TAOS MESA FESTIVAL RECAP

This is turning out to be "the little festival that could."  Taking a giant leap forward in the acts they're booking, plus you can camp onsite.  Saweet!  Elephant Revival was a real highlight (including a scorching rendition of Pink Floyd's "Have A Cigar") and a band I hadn't heard yet from Illinois called the Giving Tree Band had a unique sound that really stood out.  I waited all weekend for one-off collaboration The Cheese Dusters, featuring members of String Cheese Incident and the Infamous Stringdusters.  While they turned out to be little more than a very capable cover band, another collaboration worked wonders, and featured Drew Emmitt of Leftover Salmon with Jeremy Garrett of the Infamous Stringdusters (as well as Drew and Vince's sons, I believe).  Read all about it: Jake Cudek filed a photo essay with LiveForLiveMusic.com which showcases hundreds of shots from the weekend (^_^) TOAST

photo by Jake Cudek

TnJ 647 (6/29/17)

-HOUR ONE-

UMPHREY’s McGEE – All in Time  (10/30/16 the Pageant, St. Louis, MO) livedownloads.com

PHISH – Possum  (2017 St. Louis ’93 [box set], 8/16/93 American Theater, St. Louis, MO) livephish.com

KING GIZZARD and the LIZARD WIZARD – the Lord of Lightning vs. the Balrog – I Some Context II the Reticent Raconteur III the Lord of Lightning IV the Balrog V the Floating Fire VI the Acrid Corpse  (2017 Murder of the Universe)

CIGARETTES AFTER SEX – K.  (2017 Cigarettes After Sex)

-HOUR TWO-

ERIC KRASNO – On the Rise  (2016 Blood from a Stone)

MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD – Acht o’Clock Rock  (4/13/02 the Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM)

MATISYAHU – Forest of Faith  (2017 Undercurrents)

OZOMATLI – Afterparty  (2017 Live at the Belly Up EP, 3/10/17 Solana Beach, CA)

SANTANA – Soul Sacrifice > Jingo  (2016 Live at the House of Blues, Las Vegas, 3/21/16)

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TnJ 646 (6/22/17)

-HOUR ONE-

MOON HOOCH – the Thought > Alien Invasion  (2017 Live at the Cathedral, 10/23/15 Church of St. John the Divine, New York, NY)

PIMPS of JOYTIME – Play  (2017 Third Wall Chronicles)

DOPAPOD – STADA  (2017 II Saw Live Dopapod Evil Was II)

TAUK – Waver  (2016 Sir Nebula)

DESLONDES – Hurry Home  (2017 Hurry Home)

RED LIGHT CAMERAS – Come on Over  (6/22/17 live at KBAC-FM, Santa Fe, NM)

interview > Red Light Cameras and John Nichols with Craft for Causes

RED LIGHT CAMERAS – Survive  (6/22/17 live at KBAC-FM, Santa Fe, NM)

interview > John Nichols with Craft for Causes

-HOUR TWO-

WIDESPREAD PANIC – Let’s Get This Show on the Road  (5/1/16 Rose Music Center, Huber Heights, OH) livedownloads.com

WIDEPSREAD PANIC – Pigeons  (4/30/15 Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans, LA) livedownloads.com

WIDESPREAD PANIC – Disco > Cease Fire > Rock  (12/31/15 Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA) livedownloads.com

WIDESPREAD PANIC – Up All Night  (12/31/15 Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA) livedownloads.com

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TnJ 645 (6/15/17)

-HOUR ONE-

CHRIS STAPLETON – Whipping Post  (12/11/15 Skyville Live, Berry Hill, TN)

DUMPSTAPHUNK w/ TROMBONE SHORTY – Justice  (2017 single)

ZACH DEPUTY – Put It in the Boogie  (2016 Wash It in the Water)

PHO – Butter Ona’ Biscuit  (2015 Cash It)

PAUL MCCARTNEY – Got to Get You into My Life  (2009 Good Evening, New York City, ca. Jul 2009 Citi Field)

BNQT – Restart  (2017 Volume 1)

TRONGONE BAND – Blind  (2017 Keys to the House)

MATISYAHU – Driftin’  (2017 Undercurrent)

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – Behold the Seer  (2017 Barefoot in the Head)

-HOUR TWO-

MAGIC GIANT – Eyes Wide  (2017 In the Wind)

WAR on DRUGS – Thinking of a Place  (2017 a Deeper Understanding)

ORANGE CONSTANT – Red Ryder  (2017 Point of Reference)

