Marco Benevento and his band—bassist Karina Rykman and drummer Dave ‘DB’ Butler—had their sold out two night run at Levon Helm Studios on March 27-28 postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the spirit of lemons and lemonade, Benevento cracked open the multi-track recordings from last year’s show at Levon’s barn and spent the past several days mixing and mastering the 16-song, 100+ minute set.
Those recordings have been released today as ‘Levon’s 3/9/19’ via Bandcamp, the beloved indie music destination who’ve waived all revenue shares for the next 24 hours to support musicians being impacted by lost work during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Benevento is also offering via Bandcamp a limited edition “homemade” cassette of the show, which he’ll dub one by one, while designing each one of a kind insert by hand. ‘Levon’s 3/9/19’ is available now at: https://marcobenevento.
‘3/9/19’ includes Benevento set staples like “Dropkick,” “Greenpoint” and “Stay In Line,” covers of Butthole Surfers‘ “Pepper,” The Knife‘s “Heartbeats” and My Morning Jacket‘s “Golden” with special guest Mikaela Davis on harp and early versions of “Send It On A Rocket” and “Let It Slide” that would be released later in the year on Benevento’s album, ‘Let It Slide.’
