There are of course gems in every year of the Grateful Dead’s last third (1985-1995), but when asked to find a period of prowess in that time frame, the year 1989, and specifically the summer tour, of which this July 4th Buffalo date is a true nugget.
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Although the track list has not yet been revealed, a DVD chronicling Cream’s May reunion run at London’s Royal Albert Hall will be released Oct. 4 via Rhino. The shows found Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker performing together for the first time in nearly 37 years, save for a one-off set at Cream’s 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The group is said to be mulling a similar run at New York’s Madison Square Garden in late October, but has yet to confirm specifics. The London shows grossed more than $3.6 million, according to Billboard Boxscore.
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My Morning Jacket, the racous band from Louisville, Ky. will be traveling north this autumn for about a month’s worth of shows.
The tour begins on October 6 in Atlanta at the Roxy Theatre. After a few shows in Tennessee, MMJ will head through Washington D.C., and then play a two-day stint in Philadelphia on October 12 and 14. Dates in major New England cities will follow an October 19 show in Toronto.
MMJ will work their way West after a show in Cleveland on October 20, playing major cities around the Great Lake states, before finishing the tour up on Ocotber 29 in Minneapolis.
Two days before the start of the tour, MMJ will be releasing their fourth full-length album, Z, the follow-up to 2003’s critically lauded It Still Moves. Z is the first album which features the two newest members of MMJ. Carl Broemel (guitar) and Bo Koster (keys) joined after the departure of two founding members of MMJ at the end of 2003.
Beside a few one-off shows in June and a couple of opening slots for Wilco, this will MMJ’s first tour of 2005, having spent the first half of the year working on Z. U.K. fans get a dose of MMJ in London on September 6. The band’s frontman, Jim James, will also be performing solo on September 7 at London’s St. James’s Church.
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As rock veterans go, you don’t find many more enduring than Steve Winwood. He made his name fronting venerable outfits like Traffic, Blind Faith, and the Spencer Davis Group, and he’s been a solo performer for nearly three decades.
The Grammy-winning vocalist/keyboardist is still on the march, and has unveiled plans for a fall theatre tour of the U.S. that will stretch for more than a month.
Winwood will launch the trek at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom September 20, then skip across to the West Coast for a series of California gigs. He’ll come back through the Midwest to the East Coast in October and wrap things up in Boston October 15.
The British rocker’s last solo release, About Time, dropped in 2003 after a six-year absence. He’s done numerous tours since then, including some largely sold-out U.S. runs earlier this year.
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