELIC - Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts  (1974 Standing on the Verge of Getting It On)

JERRY GARCIA BAND - Lay Down Sally  (2021 Garcia Live Volume 16, 11/15/91 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)

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TnJ 849 (7/15/21)

-HOUR ONE-

DAVE McMURRAY w/ BETTYE LaVETTE and BOB WEIR - Loser  (2021 Grateful Deadication)

FLATLANDERS - Sittin' on Top of the World  (2021 Treasure of Love)

TIM O'BRIEN - I Breathe In  (2021 He Walked On)

YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND - Dawn's Early Light > Two Hits and the Joint Turned Brown > Raleigh and Spencer > Good Hearted Woman  (2002 Mountain Tracks - Volume 2, cs. 2001)

-HOUR TWO-

WIDESPREAD PANIC - Chilly Water  (6/25/21 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO)

moe. - Blue Jeans Pizza  (2006 the Conch)

KENDALL STREET COMPANY - Our Space Heroine  (2021 the Year the Earth Stood Still)

CIRCUS MIND w/ WALTER "WOLFMAN" WASHINGTON - Troubled Times  (2021 Joy Machine)

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND w/ TREY ANASTASIO - Bell Bottom Blues  (2021 Layla Revisited, 8/24/19 LOCK'N Festival, Arrington, VA)

BILLY and the KIDS w/ BILLY STRINGS - China Cat Sunflower > Thunder  (7/12/21 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO)

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TnJ 848 (7/8/21)

-HOUR ONE-

GRATEFUL DEAD - Good Lovin'  (2021 Grateful Dead [50th Anniversary], 7/2/71 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA)

FELICE BROTHERS - Jazz on the Autobahn  (2021 From Dreams to Dust)

JIM LAUDERDALE - Memory  (2021 Hope)

IRON & WINE - Clam on the Valley  (2021 Archive Series Vol. No. 5, ca. 1998-99)

BOY GOLDEN - Something to Work Towards  (2021 Church of Better Daze)

SOUTHERN AVENUE - Push Now  (2021 Be the Love You Want)

TREY ANASTASIO BAND - Magilla  (2019 TAB at the Fox Theater, 11/3/17 Oakland, CA)

-HOUR TWO-

ELOVATERS - Margaritas [w/Orange Grove] > the Squeeze [w/ G. Love & Special Sauce]  (2021 Castles)

STRING CHEESE INCIDENT - Exodus  (2009 Trick or Treat, 10/31/99 Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA)

TENTH MOUNTAIN DIVISION - Spring Chicken  (2021 Butte la Rose)

BOB SABELLICO - Another Day in the Office  (2021 Influence)

BIG CHIEF MONK BOUDREAUX - Indian Blues  (2021 Bloodstains & Teardrops)

CHA WA - Wildman  (2021 My People)

GALACTIC - Crazyhorse Mongoose  (2001 We Love 'Em Tonight - Live at Tipitina's, ca. Nov/Dec 2000 New Orleans, LA)

JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE - Foxey Lady  (2020 Live in Maui, 7/30/70 Haleakala Crater)

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND - One Way Out  (7/29/95 Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh, NC)

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LISTEN/WIN GRATEFUL DEAD "SKULL & ROSES" 50th ANNIVERSARY 2-CD SET

You've been waiting for this one!  It wasn't their first (and certainly, not their last) live album, but it became their biggest-seller to date when it was released in 1971.  Now, comes the 50th anniversary edition, with an unreleased Fillmore West show as a bonus.  Have your ears on Toast-n-Jam Thursday nights in July to win your very own 2-CD version to take home and enjoy (^_^)

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MMJ ONE BIG HOLIDAY BACK ON for 2022

Yes, the announcements are coming at us fast-n-furious, and I couldn't be happier.  My Morning Jacket and friends south of the border in March - tickets / packages on sale now: https://mmjonebigholiday.com/

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TnJ 847 (7/1/21)

-HOUR ONE-

DAVE McMURRAY - Franklin's Tower  (2021 Grateful Deadication)

CEDRIC BURNSIDE w/ NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS - Love You Forever  (2021 I Be Trying)

BLUES BROTHERS - Rubber Biscuit  (1981 the Best of the Blues Brothers)

DR. LONNIE SMITH w/ IGGY POP - Why Can't We Live Together  (2021 Breathe)

MATISYAHU - King Without a Crown  (2005 Live at Stubb's, 2/19/05 Austin, TX)

UMPHREY'S McGEE - Higgins  (6/30/17 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO)

DJANGO DJANGO - Free from Gravity  (2021 Glowing in the Dark)

-HOUR TWO-

TALKING HEADS - Life During Wartime  (1982 The Name of This Band is Talking Heads, 8/27/80 Central Park, New York, NY)

MY MORNING JACKET - One Big Holiday  (2006 Okonokos, ca. Nov 2005 the Fillmore, San Francisco, CA)

WIDESPREAD PANIC - Airplane > Red Hot Mama > Fishwater  (6/27/21 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO)

JASON ISBELL and the 400 UNIT - Sad But True  (2021 the Metallica Blacklist)

KENDALL STREET COMPANY - the Space Race  (2021 the Year the Earth Stood Still)

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WIDESPREAD CELEBRATION / RED ROCKS in the RAIN

As you can see, Widespread Panic's return to Red Rocks after the pandemic was an oft-drenched affair, but everyone was "havin' a good time" nevertheless!

 

 

Widespread's official photographer, Josh Timmermans, took the upper shot during the "Chilly Water" encore on the first night.  Lower picture is me and my good buddy, Jay, enjoying the soaking wet extravaganza.  It occurred to me afterwards that it's been a long time since I've seen 10,000 people smiling.

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