Stringdusters Studio 2 posted at KBAC.com

Listen to the Stringdusters warm up for their Santa Fe performance with about 40 minutes of live goodness:

http://www.kbac.com/sound_bytes/view/session/tnj_special_studio_2_infamous_stringdusters/62/

MODEST MOUSE CHANGE of VENUE

Heads up, y'all ~

Just got word the Modest Mouse show in Albuquerque has been moved to the Sunshine Theater.

STRINGDUSTERS LIVE IN STUDIO 2 for TnJ SPECIAL SESSION

Those guys were great! Hopefully you had a chance to tune in and hear the magic.

Setlist from KBAC live appearance:

"I Wonder" (live at KBAC studio 2)
"High on a Mountaintop" (live 12/6/08 Chicago, IL)
"No More to Leave You Behind" (live at KBAC studio 2)
"Lovin' You" (live 4/15/08 Boulder, CO)
"Likes of Me" (live at KBAC studio 2)

Thanks to KBAC, Santa Fe Brewing, Sugar Hill Records and The Infamous Stringdusters themselves for helping make this happen (^_^)

Fingers crossed: KBAC.com will hopefully post this as a podcast soon. Hope y'all dug it!

THE 'DUSTERS ARE COMING, THE 'DUSTERS ARE COMING

Live on KBAC this afternoon with TOAST, 4pm, and live at SF Brewing Co tonight - THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS!!! Fans of Newgrass, Bluegrass, Jazz, Blues and Country can tune in to win a pair of tickets from TnJ - see y'all at the show (^_^)

TnJ 057 (2/18/09)

-HOUR ONE-

THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Deep Elem Blues (1/26/08 Boston Heights, OH)
HANK WILLIAMS III – Not Everybody Likes Us (2006 Straight to Hell)
JERKS of GRASS – Stomping Grounds (2008 Come on Home)
KELLER WILLIAMS – Chillin Like a Villain > the Juggler > Sir Duke (4/3/99 unknown venue)
LITTLE FEAT – Spanish Moon > Skin It Back (2006 Rocky Mountain Jam)
DR. DIDG – Bob Junior (12/7/00 Club Metronome, Burlington, VT)

-HOUR TWO-

STEVE KIMOCK BAND – Sabretooth (2/4/02 Towson, MD)
NIRVANA – The Man Who Sold the World (1994 Unplugged in New York)
ROOTS of CREATION – Peace Love and Music > Dubwagon XL > Revolution (2008 Live Volume 1)
QUACTUS – It Isn’t True (2008 Once a Pond, A Spine…)
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Glass Elevator (1/26/08 Boston Heights, OH)
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Moon Man (6/29/07 Hillsboro, OR)

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HYF Live 2nite @ Cowgirl

LOVEBIRDS!

Don't forget Hundred Year Flood is playing the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Santa Fe tonight (^_^)

TnJ 056 (2/11/09) Love Baby, Love

-HOUR ONE-

HUGH MASAKELA – Lady (2007 Live at the Market Square)
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Lovin’ You (12/6/08 Morse Theater, Chicago, IL)
HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD – I Love You Still (2006 Blue Angel)
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Desdemona (2003 Hittin’ the Note)
JERRY GARCIA BAND – That’s What Love Will Make You Do (1978/2005 Pure Jerry 06)

-HOUR TWO-

G.LOVE and SPECIAL SAUCE – Baby’s Got Sauce (1994 G.Love and Special Sauce)
BACKYARD TIRE FIRE – Time With You (2008 The Places We Lived)
MY MORNING JACKET – Lay Low (2005 Z)
MORPHINE – Thursday (1993 Cure for Pain)
GOMEZ – Make No Sound (1998 Bring It On)
THE BEATLES – The Ballad of John and Yoko (1969 EMI single)
PAUL SIMON – Love (2000 You’re the One)
ROBERT PLANT | ALISON KRAUSS – Stick With Me Baby (2007 Raising Sand)
LED ZEPPELIN – Thank You (1971/1997 BBC Sessions)
DeVothchKa – You Love Me (2004 How It Ends)
the subdudes – Sarita (2008 Live at the Ram’s Head)
THE DOORS – Soul Kitchen (1970 Absolutely Live)
GRATEFUL DEAD – Good Lovin’ (1980/2002/2004 Go to Nassau)

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TnJ Brings the Love

Yes, believe it or not, men have feelings too!