MOSES GUEST – Free  (2017 Light)

GRATEFUL DEAD – Althea  (2002 Go to Nassau, 5/16/80 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY)

WIDESPREAD PANIC – Mountain Jam > drums > Mountain Jam  (4/21/17 Wanee, Live Oak, FL)

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TnJ 644 (6/8/17)

-HOUR ONE-

GRATEFUL DEAD – Playing in the Band  (2011 Europe ’72 – the Complete Recordings, 4/21/72 Beat-Club, Bremen, West Germany)

DOC & MERLE WATSON – Solid Gone  (2017 Never the Same Way Once – Live at the Boarding House May 1974 [box set])

YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Chasing My Tail  (2017 Love. Ain’t Love)

JASON ISBELL and the 400 UNIT – Last of My Kind  (2017 the Nashville Sound)

ROGER WATERS – When We Were Young > Déjà Vu  (2017 Is This the Life We Really Want?)

DEREK TRUCKS BAND – Afro Blue  (2010 Roadsongs, ca. Apr 2010 the Park West, Chicago, IL)

-HOUR TWO-

Legends of Live special segment with guest toast John Baracco, featuring David Nelson…

AVALON ALLSTARS – Henry  (4/20/05 12 Galaxies, San Francisco, CA)

GOOD OLD BOYS – Glendale Train  (1975/1991 Pistol Packin’ Mama)

JERRY GARCIA ACOUSTIC BAND – Ragged But Right  (10/28/87 Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New York, NY)

DAVID NELSON BAND – Wicked Messenger  (5/28/05 Maydaze Pre-Summer Jam and Pig Roast @ Spanish Lady Ranch, Strasburg, CO)

DAVID NELSON & FRIENDS – Fable of a Chosen One  (2/18/07 Ira’s Hideaway, Honaunau, HI)

PHIL LESH & FRIENDS – Jam > Cumberland Blues  (10/27/05 Bimbo’s 365 Club, San Francisco, CA)

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TnJ 643 (6/1/17)

-HOUR ONE-

GOV’T MULE – Revolution Come… Revolution Go  (2017 Revolution Come… Revolution Go)

MARCHFOURTH! – Call to Action  (2016 Magic Number)

ROBERT RANDOLPH & the FAMILY BAND – Got Soul / She Got Soul  (2017 Got Soul)

RAILROAD EARTH – Water Fountain Quicksand  (12/31/11 Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO) livedownloads.com

ELEPHANT REVIVAL – Peace Tonight  (2016 Petals)

STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Down a River  (2017 Believe)

INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Black Elk  (2017 Laws of Gravity)

-HOUR TWO-

Tonight’s second hour is a “farewell” tribute set for the late Gregg Allman, may he rest in peace.  12/8/47-5/27/17

31^st of FEBRUARY – Morning Dew  (1989 Dreams [box set], 1971 Duane & Gregg)

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – One Way Out  (1989 Dreams [box set], 9/26/73 Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA)

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Just Ain’t Easy  (1989 Dreams [box set], 7/19/79 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD)

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More  (2007 Warren Haynes presents – the Benefit Concert volume 2, 12/21/00 Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville, NC)

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Old Before My Time  (8/10/03 Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh, NC)

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – Come and Go Blues  (6/6/09 Wanee Festival, Live Oak, FL)

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – No One to Run With  (“Another One for Woody” 11/22/10 Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY)

GREGG ALLMAN BAND – Midnight Rider  (2015 Back to Macon, GA, 1/14/14 Grand Opera House Theatre)

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ONE SENTENCE ALBUM REVIEW - GOV'T MULE

This is the Gov't Mule album I've been waiting for since the first one (^_^) TOAST

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TnJ 642 (5/25/17)

-HOUR ONE-

PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND – Mad  (2017 So It Is)

MELVIN SPARKS – Miss Riverside  (2016 Live at Nectar’s, 12/30/10 Burlington, VT)

MILES DAVIS – Milestones  (1958 Milestones)

BOB DYLAN – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues [8/2/65 rehearsal]  (2015 the Bootleg Series, vol. 12, the Cutting Edge 1965-1966)

EMMITT-NERSHI BAND – Costa Rica  (2009 New Country Blues)

the BAND – the Night They Drove Old Dixie Down  (1978 the Last Waltz OST, 11/25/76 Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA)

GRATEFUL DEAD – Row Jimmy  (2017 Cornell 5/8/77, Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

-HOUR TWO-

GOV’T MULE – Traveling Tune  (2017 Revolution Come… Revolution Go)

the WERKS – Moving On  (2017 Magic)

