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Last Week’s Sauce is a recurring piece featuring recordings of shows that took place the previous week. Thanks to KCMoeJoe for this week’s photo.

Artist & Title: Derek Trucks Band – Down Don’t Bother Me
Date & Venue: 2009-04-08 – The Park West, Chicago IL
Taper & Show Download: John F. & taperjoe

This is a track off of Trucks’ 2009 release Already Free. Derek’s band starts a three-night California stand tonight in San Francisco. Extra bonus? Jackie Greene is the supporting act.

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A friend of mine recently pointed out to me that we have never selected a Grateful Dead song for an edition of Cover Wars. I was somewhat aware of this, but he’s right – it’s time we do one. Now, I wanted to select a Dead song that hasn’t been covered by hundreds of artists, like Scarlet Begonias, St. Stephen or Franklin’s Tower. So, I poked around and found that there was a relatively small pool of artists that had played Dupree’s Diamond Blues, a track off of The Dead’s stellar 1969 release Aoxomoxoa.

If you don’t know about The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, you should. Here is a small excerpt from the entry for Dupree’s.

The text of the song is a re-working of a song, “Betty and Dupree,” with many incarnations in American folk tradition. It was based upon a true incident:

“The biography of the man and his crimes may be summarized as follows: Frank Dupree grew up in Abbeville, South Carolina. He came on the scene in December 1921 in Atlanta, Georgia, where he had a gal Betty. In trying to appropriate a diamond for her in a jewelry store he shot a policeman down. Fleeing to Memphis and later to Chicago, where he was cornered, he killed a policeman and wounded several more. He was caught while getting his mail and sent to Atlanta for trial. He was executed for murder on September 1, 1922.” (Roberts: In the Pine.)

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Dark Star Orchestra: Though I decided not to include the likes of Ratdog or Phil Lesh & Friends as viable contenders in this Cover Wars, I thought it was OK to include the Dark Star Orchestra. Yes, people do tape these shows. This is a great recording from last year’s Gathering Of The Vibes where DSO performed The Dead’s 11-6-1977 in its entirety. Source: 7-31-2008

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We’re passing this along from Umphrey’s McGee’s blog The Floor. When 18 year old Derrick Meade was diagnosed with level IV lymphoma he could of asked for anything from the great people at the Make-A-Wish foundation. They offered him a 10 day all expenses paid trip to Amsterdam so he could see the city he’d […]

Last Week’s Sauce is a recurring piece featuring recordings of shows that took place the previous week. Thanks to Jimna for this week’s photo.

Artist & Title: Cracker – Sunrise In The Land Of Milk & Honey
Date & Venue: 2009-04-01 – Moe’s Alley, Santa Cruz CA
Taper & Show Download: Todd Fleisher

Cracker’s got a new record coming out on May 5th. This is the title track from the upcoming release and according to the setlist on the Live Music Archive, was the “acoustic debut” of this tune. Cracker hits the road in May in support of the new album.

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Passing along this information from DiscoBiscuits.com Due to a family emergency, the Disco Biscuits will regretfully be canceling the remaining four shows of their west coast run (Santa Cruz, San Diego and two Los Angeles Shows). We request that you respect the bands privacy with this personal matter. Tickets will be refunded at point of […]

Last week, we were down to the final two contestants for our first annual Cover Wars March Madness tournament in which we pitted 16 previous CW winners against each other. In one corner we had Mr. Blotto’s cover of Paul Simon’s 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover and in the other corner we had Jerry […]

After months of rumor and speculation, it has become official – Phish will play Boston’s Fenway Park. Fenway held it’s first concerts in recent times in 2003, shortly after new ownership took over the Red Sox operations. Since 2003, the park has hosted pairs of concerts from: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Jimmy […]

We started with sixteen past Cover Wars winners and now we’re down to just two.

And the finalists are: Jerry Garcia & David Grisman rendition of Sitting In Limbo, and Mr. Blotto’s cover of 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.

You’ve got to READ ON to get to the final round of voting. Thanks to everyone for their energetic participation in the tournament. Next Tuesday we will reveal the winner and also get back to new editions of Cover Wars every week.

This is the second volume of Last Week’s Sauce. This feature is simply a collection of live tracks that took place, well – last week. Look for this piece every Wednesday to see who was on the road and allowing taping.

Artist & Title: Amanda Palmer – The Point Of It All
Date & Venue: 2009-03-28 – Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale FL
Taper & Show Download: breathmint
Amanda Palmer, perhaps you know her from The Dresden Dolls, was in Florida last week but only has two dates on the books in April – Santa Fe Brewing Company and then Coachella. Palmer released her first solo disc last year titled Who Killed Amanda Palmer, this is a track from it.
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Five or six tunes into Friday night’s Jeff Tweedy solo concert at The Calvin Theatre in Northampton, I started to think we were catching Tweedy on a non-chatty night. Perhaps we would not receive the signature banter you come to expect from his solo shows.