A great percentage of songs (even good ones) are love songs - wanting love, having it, losing it, etc. This Wednesday, Toast-n-Jam's gonna prove it by rollin' nothin' but "love" numbers, to warm up your stone cold hearts in time for Valentine's Day (^_^)

LOVE, BABY, LOVE, THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT at 8, right after Big John Treadwell and the Frogville Radio Show, on 98-1 Radio Free Santa Fe.

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TnJ 055 (2/4/09)

-HOUR ONE-

OZOMATLI – Magnolia Soul (2007 Don’t Mess with the Dragon)
SLIGHTLY STOOPID – Circle House Blues (2008 Slightly Not Stoned Enough to Eat Breakfast Yet Stoopid)
FUNKY METERS – Too Funky (2003 Fiyo at the Fillmore)
56 HOPE ROAD – Rock Bottom Bakery (2005 Once in Our Lives)
LARRY – The Gift (2001 Among Friends)
SUSAN TEDESCHI – The Feeling Music Brings (2002 Wait for Me)
THE BAD PLUS – Barracuda (2009 For All I Care)
SHEMEKIA COPELAND – Dirty Water (2009 Never Going Back)

-HOUR TWO-

DAVID GANS – Like a Dog (2008 The Ones That Look the Weirdest Taste the Best)
INDECISION – Little Black Cat (2004 The Great Road)
RAILROAD EARTH – Colorado (2005 Elko)
JORMA KAUKONEN – Nashville Blues (2009 River of Time)
LITTLE FEAT with CHRIS ROBINSON – Oh Atlanta (2008 Join the Band)
PHISH – Dayton Jam > Slave to the Traffic Light (1997/2008 Live Phish Downloads, 12/7/97 Dayton, OH)

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SLIGHTLY STOOPID TIX NEARLY GONE

Word from the venue is that SLIGHTLY STOOPID is almost sold out...

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Don't miss this ALL AGES show!
With special guest The Supervillains

Date: Saturday, 7 February 2009
Time: 9:00 PM
Admission: $21 in advance or $25 at the door.
Performers: Slightly Stoopid with special guest The Supervillains.

AEG Live and Puccini Productions presents Slightly Stoopid! With more than a decade of making music together, the members of Slightly Stoopid have perfected one of the rarest—and most valuable—skills a band can develop: the art of the stealth groove, that knack for quietly—almost innocently—sliding into a song and utterly lassoing anyone within earshot by mid-song. That's where the band has come to reside, musically: deep in the pocket, that ever-elusive, funky trench where a band can entrance an audience, hypnotize it and hold on to it until the set is finished.

This is an all ages event!

Tickets are $21 in advance and $25 the day of the show. Get your tickets now because this event is very likely to sell out! Tickets available at all Zone outlets, Encore Music, Bookworks, Birdland, by phone at 1-866-I-GET-TIX (866-443-8849), or at getTix.net.

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TnJ 054 (1/28/09)

-HOUR ONE-

WIDESPREAD PANIC – Ain’t No Use > Missoula Jam > Rock (10/9/07 Missoula, MT)
TODD SNIDER – If Tomorrow Never Comes (2006 the Devil You Know)
LEFTOVER SALMON – 4:20 Polka (4/16/96 the 8x10 Club, Baltimore, MD)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Gettin’ Down the Road (12/6/08 Morse Theater, Chicago, IL)
JOHN BUTLER TRIO – Betterman (6/24/02 Mercury Lounge, New York, NY)