SPAFFORD – Dis Go In 5?  (3/27/15 Vinyl, Las Vegas, NV)

ODESZA – Today  (2016 Summer’s Gone)

GRIZZLY BEAR – Mourning Sound  (2017 Painted Ruins)

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – I Ain’t Hiding  (2017 Betty’s Blends Vol. 3, Self-Rising, Southern Blends, ca. Nov 2015)

TOM PETTY & the HEARTBREAKERS – American Girl  (2009 the Live Anthology, 4/13/83 The Cow Palace, San Francisco, CA)

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TnJ 641 (5/18/17)

-HOUR ONE-

TAJ MAHAL – You Ain’t No Streetwalker, Honey But I Do Love the Way You Strut Your Stuff  (2012 the Hidden Treasures of Taj Mahal 1969-1973, ca. Jan 1971, Bearsville Studios, Woodstock, NY)

SELWYN BIRCHWOOD – Police State  (2017 Pick Your Poison)

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND – Right on Time  (2017 Live from the Fox Oakland, 9/9/16)

WIDESPREAD PANIC w/ the McCRARY SISTERS – With a Little Help from My Friends  (12/31/16 Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN) livewidespreadpanic.com

LEFTOVER SALMON – Highway Song  (8/4/16 Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ) livedownloads.com

-HOUR TWO-

YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Bad Taste  (2017 Love. Ain’t Love)

GRATEFUL DEAD – They Love Each Other  (2017 Cornell 5/8/77, Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

the NATIONAL – the System Only Dreams in Total Darkness  (2017 Sleep Well Beast)

duende libre – Sevilla  (2017 duende libre)

BROTHER ALI – Own Light [What Hearts Are For]  (2017 All the Beauty in This Whole Life)

FLOBOTS – American Dreams  (2017 No Enemies)

FLEET FOXES – Third of May / Ōdaigahara  (2017 Crack-Up)

PHISH – Strange Design  (2005 New Year’s Eve 1995 – Live at Madison Square Garden, 12/31/95 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) livephish.com

PHISH – Cars Trucks Buses  (2013 Ventura [box set], 7/30/97 Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA) livephish.com

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TnJ 640 (5/11/17)

-HOUR ONE-

GRATEFUL DEAD – Estimated Prophet  (2017 Cornell 5/8/77, Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

GRATEFUL DEAD – One More Saturday Night  (2017 Cornell 5/8/77, Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – Get Out of My Life Woman  (2017 Betty’s Blends Vol. 3, Self-Rising, Southern Blends)

ORGŌNE – Sophisticated Honky  (2007 the Killion Floor)

BLACK ANGELS – Life Song  (2017 Death Song)

FATHER JOHN MISTY – Pure Comedy  (2017 Pure Comedy)

-HOUR TWO-

PHISH – Reba > Sparkle  (2017 St. Louis ’93 [box set], 4/14/93 American Theater, St. Louis, MO) livephish.com

TROMBONE SHORTY – Here Come the Girls  (2017 Parking Lot Symphony)

FLOW TRIBE – Turning Table  (2017 Boss)

TAUK – Realize  (2017 digital single, from the Sir Nebula session)

JAKE la BOTZ – Sunnyside  (2017 Sunnyside)

CHRIS STAPLETON – Them Stems  (2017 From A Room, Volume 1)

RON POPE – Let’s Get Stoned  (2017 Work)

GOV’T MULE – Sarah, Surrender  (2017 Revolution Come, Revolution Go)

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WIN GRATEFUL DEAD CORNELL '77

Tune in, turn on, and jam out this Thursday night.  Hear part of what many call the best Dead show of all time, and also get chances to win your very own official release of the legendary Cornell '77 show to take home (^_^) TOAST

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TnJ 639 (5/4/17)

R.I.P. Col. Bruce Hampton, who passed into the great unknown last Monday, after shredding it with friends onstage on his 70th birthday.  Gonna miss his sense of humor.

