Much as ESPN enjoys unnecessarily naming weekends of college football and full weeks of late-season college basketball to give them that tinge of added importance, Hidden Track’s about to enter Rapid Fire Review Week. Thanksgiving provided the live music community an adult dose of top-notch concerts all around the country, and over the next few days we’ll have a solid incursion of dispatches from our embedded reporters at the shows. Stick around, poke around.
Looking back, looking forward — here’s a sample size of the shennanigans declared this week ’round these here parts:
- Guitarist Scott Metzger opened up about a Bustle In Your Hedgerow tour, the long-awaited Danjaboots album, a job offer from James Brown, his father’s methodone clinic, teaching kids to rock, and learning to play Metallica on a nylon-string acoustic guitar
- Marco Benevento and three guys bangin’ on shit made beautiful music together down at Tonic on Wednesday
- String Cheese Incident made it big time — a national commercial
- We celebrated 30 years since They Last Waltzed
- HT presented The Root’s Masters of War from the Dylan Tribute
- I pulled ‘Tubes while ScottyB went Grousing the Aisles and served up some link-heavy platters of Hors d’Oeuvres and Leftovers
Thanks for sticking through our weekly attempt at public autofellatio. As a reward, here’s a copy of Cold Bear by The Gaturs, one of my constantly changing favorite songs from the new What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves 1967-1977 compliation, which you can purchase here. I suggest you do. It’s off the charts. We need a new set of charts for this thing. A whole new set. Of charts.