August 2008

If she keeps up this pace, the peppery and charming Ms. Durkin will run away with another festival MVP (following her raft of sit-ins at 10,000 Lakes last weekend). She’s

Just ran into the lovely and ridiculously talented Samantha Stollenwerck hanging around the press tent and resplendent as usual. Stollenwerck already played yesterday on the Solar Stage, but she’s here

Phil Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > All Along the Watchtower > Jam > He’s Gone > Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad > And We Bid You Goodnight Jam, **Phil

SET 1: Here Comes Sunshine > Good Lovin’, Gone Wanderin’, Cumberland Blues, Dire Wolf, Loser, Cold Rain and Snow It was a jam-packed first half, with a rollicking Good Lovin’

Well, yes, Kreutzmann was aboard for a few songs, and overall Cactus gave us a really groovy set, focused on much of The Green Sparrow, which drops this week. Murawski

I’m too exhausted to get into a review, but let’s just say it’s exactly what you’d expect from a Trey solo acoustic set. Good songs, no jams and a shiny/happy

The trio of Bill Kreutzmann, Scott Murawski and Oteil Burbridge is a heady thing—a lot fuller and far-reaching a sound than you might expect, but then chide yourself for not

Of all the people I’ve met and got re-acquainted with at the Vibes so far, I need to introduce Joy Bashew Rosenberg, who’s headquarterd in the tubes at thejambandbook.blogspot.com. Joy,

Jonathan Lobdell, the Vibes’ unflappable press guru, just did a fist pump in exclamation of the first rays of sun in about three hours. We know the feeling. The Gathering