The closest he had come to being witty was sneaking the word Northampton as a lyric change to the show-opening Spiders (Kidsmoke) which made the crowd erupt in applause. Afterward, Tweedy shrugged as if to say, “this is like shooting fish in a barrel”. But once the floodgates of banter opened they did not close for the next hour and the theme of the night was things Mr. Tweedy (that’s Jeff’s dad) had told him over the years. The anecdotes ranged from quirky to down-right fucked up…they were, [I paraphrase as this is all from memory]

#1, Commenting on the light at the Calvin Theater, he said it reminded him of something his Dad used to say (this is what started it off). He recalled what his father would say when they were leaving his older sister home alone for the evening. He would say, “OK, lock all the doors, here’s the number where we’re going….I don’t know why I’m telling you this, whoever would come and take you would let you go at the first street light anyway….”

#2, “Women. Hang ’em upside down in the shower and they all look alike”

#3, “Marry a woman that’s a little bit fat. That way, everywhere you grab, you’ll get something good.

#4, “Never back up further than you have to.”

#5, Describing one of the charity “living room” concerts he does in Chicago, at the end of the show his Dad called on his cell phone and Jeff’s wife picks up. Hands the phone over to Jeff who puts him on speaker phone even though he knows he shouldn’t.

Mr. Tweedy: Hey everyone
Crowd Assembled: Hi Mr. Tweedy
Mr. Tweedy: I’m naked!

Musically, the show was exactly what you would expect and that’s a talented songwriter performing stripped-down versions from his catalog. The number of albums from his discography that he hit was downright impressive. Every Wilco album (except Sky Blue Sky) was represented. Two of the four Uncle Tupelo discs made the setlist. Both volumes of Mermaid Avenue, (the records done with Billy Bragg), two tunes from each. Add one cover (Fake Plastic Trees), a track from his side-project Loose Furs (The Ruling Class), three tunes set to be released on Wilco’s new album in June, and even a track from the More Like The Moon EP made the cut (Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard).

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This new weekly feature will contain two things we very much enjoy here at Hidden Track: 1) Bands that tour aggressively and have open taping policies and 2) The tapers that are there to capture the moment. Every Wednesday we will look back at the previous week to see who was on tour and what recordings have already been dithered, tracked and uploaded.

Artist & Title: Club D’Elf – Big Light In The Sky
Date & Venue: 2009-03-20 – The Lizard Lounge, Cambridge MA
Taper & Show Download: Jason Sobel
Club D’Elf, a rotating cast of musicians fronted by bassist Mike Rivard, celebrated their 11th anniversary last week. Supporting Micro last Friday were: Tom Hall (saxophones), Paul Schultheis (keyboards), Mister Rourke (turntables), Jerry Leake (percussion), and Dean Johnston (drums). Visit their website for upcoming shows in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
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Here’s the latest installment in the Ticketmaster Red Rocks ticket debacle. Everyone who made a purchase last night just received the following e-mail. Dear Phish fan: Unfortunately, the tickets that you ordered from Ticketmaster for performances of Phish scheduled at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre between the dates of July 30th and August 2nd, 2009 were […]

Way back in October, I had a great time compiling the And It Stoned Me Cover Wars and this week I find myself selecting another track off of Van Morrison’s timeless 1970 release, Moondance – Into The Mystic.

Apparently, there must’ve been some memo inside the “How-to-be-a-jamband” kit that was being distributed in the mid ’90s, because this week we’ve got representation from God Street Wine, Percy Hill, Strangefolk, Jiggle The Handle & Gov’t Mule. No – not all of those bands are included, but members of those outfits appear all over this week’s edition. Checking in on the Fearless edition from two weeks ago, the Marco Benevento Trio has emerged victorious with its instrumental rendition.

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[Originally Published: November 25, 2008]

The Seeker was the The Who’s first single after the release of their epic rock opera Tommy. In his own words, Pete Townshend said, “I wrote it when I was drunk in Florida. Quite loosely, The Seeker was just a thing about what I call Divine Desperation, or just Desperation. And what it does to people.”

The Who on a German television program circa 1970:

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Fearless is one of the best, if not the best song written in Open G Tuning.

Waters: “What’s interesting about it, for me, is that it’s interesting musically: (hums riff). Funnily enough, that was a tuning that Syd showed me. It’s a really beautiful open G tuning, for anybody who wants to tune their guitar: G-G-D-G-B-B.”

