2004

After spending much of last year on the road – including several weeks with Neil Young – countrified folk-rocker Lucinda Williams is ready for more. She’s announced a new North American run, set to begin February 20 at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks, Nev., and continuing around the country through mid-March. Since 1998’s Grammy-winning Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, Williams’ popularity has skyrocketed, and she’s become significantly more prolific – releasing Essence in 2001 and World Without Tears in 2003, both on Lost Highway Records.
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Always finding a way to keep busy, Warren Haynes is going to take Gov

Due to the trials and tribulations of being on the road, Danny Cash (keyboards) and Johnny Quaid (guitar) have left My Morning Jacket. On two letters posted on the band

Bob Dylan enthusiasts will have plenty to celebrate on March 23, when Columbia/Legacy issues “Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall … The Bootleg Series Volume 6.” The 19-track, double-disc set is drawn from Dylan’s Oct. 31, 1964, solo acoustic performance at New York’s Philharmonic Hall, two months after the release of the album “Another Side of Bob Dylan.”
At the show, Dylan previewed three cuts (“Mr. Tambourine Man,” “Gates of Eden” and “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”) that wouldn’t see the light of day until the March 1965 release of “Bringing It All Back Home.” According to the label, the show constitutes the earliest all-acoustic Dylan concert to be officially released.
Joan Baez guests on four songs: “Mama, You Been on My Mind,” a new arrangement of the traditional “Silver Dagger,” “With God on Our Side” and “It Ain’t Me, Babe.”
“Live 1964” is bolstered with a 52-page booklet featuring unpublished photographs and an essay by Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz, who attend the concert as a 13-year-old. The albums comes on the heels of the November 2002 release of the fifth volume in the “Bootleg Series,” which chronicled Dylan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour.
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Before The String Cheese Incident heads out of the country for a Spring tour, this years Mid-Winter Music Festival will have the band returning to the Fillmore in Denver, March 11, 12 & 13th. As usual, special guests will join The Cheese, with this years acts being Mofro, David Lindley and Wally Ingram, and Vassar Clements.
The band’s 4th International Incident will be held shortly after, on March 19 & 20 in Interlaken, Switzerland. This year’s International Incident, dubbed The Swiss Cheese Incident combines 4 days of skiing in the magnificent Jungfrau region of Switzerland with 2 full-blown shows. Madison House Travel has secured special negotiated rates and will be offering full travel packages available to all who wish to attend.
These intimate shows high in the Swiss Alps will kick off a two-week whirlwind tour of Europe which takes the band from Milan and Munich to Amsterdam and London with stops in-between.
And that’s not all. After Europe, SCI is heading to Australia and Japan from April 10th thru the 23rd where they will share the stage with James Brown, Taj Mahal, Dr. John, and many more great artists at the Blues & Roots Festival in Byron Bay.
For all tour dates and related news, see stringcheeseincident.com.

Big Head Todd and the Monsters eighth album Crimes of Passion on Sanctuary Records is due in stores February 10th. Two themes run consistently through Crimes of Passion, a love of rock and roll and the need to tell compelling, human stories.
The band will hit the road on February 10th in support of the release with shows running through March 27th in Park City, UT.
For complete tour dates visit bigheadtodd.com.