-HOUR ONE-

GRATEFUL DEAD – China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider  (2016 Dave’s Picks, Vol. 21, 4/2/73 Boston Garden, Boston, MA)

ANDERS OSBORNE – Had My Reasons  (1999 Living Room)

COL. BRUCE HAMPTON & the AQUARIUM RESCUE UNIT – Planet Earth  (1992 Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit)

JAMES BROWN – Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag pts. 1, 2 & 3  (1991 Star Time [box set], previously unreleased complete take, ca. 1965)

NAUGHTY PROFESSOR w/ JASON BUTLER – Do You Like Dragons  (2017 Identity)

the GROOVALOTTOS – Ask Yo’ Mama [I’m a Groovalotto]  (2017 Ask Yo’ Mama)

REV. SEKOU w/ LUTHER & CODY DICKINSON – In Times Like These  (2017 In Times Like These)

-HOUR TWO-

NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS – You Got to Move  (2017 Prayer for Peace)

BACKUP PLANET – Reactions  (2017 Reactions)

DOPAPOD – Trapper Keeper > Mudwalkin’ > Trapper Keeper  (2017 II Saw Live Dopapod Evil Was II)

TWIDDLE – New Sun  (2017 Plump Chapter Two)

TAJ MAHAL & KEB’ MO’ – All Around the World  (2017 TajMo)

JOHN STICKLEY TRIO – Playpeople  (2017 Maybe Believe)

DANGERMUFFIN – Ode to My Heritage  (2017 Heritage)

OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW – Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands  (2017 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde, ca. May 2016, the CMA Theater, Nashville, TN)

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TnJ 638 (4/20/17)

Special session: the first-ever "chronic-ology," tracing the history of reefer songs...

-HOUR ONE-

STUFF SMITH and his ONYX CLUB BOYS – You’se a Viper  (1936 78RPM single B-side)

RAY CHARLES – Let’s Go Get Stoned  (1966 Crying Time)

BOB DYLAN – Rainy Day Women #12 &35  (1966 Blonde on Blonde)

BEATLES – Magical Mystery Tour  (1967 Magical Mystery Tour)

STEPPENWOLF – Don’t Step On the Grass, Sam  (1968 the Second)

BREWER & SHIPLEY – One Toke Over the Line  (1970 Tarkio)

BLACK SABBATH – Sweet Leaf  (1971 Master of Reality)

STEVE MILLER BAND – the Joker  (1973 the Joker)

PETER TOSH – Legalize It  (1975 Legalize It)

BOB MARLEY & the WAILERS – Kaya  (1978 Kaya)

BLACK UHURU – Sensemilla  (1980 Sinsemilla)

MIGHTY DIAMONDS – Pass the Kouchie  (1982 Changes)

-HOUR TWO-

the TOYES – Smoke Two Joints  (1983 the Toyes)

TONE LŌC – Cheeba Cheeba  (1989 Lōc-ed After Dark)

CYPRESS HILL – Hits from the Bong  (1993 Black Sunday)

TOM PETTY & the HEARTBREAKERS – Mary Jane’s last Dance  (1993 Greatest Hits)

TOM PETTY – You Don’t Know How It Feels  (1994 Wildflowers)

SNOOP DOGGY DOGG – Gin and Juice  (1993 Doggystyle)

BEN HARPER – Burn One Down  (1995 Fight for Your Mind)

SPEARHEAD – Ganja Babe  (1997 Chocolate Supa Highway)

AFROMAN – Because I Got High  (2001 Because I Got High)

TWO MAN GENTLEMEN BAND – Me, I Get High on Reefer  (2010 !Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!)

WILLIE NELSON & MERLE HAGGARD w/ JAMEY JOHSNON – It’s All Going to Pot  (2015 Django & Jimmie)

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TnJ 637 (4/13/17)

-HOUR ONE-

PHISH – Stash > Kung > Stash > Kung > the Horse > Silent in the Morning  (2017 St. Louis ’93 [box set], 4/14/93 American Theater, St. Louis, MO) livephish.com

KING GIZZARD and the LIZARD WIZARD – Sleep Drifter  (2017 Flying Microtonal Banana)

MAGIC BEANS – As You Like It  (2016 digital single)

ANDERS OSBORNE – Black Eye Galaxy  (2012 Black Eye Galaxy)

-HOUR TWO-

HAUNTED WINDCHIMES – Banjo and the Bottle  (2016 Rattle Your Bones)

WOOD BROTHERS – Wastin’ My Mind  (2017 Live at the Barn, 8/19/16 Woodstock, NY)

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS – a World of Hurt  (2015 It’s Great to be Alive!, ca. 2014 the Fillmore, San Francisco, CA)

ROBERT RANDOLPH & the FAMILY BAND – Shake It  (2017 Got Soul)

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

STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Beautiful  (2017 Believe)

BLACK ANGELS – Currency  (2017 Death Song)

BIG SOMETHING – UFOs Are Real  (2017 Tumbleweed)

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Next week, the show actually falls on 4/20, so I'll be rolling a special theme (^_^)