Source: pink-floyd.org

This Gilmour/Waters composition is on Pink Floyd’s sixth studio album, a 1971 release titled Meddle. Looking back seven days, Bonerama has emerged victorious in last week’s Peaches en Regalia Cover Wars

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In this digital age of live shows you can buy after the show and spoiler-free downloads posted minutes after the show lets out, I decided my first try at a Friday Mix Tape will feature tracks from shows that happened in the past seven days. All these tracks come from either bt.etree.org or the Live Music Archive, and none of these tracks are more than a week old.

Leading off we have the Bill Kreutzmann Trio with an extended take on The Dead’s China Cat Sunflower. Next, we turn to Chicago’s Cornmeal, who welcomed both horns and a percussionist to the stage for a Fat Tuesday show with Aiko Aiko. Moving on, the Derek Trucks Band contribute a 17+ minute cover-of-a-cover as they deftly explore John Coltrane’s take on Rodgers/Hammerstein’s My Favorite Things.

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Welcome to the final edition of our series titled Coventry To Hampton filling you in on the four members of Phish and what they’ve been up to these past five years. Part one featuring bassist Mike Gordon debuted on Monday, Part two featuring keyboardist Page McConnell was posted on Tuesday, Part three featuring Trey Anastasio was posted Wednesday, Part four featuring drummer Jon Fishman was posted yesterday.

Sure, Phish hasn’t played a live concert since Coventry, but there has been a whole bunch of Phish material performed and archival releases over the past four and a half years. In fact, there have been five official CD releases, four DVD releases and even more online audio and video downloads.

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A compilation of SOME of the Phish material played by the members since Coventry.

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The realization that a Phish reunion was imminent came when the band joined together publicly for the first time since Coventry. On May 7, 2008, the four members of Phish reunited onstage at the 7th annual Jammy Awards at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden to accept a lifetime achievement award. The band didn’t perform together at the ceremony, although Trey sat-in with the Fab Faux and Page played as part of a jazz supergroup put together by the event’s organizers. Phish also won the Download of the Year award for their release of The Headphones Jam.

READ ON for more on the events leading up to Phish’s return as well as a full list of all archival audio and video releases since Coventry…

Welcome to part four of a five part series titled Coventry To Hampton filling you in on the four members of Phish and what they’ve been up to these past five years. Part one featuring bassist Mike Gordon debuted on Monday, Part two featuring keyboardist Page McConnell was posted on Tuesday, Part three featuring Trey Anastasio was posted yesterday. Tomorrow, we’ll feature a general roundup of all things Phish related.

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A compilation of Post-Phish Fish activity:

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Believe it or not, today is actually Jon Fishman’s 44th birthday. Not only is it his birthday, but he’s also up to something good. Tonight will be the first of two shows that Fish plays with the Jazz Mandolin Project. JMP rolls into the brand new Port City Music Hall in Portland, Maine tonight before taking the act to Burlington’s Club Metronome tomorrow. I’m making the trek from Boston tonight, I’m a big JMP fan and I’m excited to watch Fish play in a bar atmosphere before once again destroying arenas in as soon as two weeks.

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Welcome to part three of a five part series titled Coventry To Hampton filling you in on the four members of Phish and what they’ve been up to these past five years or so. Part one featuring Mike Gordon debuted on Monday, and Part two featuring Page McConnell was posted yesterday. Jon Fishman’s piece will be up on Thursday, and Friday will feature a general roundup of all things Phish related.

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A compilation of MOST of the Post-Phish Anastasio compositions:

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To nobody’s surprise, Trey has kept the most busy of the four members of Phish. The first major thing Trey did (after supposedly taking a Caribbean vacation directly after Coventry) was record his solo album Shine with producer Brendan O’Brien. Trey & O’Brien supplied the majority of the instrumentation and vocals with only one other real hired gun, and that was drumming monster Kenny Aronoff.

READ ON for more about what Trey has been up to over the past five years including a full list of shows that he has played and more audio & video…

Welcome to part two of a five part series titled Coventry To Hampton filling you in on the four members of Phish and what they’ve been up to these past five years or so. Part one featuring Mike Gordon debuted yesterday. A new installment goes live at 3pm every day this week. Enjoy.

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A compilation of Post-Phish McConnell compositions:

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While Page didn’t stay as active as Mike, there’s still a lot to look back on since Coventry. Most notably, Page recorded his first solo album, a self-titled effort released in 2007. While Page had previously recorded two albums with Vida Blue, this was officially dubbed his first solo album. Page debuted a lot of material from the album at moe.down in 2006 with a band that included Jon Fishman on drums and a number of other musicians who appeared on the disc and subsequently toured with Page in 2007.

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