Archive: 2003

My Morning Jacket are suiting up for a tour starting early January. Allowing themselves only a couple days to recover from New Year’s festivities, the Kentucky group will hit the road starting in Nashville and move on through the Southern and Midwestern states.
The Jackets join in the NME Awards Show fun February 5 in London when they, along with Junior Senior and Ima Robot, rock The Astoria. Other NME Award Shows taking place around the same week will feature Ryan Adams, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Thrice, Coheed & Cambria, Hundred Reasons, and Million Dead.
According to the band’s Web site, additional shows are expected to be added to the tour If you go to the band’s website, they’re offering tickets to U.S. shows in an effort “to reduce the high surcharges from other online ticket vendors and to offer more convenient ticketing options.” They also have presale information. The increasingly high-profile group signed with Dave Matthews’ ATO Records last fall and released their latest full-length album, It Still Moves, this September.
Source Pollstar.com.

Spring will bring what is said to be the last disc of previously unreleased recordings late Grateful Dead guitarist/singer Jerry Garcia made with his friend, mandolinist David Grisman.
Due March 23 from Grisman’s Acoustic Disc label, the 12-track “Been All Around This World” includes covers of songs by Bob Dylan, James Brown and Jimmie Rodgers’ “The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest,” Brown’s “I’ll Go Crazy” and Merle Travis’ “Dark as a Dungeon” and “Nine Pound Hammer.” Songs by George Jones, Freddie Hart and Mel Tillis are also featured, as are the traditionals “I’m Troubled,” “Handsome Cabin Boy” and the title track.
Source Billboard.com.

Ozzy Osbourne was seriously injured Monday in an accident on the grounds of his estate in England and underwent emergency surgery, a spokeswoman said.
The 55-year-old rock star was riding a “quad bike,” or all-terrain vehicle, on his Buckinghamshire property when the accident occurred, according to publicist Cindy Guagenti.

His injuries were not considered to be life-threatening, she said. An examination showed Osbourne broke his collarbone, six ribs and a vertebra in his neck, according to Guagenti. He was in surgery Monday evening at an undisclosed English hospital.
The operation was intended to lift the collarbone, which was believed to be resting on a major artery and interrupting blood flow to his arm. Surgeons also were trying to stem “some bleeding into his lungs,” Guagenti said.
Osbourne was taking a day off from promoting the United Kingdom release of “Changes,” a duet with his daughter, Kelly, when the accident occurred.
[I]Source CNN.com.

Funk music pioneer George Clinton was arrested and charged with drug possession after allegedly telling an officer he had cocaine in his pocket.
Clinton, of Tallahassee, was arrested Saturday and bonded out of jail over the weekend, according to jail officials, who wouldn’t release any other information. Clinton’s lawyer, Shoshana Zisk of San Francisco, didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.

Clinton, 63, who headed the funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic

Widespread Panic will release three live albums in 2004, one out in spring,another in summer and another in fall. Recorded during a three-night standin November at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the livealbums consist of one set with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, one acoustic setand one of straight ahead Widespread Panic.
The decision to release the live albums stemmed in part from the venue beinga “magical spot” for the band and also from a desire to showcase the impactof collaborating with the eight-man Dirty Dozen Brass Band on even the mostfamiliar songs in the Panic repertoire.
Source Rollinstone.com.

I had heard the rumors that the Charlie Hunter Trio was no longer playing

For many new fans eager to create their own Phish legacy, the Boston show may be deemed spectacular. But for many older fans, who have been following the band for the better part of their young adult lives, aside from a detailed video documentary that brought back floods of dear memories, the anniversary show itself righteously failed to meet its lofty expectations.

Geroge Carlin is continuing with what he does best: touring and making America laugh. The irreverent humorist has inked in new dates on his never-ending cycle of theatre tours.
At the end of the schedule, for the time being, is a multi-week run at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Carlin said he does 12 weeks per year at the venue, although we’re only counting 14 shows right now, which means he could possibly expect to return for another round of laughs. Last year, Carlin won a Grammy for his Napalm & Silly Putty book on tape/CD. It was his fourth such award. The book version of the project went on to spend 20 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. According to a post by Carlin on his self-maintained Web site, he’s working on plans for the “first one-man Broadway show,

A Jimi Hendrix tribute disc being put together by the guitar legend

Elvis Costello has scheduled a brief winter tour that will kick off Feb. 19 in Clearwater, Fla., and end March 11 in San Francisco. The 13-date trek comes in support of his latest album, “North.”
As was the case for a handful of appearances around the time of the release of the album of ballads, Costello will be accompanied by his longtime collaborator, Attractions/Imposters keyboardist Steve Nieve for the tour.
In addition, three dates Feb. 24 in Nashville, Feb.26 in New York and Feb. 27 in Boston