-HOUR TWO-

GALACTIC – Saturday Night Special (2004 Under the Influence, Skynyrd tribute)
SPLIT LIP RAYFIELD – Rig or Cross (2008 I’ll Be Around)
BORIS GARCIA – Other Side (2008 Once More Into the Bliss)
DIGNEY FIGNUS – Too High Up (2008 Talk of the Town)
STEVE KIMOCK BAND – Moon People (11/4/01 Abby Pub, Chicago, IL)
ZILLA – Gription (2005 Zilla)
FUTURE ROCK – Rock Kit (2007 Gears)
U-MELT Schizophrenia (2004 the Unbelievable Meltdown)

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PHISH NEWS

Just got this email from JEMP Records, thought I'd pass it along:

Last fall, when members of Phish—guitarist Trey Anastasio, drummer Jon Fishman, bassist Mike Gordon, and keyboardist Page McConnell—announced the band would take the stage again for the first time in four years, tickets for the three-night stand at Hampton Coliseum in Virginia sold out immediately. This month, the band announced additional dates, marking a return to the road for one of the most successful touring bands of all time. Tickets for this second touring leg go on sale this weekend.

JEMP Records and Rhino start the celebration a few days before Phish’s highly anticipated March shows with a 7-DVD collection documenting The Clifford Ball, a landmark concert event that drew more than 70,000 fans to upstate New York in August of 1996. It was the largest concert event of 1996 in North America and set the tone for music festivals including Bonnaroo and Coachella.

The Clifford Ball was the first of seven two-day spectacles the band staged, which included The Great Went a year later, followed by Lemonwheel in 1998 and culminating in Big Cypress—the largest ticketed event in the world for the millennium celebrations, drawing over 90,000. The Clifford Ball was held in Plattsburgh, New York, at a decommissioned air force base, during which Phish played two marathon concerts which include several on-stage guests.

The DVDs contain all three sets and encores the band played each night, along with bonus footage—more than 9 hours of live improvisation. The bonus DVD presents choice rarities including a soundcheck from August 15, their “Flatbed Jam” performed in the wee hours of the morning on the back of a truck, an interview with longtime Phish artist Jim Pollock, interviews with Phish and more.

The Clifford Ball DVD Preorder is currently ongoing at Phish Dry Goods.

The Clifford Ball DVD - tracklist

Disc 1
Day One (8/16/1996) – Set One
1. Chalk Dust Torture
2. Bathtub Gin
3. Ya Mar
4. AC/DC Bag
5. Esther
6. The Divided Sky
7. Halley’s Comet
8. David Bowie

Disc 2
Day One (8/16/1996) – Set Two
1. Split Open and Melt
2. Sparkle
3. Free
4. The Squirming Coil
5. Waste
6. Talk
7. Train Song
8. Strange Design
9. Hello My Baby
10. Mike’s Song
11. Simple
12. Contact
13. Weekapaug Groove

Disc 3
Day One (8/16/1996) – Set Three
1. Makisupa Policeman
2. 2001
3. Down With Disease
4. NICU
5. Life on Mars
6. Harry Hood
Encore
7. Amazing Grace

Disc 4
Day Two (8/17/1996) – Set One
1. Old Home Place
2. Punch You In The Eye
3. Reba
4. Cars Trucks Buses
5. The Lizards
6. Sample In A Jar
7. Taste
8. Fee
9. Maze
10. Suzy Greenberg

Disc 5
Day Two (8/17/1996) – Set Two
1. The Curtain
2. Runaway Jim
3. It’s Ice
4. Brother
5. Fluffhead
6. Run Like An Antelope
7. Golgi Apparatus
8. Slave To The Traffic Light

Disc 6
Day Two (8/17/1996) – Set Three
1. Wilson
2. Frankenstein
3. Scent Of A Mule
4. Tweezer
5. A Day In The Life
6. Possum
7. Tweezer Reprise
Encore
8. Harpua

Disc 7
Bonus
1. The Clifford Ball: A Beacon of Light
2. The Flatbed Jam
3. Soundcheck (8/15/1996)
4. An Interview with Jim Pollock
5. Chris Kuroda Split-Screen
6. Phish: On Jamming
7. Phish: The LG

TnJ 053 (1/21/09)

