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[Originally Published: May 13, 2008]

Moving on to this week, we’ve got ourselves another classic album from a different legendary songwriter (with an equally unique singing voice) and that’s Bob Dylan’s 1965 release Highway 61 Revisited. This album was Dylan’s fifth and his first recorded entirely with a full rock band.

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Like a Rolling Stone (Zero): This gentle rendition of perhaps the most popular tune on the album clocks in at 15 minutes. The entire track is full of the tasteful guitar work you would expect from Steve Kimock as well as some beautiful sax solos from Martin Fierro. Check out this great on-stage tape of the whole show on The Archive.

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Welcome to Coventry To Hampton, a five part series filling you in on the four members of Phish and what they’ve been up to these past five years or so. We’re starting with Mike and we’ll do one on each of the other three band members and cap it off on Friday with a summary of what the Phish organization has been up to. These will publish at 3pm every day this week.

Part Two = Coventry To Hampton – Page McConnell
Part Three = Coventry To Hampton – Trey Anastasio
Part Four = Coventry To Hampton – Jon Fishman

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

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Mike’s first show after Coventry was just a few weeks later at moe.down 5 in Turin, NY, where he first performed a full show with the Benevento/Russo Duo. This trio would perform their first string of shows later that year for a New Year’s Run in 2004. It was fitting that Mike, the only member of the band who voiced his disagreement with the bands decision to break up, brought a number of Phish originals to the stage the first night of the run including Lengthwise (Fishman), Foam (Anastasio) , Mike’s Song (Gordon) & Cars, Trucks Buses (McConnell).

READ ON for more about what Mike’s been up to over the past five years including a full list of shows that Mike played and much more audio & video…

[Originally Published: February 26, 2008, CLICK TO SEE WHO WON]

This week features six artists competing for the best cover of Stevie Wonder’s Boogie On Reggae Woman. This song comes to us off the 1974 record Fulfillingness’ First Finale. Here’s a look at the contenders:

Addison Groove Project: As you may recall, this now retired (but is any band ever really retired?) funk-fusion outfit from Boston has previously been mentioned on Hidden Track, by me, and about this song. AGP got a mention in my Top Ten Big Red sit-ins.

Legion Of Mary: LoM was Jerry Garcia’s side-band from 1974 to 1975 and featured Garcia, Merl Saunders (Keyboards, Vocals), John Kahn (bass), Martin Fierro (Saxophone, Flute) and Ron Tutt (Drums). This track comes to you from a ’74 show in Berkeley, Merl takes vocal duties, but Garcia’s guitar work starting around the 6 minute mark is definitely worth hearing. READ ON…

Welcome to Day Two of the Umphrey’s McGee Virtual Tour. Yesterday, Higgins from Lollapalooza 8/4/2006 kicked things off over at ilike.com. Hidden Track has the pleasure of debuting the video of Wappy Sprayberry from August 31st, 2008 from the famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre. This Virtual Tour is another effort of the UM team in its promotion of their 2009 release Mantis, which debuted this week at #64 on The Billboard Top 200.

READ ON after the jump for a full history of the song Wappy Sprayberry…

Soundscan subscribers received the Billboard Top 200 chart today and I have to say 2009 is off to a great start. The folks over at P4K were quick to congratulate

Keller Williams won last week’s Cover Wars, where we looked at covers of Don’t You (Forget About Me). Ha Ha The Moose was a close second.

Moving on to this week, we look at a song The Beatles recorded during the Let It Be sessions, but didn’t make the album. Don’t Let Me Down was featured as the b-side of the single Get Back. I keep coming back to The Beatles because so many great artists have covered their tunes. Instead of copying and pasting a lot of fun facts and quotes about the song, I recommend just checking out the entry over at The Beatles Bible. For me, it’s all about the measure of 5/4 to start every verse.

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READ ON after the jump for more information, the voting, and for entries that are only embedded with video and are not available on the playlist…

Phish have just announced that they are adding an eleventh date to their “summer tour.” The band will perform at the 24,535 capacity Thompson-Boling Arena at the University of Tennessee

Tonight, tenor saxophonist extraordinaire Joshua Redman takes the stage with two of the best drummers I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing: Gregory Hutchinson and Brian Blade. Also joining Redman for the second of two nights at the Highline are bassists Reuben Rogers and Larry Grenadier. Here’s a taste of Redman with Blade on Drums and Sam Yahel on Keys:

Redman blogged, with a heavy dose of humility, about the upcoming gigs on his website:

On the plane to New York and getting pretty psyched up for these upcoming double trio shows with Reuben, Greg, Larry and Brian. Two phenomenal bassists, two masterful drummers, and one, lone overmatched and under-skilled saxophonist: could ket kinda ugly! We recorded together last March, but this will be the first time for any of us playing live in this sort of configuration. Should be a lot of fun, and pretty wild. Honestly, I have no idea what to expect. But isn’t that what jazz is all about?

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