-HOUR ONE-

KELLER WILLIAMS – Inhale to the Chief (2000 Loop, 3/28/00 Rainbow, Seattle, WA)
POPS STAPLES – I Shall Not Be Moved (1992 Peace to the Neighborhood)
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL STARS – Freedom Highway (2001 51 Phantom)
BEN HARPER – I’ll Rise (1993 Welcome to the Cruel World)
GOV’T MULE featuring MICHAEL FRANTI – Unthrow That Spear (2007 Mighty High)
GOV’T MULE – Unring the Bell (2006 High & Mighty)
GOV’T MULE – Reblow Your Mind (2007 Mighty High)
JERRY GARCIA BAND – My Sisters and My Brothers (1991/2006 Pure Jerry 07, 11/9/91 Hampton, VA)

-HOUR TWO-

TOUBAB KREWE – Buncombe to Badala (2008 Live at the Orange Peel)
JANIS JOPLIN – Kozmic Blues (1972 In Concert, 6/28/70 Toronto)
RYAN MONTBLEAU BAND – Maybe Today (2007 Patience on Friday)
BALKAN BEAT BOX – Bulgarian Chicks (2005 Balkan Beat Box)
GALACTIC w/BIG CHIEF MONK BOUDREAUX – Second and Dryades (2007 From the Corner to the Block)
UMPHREY’s McGEE – Mantis (2009 Mantis)
RODRIGO y GABRIELA – Orion (2006 Rodrigo y Gabriela)
PARLIAMENT – Chocolate City (1975 Chocolate City)

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TnJ 052 (1/14/09) EXPANDO!!!

TnJ 2.0 one-year anniversary (^_^) THX 4 listening!

-HOUR ONE-

moe. – Rebubula (2008 Warts & All, Volume 6, 1/28/07 Lawrence, KS)
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND – The Dreaming Tree (2007 Live at Piedmont Park)
THE AFROMOTIVE – Yako (2007 Scare Tactics)
SAM BUSH BAND – Is This Love? (12/31/03 Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO)

-HOUR TWO-

LES CLAYPOOL & GOGOL BORDELLO – That’s the Way (6/13/08 Bonnaroo)
UMPHREY’s McGEE – The Bottom Half > Space Funk Booty > The Bottom Half (3/6/07 Fox Theater, Boulder, CO)
WIDESPREAD PANIC – Machine > Barstools & Dreamers (10/31/07 Asheville, NC)

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STREAMING UPDATE

Oy! I may have spoke too soon on the streaming thing. They launched, it crashed. New, better, stronger equipment being installed now. I'll keep you posted (^_^)

TnJ 051 (1/7/09) All Night Train

-HOUR ONE-

JERRY GARCIA & MERL SAUNDERS BAND – Mystery Train (1974/2004 Pure Jerry 04, Keystone, Berkeley, CA 9/1/74)
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN – Train 45 (1/7/71 unknown source)
MARTY STUART and his FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES – Orange Blossom Special (2006 Live at the Ryman)
HUGH MASAKELA – Stimela (2006 Live at the Market Theatre)
R.E.M. – Driver 8 (1985 Fables of the Reconstruction)
POOR BILLY – Lovetrain (2008 Moonlight Stranger)

-HOUR TWO-

ZIGGY MARLEY & the MELODY MAKERS – People Get Ready (2000 Live Vol. 1)
JAMES BROWN – Night Train (1961 James Brown Presents His Band)
BRADLEY WALKER – Shoulda Took That Train (2006 Highway of Dreams)
BR549 – No Train to Memphis (2004 Tangled in the Pines)
DARRELL SCOTT, DANNY THOMPSON & KENNY MALONE – Folsom Prison / White Freightliner Blues (2004 Live in NC)
JOHNNY CASH – Hey Porter (1955 Sun single)
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – All Night Train (1994 Back Where It All Begins)
LOS LOBOS – That Train Don’t Stop Here (10/13/00 Stubb’s, Austin, TX)
LOS LOBOS – Everybody Loves a Train (1998 Colossal Head)
JORMA KAUKONEN – Blue Railroad Train (2002 Blue Country Heart)
LEVON HELM – A Train Robbery (2007 Dirt Farmer)
JIMI HENDRIX – Hear My Train a Comin’ (1969/1994 Woodstock)

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Thanks to Ira G (KBAC’s original mad scientist) for calling in the Bradley Walker. Never heard it before and it sounded great on the all train show!

Tom and I definitely have enough picks to do a second one of these sometime. Thanks for all the calls letting us know you enjoyed it (^_^)

Next week (1/14): Anniversary EXPANDO edition – all long bombs, baby, as TnJ 2.0 turns 1 year old…

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STREAMING

Hey, Toast-n-Jammers ~

Word is you can check out Toast-n-Jam from anywhere in the world via the series of tubes known as the interweb by going to kbac.com

WOOT!

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TOM’S TOP TEN 2008

First of all, I would like to thank Chris Diestler for making Wednesday night my favorite of the week; I would also like to thank Scott Hutton & Ira Gordon for making it all possible.

Trying to find the top ten albums of 2008 is a daunting task; so many great albums were released. I tried to make my list with as many jam bands as possible but I cannot live by jam alone – sometimes I need some toast to go with my jam.

#10 – Drew Emmitt “The Long Road”

Leftover Salmon’s multi-instrumentalist & vocalist breaks out with a solo record. Great songs from many genres with a lot of guests such as Sam Bush.

#9 – Waybacks “Loaded”

Americana meets jam on this relatively bluegrass-sounding disc. Traditional instrumentation overloaded with virtuosity make this a fun & fabulous album.

#8 – Stanton Moore Trio “Emphasis on Parenthesis”

Stanton incorporates an organ trio for this not-so traditional disc. Many timbres, rhythms and forms make up this very funky record.

#7 – Markus James “Snakeskin Violin”

Africa meets Mississippi in the middle of a dirt road; I can smell the BBQ from here and wow does it smell good.

#6 – Widespread Panic “Free Somehow”

Recorded in the Bahamas it is Jimmy Herring’s first studio effort with Panic. Not as strong as some of their early recordings it still holds up as one of my favorites of the year.

#5 – Michael Franti & Spearhead “All Rebel Rockers”

Sly & Robbie produce this juggernaut of the jam band scene. Every track is strong and different from beautiful to powerful; lean to heavy; the production value is awesome and so is this disc.

#4 – Xavier Rudd “Dark Shades of Blue”

Xavier is an Australian multi-instrumentalist whose strong points are song writing and texture with a flair for using his native rhythms mixed with rock’n’roll. A great disc from the relative newcomer to the jam band scene.

#3 - moe. “Sticks and Stones”

By far their best studio effort; “Sticks and Stones” is chockablock full of different qualities; from pop to jazz and everywhere in between. A forty-five minute tour of what a jam band studio effort should sound like.

#2 - YMSB “Mountain Tracks vol 5”

This live double disc has the best of what Yonder offers. Disc I is all live but not from the same show, disc II is from the same show. For a string band these guys pump up the jam. It is quite obvious they love what they do and so do I.

#1 – Keller Williams w/Gibb Droll, Jeff Sipe, Keith Moseley “Live”

This double live disc comes with an additional DVD. Many different facets and flavors dominate this improvisational tour-de-force. Reworked Keller originals and some great covers make this my favorite disc of the year.

Thank you so much for listening and have a great New Year. May your ears be blessed and your bowl always full.

Peace,

Tom

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PIGMENT tonight

Looking to get out of the house this weekend, Santa Fe's jammiest band, PIGMENT, plays Tin Star Saloon tonight (1/3/09), 9pm!!!

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Battle of the Bands

I was really impressed with my first exposure to a band called Some Kind of Dumb at Warehouse 21 last night.

I'd describe their style as something like prog punk, if such a genre exists (and if not, they should spearhead its creation). Bobby Strait might be the hardest-working bass player in show business.

Word is Some Kind of Dumb will play Battle of the Bands in Albuquerque tomorrow (1/4/09) at the Launchpad in Albuquerque. Santa Feans can take the Rail Runner for free, yo (^_^)

I especially liked the number mysteriously titled "Killers Wear Panties." Super catchy. Sub Pop should sign these guys, like, immediately.

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